you can never be 100% sure however they are the 2 safest forms of custody i know, the same paper wallets are more or less secure as long as they don't be transfer to other wallets, their creation(paper wallet) is very complex and requires a lot of attention to avoid make a mistake...
And they also need..everyone all together...repeat after me: AN OFFLINE COMPUTER.Be it an old PC, Mac, desktop, laptop whatever. Make sure it's not hooked to any network in any way. You want to print plug in a USB cable. No Wi-Fi, no cabled network, no network. Now, keep in mind I am talking generating wallets for significant amounts of BTC that you are putting into storage for a while. A little bit (more or less what you would keep on your phone for quick payments) you don't have to go though all of this. Want to put 25 BTC for a year or two? Spend the time and do it right. Want to put .01 so when you spend what you have on your phone you have quick access to more, probably don't need to be as secure. Your own risk amounts will vary. -Dave |
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A question here:
If I've kept my coins in a hardware and that hardware either blasts off or gets destroyed anyhow (talking about these Ledger and Trezor thing), will I be able to ever regain them?
So long as you have your seed phrase yes you can recover what you need. Those words are the key to everything. Which when you think about it brings us back to paper wallets. If you wrote it down then although not a long alpha-numeric private key its still something very important that is on paper. -Dave |
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Just dropped some coin here. Lasted a while, lost in the end. I like the fact that I could dump in a few different alt coins to play around with.
Not need to move BTC just to kill some time. I wish more places did this.
I'll be back.
-Dave
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Speaking about Vulnerabilities found in hardware wallets: Trezor found this one: Details of the OLED Vulnerability and its MitigationThis article describes an information leak discovered in the OLED display used by hardware wallets, including Trezor One. We want to explain how this side-channel attack works and what measurements we took to mitigate the threat. This attack affects only the Trezor One; Trezor Model T is immune to this attack thanks to its entirely different display.
The attack requires device owners to use USB equipment that has been physically manipulated by an attacker. In other situations, users are not impacted.
There is no evidence that any malicious actors ever exploited this vulnerability.
The latest firmware v1.8.2, now available for Trezor One, mitigates the issue.
What we learnt from this story? - Hardware wallets aren't magical items granting eternal security
- (Gullible)Users are the weakest links in the security mechanism
- You can patch (some) hardware defect or weak spots with software
- White hats are here to help
Not to dis trezor but they did not discover it. Christian Reitter did he disclosed it to them and other people who used oled also.. https://blog.coinkite.com/noise-troll/And so far it's not proven and just about impossible to exploit. And lets be serious. If someone can compromise your USB port or cable on the PC you are using for your BTC you're screwed anyway. Hmmmm, I have access to your usb. Let's do this incredibly complicated almost impossible hack...or just emulate a keyboard and type whatever the hell I want..... -Dave |
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@LoyceV I would like to thank you for the bump a few days ago.
I did not see this thread the 1st time around.
I have now captured the TMAN quotes you have posted and added them to my quick insult macro for the motorcycle forums. 1
-Dave
1 If you think stuff gets heated and nasty around here, visit some motorcycle boards and wait for the "are 3 wheelers actually bikes" and the "Metzeler vs. Pirelli for supersport" arguments.
We are a bunch of polite people discussing the weather if you look at some of those flame wars.
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Yes, we can add.
But whether or not there is an active event is not up to us, but depends on the exchange.
Because Dbet offer a one-of-a-kind service that automates the match betting service for players on the exchange.
It always comes back to that. I'll keep poking books to open up more motorsports lines, but all I keep getting back is either no response or the generic "we'll look into it" We can only try. Thanks, Dave |
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I didn't get mine either. Some other Betcoin emails did land in spam, but nothing about a security breach (those were ticket replies).
I'm starting to wonder if some mail places are dumping more and more mail that they think is spam into a black hole and never even delivering it to your spambox. I had a VERY spamlike email make it to the server I manage and the headers showed it also went to another account I have with Yahoo but the Yahoo account never got it. The originating IP was not blacklisted but I only got the 1 copy. Do we have to add to not your keys not your coins, not your server not your email? -Dave |
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A 0.022
2 0.013 (no increase)
3 0.013 (no increase)
4 0.015
5 0.013 (no increase)
6 0.015
7 0.015
8 0.016
9 0.015
10 0.022
J 0.022
Q 0.022
K 0.022
I like all of you who are bidding against me. I think we have all had some good discussions about stuff. We all enjoy collecting. We all enjoy BTC
I will have set this even if I have to sell off body parts.
-Dave
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I think I got mine. The email account I use for gambling has so much going through it in terms of legit email / promo email / general announcements / and spam that unless I am looking for something it just gets deleted. I did see something from them come in over the last few days and since I have not played there in a while I ignored it and it just auto deleted after 48 hours. I do that to all mail coming into that account unless I move it.
So the standard good advice that all of you should be following.
1) 2FA
2) Different passwords for every site.
3) Don't leave BTC out there. Remember, not your keys not your coins.
-Dave
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Try your luck now like the others who tried the game and won the prizes everyday  Remember that the contest is only active until 20th of July! Might want to edit that to 20 August. Either way after getting my a$$ kicked here last week I came back when I saw this bump. Wait for it...got my a$$ kicked again. Much like gambling in real live casinos. There are some that just seem to bring out some bad luck for some people. Yeah, I know it's random someone else I know who I know , I passed a link to for this casino and he is up some good money. Such is life. Good luck everyone. -Dave |
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If you take a look here https://whoisrequest.com/history/ you can see that primedice.net name expired 23-June-2016 and was then re-registered by someone in October. The timing works as the domain was 1st registered in May 2013 so if they bought it for 3 years and they did not renew 3 years and 1 month later it drops. Someone then picked it up in October 2016 and it's been active since. It's now at namecheap. Drop them a line and let them know about the scamming: Registrar: NAMECHEAP INC Registrar IANA ID: 1068 Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@namecheap.comRegistrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.6613102107 -Dave |
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Well, there’s this to go by: Trust spam isn't allowed. If I see anyone posting dozens of fake trust ratings (from one account or many alt accounts), I will delete all of their ratings <…>
I agree that it is a little annoying to see a wall of negative ratings, but this is in the "untrusted" section. The way things are set up currently, untrusted ratings can be easily spammed in a number of ways. That's why those ratings are hidden by default.
The quote is from 2014, so it’s a long standing complaint that crops up every now and then due to childish retaliation feedback, or spamming otherwise on the Trust feedback. Exactly. Had I gotten one about the wolfbet sig, something about it it might not be legit because of "X" reason. I most likely would have ignored it. Even if he tagged everyone in the campaign. But calling it illegal, the retaliatory trust spam, the walls of text have gotten to be an issue. Makes you wonder if a straight timer would work: You can leave 1 feedback per hour, counted from your last feedback. For every current DT 1 member that leaves you negative feedback that adds an hour to that count. theymos (and people he trusts) can set your feedback timer to whatever they want that with no restrictions. And done. You want to leave 100+ feedbacks after getting dinged by just 2 DT 1 members that's 300+ hours assuming you never miss the window to post. You want to leave a wall of spam, great it's going to take you weeks. By then some mod or someone else can take a look before it gets to this point. Would be a quicker fix. None of this would help the current situation but could make the mods life easier in the future. -Dave |
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I started to discussion about this a little while ago as it pertained to loaded physical collectibles. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5146208.0It's probably useful to keep discussing it on and off. I don't think either side of BTC is BTC and it does not matter vs. there is some BTC that you don't want to explain where it came from will change the other sides mind. But it's good to discuss so newer people can see both sides. -Dave |
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Let me start with I *know* I should let this go and not feed the trolls. I know it, I can feel it in my bones just ignore him. But for some reason with this one I can't. So with the above being said. game-protect has now left over 100 negative feedbacks to anyone who dares to 1) Support the flags against him 2) Participate in a signature campaign that he does not like. 3) Make any negative comment against him. Take a look here. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=874254Yes, I got 3 from him. Since he has massive negative trust and is 99.999% never going to make it onto any trust list it really does not matter. However, Posting this to 50+ members profiles: Children reading the extremely mentally ill brain wash nonsense shit of this bitcointalk account are at a high risk of getting mentally abused! Or this one to subSTRATA profile: You abused all children who had contact with you!]You abused all children who had contact with you! Is there a limit to what will be tolerated? I think there is and he went way past it. If @theymos or any staff says no he didn't then I will listen to them, let it go, and ignore gp. BUT, I do think there should be some kind of discussion about what is permitted and what is not. Thanks for reading my ramblings. -Dave |
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Coming up to the 10 millions bet, it is not surprising for me because they offers daily login bonus as well as faucet. Although the number of online users is still low but as long as they are rolling continuously every single day then it is easy to reach 10 millions bet. The more important thing is the wagered amount IMO, so I wonder how much is being wagered with that 10millions bet? Do you think how fast the roll from this site? 100 bets/sec? Its not easy to reach 10 million bets even you use autobet It may not be easy to reach 10 million bets, but it doesn't mean that this figure is necessarily fake, though I don't think this is what you are trying to get across. Regardless, here're my stats:  I don't know how to see the actual number of bets I've made so far, but it is definitely in many hundred thousands as I've been autorolling long enough (on the order of days). In fact, it can actually be over 1 million bets as the screenshot suggests. If anyone knows how to get full, unabbreviated stats with complete details from this site, you're welcome. I will readily provide them Me too. I have been sitting there letting it auto-bet for extended periods of time. No idea of my number of rolls but it has to be in 10s of thousands if not nearing the 100 thousand point. It's all the free faucet coins so loosing it all (which I have just about every time) is not a big deal. -Dave |
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Nah bud!
I am keeping myself out of this GP guy. Left him in ignore yesterday and trying to keep myself away from anything related to him however once you will create the topic I will give a heads up. May be make a pool or something to find community feedback about him.
Good advice, I should do the same. I just left him 2 negative feedbacks that have nothing to do with any of "this mess" just statements and links. I figure that should be good for now. Going to work on the post in the meta forum if I have time this weekend. -Dave |
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Do you think this warrants a thread someplace other then the reputation forum to get more mods attention? He rally needs a perma ban or as eaLiTy put it "get him added to the deleted profile list"
May be in the meta asking what to do if a user starts this kind of trust abuse. Do the feedback system needs few tweaks etc etc. This case really needs attention. I have seen another post from Yahoo too somewhere. Everyone who knows GP are annoyed AF. I failed a trade yesterday because of the feedback he left for me. The user never contacted me after seeing the feedback. For an inexperience user, trusted and untrusted feedback make no sense at all (from my experience). They consider both the same. I actually made another thread about trade feedback back in June. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5154576Might we worth keeping it bumped / in discussion because of people like GP. I'll try do dig out some time this weekend and try to create a post in meta about it. If you can get to it 1st let me know and I'll post in that one. Thanks, Dave |
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Yes I am now up to 3 retaliatory trust feedbacks from him.
Will probably be more later today after I add my negative trust to him.
Do you think this warrants a thread someplace other then the reputation forum to get more mods attention? He rally needs a perma ban or as eaLiTy put it "get him added to the deleted profile list"
Other then theymos should we be pining out to other people about it?
I really don't want to poke theymos as he has better things to do with his time.
-Dave
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