Topic: [ANN][DASH] Dash (dash.org) | First Self-Funding Self-Governing Crypto Currency - page 5171. (Read 9723733 times)

That's the one you want (for long term storage).

For me, USB sticks are ok but just as incidentals. The definitive security is:

[1] - keep a clean external boot drive that you never use and almost never goes online
[2] - create a 10mb encrypted drive image with a strong password that you can remember (i.e. not a random character one - one you can remember but that is still complex)
[3] - create your wallets and wotnot on the boot drive but still offline
[4] - encrypt the wallet
[5] - in 'debug' mode, use 'dumpprivkey' to get the private keys and print them (along with the public keys)
[6a] - create a folder in the encrypted drive and pop the wallet AND a text document containing the private key into it
[6b] - create a "Backup" folder inside that folder to hold past versions of the wallet

[7] - shutdown

***********END OF OFFLINE MODE **********

[8] - go online on your regular computer
[9] - send funds to the wallet address
[10] - copy the encrypted drive to your online backup (Google drive etc)
[11] - when you want to access your funds, do this:

 - close all browsers and SKYPE !!!  <-- very important
 - unplug your network cable and switch off airport from the little quick access menu bar (or on Windows disable wi-fi)
 - connect the external boot drive containing the encrypted drive, open the encrypted drive
 - drag the wallet out into your main PC (or Mac) /home/Library/Application Support/darkcoin
 - unmount the encrypted drive image <----- IMPORTANT BIT

[12] - go online, perform transfers and quit the wallet

*********** GO BACK OFFLINE **********

[13] - re-open the encrypted drive and move the wallet that was there into the 'backups' folder
[14] - COPY the live wallet (from the dark coin folder) into the encrypted drive
[15] - MOVE the live wallet to the desktop and place in a folder called "to be deleted"
[16] - unmount the encrypted drive

*********** FINAL STEP - NEW PAPER BACKUP AND VALIDATION THAT WE DIDN'T SCREW UP SOMEWHERE **********

[17] - launch the client and check that your special address ISN'T there (because you removed the 'live' wallet)
[18] - remount the encrypted drive
[19] - drag the current wallet out of the drive and back into /home/Library/Application Support/darkcoin
[20] - fire up the client and check that your funds are there (you can do this offline because we downloaded the block chain at step 9)
[21] - do dumpprivkey for all addresses (including the new change addresses) ( <-- IMPORTANT BIT)
[22] - print the paper wallet
[23] - update the text file in the encrypted drive with the new privkeys


Final Step

[24] - if everything went ok with the validation phase, delete the folder created at step [15] "to be deleted" and empty wastebasket


********* Encrypted Drive now contains updated wallet and electronic copy of paper wallet containing new changes addresses ********

[25] - copy encrypted drive image to USB sticks / google drive etc as required
[26] - disconnect hardware boot drive

********* Your main PC now contains no traces of any live wallet
********* Your backup drive contains the live wallet under 2 layers of encryption and the paper wallet under 1 layer of encryption
********* You have printed copies of the private keys if all your electronic backups disappear

[27] - go back online and continue browsing happily

Ah the lesser known but equally deadly DARK PIRANHA ATTACK

It would have been eaten by now, unless he's still sleeping? Its only 08:17am in New York...

Naaa... probably little sardines will munch that wall. I expect lots of FIAT to hit the exchanges today/tomorrow - so its either
the battle of the sardines today, or the battle of the whales post-fork.

Oh, and lets not forget about waves and waves of DDoS attacks to promote fear and panic!! Should start soon enough too...

Sure wouldn't want to be a short seller going into this RC3 fork.  

I would suggest covering now or else end up having to cover in the 20's.  

I got six figure number but it starts with a zero: 0.00001 btc

The dark army creeps up the hill slowly and carefully... the 0.018 bunker is nearly in site.

Will it be slowly chipped down. Overwhelmed..

Or will it be
EATEN BY A DARK KILLER WHALE!

nextspring he will have nice jars plants multipled

I see a lot of holes appearing in your garden overnight..

I like usb sticks in jam jars........buried in the garden. Paper wallet stuck in em too wouldn't hurt.

Don't forget to back up your masternodewallet.dat, minimum 3 usb sticks in separate locations and upload it to google drive or dropbox or similar too, encrypt the .dat file(s) as well, even if it's just 7zip-ing them with a good password. Or dupmprivkey and do it with paper backups.

Nobody takes backups seriously until they get burned, and a $10000 burn (current prices, this will go up!) is going to fucking hurt.

We are entering the final hours before the fork, I'm a bit excited.

16:00 GMT / 12:00 noon EST

1600 GMT

Gotcha, Ill do that and use the blockchain explorer to keep an eye on the 1000drk. Thanks.

Anyone know the exact time of the hardfork?

Running bots on Mintpal will cost you six figures for access to their trading API. Nice, eh?

Shouldn't be, as long as you don't touch the 1000DRK balance, ie move it / spend it. Far safer though to keep it offline and have another wallet for everyday use.

(Exit the client, rename wallet.dat to masternodewallet.dat or something, fire up the client again and because there is now no wallet.dat in your .darkcoin dir, it will generate a fresh one.)

Here's the guide for Windows...

https://darkcointalk.org/threads/drk-guide-rc3-masternode-windows-local-linux-remote-vultr.1367/

https://darkcointalk.org/threads/drk-guide-rc3-masternode-windows-local-linux-remote-vultr.1367/

guys what trade bot is compatible with mintpal? the V2 api is still in private beta (wonder why )

is it a trade bot or an http script?

now, finally the numbers ad up