I studied Bitcoin 16 years ago. Tell me how to study harder when I put 10,000 hours + into getting to understand, the financial system, game theory, basic computer science, money in general, mass psychology, opsec, future trends,...

Still I landeded in camp Monero (for now).

Because currency competition means choice and is part of game theory and economic science.

I got one too, but sent to an email address I didn’t use with Alby. Scammers just use lists of anyone connected with crypto services to victimize and hope a handful of them respond. Sadly, enough do to make it profitable.

Sorry to hear. Are you still working through it?

I have also had lightning node blow up on me (Brand new SSD blew up). I had my lightning channel backup so it was easy to close everything and start again (Thanks MyNode for making that even easier than normal!). If you have the wallet keys and backup file, you can recover fairly easy. If not, you talk to your lightning peers you can get them to close the channels and the funds should return to the wallet eventually.

I still have one old Zeus wallet beta channel where the funds ($50) are stuck in some sort of limbo and I still can't figure out the command line mess to get it back. (no channel backup because it's not self-hosted) Hoping someone makes some easier tools that don't requiring guessing at what commands are needed...

The password reset email could be requested with an email and attackers use leaked emails from lists recorded in for example haveibeenpwned.

Sadly in the Alby case the password reset email could also be requested with the lightning address which is likely what happened to you. Some attacker got the lightning address from nostr for example to do this.

We have disabled this now.

Update on the nostr:nprofile1qytzqamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6vfwde3x7tnpdenkzmnf9e3k7tcqypr90hlgjed73xq2jvrjhna4ukdx2yjyqmdslqvjzhh83wj8jd9numxx6g9 attack:

⚠️ IT’S WORSE THAN I THOUGHT! ⚠️

What I believe is happening is someone is using the public Lightning addresses from Nostr profiles to doxx everyone’s registered email address on Alby.

By simply entering a valid Alby address, the login page LEAKS the corresponding email address.

This means that the purpose of the attack is not so much to breach your Alby account, it’s to collect emails of Alby users for future phishing attacks.

In this respect Bitcoin is the same as USDC. Keep different wallets for different things:

The entire premise of modern operating system security is wrong. We keep trying to find and fix every bug before attackers exploit them, and we keep losing. Qubes OS takes the opposite approach: assume exploitation is inevitable and architect the system so that compromising one application cannot touch anything else.

For developers who need isolated testing environments, journalists protecting sources, or anyone tired of pretending their browser should have access to their SSH keys, this is how security actually works. nostr:naddr1qqgrqetrxy6kzd3hxqckzcn9x9jkvq3qklkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qxpqqqp65w2sh6kr

Totally depends if you are starting from zero exposure or if you already hold a core position next to BTC.

I am bad at giving advice at critical inflection points.

The last 1.5 years (with the exception of the last 2 months) it was a steel buy, but I very well know by now that most people will simply mute peak opportunity voices and ask later when the situation gets much more difficult for recommendations.

Good self-reflection. That's how you don't become the markets emotional bitch.

Someone always wants to play on your emotions to make you sell or buy when you shouldn't.

I would not recommend Bitcoiners to buy Monero here. After such an exaggerated move we would normally need at least a couple of months of consolidation to rectify more investment betting on continuation. More healthy would be a small set back.

The thing is that we can not only compare BTC vs Monero. Monero is also flirting with breaking its 8 year bull flag vs USD. All that in a bear episode which signals a lot of strength.

See. If you would have listened to us a year ago, you would now comfortably sit on the 10% BTC (turned into Monero) now representing 40% of your stack.

We really learned a few things during the 15 years in this market. Mainly that exposure to only one side if you can not stomach the emotions can make you an erratic money and self-confidence losing trader when all you wanted is safety for your fam.

You have a responsibility in separating the noise from the signal. It's the most important thing in all markets.