Is there an Android wallet, that allows for quick and easy BTC/LTC/ETH transfers (like to pay a merchant at point of sale); but also has a menu to let you top-up your balance and buy more crypto?

The man is a total technophobe.

It's been reported he doesn't even own a cell phone never mind know how to operate one.
He plays Bridge in his down time. (it's old card game that your grandparents would play in the nursing home).

I was finally able to transfer my LTC out of Coinbase.

Upon opening the Bitcoin wallet (chrome app) and then opened the LiteCoin icon on the Nano, i had to select use a LEGACY address on the BItcon Wallet window..

That's the only way Coinbase would recognize the LiteCoin address.

They suck

We don't have a choice.
We have to become a space-faring species if we want to survive.
The sun is expanding and will consume the earth, but before that the 'habitable zone' where surface water exists, will have moved further out from Earth.

I just got a suspicious email from  "Huobi"

It says:

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Hello,
Welcome to Huobi!
You have recently received instructions to enter a one-time authentication code to create your Huobi account.
Your code is:
For security reasons, this code will expire in 30 minutes.
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'
I never signed up to Huobi so this is a phishing attempt.
Message headers show the sending server is on a google blacklist.

a27-56.smtp-out.us-west-2.amazonses.com 54.240.27.56

Not sure how they got my email address.

Yes to both.

I tried today on another computer - laptop with windows7 and it worked.
So i'm thinking maybe it has something to with my Chrome \ Google account?
I'm logged into my google account on chrome on each of the other computers.

I wasn't able to transfer LTC from Coinbase to Nano though.
It complained about the Nano LTC address.
"Please enter a valid email or Litecoin address"
I'm 100% about the address since it was a copy and paste, no spaces at the end.
So maybe it's that Legacy vs Segwit address option on the nano wallet?

No joy here.

Now i can't even get into the bitcoin wallet at all.
Tried removing and re-adding the Chrome extension.
It just remains on the screen "To Begin, connect and unlock your Ledger Wallet".

Opened a support case, they suggested trying a different cable.
So i tried that and it's the same.

Then i tried it on a Ubuntu machine and it's same.

Probably will go out and buy a Trezor, i just don't know how i can retrieve my funds from this Nano?

Well at this point i am regretting i bought a Nano S and can't recommend it to anyone.

Well i try those steps:

I open the "Ledger Bitcoin Wallet" from chrome apps.
I connect the Nano, my computer detects it with a beep.
The Ledger Bitcoin window prompts me to connect the Nano and enter PIN.
I enter the PIN on the Nano, hear another beep.
The Nano unlocks, i scroll to the LiteCoin app, and open it on the Nano, but nothing happens on the chrome app.
I guess it's not recognizing my device or something it just sits there on the screen "to begin, connect and unlock your Ledger Wallet"..

Tried closing out the chrome app, unplug the Nano, try same steps on a different USB port and it's the same.
Tried restarting computer, same.

By the way, once you've unlocked the Nano, is there some way to 'log out' of it?
Like, put you back to the PIN prompt or is it always necessary to unplug the device?

I opened up the Ledger Manager (chrome app) and installed LiteCoin app, it appears on my Nano now.
But i don't have an app in chrome://apps, like there's no Wallet app so i don't know how to use it.

This support website :  https://ledger.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005172945-How-to-install-and-use-Litecoin-LTC-
Seems to suggest i should open the "Ledger Wallet Bitcoin" chrome app... well i don't see how i can transfer funds to my LiteCoin wallet that way.

Plus if i do that, i'm in the Bitcoin wallet on the Nano, and if i try to go anywhere else... i end up just getting prompted for the Nano PIN again.


This Nano seems to really isolate stuff, like if i go from Ledger Manager (chrome app), and then try to open say "Ledger Wallet Bitcoin" (chrome app), the chrome app prompts me to connect my device again.
I find i have to constantly unplug and re-connect the USB anytime i try and come out of something or open the  "Ledger Wallet Ethereum" (chrome app).
The whole thing is turning out to be an exercise in unplugging / replugging/ reinserting Nano pin.. this is not a well managed device from my POV.
Is this how it's supposed to be?

Nobody would be stupid enough to sit on a bitcoin 'governing body'.

They would be locked-up by [insert any coercive government here], they would be on a no-fly list, probably spied on by half the worlds intelligence services, find themselves in a courtroom, or be charged with contempt of court from a far.

Fees are not evil.
Fees are just part of the costs of running and maintaining a decentralized network.

Low fees, or 'no fees', is a temporary state that exists by externalizing the costs to others.
There was a very interesting post about this very thing on Medium which i highly recommend:

https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/the-three-economic-eras-of-bitcoin-d43bf0cf058a

If set to USD, the change would be somewhat ideologically supporting USD as the 'worlds reserve currency'.

While that may be reflective of USD status across the globe, it would be politically unpalatable by many.

So is the problem here that blockchain.info is fingered unfairly?
Or is the problem here that there exists private keys that are discover-able.

Unfortunately this isn't the first time that a wallet provider has failed to generate a truly random key.
There's a long thread on it somewhere on this form.
But here's their website:  https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/trophies

It would be good to know who the bad actor is (blockchain.info?) so users can vote with their feet.

They support both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash.
They are 2 different coins.
https://www.keepkey.com/category/bitcoin/

You won't automatically get both coins because the fork occurred in the past - Aug 1.

This isn't particularly new information, other than the IRS have formally contracted with ChainAnalysis.
THe IRS have not 'broken' anything.
They make it sound as if they've hacked Bitcoin, it's click bait.

The FBI were busting people using SilkRoad back in 2014 and tracked drug dealers via bitcoin transaction history.

Of course if you use an Exchange you give up identifying information to them.

Your public key/address is visible and the blockchain is public information.
If you are looking for greater anonymity then you need to employ additional techniques.

Block size increase requires a hard fork which you'd never get consensus on.
Increasing the block size means less people can run a full node, which means fewer and more centralized transaction validation, plus increased costs and bandwidth and more centralized miners. Result is you'd end up with much more centralization and would no longer have a censorship resistant currency.

Additionally you can't just keep increasing the block size to fix the scaling problem.
It's the law of diminishing returns.


Proof of Stake will never happen with bitcoin.
It's way too a radical departure from Satoshi vision and brings new network threats.

Layer2 scaling solutions are the chosen way forward, Lightning Network.
Plus SegWit opens up a lot of flexibility that will reduce costs, but their seems a conspiracy of exchanges and wallets not to create SegWit addresses (like blockchain.info)

I don't think anybody questions a governments 'right' to regulate bitcoin.
It's actually the wrong sort of question.
The question is:  HOW can they possibly regulate bitcoin?

It's like asking the postmaster to regulate email.
They simply don't have the tools.
We aren't going to hard fork bitcoin to code in some regulation.

No not income tax, capital gains tax