All you need to do is open the same wallet file and Electrum does the rest. The default wallet file is named default_wallet so if you did not choose another name when you set it the original version of Electrum up all you need to do is open that one. If you can't find it, then you can create a new wallet with your seed words (DO NOT NAME THE NEW ONE default_wallet) IF YOU NAME IT SOMETHING ELSE IT YOU CANNOT OVERWRITE THE ORIGINAL IF YOU NEED IT AGAIN FOR SOME REASON. Also make sure you only download it from https://electrum.org/ and check the signature of the file. -Dave |
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This is for the newer android version so I don't know about the ios version.
Under the advanced settings there is a way to show the derivation path. If you have the proper seed then you probably have to check that.
Also, see if you can sync using tor (once again it's the android version don't know about ios) The tor servers used to be different then the main ones, so that might still work.
-Dave
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I know it's been discussed before in the thread, but I just came back to my office from one of my clients that has an embedded device that was dead. It is nothing more then a Pi in a case in the back of their id scanner.
Cause of death...a power adapter that probably cost less the then the $0.25 I put in the parking meter in front of their office because it's raining and I didn't want to park in the free lot and walk.
Seriously, I put in a phone charger that I had in my trunk and they were back online. I cracked open the dead one and it was so poorly constructed I was surprised it ever worked.
-Dave
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I have no idea what I searched for that none of that came up. Doing it again a lot came up. Would love to know what I actually put in the search bar, that's the problem with duck duck go, no history. Will take a look after work to see if it helps. Thanks, Dave |
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The RPi has it's own hardware TRNG (True Random Number Generator). It outputs 1 million bits per second, so you don't need to spend a lot of time to get 1024 bits, or 512, or even just 256 bits. Then use that as seed to a faster PRNG or even SHA256 to generate private keys.
Since I'm stupid and can't find it. Can you point to any docs on how to use that instead of the CPU, which I assume it's doing now. As I said I my friend who does programming taking a look at it in a month or so, but if it's simple I should be able to do it. Thanks, Dave |
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Good points. I guess I didn't really look at the other side which really is that you are more likely to drop off for weeks / months on a car / bike / boat forum then you are here.
So here if something goes wrong you are going to notice. I probably will not even check the email that is associated with the bike account till the spring.
-Dave
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tbct_mt2 raised some good points.
May we know how is the unlocking process in that forum you mentioned?
You set it to x days y hours and after that it auto unlocks. Or you can preset a pin so you can unlock it early. It's an motorcycle forum and the issue had become that this time of year people would drop off for months. Then come back to discover their account had been compromised. So you can now lock it for the winter. I don't think we need anything as long as that here, but if I know I am not going to be around or posting for a week or two I can just lock it down and forget it. Even if someone grabs my laptop while traveling, no big deal they still can't get in. Yeah, I have my PW saved if firefox, bad I know but.... -Dave |
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Just saw this feature on another forum. Don't know if it can be done here or not, but it looked interesting.
You can set a lock on your account for "X" days and it cannot post / change password / or do most other features.
It's kind of like setting an away message on your office email.
This way if you know you are going to be offline and not logging in for a while it prevents some account compromises and such.
It also lets other users know that you are not ignoring them. That is probably less important here but possibly good to have.
Just thought I would put it out there for discussion.
-Dave
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Platinum? It's less expensive then gold but it does have a much higher melting point so the actual making of the spoon would be more difficult.
I have always thought it would be neat to have some stuff with "oddball" metals.
Zirconium is light so it would be weird to have a what looks like a standard thing but it is much lighter.
Tungsten would also be cool.
-Dave
Platinum I can do, zirconium I have no idea at the moment but I can look into it, and Tungsten isn't workable with heat. It has the the highest melting point of any metal (6200F / 3420C) and I believe rather than being melted to combine multiple bits of tungsten together, its sintered. The mention of the gold spoon was 99.95% a joke by the way. To save other people the googling time: sintered = produced by or subjected to sintering (the process of coalescing a powdered material into a solid or porous mass by means of heating without liquefaction). -Dave |
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Ugh I never imagined I'll never get more merit to give.
Gold would be a bit expensive, why you don't try some exotic metals that ain't as expensive.
Exotics are fun but hard to source and are often full of surprises. That said, if you have a suggestion I'm all ears and I'll at the very least look into it and give you a proper response as to why its a good or bad idea. I picked silver first because besides being my forte, its actually a suitable material for dining ware. Making this spoon out of gold is really a pipe dream, I mean I could do it, but it'd be something like 4 oz of pure gold or ~0.8 BTC just in metal. Not really that great of an idea. Platinum? It's less expensive then gold but it does have a much higher melting point so the actual making of the spoon would be more difficult. I have always thought it would be neat to have some stuff with "oddball" metals. Zirconium is light so it would be weird to have a what looks like a standard thing but it is much lighter. Tungsten would also be cool. -Dave |
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Twisting the knife a bit.
Look another empty block # 607,275 yes it was quick, but 14 seconds should have been enough time to get some work done. At least you would hope it would.
Might be time for them to retire the old 486 that they are running the pool on and get a nice new i7 or something.
That or I don't know, update the code.
The next block was 23 seconds after their block and had 185 transactions in it.
-Dave
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As near as I can tell the mempool was cleared with block 607,270
If your transaction still has not been confirmed there is another issue.
If it cleared good, if not as I said before post your TXID so we can take a look at it.
-Dave
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What is your txid? without that we cannot see what is happening.
There are some accelerator services some are free some are paid.
Also, as of now [4:05 PM EST] there are only about 6000 pending transactions.
So long as you are not at 1/sat byte it should clear soon.
-Dave
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Are you making changes to the site? I am trying to access with my phone, which I have done before and it is not scaling. PC is fine. You are the only site that is giving me issues on mobile.
-Dave
Hi Dave, do you still have the Problem? We tested it and we don't have the Problem. I was still having the issue but I think it was browser related. I was was using Opera Mobile. Firefox & Chrome were fine. I think it has something to do with their way of ad blocking. The 5-December update to Opera fixed the issue. Thanks, Dave |
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Just dropped it to .085
I have not heard from him in week so I decided what the heck.
Seriously, I don't know if he is avoiding me or just busy but it's been a while so a drop was in order.
-Dave
Now down to .07
After this drop it is going to be a bit more slow and steady thing in lowering the price. Every Sunday .005 (no not tomorrow)
So if you have a price in mind watch this thread starting Dec 8th.
Or just take it at the higher price before someone else grabs it.
And this is Dave's free advice to everyone, if someone owes you money, don't offer to do work to get it. [Yeah I know....]
-Dave
Now dropped to .065 as of 8-Dec-2019 Also deleted my 2 last posts to clean up the thread a bit. Quoted above. -Dave |
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The long awaited update.
The printer does work with some setting tweaks. Just have to slow it down and it's fine. Going to have to try a different printer.
The original piper install had a switch on top that would allow you to save a copy of every wallet printed. At least with the new setup I am doing it does not work. No matter what it saves a copy. THIS IS NOT GOOD. There is a setting in the GUI that should shut it off but it does not I faked the switch with a jumper and it still saves them. I am not sure if this is a bug in the code or something in the different hardware or what. But I did spend too much time dealing with it till I moved on. I revisit it later.
I have a small touchsreen hooked up to it and I am trying to get some basic things working so you can choose the type of wallet. The original allowed a bunch of altcoins and I want to see if I can make it more touch friendly. I have a programmer friend working on that.
Speed is an issue. I increased the entropy settings and well lets face it, it's a RPi so it started to get real slow. Don't know if there is a better way. Reached out to same friend to take a look.
As of now both programming things are hold until after mid January as his kids are coming back from college and then Christmas and New Years and then getting them back to school.
So that is the small update for now. Going to play with printers and printer settings and hope to have more info in a little while.
-Dave
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Just wanted to bump this for Christmas pricing. If you follow the links here: https://github.com/rootzoll/raspiblitz for what you need and shop around a bit. Between Amazon, adafruit.com and some other places having sales you can probably save some money on building your own. With that being said, it really depends on where you are in the world. Amazon.de in Germany has (or had) much better pricing then amazon.fr on some things. They do vary prices locally. But if you have time to check and shop you can same some money. -Dave |
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I paid always with Electron-Cash-4.0.11-portable BCH and make local decode bitpay  today was declined  Yes they are getting picky. If anything is missing or changed from the invoice amount (fee, rbf, etc.) they are starting to fail payments more and more. Sometimes it seems to me that BitPay is in the hands of some people who want to portray Bitcoin as a complicated payment method, because I have to admit that I was confused when I first used it.
I feel that it actually makes it easier, use one the approved wallets and you don't have to think about fees or settings etc. For the new users all they have to do is click. Don't even have to think about setting fees or anything else. Although core is getting rid of it sooner or later for now it's still in it, electrum desktop, exodus (ugh but some people love it), and many others for both desktop and mobile. If you do not want to follow the rules that they put down, just go to another merchant that uses a different crypto payment method. Not saying it's the best option but it's their way of doing it. Kind of like you now have to jump through hoops to get the bitcoincore wallet to give you a legacy address. Sorry, but there are still some older automated apps that can only send to those addresses. If you want it easy to generate them, because you are using something that does not support it switch to a different app. -Dave |
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There is no backdoor. There is no reason to believe that.
Ledger firmware is not open source for technical reasons, not because they are scammers.
All ledger nano applications are open source.
The firmware is not open source for mainly legal reasons. Due to them using the secured element and having to sign a NDA (apparently), they arent allow to share code tied to the secure element. Rather if this is true or not is yet to be seen, but could still have the firmware open abit more without much exposure. Also, I never implied that they (ledger or any company) are scammers, however I wont rule out a "backdoor" either since. Not saying that ledger implemented directly either and keep in mind im also referring to zero day exploits that cannot be easily discovered like you could be able to find out with trezor (or other open source hw wallets) through auditing the code and have a understanding of how the hardware works with little to know reverse engineering. Which goes back to what I said. How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go? Let's say I make a secure element, the "Dave Chip". Knowing how it works only gets you so far. Unless you can really really really understand the microcode & design of the chip knowing how it talks to the application are only going to get you so far. Look at Meltdown and Spectre as prime examples. Yes, CPUs are vastly more complicated then a security chip, but there are also a lot less eyes on it. Same thing with the M4 that is in the ColdCard (I don't know what CPU the others use) if there is something lurking in there we may never find out. It's all about reasonable security. I would think the bigger security issue would be there are probably still more people using the same 4 digit pin for their phone VM and their ATM card and their ColdCard then there are going to be vulnerabilities in all the hardware wallets combined. But, we can't stop that. -Dave |
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