Well, is your money still there? If so, it might just be your hard drive / other hardware that is failing you, or a corrupt operating system.

If your money is gone, you are likely infected, either a trojan, keylogger, or perhaps you downloaded a malicious version of electrum.

In both cases it would be smart to either update your HDD/do some virus scans and perhaps a factory reset. Again, you've given us very little information, so i neither know what the issue is, i do know you should be very careful with storing more money on that device.

Can you maybe follow this guide and check if your download of Electrum is legit? https://bitzuma.com/posts/how-to-verify-an-electrum-download-on-windows/

That would not be speculation - that would merely be a self-fulfilling prophecy (Although i suspect many of these signal groups are self-fulfilling, especially those regarding altcoins.)
Pump & dump groups are much alike to these  "Whale" groups.


Just know OP, that if there were any people with sufficient power to manipulate the bitcoin price up to such a degree that you could personally benefit from it, it would in no way be beneficial for them to share that information with you, at any time.

I'd go as far as to say, and i haven't done research into this, (that would perhaps be interesting) that giving signals as a whale (which you will fullfill yourself) only hurts them, unless it's a short squeeze/long squeeze, and you bet with them, not against them. Of course, great levels of confidence would be required and i assume the prisoner's dillema would also apply here, making cooperation pretty difficult.

In regular markets though, that would definitely be illegal.

Hmmm. I don't think so. The next best thing would probably be to either use something like Wirex, although that's a financial institution (and you don't seem too fond of them), or you can buy something like an Uber or Lyft gift card that you bought with Bitcoin from Bitrefill, or other sites that do accept BTC...
 
eg. https://www.bitrefill.com/buy/uber-rides-uk/?hl=en

This template is not exactly the same, but this is probably the closest you'll get. https://themeforest.net/item/tradix-cryptocurrency-exchange-html-template/24924541 || https://quixlab.com/demo/tradix/index.html

I don't think this script includes a backend though. (Although the author does state so in an odd way on themeforest?)


Anyway, if you scroll through most of the scripts (demo's) on themeforest (including this one), you'll usually see lot's and lot's of broken features, either by time or incompetent development, which is why it's probably smarter to also develop the front-end yourself if you're going to create a money holding/banking business. (High risk!)

Also:

Iasenko could probably get his IP from his account on cryptos-currencies.com ? (Or whoever was running Cryptos-Currencies.com ?) Not sure if that's (having his IP) really going to go anywhere though.

https://www.cryptos-currencies.com/profiles/theyoungmillionaire

That's weird. Looks like we perhaps have a good samaritan amongst us.   (Edit: I highly doubt it )

I guess.. That seems rather unlikely though. Also it would be weird for him to only be active in the Phillipine section, while also speaking Romanian. You'd expect him to also post in the romanian section, right?

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Anyway, sorry for your loss OP.

I'm pretty sure he's from the philippines. Scrolling through his post history there's lots and lots of posts posted in filipino.

I don't see any posts in Romanian. His personal text seems to be referring, although a bit cryptic, to "Enisala Fortress"; whatever that may mean.

It's interesting though, why that sockpuppet would post such a post in "Romanian". Perhaps a native speaker could tell us if that sentence is google-translated.


So much for being a "banker". Pretty sure there are more (now) ironic quotes in his post history, but this post by itself already stands out to me.

Quite the opposite actually.

keeping it under 100 chars so as to not get paid for a post that's not informative while simultaneously asking why there's a correlation between hacked accounts and corona seemed like the best option to me

So again, with a fatality rate of 0.1%-0.2% between 20-50 year olds, considering 60% of the (active members of the) forum will get it, that'll mean ~ 60 deaths. Unless some high-profile users didn't secure their accounts properly, and then also died of corona (a statistical wonder for now) i don't really see the issue at hand here. Shouldn't we generally be looking out for accounts that seem hacked, etc..?

But, whatever floats your boat.


This is not a bad idea, but i think that this is already being practiced.

Okay, so then the account also needs to get hacked, after it has (obviously) been inactive for some time. Again, not a bad idea, but i think we all already regularly look/monitor DT1/2 accounts for irregularities.
(Plus the statistical chance of someone getting killed by Covid, that someone being in DT1, the hacker knowing the owner has died, the hacker actually being able to hack the account, seems pretty low to me. (For now.))

I guess i'm just not a fan of all this fear-mongering and speculation over relatively nothing.

I don't see the correlation between a hacked account and someone dying from corona?

It seems "legit".

Not only do you need to deposit 0.01 in order to cash out the 30$ deposit bonus- you also need to make 30 BTC IN TRADES!!!
https://support.trade8.to/en/articles/3392678-welcome-bonus


Also:


So in short: You need to
A. deposit 0.01BTC
B. make over 30BTC in trades over that 30$, which really is impossible and just a way to get you to deposit your own funds.

After which you can: Withdraw your funds + the profits from the signup bonus. (The signup bonus itself = 30$ is never withdrawable!)

So really, this bonus is worthless.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

This entire reply is moronic and really shows you have no idea what you're writing down in your posts.

ALLOWING ANYONE TO SELL... That was supposed to be their revolutionary selling point (according to you ), except that it's already done by companies such as Nicehash, and despite there being no such thing as  "selling computing power" on their site, leaving just a skeleton of a HYIP script that anyone can buy for 20$ on themeforest. I don't see why anyone at all would want to give a dime to this "company" (Note: It's not a company - it's a 20$ HYIP script with a domain name!)


So you've currently made a loss on a fictional mining contract, and... Okay... You do you.

Sure you do, you posted it.
I don't mind if you yourself believe you've put 10$ into a legit mining company, - that's fine by me.  I'm just trying to warn others to not give 5000$ to any clown who can set up a 20$ cloud mining script.

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I see you've also bought a 450$ plan?

This doesn't sound like an "experience"- more a review of how good they supposedly are.


Oh so now that you've made 5$ over their 10$ plan you feel the need to post this glaring review about them? Gtfo, seriously.

Nice copy & paste.

Also, if there's a referral bonus of 10%, it means their contracts are too expensive by 10%.

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Site looks extremely sketchy, like they ripped it straight from one of these templates you can buy from themeforest. I don't know. I don't see ANYTHING that's even remotely revolutionary. Just the same old same old HYIP contracts.

This is not mentioned ANYWHERE on the site. Tell me: where can i sell my computing power?

Again, this site looks like a joke to me. Obviously i wouldn't give them a penny.

No. You just need to be included by any member who is also in DT(1), and not be excluded by an equal amount of people on DT(1) (or more), Then you become DT2.

To be eligible for DT1: Read: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5095156.0 (The panel who selects other users for DT2/and can kick off members of DT1)



I haven't read into this before, but you can be chosen by the algorithm to be DT1, while simultaneously being voted off by other DT1 members?

What i'm trying to say is:

Even if you are distrusted by a larger n of DT1 members, considering there is only 100 slots (in the future), you will still be eligible to take up such a slot, despite never becoming DT1 due to you being excluded by other "eligible" members, if that makes sense?

If not, people could distrust entire groups, and thus make the group of eligible people smaller, in which case (if an (in)eligible member doesn't take up 1 of the 100 slots), it's rather unlikely they or their group will ever have any influence in DT1 again?
Or am i saying something obvious.

It's likely someone got a hold of your seed, in which case they could simply import "your" funds (private keys) in their own wallet of choosing, eg electrum, and thus circumvent all the security measures..

How they got that seed- i don't know. perhaps a RAT, keylogger, again, i don't know. Did you have your wallet only on your iPhone, or also on your PC?

Maybe look into https://bcoin.io/ ?

(Although i think they're primarily a wallet library. Not an invoice service such as Bitpay, although, i find that to be of an advantage- eg you will can easily chain a deposit adress to an account etc.)


I haven't extensively looked into them but they seem somewhat respectable and also offer some guides on detecting transactions/code examples?

Maybe not what you're looking for.

Do you mean https://coinsbit.io/ ?

Or https://www.coin-bits.co/#/
Or https://coinbitsapp.com/


The app seems like a copy of Wirex. Not sure how legit it is. Or if above coinbits are even related. Their designs look similar though.

Certainly the latter link of the two(second link overall, https://www.coin-bits.co/#/) seems sketchy and does have some negative reviews lingering around on the internet.

FYI i don't know any of these businesses, and they all look the same to me: Sketchy.

If you use a real bitcoin wallet- often we refer to "real" wallets as wallets where you have control over your private keys, and the answer is NO. you download it for free (it's ALL open sourced software), and then you either buy Bitcoin on an exchange, and transfer it to your wallet, or work for it some other way.

"Real" bitcoin wallets are free, open source, and never deal with real money (dollars). On some web wallets there is an integration with the fiat payment system, (Blockchain.com). But with the context of your story, i don't think this is related.

Bitcoin itself is used to cover transaction fees. I have yet to hear from a wallet that needs to be linked to a specific exchange. (Perhaps this is the case with Binance's BEP protocol, but that's completely unrelated i'm pretty sure.)

You download software from Electrum / Bitcoin core, or compile it yourself.
Then, launch the wallet, generate an adress, and then you send bitcoin to it.
(The bitcoin is usually bought from an exchange such as Coinbase.com, or perhaps a P2P transaction with a site such as LocalBitcoins.)

Once the transaction is confirmed, no one but you has control over where and how it goes to its next destination.



I give it a 0.001% chance it's actually legit. No reputable business or wallet conducts business like that.

Hmm. Maybe it's not a prelude, but already happening??

I mean, it's the perfect phishing strategy:

Let's say a user visits chipmixet.com and gets redirected to chipmixer.com - he might think he did nothing wrong. Then chipmixet.com will probably be the first thing to pop up in his address bar when he wants to go to and visit Chipmixer.com again.

Do this a couple times and he'll by default go to chipmixet.com, not knowing it's a phishing domain.

Then one day, they replace all these domains with a copy of a fake chipmixer, and the user, who probably is just routinely  (not paying much attention) going to chipmixer (or so he thinks) actually gets phished..

You do need to be a bit of a bot to not notice the redirects, but still.

You'll need to simply run bitcoin core with testnet=1 (edit bitcoin.conf), and then it'll generate testnet adresses, (which have a different prefix.)

With electrum you also simply add --testnet as a parameter and it should start in testnet mode. (Newer versions of electrum automatically come with a shortcut for testnet, on windows at least.)

Blockchain sizes will grow for one, causing bitcoin to become even more centralized.

And, once you start increasing block sizes, where are you going to stop? 8 mb? 16 mb? 32 mb?

There's no limit to which you can go in that case, which doesn't sound like a long term solution to me...But.. What do i know.

I think i've reported threads of this site over a dozen times now. They just keep popping back up with newbie accounts and locked threads over and over again.


Here, another one, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5216815.0