Interesting enough, I've done that exercise just about one month ago, just I was not thinking that far others could need/use an advice try this themselves.
But you did think on giving the advice, hats off for that!

The timelock is indeed optional, it's useful only if the sender wants to have the money spent only after a certain age.
And I meant paper wallet .. made of paper. I have to admit that this capsule is one of the simplest of the "complicated approaches", but I just don't see the reason for using (crypto)steel.

A paper wallet doesn't really need any special tech. And a paper wallet + a time locked transaction towards that address already does the job.
I don't know, do more complicated solutions make the blogs or newspapers look more interesting maybe?

If you don't have the private key for that address, there's nothing meaningful you can do.
Your only chance is if the pool owner is (extremely) nice and accepts to do the change for you without asking the signed message from the old wallet.

I'm not surprised. My bet on Mic's thread was 19k+ and there are only 2 days left to reach that.
So parabolic up is a must!

Afaik Dogecoin, although there was for a while a pool with more than 50% hash rate, was not attacked. The pool played fair.
And afaik that was the reason it implemented merged mining with Litecoin. After that the hash rate went up and got splitted between much more pools and there were no more problems.

So if an attack means that funds are stolen, maybe the "except" list can be much bigger.


Also I don't think that Monero ever had 51% attack problems either...

Beware, Bitcoin halving may be overrated. It clearly has to have a rising effect on the price, but there's a good chance that rise is already in the current price. Don't forget that we are at more than double of this year's low!
Of course, Bitcoin can still rise a lot - with or without this halving.

Libra is designed as a competitor more for USDT than Bitcoin.
It could "take away" from Bitcoin the "use as a coin", but Bitcoin will remain at least a good investment.

However, these are suppositions. Libra has a huge power behind it and the regulators know that, so will not allow it for now.
Libra may be allowed to get launched only after ECB and other similar institutions have their coin ready or even already launched.

I'm not certain it's a campaign done on purpose.
Clearly some things are done on purpose = because somebody has paid for that, but most news are just driven by how much "extraordinary" the thing is, so it may catch attention.
They don't care about you, me or Bitcoin. They care about their revenues, about keeping people interested to stay on their channel and.. watch the commercials between whatever they're telling.

This proves that if used correctly, Bitcoin still is pretty much anonymous (OK, pseudo-anonymous).
Clearly some may track down some of the funds  to certain persons, but clearly that's far from accurate and clearly they will not tell us all their findings and traceable links for that.
I guess that nobody can tell you 100% if those numbers or the top "owners" are correctly pinpointed.

Who can tell that, CZ, for example, didn't make it yet to top 10?



No, such info is not 100% certain, there are speculations and suppositions.
If somebody has 1000 smaller wallets (well, not that small, actually), it may be much richer than we think and may stay nicely away of such lists.

No new ATH would mean not much further evolving of Bitcoin - as technology and as acceptance/use too. It would mean Bitcoin dying. It would make the miners leave. It would be bad.
But I don't think that this can realistically happen.

Also, how many years means "never"?!  

It looks like a bug in Chrome for Android. It's the same for me too. On Chrome for PC it works, but Chrome for Android had other bugs with bitcointalk in the past too.
As some sort of solution, on my Firefox for Android it works fine.

From what I know https://www.cryptodatadownload.com/ has what you need, for free (if not for commercial use). Hourly records for the last 2 years or so, daily for the last 5 years.

I'm not sure that's the best use for NAS. I use at home a NAS as media server and keep everything backed up onto portable HDDs I only update now and then.
Unless you have a smarter NAS where you do HDD mirroring or even better RAID setup, I think that portable HDDs can be a better backup.


Set your wallet show the value in bits  , it should look rich!

Imho nope, not this. If there will be inflation as said, Bitcoin will look like rising indeed, but not "to the moon". If there will be a market crash, again, people may rather sell their Bitcoin investments than buy.
Imho people need extra money to invest and there has to be another trigger - maybe in adoption / chain of shops / businesses / proper recognition as money in legislation - to get "to the moon" "and beyond".

Of course, we can get "to the moon" from bubble to bubble, but the periods in between will be painful and I hope that maybe it could be avoided.
For a bubble the trigger can come even easier and can be almost anything. But QE is not something to qualify even for that.

Most probably the escrows here offer way more trust than those websites.
Even some exchanges offer lending feature and have bigger chance to get lenders than those websites with not-that-big amount of money they work with on the daily basis, less known and .. honestly, much less trusted.

It's easy to build a website. It's much harder to prove it's a solid business that can be trusted.

People tend to go by media as "the information". And what media said?
* This and that known celebrity / rich person is against Bitcoin
* Bitcoin had a bubble and it popped
* Banks officials said that's not safe to invest money into Bitcoin
* Bitcoin exchanges are periodically hacked
* Bitcoin is used by criminals

As laughable as these statements may look for us, many see this as an image of Bitcoin. Something strange, something they should not touch.

How misinformed you imagine that people can be if some wanted to invest in facebook's stable coin?! Nobody cared it is not launched and it's stable coin. But a brand like Facebook gave it some sort of legitimacy.
Who's that missing imaginary Satoshi guy?!

No. We live in our world which is far from average Joe's world. We have different sources of information.
Yes, it's hard to get them to this side of the fence. For many it's almost impossible.


PS. At the next bubble, media will tell about investing into Bitcoin.. probably near to the ATH, leaving others disappointed/angry against Bitcoin as soon as it'll start dropping.

If you plan to mine while also working on that laptop, Monero could be an option, since XMR Stak miners don't use all CPU and you can easily do office work on it.
Of course, you'll have to check the actual profitability...

Exactly. After Monero getting delisted by exchanges here and there, this move against mixed Bitcoin is somehow a step we should have been expecting. And yep, more like this will certainly come.

The truth is that the last 2 years were a disaster for the altcoin investors.
Somehow the average altcoin investment seems to have a short period of profitability. And I talk here about the few honest coins.
They have been falling a lot, and not only compared with fiat, also compared with Bitcoin.

On the other hand some have risen quite a lot against bitcoin over time too, don't forget that. And that may happen again at least for a small number of altcoins. And if that'll happen some people that currently may be seen as bagholders... may become rich investors.

All in all, each altcoin investor should know (should have known!) that altcoins are riskier than bitcoin. The current state of things shows exactly how much riskier they are.