I have ordered an antrouter. What if we wanted to use it as a U3 controller, or is this antrouter only, if it is i will put only the antrouter in here! If it isn't i might add a U3 to it.

Jacob

I am to set up an escrow between me and Just.ASIC for a KNC titan at 8.1 BTC. He is going to contact you as well. What is your fee for 8.1 BTC? I am useless at calculating math!

I am withdrawing the funds from my bitcoin vault on coinbase subject to a 48 hour clear time, by which point I will then send the payment to your signature address: 168WXhArv7Fasqvi2xm5MQMfLhG18jifMe

Thank you!

I am looking to purchase a KNC titan for shipping to UK, I have my eye on a couple but am shopping around, I would use escrow with ognasty if paid in bitcoin but can also use paypal.

Name your prices folks!

I am getting a KNC titan and I am trying to set up mining to my own litecoin node on a VPS (I will be solo mining, low latency for good block propagation)

I am having trouble getting a stratum connection to work on a litecoin node, which uses the getwork protocol. how would I go about implementing CKPool with LTC so I can set up a solo node for myself? This at least saves me the pool fee.

Thanks guys!

Jacob

Plus, does anyone here have a KNC Titan for  sale

I am selling the below GPUs, prices negotiable. shipping world wide but based in UK:

AMD R9 290 - 0.65 BTC (1 available)
AMD R9 280X - 0.5 BTC (2 left) or both for 1 BTC.

And an AMD HD 7970 card (1 left) - 0.45 BTC

Cards never overclocked.

Plus I also have:

1x corsair RM 1000 - 0.35 BTC (has a couple of melted PCI-E slots from when it was used with a KNC Neptune, but PSU still functions well in an etherium rig and comes with all needed cables


Price includes shipping in the UK, you can use escrow if you prefer with ognasty, buyer pays escrow fee.

Selling these to go towards a titan
Jacob

I will get an antrouter and join...

I would put it towards a house deposit Bricks and mortar...

I actually set up my authencator keys on two separate phones, I have 1 business phone and my usual phone, both encrypted and I also keep a print out of the 2FA keys stored safe. So loosing my phone wouldn't make things that difficult.

I think with 2FA that not enabling it when it comes to money is asking for trouble; the trezors are very very good though when it comes to a security layer.

A few seconds logging in? when you have money or time or data involved, whats the problem. Saved me a ballache at best, lost money at worst.

To those who don't enable it, it kept my coins (minus trezor coins which are protected by their nature as long as you ensure the sending wallet matches where you want to go on the trezor display) safe. The coinbase multisig vault also times withdrawals.

I second the email account, sometimes I can be a bit annoying having to get it if my phone is out of reach, but especially after this I know my decision to enable 2FA among other security measures was the right one, I have never had such an attack in years of sharing my PC and using it myself,

If posting this leads to even a SINGLE attempt to steal coins stopped, then I did my task right.

Jacob

The trezor and coinbase keys are not stored at my house so I am quite okay, only my 'hot' QT wallet holds funds that I wish to access quickly. I could access my coinbase funds and with a wait of 48H move them to my bitcoin debit card if i was in need of urgent funds abroad or at home.

I was surprised as kaspersky is a very very good security application which when properly set up has stopped much. Actually it detected the virus with the latest update which makes me think this was some kind of zero-day exploit which even kaspersky would be limited at checking. I have set up the kaspersky safe money which i figured out how it works, it can help protect ageinst keylogging using a type of hypervisor  set up. I have used kaspersky since 2009 and this is the first attack i have had of it's kind on a machine with it installed.

2FA has a key limitation though that it does not protect against attacks at the wallet providers back-end, OR something like mt.gox. So keeping funds in different wallets, and keeping things in different physical undisclosed locations (such as my trezor and it's seed) and having only a small working amount accessible at any one time can limit  damage.

Keep 20 or so BTC in a single wallet id be worried unless its a trezor or similar. Just how i wouldn't keep 50k or more in a single account.(i wish i had that!)

And if you want a vanity address like my hot wallet, do not generate it online, but do it yourself... if you do not own or have some control of the private keys, its not yours. Thats why i liked the coinbase multisig vault to help diversify my BTC assets as they grow and trezors.

My friends machine happened to be clean on checking, the only place we could have got it from is our college network, which my lecturer actually has warned us to be very careful with as its not that secure...

He has his memory stick encrypted with a container and unencrypted space and has a traveller version of truecrypt on it which turned out to be the affected executable, it wasn't an 'autorun' virus as such and that is disabled on windows 10 by default for USB drives.

We have tracked down the problem and he was stunned so whatever it was had somehow infected that executable which kaspersky flagged up on an update, he has used my machine plenty of times with the same stick without issue in the past.

Moral of the story is, diverisfy your bitcoin/crypto assets, enable 2FA, and for more than 2 or so BTC, invest in a trezor and keep it's seed safe.

While they got past my  first layer of security (complex passwords of random numbers and letters and symbols) due to side channel attacking (keylogging)

They were stopped by the second layer (2FA) and all other measures, the moment i got the SMS from paypal saying i was trying to log in it raised the alarm and got me to change all passwords on a safe machine quickly.

It saved me hassle like no end, I set up 2FA on my other accounts because my mother is deceased and thus irreplaceable messages and content exists on there, although all text messages were backed up.

even my email has 2FA set, its set on everything possible to set it on

on paypal you can bypass the 2FA if you were phished and gave away your account security questions.

my PC does also have full disk encryption as do my telephones, I do take as many measures as I can with security, i have taken this a step further after this by making my main PC user account a 'limited' account without administrator privileges.


The virtual machine is a good idea, although for my bitcoin QT hot wallet im not too fussed as no more than £80 will ever sit in that wallet before i move it, unless I solo mine a block which will end up safely moved and diversified.


I posted this as i have ready many, many horror stories on this forum of people loosing large amounts of coins due to lack of 2FA or from live wallets such as bitcoin QT or lost from online wallets, or stolen from vanity addresses... Such simple measures can really help, a print out of a private key stored somewhere safe such as a safe deposit box could save your ass against forgotten wallet passphrases even...

If i hit one block, i will withdraw from bitcoin mining entirely minus a single antrouter. Won't be gambling away a block I find!

I have thrown 1 - 3 PH rentals at my solo set up now and then, the best share i got was from my rig itself which was a 7B one, have never exceeded that with a rental : )

I will hit though, tis a matter of time 

A trezor is a good bet too, not that expensive and your private keys are safe, use it properly and its a good buy. I do highly recommend it.

No harm came to my coins from use of 2FA on exchanges, being vigilant with private keys in the case of the coinbase multisig wallet, and the trezor. Have more than 1 BTC or so, a trezor or  something like a multisig vault for simplicity is a good idea.

And most important, don't keep your entire BTC wealth at a single wallet!

Jacob

With a trezor your relatively safe if you check the address on it when you send coins, the coinbase isn't a typical online wallet but a multi sig vault where they have a key, you have a key encrypted with a passphrase that they hold and you print. And a third printed key that allows recovery if passphrase forgotten.

I let people use my machine under supervision, the USB stick was unlucky but due to security measures I take with my funds and i keep my data partition unmounted unless I use it, moving to Linux again soon. I am intending to get a cheap laptop for bitcoin use to be fair, 2FA is just a separate security layer thats silly not to activate :-)

It is a must I think when dealing with money!

Jacob

Edit: even with Linux is good to take precautions. I will admit since using kaapersky for years this is one of the first thing to slip through kaspersky net that I know of for me.

Very handy :-) I am usually okay letting my friends use my machine without an issue this seemed to have originated from a memory stick when we looked into it, I am okay with friends using my computer as the friends I do have I trust not to anything on purpose. But it goes to show that
In cases like this enabling things like 2FA can help especially if you share your computer bit even the most security literate can be comprised!

Jacob

So I have Kaspersky and have a relatively secure machine. My mate used my machine and I think must have somehow got a virus on it. Well my facebook and paypal both begun SMSing me confirmation codes of login attempts. It had pretty much compromised most passwords that had been entered since, including what is on BTC exhanges, all of which I have 2FA enabled. All my held coins are in coinbase multisig vaults or my trezor wallet and are safe.

If you have not yet done so, please enable 2FA. I hear plenty of horror stories. Total in all my wallets (coinbase, 5 BTC), trezor (3 BTC), LTC (68) on exchange, 1 BTC on exchange as well.

we are talking over £3000 in total which to me is an insane amount of money, I bought most of my coins over a lot of time. The only coins I have 'mined' are ETH to BTC recently, some of that was what was in the hot bitcoin-QT wallet, the rest I mined through ETH (totalling 2 BTC) has been moved/converted to LTC some of it. I prefer to buy as I stand a better chance of profiting, and just solo mine with small rigs for luck, profiting is difficult otherwise.

All of this was safe due to a combination of safe private keys and in the case of coinbase 2FA is needed for the vaults anyway, and 2FA for the exchanges.

If you havn't yet enabled it, ****ing do it!

The only coins which were 'unsafe' but not touched was 0.25 BTC in my hot bitcoin QT wallet, just reformatted and restored wallet.dat, hadn't used this in a while to sign transactions, wallet was encrypted, although if you use it a virus can just swipe your private keys the moment you decrypt.


I am careful with computer security (everything i use with 2FA has it enabled, but it got me.

Enable it!

Plus, maybe also keep coins in separate wallets too, I have heard people having large amounts stolen from a single wallet, hence my diversity.

Even consider a hardware wallet, it might just save your skin too.

I have been mining and selling as I mine too, converting it to bitcoin instantly. With the bitcoin rises that is something that helps because in the short term ETHs drops will be negated by bitcoins rise until and probably after the halving, leaving me with a profitable venture for a little while longer, with ROIed gear that can then be sold, many said I was late to the ETH train, but I ROIed, sounded like people were just trying to keep the difficulty low. I then have £1000 of hardware that I can then sell, maybe for the next generation scrypt miner or something or better yet, BUY bitcoin before the halving. Buying the coins actually out much more profitable than buying em.

Jacob

Seems like LTC is rising with BTC, I don't know if anyone else agrees?

I hold about 65 LTC.

These LTC dead topics get old, it has remained above many other shitcoins...

Jacob

Stupid topic, LTC has been stable long after other shitcoins bit the dust... I wonder if its value seems tied around BTCs price rise?

Jacob

Found a bug in Hodlcoin core, well more a cosmetic one... If you go to encrypt the wallet, it says you will loose all of your BITCOINS if you forget the password.

If this helps tip me some hodl

HT8z4mCVQn9TvnnqUpiLxYrJ7iYATe4ahT

Maybe we should bet on which ones will come first by a certain date XD