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Hi All.
Since yesterday I have serious problem to access on blockchain.com account. When I tried to login, I didn't got any authorization email. I've tried several times. Nothing. All the emails arrived exactly 1 hour later my request. Today I tried again, but no authorization email arrived.
I've already wrote to the support team (but they are very slow). Also used my backup phrases to restore my account using a new email. On the new address I receive email without problem. The bad thing is that the major btc I have on blockchain.com are on the interest balance and this amount was not recovered with the backup.
Someone has similar experience? What I can do?
This also happened to me and I later fount out that my 2FA emails was change and all the funds stolen. https://honestproscons.com/blockchain-com-is-losing-customers-funds/Blockchain.com has a security flaw that allows hacker to change 2FA email without going through 2FA verification. |
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You don't have any evidence to claiming Blockchain.com has malfunction on 2FA features and also about employees steal user funds in their wallet. All you talking on your article is only about your "presuming or guessing" as you want to blame their employee about your case. As you not bring any evidence in your article, so it's not surprised if Blockchain.com gave a legal threat to you.
I'm pretty sure I can express a theory of what happened? Especially when I have been the victim. If this wasn't legal, then everyone who sued someone but was not able to prove it in court, would face defamation charges. However, when you're create that article you're also gave a "threat" to people for not using their service.
What you mean by this? |
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I, like many others has lost cryptocurrency funds due to malfunction or breach of Blockchain.com 2FA safety feature. I recently wrote an article about it, which was published here: https://honestproscons.com/blockchain-com-is-losing-customers-funds/Today I received a legal threat from Blockchain.com where they try to force me to take down this review. You can see the document they sent me below. https://imgur.com/a/8Cekc8uhttps://imgur.com/a/P1bkHsHhttps://imgur.com/a/8YBV0NDThis is a rude and disgusting attempt to cover up the massive security breach their wallets have! The funniest part it that, their legal team never replied to me, when I contacted them about the compensation of the funds their lost, but now suddenly they chose to wake up. |
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3. Once the 2FA email was changed, he either used a brute-force attack to crack the password or more likely he already acquired it from numerous user-data leaks, which is how he was targeting the accounts in the first place.
You do realize that this step is unnecessary if he would have an access level that allows him to disable 2FA and change the email address, right? How? He still needs password to access the wallet. |
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This hack was not done with private keys, but by disabling 2FA.
So says author of that article, Filip Poutintstev. To quote the title "Unknown Blockchain.com employee is stealing customers funds" but he provides zero evidence of that, just assumptions and nothing else. I don't say that whats written in article is impossible to happen, but still it would be good to provide some evidence for those claims otherwise it;s nothing but a clickbait title. Same thing he did in the article called Reasons to avoid Bitcointalk where he wrote bunch of nonsense and lies. On the other hand, I am not big fan of blockchain.com wallet and I stopped using it some time ago after having a lot of issue with sending/receiving funds. Last time it happened I had to export private key and move my funds to another wallet. It's called logical deduction. The facts are that it's impossible for anyone to do this theft other than Blockchain.com employee, because no one else can disable notifications about 2FA change. Since you brought up the other article, perhaps you can tell which points exactly are false? |
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This hack was not done with private keys, but by disabling 2FA.
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Review of the most popular cryptocurrency oriented publishing platforms, ranked from worst to best. Pros marked as + / Cons as –. 8. Guest posting for Crypto Magazines– Usually extremely hard to get published. – Many websites require a fee for posting that can be pretty high (even thousands of dollars). – Even if published, posts usually get very little visibility since they are not promoted. 7. Steemit– Very hard to get exposure. 6. Medium– Posts get absolutely no exposure unless submitted to a publication, which can be hard since there’s no tool to contact them through Medium.com. – Bans users easily for political reasons. 5. Hackernoon– Posts get very little exposure unless featured on the front page (which happen rarely, since there are lot of writers). – It takes a long time for the post to get approved (usually days). – High requirements, most posts don’t get approved. – Commenting not allowed. 4. Your own website+ You have total power and control. – Unless you promote your website (which can turn to be expensive) you get absolutely no visitors. 3. Bitcointalk+ Medium exposure, sometimes a post can get a lot of comments. – Posting volume is so high that your post can disappear from 1st page in a few hours. – If you want to know what cronyism and paranoia look like, visit this forum. All newbies are treated like scammers, and their account lacks features that senior members have. – Unfair “Trust” system where old users can destroy a new member’s reputation without any proof. – It is almost impossible to become a senior member on the forum since old members don’t give ” Merit” points to new members. – General atmosphere is negative. – If you try to sign-up from an IP that a suspended account has used before, you must pay a ransom in order to register. 2. Reddit+ Posts get pretty good visibility. + Active discussion. – After a day, your post will be completely forgotten. – Often negative reception. – In most crypto subreddits a user is required to have quite high “Karma” in order to post. 1. Publish0x+ High exposure. + Positive community. + Active commenting. – One must be approved in order to write. Did I miss something? If so, suggest a platform in the comments! Originally published at: https://honestproscons.com/where-to-write-about-cryptocurrencies |
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Biggest Bitcoin problems in my opinion: - Too complicated for masses - No 100% reliable back-up protection if private keys are lost or stolen - No charge-back option (this is both pro and con) - Not enough big merchants https://honestproscons.com/the-problems-of-bitcoin/ |
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Min 10k followers. The more the better.
Interested mainly in:
- Twitter
- Pinterest
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Any niche, but preferably business, tech or crypto.
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I have a high traffic crypto domain. Can you pm me?
Where did you go? |
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I don't simply need a domain. I need a website with traffic. In that section there's nothing interesting. I forgot to say that it includes websites that are on sale. Should you check there and see what are the available websites on sale that you're looking for. Just a few browse from there and you'll get to see what are those websites and you might see the ideal website you're looking for. Just in case that you still haven't seen one. Check yourself! There's nothing interesting! Most websites/domains are actually sold in Auctions section, but even there it's mostly domains with no traffic. |
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Kindly check your PM.
Do you need english only websites?
I have 2 crypto websites with good domain too.
Got endorsed several times from well known companies as well.
Yes English. I think it's quite obvious. |
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I don't simply need a domain. I need a website with traffic. In that section there's nothing interesting. Okay PM me the link, because I cannot write to you. "User 'amotor' has not chosen to allow messages from newbies. You should post in their relevant thread to remind them to enable this setting." |
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I don't simply need a domain. I need a website with traffic. In that section there's nothing interesting. |
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You don't have to store your private key, even if hardware wallets supply a piece of paper to write it down, you are not required too.
It already happened to me once, that a hardware wallet got completely erased with software update and if I hadn't had recovery seed all the funds would be lost. So that would be very stupid. However, there comes a thin line of good security from physical threats, but there's also the security of guarding from memory loss, and dementia. As you get older, you may be one of the unlucky people to get dementia, and that seed you have written down might mean nothing to you. You might think, you'll just be able to search online for the answer, but those suffering from dementia or even freak accidents, can forget family members, and even themselves, let alone what a search engine is.
Luckigly, dementia is something that's usually spotted early on, but having an accident, and suffering memory loss is a real issue, that might just be as likely as getting stolen from, depending on where you live. For example, if you drive every day, you probably are more likely to get in a car accident, than be the victim of theft.
I find it virtually impossible that you would lose your crypto due to completely forgetting about ever having any. Even if you experience sudden memory loss, your family members will most likely be able to help you figure out that a mysterious code or set of words is private key or recovery seed. Obviously, we try to safeguard as much as possible, and I see your concern. However, there's also a point where you have to draw the line. Personally, I recommend relying on a third party here....I know the forbidden words when it comes to security right? Technically, you can setup a bank account, with high security without internet access, and it is covered up to 85k in the UK, and I believe more in the US? You can have multiple bank accounts like this, so if anything happens to the bank you are covered, and by limiting access to the bank to in person, and identifying you that way you greatly reduce the chance of being stolen from.
But if you hold your funds in bank account, then you won't profit from price increase of crypto! If you wanna keep money in FIAT, then sure there's no problem, but the whole point here is that you don't! If they happen to know where some crypto millionaire lives, they might target him on purpose. The problem with crypto people is that they keep private keys all the time at their home.
The same is true, if its a fiat based millionaire, that's why its commonplace for millionaires in general to have security, especially if they are a public figure. It's also one of the reasons that many millionaires live in "gated" communities, altogether in one place. Actually it's not the same, because "normal" millionaires keep their funds in places where they are backed by 3rd party (usually banks or government) so even if they get physically robbed, thieves will not have access to their funds. They don't keep all their funds in gold or diamonds at home, which is equivalent to what crypto people are doing. |
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Do you know that theives do not most of the time come to someone's house to steal his money, they have informants that inform them that their is money in the house, this can be known during the process of collecting the money and taking it along to your house. There are many cases the thives will not know where you put the money, but will pressure you to tell them the truth that they know everything about the money and how it got to the house. I am talking about fiat that can draw theives attention to someone.
If they happen to know where some crypto millionaire lives, they might target him on purpose. The problem with crypto people is that they keep private keys all the time at their home. Bitcoin is different, if you are able to have your privacy online and able to securely save your seed phrase, I think you are good. That is why it can be dangerous for kyc and for people to know you have bitcoin, but if they do not know you have bitcoin and you are maintaining your privacy, your seed phrase can still be properly save at your home and be safe from attackers because they do not link any bitcoin to you not to talk of coming to your house pressuring you to give them seed phrase or private key.
There are already lot of people we all know have lot of crypto. All early crypto advocates, all founders of successful crypto companies etc. As price of crypto goes up, more and more people will fall into this category. But, how about them finding out while checking your phone or other device? I think that should also be addressed. But as of recent, I have found many people that said theives came to their house, stole phone, laptops and many other devices but left hardware wallet because they do not know what it is. Those kind of theives do not require for phone or device password than to steal it and format it to sell it to another person. Which means the seed phrase is good if properly saved, he will just have to input it on another wallet and recover his bitcoin as the thives only go away with the phone and format it if you use password probided.. But, I do not know of later, maybe the thives will be smarter.
Let's separate dumb-ass thieves from professional thieves. The ones who are professional and know you have crypto will take everything you have that might store private keys. Crypto is actually mainstream enough already, so unless it's some stupid drug addicts, most likely they will be looking for crypto. P.S. You are mostly relying on that you'll get lucky, which is kind of reckless attitude, when I'm specifically speaking about that small chance where you want. |
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As the price of Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) is going up, more and more user start facing the problem of safe keeping of their coins, when the value of them start reaching 6 or 7 figures.
We all know that a smart user holds his own private keys, but how to store them safely?
None of the products currently on the market provide any solution with physical theft.
For example hardware wallets. Yeah, it's high security and password protected, but the recovery seed is on a piece of paper (or on a piece of metal) which offers no protection at all. Same applies to all other wallets with recovery seed and paper wallets. All cold wallets (the most secured wallets) offer no security when it comes to physical theft.
What's stopping criminals form breaking into your house and steeling your recovery seed?
Keep it in a bank vault? Well then the bank or the government has access to it (so it's no better than FIAT), and stuff from bank vaults is also being stolen sometimes.
As I see it, storing of the private keys or recovery seeds is the weakest spot of blockchain security. Bitcoin offers best online safety, but low offline safety. Storing cryptocurrencies is practically as dangerous as storing high amount of cash at home. Since there are more and more crypto celebrities, it's basically a gold mine for criminals, because I doubt that many of these people have bank level vaults and security.
So what is your thoughts? How would you keep private keys safe from physical theft?
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I have a profit calculator website for crypto trading, interested? It doesn't have crazy amounts of SEO traffic but it's getting traffic from other organic sources.
I can have a look if you share a link. P.S. Organic traffic means traffic from search engines. If it gets traffic from somewhere else it's no longer called organic. |
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