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2041  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Tutorial: How to keep your Bitcoins 100% secure! on: March 27, 2015, 06:27:54 PM

so, even a brand new hard disk is a potential risk. you can't trust anything nowadays.
regarding the ram. is it enough to just run a full system virus scan to make sure everything is clean? 

It's not that its a potential risk, the newer the harddisk the higher the risk is, since all this surveilance got out of control. And its getting worse and worse. We live in a global tyrrany now.

A full system scan is imperative, but i also urge people to download Malwarebytes too, since Kaspersky could miss a few malware. I just ran a scan last night with it and picked up other malwares that were not detectable by Kaspersky.

Of course with this method the funds are 100% secure, however the online PC could still be compromized and if you use your online pc for interne banking then it could be a serious problem.

However for bitcoin it isnt until you follow those steps with military discipline, no hacker could hack your coins Smiley

2042  Economy / Digital goods / Re: ●♦★██████ BITCOIN SOFTWARE SUPERMARKET ██████★♦● on: March 27, 2015, 02:53:16 AM
Ok guys, i added a FREE DEMO for all of the softwares. The 4 softwares that cost bitcoins now all have a free demo that you can download for free and try it out, however they contain 1 banner ad. If you want the ad-less version then you have to purchase it.

The other 2 softwares (the clock and the qr code scanner) are already free to download, without ads, so you can download all of them!

All available on post #1

So download your free demo of my softwares & Enjoy guys!
2043  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: INVEST BITCOIN!!! on: March 26, 2015, 08:17:10 PM
a few years back i'm only invest in cloud mining, but now there is no investment that is so good, if there is a good investment at this time, I really want to invest

Cloud mining sounds like a ponzi scheme, you cant know if they really mine or not.

Also since the difficulty keeps going up and the price doesnt, then its really a bad investment
2044  Other / Politics & Society / Re: How Social Justice Warriors Are Creating An Entire Generation Of Fascists on: March 26, 2015, 05:45:49 PM

Regional leaders, not "leader of the world".


The powerstructures are getting more and more interconnected : UN, EU, Bilderberg and more

It's not regional, if it were regional then only the region leader has power over the region, and not on the entire planet.

The USA military is pretty much inside every western country, thats not regional.

We long surpassed the regional era, which was with the middle ages, and self-sustaining city-states each with their own tyrant. It's a much bigger tyrrany now.


But you just said...
No, you hijack my words. I only said that an an-cap society would tolerate an-socialist local regions, if they would play by capitalis rules as of:
-Purchase their own land, and build their own socialist paradise there
-Don't threaten outside capitalist by taking over the world and converting people to socialism
-Respect the non-agression principle with outsiders and neighboring properties

If they follow these rules, then inside their compound they can do anything they want, however the outside world would be capitalist an they should respect other's property then, even if inside their territory they would have "no property"

This can't be said vice versa. Because if the whole world would be anarcho-socialist, they would persecute an-cap people as they would claim that all property is common and I can't own a house for example.

So this is why an-cap is freedom, and an-socialist is just another form of tyrrany. Smiley

So you deny that it's anarchy in the background, which allows all these more organised systems to form on top of it?

Yes i deny. The background of tyrrany is a long tradition of tyrranical rule that people got used to it.

There was anarchy some hundred thousand years ago, but then some caveman thugs decided to rule above all other caveman, and since the cavemen was frightened and didnt understood the things clearly, he subjugated himself to it.

Today we can defend ourself agains tyrrany, even a weak woman can defend himself agains a muscular thug by using a gun, the world got more "fair" today.

The only reason nowadays people accept tyrrany is because of tradition and their own ignorance, that they got used to it and never see the alternative peaceful solution to things.
2045  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Tutorial: How to keep your Bitcoins 100% secure! on: March 26, 2015, 03:51:03 PM
thanks for putting this tutorial together. i am think of taking over a pc from a family member to use it solely for bitcoin.
i will buy a new hard drive for security purposes but can ram memory also contain a virus?

Check the harddrive for hidden firmware on your online PC before putting your bitcoins on it.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/16/us-usa-cyberspying-idUSKBN0LK1QV20150216

Yes ram can also contain virus, that it is why it has be be carefully put on the offline PC. And after you want to use the funds there you need to be cautious with it.

I`ll put together a tutorial how to spend from the safe offline wallet without compromizing it. Done!
2046  Other / Politics & Society / Re: How Social Justice Warriors Are Creating An Entire Generation Of Fascists on: March 26, 2015, 03:44:23 PM

This rings a bell. Funnily enough, one could say that internationally, we already have anarcho-capitalism.
  • Is the world leaderless? CHECK!
  • Are there various socialist communes, AKA cities and countries and the like? CHECK!
  • Do disputes get resolved using a merit based system, with simple metrics like fire-power, cannon fodder and land resources? CHECK!

What exactly were you complaining about again? Grin

What did you drink today bro?

Is the world leaderless: Presidents, Prime-Ministers,Kings,Queens, Dictators, how you call those? Our friends or our tyrant rulers?
What happense if you don't follow the orders of your neighbor? Nothing.
What happens if you dont follow an executive order? You go to jail.

So it seems to me that power is pretty much constrained in a few hands, not to talk about banksters and other ruling classes.

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Are there various socialist communes, AKA cities and countries and the like?

That only proves that socialim exists, it doesnt say anthing about an-cap. But the question is ,

Is there any place on Earth where there are no tyrant rulers? And the answer is no.

They even claim ownership of fucking Antarctica and 100 m^2 islands in the Pacific Ocean, heck they even partitioned the fucking Moon.
So the tyrant's powergrab is really limitless, if they could they would want the whole Universe to rule upon...

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Do disputes get resolved using a merit based system, with simple metrics like fire-power, cannon fodder and land resources? CHECK!

Yes but the civilized part, the courts are mostly biased when it comes to political cases. As the justice system itself is run by the government and paid by it, so dont tell me they dont have influence above the judges.

As for the agression part, see that's the problem, that violates the NAP. The fact that governments run huge mililary and can kill billions of people with nukes, is not really a sign of peaceful society.

Not to say if machinegunned police breaks into your house, full surveilance ,etc etc.

It's a pretty totalitarian world that we live in, with minor exceptions that are not like exceptions but more like moderate societies.

Iceland,Switzerland,Hong Kong,Chile and others are not totally free societies but they are closer to freedom than others, unfortunately the rest of the world is fucked up.
2047  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Tutorial: How to keep your Bitcoins 100% secure! on: March 26, 2015, 03:08:14 PM
Would you people consider the block chain wallet secure because that is what I recommend to most people who are new to bitcoin because it is super easy.

I`d say all online wallets have moderate security. Sure they can be hacked, or some keylogger reads your password while your write it in, or your government is suspicious about you and all it takes is a court order to empty your online wallet, and you can do nothing about it, as the wallet will comply with the authorities.

So I personally would never store more than 1 BTC on online wallets. Sure they are good for quick-access spending wallets if you want to shop stuff or buy things with bitcoin, and you need quick access to funds (because using the offline funds needs more carefulness), then go ahead.

However if you want to store your retirement fund or your savings, then definitely dont trust them. I don't care if angels run the wallet service, you can never trust a 3rd party with 100% confidence, especially not for funds > 1m$.

Just look how responsibly banks handle the funds:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/banco-de-madrid-files-for-bankruptcy-after-parent-accused-of-money-laundering-1426495127
2048  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Tutorial: How to keep your Bitcoins 100% secure! on: March 26, 2015, 02:37:59 PM

If only they can start accepting BTC directly, I would continue using their software.
What do you mean by this?

  Grin How are you hoping to prevent Bad Usb virusses written into the firmware? A format will not clear the firmware.
Kaspersky has anti rootkit scanner. I just heard in the news that Kaspersky detected many new firmwares in hardware planted by the NSA to spy on people.

Since Kaspersky is Russian, and no other antivirus detected it but this, it can already be said that which antiviruses work for the governments and which are trustworthy lol.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/16/us-usa-cyberspying-idUSKBN0LK1QV20150216

We had some old computer and printers at work, destined to be destroyed, so I visited bitaddress.org and saved it for offline use... I then disconnected it from the internet and printed 200+ paper wallets for future use. {I then destroyed the hardware} so there are no way to get to that information.. It's already recycled material.

Those paper wallets are laminated and split between several destinations.... I used 5 for "Honey traps" on sites and none of them where hacked or accessed... so the rest should be safe.   Wink

Well thats a bit crude, resetting the printer would have been enough, the printer doesnt have storable memory, only a cache, so after you keep it offline enough or just simply restart, the cache is ereased.

Or print something else with it, that also ereases the previous cache.

But i guess you wanted to make sure.

I`m not sure about honey traps, what did you store there 0.001BTC or similar? Some hackers could only target funds bigger than 1 BTC, so if you store like 10BTC next to a 0.001BTC honeytrap then only the 10BTC could get stolen and you realize it too late.

Also i dont think bitadress.org is a safe way to create an address, there can be millions of things that could stole the private key: keylogger,spyware,trojans. You can never make 100% sure that the online pc doesnt have virus, but you can with the offline PC. That is why it's better to only generate new addresses with the offline PC with a non-tampered Armory or BitcoinCore wallet
2049  Economy / Digital goods / Re: ●♦★██████ BITCOIN SOFTWARE SUPERMARKET ██████★♦● on: March 26, 2015, 03:38:24 AM
UPDATE v1.60

Huge update, I updated the Quickwallet to 1.60 and made alot of changes you won't even recognize it. Fixed also many bugs and made it very easy to use.

https://www.btcdlc.com/shop/bitcoin-supermarket/Quickwallet


Changelog:
■Made the text and list's font bigger to be more readable
■Made the window larger both height and width so that the text can be more readable
■All buttons are now unlocked by default, you can lock them later if you want
■You can change the theme color of the wallet with 1 push of button
■Very simple interface , rearranged alot of stuff
■Every setting is now saved, and when you open the app again it will load
■Added confirmation filter, you can now filter out transactions from the balance which have reached X confirmation!!
■Made the updating & refreshing dynamic, instead of periodically refreshing all addresses, which previously freezed the app, now they are updated dynamically to smoothen it out, reducing lag completely!
■Bug fixed when you tried to right click and copy address, which caused the app to crash
■Up /Down moving arrow is now wider and now selects an address if none is selected
■You can now deselect the addresses by clicking away
■Fixed bug with input box deleting input before entering it by just moving mouse
■Fixed other unknown bugs which made the client crash
■Added more description & fixed a minor text bug
■Other minor & non-essential bug fixes

Now the softwre is pretty much bug free and ready to be sold! So for this occasion i extend the promo 1 more week until 4th of april, and also this quickwallet is further more reduced by another -10% so its very very cheap now, with significantly increased quality & features, so buy now!

https://www.btcdlc.com/shop/bitcoin-supermarket/Quickwallet

Also i made the QR CODE GENERATOR free aswell, alongside with the Simple Clock!
https://www.btcdlc.com/shop/bitcoin-supermarket/qr-code-generator
https://www.btcdlc.com/shop/bitcoin-supermarket/simple-clock

Enjoy!  Smiley

2050  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Tutorial: How to keep your Bitcoins 100% secure! on: March 26, 2015, 01:05:11 AM
I would definitely add malwarebytes to whatever antivirus you might recommend. Other than that nice guide
Well i recommended Kaspersky IS 2015 because it has everything from rootkit scanner which can hide itself in the root sector of the USB, to normal antivirus, secure keyboard input (which can be helpful in other fields), and firewall with complete internet scam detection like phising site or virused site.

Nice article.
Here is another thread written earlier - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=17240.0
Thanks i`ll read it , gain wisdom from there and implement it in this one

OP you should put up a BTC address for tips incase any noobs want to thank you for helping them out.
If anyone wishes to support me then click the link on my signature and buy one of my high-quality products  Wink
2051  Other / Politics & Society / Re: How Social Justice Warriors Are Creating An Entire Generation Of Fascists on: March 26, 2015, 12:54:08 AM
How about we dont give internet to you because your ISP pays taxes to the government, would you accept that situation?


So that's all you can say, a picture of a statue.

It's really lame, i addresset every point detailed, yet you can't even debate me honestly by re-addressing my points.

Maybe because you can't even defend your believes. How could you when obviously they doesnt make sense.

Many well educated PHD leftists failed to logically prove their claims, and their moral right to rob & cage people, so how could you prove it, you obviously cant.


The lottery is a tax on people who have a certain kind of idiocy, and it's highly regressive.  It would be more responsible on the part of the state if people had to take a test to prove they understood statistics and probability before they were allowed to play.

Don't be so radical, it's just a game, most people know that they`ll never win, it's all about the chill and the thrill of winning, it's more like a fun game.

If somebody plays the lottery for the sole purpose of get rich quick then they are really dumb, but 90% play only for fun, the same with casino gamblers.

So we should neither tax it nor ban it like many idiot powermongers want it. It;s not their business to interfere in other people's lifes. We are grown adults we should be capable of thinking for ourselves.

Those who ask for the wisdom of the state are probably stuck at the level of a 5 year old asking their parents for advices.

These are two of a huge number of examples of left leaning politicians failing us.  How the Socialists think they are going to solve the distribution of wealth thing using regressive taxation is beyond me.  I don't think they even care about it all that much or at best they are planning to get around to it later.  Since a lot of them are exploiting the hell out of these regressive taxation schemes for a variety of projects (including making themselves and their friends rich) I'm not holding my breath for them to change any time soon.

Don't even try to argue with leftists, it's obvious that even they dont understand their theory, and cant defend it, so they expect us to defend their theories, haha..

2052  Other / Politics & Society / Re: How Social Justice Warriors Are Creating An Entire Generation Of Fascists on: March 25, 2015, 10:05:47 PM

Think of banknotes as freedom tickets and it will make sense. Only the super rich will ever be free in this system, that's why they've convinced everyone else that they too will one day be millionaires.  

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires"
-John Steinbeck

No banknotes are representative units of the global wealth (or atleast it should be, if the banks would keep 100% reserves , i think we both can agree on bitcoin atleat isnt it? 100% reserves & no central bank)

I already went over this: SUPER RICH PEOPLE ONLY EXIST BECAUSE THEY USED THE GOVERNMENT TO ELIMINATE COMPETITION!

How hard is it to understand. In a free society, wealth would be much better distributed, without coercion, based simply on skills & dedication!

Those central bankers running the global debt ponzi scheme obviously got lucky by exploiting the naive ideas. But guess what your leftist comrades are doing the exact same thing, they just want a different kind of tyrrany, you know the people...

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires"
-John Steinbeck
Oh but it took roots in Venezuela and we all see what a paradise it is thanks to socialism.
 
✓Kids being killed on the street by cops
✓The protect & serve honest cops only beat people up because they protect us
✓Capital Controls
✓Buy food for tickets and limited amount =food rationing
✓Huge taxes
✓Total government tyrrany
✓Collectivized labour
✓Daily dose of tyrrany
✓Media propaganda
✓Total control you cant do anything besides work&eat&shit&reproduce to give life to the next generation of slaves
Your socialist paradise indeed Smiley

Negatory, I just see the world more accurately than you do. Capitalism absent government is a nightmare.
Well so far you havent addressed my points with valid arguments you just change subject.

If socialism is so good why does it have to be forced on us? Why can't i just be a capitalist and mind my own business and you buy yourself a region and create a socialist commune for you and your allies and everyone coexist in peace.

Because as i understand you also force me to adhere to your nightmare system which is exactly statism


You don't know shit about the lottery, it generates 2 billion dollars a year for the state of Oregon. Now who's the statist?

Yes thats true, so how is it the lottery's fault. It's the government that steals the money, can't you realize that.

How about we dont give internet to you because your ISP pays taxes to the government, would you accept that situation? Based on your logic.
2053  Other / Politics & Society / Re: How Social Justice Warriors Are Creating An Entire Generation Of Fascists on: March 25, 2015, 09:45:01 PM
You are not exploited by your boss at work, and he doesn't steal capital from you. You voluntarly signed a job contract with him when you hired you.
If one is hungry at the moment the contract was signed, coercion was at play and the contract was signed without true consent.

Yes so now your solution is that we should totally get rid of all "would have" "should have" situations aswell.

It's like if you are envious that 1 guy won the lottery of 100m $ and everyone else lost. So let's redistribute the lottery prize a good idea isnt it? Well hell no, thats not the point of the game. The whole point of lottery is for alot of people to enrich 1 lucky guy, and it's voluntary.

On the other hand, because 1 random guy is unlucky we should steal from all employers to feed him. How is that not coercion?

Also wtf , the employer gives him the job to begin with, if it werent for him risking his capital to run the business, the government would not have any subjects to steal from and give it to somebody else.He gives him the job so deal with it.

Why is it the employer's fault that he is unlucky? Why is it the lottery's fault that X person didnt won the jackpot?
Why should both of these be robbed according to your theory?

You are a statist Beliathon!
2054  Other / Politics & Society / Re: How Social Justice Warriors Are Creating An Entire Generation Of Fascists on: March 25, 2015, 09:29:43 PM
Voluntary my ass. This is what you trot out, the tired old, "we're free because we live in America" fallacious argument bullshit? Weak man, very weak.

“America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you’ve lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn’t belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don’t care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve.”
-Tom Morello

"I see all this potential, and I see it squandered. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables – slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."
-Chuck Palahniuk

“We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
-Slavoj Zizek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real

The only choice we have left now is between embracing the corporate fascism nightmare or rejecting it in favor of a post-capitalist democracy in whatever form it takes.

Holy shit you really have no fucking idea of what you talk about.

Can't even present a solid counterargument just regurgitate your master's propaganda over and over when it has been disproven by thousands of times.

Voluntary is voluntary, what the fuck is so hard to understand about it.

You are not exploited by your boss at work, and he doesn't steal capital from you. You voluntarly signed a job contract with him when you hired you. Unless he points a gun at your head, the agreement is completely voluntary, you can always leave.

You can always leave an exploitative job, but you can never leave government control, so your are full of crap.
Also if you dont like the job , quit and create your own business how about that, it takes 5 seconds to think of it and you fail to do even that.

The first 2 quotes are lunatics who can't think even 5 seconds about it, and the 3rd one is abstract and its offtopic.

So it seems to me that voluntary solutions always hang around, if you fail to see them that's your problems, but don't tell me that they are not there.

It's almost as if you leftist guys are hating success and want everyone to be robbed because your envy and laziness just cant tolerate somebody having done more productive things than to watch TV all day and live on welfare.
2055  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: INVEST BITCOIN!!! on: March 25, 2015, 08:40:14 PM
How to mine bitcoin with a laptop ? I don't know anything about "MINE" LOL!

Thank you very much !
That will be a bad idea I think.
It will take hundreds of month to mine a btc from a single laptop.

Well thank u for the reply Smiley

Hundreds of YEARS. And you'd fry your laptop within a year most likely due to running the CPU and/or GPU at maximum capacity. Laptops aren't designed to dissipate heat too well.

He'd fry his laptop in a week lol, i also rand heavy applications before and just after a few hours i smelled the smoke coming out, so totally not recommended to do that.

Not even mining altcoins, yes definitely agree, laptops are not good, unless you put it in the fridge lol
2056  Other / Politics & Society / Re: How Social Justice Warriors Are Creating An Entire Generation Of Fascists on: March 25, 2015, 08:27:57 PM
I agree, and just like pure communism, it never will. Both are pure fantasy.

Communism faces the same idealistic problms and logical fallacies as socialism so of course it will not exist.

Capitalism on the other hand doesnt exist because a few powerhungry individuals do everything to prevent it, because then their powerhungry looting and warmongering propaganda would cease.

So while leftism is a logical paradox, and cannot ever exist morally and efficiently. Capitalism is logically possible and highly probably once we get rid of these stupid belief systems propagandized to us.

Anarcho mean without leaders, so there's no central decision maker saying "no capitalism". However, social anarchism could only survive is a culture which loathes violence, deception, and coercion. In such a culture, the practice of capitalism would (will) be seen as despicably unethical, sort of the most modern people view outright slavery. We only tolerate subtle and hidden slavery now.

This post proves that you have no idea what your talking about. How is there a ruler in capitalism? When all of it is based on voluntary transaction.

You got a farmland, you raise chicken and sell the eggs for money (without government taxing you or health inspectors check for your eggs to be healthy ), the market will decide if your eggs are worth to be bought, and people will boycott you if you try to sell them snake oil.
However if some looters break into your farmland trying to steal your eggs, you have all the rights to defend them.

That's all capitalism means, so scale this 1 example up to 1 billion people, and it will work wonderfully. Any additional disputes can always be decided in courts, violence is never the answer.

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Anarcho-socialism on the other hand is a contradictory statement. See socialism means: rob the wealthy and give it to the poor, how the fuck is that done without violence.

Socialism and communism is the most destructive herd mentality idea of modern times. It's also completely based on violence.

You can set up a commune like the kibbutz system, but you will always have parasites who will infest it, like with every free giveaway, who wont work and only get the rewards. If you force them to contribute , then you use coercion and force, if you don't then more of them will come and infest your socialist paradise and sooner or later it will all collapse.

No wonder socialism is always the decline of capitalism (see in EU right now) , as it can only happen after capitalism, because its a giant looting mechanism. After there is nothing to loot anymore, capitalism (or atleast a phony version of it) happense again, and then this cycle continues.

Or atleast it will continue until governments exist, once governments cease to exist, socialism will also be remembered as a foolish primitive idea and people realize that a contractual-voluntary society is much better than a giant and violent red-looting mechanism☭
2057  Economy / Economics / Re: Is deflation truly that bad for an economy? on: March 25, 2015, 07:24:26 PM

No, banks do not rob everyone through inflation, that is the old style. Now they rob everyone through QE, which is magnitudes larger than inflation. Take FED for example, they created 5x more money since 2008, that's 40 years of GDP increase at 4% per year. All that went into banker's pocket in 5 years, this scale of robbery was never seen in human history. By keeping those money in their pocket, they will easily avoid any kind of inflation
That is inflation. It's called monetary inflation. Dont look at phony government data of CPI showing 0.5% inflation, thats bullshit, thats only because they discounted the USD strenght from it (meaning that they rob not just US citizens but every other citizen who owns USD including other currencies that hold USD reserves, everyone who uses OIL and other commodities as they are all denominated in dollar)

Yes the USD strenghtened alot to hide the 500% inflation, but all that strength got straight into CB's pockets and their henchmen investment banks.

So the real inflation through QE1,QE2,QE3 was then 500% in aggregate, anot definitely not 0.5% or similar. So you can't trust government data because its very misleading.

I measure inflation through the monerary supply (not that they report that number honestly, actually they dont even publish the M3 numbers in the US anymore, i wonder why, maybe because they print so much money now that they are ashamed to show it)

The CPI based inflation is misleading, follow only the money supply and see how much they steal actually, with your own eyes, you'd be amazed.

Similarly, ECB is going to use the same trick to rob whole European by 60 billion euro per month, all those money will belong to ECB. If Greece quit, other countries will be robbed, they might discover that the problem is not Greece, but a systematic one. So they must keep Greece in to cover the scheme and blame everything on PIGS countries

Greek people might understand these bank's scam much better than anyone else, so they go the same route as those banks, like those investment banks gambling with customer money and collapsing and asking for bailout, both opportunists

This is a predatory world, everybody robs everybody as long as there will be a government to force us to use these fiat ponzi scheme scammer money system, and pay taxes.

The free market would instantly make banks obsolete, bitcoin actually does make them, but yes the government requires you to have a bank account with these scammers if you run a formal business, so it's totally fucked up.
2058  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Tutorial: How to keep your Bitcoin 100% secure! on: March 25, 2015, 07:00:55 PM
good giude, but i think newbie, are searching for something more easy and immediate

for example: i think windows firewall is good enough, no need to dl something else

the third point you described (Get your PC that you will dedicate to keep your bitcoins) is everything they need without adding too much

desktop dedicated entirely to btc without installing/surfing, will do the trick, if not connected to wi-fi or any other network, just with its own network

Yes that is true, however that is only half security.

Because windows has alot of backdoors and shady malware can always sneak into the USB and into the other PC.

Especially in this surveilance era that we live in right now, i need 100% security if i had 1 million $ to store on my own, so each step must be carefully considered.

Also armory has the lockbox feature so you can set up 2 PC's and store the wallets in 2 pieces through a lockbox for extra security.

Also this is only a storage tutorial, i`ll soon write part 2, where i`ll write about how to access the storage safely, because thats a bigger challange, than just purely storing it.

So stay tuned Wink
2059  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Tutorial: How to keep your Bitcoin 100% secure! on: March 25, 2015, 06:50:20 PM
Thanks so much for writing this up OP! it helps a lot!
Very nice tutorial!  Good instructions, and pictures I give it a thumbs up.

Thanks guys, i`m still updating my post to rething if i missed something.

Also if you guys think that i missed something security related then please tell me to correct it.

I want to make a guide here that is 100% hackproof, so please help contribute to it, thanks!
2060  Other / Beginners & Help / ██ Tutorial: How to keep your Bitcoins 100% secure! ██ on: March 25, 2015, 06:17:44 PM
Ok i saw many newbies fall for all kinds of scams lately and i feel sorry for them, so i put together this tutorial to help people to store their bitcoins very safe, without the need to rely on (scammer) 3rd parties or just any kind of unnecessary risk.

So basically if you want to store your coins 100% secure you have to store it on your own device , and not on an online wallet or 3rd party. As the saying says: "everything that's not in your hand it's not yours". If it's not in your hand it's not money, it's debt, the promise of the 3rd party that it may or may not pay you. Also many wallets don't run on 100% reserves, which is just the same as the fiat system, so it will meet the same ends...

Also many online wallets have been hacked lately which could be the users fault, but it could also be the service's fault, and by storing them there by default your funds will be targeted because they store huge amount of coins, whereas if you hold your coins in a place nobody knows about, then its safe.

Ok let's start.

Programs you will need:

Cleopatra: http://www.gpg4win.org/features.html
A good antivuris& internet security: I recommend Kaspersky Internet Security 2015 because of this:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/16/us-usa-cyberspying-idUSKBN0LK1QV20150216
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/17/kaspersky_labs_equation_group/
http://www.techpowerup.com/209925/nsa-hides-spying-backdoors-into-hard-drive-firmware.html
Malware Cleaner like MalwareBytes: https://www.malwarebytes.org/
Armory Wallet: https://bitcoinarmory.com/download/
Veracrypt: https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/
Linux operating system for extra security (verified by Cleopatra, after you download just check the checksum to see if it has been tampered with) or just a clean Windows or Mac


Hardware & physical objects you will need:

■Multiple solid USB sticks (ATLEAST 3)
■A junk and cheap PC which meets the system requirements of the programs listed above (preferably old because newer ones could contain firmware, but not that old that it fails because your bitcoins could be lost then)
■Your casual online PC that you are on right now
■Multiple A4 papers or similar and a pen
■A router through which you connect to the internet (optional)

After you got these tools, you will then proceed to set up your own "cold wallet" or "hardware wallet" or "offline wallet" as it is known.
You will need your usual online PC and the offline PC that you bought or your old pc that you used years ago.

Here are the steps to set up your offline wallet:

PART I. SECURE OFFLINE STORAGE

1) Set up the antivirus & MalwareBytes on your online PC, scan it and remove any virus or threat is found, all of them. Set up a strong firewall with your internet security software and if you have a router password protect it (the default password is always ADMIN, so change that)
2) Use original operating system, if it's pirated then run a full antivirus scan & anti-malware on it because there may be some malware hidden in it, even if it's original there can be some intentional malware in it so either way scan the operating system's cd, or .iso file or however you got it, to make sure no rootkit,malware or other malicious tools is built in it. If you detect any, then get another copy, until you find a clean one. (Make sure the antivirus you choose & MalwareBytes is fully updated though before scanning it)
3) Get your PC that you will dedicate to keep your bitcoins on (it can be a laptop too) and set up the operating system on it
4) Make sure you create atleast 2 or more partitions on the harddisk, because 1 will be encrypted later, and 1 for the operating system
5) Enable hidden folders and files if you are using windows on both the online and offline PC to see if anything shady sneaks itself into the USB stick, but ofcourse you will scan it also with the antivirus & MalwareBytes!



6) Disable networking in the BIOS, or remove the network card from that PC (https://www.google.com/#q=disable+network+from+bios)
7) Plug out any device that is connected to it, router, telephone wire, wireless stuff, or any other network or cable except the electricity, so that there is no other interface with which you can interact with this PC but the USB sticks, everything else should be disabled
8] Install the antivirus & MalwareBytes on this computer via the USB stick to check if there is any firmware on it, leftover rootkit or malware from previous OS or any other malicious stuff
9) After the stuff is clean,format the entire hard disk again and reinstall the operating system,and don't reinstall the antivirus nor MalwareBytes after (cos you never know if the antivirus or MalwareBytes itself is not doing something shady, you dont have to trust them more than needed ), and re-enable the hidden folders and files mentioned in step 5)
10) Make sure that in the process of doing this you dont put any other virus on your clean offline PC by any other means
11) After the clean PC is totally cleaned then it's time to install our bitcoin stuff there, first encrypt your non-system partition with Veracrypt or other trusted open source encryptors (this step is crucial unless you want it to be cracked by hackers, the encryption software must be 100% trusted and open source)
12) Encrypt that hard disk and put atleast a 30-35 digit random password for it which you generate here: https://www.random.org/passwords/, however don't use those passwords, instead generate 10 different passwords and combine them into 1, by your own, so that nobody can guess them (in case random.org collects or logs the passwords generated)
----Also write on a paper that password perhaps multiple times, because if you lose this password you cannot ever access that partition again so since your bitcoins will be stored here, you should have paper backup of this password stored in a secure place---

13) Download armory to your online PC, verify that it's genuine and not tampered with , with Cleopatra by checking it's checksum or the PGP-Signature of the author:
https://bitcoinarmory.com/tutorials/armory-basics/verify-download/
14) After download finished, disconnect your online PC's internet temporarly so that no other stuff can go in there, put the USB stick into your online PC and scan the stick itself, perhaps format it, then put the Armory on the stick and check it's checksum again before pulling it out just to make sure there was no malware on your PC that tampered the software after you downloaded it!
15) Put the stick into the offline PC and install Armory there inside the earlier encrypted partition
16) Securely Format the USB again and pull it out from the PC so that nothing is connected to it until we don't set up the sensitive stuff
17) Open armory and set up your wallet on the offline PC, from that encrypted partition, also in armory's settings use a very robust wallet


---Of course if the PC is crappy use whatever resources it can support, but still a 10 second open timer is recommended, because this is your safe wallet anyway, capable of storing billions of $ so definitely worth the wait time for this extra layer of security---
18) Enter the passphrase for the wallet, again use a the  https://www.random.org/passwords/ and combine for yourself a unique random password from those generated there, but never use 1 entirely from there. Also dont use the previous password again.
19) Make alteast 2 paper backup of this aswell (the private key), now you can print it out with armory, however make sure the printer you use is not network connected, and after you finished printing restart it so that the cache of the printer is cleaned out
20) Until now you got 3 sensitive data: the password of your encrypted hard-disk partition and the password of the wallet and the backup of the private key, make sure you got 2 backups of each stored at very safe locations
21) Use another USB stick or multiple sticks to put a digital backup of your wallet aswell, not the same one are you used before to install the stuff it must be a different and clean one,Securely Format the USB again ,however this stick is as-is and you can never ever plug this in into the online computer, but only this offline computer in case the hard-disk of the offline PC fails you will have a digital backup of the wallet , but you need to set up step 0-18 again for another PC that you will buy then to store your bitcoins. But never ever plug that USB stick (where the digital copy of the wallet is) into an online PC again!!!)
22) Ok you are ready now, your encrypted bitcoin wallet is set up in an encrypted hard disk, and you have 3 sensitive data that you must secure yourself, of which the private key is the most important. Even if the other 2 password is compromized, if you wipe your PC before they can access it (the wallet), then without private key they still cant stole your money. But of course the other 2 passwords are also important + your USB backup of the wallet. Keep these stuff very safe!
23) For additional security you can set up a password for your operating system, however its not that much needed, and it can be easily bypassed if a burglar enters your house, but they can't break the double-encrypted wallet! This password is only needed if you leave your house and don't want your wife or children accesing your PC, it's more like a privacy protection rather than security.
24) Never ever install anything else on the offline PC, even if it's not in the encrypted partition, it can only contain the clean OS install, the armory and your wallet(s), just as never put anything else on the stick that stores your digital wallet copy either. They should be left as they are!

Ok now you got a perfectly secure offline storage which can store even billions of $ worth of bitcoins, but it can still be compromized when you do a transaction. So here is how to securely transact and spend funds from it!



PART II. SECURE TRANSACTION FROM THE STORAGE

You will use the offline transaction method of armory which you can read upon here it't tutorial:
https://bitcoinarmory.com/tutorials/armory-advanced-features/offline-wallets/



 After you read about it and familizarized yourself with the process, here is how to do it securely:
1) The blockchain has to be on your online PC and also a verified download of armory, by Cleopatra:
https://bitcoinarmory.com/tutorials/armory-basics/verify-download/
2) Create a "New Offline Transaction", specify the details: address(es),how much bitcoin to send, etc. Double check if you entered the stuff correctly, and then put the Unsigned file on your USB stick that you used to install the things on the offline PC. Make sure that before plugging that USB stick back into the Online PC, you put it into the offline PC and Securely Formatted it beforehand.
3) So after you formatted the USB on the offline PC, put it on the online and put the Unsigned file on in, then move that Unsigned file onto the offline PC
4) Plug the USB into the offline PC, copy the Unsigned file into the offline PC's desktop
5) Plug out the USB
6) Open the encrypted partition, and the Armory and import the file
7) Check again if all details are entered correctly
8] Sign the file, you will need the wallet's password for this
9) Close armory, and close the encrypted partition too
10) Plug back the USB stick,Securely Format the USB again, and then put the Signed Transaction File back into it
11) Move the USB into the online PC and copy the Signed Transaction File, import it into the Armory, and verify again if all details are entered correctly
12) Broadcast the transaction
13)Securely Format the USB again
14) Waint until 6 confirmation of the transaction, and then it's all complete

PART III. MONITOR YOUR WALLET FROM THE ONLINE PC (OPTIONAL)

After you know how to keep the bitcoin 100% securely offline, and have your online PC also relatively safe, you can then monitor your wallet from your online PC without the need to compromize the private key for it. I have developed a software with which you can monitor your bitcoin addresses from your online PC without the need to compromize your offline storage. It's just like any other program on your PC now and you don't have to trust me more than any other developer whom's programs you currently use on your online pc .


My software has no access to any of your funds, since they are all kept securely offline. What my software does it checks your balances from your online PC through an internet API that connects to the blockchain. So you don't even need the blockchain downloaded on your PC to use my software, it's all lightweight and portable. You can check your balance of any of your addresses (or even other's address) to keep yourself updated with how many bitcoins you have. Also it loads instantly you don't have to wait half an hour to load like armory!

DOWNLOAD FREE DEMO!

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This tutorial might be hard to read, disorganized, although it's as accurate as possible, but probably not that detailed and descriptive,also this forum needs internet and sometimes it could go down, so I summed up everything , more descriptive, with picture illustrations and links to download these tools in my
FREE E-BOOK that is a Guide to keep your Bitcoins 100% safe.

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