Hi guys. Would any of you would like to try to group suit these guys ? I've ordered very early - in november with WIRE transfer, payment 100% in advance. I've got all conversations with blackarrow saved and it would be nice to recover my cash somehow - 6000$.
PM me, if any1 would like to join me. We could try to use way posted above, but it could be cheaper for us to do it in a group.
Best regards,
I'm in. I am not willing to fly all the way to hongkong but if we can arrange a class action lawsuit of sorts, represented by a forum member living over there I'd gladly give the person 1/2 of whatever money he can get me back from Black Arrow. |
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I've seen consumer alerts on the Consumer Council's site for companies with 70 complaints. I do not see Black Arrow listed.
is it possible that not even 70 people filed a complaint against Black arrow after all of their actions against customers and all of this time.
the council does take action, will visit the business if it does not respond, and has legal actions at it's disposal, but they're not going to do much if people don't actually let them know there is a problem.
stop waiting for 'someone else'
they're fucking YOU. do something about it.
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$0.16 is not worth If you say 16 BTC this will worthy  And i think you need yo set blockchain.info very carefully 16 cents? You gotta be kidding
I would assume that most of us value our time more than that
Cracking a wallet is not something you do in five minutes. It can take days, perhaps weeks. Definitely not worth if reward is 16 cent  See below!!! I guess i am just wondering if someone would try to import it into one of the bitcoin clients to see if it is indeed password protected or not.
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Brain wallets do not work, if the password has ever been on the internet ANYWHERE.
Here is my attempt.
Buy the following:
1 - 2" diameter X 4" long steel pipe nipple (threaded on both ends)
2 - 2" diameter threaded end caps.
1 - 1/8 thick X 1" wide X 4" long flat steel
1 - Set of metal punches. Lowercase and Capitals 0-9 (Yes this will cost you some money)
Stamp your private key into piece of flat steel. Insert stamped plate into pipe, tighten on both ends caps to make it water and air tight.
Get a long narrow planters shovel and head to the graveyard at night. Pretend like you are on your hands preying at your grandfathers grave and slice a small circle of grass out and set it aside. Dig an 8 inch deep hole drop in pipe, fill in hole with dirt, replace grass patch. It will grow back within a week or so. No one is going to be digging up a graveyard looking for bitcoins.
Once out of jail, buy a metal detector and at night go to your grandfathers grave to retrieve steel pipe.
BONUS: Make the private key BIP38 encrypted and put the password in a second pipe. Bury this one above the grave closest to the exit of the graveyard. You will definitely need that before leaving.
This will stay in tact for 100+ years and will be easy to remember because no one forgets where their grandfather is buried. (Providing you knew him as a young boy)
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Another potential way would be if the OP had a plaintext version of his identifier and password somewhere on the internet (maybe a public dropbox file, or potentially in his email). If this was the case then an attacker could simply log into blockchain.info and create a TX that sends the OP's money to his own address.
I did have a paper wallet in a PDF format in the downloads folder of my phone. I didn't know i had it at all. Makes you wonder why Blockchain.info would let you download a paperwallet showing the private key without BIP38 encryption. It was named bitcoibackup.pdf (typo) I never let anyone look at my phone and have a strong picture-password so im not sure what could have happened. Maybe something to do with when it syncs the media on my computer? I did a search for the file and can't find it anywhere. |
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not worth it for just 16 cents
I guess i am just wondering if someone would try to import it into one of the bitcoin clients to see if it is indeed password protected or not. Yeah, it's very infeasible to crack 13-14 characters. You would have to be extremely lucky. Like SgtSpike said, you probably had some kind of malware on your computer, such as a keylogger.
This is most likely the case, did you download any altcoin wallets or mining tools on that machine recently? Does your email have 2 factor authentication? If I was you I would take this opportunity to avoid using online wallet services like Blockchain.info altogether. I'm not saying Blockchain.info is susceptible to attacks more than any other methods or will be attacked in the future, but most every online wallet I have used was hacked at one point and people lost varying amount of coins. Look into offline Cold Storage, the most recommended offline wallet is Armory. Yes, alot, but i had not logged into blockchain from January 12th until it was hacked on July 7th. I was too Paranoid of keyloggers/malware. My email does not have 2 factor authentication. The thief could have easily got my wallet file but then how could he have cracked it? I made 4 cold wallets to keep it in. Now i am paranoid because although i disconnected the ethernet cable and saved the BIP38 encrypted paper wallet (PDF) directly to a usb drive, I had to type in the password which may have been picked up by malware. I think i am officially done storing my bitcoin on any computer, as there are too many points of failure. You need to have a dedicated laptop/printer that never touches the internet to store your money safely by printing out paper wallets and keeping them in a safe. Maybe a Piper bitcoin wallet printer? Here is my public key. https://blockchain.info/address/1K2sV195TPP3mUCeHxZxizWUFZFRAvBsHn |
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Here is the contents of my wallet.aes.json file from Blockchain that was recently hacked. Please crack it for me and take my 16 cents. Im using this is to learn from my mistakes. I'm hoping it is encrypted with a 13 or 14 character pasword (I had 2 at blockchain) or i did something horribly wrong when setting up my blockchain account. wallet.aes.json 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 |
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I think it's odd they took only half.
It's possible via the backup file and has happened before. Apparently 2FA does not protect against that attack. Unless you have 2FA on your email account too.
Were your passwords similar to the one you used on hotmail?
The passwords on my blockchain account were totally different than my email. I did not have 2FA enabled on my email account. Im guessing that because the password on my hotmail has been the same for many years, he either used malware/keylogger from some shitty program i had installed on my computer to captured the password, Or its someone from the dozens of bitcoin sites/pools i have signed up with that knew my email address and tried the same password. I get sick of remembering so many passwords so they end up the same unless its something like blockchain. How they broke into the backup is beyond me. The password is 13 or 14 characters long. I hadn't logged into the blockchain site for 6 months for fear of keyloggers... Here is the wallet. (cant find a hosting site to use, my internet at work blocks java or something) Im hoping it asks for a password when importing to bitcoin.qt There is 16 cents left in it. wallet.aes.json 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 |
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So i checked my blockchain account and to my astonishment someone took 50% of my bitcoin. Not a huge amount, but still half of my earnings. 1.9 BTC
I had 2FA setup and my IP was locked to my computer, and i was out of town that night and did not receive the "you have logged in" email so i am confident it was not blockchain.info. It was the backup file sitting my my Hotmail account that was the culprit. The reason i left it there was incase my computer crashed or my house burnt down. I felt confident because i made sure it was encrypted, but i guess that wasn't enough. Anyways, when i loaded the backup file to a new blockchain account to drain it, blockchain asked me for 2 passwords. If the thief had the .json file would he have to guess both passwords or just one of them? The 1st password was 13 characters long, and the 2nd was 14.
The only other thing i can think of, is i found a paper wallet version of it in PDF format in my phone that displayed the private key in plain text. I have a picture-password on my phone which is next to impossible to crack and I don't let people use it.
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Thanks, i didn't realize this OS was meant to be for headless miners. Its making more sense now.
I am using regular GPUs, can i just copy/paste my cgminer.conf file over from BAMT and have it work correctly?
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I am having trouble getting PIMP up and running. I flash my USB drive, start up the computer and it loads and then asks me for the root password.  I enter "live" and then i am at a command prompt. I type "pimp" and this screen pops up.  "mine start" and "edit" are not recognized commands. (they dont do anything) where do i go from here? |
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The blockchain is much older and much more active with bitcoin, so you end up with longer loading times.
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The first few minutes made BTC look bad, IMO.
Like this:
"I ask people whats more important, money or e-mail. They say money. Well there you go, Bitcoin is bigger than E-mail"
This kind of logic makes me cringe.. I'm a huge supporter of BTC, and I would really hope to not have to listen to that guy ever again. I wanted to punch him.
Also, don't start going into "Who is Satoshi.. well nobody really knows who he is"... that's an overly in-depth analysis of something the newbie shouldn't have to be smothered with. It doesn't matter who Satoshi is, that's the beauty of decentralization.
I turned it off after a few minutes and face palmed.
I would never show this to my friends/family.. it would give them more reasons to be skeptical.
I'm afraid even the hardcore enthusiasts completely miss the point of Bitcoin. Kind of depressing.
Please post some alternative videos that we can show to friends/family that accurately summarize the point of bitcoin. |
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No one can buy all the bitcoin in the world. Much like no one can buy all the gold or silver in the world.
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The recent drop from $1200 that has everyones panties is a bunch is because of China getting in/getting out.
May 2011 $4
May 2012 $5
May 2013 $140
May 2014 $375
There is nothing to panic about if you are in it for the long haul. Go lose a couple thousand trading penny stocks if you are bored of bitcoins slow decline in value.
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Fiat ATMs are way easier to use than Bitcoin ATMs. You put in your card, enter a PIN code and withdraw (or sometimes deposit) your money from (or to) your bank account. That's it. You will get money in less than a minute.
Now let's look at the Robocoin ATM. You have to scan your ID, your palm and your face. And you have to wait for minutes to withdraw / deposit money. This isn't really customer-friendly and may distract the average joe from buying BTC. But what if you would have to do a one-time registration on the Robocoin ATM (and/or online on Roboco.in) for KYC/AML accompilance and then you get a printed paper (best would be in business card size so that it fits easily in wallets; also it should be printable online if you register and prove your identity on Robocoins website) which proves your identity with a unique code? Then you would only need to scan this card the next time, enter a PIN and withdraw your BTC.
Wouldn't this be a lot simpler? Am I missing something?
I think what you're seeing here is the regulation in its infancy. If bitcoin is ever to go mainstream, there will be levels of regulation in which helps the government track info about you. Things like going to a bank to have a new bitcoin number created, or getting a new bitcoin card made because you lost your old one are very possible. Keep in mind this is necessary for non-computer literate people. In the future it might actually be illegal to sell BTC for fiat without a license of some sort in which you are required to keep receipts and customer names etc. This is the same reason why exchanges need to know exactly who you are before you can exchange money. Its not because they want to make it difficult to sign up, its because they are a business. Businesses need to cover their asses incase they get in trouble with the law. The government is likely concerned that if Joe Schmo robs a business of $10,000, he cant drive across town and deposit it into a bitcoin ATM where he can launder his money from home. Making them scan their palms and faces is a way to track who is depositing the money, where they are depositing it, and at what frequency. Perhaps you can ask them if they can remove the required palm/face scan for amounts under $50? This reminds me of the slot machines where i live. They will only accept bills in 5, 10 and 20. $50 and higher are rejected, probably for money laundering reasons. (Although they tell you its to prevent over spending by gambling addicts) If you win over $5000 they need a scan of your photo ID and other personal information before you can collect the money. |
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Right now buying bitcoin is a much better plan as it is a bargain.
Anyone buying miners right now are investing long term and counting on the price to go well above $1000 for them to break even. At the price of bitcoin now the ROI of all miners is shit.
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Powered risers from Zoomhash.
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eBay/Paypal both hate BTC as it is competition for their business. If there is any dispute on your transaction the customer service rep will do his best to ass fuck you the second he hears bitcoin, litecoin, miner, ASIC etc. Find or become a reputable seller and look at other payment options. Transferwise sounded pretty slick providing you have a trusted seller with good reviews.
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