Merry Christmas everybody!

I hope that Santa will bring you and your loved ones health, love and prosperity.

There are plenty of places you can look for reviews. (e.g. https://tradingbot.info/ )
Some bots also have trial period. Look of reviews and also use well the trial period.
People will suggest this or that based on their preferences. You'll have to pick yours by what you need.
Don't rush it; research.

Also they usually announce their moves usually long after they actually happened and their orders were (indirectly, as mk4 said) spread over longer period of time at multiple exchanges. So you won't know what period of time to actually check.
 
And you should check the charts for exchanges with much bigger volumes than Bitbay. I suggest one of the Top 3 from here.

This may be of interest for some of GOLD users and traders: Livecoin is in trouble, it looks like they've lost (at least) the control of their servers and "news channels" because of some attack.
I don't know about the user funds. Full story: https://www.coindesk.com/livecoin-crypto-exchange-hack
Maybe GOLD team can spread the news too.

You said that you downloaded Electrum from electrum.org; however, you didn't confirm that you have checked the signature; if you didn't there's a chance you may have been tricked to download from a clone site with similar domain name and (like eIectrum.org or such)

This is the first thing that comes into my mind, but other things may have happened - from malware to false positive...

Any properly configured and used cold storage is safer than any HW in use. That's not about Ledger.
On the other hand a good HW is a good enough mix between security and convenience.


Yup. I am also one of the customers happy enough with their product.


Very nice, I'm happy for you (genuinely). Clearly there aren't many that do this and I think that you are missing or minimizing something: we are not talking about customers that bought clothes, for example. Since their products can be associated with money/wealth, they should have had better safety measures than the usual shops...

That's true. With a stick with Tails on it you can easily set up a cold storage and you are just fine (even safer than a HW actually) and also remain anonymous.

However, some may be associating HW users with wealthy users (which is imho incorrect, but still possible) and can cause physical problems to some Bitcoiners. Whose fault it is? It's the fault of the buyer or the fault of the company that has left the customers database unprotected?

Most of those who are not on the 272k list may not understand how important this is and not care too much since they are not physically affected.
So yes, their reputation was affected, but not that much. Clearly not heavily enough to go bankrupt.

Probably this year's Christmas sales will be better than usual for Trezor, but I don't expect much else happen.

Actually AliExpress doesn't support PayPal for all sellers and all countries. The seller has to have this payment method activated and the list of countries is short.
Since I do buy things from AliExpress now and then I was rather surprised by your "guess". I've looked into their support page it tells it clearly:


I've also found on internet a story about a conflict between AliExpress and PayPal from many years ago, which is the possible cause for PayPal not being widely accepted on AliExpress. I don't know how legit it is, but here's the link.
Since I think that Alibaba and AliExpress have the same ownership (basically more or less the same company) I think that this means that PayPal is out of question for both.


So Bitcoin VISA/Mastercard prepaid/debit cards are still the way to go for OP.

What @pooya87 proposed is the safest and best way imho.
Create a new wallet, you'll benefit of all its features properly and leave behind completely the other wallet.

Just make sure your electrum was taken from the official website and the signature verified, and also, in to avoid waste of money, do this step (and move your coins) when the mempool is not this full.

Basically there's a big chance that even if one pays the ransom, still won't get his files recovered.
So using backups (a 1-2 TB external HDD is not that expensive and may be just what you need for this), avoiding to click every link and installing a good enough antivirus are the first rules.
Torrents can indeed be infected, but on the other hand many download only movies from torrents, hence the torrents rule could be improved in the post made by @TravelMug

MicroStrategy has just done this. And although many are surprised by it I find it normal:
1. It's consistent with the rule to buy more times over longer period of time.
2. It validates the analysis that the bull run (or bubble?) is just at the beginning.

To me it looks like politicians try to hide the fact they didn't do their job properly (the so hated lock down), which will make them now even more set aside.

I am not convinced that the new covid mutation is related to Bitcoin price movement (as said, mutations happen more often than most of us know). Maybe the forced (by EU) lock down is one of the causes.
And possibly the other cause is that there won't be any Brexit deal, despite many people's (futile) hope that politicians will get to their senses.
I'll add some market manipulation to the mix, since some know so well to fructify the news and .. here we are.

I think that's still not the whole data and I fear that more may come out.
I mean... they have "only" my e-mail address although I bought the device.
...and I've checked both files from the archive on github.


Should we make a rule and forward all the mails related to Ledger we receive to Ledger's mail addresses?
Or suing them and asking for financial compensations would make them understand better how big is the fuckup they've made?

Fyi: that bin is no longer available, probably deleted by the admins of pastebin.
However, I see that the whole internet is already full of copies. One that is still working is on github, as posted on another thread.

Actually since the vast majority of people in the world is covid free, the opposite makes more sense: some sort of punishment for the ones getting sick.
Of course, such thing cannot be implemented.

Also going by your idea, people should be periodically tested in order to incentivize them and here's a big problem: if they would have funds to properly test everybody periodically, no other move would be necessary, since normally most people don't want to get sick.


PS. There was an idea on the news that US may incentivize people to get the vaccine. That's doable and in line with your proposal too.

Corect, doar ca probleme nu-s doar cu intrarea in legalitate (unde unii mai batuti in cap pot sa-ti creeze probleme oricat de curat vrei sa fii).
De la majoritatea exchange-urilor nu ma astept sa aiba grija prea mare cu datele personale.
Dar ai dreptate. Partea de informare fiind facuta, fiecare decide pentru el.


Cred ca e mai mult de 10 EUR pe partea de la stat findca:
* neavand chitanta care sa ateste cu cat ai cumparat, statul de va impozita pentru 500, nu 100 EUR.
* cred ca se mai adauga procente si pentru sanatate cel putin


Sigur este banca si nu IFN? Adica chiar difera de Revolut, de exemplu?
Ca si pe Revolut poti sa scoti banii de pe exchange-uri si in general totul e OK. Dar cum "in general" nu inseamna "tot timpul", sunt multi cu bani blocati aiurea.


Aici si eu sunt momentan de aceesi parere si inca nimeni nu m-a convins cu p2p-ul.
Cel putin eu consider ca multi utilizatori de localbitcoins, mai ales in 2016-2018, au avut probleme cu bancile din cauza banilor cu surse ciudate si a necunoscutilor care probabil incercau sa ia si bitcoinii, si sa-si ceara banii inapoi de la banca pe cine stie ce motive.
Adica p2p suna super bine pe hartie, dar in realitate pare ca mai degraba ne mintim momentan.

P2p-ul imaginat de Satoshi era fara interactiunea cu fiat. Cand o sa ajungem acolo atunci o sa putem vorbi de un nivel de privacy (oricum, tot nu ca la Monero).

Interesting numbers. I didn't follow the trends/numbers, hence I am surprised. I was expecting China and Russia, maybe Australia too higher ranked than Nigeria.
Also interesting to see that Germany and Russia aren't even in top10.

Hats of for the Nigerians! They seem to know what they're doing.

If you own any of the recipient addresses of the transaction (it can be even for the change), you can try to do CPFP, meaning to spend the unconfirmed funds from that address with an overly generous fee.
Of course, in order to do that you'll need a proper wallet, I am not convinced that blockchain wallet allows you choose where to spend from and also I don't know if it allows to spend unconfirmed funds.
One easy choice may be Electrum, but then you have to take care of safety measures, like verifying its signature before installing.

Mai ales daca nu te deranjeaza sa iti dai datele personale, solutii mai exista, dar nu stiu cat de bune sunt preturile. De exemplu pe la mijlocul anului astuia isi faceau reclama cei de la LDV Crypto Exchange, care au in cateva orase chiar si ghisee.
Dar cred ca nu ai inteles pe deplin ceea ce a vrut sa spuna @GazetaBitcoin in postul sau si e pacat...
Riscurile de care vorbea el nu erau atat legate de securitatea monedelor, si mai degraba.. a... ta.