got it, thanks.

Ask the guy who lost half a mil if 200$ was too much to secure his wallet.

Gavin, please implement wallet encryption ASAP so that we can enjoy false sense of security while running bitcoin client on malware infested windows computers.

Bitcoin developers, please, please, please do create encrypted wallet functionality, so that I can run bitcoin on my malware infested windows computer while enjoying false sense of security.

With FreeBSD it is really trivial if you do not attempt to install the whole X shebang.

1. Install minimal FreeBSD. # plenty of guides everywhere
2. cd /usr/ports/*/bitcoin ; make install clean # (select without X in config)
3. Bingo!

The trick here is to abandon GUI and just do CLI.

It's more a personal opinion of mine. I for some reason think that ubuntu is a bloatware with so much stuff installed by default that running it without a deny all firewall seems to be unfathomable for some, apparently.

If I do not know or at least have some pretty good idea what every single package is doing on an OS I do not feel conformable running it.

The only OS'es I am comfortable with using the above approach are FreeBSD and Archlinux and I am prepared to give OpenBSD benefit of the doubt.

But it is just me.

Do not worry m8, even if you are an exception, you are not the only one.

Error: Invalid user, replace and press any key.

Yep, ok, for those receiving the above error, messing with iptables or ipfw or whatever do they use on OpenBSD for firewall these days, is essential, and I will follow up with a detailed guide on how to configure all of those in the next 5 minutes.

Sorry that my risk assessment is different than yours. But as I said your mileage may vary.

Of course, not everyone is on secure network at all times.

newunit16, lol.

Yep.

- Doctor, what shall I do to avoid AIDS?
- Drink milk.
- Before or after...?
- Instead of.

I did not actually. If you have installed a 'nonbloated' OS like archlinux, freebsd or openbsd as advised it does not listen on any port by default.

With bloatuntu and others your mileage may vary, though.

But yea, your tip might be useful for some.

1. Get yourself a low cost netbook.
2. Install not bloated linux (like archlinux) or FreeBSD or OpenBSD (in order of growing paranoia).
   - make sure that the above is done with ecrypted partitions and swap (plenty of guides on the net).
   - make sure that the above is done while offline as much as possible (for truly paranoid ones).
   - make sure that you do not not even configure wireless hardware, let alone using it
   - physically plug in Ethernet cable when you need connectivity for a minute or so
3. Install bitcoin client, generate a bunch of bitcoin addresses (current account)
4. Over time, transfer in small amounts (i.e not all of it in one go) your funds from your existing client to the addresses created in step 3
5. Keep this used exclusively as bitcoin client and nothing else, plug in Ethernet cable when you need to transfer money.
6. Keep this hardware wallet safe.
7. Creating a bitcoin savings account and making secure backups is still need to be done as described in multiply guides elsewhere.

P.S. Do not forget your passwords.


EDIT: your mileage may vary


BombaUcigasa made a very reasonable suggestion:


Considering that at most, as far as remote accessible services are concerned, you are only occasionally running sshd and I do not recall it having any fatal remotely exploitable bugs after 2008, this will do. You would have to compile bitcoin yourself, and this may cause problems due to out of date libs, though. I did not try it, yet.

If you have more than 1000 Bitcoins in your wallet:

1. get yourself a low cost netbook.
2. Install not bloated linux (like archlinux) or FreeBSD or OpenBSD (in order of growing paranoia).
   - make sure that the above is done with ecrypted partitions and swap (plenty of guides on the net).
   - make sure that the above is done while offline as much as possible (for truly paranoid ones).
   - make sure that you do not not even configure wireless hardware, let alone using it
   - physically plug in Ethernet cable when you need connectivity for a minute or so
3. Install bitcoin client, generate a bunch of bitcoin addresses (current account)
4. Over time transfer in small amounts your funds from your existing client to the addresses created in step 3
5. Keep this used exclusively as bitcoin client and nothing else, plug in Ethernet cable when you need to transfer money.
6. Keep this hardware wallet safe.
7. Creating a bitcoin savings account and making secure backups is still need to be done as described in multiply guides elsewhere.

P.S. Do not forget your passwords.

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You did not expect someone to provide you a  service at loss for himself, did you?

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My funs are bigger than yours!

Another piece of my mining rig is about to be mounted



5870 is for size reference here.

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a photo from DC3, taken a few minutes ago.

There are funs and there are FUNS!



5870 is for size reference here


Launch on Monday.

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Interesting. I'll try to get there too.