Ofcourse it's real in a sense that it pulls the priv key, shows the pub key and address. But you can do with any program there's nothing special there. The number of pages is so huge that you hardly will find anything manually speaking. Now I don't know if there's a backdoor where the author will see what you search/look for, I cannot speak for this but for extra-safety do not insert your own private key on the site.

There are many sites like this one too, check keys.lol - One guy made an experiment on keys.lol to see if the owner of the site logs/checks the searches whenever someone finds a private key right? This is a fun story, he literally created a new wallet and put in 0.01 bitcoin in it 4 years ago. Then what he did for laughs is "Searched his own private key" inside of the website keys.lol to see which page his wallet is on in that website - this experiment was to see if the owner will empty his wallet or not, then he posted his blockchain public key and told us all to keep an eye open for this one, if the wallet get swept then keys.lol is monitored. To my surprise I still keep checking the wallet, these 0.01 btc are still there.

Which means Keys.lol do not log any searches so if you click "Random" and get lucky with a key nobody else will see it. But I cannot speak of privatekeys.pw myself, I can speak of the other one because I saw the experiment myself.

This is exactly my point you summed it up nicely! People (Non tech) wants someone/somebody to keep them safe. An exchange is not as bad as you think, consider them like a bank. I know I know the point of crypto to move away from the middle man. But again we need that for some type of people who still want to be protected by someone.

How many people lost their coins/btc lots of it because they did something wrong with the priv-key, or lost a hardware, or lost something? That will not happen in an exchange. I remember reading a post back in 2011 where a guy spend on his wallet and lost 9000 BTC, the story is famous he did it on a Image/CD linux boot system which means the files disappear after one boot.

Now tell a non-tech grandmother to do this with blockchain and privkey, pubkey...she will go mad, she wants a CZ or someone else to keep her funds safe and she just must save her FACE-ID with little bit of extra safety added in email, 2FA in email, 2FA in google, 2FA in exchange acc. Then she's good.

I finally managed to surpass 30 posts after 9 yrs in the forums. This feels like a feat to me and I shall celebrate the rank up. They say 30+posts will rank you up but I don't know where to see my ranking up.

Happy birthday buddy. Have a good one.

I'd like to believe that the next bull-run all-time-high will be approx. at $141,340.00 - Pure prediction, I will start selling at $120k and above.

Even though I feel everyone will disagree with me but I'll raise my opinion anyways and not care...I am not always right btw but thats just how I feel

I agree with you on few points of course, but I disagree with other points...mainly you calling people who use CEX are newbies, If you consider me as a newbie which I might be then thats fine, the word itself doesn't bother me. But I held my first bitcoin by sheer luck back in 2013, I did not even know what wallet is, someone tough me how to open a wallet and I did as he instructed then received my first ever transaction. It was an xapo wallet back when it was free of use. Regardless of that I hold some coins in my cold wallet/metamask/electrum and some on exchanges as well. and I do actually prefer the exchange over my other wallets and here's why..its all a matter of person opinion.

1) swapping/selling/buying/withdrawing. Its all easier on an exchange than a normal wallet where you need to find a DEX to swap coins, approve a transaction with a fee, then pay another fee to transact. In an exchange however its noe fee.
2) p2p going in and out of the exchange is made simple, with zero fee's I can swap my coins/usdt into my countries money and vice versa, safely and easily.
3) not my keys not my coins right? but if the exchange is real solid I can trust that my coins are safe. Trust me I know what happened to FTX and other exchanges I am aware....but I didn't choose ftx 7 yrs ago for a reason, you must conduct a good research.
4) you have many options in an exchange like farming,trading,options,saving,liquidity farming.....I know i know you can do those also in a dapp farm but again its not as easy, you need to find the good dapp first, you need to double check their website everytime & see results, ultimately in the exchange its all in one place.

Meanwhile the disadvantage of the metamask/coldwallet/electrum is that if you want to do anything with your wallet its too much work, allow me to elaborate. We need to first initiate & set mind for the man/lady who will use their wallet ok? To do this we need to get out of my own bodies & what we know, and we need to get inside of the body of a man/lady who is not a computer savvy, in other words someone like your grandmother. I am completely honest here, for crypto world to succeed we need to think of these people. I am not only saying they are old and not into technology but what I am saying is, alot of people even youngster are still like that. An example is my wife, she is not a computer/tech savvy & will never in a million year could learn about transactions, hash, pulic/priv kes, trx, dapp, dex, cex, and much more.....lets be honest here guys these type of people are the majority of the world and if we don't find a way for them to make crypto useful then its no point. Let me explain more....if I give my wife or a non-tech person a cold wallet which has bitcoins, do you think they will be able to get the money out of it? The answer is HELL NO, I'm sure if today i give my wife one of my priv key she will not even fathom how to get out the coins, she probably will lose them. Thats the main issue

Lets give these people a name, "The majory of the public (TMOP), so if these TMOP guys not come into our space with the ease of use, then it's our loss. How do we get them in? to use some systems that are a little bit like banks, I know the main idea of bitcoin is to move out of the medium/middle man but its very difficult, we have to have middle man (CEX), to make it easier to use and safer for the TMOP.

You may ask, how is CEX SAFER for TMOP, its the opposite right? No for them IT IS safer to be in CEX than their own priv key trust me.

For them they could be easily hacked using a wallet, they could have all sort of stuff in their computers, they could connect to a bananacakeswap thinking its panecakeswap and click "Connect" how would they know? they wouldnt, again I know you would know, but you have to get out of your own body and get into their body to see from their perspective. these fellas can easily click transfer and lose all of their coins thinking they are getting airdropped something from a telegram message.

Listen, when these people go to a good exchange with good safety record & with having 3 different safeties such as "password + 2FA + email confirmation", then they dont need to connect to any other website ever. Plus they could just stay and see what the exchange offers, then p2p get their money out of it at any time. Also they can install anti-fishing seed inside of the excahnge, so now they have 4 safeties & never have to check any website/connect anywhere, just stay in the exchange until they cash out.....thats what we need.

I am sorry for the long post but as you can see I disagree with 90% of you guys for the above reasons. I just want cryptocurrency to get bigger and this is the only way. Otherwise it will be "Crypto-scammurecy" instead of "Cryptocurrency" which it already is a big scam space if you think about it, and where do most the scams happen? In telegram with metamask approving/connecting thir wallet to places thinking its another place type of people. Its painful to see.

I agree with you, its not attractive at all. I love modest, how our families raised us to look...not too revealing, not too exposing, that goes for both men and ladies.

I am little shocked by your question really....a move from 0.47 to 0.7-0.8 is really really good if you take into account the size of it's market cap & the sentiment of the market. You have to take into consideration everything.

XRP Marketcap is not a little so it takes so much money to move it, when it moved from 0.47 to 0.8 thats MASSIVE for a marketcap of that size & again its massive if you take into account that we're still not out of the bear market. This only indicates to me that when we go into the bull-market this will make XRP lead all altcoins, I am really interested to see what happens to XRP when BTC hits 60k to 80k again, let alone if BTC breaks all time high next year I am expecting XRP to be between 3 to 10 dollars, but this is not financial advise, anything can happen in a market.

Again I want to emphasize, a whopping 40 billion market cap coin moves from 0.47 to 0.8 is alot while other coins didn't move that much.

It's needed because of governments, and lets be honest here people do not want a coin/asset which its price flucuate alot.

Ok lets make an example here, lets say I get about $1000 a week for my job. Now lets say the world changed to using BTC right?

1)  will you give me a SET number of btc each week? i.e. 0.008 BTC a week? If this is the case then thats dangerous because what if BTC dumps to 100 dollars tomorrow?

OR

2) will you give me a number of btc that is equivalent to my $1000 which I had received weekly regardless of the price of btc? In this case there's other problems that can arise, you can speculate on a few.

Now for purchasing from the vendors is another issue. How would we price stuff? is it based on our dollars equivalent, or will we have a pricing TAG purely on BTC? I don't know, lots of things to work out.

One thing to note is that Elon himself posted awhile ago (Around the time of purchasing twitter or before that a little bit) mockering and laughing at Youtube system saying that these guys allow scam ads, which I totally agree with him. I was shocked when I saw that while watching youtube a scam ad appears to me where they want to steal my crypto, either by showing a interview with a known man but underneath is a scam link. I thought Elon was a hero for pointing that out.

But then he bought twitter and made the blue-checkmark attainable by anyone who pays money, isnt that the same thing? In the past it used to be given to real people who owns their legit names, but now anyone can get a blue-checkmark if they pay which means a scammer can get a blue checkmark and pretend to be a real-person of some sort to scam people. And trust me people fall for it by thinking "Oh that is legit he got the blue-check mark" because they may or may not know that it is purchasable for money, they may still think it is the same way it was in the early stages of twitter.

So in a sense Elon promotes scammers by this move the exact same way YouTube promote scams in their platform by allowing them to put ads.

It's all about calories, I'm sure people before me posted this.

Surplus calories -> you'll add weight
Maintenance calories -> same weight
Deficit calories -> you'll lose weight

It's very simple, yet complicated.....first you want to do trial and error to finding your maintenance with the current activity that you do.

Keep in mind, if you increase activities thus you have to recalculate the maintenance calories again.

#Trail and error

Doing trial and error, just eat and guesstimate of how much u need daily, lets say you're a man whom 6 ft tall, now try first with 2500 calories per week, weight yourself every week. If your weight is the same and doesn't change after one week then its solved.

Surplus add +500 calories to gain weight (if you go to the gym and want muscles)
Maintenance is what you found in the trial and error.
Deficit reduce -500 calories to lose weight.

Lets say during the week of trial and error you found out that your weight changed, its easy...if its up then the 2500 calories wasn't your maintenance and you want to bring it down, if your weight got down then its below your maintenance. It's all math, with little of trial and error.

Now keep in mind if during the trial and error you found your maintenance then you added more activities later on, those activities may require more calories to substitute for them, i.e. lets say my maintenance is 2500 with my normal activity, then 2 months later I decided to add swimming into the mix which I didn't calculate before, now my maintenance may be 3000 calories a day I woudn't know until I do trial and error again (or guess and go with it and see if it is what my goal is set to be).

Listen to this, I been in this forum since 2014 rarely post but I remember posting about getting into mining and bitcoin....in 2014 I felt I was late and skipped it!! literally didn't do it, we know what happened later!

In 10-20 yrs from now people will come here in this very forum, btc will be at $800k and people will look at us posting here in 2023 saying "Boy these guys were in early".

Mark my words.

I really like BingX - It has so much market for traders, including commodities, cryptos, stocks and forex. I also like the app it looks very good and easy to use, I think these guys work very hard.

Thanks for the interesting post and suggestions. I saw the recommendations and you said in #1 "Don't use windows" - Are you saying that if I don't use windows the chances of this copy/paste hack is zero? For example lets say I own a Mac laptop, am I safe from this attack? Thanks.

There's an open source software which scans ranges that you specify if that's what you're asking. I don't know if I can post links or not but search bitcrackrandomiser on GitHub, it uses BitCrack and it also blacklists defeated ranges.

I also have created a thread similar to this years ago. All I'm going to say here is be careful when disclosing your situation about bitcoin with loved ones, it is a very touchy subject. Whenever money is involved then there's some precaution that you must think about even if it's with the person you love or wife.

I don't want to turn this thread into the dark but let's be honest here guys, most of the murders around the world happen for a man or a woman, and years later with the investigation, it turns out to be the spouse that did it to gain something. I know its sad but this is reality. I am not saying all spouses do this but more times than you may think whenever the husband or wife discloses to their loved ones about "Life insurance" if the gain is big then suddenly we see that person dead. Please don't mistake what I am trying to say here I know it's not ALL THE TIME. But I've seen many many many stories about a homicide and then later on we found that the poor man had life insurance then the wife killed him for that money. It's sad but happens ALOT.

Ok, so what's the msg I am trying to say here is. Do not tell the wife/husband how much you got in bitcoins, if you're a girl or a man and want to leave your bitcoin for your family after you're dead just leave a full paper with instructions as some of the guys posted previously. Instruction of how to get the money out of your wallet or exchange, plus a person to contact which you know that he/she knows something about cryptos. Also don't tell that person whom you added to contact about this paper, basically tell nobody just do the paper with instruction & contact personal and leave it in a vault. Rest assured that this vault will be opened when you are dead.

Thats my 2 cents.

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I understand that you mean well here but this is a death sentence. Read my post above which I explain how that could be in a long msg, but please do not do this especially if you own a lot of bitcoins.

Some people may feel touchy that I said telling secrets to your "kids & wife" as a death sentence because they love them a lot and they feel that their wife&kids love them too a lot! Believe me, I understand this, but human beings are complicated.

Alright, thanks all! _

I wonder how to remove a Newbie because sometimes I'd like to PM somebody but they choose not to receive msgs from Newbies.

I've changed my mind a little bit.

I found a little experiment with $100 bucks. The guy chose a random private key then put that amount into bitcoin inside of Electrum wallet. Then the page was visited that private key page with keys.lol site and then was left alone.

Visiting the amount in blockchain to see if the amount will be wiped out or not. It is still there and wasn't wiped out for a while now which proves that the site doesn't track the pages you go to. Or even track the private key you search for.

I don't know, it feels that if the guy who created the site can track your pages and see if a wallet has BTC, then he would have already taken all the money. But he didn't which means he doesn't have a clue what you look for. Right?

Obviously you haven't read my whole question and just saw the title.