I've got lazy and lately I just check - now and then - the headlines from https://defidive.com/news?filter=bitcoin <- you can add other areas of interest too to the filter
Rarely I go into the news too.

I find it easier than keeping an eye on multiple websites.

If he needs the money for an emergency, then you may consider giving it a second thought. Otherwise I think that it's just fine.

I will start with the fact that in my early years of having a job, most of the friends I've lost by lending them money (and, in the vast majority of cases, never getting the loaned money back). Sounds bad, but this is the sad reality.
I will add that it's your money, from your investment, by your decision.
Plus, if you feel bad because he did you valuable lessons: giving advises is in most cases easier than following them. Most people try to share ideas and advises. That doesn't necessarily means that you have to repay them for that.

And as I said about advises, I'll continue: nobody knows the situation as good as you do. We here can say a lot of things (free advises, heh), but we may miss details and it's ultimately all up to you.

Este simplu: cand aplicatia "discuta" cu serverul, acel server "stie" de pe ce IP are loc cererea. Utilizatorul care nu e in spatele vreunui mecanism de ascuns adresa, o va da pe cea reala.
Nu prea are legatura cu drepturile aplicatiei, comunicatia probabil ca nu este diferita de ce face orice browser.

Daca eXch retine sau nu acest lucru (sau pentru cat timp)... e partea a doua.


Iar cu restul de date... unele pot sa insemne ceva. Altele nu. Daca le iau, daca fac ceva cu ele sau nu.. nu ai de unde sa stii.
Dupa cum ziceam, in principiu par oameni OK in spatele eXch. In realitate.. un pic de paranoia este necesara in lumea Bitcoin.

It feels so good to be just almost at new ATH again...!
And we're not even at halving...

It can be even 1 notification per month. And people can subscribe to that separately.
Or even easier: somebody could maintain a thread (write and lock) with not more than one post/month, with worthy events and links to them. And people can just add that to tracked topics - with or without the bot. And a post can house much more info in case there is that much worthy info.

I would be interested in getting such notifications.

Usually Bitcoin price doesn't really rise when you want and as much as you'd like (although now, fueled by ETF, the rules may change).
However, buying Bitcoin costs money, so the country may have to get into more debt and also the money will be locked in bitcoins, not fueling the economy.

But from what I know, El Salvador has pretty much done the same: bought bitcoins, although their economy looks bad. And obviously, IMF was far from happy.
This for us, bitcoiners, may look like a fun fact, but if the country needs more money afterwards, the standard banks borrowing more will not give that.
So it may be more than tricky to solve this just by buying some bitcoins. Plus it depends on luck and also how fast they'd move. Because buying near ATH is another problem.

The truth was crystal clear from the beginning, but the fact nobody stepped up for real has allowed CSW bully a lot of honest people simply for being honest and bitcoin supporters.
The current trial, apart of being quite a show, it should (I hope!) mark the end all that mess.

It becomes more expensive (2x) to mine Bitcoin (one gets half of the amount for same effort and electricity). And as the miners tend to be the ones selling the bigger amounts of bitcoin (to support their business' expenses, for example), it translates sooner or later into an increase of the price.

Many consider the price of Bitcoin as made of 2 components: the price of mining it and the speculation related extra. I agree to them. This being said, on the long term the ETF may be the one that could reduce the volatility. But that will happen only after some rounds of competition in accumulation (i.e. possibly even wilder volatility for the first 4-years cycle).
But I am no expert, I just express my logic and expectations. I may be right, or I may be wrong. Time will tell.


PS. In the "what's new", it's not just the ETF and halving. I would add as kind of news the ordinals (kind of NFT on Bitcoin blockchain) and COPA vs CSW trial.

59 NeuroticFish

Thank you

If you can check that on Ledger Live, maybe Ledger could also get those words. It would be incredibly unsafe!
Checking on the actual device - let's say it's okay - but leaving the device is a very bad idea.

And if you lose your seed you can still create a second wallet and send your coins there. Of course, it's advised you create the second wallet in a safe environment (possibly another HW!).
However, it's an unnecessary headache imho. Keeping physical seed in a good place is the easy approach. (If you forget where, that can cause a couple of hours of panic, but in most cases you will find it).

I don't know if it counts, it has happened for me with an altcoin (Monero), many years ago. I've put the seed words somewhere safe (heh, not sure why, since the amount were not that much) and after a couple of months I've forgot where that was.
I've found it eventually, but I don't remember if that was in the same day or not.

The more interesting part is that I still own a small amount and, since I don't actually use them and I don't have them in an active wallet, the risk to get in the same situation again is actually quite real.

But with Bitcoin? Nope!

I think that this "lack of a feature" can be seen as an extra security measure. The first thing that comes into my mind is what if somebody has multiple wallets, based on the same seed and very few standard English words. While, if knowing the PIN, only one can be emptied, with this "feature" and a dictionary based attack, all the wallets can be emptied.
But maybe I am thinking too far and was just seen as an unnecessary feature, since people should properly save their seed words somewhere else.

S-a dorit a fi un subiect pentru discutie, in ideea sa ne punem mintea la contributie, (si sa ma contrazici unde gresesc) nu o intrebare catre eXch.
Desi am toata stima pentru ce au realizat, raspunsul lor s-ar foarte putea sa nu "rezolve problema". Adica, ideea era sa nu dai sanse altora sa stie cine esti, nu despre ce informatii tin ei despre tine, lucru care depinde de la platforma la platforma, lucru pe care unii pot sa il faca si sa nu spuna, sau sa isi schimbe "politica" pe acest subiect la un moment dat.

Dar nu am nimic impotriva sa ii intrebi tu. Chiar sper sa ma fi inselat, de fapt 


PS. Mersi de anunt.

82 NeuroticFish

Please & thank you

It's a very nice feature. I always had a weakness for custom, better looking QR codes.

I will add a request though. @dzungmobile has a very valid point. Never trust any website. And my request is to add a step to your tutorial:
Scan the resulted QR yourself and make sure it contains the data you expect.

Latest browser, javascript on, but also some extensions (Decentraleyes, ClearURLs). No proxy. I don't know how to check about cloudflare, but since clouflare leaves me be on bitcointalk I'd say I'm fine.

Yes, one option is to send some coins to exchange, exchange there back to fiat and withdraw you your bank.
Or you can get a Bitcoin card - a VISA or Mastercard debit-like card that you can top up with bitcoin and spend in shops like any other card (of course, it's recommended to not keep that much bitcoin on such cards, the hardware wallet is much safer)

Completely agreed.


 
Coinbase is probably acting already like a bank. And businesses keep billions at banks. I hope that Coinbase are not idiots and have those coins in cold storage and also insured.

Of course, examplens is also 99% correct. Most exchanges cannot be trusted (I would not trust Coinbase either, but that's me). For us, here on Bitcointalk, self custody is the best option. For the big companies there's no difference they keep their wealth in a bank or at Coinbase.

No offense, but 99.9% of the websites that interest me work perfectly.
Imho it's in your interest to find out what odd scripts, cookies or applications try to embed in your website and adjust/fix, else you will lose potential customers with same "issue on their side".

Indeed, his confusion is almost certainly intentional and possibly just faked, so he can confuse others.
I completely agree that his statement is in line with his interest, not with the reality. I've said it many times that we should never trust personalities' declarations.