congrats sirazimuth!

and mic, thanks for the games man

im no tech or computer genius either, which is why my backup strategy is so simple. its simple, it works for me, and it has lots of redundancy.

for OS and programs drive i image manually using macrium reflect (they have a free version)

rule 1:
every few weeks (or whatever), at least, do a full image backup.

rule 2:
any time im about to make a major OS update or program update, i image the drive before the update. then, after testing the update, image again. keep both images in case the update later is found to have bugs.

rule 3:
keep as many images as you can, so you have a timeline of multiple images tp choose from


for documents, i use file based copies:

rule 1:
nightly automated backups and check the logs that they were carried out daily (i use syncback, they have a free version too)

rule 2:
as needed, or at least every couple weeks or so, manually copy all documents to a new, unique folder elsewhere. i just name the folder docs-2019.03.30 or whatever works for you.

rule 3:
keep as many of those unique, timestamped documents folders as possible, so many timeline based copies of your documents are available.

for both types of backups, keep a rotating set off site. i do this on a as needed/convenience basis

AND MOST IMPORTANT: TEST THOSE BACKUPS REGULARLY TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE ACTUALLY WORKING AS INTENDED

edit: btw raid is not a backup strategy. just a hardware failure strategy.

check here
https://wiki.mtgoxlegal.com/en/home/statistics/

dunno how current or accurate it is.

the bulk seem to be between 100 and 10k GBP

around 3000 claims are over 10k GBP

ouch

EDIT: corrected amounts and units.. duh

i just looked briefly at a pdf list from 2016, there were a good amount of 3 digit btc claims, and some 4 digit ones too. the bulk seemed to be single or double digits, with a lot of < 1 btc amounts.

gonna try to find the latest full list in some sort of excel importable format.

makes sense to me that if people got burned big time and swore off btc when mtgox went down they could lose trust and cash out at 1st opportunity.

but this is the WO thread. thats why i was surprised, are not most of us here believers in btc?

lots of lurkers voted maybe?

PSA

make sure you have a regular backup strategy and that it actually works.

in my case a few days ago lost the primary drive in this daily driver, a Samsung 840 pro a bit over 5 years old. took out my installed programs and documents folder. (btc blockchain and games are on separate ssds and i keep a lot of copies of stuff in a 1 TB spinner raid 1 array on this rig, they were and are fine).

however, i had a full drive image 2 weeks old, and a documents backup from the night before. used the opportunity to get a bigger ssd via amazon prime so two days later i image the new drive from backup, copy the documents backup over and i had everything basically back to the proceedings nights status. turns out the old ssd still could access most files and recovered the stuff that i had done that day, minus a few emails in the local copy of outlook. a self test of the 840 pro ssd  i ran after this was all over failed. oh, and  image and documents backups are on a freenas rig with the equivalent of raid 5.


TL;DR
backup regularly, and TEST your backup strategy regularly.

my bad then.

still curious as to reasonings for dumping vs hodling though.

the poll caption reads "what do you think most of the Mt. Gox recipients will do upon receiving their BTC/BCH"

thanks for your explanation as to dumping.

im not sure what to make of that, as most WO folk should always be more or less in accumulate mode unless in financial distress or the profit at the time is too good to pass up, say to exchange into some other type of wealth or holding. so dumping, especially at 4k USD, doesnt make sense to me, especially as most of us think it will ultimately be much higher down the road.

maybe some folk are treating it as a bonus to spend?

i voted hodl of course. im curious as to the reasons some voted "dump."

@ mic: no

@ icygreen: the hot blond has her own account here. but that dog.. hmm you may be onto something..

im still running my core wallet i created in 2011. main reason i still use it is its convenient for mining payouts. most early btc was transferred out to paper or trezors long ago. but i still keep a bit in it as a pocket change kind of hot wallet along with some on my phone in mycelium. so, its still in use for convenience mainly as its easier to fire up the core wallet then hook a trezor to it for the small stuff.

for lulz, just now exported the transactions to a csv file for excel, 1304 rows/transactions.

im sure it might be useful in the future if i ever cash out big time as i still have my pool accounts created in 2011 and onward where a lot of my coins were mined to this wallet. so, proof they are legit mine from back in the day.

i do have a couple wallets from 2012 (pretty sure, i would have to check the file timestamps) i made on different machines for test purposes (just transferring btc back and forth) that are empty now but i sure wouldnt give them to anyone. they are part of my coin transaction history.  i even kept the now empty paper wallets, and old seed phrases for now empty trezor wallets. all addresses i have ever used i want exclusive control of.

and i lost my 2006 core wallet in a boating accident.

man, life sucks

supposed to be another standalone miner for acorns out in the next 7 days or so. no one is sure what algo.

we shall see soon^tm enough.

at this point? yes, stay with whatever you already have. if or when BCUs prove themselves, well thats a different story. time will tell.

right now buying pretty much anything new for mining is a huge risk. even gpus unless you can get them cheaper than dirt and have crazy cheap electric as well.

right now, more or less yes. a bit more if youre really on top of the market prices and such.

partly because with the currently limited amount of bitstreams, and they being for smallish marketcap coins, everyone piles on them and crushes them. thus, the lower revenue.

more streams are available lately, and more are on the way (which i believe, DYOR though) so as more streams that target higher marketcap coins are released, revenue will go up as hash is spread around and the higher market cap coins can absorb much more hash as well.

as to ROI timeframe? unknown, if ever. just like most everything else in crypto.

per whitefire, the private "RB" streams are only available to those who send a ~5 second video of their fpga mining his 0x bitstream to info@zetheron.com. i used vivado (free) to program my BCU for my video but you can probably use nextjtag ($20 USD) to load the stream instead as he does not specify one or the other. the video just need to show your fpga and his 0x bitsream running.

so basically you need to figure that part out on your own. sorry, thems the rules. apparently he just wants you to show 1) you have a fpga and 2) you can use it via windows without any handholdong as thats what his miners use.

originally i used the allmine shell to set voltages (0.76 is a safe bet for 0x) and vivado to program the BCU for runnung WF streams but now i just use nextjtag to set voltage and load bitstreams in one shot. well worth the 20 bucks IMO


per http://zetheron.com/index.php/downloads/

vivado: i used this edition  Vivado HLx 2018.3: WebPACK and Editions - Windows Self Extracting Web Installer (well pretty sure, its been a while) its free but you need to register.
https://www.xilinx.com/support/download.html

EDIT nextjtag is completely separate from whitefire/zetheron, they have nothing to do with each other.

exactly that. just claiming that you traded on some obscure and now defunct exchange back in the day etc may not fly. i can directly trace the bulk of my coins right down to the day i mined them and on what pool. or traded them on a "legit" (<-whatever that means) exchange but in my case i mainly use bittrex, coinbase, poloniex or binance.. all duly reported to the irs like the dutiful little sheeple i am (which is very advisable here in the land of the "free" ie USA) which i figure is close enough.

i agree. however i am taking no chances. all it takes is one bureaucrat or organization to question where you got some coins to make a huge mess.

easy enough for me to keep records, and hope i never need to use them.

proving the legitimacy of my coins is one reason i have my original core wallet from 2011 still running on this rig, have copies of activity data from (most) exchanges ive ever used, still keep seeds from now empty wallets, have copies of receipts from the mining hardware (as well as most of the actual hardware) from mining back in the day, etc. as one day im sure someone (bank, irs, whatever) is gonna want proof thats its all legitimately mine when i cash out.

guessing he is grabbing old wallets and attempting to do the same. although wouldnt chain analytics prove a problem?

there are viruses that now can live in the BIOS. they will survive a drive format or drive replacement and reinfect any new OS installed on that system.

EDIT: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS#Security