The trend looks beautiful now, many have already started dancing, still, anything can still happen and we cannot foresee the future.
As long as the price goes this nicely, most will predict great future, in which 15k and 20k before the end of the year is easily possible. (I am tempted to do the same, but I won't do that yet.) Again, keep in mind that predictions mean nothing, since noone can foresee the future.

19 - NeuroticFish

Thank you.

The point also was that since it's a made up story, the "nailed" part and the use of that could also be made up (and may not be realistic enough).
But I won't interfere more.

I don't know what is SysInternals live. I've always downloaded it and kept it on my computer.
SysInternals was bought by Microsoft many years ago, so make sure you download it from Microsoft, not from some strange website.

I've said it multiple times: if you use Windows, get Process Explorer (SysInternals/Microsoft) and put it start with the system.
Also make it always visible in tray.
It will show if CPU is used too much and who is using it. It should help find this kind of malware.

Sorry, I don't believe this.
MtGox was all over the news and since then Bitcoin kept getting into the news. And its price too.
So 30-40 BTC would have been 3.5-4.5k in 2014 and from that point no way you would leave your coins unattended.

Nice SF though.

PS. Also quite interesting that basically only me and Gazeta were concerned about the truth of the story.

Let's start with the basics:
1. Are you sure your Electrum was downloaded from electrum.org ?
2. Do you have the latest version?
3. Is your Electrum connected (bottom-right big green dot)?

BTC is not "inside" the wallet. BTC is "on the network".
The wallet has only the private keys you need in order to spend those coins.
The modern wallets (re)create the private keys based on the seed.
So... if you've lost the seed, you will not be able to spend those coins. Ever.

If you make a new wallet, with a new seed, that will be a new wallet. Of course, you will still not be able to spend from the other old wallet.

I hope this answer your questions.


Now, depending on the wallet, you may be able to see the seed if you still can open the wallet. What wallet you use? How you know you have the coins, are you looking in a wallet or a blockchain explorer?
Did you write down the seed onto a paper? Maybe you can search more for it?

Keep in mind that as long as the coin is not listed, all your gains are "monopoly money".
There are scam accusations in this direction already. Everybody is told to be gaining, but all you did was to give up personal info (the phone app can get quite some info) and received .. promises.
Some even fear that in order to cash in people will have to fill KYC info, which can be even more problematic.
Search and read more....

19 - NeuroticFish

Thanks for the raffle and HAPPY BIRTHDAY Hhampuz !

The users come and go. Especially the scammers, sooner or later they become history.
However, a good post has to stand out, no matter who has written it.

I guess that we don't agree on this and from what I see on current poll result 1/3 of the people answering do agree with you. More than I would have expected.
I don't want to be mean, but I believe that these people misunderstood (at least partly) what merit is for.

This sounds very wrong imho.
Merit is for worthy posts, not for users.
OK, one can be nice towards an user now an then an help him out. But that's an exception. The rule should be to merit posts. That's why I've merited even users that are not here anymore or users which have negative trust: because even such users can be capable of good posts.

And this being said, .. why would I check the history then?! Nope, I don't check it for deciding if I should reward the post or not.

This thread is from January... 2019. The 30 + 30 days have passed long ago. More than a year ago. So ... yep, it's "already" down 

Subscriptions are tricky, some may end up paying it in the following months or years too automatically from their card. I don't know if it's the case, but this kind of problem makes people avoid this kind of deals.
This being said, you may consider checking services that offer Visa/Mastercard debit/prepaid cards you can top up with crypto. AdvCash may have virtual cards too.

And what is, in your logic, the size of a Bitcoin, I wonder?
Monero is a good coin and has a smart team. Mindless shilling is not on their agenda. What you do is not helping Monero, instead it's bad advertising.
Read more and please stop this kind of posting.

I had the (good or bad?) luck to get Wirex card rejected at about same rate.
The forex rates are by far a bigger issue for me.
And the banking... is not the only thing. Now and then someone has to re-send identity and/or address papers, they don't get processed as good as expected and meanwhile the card cannot be topped up.

Congratulations @GOLD_official for ranking up!

I don't like PayPal. I use them only when I have no other choice. So I don't care about them.

Mastercard... well, crypto cards startups already issued cards (indirectly) under Visa or Mastercard brands. Now allowing them issue the cards directly could make the services more secure against Wavecrest type problems, but that won't help that much. Wirex is still quite expensive, especially for those in countries where the currency is not GBP/EUR/USD and their support used to be sometimes awful. Mastercard allowing them issue their cards directly will probably not solve most of the existing problems, the startups still need to get more.. mature.

Wasn't that increased in 2017 to 2 weeks (from 72h) to help people avoid losing funds?
Or am I mixing up something?
Can anybody confirm?

Also it would be interesting to know if OP is the one who made the wallet and where he keeps the backup of the private keys if any.
At the first glance I could assume (but I could also be wrong) that somebody else also has access to the private keys of that wallet and as soon as any funds get there the other person moves them away to his own wallet.