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[tranthidung]

Also, the posts about people making web wallets just have me rolling my eyes, painfully backwards.

Not your keys, not your coins. Don't ever trust web custodial services.

Web wallets are the most terrible type of crypto wallets, in my opinion. Especially those web wallets provide by un-known, un-reliable providers. Especially web wallets are available with new-launched coins. In general, I always avoid to use web wallets, and don't spend my time to consider who are providers of those wallets. Losing control of private keys or disclosing them to third parties always one of the worst ideas to do in crypto.

[Texacha]

Here's a wild and crazy idea.
Maybe install Linux in a VM on your Windows machine, and run it that way ?

It's not about what I'm going to do. It's what average user will do. Most of them doesn't know how to install Windows and you're talking about installing Linux in VM.

Also, the posts about people making web wallets just have me rolling my eyes, painfully backwards.
Not your keys, not your coins. Don't ever trust web custodial services.

Who mentioned web wallets? I didn't for sure.
That's worse than holding coins on exchange, so let's not even talk about that.

[TheEvilWithin]

I compiled the grin miner on Linux 18.04 VMWare, the standard setting was mining with CPU, that worked fine when I started grin-miner, and when I outline the cpu mining and start the GPU settings, it always says

https://i.ibb.co/b50kn7q/Unbenannt.png

[RivAngE]

Having GUI wallet for windows or not, at the current period, does not matter.

It matters a lot. Where can Average Joe hold Grin? On exchange only. And we all know how bad decision is that. It's in first 3 advices you give someone ("don't keep your coins on exchange")
BTW, even terrible projects, some obvious scams and money-grabs have Windows GUI wallet.
So, the fact that Grin doesn't have it is intentionally for sure. Why? I'm not sure.

Here's a wild and crazy idea.

Maybe install Linux in a VM on your Windows machine, and run it that way ?

Also, the posts about people making web wallets just have me rolling my eyes, painfully backwards.

Not your keys, not your coins. Don't ever trust web custodial services.

Well....... being a single-GPU-miner+holder type of guy, a web wallet works just fine in my case until a Windows GUI wallet is released.
I can't remember when was the last time I used a non-GUI wallet, I'm too lazy to go back to that now!
Bittrex can hold my mined GRIN until then, maybe if people FOMO-overbuy it and the price go too high I'll sell some so having it already in an exchange wallet maybe isn't that bad after all!

[Texacha]

maybe if people FOMO-overbuy it and the price go too high I'll sell some so having it already in an exchange wallet maybe isn't that bad after all!

It's not bad idea, until that exchange get hacked or "get hacked". At that point, it's very bad idea.

[Hueristic]

I think that Beam has no premine (not 100% sure). I know for sure that they have some kind of dev tax on mining (20% or something like that).
But never mind, that's not the point. I just pointed out that Win wallet for mimble-wimble already exist, so I guess it's not too hard for skilled programmer to create one for Grin. (and Grin AFAIK have lot of skilled guys in team)

I think it has both and they wrap the pre-mine in a guise of "investment" lingo.

[arielbit]

Having GUI wallet for windows or not, at the current period, does not matter.

It matters a lot. Where can Average Joe hold Grin? On exchange only. And we all know how bad decision is that. It's in first 3 advices you give someone ("don't keep your coins on exchange")
BTW, even terrible projects, some obvious scams and money-grabs have Windows GUI wallet.
So, the fact that Grin doesn't have it is intentionally for sure. Why? I'm not sure.

Here's a wild and crazy idea.

Maybe install Linux in a VM on your Windows machine, and run it that way ?

Also, the posts about people making web wallets just have me rolling my eyes, painfully backwards.

Not your keys, not your coins. Don't ever trust web custodial services.

windows wallet.

https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/releases/download/v1.1.0-win-beta.1/grin-v1.1.0-win-beta.1-514135251-win-x64.zip

[holderwhale999]

windows wallet.

https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/releases/download/v1.1.0-win-beta.1/grin-v1.1.0-win-beta.1-514135251-win-x64.zip

In order to use it, you still need to download and run the node, read which commands you need to type for sending and receiving coins, understand a little in port forwarding, people are too lazy to do this, it’s easier to store on the exchange   They want Send and Receive buttons 

[Pmalek]

I just read an announcement that a project called Vite which has its own wallet - the Vite Wallet can be used and set up to accept GRIN coins.
Here is the article > https://medium.com/vitelabs/an-easy-to-use-wallet-for-grin-miners-5f609178395b

Is Vite a partner of GRIN and is this an official wallet?

[tranthidung]

I just read an announcement that a project called Vite which has its own wallet - the Vite Wallet can be used and set up to accept GRIN coins.
Here is the article > https://medium.com/vitelabs/an-easy-to-use-wallet-for-grin-miners-5f609178395b

Is Vite a partner of GRIN and is this an official wallet?

Thank you for sharing the article on Vite wallet, that should be confirmed by Grin coin team as it is a partner of Grin coin, or subproject from Grincoin, and this wallet provided by Vite wallet is secured to use or not. Even Grincoin team don't have any relation with Vite wallet team, the team should confirm the information as soons as possible, because in worst case, it will be bad if Grincoin enthusiasts lose their money on Vite wallet (in case they scam their users). I waited for Grincoin official confirmations.

[tromp]

Is Vite a partner of GRIN and is this an official wallet?

Is Electrum a partner of BITCOIN and is Electrum an official wallet?

The answers would be the same.

[dragonvslinux]

I just read an announcement that a project called Vite which has its own wallet - the Vite Wallet can be used and set up to accept GRIN coins.
Here is the article > https://medium.com/vitelabs/an-easy-to-use-wallet-for-grin-miners-5f609178395b

Is Vite a partner of GRIN and is this an official wallet?

This sounds like good news, still looking to try and decent GUI to be honest. I'll wait to hear from the team as to whether it's trusted or official, as I recommend anyone else does too.

[Pmalek]

Is Electrum a partner of BITCOIN and is Electrum an official wallet?

The answers would be the same.

We know about Electrum for many years already but Vite and the Vite wallet are relatively new and so is Grin. Therefore it doesn't hurt to ask if this is a wallet that Grin recommends, trusts or promotes in any way.

[cestmoi]

GRIN received a 50 BTC donatation from a super very early BTC adopter. (address : 18FufdutXggR2EgBuu6xRvL15kmpaPzfTQ )

The Solo miner sent unspent coins to the GRIN address.

The coins were mined on 25th November 2010


I'm no expert but it shows that the people that believed the very first in BTC also believe in GRIN



Source : https://www.coindesk.com/privacy-cryptocurrency-grin-receives-mysterious-300k-bitcoin-donation

GRIN BTC wallet : bc1qdgs8vkpzr256qjlzlfht72z3mhcrdrt6wj2rfjw39j8us24gz8uq78qj65

[Goodvalony]

Grin coin has been my favorite when it comes to mining but unfortunately, i use laptop with windows. do you have any option mining with laptops please.?

[AzzAz]

Grin coin has been my favorite when it comes to mining but unfortunately, i use laptop with windows. do you have any option mining with laptops please.?

Yes, do NOT.

[Cryptotourist]

I just read an announcement that a project called Vite which has its own wallet - the Vite Wallet can be used and set up to accept GRIN coins.
Here is the article > https://medium.com/vitelabs/an-easy-to-use-wallet-for-grin-miners-5f609178395b

Is Vite a partner of GRIN and is this an official wallet?

Just wanted to confirm that this works.
Of course everything goes through Vite.
Had to crack my head a bit on how to upload the response file using slate (iphone/airdrop - share with Vite).
Would not trust Vite to hold my coins, but as another option to get them off exchanges it helps.

[bbc.reporter]

Who owns grinmint.net? Does he come here in this thread?

I might be better to extend the website's chart for both primary and secondary hashrate with the option to see all the data from the very beginning. Grin does not have one yet, I reckon.

[tbct_mt2]

During last two or three days, with dumps of bitcoin, has Grin coin found its newest all time lows? The answer is no new all time low appeared recent days. After hitting nearly 23k satoshis, from that bottom, Grin coin rallied impressively within the storm of market comes from bitcoin dumps from above $8000 to below $7000. That is one of strong and good signal that bottoms nearly found for Grin coin. Be positively thinking about your investment in Grincoin.

[Chris!]

Does anyone have a good way to hold grin in cold storage? I can't figure it out at all other than doing a backup then deleting my seed phrase on my computer, but that's not secure enough IMO. Seeds generated on an air gapped system would be best, then never have them touch the internet.