IMZ I hope you are doing well my friend. Take it easy and stay safe.
Mr. Charlie it is great to see you back. and for all you guys my pledges still stand, I keep my commitments handy.
I received some gorgeous UNO Silver bars. I also received a very cool Goxxed again coin for preordering / paying, and it was well worth it. I can say without a doubt receiving these bars has pleased me very much. I've considered silver bullion purchasing for weight. I want the purest silver bullion for the least amount of money and i don't care how pretty it is.
These bars have spoiled me because they already weigh well over an ounce they are captivating with simplicity and a uniqueness which grabs my attention. I'm just sat there with my teenage daughters rattling on about Uno, these bars, the great fire sales here lately and picking up more.
I ordered them their own stick miners and we each get one to mine what and where we wish. While stick miners never ROI, they are a fantastic way to teach someone how crypto works. We are a competitive 3 person family, the two girls and I, and we will be seeing who can farm the most uno with their stick miner. Even better, is if / when they grow bored, the miners are all mine! muwhahahaha my evil plan will come to fruition! heh j-k i hope they do not get bored with it, crypto is the future no matter what anyone thinks. It is the way of all future currency and stores of wealth.
On to other subjects:
Tails is great for what you are doing.
The part you read regarding persistence is Tails will create a place on your writable device (hard drive, flash drive, etc) which will retain anything saved there every time Tails is loaded.
I use a Flash device for tails and have persistence password protected. I open it when the laptop is offline.
I use paper wallets for cold storage and save wallet.dats as a hot wallet scenario.
I believe like most others that the only real way to handle crypto is with you controlling your own private keys and no one else in the world having access to them. In that department, I will do everything possible to make that an absolute.
At the same time I want my convenience so I do throw a little coin in places I can access quickly with the understanding in my mind that money can be gone in an instant. I simply do not keep a large amount there. I do not keep large amounts of uno anywhere near a pc which is online. By the time I felt 95% confident my machine(s) were not infected with something I would have to start over again. I assume they are all infected and working from that viewpoint makes life easier, in my opinion.
I keep looking at hardware wallets, but both open source and closed source worry me for obvious reasons.
This:
http://www.keepkey.com/Looks very interesting... and states it handles Alts and I understand Uno is extremely special but I think to them that means uno so to me they mean it is made for uno! and is based on the Trezor.
I do not like the fact that it comes with a USB cable. I wish it had a replaceable cable with a solid connection point. Maybe something you could unclamp to replace the cable, but otherwise it has a pocket or something to keep the cable with the unit. I do not like keeping up with cables.
No price yet, and that means it isn't going to be inexpensive, but at $125 a pop for a Trezor, how inexpensive do we require our crypto hardware wallet to be, and still be useful.
I would have to buy two of anything similar to Trezor, or Keepkey, so $250.00
I have read about the Trezor until my eyes bled, it seems very secure, but I do not think I could ever store everything on any single device. I would still probably use it as a hot wallet, but keep a little more that I would on a web wallet. Uno and Fiat can buy some security at this point, but it hasn't reached secure enough and convenient.
Being able to trust a device which sends and receives like a simplified phone application on your device would be optimal. A quick send / receive / amount / shows confirmations. Some kind of read only mode and you can unlock a password protected area with a special file system kind of thing. Easy to defeat keyloggers by randomizing the orders of characters you press with a finger using an on-screen keyboard the way the keepkey does with it's version of a numeric keypad. So you click the numbers for your pin and the keylogger doesn't have a clue what you are entering, besides it would be a pretty sophisticated task to get a keylogger on any kind of trezor-like device to begin with.
Unless you were able to hack the firmware and convince people to install it the Trezor looks to be the best thing you can buy today. Even then, you are trusting the developers. They could easily have many people updating firmware, or even program an autoupdate of the firmware.
Otherwise for someone to steal your keys they would have to reverse engineer the thing, be physically with you, and get your trezor from you. Unfortunately then, they would have to stop you from transferring your funds away from your backup device before they had time to do so.
I think it is pretty safe, but you are still trusting your keys, albeit I believe the odds are about as low as anyone could get in purchasing a device for crypto storage at this point. Slush has a good reputation except for his recent clobbering over the bitcoin XT thing.
I am pro UNO! XT and Core figure the rest out for us
I would like to hear the opinion of anyone with the knowledge to know facts regarding the core vs XT issue affecting uno in any technical manner. I do not see it as an issue, but I think it is good to have confirmed by a coder. My understanding from he research I've done is XT is using the core release of btc and adding some code for a few items which have nothing to do with merge mining, and in that vein it doesn't matter what happens and uno is gold either way. This being from a technical perspective. Politically and how you view market trends may or may not be different, I simply do not have an opinion at this point. I think it would be a good impact on uno from the simple perspective of people will look for an established coin if they are looking for anything crypto, it is un.
