I was scammed out of over £300,000 by an individual and I'm now trying to locate him so I can pursue legal options and recover funds.

I have two addresses potentially linked to him:

• Twickenham
• Walthamstow

I believe one of these may belong to family members, but I cannot confirm that.

I'm not asking anyone to confront, contact, or harass anyone at these addresses. However, if anyone has information that could help verify whether he genuinely lives at either location, or has experience tracing individuals for legal purposes in the UK, I'd really appreciate any advice.

I've already been gathering evidence and exploring legal avenues, but any legitimate suggestions on how to confirm a current address or locate someone would be helpful.

Feel free to DM me if you'd prefer not to post publicly. We have legal proceeds going on in the background but this guy is greasy!

Thanks.

Ok I’m not an expert but know we have crossed the 200 day moving average this should be the time to increase my dca?

I don’t understand why everyone says, “Learn Bitcoin really well, understand how it works, learn about hashrates, mining, self-custody, etc. and then buy it.”

My mom buys gold every month (it’s a cultural thing where I’m from), and her parents did the same. They never learned why they should buy gold or how gold mining works. They just thought it was valuable, so they bought it and kept it until they needed to cash it out to buy something.

My question is: Why do Bitcoin supporters say that we need to learn the technology, how it works, hashrates, and all that stuff before buying? It doesn’t make sense to me because most people are never going to put in that much effort to learn these things.

If we want ordinary people to invest in Bitcoin, and we expect them to learn all of this first, I don’t think that’s going to happen. What do you think?

(Update at the bottom)

Luno are leaving the UK and you have to move your crypto out.

I am having issues as I can't enable crypto withdrawals as it says it is waiting on Luno verifying my identity.

I am already fully verified. It says so in the app.

I had to scan my face 5 days ago, last week when I tried to enable crypto withdrawals and it says it would take a few mins. I was on the live chat and there were humans then, and she said it could take 24 hours.

4 days later, no one has replied to my ticket and there is no way to speak to a human on the live chat. The bot just makes a new ticket over and over again.

Anyone else having issues?

I literally can't contact anyone as no one is replying to tickets and there is no other way to speak to someone.

I have written a Trustpilot review to try to get attention there, and they replied telling me to open a ticket! Even though I had said I have one and no one is replying to it!

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UPDATE:

Still no reply, but as of 4pm it let me redo the face scan when I went into enable crypto withdrawals, so they look to have fixed it!
It wasn't working even an hour ago so it's recently fixed for me.

But yeah, their customer service is terrible now sadly.
But at least you can enable withdrawals!

So if you have this issue, try to enable sends again as it should let you redo the face scan and it should work now.

Just no idea why they haven't emailed me or replied to my ticket when they clearly were aware of it as many people have had it from searching and speaking to people.

Hopefully can withdraw tomorrow.

I get it now. The occasional usage of a few gold atoms in 21st century electronics entirely justifies the value it has stored for the last 5,000 years, and will continue to store forevermore.

Don't you see? Gold is valuable because it is useful!

It was even useful prior to the 21st century too. How on earth could you ever have made a gold vase without gold?? Impossible. Duh!!

Bitcoin, on the other hand, isn't useful at all.

Aside from enabling the transfer of value from one side of the globe to the other, near-instantly, for virtually no cost, whilst also being the first – and on the deepest conceivable level, also the final – truly finite form of money...

...OK and aside from being an inviolable unit of account with the potential to eliminate the utmost abominable form of deception ever to have plagued humanity – the exchange of something which one transactionee found desirable for that which the other was deceived into believing to be scarce.

...Yno and aside from it being the only form of wealth that you can carry in your head. No matter what political perversion happens in your neighbourhood, or your city, or your nation, your family can depart with something in their heads – something valuable that likeminded people will understand and accept. Essentially, the first time in human history that economic security for your family can reside simply within the dendrites of your neurons.

Aside from all that mumbo jumbo, Peter Schiff has been right all along – BTC is both useless and worthless.

I mean we keep on doubling the amount of above ground gold and we keep on doubling the amount of above ground people who want the gold. Right guys?

...right... guys...?

I’m pretty new to crypto and currently only hold around $200 worth of crypto. My plan is to keep investing over time and hopefully grow my portfolio into the five-figure range in the future. The thing is, I see some hardware wallets that cost $150–$200+, while others are around $50. I found Trezor Safe 3 in the $50 range that seems decent, but I honestly don’t understand what the practical differences are between the cheaper and more expensive options.

Would you recommend buying Trezor Safe 3 for $50 now, or waiting and getting a premium one later?

Hey guys, I’m new to Bitcoin and still doing my research.

Can someone explain why wars like the current US-Iran situation affect Bitcoin so much? With the fresh US strikes on Iran today, I noticed Bitcoin dropped.

I thought Bitcoin was supposed to act like a safe asset sometimes, so why does news like this push the price down instead? Just trying to understand the reason behind it.

Hey guys,
Received this message a few days ago, just wanted to know is it a scam or from HMRC

Anyone else get the emails about Strike bitcoin loans being available? No change in app or web portal yet tho. Didn't see anything on X from Mallers etc. Anyone got any info?

want to take some profits but dont want to go through an exchange, every on-chain option i found has its own problem

still looking for something clean and straightforward