Blind monkey  Actually, you made me double check the coins, the Philharmonic is a 2012 (I was certain it was a 2014) OP updated! |
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5 x 2014 Britannia £2 1 Oz .999 Ag
1 x 2014 Canadian Maple $5 1 Oz .9999 Ag
1 x 2014 Philharmonic €1.5 1 Oz .999 Ag
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Dear Forum members, Spring cleaning time! I have some silver bullions for sale: 5 x 2014 Britannia £2 1 Oz .999 Ag
1 x 2014 Canadian Maple $5 1 Oz .9999 Ag
1 x 2012 Philharmonic €1.5 1 Oz .999 Ag  Total 7 Oz of fine silver - SOLDThe price include shipping. Please note this is a E.U. offer only. The coin are shipped from E.U. - Therefor is custom/VAT already accounted for. Escrow is always welcome.Kind regards, TookDk --------- Due to the fishing attempts in the forum, I kindly ask you to NEVER send funds to any other address than: 1TookDkVTaqsCn56Xo7aMfUMAUN3NhRjN <--------------If you at any point have doubt about my identity do not hesitate to ask me for signed message with the addy above or PGP key 1A4B8640. --------- |
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This auction will add some more data to my "price of casascius coins in btc is unaffected by usd/btc rate" theory... one way or another.
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Casascius coins (as goods) are really in front when it comes to separation from fiat. BTC goes up and down all year around - but it does not significantly affect the price of Casascius coins in terms of BTC. I love it <3 |
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It is! But it's a pretty time consuming process! You may want to carve some Electrum seed into the stone and sign messages for the respective addresses from an offline machine, that way you're completely safe!
When we talk about long time curation, then is this not a great idea, its actually a terrible idea, since you will also need to consider the aspects of digital curation. You will need to include meta data in the stone how the seed should be read and understood, this will be quite substantial, much more data than the seed itself. You cannot assume that a compatible version of the required software can just be "downloaded" 100 years from now, actually, you cannot be sure the term download even exist. It is reasonable to assume that the Latin alphabet exist 100 years from know, therefor can the key be preserved with reasonable chance by carving that into the stone in raw format with latin letters, if any thing more than the raw key is carved, then will you also need to include meta data. Data curation is actually much more complicated then one might think at first glimpse. |
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buying a hardware wallet does't mean your coins are safer. that's right. i was planning to buy a trezor but didn't do so as it is not offline.
that's why i bought a few thumb drives to store my backups. that's really offline as they are not connected with the net.
I am no expert in trezor, but as far as I have understood the trezor system, is that the whole point that tx signature done on the trezor device, and the private key is isolated from the usb interface. The application running online have at no time access to the private key, thus making the private key offline all the time. |
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Okay, so, I have a 17 charachter password on my wallet, and all my backups are also encrypted
Though, I'm wondering how to secure myself from keyloggers?
I'm thinking about running linux over a USB drive and using bitcoin only from that OS, however what my problem is, will I have to sync everytime all over again?
Best approach is not to make 1 x 100% secure wallet, many x 100% secure wallet. Use different methods and different medium. Anybody who stores all their values in one place is a fool. I have the same opinion for fiat based values: all the money under the bed = bad idea all the money in the bank = bad idea all the money in one stock or bond = bad idea. Spread out your values, this decrease the risk of loosing all in one blow. |
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That's a bit paranoid don't you think? If you have a couple of hard drives and usbs they should last enough years before a single one fails. As one fails make a new backup. This way you will never lose them.
You should always have a physical copy of your keys somewhere. What if you decide one day you want to check all drives are doing fine, so you plug them into your computer and they become corrupted or infected with some sort of malware/ransomware. Having a physical copy can save you greatly. Here's a quicker more cheaper way: print your paper wallet private key and put it inside a plastic safe from moisture and degradation. It should resist for your lifetime.  |
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I imported my wallet multiple times and it didn't work but I also had a private key so I entered the private key using the console and I got credited with seven 4.6 deposits. 6 from importwallet and 1 from the private key. Why did the importwallet keys not credit until I entered a private key?
One reason could be that your wallet was encrypted, and you did not type in the correct password. The Clam client does not give a warning if the password for the imported wallet is wrong. The way you can check if the "import" went good or bad, is to not what receive address there is in your Clam client, when the import is correct, then is all the imported address converted and added to the list. |
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Why not engrave it onto a slab of gold? It may have a lower melting point than tungsten, but it would surely cover for your loss if Bitcoin was to hit the ground.
Gold is too risky, it will always have a high theft risk and your future generations may just see a coin slab and not check the key, also gold scratches, bends, and dents easily, this could mark up one of the letters or numbers and no eligible key. If the pyramids were made of gold they wouldn't be standing today. Why not engrave it onto a slab of gold? It may have a lower melting point than tungsten, but it would surely cover for your loss if Bitcoin was to hit the ground.
Tungsten has better long term preservative properties than gold When that is said, then is my opinion that gold is one of the solid commodity investments you can make right now. I would not be surprised to see gold @ $2000/Oz within the next 5-10 years. Good points raised. High value metals seem to be good investments to make a pretty decent return on it. Would Palladium and Platinum be good replacements for gold? Maybe not Platinum as I know it's malleable. I can't find anything on Palladium. Both Platinum and Palladium are precious metals and are rather expensive, Platinum is at $1134 and Palladium is at $773 (50 times more expensive than Silver). Palladium is much harder than gold but less hard than tungsten. I don't see any special properties for Palladium that makes it a great bitcoin wallet (other than it is nice and shiny, but tungsten can be made shiny too). Then you might as well use steel, it only cost a fraction of the price. Side note: Both Platinum and Palladium are good commodity investments as well, but I believe gold has greater potential. But there is something special about Platinum, hard to explain, but the coins I have seen in Platinum just make the same wow impression as gold coins. |
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Gosh ! Really a good price ...  Will most likely go to 2 digits price before the auction is over  |
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Why not engrave it onto a slab of gold? It may have a lower melting point than tungsten, but it would surely cover for your loss if Bitcoin was to hit the ground.
Tungsten has better long term preservative properties than gold When that is said, then is my opinion that gold is one of the solid commodity investments you can make right now. I would not be surprised to see gold @ $2000/Oz within the next 5-10 years. |
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I think a 100 years from now, Bitcoin would be a distant memory
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I don't mean to be rude and I respect your opinion. But that that comment unfortunately shows that you have not realized what part of the bitcoin technology that is revolutionary and most likely will go into the history books as the greatest invention since the Internet. Cheers |
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I think it could be a cool wallet, 10 Kg, $330.
Obviously you need to find a method how to engrave the letters yourself...
For a house owner, could it be cool to make a tungsten block the same size as a brick and replace a brick from the inner wall with the tungsten block.
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FYI, rough math assuming solid moon.
71701720.8413 Megatons to stop rotation, considering the largest explosion ever was about 50MT, we'd need 1.5 million of those.
assume the moon is solid, workout the moment of inertia and kinetic energy.
Sound reasonable. Side note: It is true what nsimmons state, that the largest human made explosion ever was about 50MT, the Tsar Bomba. However it is a 3-stage hydrogen bomb, 100MT, but was scaled down to 50% for the test explosion. |
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Thank you for the detailed explanation, much appreciated. Any protip about hodling CLAM, any good reason why to dump em or hold em? |
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FPV Drone racing is expensive, as hell.
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Excellent choice, sir Please post pictures when you get into it. |
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Yeah, I've reached the point when I have too many coins :/
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Is that possible? ... to have too many? :O Or is it part of the "Recovering Coin addiction program", that you must sell some of them? |
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I'm going to let someone answer your other question because I don't have the answer handy and I should have been asleep a hour ago!
You better have some rest then. Sleep well. |
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