eth-gasnow-extention VS darknode-cli

Gas fees are not at 1000 gwei all the time, as some screenshots might suggest. You can see the historic average gas price on gasnow.org

Just noticed https://www.gasnow.org/ now redirects to www.bitcoin.org

There's your first mistake. Secondly, be in no doubt that BTC maxi culture isn't just some "slightly over the top allegiance". It genuinely is like a batshit crazy religious cult, but also organized. Check it out: https://www.gasnow.org has been purchased and now points to bitcoin.org. Crazy people do shit like that.

I think everyone already knows that https://www.gasnow.org/ will end all services at 16:00 UTC+0 on the 15th of October, 2021 .

swapping looks like its about 186 USD in fees so I would be aware of that , found this according to this site, be aware that site is going away in about 5 days. Also another thing to be aware as of right now eth gas fees are ridiculous 500+

also for exchanges not listed there like coinbase , who uses whatever network fees are when you do exchange, you can look here to see how much swap fee would be relatively speaking. Gas fees aren't really high right now so it may not be best judge of what you or your dad would be paying to transfer.

There are websites like this where you can view the fluctuation at certain times in the past week. Not necessary though as the lowest every week is pretty consistently 2-3am EST on mondays and Tuesdays

Depends on what the fees are at the time you want to Bridger over, keep track live average fees here as we have no control over them: https://www.gasnow.org/

This was my go to site to check gas prices when I was thinking of buying a particular token, as it shows at a glance approximately what it would cost in fees https://www.gasnow.org

Yesterday someone posted about alternatives to gasnow.org since they are calling it quits. The gas estimator service from Blocknative (blocknative.com/gas-estimator) was mentioned.

WBTC is centralized. you give your bitcoins to a company and they create a ERC-20 token to match them and they give that to you. if you want your bitcoins back you have to return to them the ERC-20 token and they burn it or something. obviously this is not so good if you don't want to trust the custodian. renBTC is decentralized and it relies on the same hash time locked contracts that enable bitcoins to be deposited into the lightning network. there is more info at https://renproject.io/ including some documentation but it's not very good.

Let's say you're a business that accepts crypto and what if someone sends you ETH or some coins like USDC. Is it your job to check that these coins didn't come from Tornado? It's quite hard to do that. What if account A got their ETH from Tornado, then sent to account B, which then exchanged the ETH to USDC, which then sent the USDC to account C, which then sent the USDC to you.

This is a problem for Bitcoin as well. What if someone got ETH from Tornado. Then converted the ETH to renBTC (https://renproject.io/). Then converted the renBTC to BTC. Are those Bitcoins now somehow tainted?

use renBTC https://renproject.io/ https://bridge.renproject.io/mint

Here ya go https://renproject.io/

> That involves a trusted third party, doesn't it?

For most cases, yes. Binance, Gemini and some others provide a version of their token that can run in multiple chains. You have to trust them fully.

It's a little bit better for WBTC [0]. WBTC is a consortium of 30+ crypto projects who keep the BTC under their control through a multi-sig wallet, and that can be audited on-chain. In this case, the majority of the signers would have to conspire in order to steal the funds or do anything malicious.

renBTC is even more decentralized. It is part of the ren "network" [1], which provides inter-blockchain applications. I haven't looked yet how it works exactly, but my understanding is custody of BTC happens though a proper dapp.

[0]: https://wbtc.network

[1]: https://renproject.io

Badger Bridge is under maintenance at the moment and will probably be shut down and replaced by a new product in the near future. For the meantime if you don't have any stuck transactions that you need help and are just looking for a similar bridge you can use the https://renproject.io/ one, which uses the same technology that Badger Bridge did (RenVM).

In 2019, investors were introduced to the first wrapped Bitcoin product, WrappedBTC (wBTC). The creation of wBTC by BitGo, Kyber Network, and Ren, formerly known as Republic Protocol was revolutionary in its own right, but wBTC is entirely centralized due to BitGo being the sole custodian for wBTC and this entity, partly owned by Goldman Sachs, has full legal control of all locked Bitcoin wrapped in wBTC.

Solana has turned into a bit of a juggernaut, with huge financial backing, and TVL only behind Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain. It has been attracting dapps and protocols that were previously EVM-only, like Lido and RenVM; but it also has a strong stable of its own Solana-native dapps.

renproject.io is probably the purest way to switch BTC to Ethereum, though you will pay a a pretty hefty ETH gas fee, and it's somewhat complicated for a beginner, though it has the added benefit of teaching you how bridges work in crypto.