You are missing something. Most news blogs are desperate for new ideas / new posts. Many of them will help for free.
I had a blog (not crypto related) at some point and I know how difficult is to have something new to post. And new posts means new pages the ads are shown on.

I think that the only real requirement is to prove it's indeed a worthy project and clearly not something shady (so it can affect their reputation).

Maybe you are talking about luckyb.it ? Afaik it's still alive.



Having similar name with something existing usually looks bad/shady.
You'll have to show the community you (want to) provide a fair and strong business. For now the website look and feel didn't convince me.

You got me, I didn't read that     Indeed, the writing is ... newbish?! Indeed, in the light of that, you are right.
It may still worth mentioning that some may simply buy bitcoin and not withdraw, for various reasons. In that case (which I don't know how many bitcoin add up) the page may be correct.



This would be a great idea if many people would not "know better" and would avoid this exactly because it's "educational".
I really don't know which of the two direction would actually get anywhere. Maybe .. both?



Maybe a Bitcoin day where we try to open people's eyes that storing their funds in the exchanges is bad for everybody, including them.

Somehow these 2 statements contradict themselves. (Maybe not exactly "contradict", but I guess you'll understand what I mean.)
Yes, people should keep minimal funds on custodian wallets. But the size of the known custodian wallets shows clearly that this doesn't happen.

If really big number of people would withdraw it would be great. Not because of the extra hassle they'd create to custodians/exchanges, no. Because quite a big number of people will not deposit back, just because they don't need to, achieving exactly what's intended: having their coins under their keys.

Banking is too big to fail, however, Satoshi have bring us Bitcoin and now the banking and financial systems are forced to evolve.

Youtube is too big to fail because it's owned by Google and there's too much money around it? Well, we don't have to bring it down, we just need to create alternatives, maybe someday one will be better.
(I know that decentralized file storage and high volume retrieval can be challenge though...; I know that spam/garbage can also be a big problem.)

Why people still want to pirate windows?!

I've just wrote in another thread: last time I've used an activator (some years ago), after using it, I've found newly downloaded things and set in registry to start with Windows.
I wouldn't risk using wallets on such a Windows.

Windows 10 you can download for free, you can keep it not activated for ever and only some look/desktop things cannot be changed (and the watermark).
If you insist on having Windows pirated, then write latest Tails OS onto an USB stick and boot from that when you need to use your coins. It has Electrum on it, so you have only to put in (always) the seed.

Activator is an executable you ran with internet on? Last one I've used, many years ago, downloaded a bunch of surprises, I hope it's not the case.
Why didn't you just leave it not activated? My older laptop has Win 10 not activated for more than a year and it works fine. The only things that don't work are desktop/taskbar settings related to making it look better.
Electrum definitely worked about a month ago, but I used the portable one.

If a Microsoft Visual C++ Redist dll is missing, you should install the whole redistributable package, that's the proper way.


Linux option: If you want a simple way to use Electrum, just put Tails OS onto an USB stick, boot from the stick and .. Electrum is there and works!

Binance has high liquidity, low fees and under 2 BTC/day they don't ask for KYC.
Whether we like it or not, this is all most traders may care about.

If the problems would be so big and annoying, people would leave.


About contacting the authorities.. Binance is in Malta nowadays, which afaik has quite a lax legislation. So .. good luck with that. If you have a proper concern, CZ is still your best chance.

From what I know Binance still offers the option to buy Bitcoin with credit card. Just you have to know that's more expensive (usually buying with CC is more expensive). And Egypt doesn't seem to be excluded.
Google gave me some tutorials, if you need them (not mine).
https://usethebitcoin.com/buy-bitcoin-with-a-credit-card-on-binance/
https://coinzodiac.com/buy-bitcoin-binance/

Cloud mining you should avoid. Most of them are scam and, from what I know, the legit ones are barely profitable (if at all).

I don't have that wallet, but it should have settings to show Bitcoin (Core) and Bitcoin Cash, maybe in different tabs or settings.
Please make sure you are looking in the Bitcoin Cash area for your money.
Also take a look if that address 12yC1GTuyAL6epEBecT5ZtuWdbHiEFyhcc is present in your wallet. In the BCH area (if any).


Another idea would be to go to Bitcoin Cash thread and tell there that you bought BCH and it's not visible in your wallet and ask for help.
Maybe somebody there knows the wallet and has an idea what you can do.
As soon as you can see the money in the wallet, ... the other steps are in this thread.

I don't know of such a service and it would actually may be difficult to set up because of the KYC various services are asking for (although with Changelly it may be possible to be made, but there are "minimum amount" limitations).

If one would want to transfer to you directly Bitcoin he would have to buy it which in most cases means KYC.
Also keep in mind that such a setup may end up with unnecessarily big fees.

If nobody else gives any better idea, one direction could be via a Bitcoin debit card with IBAN.
 + They use to have mobile apps, you can find such a service
 - You'll have to convert by hand Bitcoin to fiat or fiat to Bitcoin
 + You do the conversion in the mobile app
 + You do the conversion only when you need it, you can keep "buffer money"
 + The app should notify you when funds come in or go out
 - The wallet will be custodian (not your keys, also sending out Bitcoin is more expensive than from your own wallet)
 - It's not recommended to keep big amounts of fiat on such cards (but this should be no problem for you)
 + The conversion rates and the use fees for those cards are ... not nice. Also you'll face extra Forex fees in most fiat operations.
 - Money transfer (SEPA or whatever) from out these associated accounts is not the most reliable
 + You can pay in shops like with any VISA/MasterCard or withdraw (although bad fees and limits) as long as you have fiat on the cards

However, the choice of cards is not great also, so I will not actually recommend any.

I see this period as a longer week-end. Speculation on the price can happen, but I think that their effect will become close to zero as soon as normal banking/working days start again.

NeuroticFish likes that rather neurotic cat.
Especially after the excess of ... not #nohomo images 

OK, you need further explanation, it seems.
Your bitcoins are not in a wallet file on your computer, the bitcoins are "on the network". The wallets only handle the private keys (to say it in a simple manner).
If you create a new wallet with the correct private key, you'll get the same address as in the watch only wallet and you'll be also able to spend them.
Indeed, you cannot change a watch only wallet into spendable, but it doesn't matter, you can create a new proper wallet by restoring it from the known private key or seed.

So yes, you need to find the private key (or seed, if the wallet was created with Electrum, for example).

For me it's "mind boggling" how comes there's no lawsuit about this. Somebody should sue them and bankrupt them. It's pure scam.

Did you see how many mentions he has (because of the wallet with same name, I guess)?
Creative indeed!

Any software you install on your computer can steal basically anything from your computer as long as the user running it has access to that resource and it's connected to the internet.
But the official Electrum is not malicious and its source code is publicly available (so anybody can check this).

First of all, Bitcoin transactions are not reversible, so the chance to get anything back is slim.
But your explanation only tells that you have a problem. Not enough info to understand what happened there.
1. What wallet did/do you use?
2. Which are the good transactions and which is the bad transaction - can you post the transaction id for them?
3. (although it will already be visible in the transactions, it may not be clear what is what so..) it could also help to post the sender and recipient (wallet) address.


PS. Make sure you don't answer to people that may try to "help" you in PM; please don't post sensitive info (seed, private key).



Upload the image to imgur.com (new post) and provide the link.

Monero's new RandomX seems to be a hit for CPU miners.
But I'll warn you: there's a pretty high chance the CPU mining is unprofitable. Check your consumption, check the electricity price and do the math.


As an overall rule, from my experience, if a coin can be easily mined by anybody, usually the price will not rise (why buy when I can mine?), hence it's not profitable.

Nope. Bitcoin may rise, but not because of this. Some other indicators tell that a rise may happen, but even those are not accurate.
One of those is the longs vs shorts ratio.
Bitcoin price is not necessarily driven (only) by FUD, hype and (Christmas?) magic...


Not much. Or if it will happen, it should have only short time effect. One such "action" could be "testing the limits" of the bots for which the owners will be offline.
Most will not work much or at all in 3rd January. Many are away for New Year's until on 5th.