Should I consider buying a hardware wallet?
Air-gapped machines with offline signing are considered safer, but they require some research and knowledge. However, both are considered very safe. You have far more security than one using a software wallet on his everyday use laptop. The benefit of a hardware wallet over air-gapped machines is it's support for multiple altcoins. I'm currently using Windows for wallet,should I switch to Linux?
Linux has a smaller attack surface than Windows, as statistics show that Windows users are far more often targeted for malware. Although you're fine to use it for your offline machine, it wouldn't have cons compared to Linux. What additional measures should I take?
- Make sufficient backups including paper backups. - Use good passwords, the more characters you use, the better. I personally really like Armory as a wallet, but it requires you to run a full node. |
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Humans are born greedy, at least most of us. I am pretty sure that the people who participated knew the risks but ignored them because they knew there were people making tons of money by doing nothing and these people didn't want to miss that boat. Sadly for them, there doubts became reality.
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Read the Satoshi paper at https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper, it's available in multiple languages. The paper is actually pretty complicated, so you might want to have a deeper explanation including the basics. For that, you should take a look at Master Bitcoin by Andreas M. Antonopoulos. Most aspects of the satoshi paper will make sense after you read that. |
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I see that they are very organized, but they will fail because "battling" with your own crowd is always disastrous. That's actually the dangerous aspect of Bitcoin Cash, their community (Including Roger Ver) is quite rich and they are trying to use Bitcoin's name by buying everything. Besides the Bitcoin twitter, they also own bitcoin.com, /r/btc and seem to have some interest in a lot of exchanges and block-explorers (blockexplorer.com). I also read that Cobra-bitcoin might be a danger, because he is co-owner of the domain bitcoin.org and is lately tweeting about bitcoin cash philosophy. It is an old technique to get monopoly, actually very effective. But it works at the cost of real community driven projects like Bitcoin (core). |
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I understand that you're upset, but the title you chose for this thread is not going to help. You would have had a bigger chance if you just asked them politely to recover your account, including the signed message.
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A war will certainly affect Bitcoin if the transatlantic communications cable or similar is targeted for a breach. That means that no internet communication can happen and will result in worthless Bitcoin, at least for that time. The war could possibly even include EMPs, which means that all data gets erased and so does the blockchain, assuming that it is deployed in a big range. But the same can be said about banks, as I don't think that they still have physical written copies of their database. The only thing that will actually have value during a war is gold and other precious metals.
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... Armory+cheapo computer...
It's a hardware wallet with even better security and validity, but at a fraction of the cost. Until you factor in the need for a (non-pruned) full node required for the online portion of your Armory setup and the space/bandwidth requirements that involves. As opposed to plugging a HW wallet into your cheapo computer (or even your mobile phone with a $2 OTG cable). There are pros/cons to both setups... but honestly, I believe HW wallets made air-gapped offline/online two computer setups pretty much obsolete. You're right, although HDD space has become relatively cheap lately. But I believe Electrum also offers the same functionality (offline signer) without the need for a full node, I just prefer Armory. I'm lucky to have my full node running at my parents home with 300Mbps internet. Maybe I'm just a little too paranoid. |
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Most electronics on the darknet are stolen, is that really what you want? There are multiple electronic webshops on the clearweb that accept Bitcoin, for example Newegg.com. The darknet brings also more risk compared to clearnet businesses, as they are anonymous it's easy for them to scam you.
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Daar zijn de meningen over verdeeld. Waarschijnlijk is het de toevallige uitkomst van een berekening op basis van een blok beloning van 50 bitcoin en een halvering iedere 4 jaar. Gemiddeld wordt er elke 10 minuten 1 blok gemijnd, dat komt neer op 6*24*365*4=~210.000 blokken per halvering. Als je alle halveringen bij elkaar optelt kom je ongeveer op 100 (50+25+12.5+6.25+3.125...), maar het is een limiet dus het zal het nooit exact halen. Dan kom je uit op 100*210.000=~21 miljoen bitcoins. Ik vermoed dat andere, later ontwikkelde coins zoals Ripple kozen voor een grotere hoeveelheid zodat het beter klinkt. Aangezien 21 miljoen bitcoins betekent dat op dit moment iedereen gemiddeld 0.002 Bitcoins zou kunnen hebben als het eerlijk verdeeld zou zijn. Maar veel mensen hebben de foute redenatie dat je perse Bitcoins moet hebben in hele eenheden om het te kunnen gebruiken.
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Beste lezers,
Ik ben al een maand gebruik aan het maken van the armory, alleen nu heb ik een probleem. Ik heb alle blocks gedownload met Bitcoin core, echter lukt het mij niet om online te komen met armory. Het programma waar gebruik van wordt gemaakt is armory 6.3 op een windows besturingssysteem.
Iemand een idee hoe dit kan komen? Hoe plaats ik mijn logs, want ik wil dit echt oplossen misschien dat er mensen zijn die een soortgelijk probleem hebben gehad.
Alvast bedankt iedereen!
Ik ga ervan uit dat je versie 0.96.3 bedoeld? Heb je een officiële release versie geïnstalleerd of een pre-release? In het geval van v0.96.3.991, dien je deze te verwijderen en een de laatste versie te installeren v0.96.3.992. In deze laatste versie zit namelijk een fix voor Windows gebruikers. Overigens kan deze hier downloaden https://github.com/goatpig/BitcoinArmory/releases. De officiële website is https://btcarmory.com en dus niet https://www.bitcoinarmory.com, want goatpig heeft het project overgenomen maar hun oude website is nog steeds hoger geïndexeerd op google. Logs moeten te vinden zijn in %appdata%/Armory. Als je die post kan ik je eventueel verder helpen. Beste lezers,
Ik ben al een maand gebruik aan het maken van the armory, alleen nu heb ik een probleem. Ik heb alle blocks gedownload met Bitcoin core, echter lukt het mij niet om online te komen met armory. Het programma waar gebruik van wordt gemaakt is armory 6.3 op een windows besturingssysteem.
Iemand een idee hoe dit kan komen? Hoe plaats ik mijn logs, want ik wil dit echt oplossen misschien dat er mensen zijn die een soortgelijk probleem hebben gehad.
Alvast bedankt iedereen!
Waarom gebruik je armory? Het officiele draadje ( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1657365.100 ) is al geruime tijd uit, ik ben bang dat de ondersteuning een beetje achterloopt. Dat is een oude post en dus helemaal niet relevant. Het project is overgenomen door goatpig en wordt nog steeds bijgehouden door hemzelf. Armory was zelfs een van de eerste met SegWit ondersteuning. Daarbij is het ook de meest veilige wallet die momenteel verkrijgbaar is. Zoals je op hun website https://btcarmory.com kan zien is 0.95 zeer zeker niet de laatste versie. Hartelijk bedankt voor je snelle reactie, ik zal het vandaag uittesten. Ik zag al dat er een versie voor linux was maar ik kon maar geen windows versie vinden. Nadat ik het uitgeprobeerd zal ik je op de hoogte houden. @Aura Wat betreft dat armory te oud oud is, ik kan alleen zeggen dat dit de meest veilige wallet is op het moment. Maar doordat het programma af en toe fouten heeft kan je hier en daar tegen problemen aanlopen zoals dit bij mij nu het geval is. Geen probleem, ik help graag. Armory is inderdaad een erg veilig, neemt niet weg dat het daarom ook vrij gecompliceerd is. Het programma is dan ook niet gericht op gebruiksvriendelijkheid. Ik vermoed dat daar ook jouw probleem ligt, zo krijgen veel mensen Armory niet online doordat ze het adres waar Bitcoin Core standaard zijn blockchain opslaat veranderen. Hierdoor weet Armory niet waar de blockchain gelokaliseerd is en kan zijn eigen database niet bouwen. In de gebruikers-interface is het dan ook niet mogelijk om dit te veranderen. Daarvoor moet je handmatig wat stappen ondergaan, zoals hier beschreven staat: https://btcarmory.com/docs/pathing. |
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I don't really trust hardware wallets, that's why I don't own one. My main reason is the lack of open-source for example, Ledger wallet is only partial open-source. That means that there is still some code running on the hardware that you can't verify. Besides that, they are quite expensive compared to air-gapped machines that only require an old PC. I have more fate in a computer, without internet capability running a wallet compiled from source (Armory) than pre-configured hardware. Armory allows you to sign transactions on your air-gapped machine and managing your wallet on an online PC without sign access (watching-only).
They certainly add a level of convenience, especially for all of the coins the support. That's is certainly a benefit for people who store altcoins. But for my personal situation not, as I only store Bitcoin and some Litecoin. Also, a ledger nano s for example is much cheaper than any laptop/very cheap desktop you'd find, I don't think it's fair to assume that everybody would have an old computer lying around.
Even the old computers that schools have, will run an offline version of Armory. I bet you can get these for less than 10 bucks on a flea market or elsewhere. Also Armory has support for single board computers like the Raspberry Pi, that can be bought for $25. It's a hardware wallet with even better security and validity, but at a fraction of the cost. Hardware wallets are somewhere between airgapped computers and encrypted wallet files.
It definitely is, but I don't trust it as much as a self-compiled software. |
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That's actually the dangerous aspect of Bitcoin Cash, their community (Including Roger Ver) is quite rich and they are trying to use Bitcoin's name by buying everything. Besides the Bitcoin twitter, they also own bitcoin.com, /r/btc and seem to have some interest in a lot of exchanges and block-explorers (blockexplorer.com). I also read that Cobra-bitcoin might be a danger, because he is co-owner of the domain bitcoin.org and is lately tweeting about bitcoin cash philosophy. |
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presumably you post a lot in the mining section? i'm not sure i've ever had a post there that wasn't nuked by the moderator.
what moderator? the OP here? i post there some..but ALL my 60 posts I made and another negative 11 posts...no way....something else seems to be dorked I went back and counted posts (elminating speculation and this thread) and ended up with 44 posts that should count....dated from the last payout...I also show NO posts from the 22nd of Feb to the 27th of Feb ...I also know that is not correct....I see to remember this happening iike 3 years ago also on bitcointalk....anyway... so something else is going on it seems....all I really can do is go to profile and count the posts since the last payout before I started to get negative numbers backwards and scratch my head on how I have negative 11 posts from the last payout  brad Moderators seem to be deleting threads regarding the same topic as a thread that already exist. I have done some searching on Google for topics that I replied on but didn't show up in my post history and they already exist. So that means that people are creating threads for questions, without Googling if the question already exist. |
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I don't really trust hardware wallets, that's why I don't own one. My main reason is the lack of open-source for example, Ledger wallet is only partial open-source. That means that there is still some code running on the hardware that you can't verify. Besides that, they are quite expensive compared to air-gapped machines that only require an old PC. I have more fate in a computer, without internet capability running a wallet compiled from source (Armory) than pre-configured hardware. Armory allows you to sign transactions on your air-gapped machine and managing your wallet on an online PC without sign access (watching-only).
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I saw many or every person about Bitcoin and BTCCash why people are not talking about Bitcoin Gold?
Major sites and ICOs are also accepting payment in BTC and in BTCCash but not showing interest in Bitcoin Gold.
Is Bitcoin Gold has no future?
 The same story with bgold. Isn't Theymos the founder and administrator of blockexplorer.com? It wonders me why he would promote Bitcoin Cash, while he seems to support Bitcoin Core on here. -Edit: Never mind, Liraz Siri took over the ownership in 2010. |
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Hi , can anyone confirm my transaction please?
Here is the hash 62e9b45ae8789189d2bfca5b615aee356bf7ca99bce9d166b87d1e2fa42e9836
I accidentally added a low fee
Thanks
There are websites dedicated for this purpose like blockchain.info As per the current stats, it is still unconfirmed https://blockchain.info/tx/62e9b45ae8789189d2bfca5b615aee356bf7ca99bce9d166b87d1e2fa42e9836And you are trying to send 1 BTC by paying a fee of $0.29 , I think this will take a lot of time. Better see the current fees required for fast transaction and add that much fee. You will now remain worried about the transaction till it passes through. The transaction is confirmed. kmorman92, please close the thread in the left corner. |
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You don't need an exchange to trade, but it makes it much more easier. It's always possible to buy from people that already have the coin you're looking for, but to find someone can be hard, especially when there is less demand. But PoW (proof-of-work) coins can be earned by mining, where you trade your computing on-time for coins.
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Hy brother you should be carefull about the fees wend you make transaction bicouse now maybe you gona lose this money  If you don't rebroadcast the transaction, it will be dropped from the mempool after 3 days. That means that the transaction is cancelled and your funds will be spendable in your wallet again. |
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I would rather store my piece of paper in some hidden location, for example behind your base frame of your bed. When you decide to store it in a safe, a burglar definitely knows that you got something valuable to hide, while they wouldn't search for a piece of paper when they don't know that you own Bitcoins. A safe can also be stolen if the burglar has enough time to get it out of your house and later be dismantled.
Yes. I'm better off with something stealth that will divert the attention of the robber when he breaks into my home. Since cryptocurrencies can be stored nearly anywhere you can imagine (all you need is the keys), then they could be hidden from prying eyes. I'm thinking of getting a diversion safe in the form of an AJAX can. I'll place the keys there in a piece of paper and put the can where other AJAX cans are to hide my crypto balances from theft. Perhaps, that's the safest best so far for my Bitcoin and altcoin paper wallets. That's a a really unique but presumable effective way of storing your Bitcoin and altcoins. I'm pretty sure that there is no thief that is going to steal your cleaning products. |
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