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Title: [ANN] Cloudcoin is a Scam, do not use
Post by: btharper on June 10, 2013, 03:25:06 AM
Cleaning up a compromised account, please ignore anything I said previously in this thread. Thanks you.


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: Prelude on June 10, 2013, 03:29:02 AM
Interesting. Curious to see how this works.


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: mebezac on June 10, 2013, 03:39:13 AM
Reserved for FAQ.

We're looking for a group of beta testers to make sure everything goes smooth. Send me a PM with your IP address.

Very interested in this idea, why do you need our ip address?


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: dubs on June 10, 2013, 03:43:39 AM
Reserved


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: mebezac on June 10, 2013, 03:44:43 AM
It's so that I can serve you the testnet binaries. When you use an alt coin, you reveal your IP addresses to all other peers anyways.

Cool, I'm down for some beta teating, I'll pm you. What is your pow?


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: Mogumodz on June 10, 2013, 03:47:28 AM
Interesting concept.


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: mebezac on June 10, 2013, 03:56:25 AM
It's so that I can serve you the testnet binaries. When you use an alt coin, you reveal your IP addresses to all other peers anyways.

Cool, I'm down for some beta teating, I'll pm you. What is your pow?
SHA256. I believe that Scrypt currently is too easy to be 51% attacked by a large botnet, while ASICs make it harder for a rogue group to take over.

Currently I am only giving beta access to very established users, I'd rather avoid a leak.

You're not afraid of someone with an ASIC raping your coin like they did to Terracoin? Or have you found a way to combat this? Don't get me wrong, this sounds like an awesome idea  ;D


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: tadakaluri on June 10, 2013, 03:58:19 AM
.conf information please?


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: tadakaluri on June 10, 2013, 04:03:11 AM
OMG....... This is VIRUS.  Don't try to run it.


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: aa on June 10, 2013, 04:04:24 AM
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Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: mebezac on June 10, 2013, 04:04:52 AM
The network rapidly adapts to hashing power changes, and the difficulty automatically decreases if there's no block mined in the past 5 minutes. This also reduces block timing variance.

Nice! That's a really good idea actually. Has that been done before?


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: mebezac on June 10, 2013, 04:05:11 AM
OMG....... This is VIRUS.  Don't try to run it.

Seriously?


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: mullick on June 10, 2013, 04:11:26 AM
BEWARE NEVER RELEASED, REPORTS OF TROJANS, DO NOT DOWNLOAD!

Likely just a way to spread his new wallet stealer


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: Invest0r on June 10, 2013, 04:16:58 AM
Looking forward to the launch..


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: tadakaluri on June 10, 2013, 04:29:46 AM
OMG....... This is VIRUS.  Don't try to run it.

Seriously?

Yes, My AVAST shows this is TROJAN


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: mullick on June 10, 2013, 05:10:14 AM
OMG....... This is VIRUS.  Don't try to run it.

Seriously?

Yes, My AVAST shows this is TROJAN

Post proof. Probably a false positive. Source is available.

Get proof before flaming a release


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: mebezac on June 10, 2013, 05:13:08 AM
OMG....... This is VIRUS.  Don't try to run it.

Seriously?

Yes, My AVAST shows this is TROJAN

I'm assuming the qt right? That's probably because it's not complete yet. The file the OP gave is going to download the full file once the coin releases.


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: Mahav on June 10, 2013, 05:22:12 AM
looking forward to this coin - clearly defined purpose at the get-go and a generous prerelease time


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: tadakaluri on June 10, 2013, 05:50:43 AM
OMG....... This is VIRUS.  Don't try to run it.

Seriously?

Yes, My AVAST shows this is TROJAN

I'm assuming the qt right? That's probably because it's not complete yet. The file the OP gave is going to download the full file once the coin releases.

Even so there is an Trojan, as per AVAST


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: mullick on June 10, 2013, 05:52:57 AM
OMG....... This is VIRUS.  Don't try to run it.

Seriously?

Yes, My AVAST shows this is TROJAN

I'm assuming the qt right? That's probably because it's not complete yet. The file the OP gave is going to download the full file once the coin releases.

Even so there is an Trojan, as per AVAST

Pure Fud. Enjoy your meaningless life.


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: tadakaluri on June 10, 2013, 07:00:21 AM
OMG....... This is VIRUS.  Don't try to run it.

Seriously?

Yes, My AVAST shows this is TROJAN

I'm assuming the qt right? That's probably because it's not complete yet. The file the OP gave is going to download the full file once the coin releases.

Even so there is an Trojan, as per AVAST

Pure Fud. Enjoy your meaningless life.

I am not defend the release...... I just warn people for their benefit.

If any one wish to run Trojan, go ahead.


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: cryptrol on June 10, 2013, 07:01:40 AM
I don't know if the software is malware or legit, haven't tested it myself.
However, people should really be concerned about running software from unknown sources.

I have seen some altcoin launched this way and people are running the software blindly so this works for the launch, but again, we should not encourage this methodology.

IMHO, you should place the idea and some code to review, this will generate debate and possibly improvements to the original code and at the same time will show the effort put in it.

I really like your idea and if it works it will surely have a place among the recent altcoins.
But I will not run your exes  ;)


People should read this post by Gavin Andersen and apply his methodology :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=42465.msg516789#msg516789


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: mercSuey on June 10, 2013, 08:12:00 AM
This trojan seems to be a specific trojan from a few years back:

http://community.trendmicro.com/t5/Malware-Discussions/TROJ-GEN-detected-but-not-removed/td-p/45407

Moreover, this messaging idea has been mentioned twice:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=220530.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=226582.0

It could be a good idea on paper to weaken your guard.  You know, kind of like all these recent altcoins have been doing.  Although I admit a few have some genuine web projects up and running.  Just use caution, people...


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: mullick on June 11, 2013, 10:40:13 AM
Hmmm my scans are still showing nothing. Let me dig for a while here. Sorry If I was wrong. Not a word from kaspersky or virustotal over here


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: cryptohunter on June 11, 2013, 10:46:44 AM
someone with internets skills  please :) .... is it a virus or not??


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: TheSpiral on June 11, 2013, 10:49:06 AM
someone with internets skills  please :) .... is it a virus or not??
No.


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: cryptohunter on June 11, 2013, 10:56:02 AM
someone with internets skills  please :) .... is it a virus or not??
No.

ok thanks, that's 1 NO then.


What's causing these false positives then?  has it some inbuilt mining prog?


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: digitalindustry on June 11, 2013, 12:02:39 PM
interesting idea, not touching it:

1. SHA256 = dead.

2. Too many BTC dudes loving it. <see point 1.

will be good to watch , see if someone copies it with sCrypt or improves it.


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: cuongnc on June 11, 2013, 12:45:45 PM
VIRUS.. I'M USING AVAST  ;D


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: BitJohn on June 11, 2013, 12:53:51 PM
Hmmm my scans are still showing nothing. Let me dig for a while here. Sorry If I was wrong. Not a word from kaspersky or virustotal over here

Windows Security Essentials reports it as a virus too not that I know it is but starting to looking odd.


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: ervalvola on June 11, 2013, 02:39:20 PM
If it's not a virus, it's VERY interesting!
Been thinking at something like this for loooong time!


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: Boing7898 on June 12, 2013, 10:46:39 AM
We're near the launch and still no news from the developers.. :-\


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: tytanick on June 12, 2013, 04:00:24 PM
hmm, no git commits at launch,
meaby developer was killed ? :D


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: dellstreakone on June 12, 2013, 04:01:23 PM
he's sleeping  ;D ;D ;D ;D no launch today


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: Boing7898 on June 12, 2013, 04:05:45 PM
Great way to release a coin  ;D


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: Hydroponica on June 12, 2013, 04:07:59 PM
Quote
SHA256

So, 1 bored asshole, with an ASCI, can fuckup the entire network, in an hour, correct?


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: karlsberg on June 12, 2013, 04:18:54 PM
http://www.bilder.beofnf.de/gifs/popcorn2.gif


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: tadakaluri on June 12, 2013, 04:23:01 PM
No Release?


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: Random Bit on June 12, 2013, 04:26:36 PM
So many fails latey.

https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/4667465728/h495E8930/


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: solracx on June 12, 2013, 05:56:38 PM
How does this differ from bitmessage?


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin | Currency | Filelocker | DNS | Deepweb | Chat | Prerelease
Post by: dolfcao on June 12, 2013, 05:58:30 PM
The source code in the github.com seems like scam and can't compile.
So many problems.


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin is a Scam, do not use
Post by: btharper on June 21, 2013, 05:50:06 AM
Sorry to all affected, my account got hacked and someone was posting alongside me normally so I never noticed it. Please do not run anything previously posted as it probably is a virus or at best not something you want running on your computer.


Title: Re: [ANN] Cloudcoin is a Scam, do not use
Post by: blindfaith on June 22, 2013, 11:36:34 PM
Can I just verify my site's name is a coincidence and unrelated?
.. not sure what I have done wrong or how I could have scammed?  :-\