Xosten (@xosten) • Hey
🫶🏻 Open Finance Supporter
📢 Marketooor
☕ Coffee addict
Publications
- Filling the first @lenster.lens 🟣 GM ☀️ 🌱
- For the culture 🤝 Rick
- I hope everyone takes some fresh air this weekend, it’s important, especially whit the latest happenings 🫶🏻🌱
- Just « minted » my Lens @ethpass.lens 🔥
- I’m testing Arc browser from @browsercompany since a few days. I’m blown away from how the amazing user experience  🤯. The best of all, It’s chromium based, which means you can easily add your Web3 extensions 🚀.
If you want to try it too, I have 5 invites waiting (Only Available for MacOS currently) 🎁
- Only two days in 2023 and @0xmoe is killing it already 🚀🔥 Already testing the latest @buttrfly version 🦋
- It’s amazing to have publicly access to @lensprotocol monthly and all time engagement. You can view its the growth and the users base "health". I can see some great use cases as a marketer. When will see the same on other major Web2 social networks 🤔? I guess not to soon sadly…
If you’re using @buttrfly, you can access those metric by clicking on the three dots on the bottom.
- I wish that all accreditations looked like @orbapp Learning NFTs 🌿
#orb #orbapp #orbsbt #lens
- GM ☀️
What are you brewing today ☕️ ?
#coffee
- Testing @orbapp.lens with an hardware wallet ⚡️
- Rotki (@rotkiapp) is an open-source portfolio tracker, accounting and analytics tool that protects your privacy. It has been successfully merged in the Umbrel (@umbrel) App Store 🥳.
Which should be the next application that I try to add to Umbrel's App Store?
Don't know what Umbrel is? It's an OS for running a personal server in your home. Self-host open source apps like Nextcloud, Bitcoin node, and more. You get the convenience of cloud, without giving up your data. You just need a small computer, VM or a Raspberry Pi! Learn more at `https://umbrel.com/`
- Congratulations to the #eth community for the #merge ! 🐼
- CRYPTO SECURITY POST 🕵️♂️
The future of finance is not risk-free - especially in this early stage.
Avoid getting hacked: minimize risk by taking precautions and by having discipline.
9 ways on how to do that 🧵
1. Do not install any unknown extensions
They can contain malicious code. Even if they are legitimate, their Google/Firefox's accounts can get hacked and someone can push malicious code.
For e.g., your clipboard could get hijacked and when you copy your wallet, it gets changed
2. Use a different browser with different wallet profiles
Have one browser for regular daily browsing and another one only for wallet transacting.
Brave is a good choice if use Chrome or Firefox. If you are already using Brave, you can go with Chrome
My recommendations:
• One different profile for every different wallet / seed phrase / hardware wallet
• Only install MM (and possibly uBlock) on that browser instance and use it just to transact with that particular wallet
I know, inconvenient - but more secure
3. Use a password manager
PW managers are useful, but if you are saving your seed on an internet-connected PW manager: I would consider that a hot wallet.
Important seed phrases must not be stored on password managers
Also, chose one that does not force you to use their cloud
4. Generate important seed phrases offline
If your device (ledger, for example) was never connected to the internet, then that's as secure as it gets when generating your new wallet private key
Generating them via MM / etc is less secure than doing it via Trezor / Ledger / etc
5. Use a hardware wallet for important wallets
I think that important seed phrases / wallets = the ones that hold the most valuable assets
For me, the best way to secure them is to generate your seed offline, use a HW wallet to sign, and backup it to a titanium plate
6. Don't sign transactions on unknown websites
A common misconception is that signing is risk-free, since no blockchain txn is broadcasted.
This is incorrect: if you sign the wrong message, the attacker could broadcast the txn for you and rob you of your assets
7. Switch wallets regularly
This might be controversial (as there are several caveats to doing it, for example, losing blockchain history and airdrop eligibility)
...but by switching wallets every now and then you are 100% sure that your security is being refreshed, done right.
All your approvals reset, everything you've signed in the past becomes obsolete, and you are sure that this new set of private keys is more secure than the last (less possibility of leaks)
This needs to be done carefully and correctly, because sometimes more is less
8. Have a hardware backup
I strongly recommend that you see
@lopp
's guide and test for choosing a suitable place to backup your private keeps on physical storage:
http://jlopp.github.io/metal-bitcoin-storage-reviews
9. If possible, have a separate device for crypto operations
This is taking "different browser profiles" to the extreme: you could have a separate computer with just a browser, MM, and nothing more.
Do not install anything else, don't open email, browse sites, etc. Just crypto
I am open to any suggestions or ways to operate even more securely - feel free to comment below your own setups
Minimize risk, protect your assets
⚡️
- Genisis GM and post ☀️🌿