Thanks for the tip. Just to be clear, it's not a direct sponsorship; but I earn a small amount from referral purchases.

I think the old name sounds better as well. The change was purely for the TLD. .io is simply far better than .info

As of today, there are a total of 131 DeFi exploits that have occurred, with lost funds amounting to a total of approximately $4 billion at the time of these exploits. $2 billion lost from 2022 alone.

So far in 2023, we currently have 8 exploits with a total of $137 million lost. Any rough guesses for the end of 2023?

After a good amount of thinking, I decided to rebrand the CryptoSec.info to ChainSec.io.

The reason being that .info domains seem to look scammy for a lot of people, and knowing that we're in the cryptocurrency space which is full of scammers, I won't be surprised if a lot of people look at CryptoSec.info as something suspicious. Unfortunately CryptoSec .com/.org/.net/.io are already taken so I had to rebrand to something else.

Anyway, to the few people who always link to CryptoSec.info when topics concerning security or privacy arise, I appreciate it a lot. All CryptoSec articles automatically 301 redirects to ChainSec so all those article links you lovely gentlemen/women posted will still work.

I know my website is just one small pawn in the grand scheme of things, but every small bit counts! I'll continue to work on the website to make crypto security as simple as possible for the masses. Thank you all and have a great productive day!

NotYourKeys.org is a great domain undoubtedly. But to keep everything on one website, I decided to host the page on the main website. NotYourKeys.org redirects to CryptoSec(now ChainSec) though, so people can keep on recommending the NotYourKeys.org URL.

Sorry for the late reply.

bumping this

Did You Know?

Mt. Gox, one of the first Bitcoin exchanges, was once a leading Bitcoin exchange that apparently handled 70% of all bitcoin transactions, remained one of the most trusted and reputable exchanges for 4 solid years.

-until they got hacked at 2014, with approximately 850,000 bitcoin stolen, leaving their customers with empty *bitcoin* pockets.

If you think current big exchanges such as Binance and Coinbase are "unhackable", you might want to rethink this out.

Hey thanks! Added these to the main post.

I'll think about adding the bitcoin.org link. I'm just not a fan of some of the wallets listed, but I'll consider it.

As for translations, feel free to translate this thread or the content on the site and post it to your local section. Appreciate it!

Appreciate it! 🙏

I've seen a few ChipMixer members with the notyourkeys.org link on their text area and with some also using our avatar. Huge thanks!

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bump!

Thanks a lot!

Thanks! Will add your design to the main post once you are done.

The maximum specifications are 120px wide, 80px tall, and 100 KiB in size.

Hey guys! I decided to create an avatar campaign for those who want to help out.

NotYourKeys.org - Community Contribution Avatar Campaign

What is NotYourKeys.org?

A few weeks ago, I decided to create a one-page Basic Bitcoin security guidelines site, as to have a quick link to give to beginners that are just getting started with hodling bitcoin. Yes, more intermediate information like full nodes aren't included, but this is mostly for the beginners, and it's to prevent them from being overwhelmed early on.

If you want to spread the word of the importance of self custody especially now that were closing in to bitcoin's all-time high, you can help out by using the avatars below. This campaign might not get any traction at all, but if it ends up helping one person secure his or her funds then it's totally worth it.

Simply right click and save(imgur link):

            

I added colour choices just for fun.  if you're a lot more creative than me, feel free to create your own avatar design. It's the message that matters, anyway.

or, if your signature campaign requires you to use an avatar, you can just add "NotYourKeys.org" to your personal text area instead.

NOTE: Wearing this avatar is free. It's pretty much a non-profit, so I won't be able to pay anything as this site won't be earning anything anyway.

Yes, the site contains a bitcoin donation address, but I don't expect to receive any donations anyway, and that's totally fine by me.

Final note: If you don't want to help out, that's totally fine. But if you want to help sharing, then in behalf of the community, I really thank you.

If you read the conversation, it was obviously about rich people not publicizing about bitcoin, not necessarily investing in bitcoin.

This is why:

The dominoes continue to drop as more and more institutional investors actually buys bitcoin.

If you're still having doubts, be prepared to miss out.

https://www.coindesk.com/druckenmiller-invests-bitcoin

I genuinely thank you for the warm welcome of my small project, and thanks a lot of the recommendations. You guys definitely gave valuable information and opinions. Thanks a lot!

Thanks for this. Was trying to make the page as brief and simple as possible, without realizing that I sacrificed the knowledge part.

I intentionally made it a one-page as-simple-as-possible content for the beginners with a Medium-like feel, as so they wouldn't be overwhelmed by information and unnecessary designs.

Added!

I'm completely aware that they're different things. What I meant with that part, is that some people use "recovery seed" and "private keys" interchangeably regardless if they're not exactly the same. Though I removed that part to prevent misinterpretation.

People can still use Wasabi Wallet without using the CoinJoin features.

Decided to create a one-page Basic Bitcoin security guidelines site, as to have a quick link to give to beginners that are just getting started with hodling bitcoin. Yes, it’s intentionally not 100% complete with information concerning coin-control and such, but this is to hopefully not overwhelm the beginners.

Hope you guys like it, and happy HODLing! https://NotYourKeys.org/

Hey hatshepsut93!

Not sure if you've misunderstood the article, but with all due respect, it was emphasized very clearly on the article AND this topic title that this method is just to make it a bit more difficult for a person to gain access to your funds if they somehow got access to your written word backup paper; and it was also mentioned that applying such method doesn't make storing your word seed online a good idea(because it never is).

In our opinion, using this very simple method is still better than simply nakedly writing your 12-24 word seed on a piece of paper.

Have a great day!

One of the hurdles of using open-source wallets is keeping your recovery seed paper secure and out of reach of peering eyes. We've just recently published an article about a solution that could potentially fix this problem, by using very basic elementary mathematics.

You can read the article here: https://cryptosec.info/written-backup-encryption/

Note that in this article/method, we won't require you to buy anything, download anything, submit anything, or send us anything.

Any feedback is appreciated, especially from the experienced users and bitcoin veterans here on Bitcointalk.

Have a great day!