Glad you figured it out.  For the record it's nicer if you can put the entire comand line (including your invocation, not just the error message).  I was looking at your error message thinking, there must be some syntax error in the command he wrote, but since I couldn't see the command you wrote ...

I got one and it was one of the flex-fit one-size-fits-all types.  I thought it was a nice hat though.  Gave it to a friend of mine who goes to casinos a lot more than me---he can properly support swc in that environment more than I can wearing the hat and staring at a computer screen

It still might be worth it to see if you have any clams in one of your "non-change" addresses before you go through the hassle.  Depending on your wallet software, you may be able to print a list of all your addresses and what their balances are (akin to listreceivedbyaddress in bitcoind-RPC).  If I were you, I'd assure myself there's at least some clams to be gotten, then I'd go about figuring out how to do the wallet import into the clam client (if it turns out yu have more than one address to claim from).

EDIT: some wallets, espcially mobile ones from a while ago actually use the sending address as the change address (not as common now that HD wallets are here) so you may actually only have the addresses you manually generated.

This kind of comment is a little bit like standing around while someone is being shoved into a police car and shouting out "the police aren't abusers, if they were they would have been stopped by now".  It's all well and good that you shout your ideas from the sidelines, but you're not the one under attack (at the moment) and you don't know anything about the facts of the case (apprantely).  In point of fact, QS has trust-spammed me (using sockpuppets to add extra negative ratings), this is on its face trust-abuse (and this kind of behavior has been called such by quickseller himself).  And he has received many negative ratings, but the hegemony of the default trust regime means those aren't seen very often or considereed.

QS is trying to climb a power-ladder.  The issue is that he's as volitile as a bag of dynamite.  If you're looking out for your own interests you're quite right to do nothing but praise him as criticising him is likely to get you in the same trouble with him that I'm in.

Here's another, more important question: if quickseller isn't a trust abuser, why isn't he explaining himself in this thread?  All he has done is pop in and make a joke about offering money to someone who could convince him.  This mockery isn't helpful and it does nothing to resolve the conflict.  If you look at what TC wrote, he is all but admitting that QS is wrong in my case but sems me as some kind of colateral damage which is outweighed by some kind of perceived god that QS can do.  But again, how is it right that QS is allowed to damage and burn his way to the top and the innocents that he hurts are just some kind of collateral damage?

Why won't TC answer my questions?   Why did he pre-emptively block PMs from me?  How is this related to QS's personal threat on me?

Why won't QS right this wrong?  How many people are afraid to speak up after seeing what's happening to me?

That's pretty cool.  Two follow up questions:

1) In the github you linked to, I couldn't find any code, only a readme and the font files and a link to a php program.  Are you not releasing that php program as well?
2) Are you using imagemagick to write the image?

I think you can start by verifying that your DOGE address(es) were funded using the Just-Dice chat.  I assume it works for any BTC,LTC,or DOGE address. 

1) got to just-dice.com
2) write in the chat "/dig YOURDOGEADDRESS"

That should print a message about whether or not your address was funded.  If it was funded, you can then see about extracting your private key from that app, if it wasn't funded, then you don't have to bother with it.

I think I understand your inquiry better now.  I'm not an armory dev (or even a user) so I can't say what command you might be able to use to see what armory is storing when you're typing numbers and letters and whatnot.  However, on the question is in principle about whether you can add entropy by rolling dice and then inputting the numbers, I'm pretty convinced that's just as good (or possibly better) than just slamming your fingers on the keyboard or scrolling your mouse around or whatever your normal armory instructions say to do.

In case it help satisfy your curiosity, I do know a command to print the entropy collected in /dev/random:


It basically looks like you're terminal emulator's worst nightmare as it tries to figure out how it might print the data that's being passed in.  Whatever encoding your terminal uses, it will try to decode the data and print it, but most of the time whatever data is being dropped in isn't printable, it looked like this in my terminal:


So that's what entropy "looks like". 

Actually, when I had an issue with my primedice account, it was exactly the two things: emailing and posting here which did help.  I think that once it got bumped on here once or twice, Stunna himself fixed my account issue and made me a refund.  But before I had posted here, I had no answer.

Really the advantages would either be in:

1) some critical fix that's in the new version
2) some new features

If you're not suffering from an issue in the old client that's fixed in the new version and you're not chomping at the bit to try out the new features (described in just the preceding posts) then you're probably not going to be in a rush to upgrade.

The pros are clearly the new features.  The cons are the risk that the less tested betas won't work right on your setup.  I don't think we can tell you how to balance those things for your personal goals, you'll have to figure them out yourself, right?

I agree with you, but this kind of quote given above:


betrays a different mindset, and that's the one I'm arguing against.

Funny you bring that one up "does martingale really works?".  I haven't seen it bumped since I basically shouted at everyone to stop bumping it---that they weren't adding anything.  I was really surprised it worked but at least in that case, all I said was "cut it out people, this thread is done" and that was it. 

You might get better replies if you say which coin you forked.  POS coins are very different from POW coins and this difference is related to how they are mined.

I'm not sure why you're looking to add more entropy, is there some reason you have to suspect that what Armory's providing isn't enough?

With respect to entropy on linux there's also /dev/random that you can consult (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/random).  If you want to roll dice that's certainly a way to generate true randomness, but it's also the slow way.

I guess I"m curious about your motivations here, if you're just trying to learn about randomness, or if you have some specific goal in mind with respect to Armory?

That was a really interesting blog post, thanks for the link.  I don't Multibit HD but I appreciate the insight on the interaction of AES and HTTPS.

I don't have the answer to your direct question but I do want to agree with you that what constitutes a signficant amount is very much context dependent.  Imagine you want to get on the bus and you are 1$ short of bus fare, suddently 1$ is a significant amount (but perhaps not because perhaps in your context someone can offer you a dollar).  Now imagine that same 1$ in a location where you can buy a 3 course meal at a restaurant for that---suddently it's more significant.

I'd opine that of most everyday bitcoin users/gamblers, 10BTC is a signifcant amount.  You can sell that for more than 3KUSD at the moment, enough money to buy lunch all year at 10$ a lunch.  That's > 300 lunches.  Etc.

However, obviously as you go up the scale (from individual to business) then that money is not so significant.  And large nations have budgets that make Stunna's hugely popular primedice seem like small potatoes.  So I think when it comes to significance, it's all about the context.

I appreciate your reply, but your answer seems brief and it appears that you missed my point entirely.  I don't want to rehash it, but for the record, I am not approving of a 5K$ scam.  Please see the details of my two posts above if you actually want to catch my point.

Or Android/linux and gnu/linux, but I agree.  I think that apparantely they did some analysis and some large majority of their biggest players were using windows.  But I also can say that if sealswithclubs.eu had been a windows only binary download I would have never tried it.

I sorta wish we could have mavens back, even if it was just temporarily.

Hey there, I checked that site, very cool and I'm glad it's back up.  I'm a little interested again but I think I won't be able to purchase anything this month for lack of fundage

I'll hit you up in a few weeks when I have a little more BTC to play with.  Thanks for talking to the coldhardca.sh site to get it back running again!

You're absolutely right that there's nothing wrong with calling this a scam.  And I don't disagree at all with that.  It's actually this "he's a scammer, no excuses" remark which irked me.  I think it may have to do with my own personal issues regarding quickseller.  At some point he seems to have gotten into this idea that I am a scammer, and therefore I must be shunned and attacked at all times by all people for all eternity.  I think this kind of binary mindset is just confusing and wrong and I see it a lot on here.  As if the world is divided into angels and demons and the angels are always doing nothing but the most elevated and ethical and morally motivated things and the demons do nothing but try to subvert all that is right and good. To my mind, this kind of mindset clouds people's judgments and makes them unreasonable.

My point is that people are people and that people make mistakes.  Some people make worse mistakes than others, some people try to rectify their past mistakes, others don't.  But this doesn't add up to a black and white world where the only citizens are scammers and scambusters.

Here's an example of a direct cost to this mindset, Maidak said above that he watch his reptuation fall to -3000 overnight and found it very depressing and made it very hard to come back and face things here because he basically felt there was no hope to fixing his broken rep.  Many of these "scambusters" in this scenario seem to me like some kind of vultures looking for dead bodies so that they can drop their negative feedbacks and say snotty thing in a thread like "I knew he would turn-scammer".   The way they talk you'd think they were on star-wars looking at someone going to the dark-side.

Anyway, I basically agree with you and hope that Maidak is able to repay his debts.  And for the record, I'd work for him again.  He paid me on-time when I did a job for him and that's a valuable thing.  I'm sorry to the people he scammed and I hope he makes it right and never does it again.  I'm just quite irked by the broken mentality here generated by the trust-wranglers as they jockey to try to get more power on some popular internet forum.

So, where do we go from here.

I have an issue with tomatocage for adding a known trust-abuser (three separate neg-reps on my account, none of them valid, all alts of the same person) to his trust list.

He says that he's worried about people losing "real money" but it's not clear that quickseller is helping any more than he's hurting.  See his history of adding neg-rep to worhipper for merely refusing to use his services, see his false accusation of ndnhc (and the potential that he's the one who planted the "evidence"---that whole scandal).

At this point, several people have spoken up in this thread saying that QS should drop his attack on me.  Basically everyone who looks into this agrees that what's going on here is some kind of personal vendetta from QS against me.  I've gotte several more messages from people to that effect, supporting me, in my PMs but those people have explicitly asked me not to bring them up in this thread for fear of repercussions from QS.  If you ask me, they have a point, I certainly wish I could make this nonsense attacker leave me alone.

Furthermore, there's the very strange behavior of TC in this situation.  Only 2 days before QS was readded to TCs list, he made a public threat against me.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1125296.msg11903743#msg11903743


It seems almost too much to believe, but this threat, along with the fact that QS recently sold a default trust account, along with the fact that TC had me PM blocked before I even said anything to him makes me wonder if TC was the account which was sold and/or if QS has control of this account.

Given the unexpected taciturn behavior from TC regarding this, and the conspiracy of events surrouding it, I think it would be really great if TC could sign a message from his staked bitcoin address to prove that he's still the same guy who was kindly convincing QS to let go of this nonsense a few months ago.  Once he signs this message, I hope he'll address my questions above to him?  Will he stand by QS's slander of me and other innocent people?  Will he reach out to QS in reason to get him to drop his false charges as he did before?  If not, why not?

Beyond that, people, I ask you, what can I do?

I don't want QS to persecute me forever.  I have never done him any wrong other than calling out his bad-attitude and confrontational style.  I have never had any business with him and almost assuredly never will.  He has no trust-spammed me with three alt accounts and makes threats at me.  Surely something can/should be done.

QS, will you drop this fight?  To be completely honest, your reputation will actually improve greatly if you can show people that you're willing to admit when you're wrong and walk away from personal vendettas.  What on earth do you want from me?

QS, TC, mods, please reply.  This situation has gone on long enough, let's fix this problem and move on with our lives please!