Please answer the following quetsions (to make it easier for us to help you):

• What versions are you using: Nano s firmware, bitcoin chrome application, bitcoin application (on the nano s)?
  
  
• Did you verify the receiving address on your nano s when clicking 'receive' in the bitcoin chrome app?
  
  
• Does the address show up under 'Options' -> 'Tools' -> 'Sign message' from the drop-down menu?
  
  
• Did you verify wether the copied(?) address from the receive-tab matched the address when pasted (to eliminate clipping malware)?
  
  
• Is this the 'first' time you are using your nano s? Did it work (without a flaw) previously?
  
  

You might read this article. It compares ethereum and neo pretty detailed.
You might gather your information (which network to use) from this source through the stated protocol differences and the 'use cases'. 

The actual problem with PoW is the used energy.
With the rising average temperature and the media comparing BTC's energy usage to countries like denmark, a 'solution' would be handy.

Wether PoS can (safely and securely) replace PoW is neither proved nor disproved.
It may but also may not be the 'solution'.

But if the hashrate (with more miner) and the energy consumption is going to rise further, governments will start cracking down on mining (like already happened in several countries).

They definetely have an advantage. Simply because they already have the background knowledge.
This is not limited to bitcoin. People with background knowledge always have an advantage in a (new) topic.




I honestly don't think this is a big barrier.
I agree with you that the (front end) design of quite a few wallets/services should be changed to match the intuitive handling of social networks, etc..
But this will definetely come in the future when more people get involved into crypto.

Another question is wether you really want to have people using crypto 'whose skills are limited to .. facebook or twitter .. '.
With a massive increase in (non-techy) users there will be also a massive increase in scammer. Funds will get stolen if people can't protect their private key / devices.
This would have quite a big (negative) impact on the whole crypto ecosystem.

There is a thread (from 2013) here on the forum by fisheater which describes the way of forking and creating an altcoin pretty detailed.
It suits well for research purposes (creating own altcoin, blockchain, genesis block, ... ).

You can enter the hash of a block into an block explorer (e.g. https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/block/00000000000000000048056e7e1ac60610b57d67d39962ee111c39d67903eed3).
You will see the first transaction having the description Newly minted coins and contains 13.44037051 BTC.
Those BTC are made up of the mining reward (12.5 BTC) and the collected fees (0.94037051 BTC), visible if you click on the transaction (e.g. https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/bb4a2e8a2b575a3fee69d9e9ca360c228773195eedad4be234c699e89308ba16).

Ether is still going to be mined. Mining describe the process of 'generating' new coins.
PoW and PoS are just 'ways' to control the creation of new coins.
Even after PoS being implemented, coins are going to be mined. It just doesn't require work anymore (which does require electricity) but staking coins.

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I'd highly recommend to press the ignore-button at the left side of his post.
I literally did this 5 minutes ago, and already have the subjective impresson of the forum being 'cleaner' regarding shitposts and a rapid growth in IQ-average here.

 



 



 
Now you finally convinced me to follow the advice of multiple trusted and serious member from this forum, to ignore you.
This will make my personal experience on this forum a lot better.



I think it is pretty clear that you don't have any clue about bitcoin, LN, cryptography, math or any other technological topic.
You might be able to use java libaries. But i highly doubt you could build a cryptocurrency - ever.

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@theymos: Might consider an auto-ignore feature for newbie accounts to keep them safe from so called 'experts'? 

Your option most probably won't work.
Recovering bad sectors does not work. Once some parts of your hard drive are gone, the files are irreversible deleted.
All you can do is to mark those bad sectors, so they won't get used again in the future.

The Master boot record is a boot sector. It contains information about logical partitions, file system, etc..
This is completely unrelatd to this topic. And nothing 'can be lost in the master boot record'.

Such statements confuse people who are not very techy. Please don't spread false information.




OP did use pywallet. Pywallet does scan a drive for wallet files and tries to dump the private keys.

Again, this has nothing to do with tails.
You can install any live OS onto a USB 2.0 device. The speed will be *relatively* equal, less than 40 MB/s.
This is due to the USB port transfer speed, not because 'it is tails'.
Install *any* live os onto a USB 3.0 device (< 300 MB/s) and it will work noticeable faster. Completely independend from tails.

You need to run this commands in a command line, not in the electrum console.

The required steps are outlined in this guide: http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/merchant.html
This guide is based on a linux system. Commands on windows might differ from them.
Anyway, it is recommended to run a webserver on a linux machine (for security reasons).

While it indeed might sound strange leaving such a high amount on an exchange, i think it is not correct to allege fraudelent attempts.
There is no 'best case scenario' for him. The exchange won't give him his money back if someone logged into his account and withdraw it.
That would be pretty dumb by an exchange and is never going to happen.

So in my opinion OP doesn't have much to win.




Trains of thought like yours let people being naive about their storage of BTC's.

Google Authenticator's mobile application can be 'cloned' by an attacker (Having access to all GA codes at any time).
This task is not trivial, but also not extremely tough to accomplish..

MAC's may sound more secured than windows because of the majority of malware being written for windows, but this is a fallacy.
An attacker does not have to invest more time to attack a specific target on a MAC than one on windows.


If a few factors play together (e.g. missing updates + careless behavior + publicly available information + ... ) it is definetely conceivable that OP really got 'hacked'.
It is wrong to assume that this is not possible.

This is a good prerequisite to get your money back!
If the thief already has transfered the coins to an exchange your chance of getting evidence is pretty good i would say.

Knowing the thief in 'real life' is always advantageous in those kind of thefts.

In most countries the value (you should get back) is calculated in FIAT-value at the time of the theft.
This probably won't get you your whole BTC back, but at the majority.

Make sure to provide your law enforcement agency all required information.


And please keep us informed on what happens next. This might be useful for a ton of people here.
You are not the first, and will not be the last one being 'physically' robbed.

This depends on what kind of wallet you want.

Hardware wallets are by far more secure than a software wallet. They require you to confirm transactions with physically pressing buttons.
They can even run on compromised computers without running risk of losing coins.
Hardware wallet do create their private keys in an safe air-gapped environment (and never leaks them).
But they are not free. They cost 60$+.

Software wallets are faster to get (just download, install, ready), they are free, but the whole security of your coins then relies on how you secure your computer.
If your PC gets infected with malware, your coins are at a big risk of getting stolen (at least the next time you open the wallet and decrypt it).

In the end it is all about what you want to achieve, how much you want to store and how good you want to sleep at night.


Buying a Hardware wallet for storing 50$ of BTC is probably not worth it. But if you plan on storing a multiple of the cost of a hardware wallet (60$+),
you might consider buying one to secure your coins.

It also depends on how frequently you are going to sign transactions.
If you just plan to hold for 5 years, a paper wallet wouldn't be any worse than a hardware wallet (neither security nor reliability).
But if you plan to regularly access your coins (buy stuff with it, send transactions) you should get a hardware wallet since those are way more intuitive to use than a paper wallet.
Regular spending from paper wallets is a pain and not advisable for new comers.


So, to sum it up:
If you want to store an amount you don't want to risk losing: Hardware wallet
If you just want to store a small amount: Software wallet
If you plan to hold long term (without accessing/spending them in the meantime): Paper wallet
If you plan to regularly access/spend them and want them to be as secured as possible: Hardware wallet


The most reputable hardware wallets are made by Ledger and Trezor.

Go to https://xrpcharts.ripple.com/#/ and enter your account# to check whether you have received your funds.
If, according to this site, your funds have arrived then it is mostly just a network/display issue.
Do you also have network/connection issues with other ledger applications?




The nano s works flawlessly for me (and lots of other user).
Issues mostly appear because of faulty OS-/network- settings or connection issues (to ledger server).
The device itself is not buggy. The coins can always be recovered with the seed.

This may sound like a idiot-proof concept, but is in reality relatively vulnerable.
If someone gains access to your google drive (or to your roof  ) and knows the system you have used to substitute your words, it just takes a few minutes to hours to test all books which might have been used.
Anyone in your locality who might be able to guess what you are into, is able to check the words from a few thousand books similar to what you are interested in.

While this might work out if you hide all possible information (Substitution, book used, etc.. ), Security by obscurity is a bad approach.

Actually, there are countries where citizens have the ability to vote on (nearly) every political decision (e.g. swiss).

I, for my part, would always define bitcoin as a currency. Simply because:
(1) satoshi invented BTC as a digital currency, not an object to buy.
(2) Bitcoins value (not price) is defined by the usage. And the usage (as a currency) is to transfer wealth in a secure manner within seconds and with low fees.

Governments probably don't want to accept bitcoin as a currency because this would be the first step (realizing BTC is a currency) towards a global currency BTC.

In the long-term the political decision (whether currency or commodity) won't have a noteworty influence on BTC's adoption-/usage- rate.

Greed in combinatoin with the missing knowledge mostly leads to losses due to scam projects.
The majority of investors who came to crypto in the last year are here for $ profits.
After seeing ICO's partially being an extremely lucrative option, people simply hop on coins/projects which get shilled everywhere.
Most of them don't even read (or touch) the whitepaper at all. Some random reddit/medium/twitter posts are enough to convince them to put money it, with the only intention to sell them later (for a profit).

Until people grow up and use their common sense before throwing their BTC/$ away, there will be a ton of developer who will scam the less-clever people for their own profits.

Both are.

Both do have the same SHA256 fingerprint (C3:BD:EB:22:E3:A9:BE:85:62:6B:F3:45:DE:74:C0:A2:50:77:31:B3:6B:BD:24:8B:F6:55:3D:0C:A1:A7:A9:E3).
Both sites do use the same ssl certificate (issued for sni79463.cloudflaressl.com).


Did you install the correct version from https://github.com/LedgerHQ/ledger-wallet-ripple/releases? Did it work?

You can find suchg a list here: http://lightningnetworkstores.com.
It seems to be updated regularly.