If you drop the "0.5 BTC" requirement and it's fine for you to see the price for one entire coin, you can use the widget I am using.
It's far from perfect, but it does the job.
You can choose the coin (not only BTC), the exchange (coinbase, bitstamp, ...) and pair (BTC-USD, BTC-EUR, ...) and another currency you want it converted to (JPY). I am not sure it uses XE for conversion, since it's not my widget, still you can give it a try and see if it's good enough for you. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.phauna.litecoinwidget

I'll add that unfortunately sometimes it has entire hours when it's not updating at all. But that happens rarely enough so I didn't give up on this widget yet 

1. You can always buy mBTC or satoshis, you don't have to buy full bitcoin
2. You actually don't want to buy bitcoin, you are just busy shilling whatever altcoin. Please do that in the altcoin related boards, not here.

I am by no means expert, still, I'll tell you what I expect. I expect it to go much higher than 100k. And at some point it will crash again big.
Where to? Maybe even as low as 20-50k. You may be laughing now when you see these numbers as low. But if it falls there from 100k-500k, many will feel almost like it fell to 0.

Again, I am no expert and this is clearly not a buying advise. Please dyor if you want to invest.

No. But I was thinking "I hope that he won't mind that I don't reciprocate".
However, it did happen to merit the same person's posts after getting merit, but that usually happens because I spend merit ... only if I have what to spend.


Sometimes it does, if the merited post is not great.
But I think that most of the time it's not. At least not in the areas I'm reading.

High activity leads to good amount of knowledge, hence to good posts. Also high activity is a requirement for merit source...
You guys are making a lot of good quality posts. Sometimes good posts of yours you see as great get under-merited and maybe that's why you are overthinking it when you receive merit? I don't know.
But I agree to this:

Nice find, LOL!
However, OP was asking about cards that can be used in ATM; if you know how to do that with virtual cards, please teach us  


I don't know what you mean by "again". After the Wavecrest problem almost all cards had, AdvCash was among the first few to recover. They've started indeed with EU and iirc Russia too, but that was more than one year ago, so they had time to expand. I don't know if they did expand or just didn't update their FAQ, but it's OP problem to find out.

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Edit: I just remembered, OP, you may want to also take a look at [BIG LIST] Crypto Debit Cards

AdvCash may be working for you, but you'll have to do some research yourself (including the fees, which are not all of them listed and visible). I didn't find UAE in the prohibited countries list from the FAQ.
Also they use to be quite active on this forum too, hence you can ask them about UAE.

I don't want to divert you guys to the wrong direction, but wasn't OP using by chance Multibit HD in 2014 instead of Electrum?
From what I've read, Multibit HD was using different derivation path than Electrum.

Iirc multibit classic didn't have a seed. It has private keys.
Go to this link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5304446.msg55964982#msg55964982
It starts with a Multibit installer, if you trust it and manage to get it/install it, you'll have to load the pwd protected .key and save it unprotected.
(Or follow the rest of that tutorial there to get unencrypted .key)

If you'll have it unprotected, each line that's not commented will be a pair or <private_key> <a_date_time>
The private keys can be imported to Electrum (of course, download from electrum.org and check its signature).

All you've done was FOMO. The worse kind of it. Sorry.
Now you have to make up your mind. Decide if you want to get in or not. If you do, make sure the money you invest you afford to lose or at least keep them there locked for long time.
If you do, stop worrying about the price. It's money you afford to lose. It's money you believe they'll recover your loses and make you more.. maybe, sometime in the future, eventually. Think of some price tags you'll start selling and do your best to not sell cheaper than that.
And avoid FOMO. Think, cool down, think again, then act.


If you decide to get back in, I was told that the usual best way is to invest at more different moments (days, weeks, months, ..) smaller amounts.
Of course, when you find moments you consider to be dips, try to make use of them too, just keep in mind that if it also dips more, you have to not panic.



PS. The price was going up too fast, hence I was expecting a correction (sooner or later). But it still made me nervous. So don't be so hard on yourself.

You can simply store only the seed, maybe scrambled or encrypted, maybe not. But how and where, it's up to each and everyone's choice. It can be on the back of your favorite painting, it can be on crypto steel buried near your favorite tree, it can be in a bank's deposit box.

Especially if one chooses something flammable, but imho in all cases actually, one should store the seed in multiple places/locations. Scrambling or a 25th word is a good addition, but then if something happens to you your family may not be able to benefit of those funds (which may matter to you .. or not).
Of course, it depends greatly on how much is that wallet worth. One wallet for 100$, 1000$ may need certain precautions, maybe 100k others and clearly 1M completely different ones.


I'd add that although I like @mk4 post/links, I am against use of "standardized" methods (Shamir backup). I think that everybody should use his imagination.

There's a worldwide shortage for all kinds of chips.
From what I've seen (already in Nov-Dec 2020), the computers and parts are scarce and overpriced. And it's by far not the only industry affected.
Maybe this sheds a bit of light why you have to search way more than normal and get ready to pay more.

Various platform consider "yesterday" based on their timezone, GMT, your timezone, .. or whatever they decided to use.
Since Bitcoin transactions don't stop, it's only something that allows them make the charts look like those from the stocks world.

Your topic is great for awareness, but the wallets in question are already in the list from Fake wallets on Google Play
At least people should be aware that these are by far not the only fake wallets from Google Play Store.

Bitcoin is never stored offline. Bitcoin never leaves the blockchain, it's always online.
This is only for you to understand a little bit better what happens there.

What you need to store is the private key, since that's the (only) thing that allows you spend the coins.
Nowadays there's something easier to save and store: the mnemonic seed. That's a list of words based on what multiple private keys can be generated for you and they're English words, hence easier to copy/write down.

My advice is to read this thread [Guide] Create an Offline Wallet For Bitcoin and Altcoin Only Use 1 Paper, create a seed for yourself, write it down (you don't need a printer, but writing on multiple pieces of paper you'll store in different places would be good)

Also write down some of those addresses so you know where to send your coins to for holding. (make sure you don't make mistakes there)

Please take all the precautions to do the steps safely.

Tether is not a threat to Bitcoin.
Tether is a threat to Bitcoin price.

Since Tether is not properly backed, its demise will have the effect of a powerful earthquake over the whole crypto markets.
And the analogy with earthquake is not over: this will allow crypto markets rebuild stronger. So it's fine. Crypto markets rebuild fast and there are plenty of better stablecoins.

And like with any such natural phenomenon, you should not ask yourself if this will happen, you should ask when will it happen. 

Sure.
1. Create the wallet in Electrum with the correct setting in order to have the addresses start with the correct prefix (1, 3, bc1). If you don't have Addresses tab then enable it from View->Show addresses
2. If console not enabled then View->Show console; in console type:
ismine("the_address_to_check")

I would add some things:
From what I remember, Ledger Live lately looks only for SegWit compatible and Native SegWit addresses. (I am not 100% sure though)
If I am correct on that, then this means that if Ledger Live didn't show your money because you had a legacy address, hence also in Electrum in the step about "Script Type and Derivation Path" OP may have to select the "legacy" checkbox.

(And if this doesn't work, OP can try to re-create the wallet again with the other options too there.)

I'm surprised to stumble onto this here instead of.. you know, your thread...    With nice pictures and such 

So I understand that you pretty much expect for at least one more dumping session...
Although I did expect such a correction happen sooner or later (it was growing already way too fast), it still makes me somewhat nervous. But your logic is pretty much reassuring 

Hi.

1. This thread belongs to altcoin mining subforum. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=160.0
2. Read this post, maybe you remember something from there: https://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/1sj337/how_to_mine_dogecoin_with_a_nvidia_gpu/
3. I don't know if you did solo mine or, more likely pool mining. In the case of pool mining your coins may be in a pool, exchange or Multibit wallet, among others; it's not only dogecoin core you have to look for...

Can it be that they use some (3rd party?) service for USD-EUR conversion and that service is "more expensive" during week-ends? (I know, it's assumptions over assumptions...)