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$100 for 10 hours? Give me what you're smoking. Seriously though, In my country people work for $3000 a YEAR and some for $15 a day, you get much more than this. Still, sorry you got scammed.
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Step 1: Buy a wallet for your paper money.
Step 2: Start using the wallet.
Of course, your bitcoins would not be lost providing that you had a backup somewhere and the person that presumably finds your supposed hardware wallet does not crack it before you regain access and shift your coins elsewhere.
This makes it more likely that all your money would be stolen if someone were to rob you or if someone were to pickpocket you as these kinds of people usually go after a person's wallet. Likelihood of being pick-pocketed is rather low. If somebody were to rob you they would just swipe the notes anyway, as well as your phone etc - so that point is moot. The OP was all about losing money by dropping it and not noticing due to its properties. As a wallet owner myself, I take far greater care of its contents than I would if I were to have them loose in my pocket. "As a wallet owner myself" lol It is not entirely uncommon for people to lose their wallet, either because it falls out of their pocket when they sit down, take it out to pay for something, place it on their lap and forget about it, or a number of other reasons. Perhaps, but again, the OP was talking about losing monetary notes due to the physical properties. The fact is that anything can be misplaced, so I don't think that the argument of leaving it somewhere accidentally holds for this discussion  I suppose the great thing about the bitcoin hardware wallet is that the only thing you are losing is the hardware - you can recover your coins provided that the correct measures are taken. Definitely a big plus. Yeah, thats the thing. Private keys can exist on more than one location, unlike physical bills. Provided I take the right precautions, if I lose my wallet(with Bitcoins) I can recover them as soon as I get home, which would be immediately. Physical bills don't share this trait. While it's still possible to lose them, I at least get a fighting chance. |
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Real-life GTA right there.
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I was thinking someone else just gained 10 units of fiat Your loss someones gain but aside from that there is always a fanny pack to make 99.9% certain it does not get lost  Although I prefer my pocket as well so it's very possible that money could fall out of it if I was not being vigilant. But your right bitcoin would have a password so someone could find it but not use but with cash some kid could find it and then spend it so it depends on how well you secure your cash . It would be nice if hardware wallets were simple(with password capabilities) and cost the same amount of money as an Arduino or Raspberry Pi or cheaper, this way you can buy a few of these and have a spare device if something happened to the previous.
Trezor http://www.bitcointrezor.com/I know about Trezor, but it's a far cry from being at the price level of an Arduino or Raspberry Pi. |
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You really couldn't think of a way...really?
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Step 1: Buy a wallet for your paper money.
Step 2: Start using the wallet.
Of course, your bitcoins would not be lost providing that you had a backup somewhere and the person that presumably finds your supposed hardware wallet does not crack it before you regain access and shift your coins elsewhere.
Considering that not everybody who uses Bitcoin is tech savvy and understands how to crack the password, moreover if it's on a hardware wallet, I don't think there is anything to fear(at least it would be mighty difficult to do so). Especially if the password is sufficiently long. |
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Sounds to me like you should learn more before jumping into this.
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It wasn't until today that I wish I was using Bitcoin to pay. I went to the supermarket to buy groceries, I got my change and went back home, I didn't empty my pockets immediately, it was an hour later or so. Once I did, I noticed 10 units of paper money were gone, but alas, middle of the day, 100% chance they were found. 10 units of paper money, not exactly my life's fortune, but still, I lost money. I tried to find somebody to blame, and I reached at the most logical conclusion, it was entirely my fault and my fault alone. I was simply too lazy to pull the zipper on my pocket.
I then realized, I could've avoided this with Bitcoin. As paper money is light, I couldn't have noticed when it fell, there would be no sound, nor a feeling of less weight. With Bitcoin, which is virtual and arguably weighs nothing you might think it would be the same, but not really. See, if I was using Bitcoin, whether a hardware wallet or my phone/tablet, I would've had a password on it and suppose I was using a hardware wallet with a password and I lost it, there would be a couple of things. It would weigh more than paper money, it would make some sound as it falls on the ground and would feel that my pocket weighs less. If I lost it while sitting, then no, but in all of these cases, once I got home and realized all of this, I would open up my computer with my backup or copy of my wallet and transfer the money out of the compromised wallet.
It would be nice if hardware wallets were simple(with password capabilities) and cost the same amount of money as an Arduino or Raspberry Pi or cheaper, this way you can buy a few of these and have a spare device if something happened to the previous.
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What about the fat American stereotype?   Unfortunately, it isn't a stereotype, it's reality. |
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Disable/Remove java, Read the comments/reviews of the torrent before you download. Don't open .exe, .scr .com .pdf and other executable files. If you find a file suspicious scan it with virustotal.com.
+1. Flash and Java are in the Top 5 that causes infections. |
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Honestly, I expected in the last year that somebody would write a C implementation of a pool WITH stratum.
My personal opinion of slush's implementation(in Python) of stratum is....it sucks. I and many others have read his stratum documentation and it's lacking, one needs to read and understand the python code to implement this in anything else.
I've been honestly tempted to write this in C, but there just isn't enough time.
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SHA-256 knows all.
You mean RIPEMD-160, right? Or are you saying that the SHA-256 knew ahead of time what the RIPEMD-160 has result would be? Correction, Satoshi did  |
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StackOverflow should be used only when you have clear goal or well defined question to ask. Since the site is rating based you can have your account suspended(at least the question asking rights) if you get too many downvotes.
Also, many oldschool programmers who have decades of programming experience will recommend Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan's The C Programming language 3rd edition book.
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I can..see it. Or is this my delusion?  |
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Isn't this the calm before the storm?
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Here is a good example of a "hack" that happened. I'm not saying it is fake or is true. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=686275.0In the U.S., as I am aware, if you incur losses in your investments you can claim that as tax deductable assuming it is at a market loss (your investment or buy price is higher than the current value of the stock etc). How would this apply should someone lose $750,000 in Bitcoin due to a hack and attempt to get some sore of tax break if any? Any thoughts? How would one prove he lost $750k? I can prove some bitcoins got sent somewhere, but I can't prove they were stolen, neither can you, smoothie. |
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This is a common mistake. I admit when I first did this I was baffled by the different results. The problem is indeed the online tool. In fact for the last 3 years I've wondered why nobody made an online SHA256 hashing tool that has the option to convert the HEX to actual binary and then hash it.
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Can I encrypt a short message with a bitcoin address (public key) and send that to a person I know has the private key?
If I use a bitcoin address to encrypt a message of only 30 characters - how long with the encrypted message be?
How may this be done?
For example, my message is: "This is a test of my new system" and this is the public key: 12K5SyY2Z3DNsqFtTCnyGC3J7jYTCjM54m
What does the encrypted message look like and how does one arrive at making it?
Your best bet is to use Bitmessage. |
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