Golden words.

I find it funny how people supporting criminals are looking for ways to reduce criminality rates. I never stood why we're looking for equality and fairness when the ones giving us orders are criminals themselves. The rules either apply to everyone or to nobody. What regulating BTC does is we're going to be required extra documents and our privacy will become inexistent while criminals wi still use it their own way.

In other words, what this leads to is full surveillance and control while stopping a negligible percent of the illicit activity.

Since the first tx was broadcasted, then it's safe to assume there is someone who remembered it and might use that information through an analyzing tool.

Since you've mentioned payments, I would assume that the party knows at least one identifiable information ahout you such as IP, home address, full name etc. In that case, the best thing you can do is assume the worst scenario and play it out. Was it a payment processor you sent your BTC to? Payment processors likely store even temporary data since little information could speed up things. As soon as your payment has been deemed invalid, they probably stored this information about it. In this case, all that is required for the first transaction to be linked back to you is the payment processor handing out this kind of data to governments (or selling it to third parties such as chain analyzing tools).

Block explorers probably stored your now-replaced transaction and I doubt they remove replaced txs from their storage. Especially more advanced block explorers that come with features such as privacy meters or basic chain analysis. There's a saying: once it's on the Internet, it's forever! So the best thing you can probably do is assume there is someone knowing about your initial tx and obfuscate your tracks from now on. If you have multiple inputs in your tx, then you should take care of all of them.

What I'd personally do if I had this fear is, I'd mix/coinjoin my inputs and move them to another new seed. If there is any party knowing who the person behind that initial tx was, I can now do nothing else besides trying my best to hide future paths.

To the replies above: Dandelion can be used through Bitcoin Core as a way of improving privacy of tx broadcasting. But even if we remove the possibility that a government/tracker could trace this broadcast back to your IP, don't the inputs still get linked together? And besides this, even with Dandelion, doesn't the initial tx broadcast from node to node quick enough for a block explorer to parse this information?

Edit: @mocacinno it seems like Dandelion should've been part of Bitcoin Core v0.18.0, but it never made it.

Just a little info to add: by device cleaning, I'd mention that the best one you can do is wiping the hard disk and fully encrypting it. Most popular Linux distros offer this capability and works flawlessly.

I'd also add that having a virus might protect you from certain viruses, but always remember that antiviruses constantly scan the files on your device. That means your wallet.dat files are scanned probably at least once every week - considering antivirus softwares are mostly closed-source, I would not trust them as much as I'd trust my own clicks.

Verify everything you are about to run/install and always look twice whether what you've downloaded is safe or not. Or even better yet, use the PC strictly for crypto and nothing else. This minimizes a lot of risks.

Definitely not the first time this happens. I've had my money blocked for an entire year since the password to my account has suddenly changed without me doing so.

Unfortunately, their support is completely useless. All they tell you is they just can't help you out since "they don't own the keys" - although I believe they do. If you lose access to your coins, without the seed they will be of no help..

I don't think it's necessarily impossible - AFAIK, Trezor One doesn't support XMR due to the RAM limitations. Ledger Nano S supports it, but sometimes (especially when you have lots of inputs) it takes up to 5-10 minutes for a tx to be loaded on it.

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The only question I have left is.. as far as I read, there aren't that many pros when it comes to Prokey if compared to its main competitor device, Trezor One. But having a roughly tested device with a quite long history and a very large base of users, it still makes me think these small changes such as device PIN or manual authentication are not worth the downsides such as missing support for the most used wallets and the lack of rough testing phases and audits.

Why should I choose Prokey over Trezor One?

...that you can use in a peer-to-peer manner as well, without having to interact with a third-party. Craigslist exists and that's a proof face-to-face txs aren't "a mistake". The difference is, after you meet someone f2f and they hand you a $100 bill, you cannot check its entire history from the moment it's been printed. This is where mixers come in as handy.

What is your position about cash? Do you like it, or would you rather be a bank's slave and declare where your money comes from, where it goes and what kind of toilet paper you like?

Why accuse me of crimes when I ain't a criminal? Why should I prove something you suppose is coming from an illicit source? Why do you even care as a company about my finance?

And then, there are companies abusing KYC to steal. Freewallet does that. And Bittrex. And many more.

How do you define a tier 1 exchange? If it's determined by volume, then you'll already have some really bad exchanges sitting in the top.

I'm also quite skeptical about user feedbacks. Many of them are either paid promotions or exchange sockpuppets. Large business =/= user safety.

A fully decentralized Atomic Swap between XMR and BTC is in progress. Once that happens, I believe there will be no more blockage in terms of price action. Once you can swap through coins without the need of someone else giving you permission or taking it away from you, you will not be stopped by a stupid "money laundering" excuse.

Anyway, XMR has mostly only been delisted from a few larger exchanges. Besides Bittrex, which appears to be a personal choice of delisting rather than a governmental order, I don't even know any other exchange that removed it. And now that Grayscale has included XMR in its soon-to-be investment products, I highly doubt governments are going to turn against it.

Governments love Monero. Not for their citizens, but for themselves. They won't fully ban it, but the more regular persons they can push away from it, the better it is for them.

Intr-adevar, sunt destul de multe posibilitati.. cu toate ca acestea enumerate de mine si Rizzrack sunt cele mai probabile. Caderea a fost resimtita si pe alte exchange-uri pentru ca exista trading bots care fac leverage intre ele.
 sau pentru ca unii se uitau pe chart in momentul respectiv si s-au panicat.

Sometimes Ledger Live is quite bad at retrieving balance info and tx history. Especially when the blockchains are clogged up.. perhaps it's their servers that are sometimes crappy.

Best thing you can do is use Electrum with it instead. Either that or try tweaking up Live through its settings. I believe there is an option to choose an external block explorer or you can use it with a full node instead. Maybe that helps.

Am incercat cateva de pe ETH, insa faptul ca trebuie sa investesti bani ca sa joci sperand sa multiplici banii.. m-a tinut departe. Probabil ca pentru cineva care le joaca de placere e fun - pentru mine e inutil. Din ce am inteles, fie sunt inutile din moment ce tu trebuie sa investesti bani sperand la un profit, fie altii deja au luat-o cu multi ani inaintea ta si daca acum intri si tu printre ei.. ai sanse aproape de zero sa mai faci ceva banuti din ele.

Can it? Yes. Will it? We have no idea. Any different answer to this one is pure speculation and personal belief.

Too many factors are influencing its price. One of the main ones are its immaturity as a market. Immaturity makes it swing wildly all the time. If you take a look at some advices on TradingView, you'd see that the opinions are split. Whatever happens depends on a lot of conditions we can't accurately predict.

I'm pretty sure there was a check 2 years ago as well. Does Live tell you that it isn't genuine or that it failed to check your device?

Try a few other USB cables. Perhaps another computer. If you can, please write here the exact error it gives you.

I don't have what to rethink because I already know BTC is used way less often in crimes than fiat is. With mixers, even less. Prove me wrong

Buying crypto with fiat in person is the way Bitcoin was created to be. Peer-to-peer. In real life or virtually with multisig and smart contracts, crypto makes this possible. And that is not my fault since this can happen with exchanges as well. Once you create an account on an exchange and deposit some BTC, expect them to spy on you.

Blockchain analysis companies have developed API tools that work automatically. You don't even need a human operator to spy on all your customers. We're in the era of technology and AI - it works out of the box with no human needed. Unrealistic? Say that to all those dust attacks and all those people who've got their accounts banned on exchanges for their history (or even future) transactions. Some exchanges literally look into your deep wallet history. They can, and they care.

This is why I say that whoever is going to be the first to bring user-friendliness to a cryptocurrency is gonna be the first cryptocurrency to truly turn mainstream. Most of the crypto knowledge requires a lot of time to spend learning, and time is something not very easily affordable nowadays.

I can't take what Revolut does with respect. I think they're doing more damage to Bitcoin than good since their customers know nothing besides the fact that they're "holding Bitcoins". I'm happy to know that younger generations get into BTC more than the previous ones, but at the same time the fact that they choose convenience over anything else is quite sad.

Stop Loss-ul ajuta si nu prea. La o cadere masiva peste noapte, e super. Dar in cazul mentionat de tine, nu prea...

Sunt cateva persoane care fac faza cu Buy Limit-ul, insa sincer sa fiu... Cred ca sunt sanse mai mari sa iti pierzi banii blocati printr-un hack (sau daca itj cere exchange-ul procedura KYC si nu vrei sa o completezi) decat sa iti faca cineva fulfill la order.

Nu a disparut 90% din moneda. A disparut 90% din pret.

Sa spunem ca imi creez eu o criptomoneda cu un trilion de monede in circulatie si te conving pe tine sa imi cumperi o bucata cu $1. In acel moment, pretul monedei mele devine $1, adica am un market cap de $1.000.000.000.000. Teoretic, acum poti spune ca ai o moneda cu un market cap mai mare decat al BTC-ului.

Insa mai tarziu, tu realizezi ca ti-am vandut moneda prea scump si nu va ajunge niciodata la valoarea de $1, asa ca o vinzi altcuiva care iti da $0.01 pe ea. In acel moment, pretul monedei mele a scazut de la $1 la $0.01 iar market cap-ul a scazut de la $1.000.000.000.000 la $10.000.000.000.. prin vanzarea unei singure monede!

E vorba de lichiditati si cerere. Insa pe exchange-uri, ceea ce am exemplificat mai sus se intampla instant si la o scala mai mare. Sa zicem ca pe Binance exista moneda ADA si exista urmatoarele buy orders:

Buy orders | Price
1000 ADA | $1.10
2000 ADA | $1.00
5000 ADA | $0.30
20000 ADA | $0.15

Deci exista cateva persoane care, cumulate, vor sa cumpere 1000 ADA la un pret de $1.10/buc. Exista altele care vor sa cumpere un total de 2000 ADA la $1.00/buc. Si asa mai departe...

Din moment ce exista cerere de doar o mie de monede ADA la pretul de $1.10, tu daca pui din greseala ca vrei sa vinzi la $0.15 atunci ai nevoie doar de 1000*1.10+2000*1+5000*0.3, adica o suma de $4600 pentru a scadea pretul monedei de la cat costa in momentul de fata la doar $0.15. Pui $0.15, apesi pe Place Sell Order si, cum s-ar spune, ti-ai vandut ADA la $0.15 cat ai zice "peste".

Acest lucru il poti observa la monedele foarte foarte mici sau la exchange-urile pe care nu exista lichiditati. Poti cu $100 sa multiplici pretul monedei de mai multe ori, iar pe grafice asa o sa arate. Insa e nesustenabil. Tu intri pe pierdere instant, iar ceilalti de la care ai achizitionat foarte scump (sau vandut foarte jos) au castigat instant.

Cel mai probabil este o coincidenta. Asa cum e probabil o coincidenta si corelarea dintre pretul BTC si al actiunilor unor producatori de carne din SUA. Asta atata timp cat nu s-au decis Elitele sa afecteze cumva pietele negativ, ca prea devin oamenii de rand bogati. Sunt destui (Peter Schiff...) care ar pune bete-n roate BTC-ului oricand ar putea, iar pe de alta parte exista suficiente Elite cu bagajul umflat de cryptomonede (Tesla, MicroStrategy etc..).

Totul se rezuma insa in final la speculatii.

Ah, pai avand in vedere ca nu exista o informatie oficiala legata de acest dump, explicatia cea mai logica ar fi ca.. cineva a mers pe unul dintre marile exchange-uri si a pus din greseala virgula unde nu trebuie, fapt pentru care a vandut extrem de jos monedele. Fiind totul automat, daca adaugi un "0" in plus dupa virgula sau nu o pui unde trebuie si apesi Place Sell Order, atunci vei vinde la pret extrem de jos. Cel care a patit-o probabil a pus ".15" in loc de "1.5", fapt pentru care s-a intamplat ce se observa pe grafic..

Faptul ca a cazut pretul cu -90% pentru cateva minute nu inseamna nimic altceva decat ca market cap-ul a cazut cu 90% la randu-i. Market cap-ul se calculeaza asa: pret * monede in circulatie. Daca pretul scade, implicit si market cap-ul se modifica in aceeasi masura. Asta nu inseamna ca daca BTC scade la $4.500 s-au vandut in total BTC in valoare de $819.000.000.000.

Nu stiu sigur, te referi la volum de tranzactii? Nu gasesc absolut nimic pe internet despre un asemenea dump, in afara de site-uri no name precum acesta.. sau precum acesta.

Ai o sursa mai reputabila pe care sa o poti posta aici, sa vedem despre ce e vorba?

In orice caz, nu ar fi prima oara cand se intampla un "massive dump" (vanzare in masa). Ce se intampla de fapt nu necesita prezenta 24/7 a unor traderi, ci pur si simplu existenta lichiditatii de USD pe exchange. Cu alte cuvinte, daca tu si mai cateva mii de persoane puneti o cerere de cumparare de ADA pe un exchange in valoare de cateva sute de dolari, in orice moment cineva poate veni sa iti completeze cererea si sa iti vanda tie acei ADA la pretul setat de tine.

Daca a existat lichiditate de USD mare (sau de BTC) la vreo paritate cu ADA, cineva a avut nevoie doar de un singur clic pentru a vinde o asemenea suma. Problema, intr-adevar, este ca daca se vinde 90% din totalul de ADA in cateva minute, inseamna ca majoritatea acelei sume se afla de fapt in mainile unui numar foarte restrans de oameni.