Alternative Cryptocurrencies (General Discussion & Trading)

Sly21C said:
Cat caught your tongue?

It's because when you send an ether to an ICO company, they may require your product key. So if you send from an exchange, you won't be able to since the exchange has your product key.
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As in transferred to somebody else for payment etc? Makes sense if I understood you correctly.
 
balky said:
An ICO (Bancor) sale started this afternoon, which is probably why the ETH network is slow.
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Maybe, but this slow? You're probably correct. To test, I sent bitcoins from Lykke to Luno and the transfer happened in seconds.

Edit: I actually wanted to send ether to Bancor & receive tokens, I ended up missing out on the ICO. I've learned my lesson. Next time I'll be ready and have my tokens ready on myetherwallet.

I'll buy Bancor once they're tradable. From the videos I've seen, Bancor is gonna be huge. It'll be as big as Facebook & Google combined. Don't say I didn't tell you .
 
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I'm interested in buying crypto, everything other than bitcoin. I understand in most circumstances you need to buy BTC to convert. What's the simplest method?
 
squirrel said:
I'm interested in buying crypto, everything other than bitcoin. I understand in most circumstances you need to buy BTC to convert. What's the simplest method?
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Buy BTC on Luno, send to jaxx. convert to whatever you want.

That's the simplest anyway
 
Hamster said:
Buy BTC on Luno, send to jaxx. convert to whatever you want.

That's the simplest anyway
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Buying BTC on Luno was easy enough. Purchasing other altcoins by sending to Bitterex and Poloniex :)
 
Guys, I use MyEtherWallet to store my Ether. Which is the best Bitcoin Wallet to use? A wallet with Private Keys and so forth....
 
pecano said:
Good call bruh
https://vxlabs.com/2017/06/10/extracting-the-jaxx-12-word-wallet-backup-phrase/
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"To mitigate the Jaxx security issue discussed here, keep the Jaxx desktop app’s local storage directory on an encrypted filesystem which you only mount when you’re using Jaxx, and unmount directly afterwards. This is what I’m currently doing using encfs"
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I have tried this:

1) Install EncFSMP (from https://sourceforge.net/projects/encfsmp/?source=typ_redirect)
2) Create an encrypted filesystem mount with a strong password
3) Move the files from the Jaxx folder in c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Jaxx to the encrypted filesystem

Then mount the encrypted filesystem before opening Jaxx, copy the files from the mounted filesystem to <...>\Roaming\Jaxx, use Jaxx, delete <...>\Roaming\Jaxx, unmount the encrypted filesystem.

Tedious, but worth it for the safety, can be scripted as well of course to make it easier.

And, if you make changes to Jaxx settings you will additionally have to move the files from <...>\Roaming\Jaxx back to the encrypted file system as an additional step before deletion in the previous sequence.

If anybody want to try this and have problems, let me know.

Furthermore:

I was hoping to get away with a link from AppData\Roaming to the mounted filesystem. A soft link (mklink /D) will create the link and show the files, but Jaxx itself does not recognize it. A junction is not allowed as it requires a 'local volume' (whatever that means) and trying to create a hard link fails across drives (i.e. volumes, as expected).
 
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Speaking of Jaxx, and being as ignorant as I am, all I need to recover my wallet if everything goes for a ball of snot are those 12 phrases, right? I can then re-installation on my phone/PC, plug those in there, and good to go?
 
srothman said:
Speaking of Jaxx, and being as ignorant as I am, all I need to recover my wallet if everything goes for a ball of snot are those 12 phrases, right? I can then re-installation on my phone/PC, plug those in there, and good to go?
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Correct
 
Does anbody know if the Chrome Jaxx extension 'App' have the same or similar vulnerability to the desktop app, My guess would be yes...
 
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