This is what I was also thinking. OP got a bit carried away, I'd say, and missed some points. Calling something to be first in something it's always risky and it needs (at least) double checked.


That was manipulation and cover up.
That guy was shot before he understood what's happening to him and before he could start telling that we're changing one commie for other commie(s).
And the shooting and blood bath was even more manipulation, together with the stupidity and the incompetence we also see these days at military forces in another ongoing war.

As said, a DNS transforms the nice name of a website into an IP address.
At least in theory a malicious DNS can send you, instead of website A you know and want to use, to website B, which can even look like website A, just (also) steal your data.

This being said, entering the wallet seed into online services / web wallets / apps built around web wallets was never great for your coins' security.
On the other hand, with a normal stand-alone wallet, there's a higher risk coming from the auto-completion features of your phone's keyboard program than from the rare DNS hacks.

The original electrs is meant to have kinda same requirements as the bitcoin node:


But the page doesn't tell much else than

This is very simple:
* if you have the skills and willingness to correctly set up and use a cold storage, start with that and use your live Electrum watch only, built only from the cold one's master public key.
* if you don't have those skills or just want more convenience, acquire a hardware wallet.

In both cases the backup seed doesn't have to touch any online device (and need to be backed up in multiple places).
I also recommend restoring at least once the cold storage or hardware wallet from the seed you're backing up, to make sure you indeed work with the wallet you think you're working with.
(Before using any electrum you should verify its signature, you know that, right?)

If you also really care about your privacy and you have the skills and hardware for that, you can consider setting up for yourself a bitcoin node, an electrum server and maybe a block explorer too.

FinderOuter also works under Windows.
You can look up the way it works, I think that this is the relevant part.
And you can get it from here, just look for Windows files.

As already said, the more import problem for you is to reduce that number of missing characters, 10 is too many.

Ce faci tu este clar si de departe o varianta mult mai buna decat cei care il folosesc ca hot wallet pentru sume mai mari.
Si, dupa cum ziceam, am vazut mai multe sfaturi in a-l folosi asa, "de siguranta".

Cumva lumea evita alta abordare (adica cu portofel hardware), si asta incercam sa evidentiez. Daca consideri ca te-am jignit sau desconsiderat, scuze, nu a fost asta intentia.

Dar, o sa fiu realist; comunitatea romaneasca nu e prea mare si nu cred ca va fi usor sa gasim un numar relevant de utilizatori de portofel hardware care il folosesc (mult!) cu MetaMask.
Poate, doar poate, nu ar strica sa intreb(am) si in sectiunea internationala.

He has in his personal text "I am Satoshi Nakamoto". See also the archive.
His post history, and also this very topic is just trolling in that direction.

Even in this very topic, just read this again:

Banuiesc ca logica ar fi de genul: Microsoft este proprietarul Git si poate ca face ceva necurat exact cu sursele Trust Wallet.
Na, pai atunci de ce cu sursele Bitcoin nu are Microsoft nicio treaba?
Si atunci de ce nu s-au dat cu curu' de pamant aia de la Trust Wallet?

Nu, pare o teorie conspirationista mai mult decat slabuta. Mi se pare mult mai rezonabila asumptia ca au ceva de ascuns.


Asta stim si noi (adica, ma rog, eu unul stiam). Dar atunci ce explicatie ai pentru faptul ca sursele (de Trust Wallet) pentru Android sunt arhivate (si, bineinteles, neatinse) din 2018, dar Trust Wallet de android are ultima actualizare afisata pe Google Play - 7 Ianuarie 2023?
Explicatia mea este ca se lucreaza cu altceva decat putem vedea in Git. Dar sunt curios si de parerea ta...

You've said this before, and not long afterwards you gave some... strange answers to actually not too difficult questions, making me (and not only me) doubt you.
That's why I prefer answers from more established (and more technical) people.


Maybe, after you also gain more trust and the business gets more traction too, you get to offer plastic cards too.
If the prices also don't get much higher (than/for the basic plan), that could become very interesting.
But no rush. One step at a time.

1. This is a very informative story, but imho it would have been better to post it to Beginners & Help.
2. I use Bitwarden. It may worth a look.
3. Although I use a good/reputable password manager, I do use 2FA on the websites where I have more than 1 cent worth of coins, I keep my BTC on hardware wallet and I don't keep any seed data stored on places connected to the internet. This "setup" may also worth a thought.

46 - NeuroticFish

Awesome raffle, thank you!

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While the prizes are more than beautiful, I am sure that there will be free slots even in 12h from now (100 slots don't fill up that fast, no matter how nice the prizes are), so he could have been letting you sleep

Un nou concurs cu premii impresionant de frumoase:

[FREE RAFFLE] MYBITS GILT BF + TWO SERIES 2 COINS
Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5434027

Organizator: MrMojoRising26


Sunt 3 premii pentru 3 castigatori:
* o moneda de argint (fara sa contina bitcoin)
* o moneda placata cu argint si continand 0.001BTC
* o moneda placata cu aur si continand 0.001BTC

Modalitate de inscriere: se alege un numar care nu a fost luat, intre 00 si 99.
Pentru a participa trebuie sa fii cel putin Jr.Member.
Fara conturi multiple.
Transport gratuit in USA, de acolo se discuta cu MJ.

Bafta!

Well, this is what PawGo said he doesn't want (after I made a similar test at first).
He was aiming with a test with Electrum; i.e. with a wallet made from that address in Electrum.
Thanks though.
You've scared me, I thought I was missing something obvious with Electrum

Are you sure you know what you're talking about? Because Electrum can be used as hot wallet, as cold wallet, or with a hardware wallet...


Again, are you sure you know what you're talking about? The hack everybody is talking about is more likely due of some malware installed on his computer than any problem of the older Electrum. If Electrum itself would be affected we would have been hearing already of much more hacks...

I would start with
2009-01-09 (Bitcoin's first transaction date)
2016-05-05 (the date that wallet got funded at)

Make sure you do tests offline, or if you are knowledgeable enough, on a live OS, still offline. Hacks are really a thing and 10BTC is an overly good looking amount.
Make sure you know how your father was writing the dates (mm/dd/yyyy. dd.mm.yyyy, yyyy-mm-dd or other ways)
Beware of people that may offer you help in private, some may be scammers.
Good luck.

In primul rand multumesc pentru raspuns. Macar avem parerea (inca) unuia care se pare ca intr-adevar foloseste MetaMask.
Dar, din pacate, mi se pare ingrijoratoare situatia, fiindca vad, din nou, MetaMask folosit doar ca portofel hot/fierbinte separat si cu sume mici, si nu impreuna cu un portofel hardware. Dar asta pare modelul "de succes" de utilizare a MetaMask.

Sa fie situatia aceasta din cauza monedelor necunoscute/adaugate de mana, sa fie din deprinderi incorecte de mai demult, sau pur si simplu e mai bine/mai indicat sa nu legam portofelul hardware de MetaMask?
Oricum, pe mine m-ati convins: daca ma ating de MetaMask, nu o voi face cu portofelul hardware.

This is an impressive move and thank you NotATether for trying it out. After the way OP was answering in the first days of January I thought that this will be another project to end before actually starting.
Can you please confirm whether the limit of the 99$ card is 200$ or 2000$? I know the OP has said it was a typo and it's 2000$, but I am sure everybody will find the information more ressuring if it comes from you. (No offense, OP).

While I do read more and more news that are trying to imply that the world may have avoided a recession for now, the news from China are still overly concerning.
The number of people infected is very high and keeps rising rapidly, the death toll is overly big too, so this is far from good news. I don't know how is the economy going, but this may not end well. And what happens in China, doesn't stay/remain in China, we all know that.

With Electrum on default settings?! Or you have a special build (or setting??!) for Electrum?
I would like to try the same, but when trying with Fulcrum I've seen those messages in the log and I thought that Electrum has failed me (I've waited with Electrum on Fulcrum more than 30 minutes before giving up).

Here there are imho two problems, and the server is the smallest one.

According to the documentation, in order to allow this kind of addresses, Fulcrum may need in config something like:
max_history = 25000000

Also according to what I've read, Electrs may also offer a similar option in config or command line, but I don't know if it's
index-lookup-limit = 1000 (is it enough?)
or
txid_limit = 1000 (or more?)

However, I could not get any success, I've got in logs the nefarious
WARNING | NotificationSession | MemoryError('dropping message over 1,000,000 bytes and re-synchronizing')

And from what I've read here, in order to fix this, Electrum itself needs a change in the code ^{MAX_INCOMING_MSG_SIZE in interface.py}, and then recompiled.

So my few tests are irrelevant, it seems. I've done more reading than testing.


PS. I start hating Fulcrum. It starts up too slow from my external HDD, while Electrs is lightning fast on that.