The funds are still in this address for the time being, but that address has been very busy.  It looks like it recently sent 15BTC to a mixer, and it's had almost 37BTC roll through since Feb. 4 2019.

It certainly appears you've been hit by a scammer.  Any information you can share that would help others avoid being targeted would be much appreciated.  Can you give us more information, such as your operating system and version of Electrum?  Do you remember from where you downloaded the wallet software?  Do you remember how you initiated the wallet, was it a new seed, restored seed, imported private key?

See, it's not just me.  I'm still not sure how you ended up on my distrust list, and now that I'm getting closer 250 I find myself liking you more and more.  

It must be the merit sauce...  I like it dry, with two olives.  

This is the weirdest thing.  I just found these two new threads started within minutes of each other.  Both identical in every way, other than the account posting the threads.

Is that a Luke Cage type metaphor or something?  

All homophobic kidding aside, I like Lafu's idea of having a dedicated discord channel for members of the forum.  I probably would never use it, I don't care for voice type chatting.  It's kind of telling that old-school forums still get a lot of members, but VOIP services have never gotten very popular.


The only time I answer phone calls anymore is when it's my kids calling.  I can tell how much it's gong to cost me by the tone they use to say "hi papa."

I want to vote "Yes," but out respect for marlboroza's wishes I'm abstaining from the vote.  Like others, I value marlboroza's reviews and want to be able to see his influence on users' trust score.  I'll be keeping him in my custom trust list as well.

Here's a decent tutorial on how to cite sources and properly quote others.  I hope you find it helpful:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5037514.msg46149905#msg46149905

Quoted, but here's a tutorial on how to sign a message.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=990345.0

I'm not sure if there's a white list of servers, but I found this list of compromised servers here.

As long as you're careful, and don't download an update from anywhere but Electrum.org you'll be okay.  The servers can't force an update on you, they only send a message telling you to download an update, and direct you to a download site other than Electrum.org.

Compromised servers:

That's good to know, I was not aware of that.  The "show all" feature is cool, but it often triggers the cloudflare page.

I tried to give away (for free) a $65 coupon last month, and no one wanted it.   

I think the price of bitcoin makes the ROI a bit too long for most people to consider buying Asics right now.

No more spoilers!  I've got it on DVR, but I'm still at work.  

I was able to get the signature to verify as well.

Once you download the executable, create a text file in the same directory.  Copy the signature into that text file, and save it.  Then rename the text file to <electrum-3.3.4.exe.asc> and try again.

I held my nose and "voted" for Harris, Booker, and O'rourke.   I think if the Demoncrats' primaries were held today those would be the most likely winners, in that order.  I wouldn't actually vote for a Democrat in this day and age, most are far too left for my tastes.

If one of the more centrist candidates actually wins the primary I wouldn't be surprised if that candidate wins the general election also.  I don't think that a centrist candidate has a snow-ball's chances to win the primary, however.  This primary season has been leaning way too far to the left with the AOC factor pushing otherwise centrist candidates hard to the extreme.  It's not unusual for a candidate to pander to the extreme during the primaries, and then center up for the general election.  But with the extreme being so far to the extreme in this situation it'll be hard for any Democrat to recover the centrist vote.


Not a stupid question at all, I wouldn't be surprised to find her on the ticket in 2024.  I think she's smart enough to know that beating Trump in 2020 is an uphill battle, she'll just sit back and watch the clusterfuck unfold.  

I wish there was something we could do to prevent these types of things from happening, but unfortunately I think it's impossible.  More and more folks who are not tech savvy will be entering into the crypto world, and that means more people will be there in attempt to take advantage of them.  I learned a few lessons early on, and luckily for me they were relatively affordable lessons.  

Good catch finding this scammer's information, kudos for that.  Hopefully he gets caught, and the victim gets his money back.

I thought it was weird that Steamtyme was asleep about the issue, but it turns out he really was sleeping.   

Apparently enough people distrusted klintay that the issue resolved itself.  Again, showing the DT system is dynamic enough that things will work themselves out given the proper discussion and attention. 

I agree with you, but I don't doubt the reasoning behind casinos' request of documents for payout.  I'm an American so I'll put things into IRS terms:  If i can't prove that I paid $xxx.xx out, then I'm liable for taxes on $xxx.xx as income.  Proof is in the form of documents that require personal information about the payee.

What I would like to see is a very hard to ignore notification on the casino's membership initiation page informing their clients that KYC is not needed for using the site, but payouts greater than x amount require KYC.  I know it's probably buried in the fine print of the TOS, but making clear and unambiguous would greatly reduce these types of scam claims.  

I think it's telling that they will ask for KYC once a withdrawal is requested, but not when a deposit is made.  If they were to ask for KYC upfront, I imagine they would have far fewer clients.  



This made me chuckle, if their ethics weren't dubious they likely wouldn't be in the casino business to begin with.  I'm sure most casinos are not likely to care if their clients adhere to the TOS if those clients keep losing money.  Once a client wants to claim a prize, that's when the TOS become tantamount to gospel.

I'm not trying to disparage casinos or their owners.  As long as they are operated as legitimate businesses and don't attempt to scam their clients, I believe they should have every right to exist.  I think it's great that the forum allows them as well.

I notice that this morning, and thought about excluding Klintay as well, but I didn't want to be rash.  I too think that review is a bit petty, and obviously a retaliation for Steamtyme calling him out for spamming.  The fact that he added "risked BTC" to the review is even more puzzling.  Maybe klintay doesn't know he's on DT2, and not taking the responsibility seriously enough.

I think if the borrower still owes you money, you should hold on to the account.  Even if it is only the interest that is still due, an agreement is an agreement.  0.02BTC is a reasonable amount, and if the account is worth more than that to the owner they should pay.

As for borrower planning to sell the account to earn the rest of what's owed...  That's a shady deal, and sort of shows the borrower's lack of ethics.  So many things could go wrong, including the borrower selling the account and then disappearing.  Leaving you without your payment, and leaving the account's new owner with a red-tagged, worthless account.  I think you're right in tagging the account and not giving it back. 

Something about that whole website looks scammy.  I'm glad you pointed that out, I don't have the technical knowledge to pick up on that.

I bought a keepkey to start, no regrets really, but I don't use it anymore.  I actually really like the simple design, and the display is practical.  The chrome plug in works fine, has decent UI, and it's integrated with ShapeShift exchange.  You can set up many different accounts, and has a few altcoins it supports.  It can also be accessed with Electrum.  However, I found it buggy to use.  A couple of times it displayed a zero balance for several minutes after sending.  It did the same thing one time while I was using Electrum.  I knew I still had the coins because my watch-only Electrum copy showed the transactions the way they should have been.


I recently bought a Trezor Model T, and I love it.  It works great, P2SH segwit addresses, the touch screen is cleanly integrated and the size is good.  I was hopeful that I could use it with the Monero official wallet, but no integration yet.