There are plenty of anonymous altcoins. Is Monero the best? It's debatable. But this thread can easily become a honeypot for all those into shilling privacy altcoins.

There used to be debates on ZCash privacy = iirc you have to trust that some individual(s) will keep I-don't-know-what private and never touch it. (I never knew more exactly and never cared, by I hope it rang some bells to those who know).

There used to be debates on Dash privacy = iirc part of the discussion was that those masternodes are probably all in AWS and one entity can have more of them and may be able to correlate information into break the privacy.

Is Monero perfect? I don't know. But the fact it's delisted from certain Asian markets tells it's not bad.
Are others better? Hard to tell, hence they're also probably not that bad.
All in all it's hard to tell which is "more private" in the day-to-day use unless we get to code reading and academic debates, which may be of no use for the average Joe.

Years? I can do that for years now.. in Romania!
I've got 3 years ago some coins as Christmas present from @yahoo62278 and I bought a computer display off them, directly for Bitcoin. I use that display even at this moment.

OK, I can do that at a very limited number of online shops, but I am sure that this is more common in more evolved countries.

...did I misunderstand something you meant?!

No use. As Satoshi said "if you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry".

The problems are not the ones you wrote. The problem is that you have no patience.
How you expect that the herd would massively use this coin all the governments said they should stay away of?
Do they have enough good examples there for long time and telling they should use Bitcoin? No. Not yet.

I'll be waiting patiently for the time to prove you wrong.

I think that the impact of millennials is still not understood fully.

Millennials see internet as something normal. They understand the technology better than their parents. And well, they are the future.

While many thought that the previous generations should be attracted into Bitcoin, since some of them have much more money for example, those will still prefer gold and stocks. They don't understand this Bitcoin thing. They (still!) have a better chance to see it as a threat than as something beneficial.

And here the millennials come in: they can help the older ones from around them (families, friends, co-workers, their managers) understand what's this all about. They have the potential to get everybody aboard.
That's much more than only investing themselves... So yes, the best is focusing on Millennials.

Yep. Too many scams and in crypto there's no possibility for charge back either.
Hence the big sites have scripts that check for crypto addresses. This was most advertised in Twitter (after that big Twitter scam), but I see FB is no different.
Keep in mind that you are putting content onto their site, not yours. Make your own site and you'll have your rules. Or, as @mk4 said, make one page for donations purpose and link to that.

As already said, bitcoin-dot-com is not a fair and clean website hence using their news department as source of information is a mistake and a bad move.
Of course, with enough money invested and plenty of newbies not careful on what they read, this kind of sites can become "industry leaders" and "mistakes" (intentional or not) like the one from the topic can get in now and then.

So while it's nice to see this kind of problems are reported (at least here), my advice too is to also find better news sources.

PS. Did you report to bitcoin-dot-com the "error"?

I'll also add logoff + log in to the list.
And a remark at restart browser: also check with task manager it was actually stopped and not hanging.

Sometimes Chrome or some of its extensions used to handle cookies in a strange manner for me too leading to strange issues.
But I don't use Chrome as main browser, so I don't know if that's the case here.

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So according to what you say, I can't create a website "fresh apple" and "born under the sign of libra".
And since you two have so solid evidence, this is normal. OK, as you guys say. I guess I am stupid.

Is your Windows set for English or a different language (Is Electrum trying to start in another language than English)?
Certain much older version has thrown BEX because of badly translated strings.
I'd try to go if possible for English Windows and/or try other 4.0.x version of Electrum.

Interesting. I'll keep this in mind for next time Google doesn't find anything useful; then I'll see what Bing can do for me. Thanks.

Edit: I've also tried it.
Google did return as you said, Bing didn't. And, even worse, exactly your first result (smh) is missing in my list.
I get:

Although this doesn't make sense to me (if this would be as you are saying, then I would have been forced to buy apples from Apple store), you do have some sort of proof and I don't find any.
I am not convinced what "word mark" means.
However, I'll leave this as it is. As I said, you do have proof while I have none and I can respect that.

I have now 80% BTC and 20% alts and I am quite unhappy about this ratio.
At some point (possibly in 2017) the ratio was 66% BTC and 33% altcoins, but in time the value of my altcoins has dropped by a great deal and never recovered properly (against Bitcoin).

Of course, meanwhile I've also stashed a bit more Bitcoin too.

Limiting their posts only to Beginners & Help can be an option and maybe the only one close to valid.
Stopping them completely from posting should not be done. Asking for some extras (invites) is also bad idea.

Keep in mind that some (few?) newbies are honest and come here with problems or simply for the reason this forum was created (discuss), not necessarily to spam and do bounties. Those should be allowed ask their questions and get the chance to properly describe their problems (which usually comes as a later post), or simply to chat a little.

And yes, that quote from Theymos about newbie jail is very eloquent.

There is a good list of exchanges, but I see it was not maintained for a bit long time: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3140406
However, I am not sure which fee you are talking about (I don't use Coinbase). The usual fee is around 0.15-0.25% for a trade, but then there are the possible deposit and withdrawal fees too, so I guess that you have to do some more research.

Binance fees are imho reasonable, but it depends on how you buy (credit cards have extra fees afaik) and what you withdraw (certain altcoins are super cheap to withdraw).

The next Ethereum is Ethereum.
I don't like Ethereum. And Ethereum has a lot of competitors doing pretty good job.
I do like Waves, as I had a bit more contact with it.

Still, the truth is that the next Ethereum is Ethereum. It's next to impossible to take over the "place" of the coin that's leader (and older) on a certain branch. And Ethereum is such a coin.
So if you want to have a "leading" coin, then innovate more and come with something completely new. This direction already has the leader position taken.

I completely agree it's extremely bad.

After 30 of being reunited, there's still a huge difference between Western and Eastern Germany. And it's the same nation. Then what they expect from eastern Europe and the Balkans? It's clearly a different pace, different mentality which has to be accepted, helped out and, if necessary, even awaited.

Imho getting workers from eastern Europe was good for both parts. This brings, on long term, back into those countries more of the western rigor and also forces increase of wages, improving the money flow that makes economies and services improve. On the other hand, two-speed and getting increasing numbers of Asian workers everywhere slows down (or even stops!) this attempt of evolution.

Maybe EU should learn from USA. The Americans managed to have so many states work together as a country. And we should even be smarter than needing a war for reaching that. But I'm afraid I have too high hopes and actually EU construction is doomed.

Pandemic will clearly force some fields into progress. There's a saying: "every kick in the butt makes you do a step forward".
In my country far too many things were done and kept only on paper. Pandemic changes that.

On the working places, it depends from one to another, there are no rules, really.


Since I work for company related to IT, the amount of paperwork was small and remote work was always a possibility, but not very much loved because of concerns on productivity.
So nothing much has change there. But something did change: a lot of services are moved into cloud to avoid/reduce the need for physical access into the building.

Gold is used as a store of value by those with "older" mentality: low volatility, usually rising.
Bitcoin is used by those with some more appetite for risk and more tech savvy.

In time Bitcoin will become more stable. In time the older people will... leave room to others, which may at least be more tech savvy.
Now there's a demand for both. In time the balance will probably shift more and more towards Bitcoin.

Since it's the same algo for mining, some of the miners will go where the pay is better.
Imho Bcash and its brothers' prices are inflated artificially by their "heads", it cannot stay really profitable indefinitely without real value added to the projects.
Ver is favoring bcash in the companies he has power. That helps the coin.

All in all I think that at least Ver's fork can survive as long as Ver can dictate what certain companies do. When that will end, bcash will soon enough go where it deserves from the beginning.