Does this apply to hardware wallets like the Ledger Nano S? It has "apps" on it.
Do you trust it to keep your funds? Or do you for example split up funds between several different wallet types?Anything can be programmed with bugs in it that forces a program to change its behaviour. You have to trust the Ledger folks who've written the crypto currency plugins or apps for the Ledger Nano S which are loaded via the Ledger Manager application. There is binary signing (AFAIK) between the apps and app manager to ensure the Ledger isn't running some modified Ether plugin (as an example), but if the bad actors are able to tamper the binary before it's signed by Ledger, there's not much you can do.
There are other protections in place (like the private keys being held on a separate tamper proof chip normally referred to as a "secure enclave") but without a deep dive of the binary behaviour with the plugins it's tough to say for certain what's actually happening. Monitoring all traffic between all devices (not just network traffic) is also the type of secure audits you want performed on these types of devices.
I believe some security expert at Consensys looked at both the Ledger Nano S and the Trezor (another popular hardware wallet) and came to the conclusion the Ledger was superior in almost every way from a security perspective but still had one issue needing to be resolved.
That being said these types of devices need continuous security audits as supply chain management, sourcing of identical parts over long periods of time, secure patch management of known vulnerabilities, and having a trusted staff will always be a challenge.
Make sure you've benchmarked both, and assigned the new values of the benchmark to the profile that's being used (that way it knows which coins you mine the fastest).
Note: You can probably get away with just benchmarking one, and copying over the benchmark values to the profile of the other... might even be a way to just extract/export/xml copy the values if they're stored somewhere.
I don't think you can do per-GPU profiles, at least not with the free version (what I'm using). You can use different profiles per-miner though, so like I've got my desktop with one profile based on my GTX1080, then another profile for my basement miner full 'o 1080ti's which is being run remotely.Hm, the only problem that I seem to have now is that I can't figure out how to get Awesome Miner to apply a different profile for different GPUs. I've created two performance profiles (one for each card) and I can assign performance profiles to specific mining instances. The problem is that the program won't let me assign hardware to specific mining instances. Is it because I have the free version?
Does this apply to hardware wallets like the Ledger Nano S? It has "apps" on it.
Okay, so then you have to trust the Trezor firmware I guess? Is the firmware open source?the trezor does not use apps, the supported coins are in the firmware. it supports like 7 or 8 coins. the nano does use apps and supports many more coins through apps.. i just got a nano for the extra coins the app supports. guess ill be learning..
“We’ve seen mortgages being taken out to buy bitcoin. … People do credit cards, equity lines,” Joseph Borg, president of the North American Securities Administrators Association, told CNBC today.
Steam has also pulled support from being able to pay in Bitcoin. They said the reason was because the price fluctuation is too extreme. I agree with that statement. Something that wants to be a currency needs to be more stable.
Do you trust it to keep your funds? Or do you for example split up funds between several different wallet types?
Little disappointed that ETH isn't moving in price anywhere. A Litecoin is now worth 2/3rds of ETH, really?
This is why I tend to look more at alt-coins and figure out which might have a potential to find a use... even if it's a bit of a niche one. I'm probably leaning more toward XMR (Monero) and a newer one called Electroneum at this point. They both use the same algorithm, and Electroneum is new enough that it's at sub-dollar price.
This is why I don't understand why anyone would ever use Bitcoin for anything except for large transactions. Why does it actually have any value? Why does the value keep increasing when it seems like people just use it as a get-rich-quick investment scheme?
If the Electroneum team can get their act together it looks promising. It goes live tomorrow. I've mined a bunch but the pools are really flaky. I'll probably pop a few ETH's worth on some if it drops like I think it will.
This is currently true for ALL cryptocurrencies. It's a near entirely speculative currency.
Even for those that are said to be having value, like Gold, heck even wheat, rice, milk, can be driven to crazy values by speculators.
I don't have a problem with there being a bit of a speculative nature to it. My problem with BTC is that its limitations seem to be making it unusable for the more basic transactions. If that's the case, then why is it still useful? Is it trying to get positioned as sort of the "back-end coin" that others are all based off of?
Evolution of bitcoin:
Don't forget anyone can be right when looking at a narrow enough timeline.
In the previous years people weren't putting mortgages on their homes and getting loans to buy Bitcoin. I doubt its going to crash soon either, but this is starting to up the risk by a lot.
Supposedly they give 15% boost over regular Crimson drivers, but I have no idea about the delta compared to "mining" drivers. I'll be installing tonight when I get home.Any word on how the new Adrenaline drivers are for mining?