I already commented this in the altcoin shitcoin SHT section:


I see a new trend of alts, and felt yet again that the dev of Shitcoin (SHT) had a great point making his coin, as i see a new trend of altcoins is coming.

I cannot deny Bitcoin NEEDs to have a fork which SCALES properly, but this needs to be done by competent people, not someone turning BTC into a crapcoin.

This endless high of transaction fees and difficulty getting funds to confirm needs to be dealt with. Many friends i was convincing of BTC now are no longer interested after this, and said if they must use digital cash, they would prefer Litecoin. Even I cannot deny it and am switching to Litecoin, and using BTC for long term storage. Even I cannot simply deny that its now unusable for £10 a week worth of article writing I do per client, with a £10 fee on top. Its ridiculous, and ludicrous and the last hardfork that was done really screwed up, there was a chance, a chance to get this right, and not only did it fail, it failed so badly that I am astonished. Price may be high, but thats not the only marker of a good currency, id rather it be stable and deflate than jumping all over the place.

But making endless BT(X) forks is useless and merely someone trying to cash in. A premine? Seriously?

But you will get people trying to invest and 'trade' these coins, just to make a profit, fueling the fire.

I say make a coin called Bitcoin Shit (BTS) to knock out all these forks before they happen, we need ONE serious hard fork, that will fix these slow transaction, and do it well, not just listening to a forum community and traders, but actual users of the coin, changing the consensus rules is a PITA in itself, we really had a chance this year to solve this problem I am mining with GPUs on nicehash, and im wondering how much of my £60 mining profit is going to vanish for the miner fee as well. It just not sustainable, long term, and as more people use it, it just won't work in its current state. There isn't enough 'lanes' in this road, simply isn't enough. When I get paid out, i might just mine equihash directly and simply trade it for some Litecoin, as I need a digital currency thats usable for my business model. Stability is more important than me, or a gradual deflating, not this wild ride.


This is the unbiased part of me speaking, i can no longer defend this, after the SegWit fork I really had confidence this would be sorted, and im astounded as to the incompetence and greed I have seen over this whole thing, and these forks like BTG, that people ACTUALLY MINE in great numbers. Meanwhile, people who USE it for a currency, are sat for days waiting to get paid, or pay a high fee, i have paid £100 in miner fees worth, this month which has finalised my switch to Litecoin and NEM until this is dealt with.

BTC
LTC
NEM
ETH
ZCash
Monero
UNO
PPCoin (POS)

theres a few more, but these are the main ones that actually bought something new to the table that is usable, although a few of these may have scaling issues in the future. NEM is having a fork to upgrade TX capacity to 4000/sec, now we are talking. I don't even want to switch to BCH as i sense something is very up with it, i just feel its going to be a very manipulated market, more so than others.

In nottingham area, can also get the train myself if not too far.

I am a freelance article writer, i can write articles as needed about many topics, fee negotiable. I can show work samples.

Note, i will not write articles for scam websites or make bogus claims, Bit Connect already tried this with me.

I am offering my service to transfer old (or recently made) audio cassette tapes to MP3 format. Price includes digitally emailed MP3, but an extra cost of 0.0003 BTC for a CD, (Genuine Verbatim, Azo Dye Disks, not crappy CMC disks).

The tapes will be transferred using a modified WM-D6C walkman with a Quartz-Locked motor (Super-D6C, see here: http://www.walkman-archive.com/articles/upgraded_super-d6c.html). Price includes a quick noise reduction and clean up of the audio, although i can leave noise reduction out if the buyer would prefer and/or provided raw PCM WAV files or raw audacity files. Correction of speed will also be carried out if its bad on the original recording. The WM-D6C is connected via Line Out, to Line In, not a headphone port to microphone jack, nor is it one of those Chinese made USB tape transfer things which does poor quality recordings. OCD means i will squeeze out every last drop of what I can from the original tapes, although you will only be as good as the original recording, minus some noise.

For damaged (snapped or mangled) tapes, I add an extra 0.0003 BTC charge.

I accept payment in BTC/LTC.

If anyone is interested, let me know! I can also transfer tapes encoded with Dolby B and Dolby C, the modified WM-D6C does not have the 'pumping' well known with dolby C, as its internal electronics have been re calibrated, including the replacement of old capacitors, etc.

As recorded tapes are often sentimental, and in fact i still make cassette tapes of family etc for fun to this day, and ever since my mother died storage of my older ones and archiving them has been crucial, your tapes will be treated with the utmost respect.

I am selling my zoostorm laptop, as I have now built a new desktop and have no use for the laptop. It is a high specification, with:


15 inch screen
32GB RAM
Core i7 4720HQ
Nvidia 980M GPU
256GB SSD, 1.75TB HDD

The laptop is well used, it has some minor wear, and a minor bit of plastic missing by the CPU fan grill area and 4 or so missing screws, but the system is functionally sound with 2 months of (valid) zoostorm warranty which is valid for non cosmetic damage. I will include the original 1TB drive which came with the unit as a separate drive, as you must send it back complete with original parts, to claim (they do allow you to upgrade). This HDD is non-functional but is needed for warranty claim. I just upgraded it and never bothered to claim under the warranty.

Will happily sell for 500GBP equiv in digital currency, escrow accepted via ognasty or psychoticboy (psychoticboy preferred) if the buyer would prefer, buyer pays fee. Also accept payment in LTC, ETH, BCH, PPCoin and NEM. Please no fake ognasty or psychoticboy escrows as has been tried a few times with me on here from buyers/sellers alike, I will always message them personally to verify any set up and ask them to sign a message from their well known addresses and have them confirm the funds have reached them before shipping out. Genuine buyers only please.

Feel free to contact zoostorm yourselves using the machines serial number which i will be willing to provide to a serious buyer, to verify the warranty left before buying.


I will also use this topic to show about validating my identity. This thread being for the public record:

Now I have set up an address used for verifying my identity to people for future transactions and is an address set up for the sole purpose on here and as an identity verifier. I will often use a different address to receive funds, this is merely to verify my identity if any future buyer needs it.

Address: 17v4qbj7aBi8mpBE1A8HaQxLPNJKJ3pFdm

Message: I jacob mayes sign a message from this address, as proof of my identity on BitcoinTalk as of 15/11/2017. If you do a transaction with me, verify my identity through this message and have me sign a message from here if in doubt
17v4qbj7aBi8mpBE1A8HaQxLPNJKJ3pFdm . If we have agreed to send funds for a purchase to any other address, ensure i have signed a message from here first.

Signature: H3HEibYjQyD1JmAjUj+UUyTtl270brgGNjq4ds3yc+BNC+2m6AJjfh85FimmYrqtus++BScGLY3nE34TEq6SNDk=



Thanks for looking, hope i can find this machine a good home. Note actual formatted capacity of drives are a few GB less. HDD and SSD Securely Wiped with DoD 7-Pass erasure and windows 10 Pro freshly reinstalled and licensed, purchased license key will also be included as i bought the key myself. No extra cost for shipping within UK or can be collected and paid with digital currency or cash in person.

Images here:

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What can a malicious bot do on telegram if you do not click links or accept files from it? Can it somehow exploit telegram on your system (i use the desktop telegram app and the mobile one)

Or just send useless spam?

I am all ears to hear what thats capable of, ive been a big supporter of the app since its early days and am interested to hear about any exploits to avoid. Short of giving them over the mobile number you are using, which could potentially be used for a SIM swap for 2FA accounts.

Plus, even if its secured, if hes used any type of wallet with a faulty RNG, its a ticking timebomb. Hence why theres only a few well known wallets that I trust to have a secure RNG.

Quite a few people on here who take security measures like 2FA on online wallets get quite cocky about it, but thats not enough. A good, audited hardware wallet like ledger, an audited paper wallet generator, or a wallet like electrum 2FA is probably one of the of the few ways to keep coins 99.9999% secure. Even then, there is the $5 wrench attack (google it).

Even the trezor hardware wallet had an exploit which helped some soul here recover $30k USD of coins - $3000 bounty to the hacker he paid to help him, a wallet used to secure millions of pounds in coins:

https://www.wired.com/story/i-forgot-my-pin-an-epic-tale-of-losing-dollar30000-in-bitcoin/

granted, you needed physical access and its been patched, but no system is infallible. Plus i bet there are many trezors out there which hasn't been updated. And this is one of the go-to secure wallets, but very few notices it uses a generic microcontroller.

Best that people on here even those who are 'i told you so' type, should never get cocky. Even I do not, and i use multiple wallets. And now is not a time to get cocky or i told you so when some poor soul has lost £30k.

Even I, a big proponent of bitcoin security had a dumb moment and entered my ledger PIN wrong three times, making good storage of multiple backups of the seed vital. Not counting the time my other ledger wallet somehow became defective, im currently trying to RMA it with them now, but i still have used, and trust their product for years after doing my research.

2FA while good, is not enough on its own, i proved this to a friend of mine with his permission, was easily able to social engineer most places to remove it. Yes, always enable it, though.

If you have lost the seed, there may be a way to retrieve your coins if there are a lot of them making this worthwhile to do, and your firmware version is an older version, this guy got his coins back that way:

https://www.wired.com/story/i-forgot-my-pin-an-epic-tale-of-losing-dollar30000-in-bitcoin/

If the firmware is below 1.5.2, that will help you.

DO NOT RESTORE/ERASE IT WITHOUT THE SEED, DO NOT UPDATE the firmware, and if its below firmware 1.5.2, contact the writer of that article to get some help with it, as they are most likely retrievable via an exploit which pulls the private keys from the trezors RAM, IF:

1.if you have forgotten the pin,
2.lost the seed,
3. the firmware is below 1.5.2,
4. you have physical possession of the wallet.
5. Seed Passphrase protection is disabled

All 4 of these mean your trezor is exploitable to give up its seed via an exploit. If this is the case, then contact the writer of that article who could put you in touch with the guy who helped him do it, for a bounty he would probably help you.

I have studied this exploit HEAVILY, and it is a valid working exploit, but you only get one shot at it, as it wipes the trezor while preserving its RAM with a custom exploited firmware being flashed, yes before firmware 1.5.2 it loads its master seed into RAM, unencrypted.

If you have the seed, you can restore it to trezor, to a ledger wallet which i prefer to trezor, or into electrum to access your funds, but this is not as secure as using a hardware wallet! The seed means you need not go through this rigmarole.

This is the only way you will get your coins back without the seed or getting the wallet to open, and if the firmware is 1.5.2 or higher, the coins are gone im afraid, you must store the seeds so carefully.


The above is why I use ledger over trezor/keepkey, due to the secure enclave, but if it helps you get lost coins back, you might as well use it. This is not FUD or a scam post, its a genuine exploit, the wired writer there has a video of him recovering $30k of coins with it.

Barring this, find your written master seed, or remember the PIN/get the wallet open, and never store all your fortune in a single wallet. You can import the seed into electrum, checking the BIP option checkbox, this will not be as secure mind as its now on your PC, but will give you access to your funds if you need it if the trezor is defective, but move them to another hardware/paper wallet with multiple copies, pronto.

Even so, online wallet accounts are at risk as they keep your private keys. Even using most online PCs is a risk due to malware. Even with an encrypted wallet, they will lie in wait for you to decrypt, then swipe the private key from memory. The mt gox and the cryptsy situation is an example of this, you should always use a paper/hardware wallet for storing large quantities. I have an electrum 2FA wallet and an android wallet for day to day change, but most of my funds are secured by a ledger wallet/paper wallets. Ledger wallet chrome app is easier to use than most wallet software, all it needs is the ledger wallet be plugged in to sign transactions.

HD wallets with seeds like ledger/trezor/keepkey/electrum also remove the problem of change addresses not being in recent backups, with all keys generated from said seed.

I would say hardware wallets are more secure than unpassworded paper wallets, as you can use them on a compromised machine safely, whereas a paper wallet is ever so slightly vulnerable if you were to sweep it on a compromised machine.

I am so so sorry for your loss . Online wallets are dangerous to store long term, as you have found out. I know its difficult, that quantity of coins... I would however for future use recommend the following:

If your using Bitcoin and storing funds you do not wish to lose, consider something called a 'hardware wallet'. These wallets store your private keys within them and can be plugged into any PC, even one with coin stealing malware, and the malware cannot at your private keys, especially with the ledger wallet keeping keys in a secure enclave. Your PC sends the transaction to the wallet to sign it, you can use it even on an infected pc, and it shows the wallet your about to send to on its little screen, and forces confirmation with a button on the unit. Ledger also supports multiple cryptocurrencies, and resembles a USB type stick.

PC or mobile / online wallets are fine for day to day change, but for ultimate security, use one of these, and keep the 24 word recovery phrase safe (i mean it!). Simply plug in, enter your PIN and then you can use it like any other PC wallet. You can load the same recovery phrase onto multiples, this phrase is stored offline, store in multiple locations, or even do what I do and keep an encrypted copy on CD at the houses of family members as well as unencrypted copies in a safe. Great if you forget your PIN or the wallet becomes defective.

Grab yourself a ledger nano s:

https://www.ledgerwallet.com/r/e656

I prefer ledger to trezor, as ledger uses am audited type of secure enclave wheras trezor uses a generic microcontroller as does keep key, both are good though.

Or, you could always use an offline generated paper wallet. In any normal PC or mobile wallet, especially on a PC running windows, keys can be stolen by malware, even when encrypted as the malware waits for your decryption password to be entered. Online wallets can go bust or otherwise be hacked. Great for day to day change, not for your savings. Paper wallets are inconvenient unless being used for long term storage. If your going to generate a paper wallet, use bitaddress.org. Bitcoin being a trustless system, the private key is proof of ownership and funds are irretrievable due to shares consensus rules enforced by the protocol. As long as 51% of the network agrees on rules, nothing can happen other than those rules, and the current network rules are the private key no matter who uses it is the key to unlock the funds.

Electrum does 2FA wallets as well, which are more secure than an online wallet, but in my opinion hardware wallets are the best option, but if you go this road, format your hard drive before setting one up, as you have no idea what malware may/may not be there. Plus, Kaspersky internet security is probably one of the best on the market, in my opinion.

I am so sorry for your loss, I'm always aggressively pushing hardware wallets, as it really is the only way to stop crap like this.

Even if your not hacked, an online provider may be, or in the case of blockchain.info, they had a bug a couple of years ago, reusing a numerical value which is meant to be unique each time a transaction is signed. Someone could view the signed transactions on the blockchain and determine private keys from the public keys using this method, as two transaction signatures with the same r value will leak the private key, a flaw in ECDSA public key cryptography.

Multisig wallets or not reusing the same address for sending transactions will protect you from a potentially faulty RNG when signing but not while generating, although most decent wallets fix this. Or fake wallet sites like the 'coinomiapp' (fake knock off of the coinomi site, do not visit it) will try and trick you into entering your seed etc. There are so many pitfalls, and I think the hardware wallets are simple enough to use for the novice user, and much more secure, provided you don't keep the recovery phrase saved on an online pc

Please grab yourself a hardware wallet for storage, do away with any kind of online/desktop wallet for any large quantity of funds, although I would give an exception to coinbase multisig vaults.

Grab yourself a ledger wallet, store the seed safely in multiple trusted locations, and NEVER have to go through this again. I am so sorry for your loss, £30k plus is no small sum to loose!

If I needed to move large quantities of coins from a publicly known address, I would run them through a mixer before storing them as well. So you could argue that you no longer 'have them'.

a best thing to do is something like trezor, have a seed with a few bitcoins on, and a second with your wealth, never store all in one place, you can give the 'dummy' keys with only few bitcoins up under duress. They actually allow seeds with different passphrases so you can set up a dummy one.

Until difficulty retargets, you will find that a single PC could mine if the difficulty was low enough and still process transactions, but the more who are mining, the less of a chance of a 51% attack, unless miners are centralized.

you could try some signature campaigns etc on here, or if you have a good GPU use the nicehash miner to acquire more if your power is cheap, or if like us electricity is used to heat in the winter hence 'free'. Or do what I do and write articles and do other services for BTC.

creating a brainwallet like that is stupid, many a brain wallets have been stolen this way, there are scripts people run to find weak brainwallets to crack, DO NOT DO IT.

I think we need to fork the bitcoin blockchain again called BTS (Bitcoin Shit). The first on Bitcointalk to think of Bitcoin Shit (BTS) inspired by SHT. Should be the SHT devs who get onto this, and make the best bitcoin fork on earth, that will promise the earth, and deliver shit. I see a new trend of 'alts' coming, which will be a fork of the original BTC blockchain and promise to be the new bitcoin. Lets just do unlimited size blocks, segwit 2x, AND equihash algorithm for fine asic resistance while we are at it. Add in a starting difficulty of '0' so everyone can get in there. Everything these 'forks' will promise yet screw up on.

We need to jump the Bitcoin Fork Crapcoin train. Imagine that? I can see 'forks' like BTG becoming more common, i can almost feel it now. CrapCoins have sunk to a new low, so we need to get in there! FREE COINS! YEAHHHH! I mean a PREMINE of BTG? Seriously?


I love how SHT has never died. I still have billions somewhere... Plus the block reward seems to go back up, messing with numbers.  The endless stream of crapcoins grows faster than the worlds shit piles, but now they wish to take a shit on BTC too... Lets at least do it and be honest here...

I couldn't resist posting this.

All new segwit addresses start with a '3', i think. It doesn't have to be a multisig address

I researched Bitconnect, they even made their own altcoin. I was hired to write articles for them a while back in early 2016, but i rejected new work from them when i saw the bull they were asking me to write. I found the site shady at best, and i would avoid it like the plague. They even were converting peoples Bitcoin balances into Bitconnect coin balances without giving users the option to withdraw their invested coins. Good riddance, but they are not based in the UK. As far as I remember, they were based in vietnam.

I can backup what I say if anyone needs, as I have datestamped articles in my onedrive which match what was published there (with the date before publication there)

They asked me to write how the place was the best place to invest, how it will be better than Bitcoin, how it was zero risk and to make it seem 'enticing' to people who used the platform with outlandish claims. (I refused). I could not have that on my conscience and rejected it. They would later make their own altcoin.

Create a BTG wallet on your phone with a new seed, take that down and save the address. Reload the compromised seed and send from that address to the new generated one youve saved, then load the new seed again with the wallet you created at the start.

Step 1. Create new seed on coinomi, generate BTG wallet. Write down the seed.
Step 2. Save BTG wallet address
Step 3. Remove the wallet from coinomi and load the compromised seed. Send BTG from compromised address to the new address you created before.
Step 4. Remove compromised seed from wallet, reload new seed where you sent the BTG to.

Glad you got your litecoins out, was it a sizable amount?

Try the double spend trick, you have nothing to lose and potentially everything to gain.


I would buy yourself a ledger Nano S wallet. They are much more secure than ever using any other form of wallet, or set up an electrum 2FA wallet, but keep the seed safe which has 2 of the 3 keys and keep the auth code written down, and keep a copy of the authenticator key to save you having to remove 2FA via using the seed.

Let me know if you need any help double spending them. I am syncing up my Core Node so if you have issues broadcasting the generated transaction via your private keys, send it to me after signing it, and i will push out the signed transaction using my node, I am letting it sync up with the blockchain as fast as I can. But if you can do it via your own node do it as fast as possible, as mine will take several hours or perhaps overnight so sync, so it may be too late if you cannot find someone with a node to push it out for you. If nothing doing and its still unconfirmed, I will try and push out the signed TX if you cannot.

I did a thread asking if someone could come to your aid with a synced node, but if nothing doing I started syncing as a backup plan once it is ready I will post again. No one can get private keys from the signed hexadecimal transaction, as you have already signed the unsigned with your private keys this generating that signed transaction which can be pushed out by any node.


These inputs:

1K86Xi9ovCZo6fCKuK8M6PdxZsEcsJ4tqK
1NuqMx1LEQwnRVmudgmjt3ST5WAyQyLTzm
1PNh8EMtXrANA3cvpv8mZM1ZoFS7sPNdnV

You want to sign a raw transaction from these input private keys to an address you control, which you then wish to broadcast, the signed transactions can then be pushed out by a node.  Either you could do it yourself, and open the Bitcoin core console, and enter with the signed transaction after the command: sendrawtransaction

I don't know if you could double spend them by 'sweeping' the private keys instead which might be more simple? Not sure if that would work though, but you could always give that a try in the meantime.


If you are really having trouble generating the signed TX for me to push out, i would happily place 40USD of BTC or LTC of my own coins in escrow with a trusted member here (you could arrange this, ognasty or psychoticboy I trust both, ill pay the fee) and have a go at double-spending it using your actual private keys to sign transactions then send them to an address you control, if you are having problems figuring out how to do it. I know its only 40 USD but that may be a lot of money to you and its the principle of it, its people like this that really give BTC a bad rap, 40 USD is a days wages for some. Move your BTG first in the way I described above, to at least protect those funds. If you have any Bitcoin cash on the same seed, do that as well.

Let me know how it goes, and i will post back when my node is fully synced. Let me know if you manage to do it yourself, as well. If you need help signing the TX i have offered my help as above to try.



EDIT:

https://blockchain.info/tx/bc6ea0a353696adb9b09e763b5f438edf64344ce8018acdda66584e7ca10edb5

looks like we are too late, sorry buddy! :/ at least you got out your LTC and probably your BTG!

This was kind of worked on with NEM coin's proof of importance (POI) which is a modified proof of stake algorithm, which requires that accounts be used to transact rather than simply hoard to increase importance to enable 'staking' if you will, I doubt the miners would release Bitcoin's POW algorithm so easily... It is very expensive to secure a POW blockchain.