I m looking to buy poor crypto exchanges without volume listed on coinmarketcap.

Price : $500 to $999 i will pay with bitcoin.

We all know Freewallet is a shady AF service. What I really want to know is why the hell somebody as clever as Elon wasn’t/isn’t in control of his own keys? Why the hell would he use their crappy, selective scamming ‘wallet’.

Something doesn’t sit right with me on this. I refuse to believe Elon wasn’t advised of a better way of storing bitcoin. I reckon Freewallet paid him to advertise them on his social media or something.

I know what you're going to say, so I'll say it for you.

Your loss. Should have put it on paper. Should have had a usb ledger. Should have put it on bitcore. You're screwed.....Blah blah blah..... Yeah, coulda, woulda, shoulda.

Here's my situation before you judge.

Opened this online wallet on BLOCKCHAIN.INFO back in 2013. For a few months we mined to this wallet. And we eventually accumulated about 15 or 16 BTC.
It sat forever.

One day I go to my phone and see that my balance is 0.  And I'm like.... what? That's weird.

I have my wallet id, I have my password, I have my seed to get the password that blockchain.info gave me in 2013, found out the hard way that this is NOT a passphrase for recovery.

Now I believe this is important:
It seems that when blockchain.info switched over to blockchain.com my old wallet went to 0.....

I tried restoring my wallet with no surprise yet again a ZERO balance, it doesn't even show transactions at all.

I have contacted the abysmal customer service via their website..... as you can imagine they were ZERO help.......

Has this happened to anyone else?

What I do NOT have is:
*BIP39 seed because they did not provide that back in the day.
*PRIVATE KEYS
*ACTUAL WALLET ADDRESS TO TRY TO TRACK ANY POSSIBLE TRANSACTIONS.

The only thing I have is what they issued me via blockchain.info.....

I can not find the email with the "wallet.aes.json" file, otherwise I would have attempted that approach to btcrecovery...

I'm staking a .5 BTC REWARD for anyone willing to help and successfully recovering this old wallet with the coin we mined. I'd say that this would be a nice $11,000 reward.

Thanks for any help or advice.
Cheers.

 

How good are blockchain analytics companies in analyzing coinjoins and mixing presently? Can they follow outputs after a mix or a coinjoin? This might be a concern for regular users, I reckon.

I am quite certain blockchain analytics companies do not have 99% batting average hehe. There are services and institutions in this world that should not have a 1% or .01% error. Airline pilots, the police and the judicial system are examples.


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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the “largest ever seizure of terrorist organizations’ cryptocurrency accounts” on Thursday, including “millions of dollars” and 300 crypto accounts.

In a press release Thursday, the DOJ announced it had investigated and dismantled “three terrorist financing cyber-enabled campaigns” involving al-Qaeda, Hamas and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).

Legal documents filed Thursday show the DOJ is trying to seize bitcoin from 155 addresses it alleges were used by Al Qaeda to fund terrorism and arrest two individuals allegedly involved with facilitating crypto transfers for Hamas.

Read in full https://www.coindesk.com/us-prosecutors-attempt-to-seize-bitcoin-allegedly-tied-to-al-qaeda

i lost maybe 25 times in a row when i had a 75% percent of winning! i only bet 5 times when i hit the massive loss streak right from the get go. If you look at the math there's only a 1% chance or so of this happening, clearly they saw I was rolling high percent win and they just made me lose. NEVER PLAY ON THESE "FAIR" SITES! SCAMMERS!

Well, don't lose your device. And you should have a backup.

But the important question (which you didn't answer yet) is how often you want to send BTC.
If it is quite often, you need some form of watch-only wallet to create unsigned transactions.

And here is the difficulty. You need to make sure that you are not leaking any information (i.e. that you install / use that wallet) to your ISP (or who are you trying to hide it from?).

If you don't trust your ISP -> Use a VPN and Tor. (This btw is one of the rare cases where a VPN actually is useful; If you trust your ISP, do NOT use a VPN).
And do not use winodws. Use linux and encrypt your installation. This is important.

Lately this is how I am doing all the things to protect my privacy (in my territory there are no problems with bitcoin by the way):

I have offline device where my wallet is. I have the watch only wallet and it's using tor connection. Whenever I need to send coin - I simply sign the tx from my offline device and broadcast it from the watch wallet. There are no issue with privacy now, at least for me.

Maybe he lives in a part of the world where $50-100 just for a hardware wallet is considered a huge amount of money and the amount he plans on storing there doesn't even cover the costs of purchasing one. Who knows.
Unless you have an old laptop somewhere that you can use as cold storage as some users already suggested, you are left with the option of creating a paper wallet where you can send your Bitcoin. Electrum would be the software wallet I can suggest you.

Use an offline wallet. Never let this device to go online.

Whenever you will need to broadcast a tx:
- Take the master public key, create a watch only wallet using this master public key in a device which is online.
- Create the tx and save it
- Take the saved file in the offline system and load it.
- Sign it and save it.
- Take the signed file in the online system.
Load it and then broadcast it.

You are not going online with your original wallet ever.

Thank you very much for confirming!

We've sent you all details to f********@gmail.com. Your request is being investigated as part of the anti-fraud procedure.

This entire story has been going for too long.

I got response how my complaint has been filed, but no response after that. Don't use this platform, if they are willing to scam me for 0.08 BTC, they are willing to scam you for much more money.

Hope this is lesson for you all that no matter if you account is verified, they can still lock your funds and say that you just violated their terms about some lame excuse without any proof.