I believe you can try to buy peer to peer without KYC (Know your customer).

You can try localbitcoins.com , if you find someone.

alternatively, you can try to buy in this forum.
You can try in the board Currency Exchange. Maybe you can find someone from Iran there.

take a deep look in their trust profile, to see if the guy can be trusted or not.


Can't you really give your documents to some reliable exchange to buy bitcoin? Is it illegal to buy bitcoin in Iran?

Isn't binance a chinese exchange? There must be some exchanges in Hong Kong as well. Ofc there are chinese clients all over the world as well, like the miners for example.

But anyway, I don't think there will be a huge price spike in a few days after the halving.
Halving is already priced in.

I expect some volatility, and maybe in long term (about 1-2 years) a price spike due to the smaller supply. But the market won't "fell" that smaller supply in day 1. Imo.

I think that if the OP is asking for information about which wallet should him use, he is not experienced enough to make a proper paper wallet.

There are so many reports of users losing their funds because they didn't make a paper wallet properly.

The best wallets for newbies and intermediate users is a hardware wallet, in my opinion.


I will suggest Ledger Nano or Trezor. They are the best hardware wallets out there and both are pretty safe.
You will not lose your funds and you will spend less than 100 usd. Instructions are pretty straight forward.

You don't need to distribute Bitcoin with the software.

You can just give them the SEED (12-24 words) and suggest them a few wallets to access their coins.

I would suggest mobile wallets, as any teenager will have a mobile phone.

Electrum, Mycellium, Samourai and Coinomi are easy to use and they have a mobile version for both Android and iOS.

Can you give an example of a "crypto bank"? Never heard of them.
Exchanges are the closest thing we have to a bank here, especially coinbase which has its custodial wallet. They are basically a bank, holding your funds for you.

Exchanges are, imo, a necessity. We need them to buy and sell cryptocurrency with high volume and security. The problem is when people start using them as a bank, storing their coins.

The risk is enormous, as those exchanges lack regulations they often run away with clients money. There were many exit scams in the past, and we will see more in the future. none of them is 100% safe imo. But there are better ones and worse ones,...

You need to follow the advice of the guy you mentioned. Services board is the right place for this. You need to pay with BTC for that job.



This is not a challenge, but a rule. Address1 must have some ETH to fuel its transaction. This cannot be changed.
ETH is the gas that fuels ethereum network.

Wait man  you are thinking the wrong way.
Btc has no liquidity problems. Volume in the last 24h was 43 billion dollars.
How can you say that it has low.liquidity? This makes absolutely no sense, as it is bigger than many stock exchanges around the world. It is bigger than Brazil stock exchange daily volume. Much bigger.

Small bitcoin exchanges doesn't affect the market , you can just ignore them, as they don't play a big role in determining btc price or volatility



Bitcoin capitalization should not be compared to stock market like this imo.
London stock exchange was created in 1801. Sp500 is also very old and many others. There are thousands of companies there.

Companies that have pretty high profits. Bitcoin will never have profit, because it is not a company.
. Volume and market share of the largest companies of the world will always be higher than any safe haven

Acho que a maior vantagem do Bitcoin é a descentralização.
Esse lance de velocidade e escalabilidade é só marketing.

Olha ethereum por exemplo.  Rápido e barato, etc..
 Mas é a blockchain do Vitalik. Ele até já reverteu transações lá.

Nano iota etc  são rápidos mas centralizados. E daí? Melhor usar visa então se v não se preocupa com descentralização.

De nada adianta sair da mao de governos pra empresas..

I don't fully agree. Ofc it is bad that there are addresses with high amount of coins, but most of those coins belongs to exchanges. Those coins do not belong to the same person, they are only custodial.

Like GOLD etfs for example, which one custodial, like GLD or IAU, hold billions and billions of USD in Gold.




Gold also has high volatility, not as high as btc ofc

But I think volatility is not the major problem. As long as its volatility is not correlated to stock market, it can be somehow a safe haven.

Why would someone who knows how to get a fixed 200% return ask for someone else's money?

He might not be a scammer, but a complete idiot. Anyway it is a risky person to deal with. Flag supported.

The problem is that "a good %" over 2 years is what? something like 8- 15% i guess.

This is nothing if the coin price's drop 80% over 2 years.

Imo, everyone should ignore characteristics such as staking and speed. Look for more important and less superficial fundamentals of a project.

I believe he is talking about Meta Maska or MEW or some other wallet interface.

I found a tutorial here about how to hide the tokens you don't want to see anymore.
https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/pull/4482

There is no need to spend gas sending them.

The most reputable members of this forum, who would deserve a wiki page, would the first ones imo. Satoshi, Finn, maybe theymos. All those already have a page in the official forum wiki or in Wikipedia itself.

Personally I don't see much use in your wiki. If you start talking about less known members, but popular members here, it will be like Reputation board. a lot of drama, forum polictics, nobody like each other... etc

Não são todas assim?
Não duvido nada que  até ethereum suma daqui a um tempo...

Não acho que sejam scams, mas projetos muito ousados que não conseguiram ser realizados conforme a equipe previu.

You can read about it here
https://medium.com/@ogucluturk/the-dao-hack-explained-unfortunate-take-off-of-smart-contracts-2bd8c8db3562

By the time, the amount of Eth stolen was about 150million USD, it was the biggest ICO until its time.

A group which was lead by Vitalik decided to fork Ethereum blockchain, adding an smartcontract which would allow holders of the private keys who had their funds stolen to get their amount of ETH back. (I couldn't find details about this in the website I linked you, but a google search can give you more details about how users recovered their coins)

This will not happen to bitcoin.
Even if someone actually decide to fork Bitcoin Chain in am attempt to reverse a hack, the community would still stay in the bitcoin fork without the reversal.

As we can in previously forks, such as bch, bitcoin community remained strong and United.

Their website is offline now...

I remember few years ago when Vitalik decided to fork his blockchain to roll back the transactions from DAO hack.

Imo, that was the end of ethereum... It became Vitalik's blockchain .

To summary it all, the  12 or 24 words are the seed you need to generate all the private keys from your wallet. You can use iancoleman tool to  get each key separately or just paste them in electrum checking BIP 39 seed option.

Electrum will manage all your private keys for you, like blockchain.com does.

To play really safe, do not re use those addresses derived from that Seed after you have done any of the above solutions discussed in this topic. After recovering the private keys, just move your funds to a new fresh wallet with a new seed.

When you see your seed in a computer plugged to the internet, that seed becomes exposed and your funds are potentially at risk.

That's a great list, but it isn't updated since 2019 may.
It would be nice to have some other updated material. Probably the place for this is in scam accusations board.

This is false.

Usdt can be an OMNI token (that runs in bitcoin network), or an erc20 token (ethereum) or tr20 token (tron)

Every transaction on chain will costs the respective blockchain transaction costs and fees.

Unless you are moving inside a custodial service  fees apply