Ah yes. Armory doesn't support compressed keys, yet. They were going to be supported with the new wallet format, but that got put on hold for obvious reasons. Once RAM-reduction is done, maybe I'll finally be able to finish that.
Until then, Armory can't handle compressed keys. At all.
Good, it's no news then! Maybe put some hint into the error message? "Error importing.. invalid.. maybe compressed?" So people don't throw away good keys or similar. Nah, probably not important at all. Cheers! Ente |
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I found something completely different: - using the Schildbach Wallet on Armory - exporting the (only, primary) key from there - trying to import it into Armory L26ydPmrfdRmcWiRTa2pLxfXrhajLcjGxbCwJ7CMJSwWEaKdipSr The private key you have entered is actually not valid for the
elliptic curve used by Bitcoin (secp256k1). Almost any 64-character
hex is a valid private key except for those greater than:
fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffebaaedce6af48a03bbfd25e8cd0364141
Please try a different private key. This is a compressed key: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Private_key"For private keys associated with uncompressed public keys, they are
51 characters and always start with the number 5. Private keys
associated with compressed public keys are 52 characters and start
with a capital L or K. This is the same private key in wallet import
format." Seems like Armory doesn't recognize them? 0.88.2 here. https://www.bitaddress.org "Wallet Details" reads all kinds of keys and shows both compressed/uncompressed public and private keys from it. Ente |
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This doesnt really explain how to Help africans
- no inflation, which some local currencies might or might not suffer from - easier handling and transfer (little ATM coverage, high mobile phone coverage) - easier international trade - easier and cheaper "send-money-home" transactions ..and many more! Ente |
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Is bitcoin mining anonymous?
No real difference to all other aspects of Bitcoin: the operator knows you. No matter if we are talking about an exchange, a pool or some other service. Even if you don't give him your real data and ID scans and the like, as soon as your real IP is known, consider your anonymity blown. Of course there is TOR, which I consider safe/anonymous enough for this kind of things. Make absolutely sure you use only .onion (= TOR-internal) sites and SSL-encrypted (aka https) regular sites! Consider everything you do over plain http over TOR public knowledge and in immediate knowledge and manipulation of evil crackers (malicious, sniffing exit-node). The interesting question is: Is there a pool which operates a TOR .onion service? Or, anyone here tried to route the miners through TOR to the regular clearnet address of a pool? Pro-mode: Do solo-mining, this will definitely work over TOR, with no central/malicious instance at all! :-) Also: I like this thread! Ente |
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Berlin, eh?
Now that's someting I find interesting..
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JJJan; 40; 3.44; 19jZAyTeGpxh4FBi8Uj3VzpxZcYd5FqCBw
Wäre nett wenn du mir via PM deine Mail Adresse zukommen lassen könntest, damit ich dir die Signatur privat schicken kann.
Du kannst auch innerhalb des Forums Privatnachrichten schicken, einfach den Namen der Person anklicken, und dann 'Send this member a personal message.' Ab 5 Posts.. Hmm, ja, stimmt... Aber mit weniger als 5 Posts kann man doch gar nicht außerhalb der Newbie-Area posten, wenn ich mich recht entsinne.  Hat er aber wohl doch. ..ausser, z.B., in den non-English-Boards wie hier. Zumindest in den "großen" Boards wie "General" etc gibts das Limit. Ente |
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BarsMonster, are you doing those awesome reverse-engineering microscope photos on the blog?
Awesome, now this is what I cann ASIC-porn!
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Was ist an schulden und kredite so schlecht?!
..vielleicht.. die Zinsen?  Ente |
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So far no news on the open day?
I heard they were seen boarding the truck! ..and haven't been seen since. They never arrived at KnC headquarters.. Ok, we need to stop that undressed-chicks-on-trucks thing or we are doomed.
Let's calculate a few hashes for their poor souls. Ente |
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Uuuuuund Kommando zurück: seems to be some miscommunication here.
the people handling this just took all the people who ordered, and sent them 30 chips a person since they finally arrived, I've spoken to them and this issue is addressed, so all should be fine.
of course, the 30 chip per 10,000 rule still holds, it's just they'll show up later.
I mean it's kinda silly to do per address since people would just get more addresses or split their orders into single 10,000 orders...
Wir bekommen für jeden Batch 30 Samples. Phew! :-) Ente |
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You really should set up a P2Pool BKKCoins with 100% fees and people can mine for you till you are satisfied and keep producing for us... lol. Just set a target and we will will hit it.
I like that! Make it 90% or 99% fees, so people can see how much they mined for already. Yes, I think this is an elegant, direct and simple solution. Aren't there pools where you can create a sub-pool? Hey, maybe the pooloperator even reduces the fee for the good cause! :-) Ente |
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Ich habe eine neue Liste mit der Verteilung der Sample Chips gemacht. Darin sind nur Entwickler und Minerhersteller die ihr Design überprüfen müssen. Avalons Original Design ist nicht dabei da es ja funktioniert. Für den Test ist ein Chip schon unglaublich wertvoll. Ein zweiter hat auch einigen Wert um die Kommunikation zwischen den Chips zu testen. Alles darüber hinaus ist praktisch Luxus. Ich hoffe das ist gut gewählt. Könnte bald eine gute Auswahl an geprüften und funktionierenden Minern geben.  | Samplechips | Username | User-ID | | 2 | burnin | 70823 | | 2 | BkkCoins | 29155 | | 2 | allten | 29418 | | 2 | daemondazz | 101441 | | 2 | bcdev | 106443 | | 2 | marto74 | 84195 | | 2 | flyonwall | 87270 | | 2 | szym00 | 108891 | | 2 | innovina | 117183 | | 2 | hf_developer | 122104 | | 2 | evilscoop | 98209 | | 2 | sensei | 93912 | | 2 | DaGreatRV | 120794 | | 1 | villex | 113995 |
3 Chips werden von einem Gruppenkäufer für sein eigenes Projekt genutzt. Zusammen 30 chips ..an sich klingt es erstmal fair, dass jeder Dev was abbekommen soll. Aber irgendwie.. Die einzigen, die für uns nachvollziehbar entwickeln sind burnin und BKKCoins. Der einzige, der von Anfang an für alle zugänglich und open-source entwickelt, ist BKKCoins. Burnin hat versprochen nach Auslieferung das Design offenzulegen. Und jetzt die Anderen.. Sorry, ich will hier niemanden bashen, aber von denen habe ich noch nie gehört. Schön, dass die Entwickeln. Aber wer für sich, privat, im stillen Kämmerlein entwickelt, (nur) um Profit zu erwirtschaften, muss dafür nicht auch noch Samplechips geschenkt bekommen. Wer durch seinen Chipkauf auf die nötige Zahl kommt, kann seinen Sample natürlich gerne einfordern. Wer von anderen Bestellern deren Anrecht übertragen bekommt, prima. Aber für alles, was darüber hinausgeht, muss man es sich erstmal verdienen. Und da sehe ich erstmal nur burnin und BKKCoins. Burnin bekommt duzende Samples aus Zefirs Groupbuy. BKKCoins bekommt nicht mal genug für ein ganzes Board. Also: Ich möchte immernoch meine Chip-Anteile bei BKKCoins sehen. Das halte ich für die beste "Investition" in die Community. Und ermutige alle da mitzumachen. Wenn BKKCoins genug Chips bekommt, und andere Devs zeigen, dass die Community von ihrem Projekt profitiert, können wir drüber reden! :-) edit: I'll just confirm that any info I uncover from testing sample chips will be made freely available. And time permitting if specific tests are requested I'll try to provide answers for them as long as I don't think that chip damage could occur due to testing, or that it interferes with finishing my own tests.
If I had to reduce testing to a level where I was comfortable saying "ok this works", I'd say 2 chips per bank and there is 2 banks on a K16 board, ie. 4 chips. This allows testing the ASIC chain, the result wire-ORing, and nonce range splitting between banks. Having more chips would not help much with testing stacking or multiple K16 chaining as those functions are independent. It possibly could help with detecting timing issues in the code under heavier utilization.
The primary reason to have more test chips would be to test the K16 under heavy power use and heat dissipation and I think that's useful, of course, but will have to be approached according to how many samples I end up receiving. Sure, more would be better and allow more complete testing such that board users/assemblers/mfrs can be more sure that some use conditions won't have problems. If I can't test everything I'll try what I can and probably simulate what I cannot.
(I'll cross post this in the ASIC sample-news thread for completeness)
Ich fände es super, wenn BKKCoins 6 Samples aus unserem Groupbuy bekäme: 4 für ein K16 board, einen für ein K1 Board, und einen als Reserve und zum Übertakten-Test und ähnliches. Ente |
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Is there any sort of discount for those wanting KnC to host it?
Would you be willing to provide the option of KnC hosting the device? That seems to be a deciding factor for some. There is not much information about hosting so far, but since KnC offers to change your mind and ship devices you initially ordered for hosting, I am fine with this. Update: Device HostingSince several users approached me with their preference for hosting instead of shipping Jupiter units, and since KnC allows devices ordered for hosting to be changed to ship afterwards, if we make it to order I will do with all devices ordered for hosting and change it to shipping in a later step. Does that mean its either "all 100 are shipped" or "all 100 are hosted"? Or, hopefully, you may tell them to host 47 and have the 53 others shipped to you? And, just so that I don't miss anything in the hundreds of other pages: - the first 500 orders (or ordered devices?) may pay the full sum now to be the first ones delivered - after the first 500 it's first-pay-first-receive - they want to have shipped by the end of september Ente |
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There are other types of computers (mostly theoretical atm) that can give and check all possible answers in an equation. Surely one will come out within 10 years. It was mentioned they would just be for scientists and military, but if someone sees the profit to make one it will happen.
I think the answer here is that there will always be encryption of some sort. With greater computing power comes greater ability to encrypt.
Uhm. Yes, that's quantum computing. --- Don't forget we can easily replace the algorithm for mining at any time, as soon as enough miners agree on it. Not all algos are solveable by quantum computing. Ente |
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1. Myself is a self-confessed liar. If what he's saying now is true then he lied previously when claiming everything was honest on the site - and generally acted in a deceptive manner for months, only blowing the whistle when he got cut out from the take. So we have to decide whether he lied then, now or both times. And we can't take his word for it - so we lack evidence to reach any conclusion.
I don't see that point yet. The 1M$ accused event is all new, it's not like the site was dishonest over any longer period and 'myself' ignoring it without coming forward for months? Or am I missing some point? Right the opposite, as I understand it, 'myself' was shut out partly as a consequence for asking questions about that 1M$ accusation? Sorry, the OP is awfully long. I read through it some days ago, I'm sure I already am mixing things up. Ente |
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Righto, I've sent up a offline wallet with an old laptop I had lying around. I've made paper backups of everything. Wallet is encrypted. Bitcoin-qt.exe is uninstalled.
Anything else I should do?
Excellent, thumps up! Only hints I have left: - Install a fresh OS on that notebook. Maybe give Linux a try, it's come a long way in userfriendliness! You'll get a lot of help here too. - Finish everything on that notebook, then *never* go online with it again. If you must, format the hdd before. Don't use the notebook for anything besides Bitcoin. - Maybe do a "disaster recovery dryrun". Like, imagine all computers are dead (fire, theft, lightning). Try to recover all Bitcoins, from encrypted backups and paperwallets. Only a verified backup is a known-good backup. Most people fail to do that regularly, me included :-) Congratulations, you are more secure than 99% of all bitcoin-users :-) Ente |
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But why would you risk to leave a giant sum on this old address?
The seller could still have the private key.
One reason are threads / speculations like these, where people analyze old accounts. So you don't freak out masses with giant moves. In some cases, where you trade to people / party that have mutual trust, you can afford not to reveal any transaction to public. True! Imagine what would happen if suddenly some outputs from the first thousand blocks started moving? Half of the forum would await the imminent reappearance of the messias, the other half would start killing each other! :-) Ente |
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As already stated, paperwallet + Armory-offline-wallet is the way to go.
1) One wallet with little funds on your computer, and/or mobile, unencrypted, whatever.
2) A larger sum in offline storage via Armory and a second computer strictly used for that. Any old one with USB will do.
3) Long-term holdings in a paper-wallet only. Not meant to be redeemed in normal cases.
Even encrypted wallets on your regular computer are not secure at all: Once you enter your password, the malware knows your password and can grab the private keys right out of RAM anyway.
Want to create a paper-wallet on your regular computer, destroying the file after printing? You don't own your keys any more even before the printout has dried.
A dedicated, secure second computer is the only reasonable secure and convenient solution. Depending on your bitcoin holding, the addidional costs are neglictible.
Another option is rebooting your computer with a live-cd every time you want to send bitcoins. This is equally safe, but too much hassle for me, personally.
Oh: Backups, backups, backups!
Encrypt your wallet, and spread it everywhere! Email it your family, to yourself, put it on your mobile, on your USB key, on your cameras storage.
And finally:
What happens when you have a schoolbus-incident?
Hint: Give your password to someone who you trust. Or, better, an unencrypted copy. Bonus points for an unencrypted paper printout.
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@BkKCoins - Just looking at your BOM on github, can't see the magnetic inductor beads that Avalon have per chip? (I'm trying to work out the current rating needed)
No I missed the ferrite beads as was pointed out up thread a bit. Looks like my initial test board will let me see how it works without those, and later I'll likely add them to a revised board. I can patch a few into the board manually and then scope it to see just what it does, though I expect 300MHz noise isn't going to show as much on my scope. I'll see what I can get. Presumably having them will curb EMI emissions. There is no documentation on how much current AVDD requires. It must be less than 600mA/10 or 60mA each chip since I think that's the regulator rated max. My guess is that it's a fair bit less, maybe 30mA or less per chip. BitSynCom hasn't said quack, despite my asking, and no one seems to have measured the 3.3V supply line on Avalon boards (which would give a ball park split between this regulator and the I/O lines). --- Re: other posts above. I will be testing mostly using my Notebook (Core2Duo) but I have both a RasPi and TL-WR703N on the way. The RasPi will be here this week probably along with a second batch of needed parts (mostly capacitors but also the 1.2V buck reg and some other important stuff). The TL-WR703N will be a couple weeks probably as I ordered it later and paid lowest price to get it here (slow boat from China, literally). I think the RasPi will make a nice little host and it's pretty cheap. I believe cgminer is already working on that but I haven't really looked into it yet. If there is MinerPeon as well, that's another option, and I can make a driver for that if it doesn't take too much time. The TL-WR703N is cheaper and has some USB flakiness that kind of makes it more hassle but has the advantage that it has Wifi built in so you could have a rig placed somewhere with no LAN cables. I guess a RasPi could too with a Wifi dongle attached. The TL-WR703N was only $23 and includes a power adapter and Wifi but requires a USB hub to function with non-High Speed USB devices but doesn't need an SD card. So it's all kind of mix n match, play around, see what goes best. This morning I got a PIC wired and tested some basic code and captured output on Logic Analyser. It all worked fine. LEDs blinked and bits twiddled correctly. I'm going to move on next to trying to get it to attach as a USB device and see how well that goes. After that I'll be testing the real Klondike code as it initializes and detects ASIC presence, which involves pushing fake work. It won't find any yet! But I'll force it to think it has some and then watch as it pushes dummy work out. I'm hoping in a few days to have fairly functional firmware, and then turn attention back to the cgminer driver. I can't believe you're doing all this by yourself! True one-man-army! Kudos! Ente |
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I like to run Bitcoin-QT through Tor. But I can't operate Armory when QT has Tor running. So, I have to open QT, disable Tor proxy, restart it, then I can use Armory. Is there a better way to do this?
Do you use Armory with bitcoind or bitcoin-qt? If bitcoin-qt: Both at the same time? Ente |
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