I am not sure what would you expect.
Bull run also means increased awareness. A lot of new people will then come here.

Some will promote low quality projects and plain scams.
Some will come asking the same questions over and over again.
Some will join bounties and will spam this forum and all possible social media for some extra cents.
Some will come to troll and spread FUD.

Unfortunately many people that come here have their own agenda and learning and being useful may not be part of that.

Isn't it like that everywhere on this world? And we aren't really searching for another planet because of this

Actually the only valid point behind keeping BTC as main unit in discussions/display would be to avoid overly confusing the newbies/newcomers.
Changing to a smaller unit would now be welcome ("nice to have"), but after current bull run/bubble/cycle it may become necessary because of the price impact, no matter who is saying what.
Just I'd prefer to have some sort of agreement and in a quite short (previously decided) time frame the major exchanges, wallets, services "migrate" to the new unit, to help avoid confusion.

I think that I was using its brother weselldoge? Or was it this same website? It was once or twice to clear up some funds lying around on my PayPal.
But that link only goes to an image, nothing to be paranoid about. Just on the image the URL is not visible (what an advertising, lol!) and I don't remember if it was .com, .net, or whatever... hence I couldn't access it.

Are there so much hash rate in North America? I don't know. However, that 8% you're telling is already more than I expected.

I think that (unfortunately) tainted coins will have less pools at hand which at some point will start to translate at least into higher fees.
Not a great future, but yeah... Bitcoin was never great for illegal stuff.

What bothers me the most (too) is that they are starting an unwanted trend of discretionary picking of transactions. They say they'll filter out what they consider illegal, and normally that would not bother me (drug dealers and crooked politicians should burn in hell) but it's up to .. whom to decide which is illegal? Are they also the court and the judge in all this? That's not normal. That leads the way to filter out tomorrow coins from whatever exchange that doesn't join an union, or from China because.. China, then ... then ... then ...

That was meant to be the Scenario 1. But I agree, I could have explained it better.
Thank you for emphasizing and detailing that part.

That's correct.
Also the more the regulations, the more credible and accessible they make crypto for the average Joe (who will use regulated/centralized tools at first and maybe decentralized later).
This means that "Bitcoin is illegal money" narrative will not catch any longer and the masses will get to discover it.

So I cannot agree more. It's an excellent news.

The wallet is only something that allows you see your coins and, most important, allows you spend the coins.
The coins are never in a wallet, they are on the blockchain.
Now, if one has got your private key (or the seed, based on what private keys are generated), he will re-create a wallet identical with yours and with no password protection and spend.

So the first thing to think about is where did you store the private key (or seed) and who had access to that.

Scenario 2. A malware from your computer can record screen and transfer files, allowing somebody have a copy of your wallet and your password too.

Scenario 3. A malicious wallet (usually a look-alike copy of a trusted wallet) will have all the functionalities and one more - send either your seed/private key, either your funds to the hacker.


So... think now what you did wrong and allowed somebody steal from you...
Sorry for your loses, I hope that they weren't too big.

It's an interesting direction. Not nice, however interesting.
But as long as whoever has miners can choose to go to that pool or the others, most would not care to join there if there's no financial incentive (lower fees than the others).
Also I expect some miners think that the process of picking the clean transactions my affect the pool speed and make them lose a block now and then.

At least for now I think that it won't get traction, at least not for this marketing alone.

I would not be surprised if it's only 1, maybe 2 people there making most of those comments and upvoting.
Maybe if you see it that way it makes more sense 
At least that's what I expect to be there, I don't know for certain if I'm right or wrong...

Exactly.
Just make sure you download from official website and verify, as I already wrote.

No! The airgapped machine should remain airgapped. Why on earth would he go online with that, for downloading and give others' a chance? No!

OP, download Electrum (electrum.org) onto the live machine, verify it, put it to an USB stick, move it to the airgapped machine, install it there.
Make sure you have the seed for the case something goes wrong. (making a backup of the .wallet file would also not hurt)

LE: if the upgrade doesn't work on Win7, do it on the airgapped Win10 machine.
Follow the steps from here for configuring the live machine too and make the transaction that will send your coins to hardware wallet.

PS. After moving the bitcoins to HW, you can handle the fork coins, see LoyceV's Bitcoin Fork claiming guide (and service)

Plata cu criptomonede direct la casa de marcat, disponibilă şi în magazinele din România

Sunt curios ce-o sa iasa si din asta...
Stirea nu numeste niciun magazin care sa accepte asemenea plati si este destul de ingrijorator ca bitcoin[dot]com este pe lista, adica unii dintre cei mai inversunati oponenti ai Bitcoin...

Oricum, tot e bine de stiut, zic eu...

Just FYI, this fake wallet is also reported in List of fake wallets on Google Play (constantly updated, 17 active atm) topic (since yesterday).

Try to look again on AOL, if you still have access, and look for Achive folder, the very old mails may be there.
Of course, you can also ask their support without mentioning Bitcoin, but if they get too curious and your info is not encrypted / password-protected they may help themselves...
Google about recovering old AOL mails.

Also one copy of those mails could be locally, but I don't know if, how and by what rules. Maybe it would not hurt to make a clone all those old computers' HDDs and keep one set of copies untouched, or at least not use for a while those HDDs. And of course, start digging for whatever could be useful - maybe wallet.dat files, maybe zip or rar files in case you archived them, pool info (slush?) and of course old mails saved in whatever form.

PS. If you talk about thousands of Bitcoin, I an surprised that you ignored them in 2014 and 2017...

The world is not ready for Bitcoin. Not yet. People are using it to exchange to fiat before buying goods and services, allowing middlemen earn big from this.
But with every "average Joe" leaving the ecosystem instead of insisting to use it right the things will not advance towards the right direction.
Of course, it's your choice and all we can do is respect it. But that cannot stop me from telling you "you are doing it wrong".


Indeed, the access to internet has its costs and if cards are not available, then internet is either not there, either expensive.
However, I think that not the truth of the story would be the main concern here, it's the conclusion behind it.
I mean, it doesn't matter the story is fake and OP doesn't actually leave.
What matters imho is that the main character of the story is felling instead of doing his part (big or small) in driving the things to the right direction.

Exactly. In a blog it's easier to make comments for one big reason: more comments to a blog post usually makes it go up in ranking for search engine results (even if for short time).
This means that blog owners are happy to see more and more comments and they also leave it easy to comment unverified.


I'm surprised that as Legendary you are asking this, since I've seen it also here on the forum: many are trying to trick various services - gambling, faucets, name it - trying to gain some extra money and when they get caught they scream in as many places / threads they can that "the scam service has stolen their money". I don't know what they could have done wrong there or what went wrong, but without any proof.. I don't believe them.

I clearly won't say that Binance is the greatest. But until now I had no issues there that would cause me loss of money.
However, it's an excahnge company with unclear location of the HQ, so it's known that one should not trust too much money to such entities. Not your keys, not your coins.

Although I didn't use their services, I've heard about Bullion Star selling and buying too for Bitcoin and also offering vault if you need it.
I've heard about them because a gold-pegged token is using their services.

Unfortunately I don't know their KYC policy ... but maybe since they're from Singapore they're more lax?

Even the "entities" telling how much this or that fiat has lost in value this or that year may not always be correct (i.e. they come with later corrections) and possibly not always in sync.
Also afaik they usually don't come with this kind of numbers in real time (!). Of course, I am not much into this subject and may be very wrong...

However, I don't know if somebody would care to implement such a coin, especially as governments have no interest in such endeavors. All they care is that 1 USD = 1 USD, 1 EUR = 1 EUR and so on...
And if such a coin would be created, ... you'll have, again to trust the issuer 

I love his forecasts that Bitcoin will grow to 20k this year... 2020.
I guess that it's a bot with badly set time.. or a time traveler from the past

How stable the stable coin is depends on the issuer and if you buy the stable coin you'll have to trust the issuer that will keep the value as close as possible to the "value" they claim to have it pegged to.
Especially USDT has a history of problems, of long periods of time the value was not even close to USD and the well known shady behavior on how much (if at all) of the huge amount of USDT is actually backed with real money (as it should).

So, it's all about the issuer and how honest the issuer is. After all, even the US dollar or the Euro are not stable over time...