Latest posts of: Peter789

I have chosen cold storage.
Dual boot sounds good too, for paper wallets. Wonder if you could use a partition? Such as true crypt.
I thought that IF i was to use a paper wallet, then use a seperate laptop. Only used for btc. I have, as we all do, an old laptop.
I have several encrypted vpns. I run them whenever i am on the net. Also, ccleaner, spybot, avanti.

Never use a keyboard to input a password or secret email...always use virtual keyboard. They wont break encryption.
Say use a shakepear quote, Samuel Coleridge Taylor?, the bible?, your favourite politition? Philosopher? But nothing too close to your favourite authors, or too obvious. If you study physics dont choose Sir Isaac....choose say....Shakespear.
If your a poet...choose the quadratic formula.

I am thinking long term. Retirement. Middle aged now and some day i will slow down.

Btc is a wise investment. Japan just alowed officail transactions to be done in btc, India may be next, sure China is having troubles.
But in the long run, more and more countries will adopt btc, more and more poeple are grasping the technology, why every day you see payments by btc just while surfing the net. Companies all over the globe are excepting payments in btc.

Another unfortunate aspect is the illegal use. Online drug markets are growing and like the drug market will increase exponentially. Nonetheless, btc price will continue to rise and rise.
Btc can replace visa to some degree.

I don't beleive btu will be big, btc is already the favourite. Give it another 5, 10 or 20 years.

Ok well I now have the right asc file- which is the public pgp key.

I thought I was trying to verify the Electrum 2.8.2 exe file against his signature file which is an asc.

But no such luck.

https://1drv.ms/f/s!Av_LdqvV_nSUiB1MlHPSc6JGHd-S

Peter

OOOOhhh I seeee. Because the link sends you to this signature
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1
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=vXVt
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

and I have been saving this as the asc file.

I keep getting 'invalid signature'.
which of the downloads do I use to make a asc file for a standard Electrum wallet?
https://download.electrum.org/2.8.2/

There are so many to chose from. Perhaps I am renaming the file incorrectlyl

I am from from the mines and using my desktop.
do you think I can repeat the verification? no.

so to make an asc file, I just copy thomases gnupg signature into a notepad and change the name to asc?

This is great news.
Now will someone confirm this is not an April fools joke.

Yes Jack thanks.
I do not move btc around enough to warrant to keep a record of all my transactions. I am simply saving money and wish to be able to retrieve my funds in case- say i loose my cold wallet.

There are places on the net, that are highly encrypted, for a small cost you can keep information that only the NSA or CIA can break into- if at all.

This is unlikely as I don't do anything to attract such attention. I do however, have reason to be concerned about the loss of btc as i have lost a btc recently. Security is now a serious issue.

Hitech, OH MY GOSH..I got it.
I took a look at my certificates and realized that you had two certificates by Thomas. I search for them, imported the other one by Thomas that was from a Danish email, certified it, trusted it. Then verified my electrum exe.asc file.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vef5zxyo0aayye9/Screenshot%202017-03-30%2018.54.15.png?dl=0

I thank you very much for your patience.

Peter

Hi Tech,
I tried both the 'cleo path' and the 'windows right click on asc method'- ;neither showed any positive results.

Before I did that I put everything in the same electrum wallet. Here is a print screen.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tfqpuk88aeo2pfn/Screenshot%202017-03-29%2019.57.44.png?dl=0

So I clicked on every single file in that wallet. However, i think i am suppose to click on 'default wallet'. either way no results.

I also dont know what boxs to click here

https://www.dropbox.com/s/u99ihnxcsv4v2hp/Screenshot%202017-03-29%2020.00.04.png?dl=0

Perhaps i do have a fraudulent copy of electrum?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ek9ghwdbtwfkwgs/Screenshot%202017-03-29%2020.02.29.png?dl=0

I got to 'decrypt verify'- but got 'general error'

Thanks heaps for your help mate.
I shall work my way through this.

I went into cleo to search for ThomasV.asc as I could not find his email addy.
It said to go to setting>configure cleo... what do I do there?

Hi tech, I can't find AppData on my computer. i have the new Win10 and it is new to me.

I right clicked my wallet through electrum > Gpg>decrypt and veryfy and got 'cleo cant open file error 218136625

Jack,
I waited 60mins for both transaction to be complete.

I simply opened a second wallet using the same seeds. To prove that i can retreive the funds. A sort of learning experience.

No I don't think I 'backed up my wallet' the way you describe. I must learn to do that too.

HTech, has shown me how to use public keys to 'verify' a signature. I will be working on that tonight. I am presently doing 12hr days in the mines, with an hours travel- so research time is limited for 2 weeks.

I will, however, learn to 'back up' my wallet.

Thank you poo
Thank you Kolloh

I am very vert sure about my email server. I have done my research. I used to use true crypt. But now it is Gpg, still as good.
To the best of my knowledge neither of these have been broken by criminals....or even the FBI. Except that terror case the other year. You remember the Muslim couple in the black SUV?...the FBI broke his phone eventually.
But, i dont feel that a concern as i am not breaking the law.

Yes I heed your advice on passwords and as a matter of fact I will act on that advice. I am a prolific reader of certain subjects.
i honestly cant imagine anyone working it out. It is not written anywhere on my premises.
I also use a file destroyer instead of the delete.

I was going to ask.....Does anyone have an idea when the fork will happen?

But i think i got my answer....i will not be able to purchase till i get back from the mines anyhow.

And you are proven wrong. I just send a ridiculously small amount of money from BOTH electrum accounts to my ledger.

Interesting thing happened though.
1/ I first opened up my ledger account.
2/ Then I attempted to open my electrum accounts and NO GO.
3/ Closed my ledger and withdraw my usb.
4/ Opened electrum successfully and sent $7.71 and $0.051 to ledger. Just waiting for confirmation now.

I rest assured that with the help of this forum, HI-tech, Gpg, a certain secure encrypted mail server and ledger- my savings are safe.