Looks like Nicehash are going to do a live stream in 20 mins on Facebook: https://twitter.com/NiceHashMining/status/938860028773175296
I've got a Ledger Nano S on the way. Shame they took a week just to process/ship the order! I'm growing more and more afraid of keeping my coin on the exchange.
As you should be. If you don't have the keys, you don't have the coins. Simple as. (One of the biggest mistakes in cryptocurrency was using the term "wallet". Wallets contain money. Bitcoin wallets don't contain Bitcoin; they contain the private keys which can be used to transact with Bitcoin on the blockchain. They're keychains, and should have been called such from the beginning.)
So Nicescam claimed in the stream: They've been hacked (hacker allegedly got in through a compromised account of a nicescam engineer) Hacker took approx one hour after having gotten in to figure out their setup and steal the funds They'll try to make a comeback So either inside job or OpSec so laughable that the theft was inevitable.
Just found a wallet in an old backup, with the 1.5 BTC I bought on a whim half a decade ago. Unfortunately, while I thought I could remember the passphrase (quote from a novel) that doesn't appear to be correct. Looked up btcrecover, so going to try that with a bunch of spelling/grammar/punctuation variants. Worth an hour or two for the possible (£17k? Blimey!) payoff.
I'd keep trying it regardless. That's one heck of a pay out if you can get the pass phrase correct. Shame the value has tanked overnight... but it shall return!
Should of seen my face when i went to open the company one I setup and I got the pass wrong... And I'm the only one with the pass. Thankfully i got it right 3rd time. DR just goes "well... that's awkward"
I read somewhere that it was always worthwhile doing a test recovery of your wallet when you set it up to make sure seed words were written down correctly. Definitely gonna do that when I get my ledger nano s.
The Ledger makes you re-enter your seed as part of the setup process, to verify you've written it down correctly.
Holy shirtballs, would you look at that Bitcoin mempool?! You're looking at 400 satoshis per byte to get into the next block at the moment. Things start going south early on the 6th, apparently, and have been exploding since. (I've got a 34s/b Segwit transaction pending - it'll be interesting to see if/when that confirms!)