[magazine] Bitcoin Article

[Ryan Lerch]

HI all,

I have just done an editorial pass on the Electrum / Bitcoin article.

I am not really well versed in Bitcoins, so it was a little hard for me to
add any extra explainations, but it seems that someone knows a little about
bitcoin will be able to use this article to start using electrum.

One question that I did have was with this sentence:

"""
Your bitcoins are lost if your hard drive dies and if you lose your 12
words.
"""

what is meant by "your 12 words"?

other than that, from a copy-editing perspective, this one is ready to go!

--ryanlerch

[magazine] Re: Bitcoin Article

[Ryan Lerch]

Just did some more editing of this article, notably removing a few of the
additional sections at the bottom about bitcoin generally. To make up for
this, i added a link to the awesome getting started with bitcoin section on
bitcoin.org.

This means that this article is a little more foccused on getting started
with electrum on Fedora, rather than a general bitcoin primer, as there are
more comprehensive and detailed primers available on bitcoin.org.

--ryanlerch

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Ryan Lerch <rlerch(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  HI all,
>
>  I have just done an editorial pass on the Electrum / Bitcoin article.
>
>  I am not really well versed in Bitcoins, so it was a little hard for me to
>  add any extra explainations, but it seems that someone knows a little about
>  bitcoin will be able to use this article to start using electrum.
>
>  One question that I did have was with this sentence:
>
>  """
>  Your bitcoins are lost if your hard drive dies and if you lose your 12
>  words.
>  """
>
>  what is meant by "your 12 words"?
>
>  other than that, from a copy-editing perspective, this one is ready to go!
>
>  --ryanlerch
>
>

[magazine] Re: Bitcoin Article

[Ryan Lerch]

okies, no comments on this one, so going to schedule this for 0800 UTC
today.

cheers,
ryanlerch

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Ryan Lerch <rlerch(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  Just did some more editing of this article, notably removing a few of
> the
>  additional sections at the bottom about bitcoin generally. To make up for
>  this, i added a link to the awesome getting started with bitcoin section on
>  bitcoin.org.
>
>  This means that this article is a little more foccused on getting started
>  with electrum on Fedora, rather than a general bitcoin primer, as there are
>  more comprehensive and detailed primers available on bitcoin.org.
>
>  --ryanlerch
>
>  On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Ryan Lerch <rlerch(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>
> > HI all,
> >
> > I have just done an editorial pass on the Electrum / Bitcoin article.
> >
> > I am not really well versed in Bitcoins, so it was a little hard for me
> > to add any extra explainations, but it seems that someone knows a little
> > about bitcoin will be able to use this article to start using electrum.
> >
> > One question that I did have was with this sentence:
> >
> > """
> > Your bitcoins are lost if your hard drive dies and if you lose your 12
> > words.
> > """
> >
> > what is meant by "your 12 words"?
> >
> > other than that, from a copy-editing perspective, this one is ready to go!
> >
> > --ryanlerch
> >
> >
>

[magazine] Re: Bitcoin Article

[Justin W. Flory]

On 11/29/2016 11:28 PM, Ryan Lerch wrote:
>  Just did some more editing of this article, notably removing a few of
> the
>  additional sections at the bottom about bitcoin generally. To make up for
>  this, i added a link to the awesome getting started with bitcoin section on
>  bitcoin.org.
>
>  This means that this article is a little more foccused on getting started
>  with electrum on Fedora, rather than a general bitcoin primer, as there are
>  more comprehensive and detailed primers available on bitcoin.org.
>
>  --ryanlerch
>
>  On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Ryan Lerch <rlerch(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>
> > HI all,
> >
> > I have just done an editorial pass on the Electrum / Bitcoin article.
> >
> > I am not really well versed in Bitcoins, so it was a little hard for me to
> > add any extra explainations, but it seems that someone knows a little about
> > bitcoin will be able to use this article to start using electrum.
> >
> > One question that I did have was with this sentence:
> >
> > """
> > Your bitcoins are lost if your hard drive dies and if you lose your 12
> > words.
> > """
> >
> > what is meant by "your 12 words"?
> >
> > other than that, from a copy-editing perspective, this one is ready to go!
> >
> > --ryanlerch
> > 
Thanks for helping prep this article, Ryan! Your time is appreciated 
here. :) I see this one is scheduled for a couple more hours from now. 
If I'm still up, I'll try to remember to give it the social media treatment!

-- 
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com

[magazine] Re: Bitcoin Article

[Jonny Heggheim]

Hi Ryan

>  I have just done an editorial pass on the Electrum / Bitcoin article.
Great, thanks!

>  what is meant by "your 12 words"? 
It is the same as
generation seed

[magazine] Re: Bitcoin Article

[Jonny Heggheim]

>  This means that this article is a little more foccused on getting
> started
>  with electrum on Fedora, rather than a general bitcoin primer, as there are
>  more comprehensive and detailed primers available on bitcoin.org. 
I agree with your changes, it makes it more easy how to get started.

[magazine] Re: Bitcoin Article

[Corey W Sheldon]

On 12/01/2016 11:02 AM, Jonny Heggheim wrote:

>  Hi Ryan
>
> > I have just done an editorial pass on the Electrum / Bitcoin article.
>  Great, thanks!
>
> > what is meant by "your 12 words"?
>  It is the same as generation seed
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Ryan,
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"12 words" != generation seed it is your paperkey much like how keybase
uses them, in short its your last ditch account /  wallet recovery step.

It is generally only ever used if you forget your password/phrase AND
don't have another 2nd factor token / mechanism in place or if your are
unfortunate enough to have that even be invalidated by some other stroke
of  misfortune.

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[magazine] Re: Bitcoin Article

[Jonny Heggheim]

Corey Sheldon:
>  Ryan, Jonny,
>  
>  "12 words" != generation seed 
My understanding is that all private/public keys are based on the
generation seed. For Electrum is consists of 12 random words from a list
of 2048 words.

http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/faq.html#what-is-the-seed

So my intention when I wrote the draft was that "12 words" == generation
seed.

Jonny

[magazine] Re: Bitcoin Article

[Jonny Heggheim]

This article got some publicity on another site:

http://www.newsbtc.com/2016/12/04/fedora-gets-electrum-bitcoin-wallet-cli...


Jonny

[magazine] Re: Bitcoin Article

[Justin W. Flory]

On 12/05/2016 05:33 PM, Jonny Heggheim wrote:
>  This article got some publicity on another site:
>  
>  http://www.newsbtc.com/2016/12/04/fedora-gets-electrum-bitcoin-wallet-cli...
>  
>  
>  Jonny
>   
Awesome, thanks for sharing this link. :) Seems it was very well-received!

-- 
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com