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Test Trezor seed backup – Check if your wallet recovery phrase is correct

coinguides — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 03:22:50 +0000

The following guide is about Trezor’s “Check Recovery Seed” feature or the dry-run recovery functionality which you can use to test your seed backup and ensure if your wallet recovery phrase is correct. This guide is similar to the mnemonic backup recovery check done on the Ledger device. So when do you want to use the …

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How to use Matic Wallet – Guide to connect MetaMask to Polygon network (L2)

coinguides — Sat, 22 May 2021 06:32:42 +0000

To avoid paying high Ethereum Gas Fees; Large number of DeFi users are migrating to EVM compatible blockchains and Layer-2 side chains. To interact with alternate blockchains like BSC and Matic (Polygon) all you need is a Ethereum compatible wallet. There are many Ethereum wallets that allows you to switch between networks but the best …

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Crypto Miner / Wallet downloads blocked by Google Chrome and Firefox – FIX

coinguides — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 11:50:11 +0000

Is the miner which are trying to download is getting blocked by Google Chrome? Or is the browser blocking you from downloading a particular cryptocurrency wallet? Firefox reports that the file contains a virus or malware. Chrome blocks your download stating that the file you are downloading is dangerous. This is a download protection feature …

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Placeholders (PHL) – A new coin on X16R, is it really worth mining?

coinguides — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 02:42:03 +0000

A project coming with a nice use case at launch with no working product is perfectly fine. Everyone knows that the full functioning of a platform needs a lots of research and development which takes some time. But currently in crypto space there are lots of such projects with full of promises and not an …

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A list of useful commands to help manage your Masternodes & Linux VPS

coinguides — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 02:59:59 +0000

With growing number of masternode coins you might be interested in setting up and running your own masternode. It can be either to earn a passive income or to test the environment or to understand how the whole system works. Actually most of the masternode coins are based on Dash or PIVX so the requirements …

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A new Ravencoin fork: Ritocoin (X21S) – T-Rex 0.8.3, WildRig Multi 0.13.4

coinguides — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 10:08:16 +0000

When Ravencoin was launched there was not much information about the project. There was no roadmap, no whitepaper and not an information about the team. Yet a large number of miners showed a lots of interest in mining Ravencoin. It was very exciting mainly because the coin name was cool, it was only CPU mineable …

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Transaction Hash ID (TXID) – What is it & how to find the transaction ID

coinguides — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 15:18:55 +0000

Have you just made a payment and the recipient is asking for the “transaction hash”? Whether you pay in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin or Monero; often times the merchant will ask you for the hash or the transaction ID as a proof of payment. There are other scenarios as well where a third party wallet service …

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How to backup core wallet and how to replace wallet.dat backup file

coinguides — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 12:32:44 +0000

We were recently contacted by a user who informed us that their hard disk got corrupt and as a result they can’t access their wallets anymore. But fortunately they had several copy of wallet.dat file. So we advised them to install latest version wallet in another machine and import the original wallet.dat to new wallet …

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What does -rescan, -reindex command do & How to rescan / reindex wallet?

coinguides — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 13:12:05 +0000

Core wallet is quite sensitive and two commands which is used to fix a large number of wallet related issues are - rescan and -reindex. Are you getting any error when starting your core wallet? Or is your local blockchain database broken / corrupt? This can occur when copying blockchain from one computer to another, …

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How to update Monero wallet? Upgrading Monero (XMR) GUI and CLI wallet

coinguides — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 13:00:11 +0000

Just like Windows, Mac and other software upgrades; cryptocurrencies also undergo a series of updates. Bitcoin updates its protocol, Ethereum regularly forks, Litecoin, Dash and every other blockchain projects update their network frequently. All these hard forks and updates are very much essential as it improves overall security, network efficiency and additionally brings in some …

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