The idea of holding 24 million dollars in an online wallet is so crazy.

Easy come, easy goes...
Old news, but nice share.

Training the police isn't enough.
Police need to obey the law, and the laws aren't ready to deal with those scams and criminal activities related to cryptocurrencies yet.

More time is needed, and politicians and the society need to get involved in the construction of the legislation

Most discussions there are not Bitcoin related , and are off topic
There are some related to cryptocurrencies, but they are somewhat different from technical discussions boards.

I see no reason to ignore that board, as it has a low post volume and overall the discussions are good.

There is no spam, but there are some idiot discussions and topics which make no sense.but the overall quality is good

Why the hell would a shop accept cardano as a payment method?
A cryptocurrency which loses 50-80% it's value in the last months.

All those qr codes "innovations" can be done with bitcoin, which is much more solid.

I believe those shitcoins are bad for adoption.

Imo any rank requirement doesn't fit the criteria to post there.
There should be an earned merit requirement.

If the user manage to get 100 merits before 100 activity, he should be able to post there.

On the other hand, a spammer with a legendary account shouldn't be able to post there either.

I believe a 50 merit requirement would be enough

He is green again now for me, I can confirm.

You are good to go op.

This new trust system is too harsh imo. Even having a lot of green feedback, one negative from dt2 is enough to make account red..

He looks red to me, because of Vod's feedback, unlike others said.
Maybe you could talk to vod about it? Send him a pm, he might reconsider

Vod is not in my trust settings, but someone from my trust list may trust him.

Worse than that: The lending service will probably just ran away with your money. There are few regulations for those exchanges and lending services, unlike banks.
Do you know why we have so many regulations on banks? To prevent them running away with our money.

But if you send your money to a lending platform in a tax haven in a country on the other side of the world... well, there is probably no law protecting you.


Airdrops are not free. You are wasting your time (which is precious), doing KYC or linking your social media accounts (which is risky and you may become a target for hackers), and you will not receive anything (probably).

Most airdrops out there never pay what they promise (which is small like 1-5 cents), and even those cents cannot be redeemable for bitcoin, because the volume is too small for most exchanges to accept it.

i agree about the security. Web wallets are not good and hardware wallets are the way to go.
I use a mobile, a browser and a hardware wallet. ofc 99% of my funds are in my hardware wallet.

But it is good have web wallets available, there are some reasons to use one.
Easy to use, good for adoption, good for newbies, etc...

I don't know how things go where you live, but here people are very affraid to lose their money and, in general, are very suspicious about bitcoin. They believe it will go to 0 at any time, that it is a great ponzi scheme etc....

Only a few smart people have the open mind to try to understand it and buy a hardware wallet BEFORE buying their first satoshis. Most of the people out there use a web wallet or a mobile wallet first, because they are easier to use and more convenient. I think there is no problem to use one if you understand the risks involved, and the service is clear about that.

For example, it is much safer to use a web wallet than to carry cash in your wallet in Brazil. I am carrying about $30 bucks in my wallet. I understand the risks, but it is worth. I won't become a poor guy if I lose $30, but it is very convenient to have some cash at hand. The same goes with a web wallet.

If you are using a good wallet, it has the option to create a new address. You should create a new one fore every transaction. Nobody knows what addresses do you own. However, if you use only one, the people you trnasact with will know how many bitcoin you have.

If you have many addresses, the people you transact with will know only the balance of the address you give them.


This is the best option.

Mixer will not do A > mixer > B.
The mixer will do  dozens, maybe hundreds of transactions with your coins, and will give you other coins (which are not yours). Look at this image, for example



if you send a mixer 1 btc, you will probably receive about 10 addresses (at least) with funds. You can read more about a good mixer here:
https://chipmixer.se/faq



If you want to trade for Fiat, just look for a good exchange, do your KYC and sell it. It is the safer way. You would still need to pay taxes. There is no way to make money legally without telling the government. You should do everything in a legal way.

Completely wrong. Additionally to what o_e_l_e_o said:
The seed is very important. If you are using any wallet which doesn't let you have the seed (those 12/24 words) look for another wallet now.

This is what i was talking about blockchain.com: They are better than so many services out there...

May I ask, what wallet are you using? I don't get how a veteran member like you, almost 3 years in cryptocurrency, is stilll using a wallet without private keys.

I believe that they have no access to the users private keys. They are not a custodial service, like coinbase.

About poor customer support, that's how it is. How could it be different? They offer a FREE service, with thousands, maybe millions of users. Most of those users are completely newbies and don't know what they are doing. It is impossible for this kind of service to give any kind of support.

I think they should state very clearly that they offer no support (which is what they have: no support), and clearly state that the service is risky and nobody should hold large amounts of funds there.

They offer a very easy to use service, newbie friendly, access to private keys, beautiful interface... personally, I think that most of the wallets out there are worse: coinbase, bitpie, bither, etc... I am thankful to them because when I  bought my first bitcoin I sent it there and recovered the forks easily, was able to transfer, etc...

Coinbase on the other hand keep calling themselves a wallet, which is a false claim. Coinbase is dishonest. And I don't see as much people here complaining about coinbase as people complain about blockchain.com, which is a much better and honest service imo.

Let me see if I understand this correctly.

You have a booking.com coupon with some discount
If I use your coupon I will get the discount and you will deposit $0.40 BTC to my wallet? I need to buy something at booking first.

Correct?

Can't be bash shitcoins here? Lol

When I discovered cryptocurrencies I bought a lot of ethereum, then I realized they don't even have a proper desktop wallet...

Anyway, as the discussion turned over browser wallet, which bitcoin doesn't have any one that I am aware of

If they want to make their own cryptocurrencytime is now.

But I believe they already have one. Dragon chain, right?


If they own dragonchain or not, they are very good in everything they do.
Just compare marvel movies with DC's... Their parks with the competition..

If they make their own cryptocurrency it will be as good aa libra ir any other, probably even better.

I am with pmalek on this one. The method his described is the only way you can be 100% sure you have the correct seed and you hold the privatekeys for those addresses.
There are many reports over Reddit and bitcointalk where users wrote down the correct seed and later on when the device reseted they couldn't find their funds (on trezor). We will never know if they wrote down the seed correctly or if it was a device bug.

Better play safe and check if your device can recover the same Private keys after the reset, and this way is the only way to confirm that .

The problem I see with this method, which is a workaround, is that it will not be widely accepted.

Usually people sign messages to prove that they own the funds of a certain address.
I know that this method prove that you have the private key, because both addresses are generated from the same private keys. However, will people accept this signature as proof? You are not signing from a segwit address after all.

 there is no standard that is widely accepted over different wallets, and most people won't understand that this legacy address is derived from the same private key.

Isn't it better just to use Electrum standard for verification? Then your website   could verify segwit addresses messages directly and it could also be confirmed in Electrum wallet.

Electrum made it own verification method, which is not standard and not accepted by the core, but it is better than this workaround imo.

Ia your project open source? Can people audit the source code?

Atomic swaps are really something we need, but there is none so far.

Changelly shapeshift etc are just exchanges where someone or some script swap coins for you. A true atomic swap should be done using smartcontracts, open and auditable, without any central authority who could interfere in the transaction.

I think he added that condition because those users who started with 10 merit are the ones who are going to be near the legendary activity range in a few days.

No. There are some misconceptions here.

First, there is no working Oracle yet. For now, there is no way to insert outside data to the blockchain yet.
The way blockchain is designed and its validation works, you cannot feed outside data to it now.

However, there are some projects working in a solution to this problem. Some of them are centralized like you mentioned (which defeats the whole purpose of bitcoin and ethereum) and there is one that is not centralized, which became famous recently: chainlink.

Chainlink is not operational and it is decentralized.  Anyone can run a node and collect any data from real world and send to other nodes for validation. It will also validate data.

But neither chainlink or those other Centralized projects are working yet on ethereum. So you cannot use them

I doubt vitality and ethereum community will ever accept a centralized Oracle.



There is no trusted source in blockchain. Forget this idea. Blockchain is trustless. You will need a decentralized Oracle to feed your data, or insert it all in a smartcontract and replicate it in all nodes (if. Possible).

Maybe you need another technology. What kind of data do you want to feed?