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Merry Christmas.
While you CAN have an online wallet, I would not recommend it.
Not only do you need to trust the people running the service that they dont run away with your money, you also have to trust them to ensure the safety in case of an attack of their service. If you have very few btc its no big deal if they are gone, but the more you invest in BTC the more you need to think about things like a paperwallet or other means the secure your money.
If you dont want your laptop to download the whole chain you can use thing or slim client.
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Think of it like an intermediate step for the 99% of the world that doesn't "get" BTC yet. A "dollar" cryptocurrency would be easier for them to understand. Once they had more familiarity and comfort with cryptocurrencies, they would hopefully be interested in acquiring BTC.
The main problem most ppl I talk to have with Bitcoin is that you cant buy "anything normal" with it. The great thing about USD or EUR or AUD or whatever is that "everyone" uses it. Why is that? Well its because the state makes it a form of exchange that has be accepted. Noone does this for BTC. BTC only has value because all of us using it agree that is has. Fiat money has value because a state says it has a value and people agree that this state is trustworthy to a certain degree. So your solution to tie a cryptocurrency to fiatmoney is not helping at all, what helps BTC the most is more ways to spend it, more shops to accept it, more services to get with it. The more you can do with BTC the higher its value. |
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Well for an account thats a few weeks old, Id say: take his money and make a new one. Maybe change the mail adresse first and delete the PMs  |
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I wonder if it's 0.00001 BTC or DOGE? LOL
Either way it's still worthless. Sure is..  Well, it is worth 0.6 US cent, so it's worth 6 clicks on some PTC sites. Also, if BTC jumps up to 10,000$ then it will be worth a reasonable amount. The funny thing is OP will have to pay 10 times the bounty in fees to make the transaction. |
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I like how noone in this forum reads the comments others allready made. Well to make this a little more than just a bitchy comment (sorry for that) Dont read that forbes article its just as bad as any other, read the original paper, here: http://cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/As allways, read the source. |
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Not sure if that's the guy you are talkig about, but I've read a story about a russian dude that was using the servers at work back at 2010-2011. After a while he had about 1000 bitcoins. And there was a girl that he liked, so he decided to give her a laptop. Bitcoin/USD exchage rate was 1 to 1, so he sold all his coins and bought a laptop for the girl. In couple of months the bitcoin skyrockted to 1k USD. 'It was the most expensive sex in my life' the guy said The bitcoin skyrocketed to 1k USD 2 years later, the girl was a safer bet then bitcoin back then LOL Yep its like the "1.2 million dollar pizza" (which acutally are 2 for 10.000 BTC at a time 10.000 BTC where ~42 USD so its still a regular pizza for ~21 USD) , noone could have known. |
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There was this guy running a callcenter in russia (?) a while back who wanted to setup the workmachines for mining.
Not sure if he did it though.
Usually you will read about people having problems setting the miner up because they dont have admin access.
Depending on where you work this might also be a reason to lose your job.
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Received no payment yet, will give negative rating now lvl 2 and lvl 5 makes a total of 0.0006 BTC  Will only remove the negative payment if you pay double or if you have a very good reason, call it interest if you wish |
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Keep in mind that you need: - to send several mails (amount depends on the length of the key) to the victim which you know the content off, mainly because of the bandwith of the used frequency.
- a victim using an old GPG version (2.x is not affected)
- to be able to get that close to your victim at the moment the prepared mails are encrypted
- a victim using specific hardware (as far as I understood the paper not every cpu, board etc. is affected)
so keep your panties on and update GPG, which you should have done allready anyway. And which is also quite rare (clarifying number one on your list), the recipient has to have configured her system so that it automatically decrypts any received messages. But anyway, that was just a demonstration of the possibility of such things and a very neat one. Who knows what might be possible if government agencies point sufficient resources, probably a lot more. Remember how many cryptographers NSA has employed, many of them on par with Shamir et al. That's one crazy attack! These hardware-based attacks are interesting to me. There is a lot more out there. http://es.slideshare.net/endrazine/defcon-hardware-backdooring-is-practicalhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Mb4AiZ51YkGreat talk on hardward backdoors. http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/meet-badbios-the-mysterious-mac-and-pc-malware-that-jumps-airgaps/The allready famous "badBIOS" virus. |
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Ah, I see, I though you would manage the private keys and stuff.
Will check it out later when im at home.
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Keep in mind that you need: - to send several mails (amount depends on the length of the key) to the victim which you know the content off, mainly because of the bandwith of the used frequency.
- a victim using an old GPG version (2.x is not affected)
- to be able to get that close to your victim at the moment the prepared mails are encrypted
- a victim using specific hardware (as far as I understood the paper not every cpu, board etc. is affected)
so keep your panties on and update GPG, which you should have done allready anyway. |
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Well according to the newbie readme you should be able to send a PM now. If not wait 4 hours. |
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