The answer to your question is already included in your post. A VPN.

If the firewall is set to reject/drop specific packets (in this case: any bitcoin traffic), the only way to bypass this is to hide the packets (e.g. through encryption).
When using a VPN, you are encrypting your traffic. The firewall just sees the source/destination, but doesn't see any payload.
This way the firewall can't tell what kind of packets these are. And if it is configured to drop bitcoin-related traffic, simple encrypted payload to an unknown IP address won't be dropped.

If you don't have access to the firewall configuration, using a VPN is the easiest way to circumvent this.

I think you are misunderstanding the whole concept. It doesn't cost you anything additionally.
In this scenario, it wouldn't be antpool who is receiving the reward.. it would be you. You would be just claiming that antpool mined the block.

So, instead of simply just mining and yelling "hello i have found this block", you would be like "Mined by antpool" while YOU are getting the reward.
This doesn't cost you anything, but can give you a lot of profit in terms of miner inside antpool thinking "hey, antpool mined 3 blocks in the past hour, but only 1 got paid out". This does harm the reputation a lot.

Calling this a lot of costs and zero profit, is naive.






Well.. you are wrong, again.

This is simple math. Mining is a probability game. When mining for a short amount of time, it is completely based on luck whether/when you find a block.
But in the long run, it all smooths out. One pool with 10PH/s DOES mine as much blocks as 10 pools combined with 1PH/s each.

This also is completely unrelated to the fact that we have multiple pools. Multiple pools exist because pool operator want to earn money (in terms of transaction fees, small percentage, etc.. ).
If we had only one pool, bitcoin basically would be owned by the pool operator. This wouldn't be just senseless, but extremely retarded too.

So.. instead of using any open-source encrypted messenger.. people should trust you with their calls ?

Can you give me one reason why someone should trust you his (1) phone number, (2) recipient phone number and (3) whole conversation ?
There are a lot of free open-source messengers available which offer encrypted calls. Those are REALLY encrypted and secured, without anyone being able to eavesdrop on the conversation.

You, on the other hand, could simply collect all data (phone numbers, ip addresses, conversation logs, etc..).


IMO, trusting a 3rd party (which has full access to all data) for private encrypted calls is nonsense. This exactly is the opposite of privacy.

IMO this is completely unrelated to bitcoin.
All of this trade war shit (which is more of a banter than a war) doesn't have any real influence on either the world economy or cryptos at all.

This is just a silly game between the US and China. Two 'alphas' who want to dominate each other. And none of them is winning.

This shouldn't have any influence on any electronic money transactions (crypto, wire, paypal, ...) at all.
I can't imagine, at least.

That's 17 coins. Ledger's native application (ledger live) does support 23 coins itself.
And additionally there are multiple coins which are not included into ledger live, but are still supported (via 3rd party UI wallets).

So ledger does support way more coins than this new wallet does. A full list of supported coins can be found here.

Not really.

The most probable case (as already mentioned by multiple people here) is that YOU have done a mistake.
An extremely rare ledger bug which only happened to one person doesn't sound realistic at all..

Sometimes it is hard to accept.. but 98% of computer problems are caused by the person in front of it.


Next time, make sure you backup the correct seed, reinitialize it and test whether it reproduces the correct addresses. Only then store funds there.

Zero fees ? There is not a single bank which does not take hefty fees when paying with credit cards.
It is just that the buyer mostly never sees the fees. But the merchant's income is reduced by a not-that-small percentage.

Various degrees of 'buyers protection' also means that there is no sellers protection. This is a two-edged sword. It all depends on the point of view.


I'd rather be the one who sends my money to the seller. I don't want my bank to handle my payments to the merchants bank. For me, giving up the control over my money and paying a fee for doing so, is kind of retarded.
And i can't imagine that i am the only one thinking this way.

You don't explicitly have to.

As the name says, 'requirements' are required. Whether on linux or windows doesn't matter.
On linux, you'll have to install them separately. On windows, you simply have tons of bloatware with those requirements included.

Requirements are neither an argument pro nor contra linux/windows.




As long as there isn't an internet connection, you are pretty secured. Regardless of the OS.
Even windows XP should keep you secured then.




Not really.

People who moan at windows not being secure probably realized that there are TONS of unpatched vulnerabilities.
This in combination with the fact that 90%+ of malware is written for windows only makes it safe to assume that windows is less secure overall in comparison to linux.

The pin to unlock your nano s is unrelated to any firmware update.




If you use the same seed, it is the same wallet.




 
There is no '12 word secret key'.

The nano s derives your private keys from the 24 word mnemonic. Nothing else.




The 'right seed' in a wrong order is NOT the correct seed.
The last word contains a checksum. So, even if you shuffle your words, the seed won't be accepted. Simply because it is NOT A VALID SEED.

Your seed is only valid (and functional) in the correct order. Changing the order of the words will give you an 'Invalid seed' error.

If your seed is being accepted (which it is) it is in the correct order. This did not cause your issue.

No.

99% of all user on reddit do not have any clue what they are talking about.

IMO this doesn't make any sense. Ledger did never change anything in their key derivation. Therefore an older firmware (which isn't available anyway due to security reasons) won't help you (it will generate the same private-/public- keypairs).
The theory of a 'bug' which only appears with a small percentage of seeds is.. nonsense. 

Unfortunately i have to agree with the majority here. You probably have made a mistake when setting up your nano s (written down wrong seed / initialized again after writing it down without writing this new seed down).
This is the only logical explanation 

The miner of a block can put any string (limited by size) into this field.
So, anyone can put "Mined by XXX" into it. This also means that pools can simply not set this field.

There is nothing/noone stopping him from doing so. There also is no reason for that. It is an optional field.

Regarding IP addresses, this field simply just shows which IP you received the block from. This can (but doesn't have to) be the miner.

Why do you think that linux requires to run 'random scripts from the internet' ?
You don't have to run any scripts at all. And obviously also shouldn't without inspecting the code first.

For security reasons, i would discourage you from choosing windows over linux.




If your seed has been generated properly (i.e. trough trustworthy (verified) wallet or through good RNG) offline AND the computer which has the seed stored in a text-file does NEVER touch the internet, it is pretty safe to assume that it is secured.
Without being able to connect to the internet, a potential malware couldn't connect to send the seed to the attacker.

But you should still use a non-digital backup of your seed. Your system/hard drive might break. Or a lightning strike could destroy your hardware.
It is always good to have a non-digital backup for such cases.

A wallet (in this case: electrum) is a software to mange your private-/public- keys.

For privacy reasons, electrum does create a new address for each transaction you receive.
Each private-/public- keypair is saved inside of your wallet file and can always be derived using your seed (which you have hopefully backed up properly).

The addresses do not have an expiration date. You can receive funds as often / as much as you want to that single address.
The only reason for multiple addresses is, as mentioned, for privacy reasons. Different addresses inside your wallet can't be linked together (at least not until you decide to create a transaction using BOTH UTXO's as input).


This is not an issue and does not need to be solved.

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This sounds fishy.
Having trouble updating programs does come either from a very very old and slow PC (which isn't capable of doing anything anymore) or from a broken registry or from malware.

I'd suggest you open the resource manager of windows and check the Hard drive tab.
This will show which program does access your hard drive the most (read/write). If there is some unknown program which does a lot of reading/writing to the hard drive, you can be sure this is caused either by malware or broken windows updates.

You might as well scan your PC for malware, just to be sure.


Mind telling us what hardware you are using ? Andy halfway decent hardware shouldn't slow down your computer THAT much.

This fully depends on how you define 'received'.

With 0 confirmation, the sender has given the 'order' to 'credit' you the coins. But the whole process is not finished yet.
The sender still can 'cancel' the transaction (in terms of maliciously double spending).

Only after a miner has included your transaction into a block, it is 'inside of the blockchain' and therefore finalized.
You should always wait for at least one confirmation (depending on the value of the transaction) to regard the TX as finalized.


So, technically you have only received them if you can actually spend them (which is the case with 1+ confirmations).

If you don't have access to your seed, you should IMMEDIATELY move all of your coins away from your ledger.

There are a lot of scenarios where you can't access your nano s anymore (e.g. after update, firmware buggy, nano s breaks, someone enters the pin wrong 3 times, etc...).
Without the seed, there is NO WAY to recover your coins anymore.

If you really don't have your seed (which does seem so from your statement), create a temporary wallet to move all your funds to, reinitialize your nano s with a new seed, MAKE A BACKUP OF IT, and move your funds to your nano s again.
Also, note that you shouldn't store your seed on your PC. Write it on a sheet of paper.


It is extremely risky to leave your coins on your nano s without having the seed to restore it in case of it being non-accessible.

Note that ledger is supporting coins for free.

It is up to any individual to create an application for their desired coin to be supported by the nano s. The coins are no longer explicitly chosen by ledger.

If you are looking for a specific coin to be supported, simply create the application yourself (or pay someone to do this) and submit it to ledger.
All they are going to do is to review your application and (given that it is working as intended without any bugs) add it to the nano s 'app store'.

So.. you want to say that you have ignored our advises to create a backup ?

• Quote from: bob123 on August 15, 2018, 06:12:38 AM
  Well, if you do make a backup of your wallet.dat, you can't destroy anything.
  
• Quote from: ranochigo on August 14, 2018, 02:36:25 PM
  As long as you keep several backups of wallet.dat, you would be fine and you can easily switch to another backup if you mess one up.
  

If you have really overwritten your wallet.dat, you are out of luck. And to be honestly, it is your own fault.

You should have followed our advises to create several backups + do what we had suggested to access your coins.

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If you have imported the private keys, what is the problem then?
Any coins attached to these addresses would show up in electrum (at least if you have correctly imported then; Is the first char of your addresses identical with the ones from core ?)


Mind explaining what the problem is after importing the correct private keys ? Because, for me, it seems you have managed to export/import them properly.

Huh ?

A single dropped node has nothing to do with the firewall.. at least if this specific IP isn't explicitly blocked (which is not the case here).
It is completely normal that connections to some nodes get dropped or that some nodes do get banned from connecting to your own node.

This is because the nodes are not being compliant to the network rules.

Checking the firewall is necessary if ALL connections (or the majority) somehow get rejected / dropped. Not if you just can't connect to one single node while still having enough incoming/outgoing connections.

Yes, this is possible.

But if you further want to keep your bitcoins, you should do what LoyceV suggested and first create a new wallet. Then move your funds from your old address to your new wallet (sweeping).
If you don't want to further keep your coins, but just want to send them to an exchange or something like that, simply importing the private key will work. You don't need to create a new wallet/seed in this case.

When downloading/installing electrum, make sure you do verify the signature AND that your PC is clean. Also, if you are creating a wallet, make sure to backup your seed (only offline! - NOT on your computer).