You can probably create a pull request in the BIP's git repo[1] regarding this.

But, using non-English word list is generally a bit complicated. Most wallets don't support all of the languages for BIP39 and it would result in some inconsistency when trying to import the seeds into different wallets. I can understand why people would want multiple languages but some wallets probably won't bother consistently updating it.


[1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pulls

There's a few links on his page but the evidences are not exactly concrete.

I would go with innocent until proven guilty and there isn't any evidence that the account sale wasn't clean so I suggest we treat the account sale as a separate issue because they aren't really related. I doubt this is related to that account sale.

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Anyways, I don't think OP's issue is with the database leak or any inactivity. I vaguely recall that an explanation about the inactivity would accompany the ban message.

OP, if your account was locked, it must be for a good reason. I doubt they would exempt you from that proof of ownership unless it's under some special circumstances, especially since I would suggest you to try to find the relevant private keys since Bitcointalk's IP logging policy would probably have removed the IPs you used from years ago by now.

What makes you think, all resellers are:
1. Not looking to traffic your personal information in search for more profits.
2. Are not people who are actually interested in your personal information.
3. Takes sufficient precautions and ensures the security of your data.

I have no doubts that some people would fit at least one of the three. The only story that I've heard about Ledger is that people sold pre-configured Ledgers to trick the users. Not sure about cloning, certainly haven't heard about anything like that.

The mining landscape would be completely different then. I don't think all of the miners considers the fees as their main source of revenue and they should primarily be focusing on the block rewards. Of course, as the mining rewards diminishes, more and more miners has to consider the fees as their main source of profits. That will definitely change, no doubt.

If no one spends Bitcoins, I bet the fees market isn't the main thing the miners would be concerned about. The price of Bitcoin will be, as it has evidently lost it's utility as a currency.

It depends on how much BTC you had when the forks happened. There is a tiny bit of forkcoins associated with your address[1]. I wouldn't bother redeeming them. They're pretty worthless, for the amount that you currently have. There are probably many other forkcoins but they've mostly turned into worthless shitcoins.


[1] https://blockchair.com/search?q=1JMyrc3LgbUntYRmPnJuMFTiS9z6ov3JP2

Topic was removed. You can see it in the modlog.

My guess is that it's a low quality post. Thought it would be moved to offtopic instead but oh wells, nothing much to discuss on these kinds of topics anyways. Any kinds of discussion would just lead to baseless speculations anyways.

You can probably get a good loan that is denominated in BTC.

However, if you were to get a loan in fiat, then it would be a whole different story. Physical Bitcoins are worth a decent amount but it's very hard to liquidate if needed. Cryptos are too volatile and the market for physical Bitcoins, especially those which are of higher denominations can be rather small. It would be time consuming and difficult for the lender to liquidate it so I wouldn't expect much interest on these.

Hmm, I might be mistaken but I've went ahead to identify the OKEX blocks in questions and here's their stats for both of the instance for which they were mining the empty blocks with the preceding blocks included as well.

For the timeframe in question, the first field represents the received time while the second represents the timestamp within the headers.

664331,-snip-,2021-01-03 18:07:20,2021-01-03 17:29:06,-snip-F2Pool
664332,-snip-,2021-01-03 18:07:38,2021-01-03 17:30:52,-snip-,OKEX

664365,-snip-,2021-01-03 22:41:19,2021-01-03 22:13:48,-snip-,BTC.com
664366,-snip-,2021-01-03 22:41:34,2021-01-03 22:17:12,-snip-,OKEX

The second field is the block timestamp which is by no means accurate.

There are several miners still employing SPV mining to this day even with the optimization made with propagation time as well as validation times. As with most things, without access to see the code behind the mining pool, it's impossible to tell exactly what the miners are doing. The best hunch here is that they're probably SPV mining. Covert ASICBoost would favour empty blocks but given that most miners are doing overt ASICBoost nowadays, it would be highly unlikely.

If I'm not wrong, Loyce's data dump appears to be displaying the median time as indicated by the timestamp within the block header. The timestamp tends to deviate from miner to miner and it's deviation can be up to 2 hours. It would be better to be looking at the actual relayed time. The past 2 empty blocks by OKEX appears to be mined in succession from the previous blocks, even though the timestamp is way off.

Some mining pool still uses SPV mining for which empty blocks can be a product from such behaviors. As for their refusal to adopt Segwit, I don't think there's much effect on it. There are still plenty of legacy transactions on the chain and it wouldn't result in them mining empty blocks just because there isn't any legacy transactions of the legacy format left.

The fees per block appears to vary quite wildly, from about 0.5BTC to about 1BTC. If I had to guess, miners are primarily concerned about the block rewards and aren't exactly considering the transaction fees together with it since it can be so volatile.

Bitcoin's primary purpose is to act as a currency for transaction and it isn't supposed to be like the speculative assets which are meant to be held for long periods of time. While some people do treat it like that, it does nothing to help to promote Bitcoin as a currency of the future. If everyone stop transacting Bitcoin, the value of Bitcoin will certainly crash.

You shouldn't use the 2FA wallet for anything anymore:
1. It wouldn't provide the similar security as a 2FA wallet once you key in your seed to disable the 2FA.
2. It uses 2-of-3 Multisig which makes the transaction size bigger than as per needed.

But, it's a good practice to just store the 12 word seed somewhere, in case someone accidentally sends funds to that address or if you inadvertently key the wrong address in.

That should be a non-factor when we're talking about the propagation of RBF-ed transactions. The main factor is that they should be able to be propagated to the miners and for them to include it into the transaction. Unless your node connects exclusively to nodes which are 0.12.0 and below, it wouldn't be an issue to have un-upgraded nodes.

Even for un-upgraded nodes, it wouldn't matter as long as the miner would include it into a block.

Anyways, I've never seen that used as a data source. I've been using Bitnodes since their crawlers are generally accurate and I see that most of the peers already has the recent versions.

When you created your 2FA TrustedCoin wallet, you should've been given a 12 words seed phrase.

It should look something like this.



You need that to disable 2FA. Don't use the seed in the image, it was created solely for this and isn't secure to use.

That's correct.

That's weird. I can't find anything relevant in the seclog either, other than it was accessed in 2018 prior to this.

Is there an email together with the ban notice? Can you sign a message from any of the addresses below:

Send an email to the email address stated and prepare a signed message for that. Instructions are in this thread[1].

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5089777.0

Yes. If you want to be extra sure, you can store a wallet file backup by going to File>Save Backup and that'll allow you to save a backup of your wallet file to a directory.
Bottom right. There should be a tiny icon that looks like a germinated seed. Click on it and it should show you your seed.

Certain Electrum versions are vulnerable to the phishing attacks for which the attackers will display an error message to prompt the user to upgrade. Developers has executed a DOS attack against the older clients to prevent this. IIRC, some won't connect to older versions as well.

Go to Electrum.org and download a newer version. Be aware of the Google phishing attacks and always verify your download. Don't trust any message within the client that forces you to upgrade, they will redirect you to a phishing website for you to download a malicious client.

Hard to tell.

From walletexplorer, it seems like some of the funds were sent to various exchanges and services which makes it likely to be a withdrawal from some sort of service.

I can't figure out the link between the output amount though there were several addresses with similar output value but appears to be coincidental and unrelated.

Didn't you backup your seeds?

I don't recall Electrum deleting my wallet files after my uninstall but it'll probably be better for you to get a copy of your wallet file, just in case the behavior somehow changes. If you're using Windows and it's normal installation, then the wallet files should be located within %appdata%/Electrum/Wallets.

Please do not give anyone control of your computer, no matter how trusted they seem. If something happens to the wallet or your computer, it's your words against theirs. And for that matter, your wallet file as well.

What error message are you getting? Let us know.

Electrum accepts MPKs with the prefix of xpriv only so you likely cannot import it there.

TrustedCoin charges 0.00005BTC for each transaction for their service, when you pre-pay for 20 TXes. In this scenario, you're trying to spend more than you have as 0.001BTC is reserved to be sent to TrustedCoin and hence you only have 0.05mBTC available to be spent and that is before fees.

What you can do now, is to restore the wallet, File>New/Restore, Select Wallet with 2FA and select I already have a seed. Your wallet should be restored and the 2FA is now disabled. You can send the coins normally without paying them the fees and you can just send it to your Ledger the normal amount.