I understand what you are saying and it makes sense. I don't want to derail this topic in discussing possible cooperation of hardware wallet manufacturers with government agencies, but since you brought it up, I will just ask one more thing? How do you know that all hardware wallet manufacturers are already not cooperating with government agencies and that information about who purchased what devices hasn't been shared or sold for years? Doesn't matter if they are open or closed-source, your purchases can still be leaked.

I have been trying to do the second part of the verification ("Verify the sha512sum hashes") as mentioned on https://www.ledger.com/ledger-live/lld-signatures, but I can't get it to work. Does anyone know how to verify if the files are actually signed by Ledger? Feel free to post the step-by-step instructions please.

I don't think you will be given that option. If and when the new forum goes live and becomes completely functional, my expectation is that theymos would want everyone to migrate and use the new site. This forum would either be locked or deleted altogether. It wouldn't make sense having a divided community and some members posting on the old while others post on the new forum.   

What are you basing this on regarding Ledger being totally closed-source? Has it something to do with the reproducibility? The code handling the secure element is closed-source. The Ledger Live app, and the rest of the wallet is open-source if I am not mistaken.

If we can say that nothing bad has happened with Trezor despite them not using a secure element and having a non-fixable seed extraction bug, why can't we say that nothing bad has happened with Ledger devices despite them having a closed-source secure element? Wouldn't you agree? The data leak has nothing to do with it.

Trezor is developing a new and open-source secure element, but they even said themselves that not all components of it will be completely open-source. So, it's again a partially closed-source device even if 99.9% of the code is open-source.   

Ups, moja greška. Ali opet, vrijeme je relativno pa nisam puno pogriješio.
Znam da su prošle sezone imali onaj Jackmate Fantasy gdje je trebalo odabrati 6 igrača za tim. Nekako sam bio uvjeren da je Majestic 7 išao uporedno. Očito starim...

@BUFF.bet
I remember that post I made almost a year ago where I asked you why citizens of restricted countries can freely sign up on your casino even if they shouldn't be allowed based on your ToS. You reassured me and the community that players from countries such as Germany aren't allowed to play on Buff.bet with fiat, but they can use crypto and it wouldn't be a problem because such restrictions don't apply when using cryptocurrencies.

What you are doing now is basically the opposite of that. You are preventing a player you know is from a restricted location to continue playing on your platform? You knew he was from Germany and it wasn't a problem for you in the past, but now it's a problem. I wonder if his account would have been closed if he was losing money regularly!?

Based on what I see here, I think that despite the fact that GekkeBelg is from a location whose citizens shouldn't be allowed to gamble on Buff.bet, you told everyone that it was OK as long as they played with crypto. At this point all I can do is advice GekkeBelg to open a scam accusation against you because you confiscated his money. It doesn't matter how much he played, deposited, and won in the past because you didn't have a problem with it in the past.

You said that new regulations don't allow you to have players from Germany on your site. OK, that can be true, I don't know. If it's true, you can't apply rules retroactively and count what the player withdrew from the site in the past when such regulations weren't in place back then. Speaking of new regulations, can you show some proof that your regulator recently requested that you close GekkeBelg's account or the accounts of other German players?

If a scam accusation is opened against your site, you might see your account tagged with negative trust. It's your mistake if you allowed players from restricted jurisdictions to sign up and use your services because you said it was fine to do so. Now you have to do the right thing. 

Some members on Bitcointalk use Ledger hardware wallets, and a few use the native Ledger Live app as well. I noticed that we don’t have a thread about verifying Ledger Live signatures or the installation files, so I thought I would write a quick guide on how to do it.

This tutorial is for Windows users.

What is needed for the verification?

•   A utility that displays file hashes, such as Hashtab.
•   The Ledger Live app for your OS.

Verifying the installation binary

1.   Download and install Hashtab on your computer. Here is a VirusTotal report for the newest version.
2.   Download the correct version of Ledger Live for your OS.
3.   After LL has been downloaded, find the file, right-click on it, and click on “Properties”.
4.   If you installed Hashtab, you should notice a new tab called “File Hashes” under properties. Click on it.

5.   On the File Hashes tab, right-click in the white box and click on “Settings”.
6.   A new window will open, showing all Hashtab settings. Unselect all of them, tick only the “SHA-512” box, and click “OK”.

7.   Visit the Ledger Live Download Signatures page. Scroll down a little bit until you find the “Verify my Ledger Live install binary” section.
8.   Copy the SHA-512 hash for Windows from the site.

9.   In the Ledger Live properties menu under “File Hashes”, paste the copied SHA-512 hash in the “Hash Comparison” bar. If they are identical, a green tick mark will appear on your screen.

10.  You have either copied the wrong hash or downloaded a fake version of Ledger Live if you get a red cross instead.


More information on how to verify the SHA-512sum hashes can be found here: https://www.ledger.com/ledger-live/lld-signatures
Additionally, check out these posts for more instructions on how to verify the SHA-512sum hashes: 1, 2.


Source: https://support.ledger.com/hc/en-us/articles/4404807946001-How-to-verify-the-authenticity-of-Ledger-Live-on-Windows-?support=true

Majestic 7 je fantasy igrica koju je FortuneJack imao i proše sezone. Za one koji se je sjećaju trebaju da znaju da su uveli jednu bitnu promjenu za ovu sezonu. Prije si mogao mijenjati igrače do početka prve utakmice tog kola. Tu si imao malu prednost jer pogledaš početne postave i napraviš izmjene ako tvoj igrač nije u timu. A naravno možda se predomisliš ili si pogrešnog igrača stavio, itd. Sad to više ne može. Kad jednom potvrdiš tim, to je to, nema više izmjena.   

Do you think the bookies are stupid and haven't anticipated something like that?

They have their agents in the stands keeping an eye on the markets, closing and opening when needed based on what they see at the venues as well. If they aren't at the venue, they outsource this service to third-party companies who do it for them. If a match is played in a location where they can't find someone to monitor it, they will use the fastest TV channel/stream and do it from there. The delay is checked to make sure that live bettors don't have an unfair edge. That's why it takes up to 8 seconds for a live bet to be accepted when you try to place one.

I have noticed an unusual thing on FortuneJack. If you go to the Provably Fair selection of games, you can see the Hi/Low and Stairs casino games advertised on the screesnhots. If you click on the Hi/Low image, it will take you straight to that game. But that doesn't happen if you click on the Stairs image. To play the game, you will have to find it on the list under 'SteadyGames'.

I assume this is something you could easily fix and is just an oversight on your end?

If you have access to multiple devices and can afford several laptops or phones, the best things to do would be to use each device for different activities.

Separate your work computer from your entertainment computer. I have a laptop only for work and my financials. That machine is never used to browse the internet, downloading (unless it's work-related). I use it for work, bills, and banking. 
I have another laptop for entertainment, social media, Youtube, non-business related emailing, movies, surfing the internet, downloading, etc.
A third device is used for crypto activities, wallets, and exchanges.

I like to detach my real-world work from my crypto activities. I have separate USB devices for each machine for example. I don't click on weird links, ad-one, emails on either of them.     

Update:
- Important Lightning Network threads and discussions from 2015 and 2016 have been added in the appropriate location.

The table is now complete.
Sometimes in the near future, I will take a look at what new threads have been created since June/July 2021.

Bump and some info.

- The version 2.32.2 can again be downloaded directly from inside Ledger Live. The previous couple of upgrades required that you download the new version manually from the official site.
- According to the release notes, staking ETH on the new Lido app would allow you to migrate to ETH 2.   

Being your own bank means doing all the necessary work and doublechecking before you click on the 'send' or 'broadcast transaction' button. There really should be no excuse not noticing that the address you intend to send coins to doesn't match with the one the other party gave you especially when the transactions are irreversible. Checking that the destination address is correct is neither difficult nor does it take much of your time. It's just laziness not taking precautions. 

New malware version and method of attack, but same old thing. It all comes down to not clicking on unknown links, no matter if they are sent to you via social media, emails, Telegram, PMs, whatever. You shouldn't click on ads either and why would you? If you are interested in a product, visit the official website or do some research on it on your own without clicking on the ad. I am not sure if ad blockers help against malvertisements, but you should use them either way. uBlock Origin and AdGuard AdBlocker are good and should do the trick. 

Betting on eSports wouldn't be any different than betting on regular sports. Whatever coins work for normal sports betting should be suitable elsewhere as well. If the market conditions allow it, Bitcoin is a great choice. But it's also connected to the casino your are using. Ideally, the platform should accept instant deposits and not force you to wait for a long time before you can make the bet.

If the mempool conditions don't allow it, opting for USDT (TRC-20), Litecoin, BCH, Tron, Dogecoin, or some other alternative coins is better for faster confirmations and lower network fees.   

That is true for Bitcoin, but some less valuable assets could be worth the risk. I know that you can stake multiple POS coins with a Ledger hardware wallet and Ledger live, but I never analyzed how exactly it works and if you are really giving up control of your coins or if they stay in an address controlled by you.

I know that there are custodial and non-custodial borrowing and lending platforms where you can earn interest by supplying liquidity. If it's custodial, you are depositing the coins in their wallets. If it's non-custodial, you are relying on the smart contract not being vulnerable to hacks. But a lot of these platforms and liquidity providers have suffered exactly that.     

There is no such thing as "trusted third party system". Who or what determines what is "trusted"? Something trustworthy to me doesn't have to be trustworthy to you. In Bitcoin, we trust the consensus rules. We trust that there is a law and those who don't follow it will get banned and blacklisted. Nodes don't trust each other, that's why you have thousands of them. Everyone is checking and verifying what the others are doing, and if they discover something malicious, they single them out and prevent further communication.   

There are two other on-forum sources worth checking out that discuss the same thing:

- Terminology by yogi
- Definition of some short Abbreviations used on forum. Everyone should know; by COOLCRYPTOVATOR (these are not just crypto acronyms, but also different forum-related abbreviations).

The question is, what are you planning to encrypt with 7zip or similar software? Even though files and folders can be encrypted this way, you should not consider encrypting private keys, seeds, or other valuable data, and storing them digitally for any reason. Use pen and paper, nothing else. Encrypting and protecting some personal documents, pictures, or messages from your kids or missus is one thing, but 7zip shouldn't be used for your financials.