Most exchanges use a third-party service to verify user's identity (like Onfido or Sumsub) and don't store user data themselves. Regardless though, there's still that risk that your identity will get leaked if the platform gets hacked. And If my memory serves me correctly, I believewe had a few KYC leaks a few years back. I just can't remember which exchange was it.

Does anyone know some reliable ETH testnet (Goerli) faucets out there? I have found a few, but most of them require you to have some ETH in the main net first. I'm guessing that's on purpose, so you don't spam them with multiple addresses but I'd like one that doesn't have that. Please share if you know any.

This has been the case for quite some time now[1]. It's because of the bump option (see the top right when visiting a service announcement thread)

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5183553.0

Someone from BitMask's (the RGB wallet that I mentioned above) made this tweet a few weeks back[1] and I would like to know how accurate (on a technical level) is it, and also this statement from RGB's official site:


[1] https://twitter.com/bitgidie/status/1681841204936462336

You could try to DM this Twitter account[1] or tweet at it. I'm not sure if you would be able to get a hold of them though, I see people complaining in the comments, with pretty much no response from Bittrex.

[1] https://twitter.com/bittrexsupport?lang=en

So this just came in: SBF's bail has been revoked over witness tampering and he's going back to jail[1]. I would imagine there's no way for him to get out now? Not until we see the trial's outcome at least, which is planned for the 2nd of October.

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/08/11/sam-bankman-fried-jailed-ahead-of-trial/

A centralized exchange making their wallet open source? I highly doubt that. They would've probably closed-sourced it, even if it was open before. And looking at their GitHub repository: https://github.com/BitgetLimited/

It doesn't look like they are a fan of "open source" projects, they just have their SDK there.

I'm not that familiar with these exchanges, with the exception of Thorchain. The project has been around for some time, and I have tried it in the past. As I have mentioned before, I find the fees/rates to be a bit high otherwise I don't have many complaints. Before using it, just keep in mind that the project is still under development.

It really depends on what you're looking for. If you want something reliable that has been around for many years, and you know that developers won't abandon, then I would stick to MetaMask. An (open source) alternative with BTC support and a better UI: Unstoppable wallet.

Now, if you want something more innovative with Erc4337 support, multi-sig, etc. then you should probably into some of these options[2]. Just keep in mind that most of these services are new, and not open source.

[1] https://www.erc4337.io/
[2] https://www.alchemy.com/best/smart-contract-wallets

هذه اخر الأخبار أو التحديثات التي حدثت في الأسبوعين السابقين:

- حصول منصة بينانس[1] على الرخصة التشغيلية بعد حصولها على رخصة تحضيرية منذ أشهر
- حصول أكبر بنك استثماري (Nomura) في اليابان على ترخيص تشغيلي في دبي[2]

كان هنالك خبر اخر، لكن لا أتذكر محتواه أو الموقع الذي قرأت فيه الخبر.

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/07/31/binance-wins-operational-license-in-dubai/
[2] https://www.reuters.com/technology/nomuras-crypto-arm-wins-dubai-licence-2023-08-01/

What do you mean by you cannot get it to work? Do you keep failing the verification process? I'm afraid there's nothing anyone here can do to help you. If your documents are clear and show everything, and yet they can't verify your account, then the support is the only one who can help in this case.

If you're looking for someone to pass the verification on your behalf, then I don't believe that would be possible. AFAIK, as soon as you enter your information on Bittrex, you can't change them afterward.

This is called a sweeper bot. It looks like MetaMask has made an article on how you could potentially save your funds from it[1]. I gave it a quick read, and you're probably going to need some technical knowledge for this.

I'm curious though, are you sure that's what you have? I would imagine that in order for this to work, the attacker would need your private keys/seed phrase, and you can't just get it by linking your address.

[1] https://support.metamask.io/hc/en-us/articles/5716855323675-Fighting-back-against-sweeper-bots

Okay so regarding the SEC charges we talked about a couple of months back, it looks like Bittrex has agreed to settle and pay a 24M fine:


Your thoughts on this? It would be interesting to see what the rest (Binance, and Coinbase) is going to do as well.

لا يمكنك القيام بذلك بالعضوية الحالية. يجب عليك أن:

1. تكون عضو Copper عن طريق شراء العضوية: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=credit;promote
2. أو الانتظار حتى تصبح Jr Member أولا.

بعض ذلك، سوف يتعين عليك تحميل الصورة الى موقع talkimg.com ووضع الرابط بين img tag يعني مثلا:


يمكنك وضع الرابط وحده حتى من دون العضويات التي ذكرتها، لكن الصورة لن تظهر في المشاركة، و سوف يتعين على القارئ الاطلاع على الرابط لرؤية الصورة.

Update: It looks like Bitrefill announced the release of their eSIM service yesterday[1][2]. Unfortunately, and as mentioned by @_act_ these eSims don't have a phone number, meaning you can't use them to receive calls or texts (which IMO should've been their first priority here).

[1] https://www.bitrefill.com/en/esims/
[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5462636.msg62669289#msg62669289

I would imagine that in order to generate such amounts per day, you would need a decent amount to start with. Do you have that?

But assuming that you do, the market is very volatile. You can't simply use a grid bot, or follow a certain strategy and expect money to keep flowing. So if you don't know what you're doing, daytrading is probably something you should stay away from.

I usually see people recommending Cake wallet. It's open source, lightweight and you can use it to connect to your own node (which is obviously better in terms of privacy regardless of the coin).

Some people might be able to give you a better answer on what makes Monero a "good privacy coin" but overall, it's not possible to see the addresses balances, as well as the amounts and addresses of a transaction.

Using a centralized exchange would obviously reduce your anonymity because they could keep certain data of your transactions when processing it (time, amount, the address you withdrew funds to, the bitcoin addresses you deposited from, etc.)

Here are some good articles you may want to look at [1][2]

[1] https://www.getmonero.org/resources/user-guides/prove-payment.html
[2] https://www.investopedia.com/tech/introduction-monero-xmr/

With that domain name, the lack of an SSL certification, and MetaMask popping up as soon as I visit the site? I doubt it. and I hope you didn't authorize anything with your wallet otherwise your funds are probably at risk.

You can use it for free, but you would be limited to a few alerts/notifications: https://cryptocurrencyalerting.com/pricing.html

I came across this service before, the main difference with Coingecko is that it offers more than pricing alerts (exchange listing, wallet watching, trading volume changes, gas prices, etc.)

As mentioned above, difficult to say without seeing the TXID.

But if you received two amounts in two different transactions, and then the first 1000$ vanished, it's very possible that whoever sent it, used RBF to resend the funds to himself (assuming that transaction didn't receive any confirmations of course). It could also simply a display issue from your wallet/service you're using, but that's less likely.