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BitCoin is a distributed crypto-currency. General questions about bitcoin, other crypto-currencies and their environment not directly relating to security are better suited for bitcoin.stackexchange.com

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Is openssl enc considered secure enough to protect a bitcoin recovery passphrase? An attacker might get the encrypted text and invest several thousand dollars in computing power trying to decrypt it. ...
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In my situation my private key is in an HSM. I cannot access it for use with the various bitcoin golang libraries. Most of the functions require the private key "in-use". Although in my case,...
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Asked this question on Bitcoin SE was told to post it here. I'm developing a custom Bitcoin service. Besides for the core application (which is written in PHP) I'm going to install a blog for updates ...
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For a few weeks, someone, probably a bot keep installing a bitcoin miner on my server, I find it because it is taking all the CPU. The process name is kdevtmpfsi located at /tmp/kdevtmpfsi, there's ...
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I'm trying to emulate a cold storage computer for crypto assets with a multi-boot computer. If I have multi-OS boots & the 'cold storage' boot is never connected to the internet when it is booted,...
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Problem: I need cold storage protection for crypto currencies while traveling. I'll only have 1 computer. Does this solution work? Tails on an SD card that is only ever inserted into hardware when ...
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I developed a Django application for a school project and I hosted it on an EC2 instance to test and learn the environment. During inspection of the logs, I found the following GET request, "GET /...
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I was just surprised to see this suspicious promoted tweet, asking me to send Bitcoins I added the hand-drawn red lines so I am not responsible for propagating the apparent scam. Clicking on the ...
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