Nicolas Bacca cio and co-founder of Ledger, will leave the company following the recent recover scandal. he follows former ceo and co-founder Eric Larchevêque, who stepped down in 2019.
ceo Pascal Gauthier blamed an 'unintentional communication mistake' for the Recover melee, but also stressed the importance of key recovery for users who feel overwhelmed by key management.
Shitcoin hardware wallet is falling down, falling down...  I wonder if this co-founder Nicolas Bacca is one of the reddit moderators with nickname BTChip that banned and silenced a bunch of people a while ago. EDIT: Yeah he is! This guy was a real poison for ledger reddit community.  |
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This topic leads me to the question, which is better, keeping wallet seed digitally after encrypting it with a strong password, or keeping an encrypted copy of the wallet file with a strong password?
I have one USB drive that was previously encrypted by me, and ever since I decrypted it and did a full format it is not working correctly. It works as it should few times but at some point it gets corrupted and I can't use it anymore until I format it again. I am not using this usb for anything important, but this is just showing how fragile and unreliable this drives are, so I would never use them for anything bitcoin related. For me it's much better to have offline backup on paper/metal, without keeping important stuff in digital format. |
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It's interesting to see that discussion continues even on github with one of wasabi contributors, propagandist, and probably team member. However, I don't expect to see wasabi removed from recommended wallets in bitcoin.org website, but maybe they should add some type of warning. Maybe someone should fork or create alternative for bitcoin.org website, and remove wasabi wallet. I liked wasabi v1 but this version is awful and it has very bad interface. |
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The first guy you mentioned we probably won't connect with as he has negative feedback
Don't just blindly look at negative feedback on member profiles, but look who wrote them. One of members who gave him negative feedback should not be trusted, he has a long tradition of abusing trust system and he is part of my ignore list. |
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I've made a new app called Crosspass that makes end-to-end encryption for dummies. It is better than Signal et al. because it forces users to authenticate (keys) via a natural flow.
I understand why someone would use this, but having Crosspass app as closed source and not really knowing what is happening under the hood... this is not exactly my cup of tea. Another thing, would I have to pay $1 each time I send something (after I spend my three free sends), or this is $1 paid for lifetime use? PS I really don't understand how Crosspass is related with Bitcoin  |
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If it was an inside job, could it be they accessed more than just the hot wallet? It sounds dumb thought: not many people will have access to those wallets, in which case it shouldn't be long to find the thief.
I don't know really, I just speculated about inside job, and I don't really believe anything I hear in news anymore. It is stupid to lose coins like this, and it's even more stupid when it happens to someone more than once  If it was an inside job and proper access control was in place, it should be trivial to find out who it was. Who knows until we get confirmation.
Nothing is trivial wit crypto businesses and shitcoins  |
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Guys, since you're talking about signing campaigns, I would like to know what conditions are most acceptable for campaign participants? We would like to launch a campaign, but we are still thinking about which manager to choose and what campaign conditions will be most suitable for participants.
Royse777, icopress and Hhampuz are all good managers and they are most active at the moment. If you ask me what terms and conditions I would like to see in campaign, than I can say that I like to have freedom to write as I usually do, without limitations for minimum and/or maximum number of posts. Long term campaign with reasonbale amount of escrowed funds would probably attract more quality members, but you can always offer members individual deals without involving third party |
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For everyone who had concerns about PeachBitcoin source code, good news that developers released it on their github page, and it is verifiable with Commons Clause plus MIT license. I know clear Open Source license would probably be better, but they wanted to have basic code protection against forking, and I can understand that more than when some hardware wallets are doing it. Blog article is explaining more this decision to go with MIT-CC license: https://peachbitcoin.com/blog/open-sourcing-our-peach-app/(c) Copyright 2023 by Peach Sàrl.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
"Commons Clause" License Condition v1.0
The Software is provided to you by the Licensor under the License, as defined below, subject to the following condition.
Without limiting other conditions in the License, the grant of rights under the License will not include, and the License does not grant to you, the right to Sell the Software.
For purposes of the foregoing, "Sell" means practicing any or all of the rights granted to you under the License to provide to third parties, for a fee or other consideration (including without limitation fees for hosting or consulting/ support services related to the Software), a product or service whose value derives, entirely or substantially, from the functionality of the Software. Any license notice or attribution required by the License must also include this Commons Clause License Condition notice.
Software: All peach app associated files. License: MIT Licensor: Peach Sàrl Source: https://github.com/Peach2Peach/peach-app/blob/develop/LICENSE.mdThis makes PeachBitcoin one of the best mobile options for exchanging Bitcoin for cash, with no-kyc at the moment (with reasonable limits). PS Make sure to update to latest Peach version that was released few days ago. |
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Why are you making false advertisement on your website? On main web page you are claiming to have 1000+ 5 star TrustPilot reviews, but I checked TrustPilot website and didn't find any review for your service. It's not that I believe any reviews I see on TrustPilot website (we all know most of them are paid bs), but it's red flag to me when I see false information like this. Even if this was real, having more than 1000 real positive reviews in few months is almost mission impossible.   https://www.trustpilot.com/review/coinramp.netEveryone be very careful with this few months old website! Coinramp is asking for mandatory KYC verification for their virtual cards, and I don't support this when I already have several available options for no-kyc virtual cards. We had few scams that looked very similar and I have reasons to suspect in Coinramp honesty, but I am currently conducting more research and investigation. |
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So my question is, apart from electrum wallet which other wallet is the safest for long term holding of bitcoin?.
Best option for most people to hold Bitcoin long term is good open source hardware wallet, something like Passport and Jade are good because they are airgapped, but Bitbox and Trezor are also acceptable. If you don't want to spend money on hardware wallets, you can always use your old smartphone (or laptop) and turn it into cold storage without internet/mobile connection. Whatever wallet you use it is more important that you make sure seed words backup is offline written on paper or metal, and in safe place. |
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Speaking of alternatives, there's an intriguing project called the Onekey Touch. Essentially, it's a Trezor T with a larger screen. In their repository at https://github.com/OneKeyHQ, you can see they've forked the Trezor monorepo and adapted the code for their device. The Onekey Touch connects directly to the Trezor suite. I know about OneKey (and most of the other hardware wallets), but problem is that OneKey code is a mess, even if they claim it is open source, it can'r be verified and reproduced. First they started as obvious trezor fork but now they started to change it, and they are started working on totally new code from scratch. Warning that one guy tried loading original Trezor source code on his OneKey device and he bricked it Another difference OneKey have is addition of secure element ATECC608A, that is not available in Trezor devices. The only drawback is the lack of hardware details
You can try talking with them and ask them to send you what is missing. I tried to work with them on one project but I soon found out they are amateurs, maybe even worse than that. |
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For now I am focusing on btc-only wallets.
Technically speaking Green wallet is not really a pure Bitcoin wallet because it is working with Liquid chain, and Blockstream is advertising L-USDT all the time, even giving discounts for purchasing their Jade hardware wallet with this token. |
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I am new to MAC OS and I have been struggling to find an answer to my query. I hope someone helps me with the process of getting it activated on my Safari Browser. I am aware I can download Chrome and Firefox and get it installed. I can do that but I don't like them and that is why I am asking this question.
You dont like Firefox and Chrome, and you just started using MacOS and Safari browser?? Yeah right Anyway, if you ''love'' Safari browser so much than you can just use some theme to make Firefox look more like Safari, and install BPIP extension. For example this one is with MIT source, but there are other options available: https://github.com/AdamXweb/WhiteSurFirefoxThemeMacOS |
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I think I recently saw more than usual number of reports against Stake casino in Scam Accusations board, so maybe that was connected with this hack. Whenever news like this is released I am a bit suspicious if that wasn't some type of insider job, and I really don't understand why they are keeping so much coins in hot wallet. There is no need to reverse already confirmed transactions, as Binance can simply freeze the funds and use the BNB Auto-Burn feature to cover the hacked funds back to the Stake. I believe they have already taken similar actions following some major hacks/exploits on the BSC network.
Yeah but boss CZ first needs to give them the green light for that... just showing how ''decentralized'' whole thing is. |
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While you're here, I'd like to bring up a topic... not too long ago I was chatting with MixTum about the prospects of creating a completely independent hosting service, and I would say that MixTum is open to dialogue.
Hosting service for what exactly? Just for mixing websites?? I am not sure this is a good idea, and I wouldn't call any hosting service really independent. Now just imagine scenario of some government shutting down and seizing mixer, they would automatically seize all the data from connected hosting service. |
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If i deposit from my wallet BTC to the exchange and then withdraw them to another btc address, will my coins be tracked?
If you are using exchange that has no kyc verification than you can't be directly connected with coins you send and withdraw, especially if amount of coins is different, but be careful to use good address management and don't use same address multiple time. There is a danger with if you are using centralized exchanges because they can always lock your account and ask for verification, but there are several good alternatives to avoid these (one eXch is in my sig). Using dex exchanges like Bisq is also great for this purpose, maybe even atomic swaps and Lightning Network or other second layer solutions. |
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I see you decided to expand your website from only hardware wallets to software wallets and other bitcoin related stuff. My suggestion is to move this topic to main Wallet Software board, since we can all see several desktop wallets on your website. You can also add few more software wallets like Unstoppable.money, and divide them into android and desktop category. I will think about more good wallets later and post them here. |
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After that FTX Scam, I really missed that feature as I do not know any other exchange that will allow free withdrawals. If anyone knows the exchange where the withdrawal is free or is lowest, please share.
eXch exchange doesn't charge any extra hidden withdrawal fees except transaction fees (you can find links in my signature), and you don't have to register for account or pass kyc verification. Other decentralized exchanges like Bisq also don't have any withdrawal fees, and you can trade Bitcoin with fiat currencies. For big centralized exchanges it doesn't make any sense to have no withdrawal fees like ftx scam, unless you are using Lightning Network withdrawals. There is one website I used before to find lowets withdrawal fees for Bitcoin, but I am not sure how accurate it is right now: https://www.cryptofeesaver.com/exchanges/fees/coins/bitcoin |
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The purpose of this thread isn't to put some sauce on the issue. The issue has been in discussion randomly in ChipMixer ANN thread, in a thread in Meta. That's why I thought of creating a new thread so that users can discuss here instead of being off topic in other discussion.
I totally forgot that something similar happened with CM, only difference is that WW website is still working (sort of). We can have many theories and speculations what happened with both of them, but we know for a fact they are both gone from forum. Coins in CM were meant for future campaign payments, so it would probably be fair to see them equally distributed to ex-participants (if they want it). Situation is a bit different with WW because funds are used as safety backup, but I don't see any reason to keep this funds frozen forever. The deal was between Campaign manager and the project owner, none of the campaigners get anything (or at least demand anything). Have you been paid for the week/weeks you wore the signature. The answer is yes. Case close for campaigners. Why should managers and escrows be any different? They also got paid for their work as they agreed, so I don't understand why would they deserve bonus money... I never saw any manager posting in public how much they earn, but they sure posted how much money they lost when scam project hired them and than gone missing I think it's better to have partial terms clearly posted in public to avoid future calamities, because I am sure we are going to see more meltdowns and busted projects in future, one way or another. For example, in case something happens with XXX service, this ___ will happen with leftover funds, that way all parties will have more clarity. Small change, but it makes a huge difference. |
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