Please don't! Except you know what you are doing.

Scammers are likely professionals while you probably aren't.
If you try to scam back, you're open for blackmailing like "you'll give me money or I report you to the police for attempted scamming".
Scammers likely have sophisticated methods to keep themselves anonymous while you probably don't, this means that probably you are the only one who sits in the court room although both did a crime offense.

I don't waste thoughts about scammers and I don't try to scam back because it's time wasting.

Another problem arises when trying to scam back a scammer is that the pretended "identity" of the scammer could be someone who is innocent, meaning you would scam someone who is innocent.

Privacy matters because the history shows that personal information could be abused by "hackers" or by authorities during paradigm shifts.

Everyone who is interested in privacy has to do some trade offs because increasing privacy means more work to do.

What I'm (not) doing:

• I don't use Facebook or any other social platform with mandatory real names. But I don't care about privacy when doing company related things.
• I use a VPN for private surfing but I don't use a VPN for anything which is linked with my real identity like banking.
• The whole computer is encrypted including every backup drive. But some USB devices aren't because some devices like TVs can't read it.
• I prefer cable over wireless in my house. But wireless is still enabled, because cable is very annoying when using mobile devices in the bed. To prevent taking over the whole network in the case of an attack, the wireless network has a own vLAN.
• My door is surveilled with a Raspberry but I don't care about the windows because you would need pretty good climbing experiences.

I don't need 100% security, I'm caring about privacy while doing only a fair amount of efforts.

It's not hard to spy on me but it's hard to get any crucial out of me.

Honestly, likely "no", but it depends.

It's more likely that I show resistance if the authorities starting to take away everything thing that makes life worth living.

If everything is gone and the authority starts slavery where I should get slaved, for example, why I should care about guns anymore?
It's a question how much I still can loose and how certain it is that the remaining life will be a shitty one.

And nobody should ever mess with me if ...
... I discover that I'm poisoned, ie. with Colchicine - in this example, there's no antidote available and with 100% certainly deathly within a few days
... get a cancer diagnosis which is already in the critical stage
... <insert any soon-certain-deadly thing here>

I think a very important thing when showing resistance is not to harm anybody which is innocent.

And they don't include the earth's axial precession.
Because it's a self-sustaining closed system, based on faiths.
The postulated principles in the astrology are always true by definition, unlike science.

Hallo,

I'm (also) a programmer.  

What language I prefer depends on the task.

• For web backends I prefer PHP. When dealing with bigger projects, I prefer PSR*+MVC OOP solutions like Symfony.
• For web frontends I'm stuck to plain HTML+CSS+JS with some jQuery because I hate the frontend stuff and it lacks motivation for learning. I hate to deal with the different behaviours of the many different devices and browsers thrown on the (mobile) market.
• For automatition on Windows I'm stuck to Batch scripting because most Windows systems doesn't have Python installed and I don't know yet how to deal with the PowerShell although I heard it's very powerful and a great thing what Microsoft has done. If I'm getting confronted with more such tasks in the future I'll probably take a PowerShell course.
• For automatition on Linux I use Bash for smaller tasks and Python for more complex tasks. Python because it's mostly available for me and easy to deal with and I don't like to fiddle nor to debug some cryptic "dosomething -xyz ... | dosomethinganother ... | sed -xyz ... | awk ..." like bash code which I made but forgot how the argument syntax exactly was when opening the bash script in a text editor first time after 6 months in oblivion.
• Desktop applications: .NET C#/VB or Pascal or C(++) dependent if it's enterprise, time available and how much low level I need.
  

Problem: The previous transaction isn't confirmed and has multiple unconfirmed transaction as parents.

It's because the perception of a religious being what a proof is (not) doesn't match with the scientific view.
You can't even disprove 1+1=3 to someone who rejects every word you say (doesn't listen at you).

I've done several face2face meetings, even with peoples who revealed itself as nasty afterward.
Summary: Take care but don't fear a meeting if you aren't weak & naive and you don't tend to underestimate peoples. Even most freaks and sociopaths are looking for smooth bitcoin<->cash trades whilst doing their dirty work itself at home stealthy.

It isn't a waste of time mentioning BTC to the friends and family members but it's a waste of time when you're make the smalltalk too profound.

I was in the internet the first time around late 1995 / early 1996 (don't know the exact date) using an Intel Pentium@133 MHz, Windows 95 and a flickering CRT monitor@800x600 pixels resolution.

Take a look here:
https://www.bestvpn.com/blog/4147/pptp-vs-l2tp-vs-openvpn-vs-sstp-vs-ikev2/

I prefer OpenVPN because it's open source, secure and very flexible, because all the protocol complexity is dispatched within a single UDP (or TCP) stream. It's comparatively easy to combine OpenVPN with other tunnels and proxies.

If you're stick with Windows and just make it working without caring about security, use the built-in PPTP.

• If you care about security while you don't shy doing some work, don't just ask for the best protocol. It's more work left to do.
• Use an isolated separated system for anonymous activites which isn't linked to your domestic identity.
• Use a second boot media/partition, a virtual machine or a dedicated old machine.
• Place a dedicated VPN linux router between your productive machine and your ISP which forces every outgoing connection over VPN. It still keeps you safe when your productive machine gets compromised.
• Inform yourself what the laws are. If you have a mandatory key disclosure law, don't encrypt your local machine but use a live CD excessively while renting&connecting to a offshore remote system anonymously where you're really operating from. If your country doesn't have a mandatory key disclosure law, encrypt everything.

I don't think that's a good idea because you have track everything because of these KYC/AML laws.

Some of the best option are in operating your own (onion) mixer service which is being well-established and trusted. In this case you have full control of the log files created by your own service. If I were a mixer operator which is taking it's own medicine, I would also keep logs for troubleshooting for 7 days but encrypt the logs with an asymmetric encryption scheme like RSA2048.

I don't think 100% anonymity is possible.
It's possible to reach 99% anonymity by either using self-mined blocks or cracked insecure private keys, operating from a public toilet seat in a crowded environment using their non-mandatory-registration wifi connection with a MAC address changed client booted from a live OS distribution, finally chaining the proxies after the wifi entry point.

Sometimes, you can legally crack private keys and take all the funds by solving puzzles. If you're seeking for legal anonymous coins to crack, follow this internal link. That's your chance  

I don't need 99% anonymity. This is why my best practice is to do the buying&selling through face-to-face meetings, then paying my VPN using VPN prior to every expiration, which still sustains me good amount of anonymity.


If the govs thinks that it's relevant, they'll just do a house search which is displeasing enough for making efforts avoiding. Some countries also have mandatory password disclosure laws which brings you in danger by possibly finding illegal data by chance after decrypting your storage. For example, you could get in big trouble if you possess data which was perfectly legal when you acquired it but was being outlawed by the govs after some laws got tightend, possibly leaving you in possession of illegal data without even knowing.

Jogging is great:

• No need to prepare anything except to get you in the right clothes - you can start right off from your door
• You can do it almost everywhere
• Close to zero maintenance except buying new sporting shoes
• You're independent from other persons if you want to

Disadvantage: If problems with your foot or knees occurs due to a faulty jogg style, you're likely also banned from doing many other sports you like.

My most active wallet has approximately 2500 transactions

No. I didn't earn 0.09975 from faucets ever. I use faucets just to round up already existing non-faucet stashes.

I rarely use faucets when I want to round up my BTC balance.
When having balances like 0.09975 whilst needing 0.1, faucets are great.

Please give us a proof that ALL VPNs keep logs. (I know you can't)

Nobody can tell you if you would stay safe because

• you don't know if the VPN keep logs even the VPN promises not to log.
• it depends if you configured your network properly. Example check list question: What happens if the VPN connection breaks down during the attack?
• if you're doing UDP flooding over VPN, it's possible that you're crashing the VPN service itself because of NAT space exhaustion, possibly inducing further investigation by the VPN service.

Cryptos could be criminalized using the anti child porn laws.
In this case just the most incautious peoples will be caught&convicted like in some other crimes.

1. price volatility
I can't hold major stashes without fearing major losses.

2. bitcoin adoption
I can't use bitcoin whenever I want to.
It's hard to convert cash to bitcoin and bitcoin to cash because lacking supply&demand.

3. regulations
This discourages 2. (bitcoin adoption)

4. demonization the bitcoin as shady because of 1. (price volatility) and the pseudoanonymous nature using propaganda
This discourages 2. (bitcoin adoption)