Hmm.

Maybe he is referring to the {VERIFIED} tag that is next to some accounts of prominent companies such as AirBNB et al..? -- https://github.com/airbnb


You're right though, even https://github.com/spesmilo doesn't have that..   I really doubt that a random repo would get that.

These two are quite contradictory.

Are you using "Ads", (Popads etc) to send traffic to someone's said, or are you generate (fake) traffic from a "program" to his site? There's a world of difference here, which should be clarified before anyone should even think of buying this.

You also didn't specify whether the traffic is legit at all, adsense safe etc, or what the demographics/background of your traffic is. (PTC? Organic? What niche?)

Why don't you use a site such as https://www.bitrefill.com/buy/steam-usd-voucher

Might be easier, and prevents you from getting scammed/ wasting alot of time in P2P deals.

Or, you could deposit your money into Bitskins.com, buy skins, and sell those on the market for steam balance, you might get some profit even.

I doubt you'll find many people willing to go first.

I'm not so sure what exactly the security complications are either. I'm getting a bit confused, so let's make some things clear.

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1. You received a popup that looked like this;

ref: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5089963.0
2. You clicked the link in the popup and downloaded the wallet from the github.

3. You ran the wallet/imported your seed in the wallet you downloaded, correct?

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If the above is more or less what happend, you should indeed let your friend recover your seed, ASAP, as your funds are probably compromised.


He should make a NEW electrum wallet on his device, and send a transaction totalling all the funds from the (potentially) compromised seed to the new wallet he just created.


As i said. i'm not entirely sure what has been infected/affected either. Might want to keep an eye on this thread to see what might be smart; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5089963.0

Did you actually install the hacked version of electrum - the one you linked to in your OP?


Hmmm, that's weird. Could it be because you still have the other version(s) installed? Try deleting/uninstalling it completely?

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Or temporarily use another device?

Another user from the thread i linked above said the following:

It might be smart to hasten a bit.

I'm afraid you can't. - If the attacker hasn't moved your funds yet, you might have a chance still.

It seems more than likely you (unfortunately) got phished due to a malicious server.

Read: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5090097.0
And: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5089963.0

The link you posted: github.com/electrum-project/electrum/releases/tag/3.4.1 is probably that of a "hacked" version of a electrum.
                            ^ do not use this.



what exactly do you mean by stuck? Has the attacker sent a tx yet?

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IF YOU STILL HAVE YOUR PRIVATE KEYS/SEED, DOWNLOAD ELECTRUM FROM HERE, https://electrum.org/ IMPORT YOUR SEED/PRIVATE KEYS AND MOVE YOUR FUNDS ASAP.

1. Not really. You can have 10 inputs from the same adress, and it will increase the size of the transaction with the same amount as if all the tx were taken from 10 seperate adresses (if were assuming same type obv).. (?) https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/1195/how-to-calculate-transaction-size-before-sending-legacy-non-segwit-p2pkh-p2sh


So the less adresses (rather inputs) used = more consolidated = lower fees most of the time.

2. I don't think this matters per se. As long as all the inputs are all consolidated in the new adress, there is no issue. If they're not and instead all spread out over "new"/different adresses, then this is indeed a problem.

Note that you can always reuse an adress if you'd like to do so. I'm not sure how it works with hardware wallets, but it's not like they'll all of a sudden "throw away" the private key for said adress.

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2. Or are you talking about sending the change to a new adress each time? Afaik, you can change that, but that also won't matter much, since the inputs will stay the same.

Probably not. Most RDP's have a static IP, especially if they're residential.

Some might change their IP on reboot but i doubt it.

I'm pretty sure more RDP that are coming from established companies such as above have some sort of windows already installed.  (Eg; Windows Server 2016 Standard or w.e.)

Your reasoning is that of 12 year old... This forum isn't a kindergarten.. You're acting as if DT is getting paid for doing this. They're not. You really think they have the patience to give some 2/3/4 chances? I know i wouldn't..

I personally don't actually see any reason for them to justify their ratings to anyone up to a certain degree. If they're inherently wrong, someone else on DT will probably correct them on it.
 



It's not made up. If you do a transaction through your bank(but mostly CC)/credit card on lets say eBay, and you tell your bank/cc provider that you got hacked etc, with sufficient proof, it can infact issue a chargeback.

Depends on your CC provider/Bank, but it's definitely possible.



I again wouldn't be so quick to blame the red tag for all of your issues. If anyone else was making such a stigma about "leaving the forum", only to then come back to make a deal that doesn't really make sense, well, he probably would've received the same replies, even w/out a red trust.


And where does Followbitcoin.today fit in then? What's that? You don't classify that as a ponzi? -- Sidenote: You didn't answer his question...  

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Anyway, your entire character at this point is becoming an esoteric issue which i can no longer keep up with. Ah well.

Maybe you're looking for something like this;

https://www.routerhosting.com/residential-ip-vps-and-dedicated-rdp/
https://rdpbay.com/

The routerhosting one looks the most viable. They have been around for quite some time, (10+ years?), so i'm pretty sure they're the real deal.
Note that i haven't bought from either of them, so it might be smart to also look into them a bit more yourself.

I'm kinda curious, do you need to do KYC to open an account at Leopay?

AFAIK:They give each account opened a personal IBAN right?  


Can't imagine many people would feel comfortable selling an account if their personal data was attached to it.... Or do you only need a VCC/similar?

Looking at the merit given in that thread, you're actually just promoting megathreads...?

The, i do this X, do you also do it X or not-esque questions.

To which each user responds with some rehashed answer of the previous poster that contains something along the lines of, No, I do it Y, or as i said, a rehashed answer....

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But whatever, you do you.

Damn, him changing certain grammar and spinning certain keywords makes it obvious that he knew what he was doing, and that he knew that what he was doing was wrong.
There was, and you knew it.

To quote theymos..


I'm not entirely sure what thread/post it was that he eleborated this further, but basically he announced that there'll be a "tool" to automatically recover accounts if you can prove ownership through a signed message..??

EDIT: take a look at this thread, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5021208.msg45305821#msg45305821


Although i would tend to agree with this, how the account recoveries are going as of currently seems just plain insufficient.

When there are people who already proved ownership waiting months to get their hacked accounts back, something is going wrong..

Except that it kind of is the only *populated* forum related to cryptocurrency. (Unless you count Bitcoin.SE, which i would say isn't a forum.)

I'm pretty sure OP got banned for these sorts of posts:




These sort of press releases which i think you copied from an article? (correct?) are kind of frowned upon and probably constitute to copy-pasting..?

I reckon you already spammed ref links to the users in your group?


I'm highly skeptical of this. I've seen steam group advertising, and the click rate with announcements is much lower, let alone that someone will buy something once he clicked.

Do you have any previous campaigns to show for, with some sort of statistics if possible?

Read the above post and you'll find your answer as to what to do. Or maybe, for once, you could use the search function.

I mean, there was quite some drama about running anything younger than v16.3, due to the "bug" that was found in v14-v16?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5034070.0

Might still be smart to upgrade to v17.0.... Although, if you're not running a full node, this bug might be not quite as harmful/have the potential to be harmful at all..?

I've found matbea (https://matbea.net/) quite useful in the past as well, but it seems that the site is slighly broken.

It used to track adresses like Walletexplorer, but also included exchanges such as coinbase, bitflyer.jp,  et al.

(I'm not entirely sure if it still does so correctly.)

EDIT, just tried it: Seems like it still indexes coinbase adresses. Not sure how accurate it all is though.

I'm not entirely familiar with Blockchain.com's verification process, but you're verifying your account so you can buy/sell bitcoins on their platform, right?

Are you certain that your country is supported by Blockchain.com?
You can check here -- https://support.blockchain.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000804146-What-countries-are-supported-for-buying-selling-

If not, that might be the issue.