In what way is being active on bitcointalk related to how much money you make on cryptocurrencies?

All the exchanges or tether itself offer only online wallet. I'm looking for a way to store them offline away from any risk of losing them.

Hey guys, i am struggling to find a way to store Tether (USDT) off the exchange.
Whenever i trade USDT pairs i feel uneasy leaving all that money on an exchange in USDT.

Any of you using Tether and know of a way to make offline storage for it?

Hey, can i ask you one more question? Is the risk just about trading with people you don't know or overall sending transactions/receiving them?
I want to transfer my bitcoins from electrum cold storage to trezor, but not sure whether it's safe to do it now or is the risk we are talking about involving even the transactions i do to myself (from one of my wallets to another of my wallets).

I agree that buyers set the price, but EOS will be released in 11 months from now.

I do believe price of 2 USD per coin may hold for 11 months straight until the end of ICO.
I also believe that EOS might eventually go up during that period of 11 months because all altcoins are still very attached to our leading coins Bitcoin and Etherum and they will clearly rise.

I don't believe though, that this 11 month of ICO will do much good for EOS. It will be good for their pocket, they will have a lot of money and if they put that money to good use and deliver, good.
But there are projects that offer the same thing, smart contract projects that are out there already working and won't need 11 months before the start.

NEO the Chinese Etherum and Waves. Those projects have same market cap and are already out there to compete with Etherum.
I was going to invest hard on EOS but after doing some research i decided to go with NEO. I still believe in EOS though, Dan Larimer is a smart guy and both Bitshares/Steem are currently one of best blockchains out there in terms of transactions per second. EOS will have the very same thing and is to be able to handle more than Bitshares/Steem. The plan of weakening Etherum by building on it and then splitting from their chain is great too, genius to be said. And if they delivered on their promises then that is some big monster on the horizon, but 11 months of wait time is far too long in my opinion.

I'll make a bold statement and predict the market cap of EOS to be 7.4b$ at the end of ICO in July 2018.
That is a very positive prediction, actually. And even then it won't really matter, because other projects that are targeting Etherum will already be up there with 50b market caps.
And etherum itself probably around 100b alone.

So to sum it up - in my opinion buying EOS will be worth it in a long time hold and will already net a 3.5-4x ROI in a year from now.
Although i do believe, that other projects like NEO/Waves will net a way higher ROI within the same time period.

All nodes will stop accepting non-segwit blocks.

Looks like it! BIP-91 activates in 53 blocks so you still have a few hours.

Thank you, your reply was very helpful. I've read a few articles too and understand mostly what's happening.

I guess it's a good idea to back off from buying anything now.
Hopefully coinbase withdrawal system is as good as the deposit one, although sucks to lose all these conversion fees.

Can someone elaborate on whether August 1st is still an important date? Should we still stop trading shortly before August 1st goes in now that BIP91 will be locked in?

So can someone please clarify what is going on?

Is the date of August 1st still an important date at which we should stop trading bitcoin, or with BIP91 locked in did anything change?
I have money on coinbase and want to buy in a dip but can't say for sure if i'm in any kind of a risk buying after BIP91 locks in (which is tommorow) or after 1st of August now that BIP91 will be locked in earlier?

Hello guys, because cryptos are dropping now it's a good time to buy but i have one worry i have to ask about.

This guide says that we should not make transactions (send/receive) before 12 hours UASF/BIP goes in on 1st of August but i have read somewhere else that there's a possibility of bitcoins from non-segwit blocks being erased after UASF goes in and gets most of mining power. Does that mean i could possibly receive a transaction of bitcoin from non-segwit blocks and once UASF goes through those btc would just simply disappear?

If that is true, how do i protect myself and know WHEN exactly i am supposed to stop making transactions? I know the guide says 12 hours beforehand but i'm reading somewhere else that signaling of segwit started earlier than 1st of August, would that mean there's already risk in buying?

It's a great time to purchase because of all the drama, bubble popping but i want to be sure the bitcoins i buy are not gonna just simply disappear soon after.

Bitcoin and other cryptos are going down which means it's a good time to buy. I want to purchase but i'm afraid of all the drama around 1st of August.

I have read that there is a possibility of someone mining on non-segwit version of Bitcoin and receiving bitcoins like these then a few weeks after UASF goes in and gets most of mining power all the btc from non-segwit version are going to get erased.

How do i know that bitcoin i am receiving now won't disappear once segwit goes in?

People are going crazy about the crash and i am here eating popcorn with a smile on the face.
A crash like that is the best time to get some profit and speaking about bitcoin, long-term holders do not care about this crash or any other in near future.

Looked into it and this project looks really solid. Statistics of other dice game etheroll is pretty impressive as well and this is gonna be higher quality with variety of games. They already have a website showcasing a preview of how it looks and you can play a game on it already with use of tokens. Neat stuff, ico ended just recently so there is still a lot of time for it to update and get better but looks solid.

Buying some coins today for sure.

Grateful for the replies guys. I haven't tried any other methods beforehand or any other wallet, but i did not dump all my coins because exactly as you said, in case something didn't work. Everything seem to work fine so my BTC is already stored cold.

Thanks for the replies, guess i'll be just adding money to that bag of btc stored cold and won't swap to anything else for time being.
I definitely am interested in the Trezor though, when operating with big money an investment of 80-100 euros is nothing really and it seems to be incredibly useful and provides a lot of good functions.
Having a cold storage you can safely spend money from and also generate an additional security layer like you mentioned is interesting and i'll be looking into it for sure. Storing ETH at the same time sounds good too.

I appreciate the reply but it's like listening to a spam auto-reply message when you contact customer support of some companies.

I know paper wallet is safe but i'm not interested in storing it on paper wallet due to my lack of printer. I'm looking to find questions to my answers that i posted in the first post.

Hello friends, i have recently joined the club and purchased some bitcoins. My opinion of BTC is pretty high and i believe this indeed is the future, and that it would be stupid of me to just ignore it.
So i just recently started but already own 1 BTC and plan to buy a lot more, though it would be irresponsible of me to go into it without any precautions and knowledge. I've read a lot and have a basic grasp of safety but decided to ask some questions as there is a lot of people holding for a long time already and i'm sure people have far more experience than me.

Note that all i want to do with Bitcoin is just store it until 2020-2025. I do not plan on withdrawing the money from this wallet beforehand and i just plan on adding money to it every week or month.

I have completely formatted my PC and disconnected it from Internet to create safe environment to create an Electrum wallet. After doing so i have transferred funds to it, saved the seed phrase and private keys on a brand new pen-drive that i also formatted beforehand just in case. I also have my seed phrase stored in a different safe place in case my pen-drive dies and i cant access it's data. I've put the pen-drive in my safe that is screwed to a wall, so i am technically safe from theft and fire. I formatted my PC once again to erase all data of Wallet being created.

How safe do you guys think is what i did? Is there a possibility of me getting my BTC hacked even though i did all this without internet connection, if i don't compromise the wallet by connecting it to internet?
Is there a possibility in future that 12-seed electrum phrases or electrum private keys stop being accepted by other services, so if Electrum magically dies i'd not be able to recover my BTC?
Is Trezor a better option than what i did there with Electrum? And if so, then how is it better?
Also, assuming i have 10 BTC on my electrum wallet and it's already 2025 where lets say price is 100.000$. It means i can cash-out 1m$.
Do you guys think that i should be using the signed signature thing that lets you pay with offline wallets?
Also i already went through that, and someone did calculations for me on how much it would take to crack electrum seed phrases but is it really so safe?

In case Electrum as a wallet/code/program dies and stop being updated etc. - are my bitcoins still safe? Will my private keys created on Electrum still be available for use on different platforms?

Hey, i just remembered your calculations and was wondering about one thing.
Technically even if you can run through 3.1536x10^13 seeds per year, if you consider that there may be around 10 milion of electrum wallets set-up with different seed phrases it only makes it 3153600 seed phrases to go through to find at least one working wallet.

I've simply read these things on another website and since i have no idea if they are true i decided to ask people around. Investing big amounts should not be done on a whim and i wanted to prepare and make sure it's completely safe before i put my money in. Really, no need to be passive-aggressive about that - either way thanks for the answer, just wanted to make sure.

So im looking to invest into bitcoin and because it's hard to determine whether price will drop or raise after 1st of August i have decided to invest a certain percent now, and the rest after 1st of August.
Is it safe to buy Bitcoins right now, and by safe i mean - in case of a fork, i have read some things about a chain being completely neglected as if it never happened. Am i safe to buy my BTC now and send them to my storage or is there a possibility in which that transaction becomes "neglected as it never happened" and the btc will disappear from my wallet?
Is it safe to purchase Bitcoins after 1st of August or once a fork happens? Any catches or things i should be looking at?

Just don't want to screw myself over because of my lack of knowledge. Appreciate all replies!