if you want to keep a percentage or all of your coin with a 3rd party, even with interest, be my guest. advising others here to do so? wrong.

you should learn why bitcoin was created as you seem to have no idea.

that being said i leave a small amount parked on exchanges for convenience and to catch wild swings in price and have ladders set up for that. but thats a different animal. i know i could lose it all; exchange gets hacked,  my account could get compromised, exchange suddenly decides it doesnt like me, many other ways to lose ones coin, and now youre at the mercy of the exchange. good luck with that.

i lived through mtgox. did you?

mindrust fish = used to have btc

while i agree windows is the biggest OS for hackers to target, i have to say ive been running my original wallet.dat on core in a 24/7/365 on internet connected windows machine since 2011. no issues. no clipboard hijacks. no virii. no malware. one hardware failure but a quick replacement drive and a restore from backup to the new drive was all it took.

to be fair, i did transfer the bulk onto paper wallets when they came out (2013 maybe?) then to trezor (2014 maybe?) however there has always been a small balance on that daily driver with the wallet, and its been transferred to a few machines during upgrades/rebuilds during that time. its still on this one as i type. small amounts, mainly for mining payouts and such and quick transfers to merchants and such

just keep it patched, use decent antivirus (but dont depend on AV to save your ass, just another layer of security, REAL security depends on the user) and dont be stupid, ie practice good internet hygiene.

oh and BACKUPS. and then TEST those backups.

that being said, hardware wallets and paper wallets, airgapped (as in real airgapped as just "mostly airgapped"  doesnt count) computers rule though. i certainly dont advocate hot wallets on windows.

unusual behavior, my security setting send all porn to my 1,700 tb raid 10 array and then AI tries to sort them into redheads, blonds, number of persons, how many are upside down and other such important parameters.

purely for convince its so hard to search that stuff nowadays.

wish theyd they tell where i left my car keys yesterday.

iirc pools used to give data on worker numbers back in the days and a lot of miner programs identified themselves as such and such. thereby giving a rough breakdown.. cgminer would mainly of been gpus (back before asic stole -cks code with no credit), some fpga had custom miner software with different names they would report to the pool and so on.

maybe break into cpu era, gpu era, fpga era, asics era? lotsa overlap i know.

dunno if thats helpful or not. or if its just lack of caffeine and barely functioning brain cells typing this. heck took like 20 edits to make this seen even vaguely like a coherent post. i will stop typing now.

the typical paper notebook is pretty low quality paper. ink blurs and washes out. use high quality archive paper and pencil (doesnt wash out typically) or permanent marker (test it 1st companies seem to differ on whats "permanent").

better: stamped high melting point metal of some sort. 

you blame your own eyesight and monitor size/resolution for your failure instead of your lack of attention to details?

before accusing someone of plagiarism, please pay a bit more attention.

ive lost many due to my own stupidity over the many years.. testing new wallets without understanding them enough, not having copies of seeds, having a couple paper wallets deteriorate, not maintaining proper backups.

do your homework.





 

actually even if you check your addy once a week (or more) by the time you see the problem its done and gone. but i agree with the rest.

the main thing is secure the wallet private key and/or seed when the wallet is created. and when you are prompted to update the wallet (from within the wallet itself or email/news/etc) you need to spend the time to check the official site for the new version to see what updates there are and the reasons for those updates. then at the very least verify the checksum/hash before installing.

five minutes in a search engine would of prevented this.

edit: when a new version of a wallet comes out i usually wait a bit (couple weeks minimum) to see if anyone runs into problems. in my case the core wallet and trezor hardware wallet. i let others test updates.

we thank you for you thoughtfulness in sparing us from using our brain to think for ourselves.

in the future perhaps you could just post the single word "confirmed" or "science" instead of bigly images and all that stuff we wont understand anyway. we can infer the rest.

as long as it, as well as bitcoin,  was open source i would of been fine with it.

control boards i get, but arent PSUs and fans more or less bog standard across the mining space? like 8 pin power and 120/140 mm screamer fans, maybe different fan connectors but easy fix no? 3/4 pin is the same even if different order for pwr/gnd/pwm/tach or whatever?

if they force me to redefine my sex from "attack helicopter" to "offensive generic device" or something i will be pissed.

FTFY

jeeze..

hasnt hash traditionally followed price and not price followed hash?

ok

heres the ultimate insult to offend someone here

you... NOCOINER!!!!!!!!!!!

off topic? normal
on topic? on occasion
covid? bleh.. just stop

lines? now there ya go
bitcoin going up and up?
yeah baby lets talk

#haiku

at this point i would just settle for a line, period. and i swore off that a loooong time ago too.

new game, i think. answer a question with someones elses quote?