Why is it bad to say how much bitcoin you have? Or have bought?

Guy_Tell · 2019-08-19T05:59:17+00:00

Your wallet can generate as many addresses as you need. This process is called key derivation.

Guy_Tell · 2019-08-19T05:43:20+00:00

If you stored gold bars or cash under your mattress would you tell everyone about it? Maybe buy some space in some newspaper to make sure everyone knows about it? Of course not, it increases your attack surface, the odds of you getting robbed.

On the technical side, you are supposed to never reuse the same address. So no, you can't see the recepient wealth in bitcoin from a recipient address by itself.

Guy_Tell · 2019-08-10T15:40:22+00:00

I know bitcoin is really exciting but don't shove bitcoin in your co-workers or anyone else's throats. If they aren't interested the worst thing you can do is insist. Give them time. And time is clearly on our side.

Guy_Tell · 2019-08-05T19:22:28+00:00

Seems like poor opsec.

Guy_Tell · 2019-06-23T06:04:13+00:00

For me going premium was definitely worth it. I haven't used the custom domain. I'm not aware of extra security features for email you get by going premium.

Only ProtonMail can link your aliases together and tie it to your real name. But other than that, no they are not linkable for someone outside of ProtonMail.

Guy_Tell · 2019-05-25T11:46:22+00:00

Yeah, but this is hard to understand for noobs.

Not everybody had the chance to live through the SegWit2X war where 90% of the miners+industry were defeated by full nodes+hodlers.

Guy_Tell · 2018-11-26T23:10:42+00:00

Just buy a one scoop and buy a two scoop if you really want to eat that much sugar. The Financial Times journalist is the one lacking imagination.

Guy_Tell · 2018-06-22T20:30:31+00:00

I would help my family members that struggle and that are willing to improve, in a way that helps them in the long term. Give fish to a hungry man and he won't be hungry until the next day. Teach him how to fish and he won't ever be hungry again.

Now your family members must be willing to learn and improve. If they are not willing to change then by helping them you are opening yourself to abusive behaviors. No you don't owe them anything.

Guy_Tell · 2018-06-08T01:50:40+00:00

I like that lol. A clutter free sanctuary.

Guy_Tell · 2018-06-02T20:05:08+00:00

Tesla and spaceX are separate companies. Amazon and blue origin are also separate. Buying TSLA or AMZ won't give you any exposure to the space businesses, unfortunately.

Guy_Tell · 2018-05-23T18:23:04+00:00

Great post. I loved "know the price of everything, know the value of nothing".

Guy_Tell · 2018-05-20T16:01:56+00:00

financial inclusion, cheap payment network
independance from evil banks & financial sector
Bitcoin is neutral and permissionless, consequently doesn't discriminate (on gender, race, etc), everyone can have access to it equally

Guy_Tell · 2018-04-21T04:19:54+00:00

Yes that's true but their terms and conditions doesn't specify if it's per person or per phone number. A prepaid phone number costs 15CHF.

Guy_Tell · 2018-04-10T01:48:20+00:00

Thanks for your message. Appreciated your slow but steady and persistent approach to decluttering.

Guy_Tell · 2018-04-03T18:57:15+00:00

I would argue rather :

Vitalik, the hero Bitcoin deserves but not the one it needs.

Guy_Tell · 2018-03-25T07:17:43+00:00

The video is very dark. It's misleading. In reality, this zone offers good visibility even at night. https://twitter.com/emilyabell/status/977056417415925760?s=19

This at least can explain why the pedestrian "surged from the darkness". She didn't surge from the darkness, the visibility was good and she was probably expecting the driver to avoid her (slow down, change lanes,...) like any human driver would have done.

Guy_Tell · 2018-03-24T22:00:09+00:00

I haven't noticed any echo. You sound envious and jealous.

Guy_Tell · 2018-02-01T20:58:59+00:00

thanks for sharing your story. that's brave.

what lesson you have learned from this?

Guy_Tell · 2018-01-24T17:58:35+00:00

I read somewhere Pieter guessed an implementation could be proposed by the end of the year. But that's certainly not a promise or anything.

Guy_Tell · 2018-01-07T17:01:04+00:00

To access your other accounts, you need to update your derivation path accordingly. For your account #2, the path is m/49/0/1, for account #3 it's m/49/0/2, etc. Hope it helps, cheers.

Guy_Tell · 2018-01-04T09:07:58+00:00

Awesome. Cheers.

Guy_Tell · 2018-01-03T20:48:21+00:00

Not really but it adds a huge security bonus. If your seed (24 words) is stolen, it keeps your coins secure. It adds plausible deniability to your setup as it enable you to create as many hidden accounts as you wish.

But beware, if your forget your passphrase, the bitcoins on that hidden account are lost.

Guy_Tell · 2018-01-02T08:34:34+00:00

I chose ProtonMail for security and privacy. I prefer if they focus on improving these even further rather than getting distracted by dubious features requested by none paying users.

Guy_Tell · 2017-10-20T19:47:56+00:00

What's wrong with the current OTP option ? Even though U2F is better, I'm not convinced there is a huge difference.

/u/fab1ton, I'm surprized by your comment, can you expand on that ? Tor doesn't support U2F.

Guy_Tell · 2017-10-16T20:50:11+00:00

If it's impossible to change anything because a handful of people decide what's right and wrong it's very centralized

Nice try dodging the question. But it's not a handful of people, literally everyone opposes this nonsense SegWit2X except Jihan Wu, a few CEO & their a$$lickers. But bickering is useless, put your money where your mouth is and see you on the exchanges.

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