That's false. You can track their habits and expenses, like was a company. They also have articles of association, payrolls, expenses, accounting in general. However, this charity fund, isn't an "entity", an rl organization. So having a simple excel for tracking where they donate, I guess it wasn't hard.
It's not false at all because I was talking about external checking and auditing, and public (including you) can't exactly track and verify how FidelityCharitable or SaveTheChildren (for example) spends their received bitcoins. Internal checking is something totally different and I already mentioned that in my post. |
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Regardless of the story behind their new logo, personally, I prefer the previous one more...
I don't really care what logo they are using, it's how device works that is more important, but ledger also changed their logo recently so it must be a new trend  While I was reading through the same blog post, the following part caught my attention I think they are working on creating new Passport branded smartphones, laptops and OS that are privacy oriented, like we saw with Pinephone, Pinebook, CalyxOS, GrapheneOS, etc. It's just my speculation, but I guess they will have problems with making any new hardware devices because if the chip shortages continue. It appears they'll be adding support for Taproot soon:
Yeah I saw that, it's about time after ledger and trezor did it, and they are also planning of adding dice roll entropy seed verification in 2022, maybe something similar like Coldcard and Keystone are doing. |
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Used IP addresses are logged and recorded so it's better to use Tor browser when sending SMS with this website (if possible). This could be cool use case for Lightning Network, in case if you don't use mobile phone (rear this days but still possible) or if person who receives SMS is not using some free messenger like Telegram. I remember that few years ago I saw some similar services that can be used for sending and receiving SMS online all for free, but I am not sure if they still work. Much more interesting project is called Redphone (I wrote about that few months ago) that is used for communicating and talking between lightning nodes: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5353892.0 |
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Kriptovalute, Zlato, Lego kocke... U šta se više isplati ulagati? To je naslov zanimljivog novog članka na Index portalu koji samo potvrđuje da inflacija raste svakog dana ali sam iznenađen da pored Bitcoin i zlata, vidim i Lego kocke.  Bolje je imati Lego kocke nego papirni ili digitalni fiat novac jer lego setovi imaju stabilni godišnji rast od 10 do 20%, za Bitcoin je naravno rast (i pad) mnogo veći. Štednja u banci je sada najgluplja stvar koju možete učiniti uz inflaciju od minimum 5% godišnje (a siguran sam da je i mnogo veća), banka isplaćuje kamatu od 0.5% i realno gubite 4.5% (i više) ušteđevine na godinu. Situacija je možda malo bolja sa nekim stable coinom na koji se dobija kamara, ali stabilno zapravo i nije tako stabilno kako se čini. https://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/kriptovalute-zlato-lego-kocke-u-sto-se-vise-isplati-ulagati/2325948.aspx |
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I'm confident they'll listen to any constructive criticism from anyone in the community and not just existing customers - at least I hope they do; that's what
I don't know if you noticed one more update from Passport Foundation that is less important, they are rebranding with new triangle style logo (three chords arranged in a circle), so don't get confused about that. New batch2 devices will probably have this new logo, and they explained new mission they have in their latest blog post. Selling 1000 devices for first year is not bad at all, but it can't really be compared with thousands or millions of devices sold by other HW manufacturers.  https://foundationdevices.com/2021/12/foundations-new-logo-and-mission/ |
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Then one hour ago when i was trying to sent $1000 worth of btc to my friend, i wrongly sent it to the copper member payment address.
One more generous ''donation'' made by mistake, but I see that your coins are still seating in the same address, so I wouldn't worry to much if you already contacted moderators or theymos with private message. PS It's always a good thing to label your transactions/addresses and double check before clicking send to avoid errors like this happening in future |
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To be honest, they claimed the same thing a few years ago when they were selling a PCB based on a MediaTek SoC from a cheap smartphone disguised as a "most secure" hardware wallet. That was long before Ellipal Titan was developed.
It's the safest device in the universe since the beginning of time... and now they have it inside metallic cage like in medieval times, so it must be 1000% safe and secure (not). I've not seen any in depth analysis of the Titan and its hardware, good or bad. However, I have little faith in a company which puts a new cover on an Android phone and calls it a hardware wallet. Even if the new Titan has addressed many of the issues raised, their past behavior is very amateurish and I wouldn't trust their new device, especially given it is closed source. For the sake of experiments, I propose that we all make a donation (popular topic nowadays) to purchase one of this Titan device and pay someone to open it, just so that we can see what's inside. I think it's totally worth the effort, even if that means device will self destruct, or maybe only delete something from it's memory. Imagine opening this metal case and we find inside exact same android components and more interesting stuff to report, hack we maybe we even get paid by Ellipal team. |
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There are some relatively reputable hardware wallets that allow you to generate your seed manually instead of having to trust built-in true random number generators. You can do that with most hardware wallets by using dices or cards and then importing that seed words without depending on any electronical system, but you need to follow some instructions. Bitbox wallet released step by step instructions for generating your own seed words with dices: https://shiftcrypto.ch/blog/roll-the-dice-generate-your-own-seed/For example, in Coldcard, there is an option to generate seeds using dice rolls, coin flips, a combination of both these methods, or a combination of all manual methods with the hardware wallet's own RNG. Upon each roll, you will be shown a hash of the result of each roll, which you can verify manually Keystone hardware wallet also have the option for generating seed words with casino-grade dices that gives highest degree of entropy. I think that Keystone verification procedure looks more straightforward than in case of Coldcard, but both of them work and that is important. https://support.keyst.one/advanced-features/recovery-phrase/use-dice-to-generate-recovery-phraseI am not sure if any other hardware wallet have built-in feature like this with simple verification, but I think this is something important to have. Talking about seed generation, I wrote more about that in one of my topics, so if you notice any mistake please correct me or make any suggestion you have: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5317199.0It's intentional, but it's misleading.
I could also argue that wallet is not really a wallet for bitcoin, because they are not holding coins but only keys. Cryptocurrency vocabulary is full of errors and wrong phrases |
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Now, my main question: am i being paranoid, or was this user just baiting DT members with a small denomination only to guilt them into giving him positive trust?
You got me interested with this story so I searched your post history and found his profile, now I see he is looking for some investment business help in Israel It sure sounds like he wanted to get some positive feedback on his profile, but it doesn't look like he is really interested in growing his account. Total of twelve posts, mostly selling or buying tiny stuff, video game codes, gmail accounts, etc. I would say forget about him. |
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Is this spreadsheet created by you based on information you provided in this post, or it's coming from original Charity team? This is obviously different from previous spreadsheet and I can't access it because it's locked for reading and I don't have google account here. Can someone post screenshot or transfer data to other document that is open for reading, if it's not erased or locked. Let's say someone offered me 0.2BTC to spend on charitable causes in my country, and let's say it didn't occur to me the person who offered it was breaking his own promise by taking the money out of escrow when he handed it to me. I think, in the spirit of trying to help people, overlooking that mistake can be forgiven.
But then, when spending someone else's money on charitable causes, I would be meticulous in keeping track of everything. Partially because it's the right thing to do, but mainly because it's the only way I can prove I used the money properly.
If you sent that 0.2 btc to any organization that accepts Bitcoin donations for charity, how exactly would you track their spending habits and check they are not abusing this money? I think that everybody remembers notorious fake hunanrightsfoundation who is still acepting donations for who knows what, maybe for arming his hezbollah paramilitary units. Even for legit big charity organizations you can't really see and verify how they are spending money, but I am sure they are keeping transactions in private for personal records. Someone could even hold grudge and complain about donations for bitcointalk forum and paying for new invisible forum software  |
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There is no single person behind these accounts. We are a big family. Every member is running it's individual account. You can verify through IP address.
Oh really? You are all one big happy family, so much that you are even sending coins to each other... He can't verify any IP adresses because he is not a moderators, and it's trivial to change address using some vpn service, Tor browser or even Opera browser. Is exchanging of merits between alternative accounts a problem? What can happen with less than 50 merits?
Sending merits to your alt account is a clear case of merit abuse, and you would be surprised how many members are doing it. I am not sure if this is the case here, especially in small local board but when you have money/coins exchanged between them it becomes much more suspicious. On top of that all mentioned accounts are participating in same bounty campaign. PS I think I might just have one more member Sumikhanom500 who is using same twitter account, same as mister family man Rehan Zakir: |
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Sorry, but I'm not convinced. You have referred to the old model and those investigation in the distant past are known for me.
I am not trying to convince anyone thick skull about anything, and if you are happy with closed source phone lookalike crap, with totally unknown components hidden inside, no secure element, coming from Hong Kong, with fake most-secure label, than go ahead and use it. Btw old Ellipal is not some 100 years old device from distant past, it was developed and sold just two years ago, and new device is exactly the same shit in new metal package. I also found some interesting reviews: !!!AVOID ELLIPAL AT ALL COST!!! Over 2.5 months waiting for this. WORST costumer service EVER. They answer questions with answers that don’t answer the question. In the EU they send it to Germany storage to send it around the EU. So no import costs for EU ppl, as they import it to there location in Germany. And we order it from Germany, not Hong Kong. First package arrived they said, but it did not. Now they send my package, that got lost in the mail (there private delivery service mail), from Hong Kong. Result, import is 1/3 of the total price for import. And they don’t want to pay that. Despite import being in the item price if they distribute it from Germany. So not gone pay that cost on top of everything i already paid. They don’t want to pay it, instead saying i need to pay it and they will pay it back. So that is a big red flag for scamming. Also, they said they would pay 25$ back for the import. But the import is 76,79$. They are just faking delivery with there own transport services. And then asking you to pay even more if the package does not arrive. Seems like they are having some delivered just to seem legit. Immens amount of reviews of ppl getting nothing, not getting refunds. And a lot of review that are pos that seem like paid reviews. Keeping all mails of conversation for legal reasons. They said i would get a refund, but i am pretty sure i wont or it will be a refund waaay lower then the price i paid. I bought my Titan in late 2019 – at first I was happy about the build quality, but this changed according to problems updating the firmware – the ellipal support first sent a second magnet-adapter, because my wallet could not find the sdcard to update the firmware – after months of back and forth the support send a new Titan where they already had done the firmware update and I sent my first one back – now – a year later I again tried to make a firmware-update – and again I have troubles – this time my Titan finds the sdcard, but it tells me, the firmware is up to date, even if it is NOT …. The Magnets from one of the adapters are falling out of the adapter itself since 3 weeks ago, so this adapter is now broke too … sadly I purchased a Ledger, and I transfered my holdings to the Ledger device ….. really disapointed … great concept, but this type of trouble is nothing to HODL long term … sorry – I CAN NOT REDOMMEND it any longer https://www.hardware-wallets.net/ellipal-titan-review/Ellipal = Zero transparency. End of discussion for me about this Ellipal Junk. |
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Can you prove your statement? Without it I would consider your words as empty ones.
I have proof from 2019 made by Ledger Donjon team (they said this device is quite similar to a low-end mobile phone) when they extracted seed from old Ellipal wallet, and you can see how it looks inside . This is probably one of the worst junk I ever saw used in hardware wallets, and I am sure nothing much is changed from inside with their new ''Titan'' version with metal enclosure. Cellular technology EDGE; GPRS!?, HSPA+, Bluetooth, Wi-fi, GPS.... all inside Ellipal wallet, even FM radio if you get bored and want to listen some music on Ellipal   https://donjon.ledger.com/Ellipal-Security/PS To be as objective as possible, I am posting reply written by Ellipal developers in December 2019: https://www.ellipal.com/blogs/news/ledger-donjon-vulnerability-study-and-the-development-of-the-ellipal-titan?_pos=1&_sid=47f3caf51&_ss=r |
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Even the University of Cambridge's Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index shows that China is not mining anything.
I never considered anything Bitcoinrelated coming from University of Cambridge to be reliable even before this. We know that some big mining pools are from China (Antpool, ViaBTC, Binance pool, etc.) and I doubt they really removed all their asic miners from China. There could be some flaws in the translation, but it seems that their realized goal is to create a monitoring system to snitch on potential miners. Accuracy is secondary, I figure, once the list gets into the hands of the Government there …
Chinese government is known for their monitoring of every aspect of their citizens, so we can understand why they are probably preparing to open hunting season for anyone mining Bitcoin. Problem is that I think rest of the world is trying to follow China more and more with this totalitarian control system. |
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Does anyone have any idea how consensus will be established to make bitcoin quantum resistant? Or when this will likely be implemented?
I read something about this few days ago and it's all related with Taproot upgrade that happened recently, this will enable to mitigate any quantum attacks, but I have no idea how exactly this will be achieved. On the other hand, I remember few months ago some people screaming how Taproot is bad for privacy and it just increases possibility of quantum bugs. EDIT: I just remembered the source of information for my first sentence, it was from Trezor blog: The concern over quantum computers has been going around for years, mostly leveraging the fact that currently utilized signature schemes (both ECDSA and Schnorr) are susceptible to the theoretical threat of sufficiently-advanced computers breaking the cryptography.
As Jeremy Rubins argues in his recent blog on the topic, a previously disabled Bitcoin opcode called OP-CAT could help in this regard. As we mentioned above, Taproot brings an easier implementation of new opcodes, and OP_CAT is among those under consideration, as it could help with use cases such as those described by Rubins. https://blog.trezor.io/taproot-v2-how-will-the-latest-bitcoin-upgrade-evolve-in-the-future-e8559d0c5886 |
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Ideally, I would say get neither and start exploring other options. Personally, I've pretty much abandoned hardware wallets for the time being until I find a device and company which don't have significant flaws/bugs/vulnerabilities as above (or until Trezor release a new device which fixes the above vulnerability).
I would also choose neither of them at this moment, ledger because of known reasons you mentioned and many other issues with their devices. I wouldn't buy Trezor know until they release new device with secure element, and I would buy it only if the price is somehow reasonable. Good alternative option is always doing cold storage with your old computer/laptop that has fresh Linux OS and disabled any internet connection. Ellipal is just a smartphone repackaged into hardware wallet, I think that someone even found inside device there is all elements for wi-fi, bluetooth, and internet connection. Besides that, Ellipal is closed source, it's not supporting multisig setup, not supporting 3rd party wallets like Electrum, and I am not sure if they even started to support Segwit addresses... |
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I've never heard of it, but their website throws off a bunch of red flags immediately.
They are no-custodial wallet, but they use Amazon and Google Cloud Platform for their node and relay servers, and I wouldn't recommend this wallet to anyone. Hexa team is not looking like that great and apps have only few installs and mixed reviews on App Store and Google play. Looks like they are somehow connected with Swan Bitcoin, that is much more famous and advertised by Max Keiser all the time. I can't find much information on how you would recover your wallet or extract your private keys should Hexa disappear or their servers go offline.
It's not like regular wallet recovery for sure, but they tried to implement some splitting scheme. They have system of encrypted recovery keys that are split parts of seed words in five recovery keys, and you can gain access to your funds if you have any 3 recovery keys. |
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Do you know of different cold storage app for Android? Can you please share? You can use any wallet that is supported by your android phone, if you remove sim card and disable any wi-fi, bluetooth and internet connection. Problem I have is that older phones stops supporting most of the apps, so you can't really install anything on them if they are few years old. In my case I could only install Mycelium wallet on Android v4 or v5 for testing purposes. Is there any similar solution I've missed? Some emulator under Android and installing the cold storage under that emulator? Then how I handle the camera/QR reader? Emulator would probably work installed on offline computer, camera QR would work just fine if you have it on your computer/laptop (tested and works). Problem is that most of this android emulators are closed source and full of junk, but more wallets will probably be supported than with ancient Android phones. It's all wrong and I should abandon the idea? I wouldn't use smartphones as cold storage for various reasons, having regular offline computer/laptop with software wallet installed on Linux OS is much better option. |
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Faxes are being used less and less every year so I don't know how much usable Bitcoin Fax will be in reality.
Cool thing is that you can send pdf fax to anyone who owns fax machine even if you don't have fax machine yourself.
I checked prices on their website and they are very affordable (except maybe zone 7 countries), especially if you pay with Lightning Network they accept.
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That just confirms that old theory that you are one of his alts. I didn't hear this theory myself, but yeah if you are speaking multiple languages you immediately become a prime suspect in this investigation. The way I read lauda's parting message is that he was dox'ed, or at least partially dox'ed. He was not dox'ed at all, but he almost got banned from forum and accused for plagiarism that ruined his dear reputation. His option was to accept that (probably impossible for Lauda) or to quit and retire on his own terms and become immortal figure. btw. As you already mentioned marlboroza, do you know is it everything was ok with him, he left quietly.
I don't have any information about him, but I suspect that years of daily smoking famous brand of cigarettes in this forum finally finished him off, in a virtual way.  |
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