RainbowKun's topics are looong. They are interesting but not to everyone's taste. The average forum user wouldn't know what to respond after reading one of his articles. I read the first two pieces that were recommended in OP. They are very philosophical and contain an abundance of facts and figures. Although a lot of what he says is his own thinking and point of view, I noticed he doesn't link to any sources or references that would explain the dates facts he. At least not in the 2 threads I read. I am not accusing RainbowKun of anything and it would be a shame if he left or was forced to leave.

@RainbowKun
If you are writing all that from your own memory, congratulations to you. If not, please consider adding some references because there is a lot of data there.   

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The Btcvilla guy seems to make headlines everywhere he goes. I see that you you noticed him as well.

Check out these gems of his from the other day:

The 2nd part came soon after:

The situation with Bit-exo looks bad. I just tried loading the site and it's down. People are talking about that it's perhaps an exit scam because no one has succeeded in contacting the owners and a lot of investor's money is missing. Since they have been negatively tagged and there is no info what is going on neither on the forum nor on their social media, I will remove them from my table.   

It's been a long time since I last heard someone mention 8bet. I can't remember the last time I saw a signature, advertisement from this casino and I completely forgot about their existence. Sure, I can take a look at their offer as well.

First you say that Teslas can be bought for bitcoin only, and than you go on by claiming they can be bought for USDT as well. You can't buy a Tesla for bitcoin anymore. After Musk made enough money by shilling Bitcoin, he decided the currency wasn't environment-friendly enough and he removed it as a payment option for his cars. If you go to their official website, you will notice there is no option to pay via bitcoin anymore.

Jedan učesnik ChipMixer kampanje više nije dio iste od ove sedmice. To može da znači da će se tražiti zamjena iako dosada bounty menadžer nije otvorio kampanju tražeći nove učesnike. Koga zanima CM, neka obrati pažnju šta se dešava u narednih nekoliko dana. Ko zna, možda su neki već dobili poruke od DarkStara sa pitanjem žele li da se pridruže kampanji.

If the thread wasn't breaking any other forum rules besides being posted in the wrong board I feel like the admins could have moved it to a place they think is more appropriate. Why trash it if it's spam? Scams are not moderated, so it couldn't have been deleted on those grounds. If the second thread is basically a duplicate of the first, it was rightly deleted. You aren't supposed to have threads offering the same service posted across multiple boards or several service threads.   

The only problem is that many decide not to stick around after they receive the help they needed and corrected their issues. They come here by chance or from someone's recommendation and nothing is keeping them here. It's impossible to know how many people become regular Bitcointalk users after they initially only wanted to receive some support. 

Same here. That's what sets Bitcointalk apart from other places. Sure, you can get help on reddit or discord, but it's just not the same. The threads here are forever, social media is all about living in the moment. The information comes and goes and no one pays that much attention to it. 

That's why we have a number of quality crypto payment processors which immediately convert your bitcoin and other digital coins into fiat the moment the payment is sent. The seller pays in crypto and the merchant receives his payment in a traditional currency. Everyone is happy. Check out BTCPay Server, Blockonomics, Bittery, etc. They even accept payments over LN, although buying a car over LN is really the best thing to do.

You make it seem like most companies in the world accept bitcoin, but in fact it's the other way around. The reasons why they aren't can be anything: fear of volatility, no regulation, self governed, lack of interest or willingness to set up a wallet and configure crypto payments... 

I have often come across genuine newbies who receive merits on their first post. That's observable mostly in the Bitcoin boards. And it's not uncommon that the person gets enough merits to rank up to Jr. Member if he just had enough activity points.

Bitcoin enthusiasts who have valid questions or concerns and begin meaningful discussions are often showered with merits. I think that's nice to see. People wrongly think merits are only given to those who solve problems, but bringing attention to certain issues can be equally merit-worthy.   

Oni možda ne znaju po kojoj cijeni si kupio i samim tim ne znaju da si još uvijek u plusu. Ljudi vide samo veliki pad a to poistovjećuju sa prevarom i balonom koji je pukao. Kad na to dodaš stručnjake index.hr i njima slične, nije ni čudno što ljudi imaju negativan stav o svemu što je drugčije. S obzirom da nisu imali hrabrosti, znanja ili kapitala da sami investiraju, komentarima tipa: jesam ti rekao? Znao sam da će se to desiti, itd, pravadaju sami sebe.

Thanks for letting me know about this new development with AceDBets. I am trying to keep a neutral point of view and I have trust in the feedback and trust ratings left by DT members. AceDBets was not negatively tagged and that's why there were part of the list in the beginning. Since that has now changed, I have removed all mentions of this platform from my OP.

Several members have posted nice things about CoinDragon, including yourself. I will make sure to add them with the next update unless something changes for worse. 

You can't buy a car with Bitcoin in El Salvador just yet. It is true that El Salvador has decided to make bitcoin legal tender, but that won't come into affect before September according to many sources I remember reporting about the country's crypto adoption. This is an experiment and if it's proven to be successful, I am sure many other nations will follow suit.

Jedno od rješenja koje se više puta spominjalo je shadow ban sustav. Welsh je prije par dana pisao o tome a spominjalo se je i prije 5 i više godina to rješenje.

Nema evil fee-a ali svaki novi korisnik bi morao biti ručno odobren od strane administracije da postane puni član foruma. Ne nakon jednog posta, već više postova kroz koje bi se moglo vidjeti kakve su namjere tog korisnika. Naravno i to bi se moglo zloupotrijebiti i netko bi mogao napisati 5, 10 solidnih postova. Nakon odobravanja krene onda sa onim zbog čega je i došao ovdje. 

Podsjeti me to na onaj jedan crypto meme koji se vrtio po društvenim mrežama ovih dana. Lik kupuje Bitcoin na $9.000. Postaje hodler i čuva ih godinama. Vrijednost skače i doseže $60.000 a on i dalje čuva i ne prodaje. Zatim Bitcoin padne za 50% na $30.000 i prijatelj ga pita da li se sad osjeća kao budala što je kupio Bitcoin?! A on i na $30.000 u velikom plusu.

That's exactly what they are saying, sorry!

In terms of getting your coins back, your chances are slim. There is no centralized authority or customer support in Bitcoin that can help you and Coinbase can't do anything either because the coins were never deposited in one of their wallets either. Use this bad experience as a learning opportunity download software from official sources and verify its authenticity. 

Looking at the info hosseinimr93 found, it looks like you were a victim of a scam, yes. Finding a person behind a bitcoin address is a difficult task otherwise people wouldn't use Bitcoin. If the scammer sent those coins to an exchange where he performed KYC, it would be doable. But the exchange will never give you that information. You would have to get law enforcement involved and the sum that went missing is simply not worth it. It's around $800 worth of bitcoin. The cost of trying to recover it and finding the culprit could be bigger. Like Lucius said, too much time has passed. 

I don't have such a feature on my cards so I am not exactly sure how it works. I assume all you need to do to freeze/unfreeze your account is log in to your online banking account, enter your password or maybe a PIN and that's it. Although it's a good security feature, it isn't exactly high-tech. If someone stole your PIN/password/whatever you use to freeze/unfreeze your credit card, they could do it as well.

If you are concerned about someone being able to spend your digital assets by discovering your seed, why not extend it with a passphrase? No one would be able to steal your coins unless they have the passphrase as well. You can compare that seed extension to the password you use to freeze your credit card with.   

So you want to extract a private key from its public key? If that was possible, Bitcoin wouldn't make sense and wouldn't be safe to use. I doubt you would have success with that even if you ran a bruteforce software your whole life and that of your next of kin.

Edit: A quantum computer might one day have success with re-used addresses where the public keys are revealed on the blockchain. But that's an if and when for now. 

The main reason why I asked that is to see if the Trezor Suite uses a similar system like Ledger Live does. As you probably know, if you have a Bitcoin account in Ledger Live, it needs to have some coins in it to allow you to create a second bitcoin account. It's not possible to create 3 empty bitcoin accounts.

I remember that Ledger explained in their support documentation that it makes the scanning and searching process for funded accounts easier. As soon as the software scans and discovers the first empty account, it knows there can't be any other funded accounts. My guess was that Trezor does it similarly.   

I never had much luck with Crash games, rocket launches, or in this case Blast. I am cautious by nature so I never place to high of a multiplier. When there is an opportunity to bring home x5, x10, or more, I mess it up by getting out to early. I also consider various tactics. For example, if the last two rounds were low and finished at 1.50 or below, I naturally expect a much better performance in the next round. I can't say such a system paid off for me.

Instead of relying solely on luck, I prefer to bring some knowledge and research to the table. That's why sports betting is something I like much more than luck-based casino games.

This part that I quoted is what worries me. If you never made any previous transactions to that address which is a part of your Electrum wallet, how can blockexplorers show that there was activity on that address 5 days ago?

If I understood the OP properly, you never sent any coins to the bc...........ed address, right? A few sentences before, you mentioned that you sent your mixed BTC to the two addresses that end in ku and nk. What is the significance of the ed address?

I hope you are using a real version of Electrum. Downloaded and verified from https://electrum.org/, and that the address ending in ed isn't one that belongs to a hacker who also tricked someone else to send coins to him on 20.07.

The fact that holographic seals can easily be cloned is the reason that Ledger doesn't use any on their packages. If it hadn't been for their other security/privacy vulnerabilities, one could say that's the way to go.
There are also various ways to open a box or electronic gadget without damaging the holographic seal. Here is just one short video that explains how it can be done.