You just have to ask yourself if it is a bad option to "discourage" someone from making some reckless move, or if we should act like some kind of promoters of Bitcoin, regardless of the fact that in this way we can create not only financial but also various other problems for someone?

People who can't define what Bitcoin is, who can't safely create safe storage or a digital wallet by themselves and people who think that they will get rich overnight with $100 invested should definitely be "discouraged" not to invest in Bitcoin.

An acquaintance of mine asked me a few years ago if it makes sense to invest in Bitcoin, and I answered that it does make sense, but only for people who have an eye for details and the world around them.

Namely, the man (as far as I know) suffered the robbery of his car twice and both times he paid the fine because it was found that he left the car unlocked - otherwise he behaves very irresponsibly in life and I can only imagine how his investment in BTC would end up. The fact that I "discouraged" him is not a bad thing, I did him a great favor.

It's the same here on the forum where there are a lot of confused people, and they shouldn't be encouraged to invest in something so risky and volatile until they learn some things and become responsible people.

I would not say that this is bad advice, especially if it is a premium AV that updates its database of antivirus definitions several times a day and has good heuristic analysis that can detect viruses/malware even if it is not in the definition database. However, as far as I remember from some previous discussions, clipboard malwares usually cannot be detected using AV, although I don't know if anything has changed in that regard.


Today it is hard to believe that an app is reliable (trusted) unless it is an app that has millions of downloads and it is possible to verify it before installing it. Even if it is in one of the legitimate app stores, it does not mean that we should consider it 100% safe - and what can we say about those cracked apps that are downloaded via torrents or various suspicious websites.

In much simpler terms, if you know how to behave online, have a solid AV/firewall and don't use cracked software, the chances of picking up something like clipboard malware are very low or none.

I'm not saying that the news isn't good, but far from anyone needing to get too excited about it, because we see from past similar events that people are simply not interested in using Bitcoin as a means of payment. Such news has had almost no impact on the market before, and I doubt that it will have any impact now, either in the short term or even less in the long term.

In a year or maybe less, the news will appear that Honda has decided to remove that option, either because someone will suggest that Bitcoin is "harmful to the environment" or simply because no one will use that payment method. It sounds pessimistic, but unfortunately it is the reality.

Luxury cars for Bitcoin? That was possible in Japan 6 years ago and I can't say how that story ended, but somehow it doesn't seem to me that many people paid for their cars with BTC.

https://fullycrypto.com/luxury-japanese-car-dealer-loperaio-accepts-bitcoinc
https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/japans-largest-car-dealership-now-accepts-bitcoin/


It's no big news, no matter how excited you are. The fact that someone adds BTC as a payment option does not mean that people will use it. There are thousands of online and physical branches around the world where you can spend BTC, but for most Bitcoin is just an investment they want to profit from.

The e-mail address could have been leaked from anywhere, the question is how long has the OP been using it and where did he register with it? However, for me it is not so controversial with the e-mail address, but with the fact that the OP claims that he has never used an online casino before, and then he sent 1 BTC to one of them only because he received a promotional e-mail...

Personally, that's a lot of money, and I would never think of gambling with that amount, especially if it's something completely new to me.

It's strange, it's not a story from yesterday, it's been going around the forum for years, and every now and then someone recycles it and makes a new topic about it. In addition, this is not about a device that you say is "not good storage for crypto wallet", but a person who protected his data and lost his password. The device is more than good and makes it impossible for someone who comes into unauthorized possession to be able to guess passwords indefinitely.

Furthermore, it seems that Stephan has a profile on this forum, judging by what @DdmrDdmr wrote in this post -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5309176.msg56104358#msg56104358

He didn't throw away the HDD, but his wife, and all that nonsense about how AI and some kind of robots will help him find what was lost a long time ago are nothing but a bunch of ordinary nonsense with which he wants to draw attention to himself. He used to ask for 250 pounds for an interview, maybe today he asks twice as much, or he hopes that someone will make a movie about him.

In addition, a hard drive that has been buried for so long in a pile of who knows what kind of junk is probably completely unusable, in other words, the chances that the data can be saved are almost nil.


Here we are talking about some 15 000 BTC, and that is completely insignificant considering the max supply and the fact that some, based on very strange methodologies, say that millions of BTC have been lost. The fact is that these two people in question here did not appreciate BTC at the time when the wrong move happened to them in life, and now they are crying for spilled milk.

What about the man who hid his backup in fishing poles and the owner of the apartment where he lived threw them in the trash?

You should have definitely gone to sleep and missed this "news" to a some newbie, because it's hard for me to imagine that someone who has been on this forum since 2014 can believe in such fairy tales. However, on the other hand, it is much clearer to me why various Faketoshis still manage to have an army of loyal followers when you can sell them such a cheap story.

If you have some extra BTC, you can buy that account and become Satoshi, blue mark is for free

If they are already so smart and intelligent, maybe they will avoid punishment and reach a settlement that would include some kind of house arrest while working for some three-letter agency. It is no secret that such things happen, and it is a real shame to let such people rot in prisons or to be employed by someone else when they are released. Besides, $6 million doesn't seem like a lot, at least not when we look at it globally.

Could you elaborate a bit more on this? I understand that Windows is a privacy nightmare, but if someone uses Tor in accordance with all the recommendations, does that mean that some private things are still leaking and can be used to try to identify someone?


This means that everyone should use Tor in the size of the window that opens at startup, but that doesn't make sense to me, because why would the normal window size that everyone probably uses somehow identify someone? What I know is that it is not recommended to use zoom in/out because the settings at 100% make all users unique.

Don't mix apples and oranges, because Trezor or Ledger are not offline or cold wallets, because at some point you still have to connect them to the internet, whether it's about doing a firmware update or a coin app update. And what fee are you talking about? Each device has its own price, and each transaction you make on such a device also has its own fee.

If you ever get the chance to use a hardware wallet, I advise you to try to understand some basic things before using it, because regardless of how good a device is, the human is usually the weakest link.

You express regret that you did not invest in Bitcoin 10 years ago because your friend is a millionaire today, and at the same time you say that Bitcoin is the "future of money" and that it is not a "quick rich scheme!".

Ask yourself if you would have really become a millionaire if you had bought Bitcoin then, because if you had done it at the beginning of 2013, you would have paid only about $13 for 1 BTC, but by the end of that year the price had reached even $950. Could you refrain from selling considering that it is a very big profit? What I want to say is that you could have made a lot of bad (wrong) moves in that period, and nothing would have changed in your life to this day.


Leave God out of that story, he has nothing to do with it, regardless of how some try to portray people around Bitcoin as a religious sect, which is real nonsense.

If you say that you have been collecting these tokens for 8 years, that would mean that you started collecting/buying them sometime in 2015 - and that cannot possibly be true considering that one token has existed since 2018 and the other only since 2019. Therefore, your story gets even more illogical and some details definitely don't add up, and everyone has the right to be suspicious and not believe every story they read online.

Your logic sounds quite illogical, because if you or anyone else stops being active on this forum, that would mean you are no longer alive? I know several members of the forum who are no longer active on the forum, but it has been confirmed that they are alive and that for some personal reasons they no longer have the time or will to be active here.

I think that Satoshi has left quite enough unequivocal statements from which it can be seen that he did not leave suddenly and in a hurry, and the last e-mail that Satoshi sent to Mike Hearn is more than clear.

Without getting into personal dramas, I will just say that moderators do not act on the basis of public posts (at least as far as I know), but only in case someone reports plagiarism using the "report to moderator" button. Therefore, I would not call such a way of attracting the moderator's attention stupid, but perhaps in some way unnecessary considering the way in which every plagiarized post is dealt with.

On the other hand, we could see that the number of report posts is decreasing from month to month, and one of the reasons is that an atmosphere has been created on the forum that this way of contributing to the forum is a waste of time. Everyone has the right to their opinion, but on the other hand, everyone can use their time the way they want.

This is one of the possible explanations, but again some will say that it is only October - the leaves are falling from the trees, the price of BTC is rising

Those people who are no longer active today (at least not on the forum) know very well why Satoshi decided to leave Bitcoin to them, because it was they who asked for it, which is quite evident from their communication. I already wrote that Satoshi must have felt all that negative energy, in addition to the fact that his main collaborator started to turn to the dark side (I'm referring to Gavin and his visits to places he shouldn't have gone), which he later described as a possible reason why Satoshi got scared, along with of course Wiki which started accepting BTC as donations and the famous comment "we touched the hornet's nest".

However, I wonder if it would have been different if Satoshi had left in 2012 or 2014 and not in 2010 - I think it's better if he left earlier, not only for "peace in the house", but also for his own safety.

What is the fact that in the early days Satoshi was nowhere near as popular as it is today - back then some were very openly calling for his "removal of authority", while today Satoshi is a true legend, and some like Gavin are not only no longer around Bitcoin, but they became hated figures because they were so "intelligent" that they started calling cheaters by his name.

It will never be clear to me how someone can even create a business based on this kind of business model, which, from the perspective of the legal framework, cannot possibly succeed. VISA is not some nonsense company through which money can be "transferred" in this way without the users being identified.

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This means absolutely nothing (unfortunately), because it does not prevent you from performing an exit scam at any time. However, everyone is the master of their own money and reputation, but I personally would never vouch for something like this.

First of all, don't post multiple posts in a row, it's against the rules of the forum - you can reply to the posts of several users in one post.

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Regardless of everything, you can still ask the casino to return what you lost, especially if there is already a similar case that you can refer to, but it is obvious that they (the casino) will try to avoid it in all possible ways without breaking the law.

All you have to do is be persistent and use all available platforms in order to achieve what you want. Honestly, this is the first time I've come across a case like this, because first they allowed you to gamble even though by law you shouldn't have been able to, and now that you've lost you can legally ask them to return your deposit.

No matter how this case ends, everything that happened leaves the impression of unprofessionalism on the part of the casino, and I wonder if the Australian authorities will take any action, given that the casino operated completely illegally in Australia.

This is not always the case, but in general, when you use Tor or VPN, you can often expect that the loading speed of websites will be somewhat slower compared to when you do not use them. However, for those who value privacy, "slowness" will not be an obstacle, especially if in this way they can additionally protect themselves from such malware.

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According to the information in the first thread posted by @lovesmayfamilis, this malware spreads in the following way :


This means that, as always, great caution is required when downloading apps from any location, including from the Google Play Store, which is not efficient when it comes to absolute filtering of malicious apps. In other words, limit the number of apps you have on your smartphone and download only those that have been around for a long time and have a very large number of downloads and good reviews.