Topic: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion - page 16198. (Read 26725474 times)

A physical attack against the device will always be possible with more or less complexity and cost of exploit. In this instance it was somewhat simple to extract the SRAM contents but anyway it required physical access to the device. It has since been hardened in newer firmwares.

If you are completely paranoid about your coins, just add a passphrase that will derive the stored keywords into a completely different private key which is NOT stored any where in the device. No physical attack possible in that case.

Also, there is no need for anyone to see you own a Trezor, same as there is no need for anyone to know you have paperwallets stored somewhere in your premises.

They fixed that hole in f/w ver. 1.5.2. As for the potential for future holes, it's always going to be there. It's still far better than a paper wallet though. With a paper wallet everything is out in the open, just a photo of your private key QR code and your coins are lost. With a TREZOR a thief needs to jump through many hoops to have some hope of getting to your keys. It took that guy 1.5 years to get access to his coins.

the exploit only affects old firmware apparently

There may be some truth to what you are saying, but I doubt that price movement is strictly about people buying and people selling....

Look. If we diddle dally around at the same price for too many days, then people likely start to open longs.. blah blah blah.., and then it seems easier to cause a cascading effect to force the closing of longs than it does to cause the force closing of shorts (meaning forcing going down rather than up).

Of course, both the force closing of longs and the force closing of shorts goes on, and we saw many force closings of shorts, yesterday.. hahahahaha... yet part of the difficulties in determining when a price rally or dump is going to occur is that we don't know about the combination of factors including whether some pumps or dumps have not been successful from any whales perspective and whether some of the main players (whales) are running out of BTC or fiat.. and maybe when one whale pulls the trigger to go in one direction, it might become easier for other whales to just to go with the flow - or sometimes a small whale pulls the trigger too early, and the other whales are not willing to go along with it.

So, yeah, "people are gonna sell" remains part of the explanation, but there remains a lot of behind the scenes difficulties for "regular" folks to determine whether the next large movement is going to be a pump or a dump.

Shouldn't he be the Institute for the Future's admin assistant rather than their research director? 

That story is just fantastic.

WOW indeed!

Good that the guy persisted and didn't give up. Lesson learned: always, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS take Bitcoin security extremely seriously. Reading about how the guy handled this matter made me feel he almost deserved to lose access to his coins. The part about the orange paper and the pillow almost infuriated me. Bloody hell...

yeah read this too!

My favorite:

Made me giggle. 

I believe it's going to take longer than a day or two to reach this value. People will sell. But as long as we get there, even if it takes a week, I'm happy.

Wow! Great story. !!

https://www.wired.com/story/i-forgot-my-pin-an-epic-tale-of-losing-dollar30000-in-bitcoin/

Great!!!! Wonderful!!!!

But that is not the point of my question which may have been a slightly different topic regarding our seemingly pending and imminent rally, whether it is going to happen now, or take a bit longer to commence?  Are we going to get to $6800 in the coming day or two or will it take us until next week before we arrive there?

Already broken! 5335 € now... I can't explain it, I just enjoy it...

Edit: Huge Buy wall forming...

Nice to hear - lots of ATH's these days =)

False start to this rally, perhaps?  24 hours more of engine revving needed?

I think that you are thinking about this wrongly, if you combine the price of any coin that forks bitcoin in order to come up with a value or a sustainable value - because, even though the price of the forked coin may factor into bitcoin price at the time of the fork, the value of the forked coin is going to merge off and have to sustain on its own - whether real bitcoin holders continue to hold it or not....

and fuck the forkers, because surely there is some damage and dilution agenda, in the end, they are not really going to end up diluting bitcoin because they merely become an alt.. and the more and more forkers go down this path, the more and more likely that the public assigns lower and lower value to their coat tail leeching efforts... so yeah perhaps we only have 10 more forks in the next couple years, or perhaps we have more, including forks of the forks, which is a current projection of BCH, as some folks have mentioned in this thread, seeming likely to be happening around mid-November (coinciding with Segwit2x) and purportedly to "address" the BCH instability caused by considerable fluctuations in BCH hashing power and mining of blocks seemingly coming from the emergency difficulty adjustment issue.

ATH @ Kraken!

5311 €

Diz iz gentlemen!

Anything less than £10k is terribly 2017, and frankly a snoar.

You'll have to be a wizard to figure a way to profit off B2X unless you're prepared to trust an exchange with all your bitcoin pre-fork.

I'm not sure how reliable the futures market was for BCH, but in any case B2x futures will be thinly traded, confined to particular exchanges and susceptible to manipulation.
In the case of B2x, I also suspect that the lack of replay protection will discourage some traders when exchanges enable it. So additional volatility from that...

IIRC BCH topped at 1200?