Learn about AirGap social recovery feature
This splitting of seed phrase words into multiple parts sounds a lot like Shamir Secret Sharing, but you are not really eliminating single point of failure like you said in your video. Other dangers of using something like this is that there is no standardized implementation for this method, math can't be verified by different participants. It's much better to use regular Multisig solution that is proved and tested for years, but I would like to see some documentation for your Social Recovery feature.
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The current ways to gift bitcoin are not great. They either require kyc or the gift recipient to download a wallet. I am against asking people to complete any verification to receive bitcoin, but downloading a wallet takes only a few minutes and it's not that hard to accept coins after doing that. There are also some web wallets, but I am not recommending to anyone, to avoid scam and phishing attacks. I am prototyping a web app that lets a gifter load btc into a local-browser based wallet and send the gift recipient a digital giftcard that lets them then redeem the bitcoin. They would then be able to setup a wallet (if they wish) , buy an amazon giftcard, swap for another crypto etc. It would be a browser based wallet so I will be able to walk the user through whatever they choose to do with the btc with the gui.
I visited your website but nothing works there and nothing is happening when I click on all buttons and menus, so I guess it's just a mockup. This is web wallet app, so what happens if you get ddos attacks and your website goes down, or get hacked are replaced with some malicious version? Who is holding the keys for bitcoin and information for gift cards?? I have done research into past examples of non-custodial bitcoin gifting apps, but I wasn't able to find any. If y'all know of any I would love to hear about them. I would also love to hear any feedback, questions, or concerns about my idea that you have. Thank you for taking the time to read my project announcement.
I would prefer to see code being released as open source or source viewable, otherwise nobody would know what is happening behind the scenes. There is a market for Bitcoin gift card, but I am not sure how this would be profitable for you, and would you charge some percentage fees or not?
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The other possibility, which still sucks mind you, is that they looked into compliance and then looked at the cost of doing it and said nope, not worth it. If BTC was at $100k and they were making 5X what they are now and they could have taken it a bit easy to deal with health issues and brought in a few lawyers and whoever to deal with the compliance and whatever else was needed. But it's not, and sometimes you just have to walk away. Would be nice if they open soured their code at shutdown so someone else could run with it, but on the other hand the fraud and scam sites that would start popping up would most likely be insane.
Any way you put it their reasons are certainly related mostly with regulations and compliance, but they can't go out any just say it like that in public. Sure they could release source code but it's not some rocket science, and we already have similar P2P websites that works, like LocalMonero, AgoraDesk, HodlHodl, etc. and they all have better rating than LocalCrytos on kycnot.me website. Source code is also private for this alternatives, but advantages for LocalMonero andAgoraDesk are that No personal information is needed, no need for JavaScripts, TOR is available, there is API and Android/iOS apps. That is much better than LocalCryptos, so people can just transition there.
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I'm sure many of you have heard about Bitwala, the banking app that lets you trade crypto as well - it's like Skrill or Payoneer. They haven't let new customers in for ages. Sometime last year they went through a complete redesign and rebranded themselves as Nuri.
No profit means no business for Nuri, and I never used them so I can't say more about them even when they had old name Biwala. Imagine when you get co-funded by the Horizon 2020 programm for European Union and you get bankrupt few years later I think that Skrill already partially supports Bitcoin, but does anyone know any other similar payment service that supports BTC payments? At least millions of innocent users haven't lost everything in this particular case, but how depressing that the bar has been set that low. It is yet another warning that you should never be leaving coins with a third party.
I think that Nuri gambled a lot with shitcoins and leverage/yield trading investments, that is something that ruined many crypto related businesses in last few years of bear market, or maybe simply nobody really used their product.
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ATLOS is a decentralized, permissionless, non-custodial crypto payment processor.
Can we see source code for Altos? Is it open or closed source code? I don't consider your Atlos project to be decentralized when it is built on top of centralized EVM blockchains that have built in censorship, and I am not even sure you are supporting Bitcoin for payments. There is Bitcoin logo on your website but I don't know if this is Bitcoin mainnet or some tokens made up on shitcoin blockchains. There are much better open source payments processors like Btcpayserver, CypherpunkPay and few others.
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If you require bounty spammers to have a higher rank, they'll spam other boards to fill up 30 posts and earn Merit. Please keep them isolated on the bounty boards!
They need to receive merits to get higher ranks and that is not so easy if someone is shitposting spam everywhere, and they will certainly get reported sooner or later. I would suggest members to spend they merits more carefully, but you can't force newbies to stay isolated in bounty boards, unless some rule change happens. Aren't managers usually paid in BTC or some other already listed currency? Well, at least those with some reputation.
Most of them accept Bitcoin, but you can check their individual topic pages to see what coins they accept for payment. I know for a fact that Lauda accepted bunch of shitcoins like Elrond and others for his work (along with Bitcoin), but he probably sold them all for Bitcoin or fiat later. So getting them to pay everyone in an established coin will be nearly impossible. Also like others have stated, there are plenty of no named managers who will always take a campaign no matter what their payment method is.
Every merchandise finds it's buyer, and it's like cat and mouse game, trying to sell this tokens on time. No name managers with shitty campaigns are attracting no name spammers, so they are almost living in parallel bitcointalk universe. I think we should have some rating for managers, and people should generally avoid participating in any campaigns that don't pay at least partially in escrowed Bitcoin.
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I do not know exactly him even have read his post and his thread. so what makes me interested is, what happen with his lending, does he still have to pay?, give it up?
He obviously can't pay for his lending anymore if he is dead, and it's up for the guy who lend him coins what he is going to do. Some family members could probably pay this if they inherit his account with Bitcoin and will instructions, but I wouldn't count on that, and I don't like the idea of inheriting accounts. But about the legality, their family, spouse or friend have no legal obligation the debt in most cases. It's different case if that person wish to keep asset which isn't fully paid yet or cosigned a loan with the deceased one.
Any debt is usually passed on spouse or other family members, but I have no idea how this would apply for coins someone borrowed in bitcointalk forum. Legality of this is not cleat in many jurisdictions, and people could also remain private, not connecting bitcointalk account with their real identity. Is this person's real full name known? Do we know 100% this isn't a scam where someone is trying to dodge repaying a debt? Can a death certificate be produced?
This sounds very much like deja vu case of Bruno aka Gleb Gamow aka Phinnaeus Gage but I am certainly not expecting any death certificate will be produced here.
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I was just browsing some random stuff on Google and then this appeared on my search. See image below.
This is not the first time scammers are making fake CMC websites and posting google ads for that. My suggestion is to install some ad blocking extension like uBlock Origin, or just use browsers with integrated adblockers like Librewolf (based on Firefox) or Brave browser (based on Chromium). With this you won't see most of the ads on all websites including youtube, but you can whitelist Bitcointalk forum So there it goes, not so unknown conclusion that many have been hacked through this. The forceful asking for the users to connect to their Metamask, Wallet Connect and other wallets before accessing into these fake websites and services lead the victims into stealing their funds.
Best solution for this is to stop using Metamask wallet, or at least double check url bar before connecting any website with wallets like this.
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Is it that popular to make a DIY Trezor? While I really appreciate open-source hardware and do think that it significantly increases a hardware wallet's security and the trust therein, I highly doubt that enough people actually use this data to rebuild open-source hardware wallets from scratch, to skew the numbers significantly in any way.
Yeah it is somehow popular with geeks, but it's certainly not millions of people who are doing this. Than just look all the wallets that are fork of Trezor, and they are selling millions of devices around the world, one of them is OneKey that is 100% Trezor software clone and it's most popular hardware wallet in China, believe it or not. There is also PiTrezor DIY Wallet that is using Trezor code with raspberry pi zero and other similar devices, I even remember some Russian mini-Trezor called Buratino or something like that I even heard that someone made Trezor code modification that could work in any ESP32 devices, so sky is the limit... You have a point, but similar to what @n0nce said earlier, I don't think that's going to reduce the gap in a significant way.
I never said this will close any gap, but I know for sure nobody is going to make ledger DIY device
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Has anyone tested the new ellipal titan mini wallet?
No I didn't test it, and I don't know anyone who purchased this wallet. I think they have nice price, and they are one of the cheapest air-gapped devices, but offering one more closed source hardware wallet is not what I am looking for. There are cheaper DIY open source alternatives that are also air-gapped, like SeedSigner or Krux, and Jade wallet will soon become airgapped with upcoming firmware update. They were essentially marketing a mobile phone on flight mode as a hardware wallet. This is incredible amateurish, if not borderline scammy, and is enough to mean I will never touch one of their devices, even if they say they have improved on all these things. Also, it is closed source.
Yeah, they pretty much ruined their reputation with this amateur move, but they can always try to improve in future. However, I don't see anything special with this new Ellipal Mini version, and it's part of my list of wallet manufacturers to be avoided, along with Safepal that is also coming from China.
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We will be adding Bitcoin Testnet to our faucet as well today or tomorrow.
You are trying to create value for something that doesn't have any monetary value, and I don't see why anyone would trade, buy or sell Testnet Bitcoin, but whatever. Why did you change the name of exchange and topic title from FreeBitcoins to AltQuick.com?
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What are your thoughts on this? Do you have any suggestions?
In theory this sounds good and it could reduce number of cheating that is happening with social media bounty campaigns, but it would only slow them down (not saying that's a a bad thing). They can always easily create new twitter account and start fresh with new ID number, same thing for all other social media accounts, except maybe Facebook that is harder to create new accounts. I know that same thing could be done for Discord with ID numbers, but most people don't even know to find this ID numbers, so they would need to learn this. Mods don't really care about this, but you could propose this to all bounty managers.
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My question have been answered before about Keylogger and Clipboard hacks, they are 100% real but every comments I read are talking about computers/PC only, can these hacks happen on a mobile smartphone too? Android phones to be precise.
I think it's much easier for keyloggers and clipboard malware to exist on smartphones than on computer devices. Reason is that keyboard on modern smartphones is mostly software apps, and they can easily be changed with malicious version, most people probably wouldn't notice this. In general I wouldn't use any smartphone for dealing with larger amounts of Bitcoin, and it's even better to use some open source alternatives like GrapheneOS, LineageOS, DivestOS or CalyxOS, with minimal amount of apps possible.
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Da gledao sam ga, i pisali smo već malo o tom dokumentarcu u ovoj temi ranije, ali nažalost mislim da neki ljudi dobijaju inspiraciju iz ovakvih filmova, kao onaj Nigerijac Ako mislite da je The Tinder Swindler lud, trebao bi onda pogledati i The Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate Conman, o Britanskom prevarantu Robert Hendy-Freegard. - For All Mankind: alternativna povijest, rusi su sletjeli prvi na mjesec tako da se svemirska utrka nastavlja i dalje. Meni odlicno jer sam i inace fan alternativne povijesti a posto ima jako malo serija na tu temu (pada mi jedino na pamet takodjer dobra serija The Man in the High Castle koja se poigrava idejom da su svabe pobijedile u ww2.) nema biranja. Gledao sam i ja seriju For All Mankind i nije loša, volim i ja taj žanr, jedan od poznatijih takvih filmova je i Fatherland iz 1994 sa Rutger Hauer, a ima ih još sigurno.
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I kao sto prigodno ide u ovakvoj sitaciji; the king is dead, long live the king!
Ima nade! Slackovic se vratio, nakon što je mjesec dana bio u ludnici ( his own words) zato Daniel mora biti spreman za okršaj terminatora za zlatnu medalju. Mislim da novi članovi koji su se nedavno aktivirali nisu na forumu radi novca, i zato ne spamuju sa svojim postovima a to i nije loše. Možda im ne bismo trebali ni reći da mogu zaraditi nešto kada dobiju viši rang PS Opet ću reći, budi i ti malo aktivniji na lokalnom forumu Rikafip.
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Ali moram priznati @Pmalek , @FatFork , @dkbit98 i @Daniel91 da je fenomenalno gledati ironiju kako zaradjujete putem sig-kampanje reagirajuci na ovaj topic... Stari budimo realni, ti imaš samo jedan post manje od mene u ovom topic-u (sad 2) i od toga sam jedan poslao samo fotografiju debelog policajca bez ijednog slova... a Policajac je meni na ignore, tako da me briga i ne pratim koliko i kako drugi pišu i zarađuju Ne bih ni sad odgovorio ništa da me nisi spomenuo, a evo malo i statistike ovog topic-a (voli to Rikafip) sa najaktivnijim memberima i masonom 33 stepena s više identiteta. Click on Users: https://ninjastic.space/topic/5414969
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It's finally time to add one more airgapped hardware wallet in this topic, and that is Jade wallet after upcoming firmware update. Jade always had camera in their EPS32 device and they just waited for software update to add support for QR codes and camera compatibility. Someone on Twitter posted this VIDEO how this would work with Jade device. Some argue that Jade is not really airgapped because of connection with Blockstream server, but that is debatable. Image source taken from twitter account @bitcoin__help
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And honestly speaking I do not really understand why one support other coins than other. At the end it should depend on software wallet, no? I find a bit misleading fact that hardware wallet supports XXXX coins while Trezor Suite (dedicated software from the producer) just a few.
I don't care at all about shitcoins they support and Trezor even has Bitcoin-only firmware, I think it is much safer to use like that. It should be mentioned that only coin people could possibly miss from Trezor One in Monero, that is available on Model T. Trezor Suite with all it0's flaws is 100x better wallet app than LedgerLive and all other apps in hardware wallets. Considering that Ledger had 5M+ sales already, I was expecting the number to be a bit higher for Trezor, but looks like I was wrong.
You can add much more people who care about their privacy, and who made their own Trezor DIY hardware wallets. Everything is available on their github page, you can download, print and order every part, than assemble it on your own. That is impossible to do with closed source ledger device.
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Reasons
With that kind of thinking you should not use anything written in code, because you can't read it, so it's best for you to move in and start to live in some cave. Don't use phones, computers, wallets, and any electronic device, maybe join Amish community or Bushmen in Africa. I don't see what your post has to do with topic subject, that is QR codes vs NFC in Bitcoin Wallets. SeedSigner also use same format under name SeedQR and CompactSeedQR[2].
I know they are supporting it, but Seedsigner is not supporting static qr codes which means it can't work properly with Electrum wallet.
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Shit, one more non-kyc p2p trading place is going down I don't understand why they would do this now, unless they are having some problems related with kyc regulations. In blog they are claiming there are multiple reasons, like personal health, anticipated downtrend in cryptocurrency markets, and challenging developments... but I think this is mostly bs. Instead of closing down they could try selling their business to someone else who could continue their work and maybe improve it.
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