Lambert posted:

Now is the accumulation phase, revolution is later, obviously (I spend too much time among the coiners).

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New ledger owners: you can have a "main" wallet and a hidden one on your Ledger Nano S.
With your 24 word seed, and with the PIN, you unlock your main wallet.

But you can add a 25th word, what they call a passphrase, and that is another wallet entirely. You can set a secondary PIN that unlocks it. It is not a "password" that encrypts your wallet, it's more like a hidden wallet derived from your 24 word seed.

It's an entire new wallet, that works for all your coins, not only Bitcoin.

Benefits:

25th word is a security that protects your entire wallet. You should not memorize 24 words, but you can memorize one and write the other 24.

ThisIsABeginning 1 year ago
Awesome! This is EXACTLY what I needed to know. The $5 wrench attack ‘ be foiled!

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Neologic291 year ago
If you miss type the PIN #2 three times, does it wipe only that wallet or both wallets?

cryptosnake1 year ago
It wipes the device. You always restore the device using only your 24 word (main wallet), then after you are done, you set up the passphrase access (hidden wallet).

So... if you mistype PIN #1 or #2 three times, it wipes your Ledger configuration, along with your wallet, as if you had just bought it.

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kill-sto1 year ago
Be careful.

I was stupid and did this a few weeks ago after being awake for over 24 hours. The Ledger Nano S doesn't make you retype the passphrase and only makes you confirm it via a yes/no prompt. After resetting the ledger I don't have access to any funds.

I know what I intended to enter so I must have typod the passphrase initially. I will have to brute force (search space should be small enough) the passphrase once I get some code written to do it. Normal brute-forcing won't work since all passphrase are valid

Splicer posted:

It's OK I got it

Boxturret posted:

aren't you required to get that in order to post on the something awful forums?

Mr. Nice! posted:

i dunno whether you’re talking about zyborne clock or timecube. was saying i feel old because dude mistook a timecube reference as a zyborne reference.

KnifeWrench posted:

its what the kids call a "mush-up"

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25th word is a security that protects your entire wallet. You should not memorize 24 words, but you can memorize one and write the other 24.

...! posted:

I eventually learned to not be "that jerk everyone knows that keeps preaching", as Andreas Antonopoulos warns us against being.=

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Der-Yeghiayan told an enthralled audience at France's FIC2019 infosec shindig last week how, as a US Department of Homeland Security Investigations agent, he took over the online chat and forum accounts of key players in the Silk Road's infrastructure – and headed off plans by hot-headed US law enforcement to blast the back wall off Ulbricht's San Francisco home and fast-rope from helicopters into his top-floor flat.

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Der-Yeghiayan was last seen on El Reg in 2015 when the trial judge halted courtroom questioning of him about his early theory that another dodgy Bitcoin bod, Mark Karpeles, operator of real-cash-to-cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox, was in fact the operator of the Silk Road.

In fact what happened, as he acknowledged at the end of his talk in Lille, was that Karpeles' VPN hosting company had acted as a legitimate middleman for Ulbricht and registered some web domains for him. Without the full evidence, Der-Yeghiayan had drawn the wrong conclusion from the limited information he had. "It was just coincidence for him. You follow every little lead you get, sometimes it doesn't pan out."

Weatherman posted:

ok im totally going to mash the keyboard and return key as hard and fast as i can if i ever find a buttcoin wallet in the wild

Hammerite posted:

i am about to go to a programming conference, i wonder if i will encounter any butt coiners (unlikely as i will huddle by myself and not make eye contact with anyone like a good nerd)

EorayMel posted:

kw0134 posted:

i recommend a mace for prophylactic measures

The Kins posted:

interesting summary of a talk about the how the fuzz tracked ross down...


...that ends with proof, once again, that mark did nothing wrong

DerekSmartymans posted:

ftfy

kw0134 posted:

nerds typically have maluses to their strength and agility rolls, so you want an attack with a low difficulty check

Lambert posted:

Ask people about stairs in their house.

...! posted:

BTCkoning 38 points 7 hours ago*

In hindsight i should have sold anything possible when i came across bitcoin and should have gone all in. (Even after 2017 i would still be very happy).

But we can't invest in hindsight unfortunately.

For example, many will cash out on the next bull run at or around there previous buys or the last time ATH. Only to totally miss the next big run. You have to be in it to win it.

It is a bubble who popped indeed. But unlike tulips or ico's bitcoin will just stay around in a dark alley until the interest in bitcoin start to light a fire again. This is actually a powerful feature of bitcoin which will mind blow people away. People notice bitcoin ATH at sometimes. Than they see it crash (they think aha! i told you i was right about bitcoin being a ponzi blablabla), but then it rises a 10x above the point were they saw it last time going wrong. At that point something likely changed in there minds.

...! posted:

But Bitcoin is still the same it was one or two or ten years ago.

Shame Boy posted:

buddy i hate to break it to you but tulips still exist

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Please withdraw your current within the next 24 hours (from the time and date of this message). Additionally, we are requesting that the funds be converted to cryptocurrency and the balance withdrawn that way.

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Shame Boy posted:

buddy i hate to break it to you but tulips still exist

...! posted:

$312,000 Kraken Account being Close - I'm being forced to Buy Bitcoin With the Cash Within 24 hours (self.Bitcoin)
submitted 4 hours ago * by Rob768

(In case Kraken is paying attention, the ticket number is: 2057654)

I've had a Kraken account for over 3 years now. I have done millions in transactions and have withdrawn hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of these 3 years without problem. I verified my account up all the tiers, and the bitcoin I received was from legitimate business dealings back in 2011-2012 when bitcoin was worth much much less.
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So last week I went to withdraw $200k in cash. Kraken contacted me telling me I need to send them additional tax returns from my business, which I did as proof of funds. Of course since the money was earned 8 years ago, none of this would actually show a proof of funds. (also note I have withdrawn over $700,000 from kraken in the past)
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Two days ago Kraken emailed me telling me that they are closing my account and can't say why. They then told me that I have to withdraw the 4 BTC I have in the account as well as the $290,000 I have in my account in cash, but that I first need to purchase bitcoin or other cryptos which I can then withdraw.
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Kraken is basically forcing me to buy bitcoin or other cryptos with cash I had in my account since 2017. They are giving me 24 hours to do this.
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Meanwhile I have no other crypto accounts elsewhere and I don;t want to risk the price of bitcoin dropping between now and whenever I figure out how to sell it elsewhere. Here's the latest email I got as proof:

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I presume you know (the real reason) why the bank is no longer willing to process fiat payments for you, and why Kraken has to close your account. The recommendation is to withdraw your funds in crypto before they are frozen indefinitely. Of course, you don't have to buy crypto with your fiat, or even withdraw it. We can't guarantee a timely return of your fiat if you choose to leave it in your account at the time of closure.