[PETITION] Create a "Get your funds out of exchanges" in Important Announcements

[NotATether]

I'm glad you took this suggestion, Theymos.  Hopefully it'll help some members avoid scams or at the very least will lead them to a discussion where they can get information that'll help them be more informed.  Props!

I doubt it will change anything but good work, we tried our best. Truth is, people will still keep their coins in the exchanges, still when the next exchange will bite the dust we will see many people are losing their money and blaming the exchanges. True decentralization will only can be enjoyed once we will have the entire ecosystem decentralized in terms of trading. We need decentralized exchanges and more people are using them over centralized exchanges.

@theymos, have we lost the bitcoin core update link from the news section? It will be nice to see both are rotating like the ad slot.

The news feed displays the most recent article with an exception I think for the Bitcointalk Community Awards and miscellaneous contests. Besides, Bitcoin 24.0 is about to roll out soon so when that topic is posted it will get bumped into the news feed.

[malevolent]

I would not like officially the forum to mention such wallet names which have business associated with it. You are giving them an advantage from others that are in the market. On the other hand when something will go wrong with any of them mentioned then people will have scope to say they were recommended by bitcointalk forum. We do not want to take any responsibility of anything.

I don't consider it to be an issue. Those clearly are the two leading hardware wallet manufacturers, and merely mentioning them is not an endorsement.

For a more neutral approach, I found a topic that dkbit98 maintains with a list of open source hardware wallets: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5288971.0

And here's a list of all or almost all hardware wallets ever released: https://walletscrutiny.com/?verdict=all&platform=hardware

Would these confuse the intended audience? I assume the type of people who go out of their way to browse forums in 2022, do so for long-form (or leading in this direction) content would be more interested than people on other platforms.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

For a more neutral approach, I found a topic that dkbit98 maintains with a list of open source hardware wallets: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5288971.0

And here's a list of all or almost all hardware wallets ever released: https://walletscrutiny.com/?verdict=all&platform=hardware

Would these confuse the intended audience?

The walletscrutiny site, I never seen them before but it seems they are giving a lot of efforts for the information. I am a ledger user and I see they marked it as "No Secure" but I don't think it's something to be worried about. No idea which one to give advantage between Trezor and Ledger though.

Coming back to the topic, although walletscrutiny seems a good source for hardware information but still it's a third party site and we don't want to recommend a third party site officially (when Theymos does something it's official in a sense). I will prefer dkbit98's topic over directly recommending walletscrutiny.