Marcel Jamin [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2018-08-01 📝 Original message:IMHO you should almost ...
📅 Original date posted:2018-08-01
📝 Original message:IMHO you should almost never publish a service that asks users for private
keys.
A warning isn't enough. Your server might get compromised.
"Move your coins by yourself" isn't even correct if your server is involved.
On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 at 13:26, Aymeric Vitte via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> I know this list is not to advertise personal projects but
> https://peersm.com/wallet might be of some interest, this is the web
> interface for https://github.com/Ayms/bitcoin-transactions since
> apparently quasi nobody succeeds to use it
>
> As far as I know (and surprisingly) this is the only online tool that
> converts bech32 addresses (Sipa's one does not output something
> understandable by everybody, the tool is using his code), the only one
> that converts from any address to any address, maybe the only one that
> decodes simply redeem scripts and probably the only one that allows to
> create transactions by its own (the advanced mode is not implemented for
> now but will be soon)
>
> Ideally it should be an offline tool if there is some incentive to do
> so, so of course it is not advised to use his private keys for now
>
> Maybe they are mistaken but some users are reporting invalid bech32
> addresses from their Electrum wallet, after segwit, bech32 confusion
> seems to be the topic of the moment
>
> Regards
>
> Aymeric
>
> --
> Bitcoin transactions made simple:
> https://github.com/Ayms/bitcoin-transactions
> Zcash wallets made simple: https://github.com/Ayms/zcash-wallets
> Bitcoin wallets made simple: https://github.com/Ayms/bitcoin-wallets
> Get the torrent dynamic blocklist: http://peersm.com/getblocklist
> Check the 10 M passwords list: http://peersm.com/findmyass
> Anti-spies and private torrents, dynamic blocklist:
> http://torrent-live.org
> Peersm : http://www.peersm.com
> torrent-live: https://github.com/Ayms/torrent-live
> node-Tor : https://www.github.com/Ayms/node-Tor
> GitHub : https://www.github.com/Ayms
>
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📝 Original message:IMHO you should almost never publish a service that asks users for private
keys.
A warning isn't enough. Your server might get compromised.
"Move your coins by yourself" isn't even correct if your server is involved.
On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 at 13:26, Aymeric Vitte via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> I know this list is not to advertise personal projects but
> https://peersm.com/wallet might be of some interest, this is the web
> interface for https://github.com/Ayms/bitcoin-transactions since
> apparently quasi nobody succeeds to use it
>
> As far as I know (and surprisingly) this is the only online tool that
> converts bech32 addresses (Sipa's one does not output something
> understandable by everybody, the tool is using his code), the only one
> that converts from any address to any address, maybe the only one that
> decodes simply redeem scripts and probably the only one that allows to
> create transactions by its own (the advanced mode is not implemented for
> now but will be soon)
>
> Ideally it should be an offline tool if there is some incentive to do
> so, so of course it is not advised to use his private keys for now
>
> Maybe they are mistaken but some users are reporting invalid bech32
> addresses from their Electrum wallet, after segwit, bech32 confusion
> seems to be the topic of the moment
>
> Regards
>
> Aymeric
>
> --
> Bitcoin transactions made simple:
> https://github.com/Ayms/bitcoin-transactions
> Zcash wallets made simple: https://github.com/Ayms/zcash-wallets
> Bitcoin wallets made simple: https://github.com/Ayms/bitcoin-wallets
> Get the torrent dynamic blocklist: http://peersm.com/getblocklist
> Check the 10 M passwords list: http://peersm.com/findmyass
> Anti-spies and private torrents, dynamic blocklist:
> http://torrent-live.org
> Peersm : http://www.peersm.com
> torrent-live: https://github.com/Ayms/torrent-live
> node-Tor : https://www.github.com/Ayms/node-Tor
> GitHub : https://www.github.com/Ayms
>
> _______________________________________________
> bitcoin-dev mailing list
> bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org
> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
>
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