SafePal made a partnership with Fiat24 and is now offering virtual cards[1]. As you would expect from anything coming from Binance, the card requires KYC and it will be available to Europeans only at first.

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/03/07/crypto-wallet-safepal-ventures-into-banking-with-new-usdc-visa-card/

Where are you from? maybe we can recommend some more reputable services for you. I'm also curious as to how you found that site. did someone get in touch with you? or you stumbled upon some ads?

Yes, sending your funds with the Bitbox should sent through the bitcoin network. Nothing to be worried about.

What I'm more concerned about is this exchange you're referring to. Although I don't see any bad reviews, I don't think I have ever come across it. Have you used it before? Regardless of where you're from, there are probably some better alternatives.

The bitcoin company app should have that, I tried them some time ago. You don't need to do any ID verification but I had difficulties using the card on certain sites. I'd buy a very small denomination and try it out first if I were you.

Another service would be Bit.store (which I haven't tried) but I made a discussion about: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5475083.20

Jade is a hardware wallet so it should be good (not sure if it's the best choice for a hardware wallet though). Sparrow is a software wallet but you can use it like Electrum on an air-gapped device as mentioned above: https://sparrowwallet.com/docs/quick-start.html#:~:text=You%20can%20also%20use%20Sparrow,Bitcoin%20Core%20node

I'm not that familiar with Nunchuck, but it looks like it's paid (depending on what you're looking for) so I'd go with either Sparrow or Jade.

There should be no issues. It's the same thing. Multiple addresses are derived from your xPub so importing that would allow you to watch "all of your wallets transactions" at once but if you import one address only, you don't need that since you only have one address to watch to start with.

Glassnode should be more than capable of doing the proper analytics and figuring out whether the funds were sent back to the same/another exchange or not (at least the big ones). So that number should be accurate I would say.

You can use testnet faucets, see here[1] (some of them are no longer functional) and I'm guessing you can't use the second one because the latter is a taproot address and faucets have not updated their systems to send to those addresses yet.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5237763.0

You shouldn't need the email if you have the Mnemonic phrase, since you can always restore your funds in another wallet. Assuming you're talking about the phrase after they upgraded to HD wallets and not the old ones they used to have many years ago.

As mentioned above, it's because of your transaction size. In your last screenshot, you can change the fees and make them a bit lower if you're not in a rush. The fees you're seeing on Trustwallet are meant for "high priority" and that's the same thing you can see on Mempool.

That's possible but I highly doubt it because the withdrawals stopped before the site was taken down.

They could've also tweeted something about it now that pretty much every crypto news site is talking about the incident, but they didn't. As I have mentioned, nothing since the 21st of the month.

Support pages are usually separate and hosted elsewhere with Zendesk or some other similar services. That's probably why it's still up.

I'm not sure if it could be related to the old CEO though. I don't see why would he still have access to the hot wallets, after stepping down unless there was some backdoor he was aware of.

They stopped processing withdrawals a couple of days ago. Today, the site is down[1] and if you visit the site, you will be welcomed by a Cloudflare page saying:

https://www.bitforex.com/


There is no information from then on their social media, the last tweet was on the 21st of February.

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/02/26/bitforex-website-goes-dark-amid-reported-57m-outflow/

According to this: https://github.com/Bitcoin-com

Bitcoin's wallet is based on Copay's fork which as far as I can remember, has always been an HD wallet that provided a seedphrase.

So my guesses (and I could be wrong of course) are:

1. She might have skipped the recovery process (assuming that's doable within the app, some wallets allow you to do that).
2. Hopefully... she might have taken a cloud backup (using iCloud or Google Drive depending on her device) and she could use that to restore her funds.

Now again, I'm just guessing here. I know that the wallet has cloud recovery, but not sure if it was implemented on 2017 or way after that

If she doesn't have that either, then sadly, there's is nothing she can do to recover those funds.

So I'm pretty sure lots of you here have already heard of this instant exchange. It got hacked a few hours ago[1][2].

The team did confirm the hack and denied that it was an inside job. They're currently in maintenance mode.

[1] https://decrypt.co/218077/fixedfloat-hack-26-million-bitcoin-ethereum
[2] https://twitter.com/PeckShieldAlert/status/1759399281201733917

As mentioned above, you don't necessarily need the seedphrase, but you should probably have it with you before doing so. I wouldn't take that risk, especially if it's been some time since you last updated. Because if anything goes wrong with the update, you will need to restore your wallet.

Depends on your use-cases. If you're just holding, then no, not really. You can just generate a receiving address, send money to it and that's it. Otherwise if:

- You want to deal with multiple networks. The last time I checked, Trezor suite does not support Polygon, zkSync, etc.
- And most importantly, Trezor Suite does not support WalletConnect[1] so you can't deal with any dapps like Uniswap for example. You would need to connect your Trezor to MetaMask, and then connect MetaMask with whatever site you want to use.

[1] https://github.com/trezor/trezor-suite/issues/3260

The seedphrase is not necessary to link your MetaMask with your Trezor. That's correct.

If you follow the above instructions I gave you, you should only need to enter your PIN, and authorize the action from the device itself, as you would normally do to authorize a transaction you're sending. You won't need your seedphrase at all.

MetaMask is open-source, and has always been as far as I can remember: https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension

I do not recommend the use of closed-source wallets, but AFAIK, even when doing so with a hardware wallet like Trezor, transactions can still not be signed without physical access to the device.