For once I'll say thank god there is gox to support the price otherwise bitstamp looks like it would go down the rabbit hole. What is going on over there and what happened to the order book? The bid at btcchina doesn't look impressive either.

This going to be on c span?

If so when.

Thx

Could be folks like myself who moved coins from gox to stamp, and want to liquidate a few since money been tied up for a while.


EDIT: 3000 coins showing in Sum Ask on gox?

Who are these dorks selling on Stamp?  

"Oh, the other two exchanges are 25% higher and are either steady or climbing. Guess I better dump!"

Is europe ahead or behind the us in terms of time zone? Deposits showing up at stamp?

To sleep or not to sleep. That is the question.

What time is the hearing tomorrow?

Bitcoinity having issues?

Now the question becomes:

Is this the vertical of the Sigmoid curve or are we ahead of it and due for a major correction like in April?

Panel II

    Ernie Allen
    President and Chief Executive Officer
    The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children

I think there is a chance the bitcoin representatives may have to walk out on this hearing. Nothing good can come of this if they have already decided bitcoin is directly associated with child porn.

This one's on Monday:
http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/beyond-silk-road-potential-risks-threats-and-promises-of-virtual-currencies

Checksum is for validating bit errors likely to occur in a bit stream i.e. communication channel. It is NOT EVER EVER meant to be used cryptographically!! It is very feasible to modify the file and keep a valid checksum. In fact, CRC was used in the old 802.11/WEP standard as a message authentication code, and we know how well that worked out.

The entire file needs to be signed, or a secure hash (SHA256 hash in this case) that is signed. Signed by whom and validated by whom in which chain of trust is another can of worms best left unopened.

I know that what is actually provided is a SHA256 hash and not a checksum so I'm just being mean :-(

Edit: Technically it should be a MAC like HMAC_SHA256 as a pure SHA256 is vulnerable to a padding based attack, while SHA-3/Keccak in general is not.

If someone were able to change the software on the site, don't you think they'd be able to adjust the checksum mentioned there as well?

sirus runs that site, i doubt something odd is going on. (unless hacked)

IMG