Thank you for the kind words.

19 - NeuroticFish

Thank you!

Indeed, some need a centralized something to keep their coins, promise they'll refund in case of troubles, handle inheritance and so on.
From the beginning of civilization there always were many people that need to believe in something so they can sleep better.

But the banks are good option. But not to hold the coins, no. One can rent a deposit box in a bank and store the seed and instructions for the family. Afaik safe deposit box can be opened either by the owner, either by the family, but in the second case the family has to provide death certificate. So yes, banks (their deposit boxes) can be a valid option.


Because we don't want to give presents to the lawyers which may be handling the testament.

If it interests you to know when your tokens arrive into the wallet (GOLD or anything else) and if you use Windows, you can take a look at this application I've made some time ago:
https://github.com/neuro-fishy/FishyTokenWatcher

This should notify you at any change of the wallet content.

Prohibited or not, I think that you have better chance for an answer in Monero's actual discussion thread. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449
Maybe you could delete this and post there....

From the things you've posted, the keeping the seed in electronic format can be a weak point, I have no other clue. Or maybe somebody stole directly from your phone or your phone's files.

But one idea to prevent this for the future would he a hardware wallet. You generate safely a new seed in the wallet, you send the coins there, keep the seed only on paper (multiple copies) and you are good.

OP, do you try to earn money from ads on the faucet? Good luck with that.
Looking at the history of your address I see that you've already received 5.7 tBTC, I think it's enough even for starting your faucet.

OP, if you really need only address+private key, (see my previous post about seed) a simple and effective way can be with a Tails OS USB stick.
The OS loads into memory, nothing is persistent (on default settings) and it has an Electrum on it.
If you stay offline from before booting from USB until shutdown, you have your safe environment. Safer than reinstall windows.

Just keep in mind that Electrum seed works only in Electrum.
If you want to create a seed that works everywhere, I'd suggest Ian Coleman's tool ( https://github.com/iancoleman/bip39 )

For just private key Electrum is fine.

While I somewhat see you point, I don't like to bring (especially) USDT into discussion because USDT is not properly backed, hence my comparison with the actual USD.
(Also XAU-USD charts are available everywhere).
But since you started, I'll continue:


The different future should also happen because while GOLD token is backed by gold, USDT is backed by a pile of lies, hence I expect GOLD token continue to rise driven by gold's scarcity and governments' printing spree, while I expect USDT fail someday (of course, there are plenty of other USD-based stable coins to take its place).



I also see USDT (or GUSD or others) and GOLD as different categories. USDT is for every day quick transfer of funds and GOLD is for long term safe investment. Hence imho they are not so much in competition.

Let's say you bought in 18 June 1000$ worth of Gold token and you'd sell today. You would have earned about 40-45$. In less than a month.
Why that? Because GOLD token price is tied to actual gold's price. As simple as that.

You can find a chart of gold price on international markets here: https://goldprice.org/gold-price-chart.html


And since gold is going mostly up and the fluctuations are not as high as for Bitcoin, gold is considered by many a much safer investment. And GOLD token makes it easier.
Clearer?

Indeed. Congrats OP and I truly hope that you will receive at least a couple of BTC.
I find it hard to believe that they can and will pay up the huge 171BTC

I don't think that's possible to do legally. They also don't check how much money you have in your online banking application, right?
What I mean is that they look for how much cash you carry. You can have as much as you want in bank.
And for Bitcoin, that has to be converted into a country's currency to count as funds.

However, let's say you are right and they care about your bitcoins. Do they know what a hardware wallet is? Highly unlikely. But let's say they know. You can enter wrong pin 3 times ("stress because of police") and you recover some other time from the seed. They cannot know if you have 1$ there or billions.

First of all, I'd advise you try to also play with this Electrum a little on testnet. Testnet coins are for free and with some patience you can check each step.

However, for the current situation, you should:
0. Make sure Advanced preview is set in Preferences.
1. Press Pay, a new window will show up.
2. Check and press Finalize
3. On the new window you have an Export combo-box.


Edit: @BitCryptex: it's not nice to make a partial post and then complete it from/after others have written a complete solution after you.

Ripple supporters and speculators publish from time to time alleged partenship and collaboration projects between Ripple and various big names.
From what I know the vast majority of them never happened or at least not materialized.

The "trying to get new FOMO" part is something I always think of when I see now such news about Ripple and everybody should be wary else they may get burnt.

Indeed. I see bigger chance it was mistaken for an USB stick or similar and they were looking if it doesn't contain anything illegal or maybe they've tried to see if it's not something else than it looks (just a shell containing drugs or I don't know what).

OP, keep in mind that there aren't that many who know what Bitcoin is and even less who know what a hardware wallet it.
Also, OP, you may want to read this about KeepKey before you try too hard to work with it.

I am not surprised. Some 5 years ago I've met people thinking that Internet Explorer is the internet (!).
Back to Bitcoin, while the technology, blockchain, transaction processing, lightning and so on are advancing nicely, the education part is two steps behind.

People don't know what's a wallet, don't understand that the wallet doesn't actually hold the coins, don't know about the problems of custodial so-called wallets, don't know that being careless may cost them, don't know how to properly use a wallet, what's a transaction, how to adjust the fee, what is the problem with the small inputs, the confirmations and the fact that 0 confirmations can be tricky... and so on.
Learning to care about their privacy, as you see, is not even on the first list of things they are missing.

I guess that educating people would necessary, but people are usually lazy about reading and may do that only after they've done something really wrong. Also for whatever reason they may miss the correct info or not trust it. (keep in mind that many still start their search for Bitcoin from bcash website)

I also believe that it doesn't worth the effort if the only goal is to save some bucks.
If you are into electronics, OK, it can be an interesting (short) project, but if you don't, you may end up breaking some parts and paying more at the end. ("It's hard to solder those without magnification", even the video tells that).

Also keep in mind that a Trezor is nowadays 59 EUR, not 89 EUR, like the (start of the) video shows.



If you want to make sure you'll have it, I advise you save the video (mp4) not the link. It's a more.. future proof option.

As you can see from what I've kept from the post, this is one month old news. This came at very few days after the ref links "feature" blew up in their face.
Indeed, many will keep Brave for the few cents they may be earning. For many others it was an obvious next step after KYC in a privacy browser.

Since I was not into BAT this was for me the point I've lost confidence in them and apologies won't fix that. So for me it was an eye opener.
Then I've researched for something better than Chrome and Brave and returned to good old Firefox, which is better and safer than the two and it's more robust, better made and doesn't lack important features like Brave does.

It does let you spend. The only difference is in UI: you are not sent directly to Send tab, you have to go by yourself and it doesn't show the input(s) there, but it will spend from the address you wanted.
Since you have advanced view, that will be visible (much) later and you can check the correctness.
So all is good, although a bit strange for me too.

Advice: play a little on testnet