anything new happening in iota, i got over 21000 miota
Well, depens on when the last time was you checked about IOTA. Have you done the latest wallet upgrade and transition?
I have all my IOTA's on Bitfinex at the moment but would love to get them into a wallet. What is the best way to do this at the moment?
Best way is to download the IOTA ledger client (
https://github.com/iotaledger/wallet/releases)
Generate a seed (depens on os but you can find tutorials all over the internet ex(
https://iotasupport.com/gui-newseed.shtml)
And transfer your IOTA from Bitfinex to your wallet address
(not your seed !) Addresses are by far longer than 81 characters. There is a checksum appended.
But this unrecoverable mistake can indeed happen!
Solution: add some prefix into the gui, like http urls. Make that gui to present (and accept) addresses like IOTA:abcedfghij999
Bitcoin did it right by using it's number 1 in front, and differentiating between wallet passwords and addresses.