Is anyone else starting to become a bit excited?

Addison Fancy Macrame wrote: »

Annnddddd she's green on the daily.

I'm bored/tired looking at it.

Here we go again

Tango One wrote: »

Anyone heard of Dublin based exchanges bitsane, apparently it shut up shop and done a runner with everyone money.

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/dublin-based-cryptocurrency-exchange-vanishes-16499710

Lads are talking about this on the worried thread.

SauNewb wrote: »

On the topic of losing everything on an exchange, is there a place in Dublin where you can buy a Ledger Nano S?

Or can you only buy them online?

Only buy them from Ledger. Too risky otherwise

SauNewb wrote: »

On the topic of losing everything on an exchange, is there a place in Dublin where you can buy a Ledger Nano S?

Or can you only buy them online?

If you have a Samsung phone that can run Secure Folder, you could use that and save yourself the expense.

Bob24 wrote: »

It is not the same thing as a Ledger device though. The Ledger (or other equivalent brands) has 2 processors, including a Secure Enclave which stores the keys and does the signing, and is never exposing any data to the Internet.

As far as I know Samsung secure folders are just regular encrypted folders which are not stored in a Secure Enclave and can potentially be accessed from the internet.

Nope. Secure Enclave is Apple's marketing hype for the TrustZone technology ARM designed into ARM processors many years ago. Samsung leveraged the tech in their Exynos processors to come up with a complete security system they called Knox, which proved to be secure enough that the NSA Approved it's use with certain categories of US government Classified material.

A few years ago, either Trezor or Ledger had their software available to run under Knox to provide tha same capabilities as their own hardware wallets. The Secure Folder can have internet access if you set it up to have it, but it's intrinsically not a malware friendly environment.

cnocbui wrote: »

Nope. Secure Enclave is Apple's marketing hype for the TrustZone technology ARM designed into ARM processors many years ago. Samsung leveraged the tech in their Exynos processors to come up with a complete security system they called Knox, which proved to be secure enough that the NSA Approved it's use with certain categories of US government Classified material.

A few years ago, either Trezor or Ledger had their software available to run under Knox to provide tha same capabilities as their own hardware wallets. The Secure Folder can have internet access if you set it up to have it, but it's intrinsically not a malware friendly environment.

Let’s call it secure element rather than secure enclave if the terminology causes confusion with Apple.

Fact is they have a separate chip from which the keys never, ever, come out as the hardware simply doesn’t allow it.

If you sign a transaction using a Ledger device, the keys never leave the secure element.

If you sign a transaction on a Samsung phone, I presume unencrypted keys have to be loaded onto the phone’s main chip to do the maths ... and if the phone (which is exposed to the Internet) has been compromised those keys could be captured by a hacker. Anything here you disagree with?

So basically your key might be safe once it is in the Secure Folder, but before you can load it to the secure folder, any time you want to use it to sign a transaction on the phone, and anytime you simply want to display it on the screen of the phone, it will have to loaded unencrypted into the memory of a potentially compromised device.

To be clear, I’m not saying Samsung’s technology is bad, I’m just saying that it’s not the equivalent of a purpose built device which has the capability of doing all those things without having the key leave the secure area.

Binance is looking to get involved in Libra
https://www.coindesk.com/binance-talking-to-facebook-about-libra-listing-becoming-node-reports?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=coindesk&utm_term&utm_content&utm_campaign=Organic%20&amp&__twitter_impression=true

stockshares wrote: »

I'm sure some of you know but for those who dont Link has been listed on Coinbase.

Also Steve Forbes has advised Zuck to back Libra with gold. He says it could replace the dollar.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/steve-forbes-tells-zuckerberg-use-gold-to-back-libra-call-it-the-mark/amp?__twitter_impression=true

Possibly the stupidest question I'll ever ask but if I dont I'll never know,other than a stop gap for other coins on a down swing,how does one make money on a stable coin if it was to replace the dollar?

Addison Fancy Macrame wrote: »

Couldn't resist, in at $4

Kind of risky buying at its all time high after such a massive pump but hopefully it can run some more. I'm up over 1,200% on my small Link holdings and I won't be buying more at current prices.