I think that this has to be rephrased a little. Nobody loves to lose money. The tricks are: to trade only money one affords to lose and to gain more than he loses overall (else sooner or later he'll have to find better ways to make money).

But you seem to be missing the big picture. There are plenty of ads telling how easy crypto trading is and how easy will one get rich almost overnight. Many people don't understand that an ad is not necessarily true, especially on the internet and many just get their money from referrals. And many trade or invest their lunch money (if they are "lucky") or the money that should "feed" their entire family for a month, or their retirement money, and the list can continue.

I think that it's a quite unreasonable request. If one mod starts handing that, it won't do good for his mental health on long term.
Reputation board tends to look like a snakes pit. Sometimes I tend to stay away from there myself.

Mods are human and probably sometimes check the things better and sometimes don't check them enough.
Even though in theory one mod could handle this better, there are 2 bad options: either he would handle only Reputation and sooner or later he'll get sick and tired of all the drama, either he will have to also take care of other subforums too hence splitting his attention and time.

Maybe we simply need more mods and that's all.

I've sent him some merit as he may enjoy it more than you 
It worth keeping an eye on it, the non-custodian wallet may be interesting, the "no annual fees" is definitely interesting, but the full list of fees and limits is the part I really want to see.

The topic/title could need a change.

If I use the browser auto-completion for bitcoin is I get all the time the same thing: bitcoinwisdom.io/markets/bitstamp/btcusd
On the other hand, if I open google.com web page (which I didn't do in years, I think, although I use google as main search engine), I get bitcoin usd.


PS. Now it's a lot better (at least I cannot complain )

People should use their own brain and avoid scams as good as they can. Locking or deleting the thread may not help much.


Any candidate should make sure the task is not against any rules @ Reddit and the payment is properly escrowed (which only in PM or on telegram may not actually happen).

Yep, he forgot the trolls, he forgot about the ones that not necessarily "shitpost by number", but not really read what was discussed before posting and the list may continue.
But I agree with OP. Sometimes one has to skip a lot of crap to get to the subject in a thread, whether it's his thread and wants go get an answer, whether he wants only to genuinely help.
And it's not only in meta.

Without any clear note on how the drawing will occur, it's very easy to have it rigged.
And with OP's trust review and flag.... yeah...

I pity you. Seriously. I think that you don't understand what you are doing and this may get you to the point you may lose funds. Also if you post on this forum you may give wrong advice to somebody.
Can you please take some minutes and read more about the way the wallets work, maybe understand that hardware wallets only provide signing for transactions and why they are pretty much designed to be used directly (i.e. online)?

97 - NeuroticFish

Thank you.

Since you actually cannot tell if the money from an address are dormant or completely lost, you'll never know how many Bitcoins are actually lost.
I know that there are a few addresses said to be lost (especially Satoshi's and the burn addresses), but I think that this is just a part of the story and you never know if Satoshi will, for example, ever start spending his money.

1. We had plenty of occasions to consolidate the small inputs for times like this.
2. The fees are not big if you are not in extreme hurry.
3. We all have to learn to do on-chain transactions only when it's necessary.


For some reasons (either block reward halving, either drought in China = electricity problems) some miners have stopped. This means that for some while (until the next difficulty recalculation) the existing miners will have a more difficult job. And since the reward is decreased, I don't think that they are so much happy.

I really hope that such celebrities also get convinced to buy a hardware wallet, else the news may turn bad sooner or later.

That's correct. Also getting into WO is like getting into another world, compared with (most of) the rest of the forum.
This means that while I have no problems at all to see such images in WO, on the rest of the forum a NSFW warning is necessary.

Interesting news. I knew that quite some miners have stopped. I thought that they play on the safe side and will wait for the price to grow before mining again, but dry season / lack of hydroelectricity could also be a strong reason.

Actually the slow transaction speed may be caused by the opposite: some miners don't expect big price movements and they've stopped mining for now (probably it would be at a loss at current price).
Big difficulty + smaller number of miners = slower blocks until the next difficulty adjustment.


PS. By what I've just read, Sichuan drought may be another strong reason though.

I see some grudge here and I think I may also know why: WO veterans seem to be mostly bullish on Bitcoin, while what I caught from Bossian posts seem to be bearish.
However, not my business... it's something else I want to tell OP:


It would be nice from you to put somewhere near that link a NSFW sign, since some may not like this kind of advises coming without the tiniest warning.

I'd say that it's probably some sort of bonus to attract exchanges into listing GOLD. And this would mean that GOLD team would pay the storage fess for the involved GOLD from their pockets / revenues.

The only thing I can think of would be files with DRM protection. And in that case you'll usually be able to use the file only on one device.

I am not very familiar with the way DRM is made, but maybe an enhanced DRM-like protection can be made to the file is available only on the devices enabled by signing a message with the payer's BTC address, for example. (As I said, I am not familiar with DRM and I may have said something stupid).

Ledger HW is expensive only if you buy the one with higher capacity, which may make sense if you handle more altcoins.
The simple Ledger Nano is as cheap as Trezor.

Whether you need it depends on what you want to do and what your tech skills are. If you 100% know how to safely generate paper wallet(s) for yourself and how to store them (offline) and only want to HODL, you don't need more. But usually it's not the case. Locally stored wallet file is not a safe way to keep big amount of money, since computers can be hacked if they get online (whether you keep them online 24/7, whether you go online for 5 minutes now and then only for a few transactions, the risk is still there).

That 59 EUR they cost worth it 100% imho, for both security and convenience.

Congratulations and best wishes!