I've never bought anything from alibaba before and im about to drop five figures on what will probably be s19s or s19j/s19jpros.

I know to use trade assurance, and look for a verified buyer, but I was wondering if anyone had any tips about the process.

Also, I was wondering if most people mine exclusively btc, or is there more splitting of resources.  Thanks.

I bought some litecoin for a transaction that I need to make somewhat quickly, and was dismayed to find it would only let me spend around $50.

Fortunately, I had another $50 in my USD wallet, and Coinbase said that money would be available instantly.  I could make a portion of the purchase now, and the rest later, with some additional cost and inconvenience.

What they did not say was that they would make a commensurate amount of previously purchased litecoin unavailable, and so my spending limit did not increase.

I presume that had I spent the litecoin available to me first and then bought more with my USD wallet, then I would have been able to withdraw litecoin twice.  However, because I added more first, it appears coinbase took the opportunity to shrink my limit.

Now I don't have enough to make even a partial purchase.  I withdrew what I could, and I'm wondering if there is any way to get a bit more in there.  (CB won't let me put the money back in my bank account either.  I'd hate to be poor and dealing with this company for any significant amount of money.)

There's a bitcoin ATM that appears to be run by CB in my neighborhood, but I don't want to use it, because I assume that even if I put cash in there. they are just going to hold it for two weeks, ostensibly to prevent fraud.

I'm considering buying more litecoin, to see if they'll make another portion available to me, but, for all I know, this time they won't..  It's not clear from their docs, so I assume they won't, if past performance is any indicator.

I was hoping that someone with some experience with these matters may have an idea.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT:  Just tried Kraken and signing up throws an error on multiple devices.  Tried Robinhood, and realized you can't xfer crypto out.  Now my money there is stuck, just like at CB.

I'm using W10.

It still doesn't work, unfortunately.

SOLVED:  I noticed that a website was not loading on my laptop, returning an error saying I was being blocked, but it was working from my phone on the same network.  It occurred to me that this might be related to my problem with the installer, so I rebooted the laptop and fixed both issues.




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I have my mnemonic, but when trying to recreate my wallet the installer crashes when it cannot contact the server for the ToS.

I read online about other people having similar problems, and resolving it with a newer version from GitHub, but that was way back in 17/18.

I tried using an older version and had the same result.

Any help is appreciated.