The Internet is currently on fire because of what is being described as an “OpenSea exploit”, but was really an OpenSea NFT attack, where people are losing their NFTs off the platform to an unknown attacker. As of writing there have been dozens of victims to this attack, but contrary to initial reports it does…
Category: Security
Hardware wallets won’t solve all your problems
(Editor’s note: The following is a guest post from friend of the site UKMayhem about an important security topic he wanted to bring to the Chia Community even though it isn’t strictly Chia-related. Yet.) Some of the older crowd within the crypto scene may remember a name. That name is Joe Grand others may know…
Arbor Wallet sends private keys off device
In a reddit post, redditor u/rm-84 has been poking around the Arbor Wallet mobile app code and discovered something that was definitely not made clear and should give security conscious Chia user pause when using the app for critical transactions. You should head to reddit and read the discussion, but in a nutshell the following…
Why is Chia slow to launch on exchanges?
The one thing that Chia Farmers are constantly asking about since pools launched is when XCH would get listed on their preferred crypto exchanges, whether it be Binance, Kraken, or others. There is a lot that goes into launching a new coin on an exchange, and this article is not going to cover them all….
What Chia Pools can do to protect themselves from online attacks
Yesterday a couple of Chia Pools were hit with a Denial of Service (DoS) attack and experienced some degree of downtime on their Chia nodes, and probably a ton of stress. Both PoolChia and FlexPool were running their pool Full Nodes in Amazon’s AWS. A couple of other pools also saw some spikes in traffic,…
Lets talk about Nucle and Chia wallet security
Now that Nucle, Chia’s first SPV wallet, is in open beta and anyone can sign up lets talk about Chia wallet security a little bit. I have spoken before about how I don’t think security is very well understood in the cryptocurrency world, with lots of claims being made about one thing being more secure…
People are losing Chia farming rewards – make sure you aren’t one of them
If you spend any time in the Chia focused communities, like Reddit or the discord servers managed by the Chia Pools, you will see a re-occurring problem come up that people have while Chia farming for on chain pools. People on the new on-chain pools are farming blocks but not receiving their 0.25xch. It looks…
FlexPool releases FlexFarmer to public, along with bad security practices
FlexPool has released the first major public release of their FlexFarmer software, releasing version 1.0 for Linux and Windows. I did not cover the exact moment of release because I honestly felt the Alpha and Beta versions were quite good and production ready. However, one of the main critiques I had about the process when…
Is downloading the Chia blockchain OK to do to speed up sync?
This is actually a really tough question. And the answer really is: it depends. Like all security questions it has to start with a threat model: what are you afraid of happening. In order to do that we have to first understand the risks and benefits of downloading an unverified Chia blockchain. The benefits are…
Let’s build a better Windows Chia client, together
So after my conversation with Gene about the Windows client, why they made the choices they made and what could be done to improve it (and a few things that I was wrong about in terms of specific behaviour), I decided to create a community project to commission the development of an enterprise ready Windows…
