Topic: Alternative Block Chains : be safe! - page 45. (Read 1421180 times)

Badly sold tokenGo at the moment.They did not even collect half of the softcap, and I doubt that they will collect so much. I remember Anton Bendersky, or in the video he said that it would be necessary to curtail the project if you do not reach the softcap.Although the project is quite interesting

Generosity does earn money. Performing simple tasks, you get deserved tokens. To whom it's interesting, pay attention to TokenGo, they already have ICO in full swing.
Join, the tokenization of business is a promising idea of ​​the future. And with a team like TokenGo, will be able to any purpose.

I haven't seen anybody post about what would be my biggest worry if I were trying out alternative block chains. I realize this may be perceived as "Gavin is FUD'ding anything that isn't bitcoin!"  (FUD == Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt)  But I think some of you might be forgetting some basic computer security fundamentals in the excitement to be early adopters.

When I first heard about bitcoin, my questions were:

1) Can it possibly work (do the ideas for how it works make sense)?
2) Is it a scam?
3) If it is not a scam, could it open my computer up to viruses/trojans if I run it?

I answered those questions by:

1) Reading and understanding Satoshi's whitepaper.  Then thinking about it for a day or two and reading it again.
2) Finding out everything I could about the project.  I read every forum thread here (there were probably under a hundred threads back then) and read Satoshi's initial postings on the crypto mailing list.
3) Downloaded and skimmed the source code to see if it looked vulnerable to buffer overflow or other remotely exploitable attacks.

If I were going to experiment with an alternative block-chain, I'd go through the same process again. But I'm an old conservative fuddy-duddy.

If you want to take a risk on a brand-new alternative block-chain, I'd strongly suggest that you:

1) Run the software in a virtual machine or on a machine that doesn't contain anything valuable.
2) Don't invest more money or time than you can afford to lose.
3) Use a different passphrase at every exchange site.