Thanks.  I got the same thing.  They're still at it.

Hmm. I just got verified and I don’t have any BAT tokens. are they gonna take some fee from me if I try to actually use the account? 


I’ve been using Brave (again) for a month or so and just decided to look at the ad and cryptocoin parts. I hadn’t looked at it or activated it ‘till yesterday. Before trying to earn anything I thought I’d check out what it’s like to actually try and get money out (to fiat currency, such as USD) ... Lotta people don’t think about that until far too late and perhaps realize, for example, that the sale price and buy price are not the same and they’ve been looking at mirages the whole time.  So I created a wallet (super low security online one) and began the process to create an account and get verified with uphold. After verifying my email address I hit some sort of glitch (I can’t remember what, didn’t matter) and dropped it. Today I got an uphold email reminding me to continue and verify my email address. So I verified/re-verified it and went to do the verification process and was pretty much instantly verified.  Just did so in-browser on iOS; didn’t need to install the Uphold app. 

META
There are so many levels of trust (and/or expert analysis and understanding) involved in relying on cryptocoins that I’ve never felt pulled to take a plunge. In hindsight, that cost me millions ‘cause I could’ve set up a bitcoin miner back when it made sense to set up a regular PC as a bitcoin miner; miners weren’t even using FPGAs/GPUs/DSPs let alone ASICs!  Woe!  I read a bunch and downloaded the source code but never bothered to set up the operation! 
I’m curious to see the date when I set up this account appear when I hit send... I don’t remember.  Probably years after that but still I expect it was when bitcoin was worth practically nothing in comparison to where it’s at.  I’m sure…  Here goes!
Tammy first experience was trying to open an account with Mark Twain bank after reading the Chaum papers.  right about the time the operation was shut down by G-men.

Wow,

Danny felt the OP was incredibly hostile, but has dealt with him in a humorous way, imparting valuable advice.  And he was treated with no respect.  As the OP seems to feel he's done nothing wrong, I've found the most useful part of this thread is the link to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=ignore;u=73394;topic=127860;msg=1358938 !   

If I was a BitInstant rep, I'd refund the OP's money and tell him he's no longer welcome as a customer.

Oh,and

3)Suggesting people "might want to make multiple copies" is bad advice.  People should *definitely* have more than one copy of their wallet. As you say, "losing your wallet.dat is worse than someone stealing it." but also: Flash drives go bad. Files get corrupted.  Things get misplaced.  Mistakes happen.  2 validated copies is a bare minimum.  I would say that "probably want to make more than two copies (and keep 2 copies on each storage device)" is better advice. 

In the early 90's, I became unable to unlock my PGP secret key - the passphrase I remembered and was sure was correct no longer worked.  Was the file corrupted, or did I somehow misremember it?  I'll never know for sure.  The key wasn't backed up, so I couldn't try or compare with a backup.

Ok, here comes this newbie's first post....

A couple issues:

1)Typo: "walled.dat".

2)There's no protection against MITM attack when you download that LiveCD - people need to ensure that the LiveCD image they download hasn't been trojaned on its way to them.  Checking securely obtained SHA hashes, PGP/GPG keys ... very important and worth mentioning!  Ditto for the bitcoin client.
OP says: "I think it makes sense to trust both the Ubuntu LiveCD as well as the client from bitcoin.org for now."  Well, it makes sense if you ensure they are what you think they are -- you have to trust someone.


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