I live up in Alaska and there isn't much going on here bitcoin wise. No businesses other than mine accept it, mining is hard at $0.24 a KWH. I would like to have a meet up maybe at a local coffee shop or something. Having never been to one, what would a good template be for the meeting?

I was thinking something like giving away paper wallets with $1 or $2 on them and maybe a door prize of a $25 paper wallet. Of course teaching people how to put a wallet on their phone, the importance of writing down their private keys and demonstrate a Bitcoin transaction.

Any ideas of how to run one from personal experience?

THANKS! BTC

The company I work for is having a blockchain competition. Whoever comes up with the best project with a working demo gets a paid week vacation and $500.

For noobs with limited programming skills what would be the best way to fork a coin with utility?

I was thinking something like Siacoin, customer data could be encrypted and redundantly backed up to the blockchain.  I would want to make the wallet have my company's logo. But nothing fancy.

I have been running my Antminer Z9 mini overclocked at 700M for five days and it hasn't had any HW errors. Still running quiet and cool at 58 to63 degrees,  this seems to be a much better miner than my last Antminer. Averaging 15.3k sols, which is mining 1.5 Zencash a day on supernova.

After a week I am going to crank it up all the way to 750 M.

Anyone else running it at 750 without errors?

A couple of years ago when I first started into BTC I stumbled across Unobtanium and thought what a cool idea it was. An ultra rare crypto with a tiny amount of possible minted coins. I bought a 10 pack and moved them offline to paper wallets and kinda forgot about them.

Now I have been taking stock of exactly how much BTC and crypto I own and I looked up the price of my UNO and it's been steadily rising, nothing fantastic but it is at around $150 right now. It also weathered the January storm very well.

The market cap still has a giant amount of room for spectacular gains. I think I will just put these paper wallets back in the safe and wait another few years to see where I am at.

http://unobtanium.uno

I have ordered one of the Btimain A3 SiaCoin miners and now downloaded my wallet, bought my required 2000 SiaCoins and am ready to backup some files.

I really like the IDEA of decentralized backups, but the process to do it on the Sia network seems really awkward. This is also one of the few crypto projects that actually have a working product.  And that is pretty rare in the crypoverse right now.

I am looking for some first-hand experience with using Sia as your backup.  Currently, I am using DropBox @ $10 a month for 1TB of data storage and am very happy with the service.

Please let me know positive or negative your experience with Sia. Thanks!

I have a small amount of BTC and LTC in Coinbase vault, since it is insured I am thinking that this is a moderately safe way to store for long term. 

Of course it is best to own your private keys and store offline. But this is like one of those, don't keep all your eggs in one basket ideas.

If I had a million dollars in Crypto would I feel safe with them in the Vault?  I am thinking so.  I have heard a bunch of negative sentiment towards Coinbase, but I have only had positive experiences.  I do believe that they charge to high of fees.

I am continually dollar cost averaging into BTC/LTC and feel safe enough with some of those funds in the Vault.

What are your experiences?



https://www.coinbase.com/vault?locale=en-US#features

https://support.coinbase.com/customer/en/portal/articles/1662379-how-is-coinbase-insured

Last summer I bought into a stock that was worth 0.092 of a BTC, ticker GBTC

It has always traded at a premium to the real price of BTC, but you also don't have to worry about losing private keys or security of your coins. But then again you also are not in full control.

When Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Gold were was forked a dividend was paid out to all shareholders. I would much rather have seen them keep the funds and grow the stock value.

Now they have done a 91 for 1 split, and are at about 1/2 of the all time high. Each share has approximately 0.00101 BTC.

It doesn't track exactly like BTC, and only trades weekdays on the stock exchange.

Anyway, it has been a great runner for me and is probably worth a look if you wanted to use tax deferred money to buy Bitcoin.

I bought my first L3 in Sept, it arrived in December and I have been bouncing around mining quite a bit of coin.  I used MultiPool and CoinWarz to get the best rates per day but I did find Madcoin (MDC) that seems to make a good return but it is a total $hitcoin.  I mine 50 to 80 coins a day which is $18 to $30.  I trade them off every few days on Crypto-Bridge for XVG or LTC

I have ordered two more L3+ Antminers and they will be shipping soon.  I was wondering what everyone else is mining with their Antminers?

I don't think that you can be careful enough with your digital security these days. Keeping your data safe including your crypto currency can be a daunting task even for people that know what they are doing.

I recently upgraded from a Linksys router to a business grade Watchguard T10 hardware Firewall.

It did take quite a while to get it working correctly, I have over 60 internet connected devices in my smart home, and that turned this project into a multi day head banging exercise.

However, now that I have it working I have a better sense of security. I am playing around with Kali Linux and trying to see just how secure my network really is.

I am running a second LAN for the kids and all of their games, laptops and printers that is on a separate network. I didn't want one of their friends infected phones to ever be able to touch my network with mining equipment and PoS servers.

Am I just being overly paranoid or is there other people out there who are installing business firewalls in the house?

I read an article that claimed 2018 would be the year of the DEX and I am starting to agree.  Being the crypto expert that I am.

I have been playing around with Crypto-Bridge for a few weeks now and trying it out.  I do really like the idea of the decentralized exchange (DEX) and it is pretty easy to use.

There is a feature that allows you to "Mine" multiple currencies using the PoS method.  You must first trade some BTC for their own coin BCO, the current value is $5.60 but it did rise 40% today.

I staked 30 coins for 90 days so that I would get the 20% bonus.  You can get up to a 100% bonus if you stake your coins for 12 months.  Remember staked coins cannot be removed at all during the staking period, so don't risk money you might need in the time frame that you lock it up.

I thought that I would be getting BCO as my staking reward that is paid every other week.  That wasn't the case, what I did receive was fractions of 97 different coins.  When you trade on Crypto-Bridge you pay very small fees in the coin you are trading and those are paid out to the users who are staking during that 2 week period.  I haven't figured out a way to calculate all the gains from this yet, so I don't know if it is a good investment or not.

As the volume of users increases like I think it will really start to pay off, but time will tell.  I am going to keep adding to my BCO staking positions and just ride the wave in 2018.

I was watching the Youtube videos of people crushing it at around $500USD a day mining SIACOIN with the new A3. 
I made a hasty purchase and ordered one up from Bitmain and now it looks like they are mining around $40 a day.

Does anyone have one that they are running right now and can give an accurate account of the SiaCoins mined per day?

I fear that this will be another D3, or maybe worse because it only mines one coin currently, but that is what I get for hitting the buy button so fast.

I have been using Crypto-Bridge for a few weeks now, I came across the platform because it was the only place to sell the Madcoin that I have been mining.

I like the idea of the DEX (Decentralized exchange) and it has in intuitive GUI. I have been getting more and more familiar with the features and there seems to be a way to create your own coin.

I was thinking that I can use this as a way to teach my teenagers about cryto, but I havn't found any good instructions or tutorials on how it all works out.

I do see where some people have been making their own Coins, but they all seem like scam coins to me, or it could be a bunch of teenagers in their parent's basement making magical internet money.

Has anyone in this forum had any firsthand workings with creating your own assets?

Thanks!

I work in the IT and Security industry, I am not an expert but I do supervise some experts and lately have noticed how lax the digital security is with my friends and family. Last week I actually caught a family member with a printed-out list of ALL his passwords that he kept in his glovebox. And today while I was talking OPSEC with a coworker, he showed me a notepad file on his unencrypted, unlocked phone. His file included every username and password he uses, including banking and brokerage. That really got me thinking about how terrible the state of digital security.

This is a quick list of minimum precautions that should be taken.

Passwords, make them strong and change them often. Never reuse passwords. Don't be lazy. If your password is on the following list, you are in trouble. At the very least change parts of your password.
One strategy is to put the first five letters of the website followed by your strong password. For example, first, choose your strong password that is something that you can remember such as: Blue$murF@H0me1999. Then if you were going to WellsFargo.com your password would be wellsBlue$murF@H0me1999.

Secondly, enable two-factor options such as Google Authenticator (free) or YubiKey (about $40 on Amazon). Don't buy just one YubiKey, make a spare at the same time and keep it in your fire safe. When setting up Google Authenticator I print out the recover QR code, laminate it and secure it in my fire safe.

I recommend a password keeper app such as LastPass. It takes a bit of time to set up, but when you have your account set up it is easy to add new sites and accounts. Secure your LastPass with two factor authentication. Get started at LastPass.com

Next step is to encrypt your phone or tablet and the SD card in it. Usually, this is the second step. Enable remote control and remote wipe of your phone. Write down the website you use and keep it somewhere you can access it quickly, such as in your LastPass or on Dropbox. You might need to access this quickly in the event that your phone is stolen. I keep a copy of the procedure with a trusted family member.

If you use and travel with a laptop consider encrypting the entire drive with a program such as VeraCrypt. This is not as technical of a process as it sounds. Back up your data before you begin.

Backup all of your data often. I cannot stress this enough. We see this on a daily basis at work, a customer has lost valuable data or all of the pictures of their children growing up that wasn't backed up. There are numerous options such as DropBox, Google Drive, Amazon AWS, Microsoft OneDrive and others.

If you have cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Litecoin, make sure to write down your Private Keys and put them in a secure place in a fireproof safe. I print the keys when I open a new account or wallet, then record them on TerraSlate paper, laminate them, then lock in the safe. You should also backup all wallet.dat files and put them on a quality flash drive or portable hard drive. I recommend the Glyph Atom portable drive, it is worth the premium price.

I hope that this write up helps you get motivated to secure your digital life!

Have a safe and secure 2018

Top 10 Bad Passwords of 2016 from:

http://fortune.com/2017/12/19/the-25-most-used-hackable-passwords-2017-star-wars-freedom/

    123456
    Password
    12345678
    qwerty
    12345
    123456789
    letmein
    1234567
    football
    Iloveyou