I thought Ripple destroyed their valuation by not including themselves in the coin's ecosystem and trying to make their own private research labs for hosting what they could do on chain (if they merge these in the future then Ripple may do well again, perhaps not near the Ath for a while though as investors will be wary of its risk and lack of returns over the past few years).

Looking at coins like solana though, it doesn't seem unlikely for a coin to do something seemingly out of nowhere.

There might be other ways ownership could be proven too without signing a message. Such as: showing authentic conversations between the owner and whoever they acquired the funds from (could be socially engineered but may be harder if done using accounts that have kyc or are from a prominent figure that can vouch too), signing addresses that paid that one (especially if there's an old input that can be signed along with the address that was hacked or a screenshot of a withdrawal and additional proof - such as a forwarded email and corresponding exchange statements).

A lot of exchanges' policies on handling finance seem to have stemmed from a very simplistic idea that funds you invested in crypto must've come from a bank account or touched a local account (perhaps making it safer for them to comply with regulations).

I don't think the only option they should be giving you is to prove your source of funds with a bank account if you can use other sources or have historic transactions that backup your activity (although why you'd need to do this at all instead of just proving your identity doesn't really make sense).

Have you registered or tried to start anything? That might be a good solution to see if you need it (I'm thinking if you get a captcha trying to put a trade through).

If it's the .Io site then it looks like you can put in a return address and that should work fine even without Javascript (Javascript is mainly for dynamic styling and autorefresh and a few other things).

My issue with it would be the lack of reviews? I can't find many.

Does Russian currency devaluing actually mean much?

At a guess it'd probably make people want to spend less if those value reductions impact the cost of services there.

If Russian currency isn't being used much in the external market, maybe that's why. If yuan and rupees are the main currencies for buying oil, Russia could be holding those currencies instead or exchanging them for cash equivelants.

A lot of devaluations in war are a result of other things such as currency counterfeiting and talent fleeing abroad to a safer country.

I think faucets worked really well to advertise other parts of websites other companies (of they held a stake in the faucet). I think it's hard to get returning visitors on faucets now that'll think it's worthwhile and a lot of the free to play defi gaming space might take over from faucets in the next few years too if they haven't already.

There used to be a site (either called faucetbox of faucethub - both might've existed that had premade scripts and an integrated API).

I still think it's best to have a prepaid advertisement or somewhere you can direct people to from your site (that you also own).

Did you lock a low amount? I thought you'd have gained if you held tokens for a year and locked them from the spins you get? I can't remember what price I bought mine for now but I think it's roughly about the same balance as what I deposited including if I cashed the reward points.

I'd imagine eastern Europe already has a lot of competition with payment apps. They use an interesting protocol if they are actually using lightning payments to facilitate all their transfers (it'd make sense but light be a bit dangerous exchange rate wise).

To me, the names strike and stripe sound very similar and that might be a bit of a problem (or by design if they're wanting to advertise where the other would be seen).

Also apps in the US might look nicer because they're designed to only work on one operating system (iOS), most other countries don't have a majority use of Apple and prefer usability over aesthetics (also the dominance of Android means they also have access to back buttons a lot more).

There's quite a few back testing solutions already available if you're after something that'll test a strategy.

You can quickly search online for historic prices and get daily, weekly, monthly or yearly data downloads (you can normally only download a years data).

Indicator values are available to download too from many places (I think tradingview allow it but I'm not certain and they might be easier to generate yourself).

The difficulty here is how you're actually making these predictions, markets are irrational and hard to predict, day to day activity is a lot easier but can still be skewed.

There are defi ways to make 12+% on your coins (often around 30% but with some levels of risk like) and cefi ways to make about 4-6% so I don't think it's worth risking it on that one.

If they've not changed anything over with luna (like how the dao functions), they're probably going to face the same problems as before once someone has a large enough stake and incentive.

What version of electrum did he have running? Also, you should be able to go to file and see recently accessed wallet files from there (in case he had multiple and you can only find one specifically). If you meant you found an electrum folder that was empty, you could also try searching for a name like "default_wallet", "wallet" or "wallet_1".

Have you not also got access to his emails if he did pass away so you can see if his funds are on an online account that was his (ie search for "deposit" or popular exchange names where you are).

The chances he actually had 50000 btc are extremely slim, it's not impossible but it's more likely to be a lot smaller than that - it might have been a bluff too. 

I wonder if the bulk of this money is actually SOL and FTT as I could imagine it being.

Also I think the amount of sol they're holding is causing a large problem for that ecosystem and keeping the price low, there's a good chance they'll end up dumping or manipulating the market in some way because of how much they own (and how badly others have done in the space in not manipulating coins - binance and FTT for example).

Where's your code? Are you doing any looping (trying to load the website multiple times a second will result in an error, not sure if there's something else too as you've not added your code - feel free to dm if you don't want to post it publicly but remove login details if there are any).

time.sleep(1000) would be enough to add to a loop to stop the error - the time is in milliseconds if you want to edit it.

A lot of people were suggesting on other sites that SVB collapsed because a lot of money was held in government bonds and was hard to liquidate because of the rise in interest rates. If that was the case, why was there no facility for the bonds to just be bought back and instead the bank had to collapse into a bigger one that could make more profit from it (or have a greater burden themselves).

It'd make a lot more sense to just sync backwards than have "assumeutxo" (it makes more sense than it but doesn't mean it's a good idea either way) - if you got headers in advance then it might be possible to sync backwards and still verify you're in the right chain while allowing for better usability (but that'd be a fix when the chain is several TB in size imo and not now).

Doesn't liquid already implement something like this (the lighting network sort of does too) - not sure how they deal with disputes when funds are moved. I can't decide if thats the same as the roll up you've mentioned as the only sources I can find are from the upgrades to ethereum and polygon.

Stocks and bitcoin are similar in their level of being unable to have #2. If you own a majority stake in a company you still don't get anything that represents that (maybe a piece of paper that'll take you 4 months to a year to sell if the company is valuable enough).

Gold and most metals are hard to divide too in the same way, divisibility trumps physical representation imo and likely will for a long time. A newer version of a Casascius coin could resolve the "no physical representation" part but I don't know if the technology to make them fully tamper proof is complete (the hologram for a cas coin was suggested to come off without a trace if it was mixed with a solution).

I did think there was a hybrid solution that was missing though before now?

As in a decentralised network that's able to store data or applications for a temporary amount of time and one that stores them straight on the blockchain (like having a lightning network equivelant with EVM compatibility).

How do you know its spendable in core, does core have both or all three private key sets? I haven't used spectre but I'm not sure how you'd know the coins were spendable just from seeing the balance there (if your intention was to only import one key, how do you know you haven't?)

I still can't decide how well these might do (even for the trials) and if they'll ever be released normally. I guess there's similarities between so many countries having their own fiat system and it should be a safer method of exchange than fiat (but less safe compared with banking) just looking at the potential for counterfeits to cause a problem.

It also seems weird that 6-12 months ago there were lots of complaints about cryptocurrency being bad for the environment and now a bunch of countries are trying to launch their own unnecessary version of what already exists - also it feels like it'll be EVM compatible because that's either what the devs like or because they can (although maybe there's an NFT plan there).