It's strange to me that someone who has been on the forum for years reacts in this way, as if he didn't understand until now that the security of his bitcointalk account depends only on him, and that no extra features will help prevent someone from being hacked. As for 2FA, which would probably be connected to the user's e-mail, what is the use of that, considering that most of those who are hacked will be compromised to such an extent that that e-mail will also be hacked.

2FA is something that can be bypassed in many ways anyway, and instead of looking for security where there is none, start acting like adults who think for themselves and don't play with their login data like children. At the end of the day, every hacker is just taking advantage of the opportunity that someone gives him, and that means that half of the blame lies with the one who was hacked.

I think it also depends on the country you live in, and not only because of the mentality of the people, but also the total population. It may sound strange, but it is not the same if you live in a country with 300+ million people or in a country with 100 times less people where it is much harder to protect your privacy. The higher the price of BTC, the more people are willing to do anything to get it easily.

That page doesn't exist, you obviously meant Walmart? 65-inch TV for only $230 seems like a mission impossible to me, at least where I live. Even if there is such a cheap TV somewhere, I honestly doubt that it is a well-known brand, and if it is a no-name brand, then I wonder what quality the device is and how much the warranty is worth?

It is very likely this model, but for me personally, that brand is not something I like.

The OP has not been active practically since the beginning of this topic and has only written 3 posts, yet he is someone who should be most interested in getting his account back. However, maybe the case is not quite as simple as it seems to all of us, so regardless that the OP signed the message and did everything that was needed, I wonder if the IP addresses were checked and if they show real hacking or if the OP and the hacker maybe used a VPN/Tor, which then makes the check useless.

Go back 5 or 10 years and you will see that more than 90% of all coins that were invented then are worth almost nothing today, and the same will happen with most of those who today try to catch the naive to mine or buy them. I have a lot of such coins from my early days in the crypto world, and only two are worth more than before, although it is far from the fact that I could get rich selling them.

All those coins you are talking about are just pump&dump schemes with a bunch of false promises, not to mention the fact that most of them are centralized, pre-mined and with an unlimited supply. This is not the key to success, but to certain failure.

What's positive about this HW is that the hardware and software are open source (so they claim on the official website), and that's certainly a good thing for anyone who doesn't want any surprises and some hidden features. What is most important for every HW is that it can create a seed in an offline environment, and that it can protect the user from clipboard malware in such a way that every user can always compare the addresses on the HW with the one in the user interface.

What every user needs to pay the most attention to is actually the backup, which means that it is saved safely (not online or on a PC/smartphone), and preferably in more than one copy if possible in at least two different locations.

Those who want to centralize Bitcoin will always look for a way to do it in some way, and it is obvious that large mining pools will be their main target through which they will be able to control transactions to some extent. What is definitely worrying is that more than 50% of all these mining pools are located in the US and China, and both countries actually have the same goal, only with the difference that the Chinese authorities do it without asking anyone for their opinion, while the authorities in the US still have to be much more careful if they don't want someone to accuse them of using communist methods.

We definitely need more decentralization when it comes to mining, but unfortunately it's just a good deal for most (right now), and if a better opportunity came along, they'd all dump Bitcoin overnight. Most miners do it only for profit, not because they support Bitcoin as a decentralized currency.

I believe that the reason for this is that the US obviously has a much greater influence in that part of the world, whether it is pressure coming from politics, or they have something with which they hold that pool in their hands. In addition, it is much smarter to start experimenting in someone else's backyard and see how things will develop, and only then implement such measures in US mining based pools.

However, I remembered that we already had a similar discussion, only that time it was MARATHON pool, which was actually the first to mine something they called "clean block". Although this is bad news, MARA AND F2Pool currently have about a 15% share of all mined blocks.



MARA Pool mined its first 'clean' block today

People are rooting for anything that can raise the price of Bitcoin, and I guess they think that the Bitcoin logo on the door of their bank will mean that the price will explode. Also, in order to be afraid of something, you need to understand it first, and how many people know about Bitcoin more than they have created an account on some CEX and added their bank account for buying/selling. When you tell them something about private keys and the risks they face with custodial solutions, they look at you in amazement as if you were talking about atomic physics.

In addition, all these custodial solutions when it comes to banks are (so far) exclusively related to services for institutional investors, not for ordinary people. In other words, banks want to compete with companies like Coinbase that provide just such services.

A lot of members on the forum use the quote option completely unnecessarily or in an inappropriate way, without realizing how ugly their posts look from an aesthetic point of view. Some do it out of sheer ignorance because they don't understand that quoted posts can be edited very easily, and some others still think that their posts look better that way. Even in this topic, some use quotes completely unnecessarily, and what is even more tragic, they try to teach someone something about it.

@Renampun, @sokani, @DubemIfedigbo001 - do you think it makes any sense that you quoted the OP and did exactly what the OP is warning you about?

By the way, posts in which the quote option is used inappropriately can be reported to the moderators, and most of the posts that I reported were deleted.

I assume that the money in that bank was acquired legally and that you as their client have the right to dispose of your money in the way you want, of course as long as that money is not used for any illegal purposes. Therefore, I don't see why you wouldn't ask for information about whether your bank has any prohibitions/restrictions when it comes to cryptocurrencies - and to find out you don't have to go to the bank in person, you can ask by phone or e-mail.

Given that you plan is to spend a large amount of money, it would certainly be better for your personal safety and later for the possible payment of taxes if you have all possible documents that prove that you bought Bitcoin with legal money, and from whom you bought it. When one day you decide to sell, it will be logical to use the same subjects, only in the opposite direction.

Even if your bank is not friendly to how you want to spend your money, you can always transfer your money to a bank that has a different business policy, and at least there is no shortage of banks, right?

People outside of Argentina inflated this story because they simply don't understand what actually happened there and the only thing that matters to them is that the new president does something positive about Bitcoin and that the price of the same goes up because of that. I also read (and wrote in another thread) that Milei won only thanks to the votes of the former president voters who did not vote for him in the first round, but served as "useful fools" in some political deal that happened behind closed doors.


In other words, he will talk a lot, swear and wave a chainsaw, and in the end, probably nothing important will happen. It seems that people chose him to entertain them, because obviously with his political impotence he will not be able to do anything important.


If at least millions were involved, it is still billions, which makes an astronomical difference.


I don't know why you talk about the president in the feminine gender, although maybe you know something that we don't? I've read some strange things to say the least about his sex life, but that's less relevant, unless he ends his term as a woman

Maybe you should think in a different direction than looking for someone who sells books for Bitcoin and if you find a good site that has books that interest you, you can always ask the owner to add that payment option.

Maybe you like comics? Even if not, maybe someone else will be happy that there is a site like this

https://www.octopuscomics.com/shop

How do the followers of the great leader feel now that the authorities expelled him from the US and when he paid for his freedom as much as $4.3 billion? Until yesterday he was someone they worshiped, today he is just an ordinary criminal who is free because he had enough money to pay for his freedom.

Do you think it's over now? This is just the beginning, because what that company did in the US, it did in the rest of the world. CZ stepped down from the position of CEO only to avoid what will probably happen in other countries, and now the only question is which is the next country from which he will have to leave.

That list doesn't make sense at all because we can't compare someone who invented Bitcoin and was the first to mine with the aim of starting Bitcoin, with CEXs who actually keep their clients coins and connect it all to DCA. Besides, no one has ever proven how much BTC Satoshi actually mined.

Furthermore, should we consider it smart that some individuals and companies accumulate large amounts of BTC just for the reason that they would profit from it without ever using that same BTC for what it actually exists for? Maybe we should ask ourselves what will happen when some of them start dumping hundreds of thousands of BTC - will people still admire them?

Of course we can have different opinions and I respect everyone's right to express their opinion. However, I look at things in a much wider context and I do not want to accept the image created about someone by the mainstream media, which in some cases is financed by the same rich people who present themselves as people who make the world a better place.

I personally would wake up very ashamed every morning if I knew that my wealth was largely the result of exploiting children and slave labor, but for the world's richest people, this is obviously not a problem.


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It's not something I didn't know, the rich always want more, and to achieve that they have to invest part of their earnings and it's logical that they don't keep all those billions in cash or in banks. But then the question arises as to why one should find justification for the fact that someone has tens or hundreds of billions that they do not really need, while on the other hand, half of the people in the world today cannot provide enough food on their table.


The same politicians whose pockets are filled by these entrepreneurs? It's no secret who the biggest donors to politicians are, and it's also no secret how those same politicians return the favor when they come to power. Politicians are just pawns, someone else makes the moves, and we know that the one with the most money has the most power.

It's not that what you're saying doesn't make sense, but even if the new president has a positive opinion about Bitcoin (or at least he did before), that doesn't guarantee that he'll change anything about it now that he's in power. At one point I realized that Milei actually reminds me a little of Bankman who talked a lot and made promises, but then overnight he burned everything he built.

As for Lagarde, of course she has negative views on Bitcoin, although her focus is much more on stablecoins, which she considers to be the real competition to the euro and one day the digital euro. It is interesting that her son actually has the complete opposite opinion and allegedly invests in cryptocurrencies.


Of course I had heard of her, but somehow I went in the direction of Oracle Of Omaha. However, no matter how you look at it, whether it's about the EU or the US and all the negative attitudes of various politicians and officials, these are parts of the world where Bitcoin has a very strong foothold, whether it's about the number of people who invest in it, or the companies that are connected with trading and investing in the same.

A man who is supposedly pro-Bitcoin in a country where he doesn't actually have the power to make key decisions can hardly change anything in this regard, even if he really wants to.

This is nothing but a rip-off offer in the literal sense, because what else can you call these amounts at a time when for approximately $3-$4 you can get confirmation in the next block in max 10-20 minutes. People, don't fall for those cheap tricks - check the fees at https://mempool.space and use wallets that have RBF (replace by fee) option.

The discussion on this topic has already been opened in the Bitcoin discussion because the president is supposedly pro-Bitcoin, and one member of the forum who is from Argentina has already written several good posts from which you can get a good insight about some things that are happening in that country.

I also think that Milei does not have nothing that can result in some changes for the better and that people voted for him only out of desperation and because he got the support of the former president.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5474720.msg63191924#msg63191924

Of course, it is always about controlling the masses, and if you control the central mechanism on which you have made them dependent, then the majority behave as if they are in the collective consciousness. Any deviation from the usual ways of behavior puts you on the black list and increased supervision of Big Brother. Resistance is futile is obviously the message they want to send, but it never worked and it won't even now.

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Maybe Patriot and similar initiatives are actually doing us a favor and pushing Bitcoin in the direction of greater decentralization? The list is really getting bigger and the good news is that more and more people are using such services. However, when it comes to trading, regardless of all the decentralized options, we still have the "problem" that we have to use centralized services when it comes to the deposit/withdraw of fiat funds, and all these services are mostly under the supervision of state institutions and must report every suspicious transaction.

Of course, there is always the possibility of face-to-face trading, but that brings with it some other risks that many do not agree to.