There is a story of a/some guy(s) that leaked their wallet info on purpose to scam scammers.

They had some USDT on their wallet but no ETH for fees. So when potential thieves sent ETH to that wallet to withdraw the stable coins his bot would automaticaly send the ETH to another wallet. The story is fun and all but fails to fully make sense in my opinion:

Example:

So wallet owner has 1000 USDT in wallet A
Thive sends 0.1 ETH to wallet A
Bot sends 0.05 ETH from wallet A to wallet B with 0.05 ETH fees

The question I have is couldn't the thieve make another transaction sending all the USDT and using all of the ETH for fees, 0.1ETH, and that would mean his transaction gets confirmed first ?

Or am I missing something here?

China banned miners, the EU is thinking of doing the same and what if others will follow?

In a hypothetical scenario where China, US Canada, Russia, India and EU ban pow mining I doubt the smaller countries can sustain the current active miners. Hashrate would drop significantly and the network would be weaker.
Either there would be a massive investment in solar in many developing countries or we might see the first 51% on BTC (hope not).

Do you see this as a potential threat or did the fud get in my head?

Hi guys, what's a easy way to swap some USDT from ERC20 to BEP20? Have some in my metamask and want to buy some bep20 tokens. Only thing I found was the binance bridge option but has a min of $130 and I have a little under that.
Thanks in advance !

Hi guys, I recently saw that Binance started providing debit cards that you load with crypto from your Binance account and use it like any other card in your pocket.
But could not find out anything about the fees they charge.
All I could find is that (they say) there is no monthly or annual fee for the card so I guess there would be a fee per transaction.
Anyone knows a bit more about it?

Thanks

Noticed that in the wallet software forum there is no sticky post in the Electrum subboard

I think it would be beneficial to have some main info visible like official site where to download, any possible issues, possible FAQ (like malware update message and others).
It is used by many and would be a nice addition to have a thread about this always visible and preferably up to date

I'm just using it, not a hard-core user that can get into the nitty gritty.
While writing I did a search and found that this request was made a while ago but to no avail.

So what do you say ? Worth it ?

This nut job is at it again. But now he's taking the fight to our back yard!

https://bitcoinist.com/satoshi-never-used-bitcointalk-craig-wright/

It's mind boggling how this individual can throw claims like this with so many proof against him. Or did he start to believe the fictions he is blabbering...

Seems a guy, Robert Forster, a some kind of hacker published his private key for a wallet of his with 1ETH balance.  Someone else tried to withdraw but still was not able to ...

Forster used something called RBF ( Replace by Fee).
He signed a transaction but keep it offline, not informing the network about that. Then with the use of a listening node "watched" his wallet for any activity and when someone would try to move the funds he would sent the previous signed transaction to the network and since it would have higher fees it would replace the initial one and get propagated faster within the network.

Source link: https://www.trustnodes.com/2020/01/04/hacker-publishes-private-key-but-no-one-can-steal-his-eth

The process sounds pretty simple and straightforward and definitely used as proof of concept.
The thing that grinds my gears is that for the signed transaction he seems to have added a fee equal to the wallet balance (at least from what I understood, to make it not profitable at all for any thief). And for any attempt to withdraw his funds he would "lose" the amount as fees for miners.
 

   

I just read this article and it really startled me. Seems "the big boys" are not betting on the crypto horse and would hope to see it die out.
Guess that is no news but when social media platforms are applying this type of censorship it crosses some limits in my book.
https://news.bitcoin.com/speculation-abounds-regarding-youtubes-removal-of-crypto-content/
Is this the beginning for a new crypto exclusive youtube clone?

While reading around I saw lost of stupid threads (mainly just a dumb question like "why is bit[Suspicious link removed]d") and then a tsunami of pseudo-pertinent replies to maybe the dumbest question. I would just report to nuke, but others try, or at lest pretend to try to explain cryptography to what seems to be a zoo gorilla.
I would rate this as fraud.
1. Make new acc
2. Ask stupud question (but not that stupid so it will not be trashed)
3. Spam your sig few times

I know this is old news, but should there be any sort of punishment? Not suggesting heavy research but if a certain user is definitely the one who made the alt especially for sig spam... are there any repercussions? Sigban, temp-ban?

I understand it would be hard to prove (or not) but just got very annoyed about this and think would be good to have a punishment that fits the crime. If they know there is a 5-10% chance they would get caught, maybe we'll see less of these stupid threads.

Thoughts?