I guess that if somebody types 82000 instead of 18000 kinda deserves his fate. I mean, when one works with money, he should double check.
Well, after such a costly trade, I am sure that next time he will... if there will be a next time.

I start to believe it'll remain primarily an investment vehicle.
LN should have made it a coin for everyday payments, but I think that its version "for everybody" will be available too late. And by too late I mean that since the institutional investors are also in, by the time it should be use for everyday payments it'll have quite a "lack of liquidity" (even knowing that it has 8 digits after the decimal point, this could be an issue, for example when banks will buy it to replace gold)

Another approach could be to buy multiple smaller amounts in different (sparse) days, so you're kinda covered whether it'll go down or move further up ("dollar-cost averaging").
Just you'll have to be careful the fees don't get too high if you go in this direction (eg. you better deposit larger amounts to exchanges and then from those amounts you buy multiple times; of course this doesn't work if you buy with card).

* The governments (US and others too) are printing money, causing inflation.
* The companies started to trust Bitcoin and invest huge funds into it.
* There was a block reward halving, hence miners earn less coins, hence they have less coins to sell.

I've also made not long ago a topic about some interesting numbers: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5290241

I guess that you are joking, but if you aren't, here's one of the many alternatives: https://mycryptobuddy.com/CurrencyConverter
However, I hope it's only temporarily down (yes it's also down for me too). It was an amazingly simple and useful page.

I can understand that. I wish to see this implemented in a proper application with signature to be checked to avoid surprises. I wish that at some point Electrum would offer the choice between their mnemonic and BIP39 one.
But for now we have to live with what we have. Electrum is a great piece of software, but one has to be aware of its minuses too and adjust if necessary.

By your very own words, "it is very easy to ask the community to create a very simple tool with less than 20 lines of code (hence easy to review) to convert the Electrum mnemonic to an extended private key (xprv)".



Since OP topic is about paper wallet and not cold storage, a proper mnemonic seed is advisable, whether it's made by compiled code or in-browser JS.
And after having a proper mnemonic seed, OP can continue with Electrum (or even use it as cold storage).

The setup is not bad at all, but you asked us to criticize, so here I am  

It may worth mentioning that a Tails OS USB stick has all you need, including Electrum already installed.
It may also worth reminding that Electrum seed works only in Electrum (HCP already wrote: "not BIP39 compatible"). I was told it's easy to convert to something else, but for long term storage, it could be a good idea generating the seed in Ian Coleman's tool and then verify with Electrum.

Heh, you've got it wrong. In-wallet POS was the first kind of POS. The history shows it was a failure, hence the developers moved on for something they've considered it could be better.

I remember MagiCoin had in-wallet POS (and also CPU mining). I don't know how active/alive it still is, still it can be something to read if you have the time and mood. Basically it started good, but the price kept falling, the volumes kept also falling, then the bigger exchanges delisted them, then the prices have fallen even more...
It was a coin I liked. It was also a coin that made me understand that in-wallet POS is not a good idea (and neither CPU mining).

If just opening a web page is good enough for you, I'd say: ethplorer.io
Basically you bookmark an URL like https://ethplorer.io/address/0xwhatever and you're good to go.
I like it by far more than etherscan for this job, although I've never checked carefully how accurate the displayed prices are.

I've just read this on twitter. I don't know if it's accurate, but ... it looks impressive. It looks like the price is bound to rise and rise.
Still, who is still selling?! I mean that I expect even the miners would start stashing...

However, keep in mind that this is not a trading advice; keep in mind that I don't even know if the data is accurate.

Multumesc, dar asta stiam. Nelamurirea mea este pe partea de plata directa cu crypto. Si aici sunt de acord cu Kevin: nu este clar acoperiata si lasa loc la interpretari. Nu este OK, dar cam asa-s legile pe la noi.


Clar ca statuls va sti. Si e o informatie pe care poate ca o va folosi.
Dar am dubii ca ii va pasa prea mult, cel putin in prima faza. Nu cred ca multi arunca Bitcoin pe iPhone12, S20 sau alt asemenea gunoi la suprapret. Si atunci sumele sunt relativ mici, pot chiar sa stea sub limita aceea de ne-impozitare.
Asta inseamna mult de lucru fara sa fie clar ca prind pe cineva. Si au suficient de multi mari evazionisti de care sa le pese.
Bineinteles, cand cineva va sari calul, banuiesc ca nu va avea cum sa scape.

I think that what's he's saying is that with capped max quantity and increasing number of investors/hoarders the price of Bitcoin can only go up fast. And it also has quite a good history of updates, hence it's stable and mature enough.
I think that he's holding, not actually day-trading, hence the daily volatility doesn't matter much.

As they say now, keep calm and buy Bitcoin
We should all do the same instead of running around in circles and listen to all the noise.

And as others said, 51% attack is ... something else than OP thinks. Like apples and oranges...
Satoshi clearly didn't mention about crypto-fiat markets manipulation since his vision was to use crypto directly for buying ... everything.

Brave has already shown that it's creators are friendly only to their own pockets.
Before advertising it you'd better read threads like

• New stupid/greedy move from Brave Browser
• Brave browser scams 1,5k USD out of archive.is based on nationalist rhetoric

..and I'm sure you can find more if you search.

Eu doar sper ca este asa.  
Oricum, multumesc. Si cred ca acesta este raspunsul la intreabarea lui @ILoveMoney2018


PS. Ideea e ca asa poti "ascunde" profitul.

Este un pic cu cantec. Adica intrebarea este un pic prost pusa, dar poate fi pertinenta.

Cel putin in 2017 exista o firma in Ro care vindea apartamente direct pentru BTC.
Exista cativa dealeri auto care accepta Bitcoin.
Daca iti cumperi ceva de la PCGarage, o poti face direct cu Bitcoin.

Eu unul nu stiu clar daca si cum se face impozitarea in aceste cazuri.

We'll have to wait and see.
PayPal is working indeed with IOUs now (like Revolut does and I've didn't see such loud complains). But they have plans to connect with an exchange service and then I think that proper deposits and withdrawals will be possible.
However, PayPal doesn't seem to intend to ever use actual Bitcoin. But as long as a third party will do that on behalf of PayPal it should be fine, I think. If they won't do this even though a third party, then yes, we'll have a problem.

Actually I think that the safest is to link it to the work or school e-mail and maybe the phone number too although it can be seen as a privacy issue (actually if you already use Google services it doesn't matter much anymore).

The phone number will work in another phone. The work or school e-mail can be unlocked by the appropriate administrator. In both cases a proper recovery is at hand.
I think that linking to another Google account for this may only give the illusion of safety. Of course, it depends on how the secondary mail account is used and backed up.

I'd make it simpler and make the relationship only by the amount of Bitcoin the traders have. The number of traders is not so much relevant.
And it's hard to quantify, since I expect that many traders may have amounts (bigger than 1 BTC!) kept in exchanges' cold wallets for more than one year.