hmm grand re-opening Mudda ?
I am all for it but is this going to amount to anything other than Coin-Shaming and Trolling / Fighting (from the scammers playing dumb)
I tried to bring up alt tactics to fight the problem way back but it didn't do any good (caused lots of drama though) hahaha
It may be easier to just try listing the coins that ARE legit vs listing 1,000's of shit coins.
Indeed, nowadays I just assume that all altcoins are shitcoins unless they're proven otherewise. The shitcoins are basically arriving and closing every week, too many to keep up with. One thing I asked about in this thread when it was open before and I never heard back about it was a list of coins actually taken down by this project. As I understood it, the idea was to do >51% attacks on the shitcoins to close them. Are there any examples of successfully attacked shitcoins? I would participate in such an endeavour but I don't have any reasonably scrypt miner. Nevertheless, I'm following along anxiously from the sidelines. |
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I send a 0 fee transaction yesterday:
No problem there. It was a few minutes till the first confirmation.
I don't think, it is nice to call my transactions a plaque...
 Sorry, I couldn't resist. This was posted just for a little laugh. |
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What ID? People can easily buy fake drivers licenses for around $100 or maybe even less and that's probably all most require, though hopefully he did leave some real info behind. Some people don't intend to scam from the get-go either but get themselves into a tricky situation and get desperate or just decide to take what they can get. If people do have this info I think now is the time to start collecting it and posting it to see what people can track down.
This is my impression with Maidak. I believe he made some mistakes and possibly took some bad luck in real life (there was a discussion earlier about him being in hospital). I'd still like to see a concrete list of who he owes and how much to each. People keep popping in here and saying "o what a scumbag" or "I talked to his brother" and I think it's confused the issue a bit. OP talks about 400$ but someone else was talking about 10K. What's the actual state-of-affairs. Can we compile an actual list of who is owed? |
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SWC_poker, any updates yet ? This would actually have been a perfect time to launch the clients specially with the WSOP happening . Was really pumped to play some poker but didn't have a good site to play on.
Same boat here, no one really catering to non-windows poker players at the moment. There must be tons of us. I know there aren't a hole lot of GNU/linux people, but i figure there are tons of OSX users and android users. There are still sites that are offering to Non-Windows OS , but for me I have always played on Seals and Stars , and just like to stick to them. Stars isn't always an option for me as I keep moving out of the country and back every month , and in some places stars can't be used. However it is also only the good one which offers OFC as well , which is another game I like playing. Had similar problems with wine or any other emulator. They install tons of other packages on mac and slow it down , so only for this it isn't really a good work around. I'm basically of the same mindset as you, I consider myself a loyal seal. However, at the moment, I'm a bit shut-out. Supposedly this is going to be changing soon, I'd love to hear an update on the eta of the first alternative client. |
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The total number of un-confirmed transactions are increasing day by day , one of the main reason is sudden hike in price(BTC/USD) , it leads to high volume transaction from the traders who want quick profits But the price "hike" you're talking about is from 250USD to like 300USD. This hardly seems like a huge factor given that btc was at an all time high of like 1500USD and was over 500USD only like 8 months ago. I have a hard time believing all these transactions are from legitimate trading volume. on e more reason is small spam bulk volumes which is considerably making the traffic worst. Yes, it seems there is some spam attack happening. I'm personally quite surprised that it can be pulled off this long, someone must be spending a lot of money on this. And why? That's what I havent' figured out. Yes, this was already discussed upthread (it's really not a long thread, it's important to read before replying, especially when you're wearing a signature advertisement). |
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Anyone know how to get my clams back from the dice site? I had some in there and cannot figure out what my login was.
Assuming you're talking about just-dice, you should email dooglus. His email is listed on the site as: If you need to contact us, please do so via email: doog.justdice@gmail.com (if you want to encrypt your message, my GPG key is 4BE6A010492A358E). |
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Bitmixer isn't paying out. I followed the rules and shouldīve had some compensation, but for 2 weeks now Bitmixer isnīt paying. I have removed my signature as of today.
That's not true. I have been in this signature campaign for 2 weeks now and they always paid. At least i got my payment yesterday! they usually pay on Sundays. Sadly it is true for me, really strange Well, it's hard to say what happened as you removed the signature. A lot of people in this thread who say they didn't get paid as they expected didn't see the rules in the OP about minimum post length and which boards aren't paid. I assume you checked that out. Did you check at the signature.html page to see if you were properly enrolled? If you did all these things and you still think something went wrong then PM the op in this thread. He's not online full-time but when he does check in I'm sure he'll answer you. I have written to him in the past and typically heard back in a week. |
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The forum seems fine with the campaigns so lets start reporting people (I have started reporting every useless post I see lately).
I tried that - and my "report accuracy" rapidly went down from 90+% to 40+% (so the mods seemingly "approve of rubbish"). So I would *not* recommend anyone to do that (unless they want to see their "report accuracy" tank). You might want to check your "report accuracy" after doing that for a while. ^^^This. You can click on the report button when someone is just writing a banal reword of what's written above them but for a mod who is trying to quickly weed through a lot of posts, it's really hard to tell at first glance that the person isn't doing so in good faith. Mods want to err on the side of caution so they say, no let it stand, it looks somewhat reasonable. But this leads to pages and pages of rewording the same answer in many cases---threads full of mindless repitition. I'm just trying to echo here that I also tried reporting the useless echo posts which had sig-ads under them and I just saw my report accuracy go down the tubes. |
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Thankfully my transaction finally confirmed today after 5 days. Amazing changes going on in bitcoin these days. I wonder what the future brings. Hopefully transaction competition isn't going to stay this stiff.
I am surprised that any nodes were still relaying the transaction after that long, especially if you are not running a full node that is rebroadcasting the transaction. May I ask which pool still had the transaction in their mempool when they confirmed it? It was included in block 365100, which was relayed by bitfury. I don't know if that answers your question. I suppose it may have been in more than one pool's mempool, but I don't think I have a way to tell. In case you're curious, I created the transaction using schildbach's bitcoin wallet for android, so perhaps BWA rebroadcasts from time to time. I have to admit, I've never looked into it but I'd appreciate any enlightenment you have for me on the subject. |
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I noticed that some miners collect the spam and use a single empty output script with zero satoshi (no OP_RETURN). For example 6a8b0cd013fd0ed45e93dc9e1a200785fdf54b77f70a5fde2428bcf27ff84c14
Thanks for the interesting observation! Can you link to any discussion of this kind of activity from the miners? I see you included a transaction but I wonder if this is being talked about on the forum anywhere. |
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Isn't it working with wine? I don't think that client is so complicated to make it work...
I haven't tried it with wine. I generally have a distaste for wine as it installs a whole bunch of packages on my computer and then runs terribly slowly on my already crappy hardware. Wine is sorta like a last resort for me, as I said I don't even keep it installed. I don't know if anyone else has tried it with wine and had success. If someone out there has tried this and can say that it worked for them, that would make me slightly more interested in trying it out (so that hopefully I wouldn't have to install all of those wine packages just to find that it doesn't work on wine). |
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Ha, I guess in many contexts there would be the whole "which charity do you want me to donate these confiscated funds to" question, but in the face of the evidence which has been posted it seems that since everyone has been made whole, it makes sense to return what's left over to KD. Nevertheless, in this scenario Doog doesn't get cut even tho he's done quite a bit of extra work to track down what happened and straighten it all out. So there should be some argument made for Doog just keeping some portion of it for his troubles.
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Username: tspacepilot
Member rank: Hero Member
Post count: 3336
BTC address: 1waLNutzCh3DuwCvHcHmFgGg6vsLiWfn4
Thanks for the opportunity!
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Thankfully my transaction finally confirmed today after 5 days. Amazing changes going on in bitcoin these days. I wonder what the future brings. Hopefully transaction competition isn't going to stay this stiff.
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SWC_poker, any updates yet ? This would actually have been a perfect time to launch the clients specially with the WSOP happening . Was really pumped to play some poker but didn't have a good site to play on.
Same boat here, no one really catering to non-windows poker players at the moment. There must be tons of us. I know there aren't a hole lot of GNU/linux people, but i figure there are tons of OSX users and android users. |
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Awesome betting scottt , real the control on max is best in gambling all time scottt control max so great profit , and great hit's control max, do it profit  goodluck all and Scottt , nice hits many time your big hits ,  This is unbelievable He manage to win 3 times in a row althought his chance of winning is very little. The odds of winning 14% odds three times in a row when exactly three rolls are looked at is roughly 0.038% (assuming 100% luck) which is really not all that low. If he were to roll 102 times then the chances of this happening would be roughly 3.8% of this happening (also assuming 100% luck). Most people on dice sites will end up making large numbers of rolls. Not sure where you learned your maths wrt to joint probabilities but the probability of N independent events X,Y,Z,... (written P(X,Y,Z,...)) is the product of their individual probabilities. Ie, P(X,Y,Z) = P(X)*P(Y)*P(Z). Probabilities are represented as mass ranging from 0-1 and 14% is represented 0.14. Now: >>> 0.14*0.14*0.14 0.0027440000000000008 If you want to use "percent" notation then that's: 0.2744% So, I have no idea how you came up with 0.038% or what you mean by "assuming 100% luck" and I know you love to post a lot no matter little you understand the topic, but maybe you want to brush up on this stuff before you go making up numbers. Here's a good place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_probability_distributionThen there's the qualitiative analysis, I love that you say that something which happens once in 380000 times is "really not all that low". I mean, no one really knows where you got your 0.038% but apparantely for you 1 in 380K is really quite frequent. |
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Are you guys sure it's not another stress test.
I remember the previous ones didn't go as planned and at the time they were announce they would be.
So maybe it's another stress test.
Btw, I am seing 16K unconfirmed transactions (at the time of writing this) on blockchain.info
I dont think anyone is willing to burn that kind of money just to "test" the network. The networks behavior was pretty clear during the first tests. There was a LTC pump and dump recently and now BTC crashed from 300. This might not be related to the attack though. This dwarfs the first stress tests and is significantly longer in duration. My node currently sees somewhere between 42k and 60k unconfirmed TX. My node at home is running 0.11. and witnessed ~27k TX (~80MB) over night. I did however change it to accept any fee (as low as 1 satoshi) and plenty of free TX in order to make sure I get all of the spam. Blockchain.info however modified their nodes to not accept most of the spam TX, which would explain why they show such a "low" number.  Thanks for thet chart, Sho, it shows quite clearly that whatever is going on is orders of magnitude larger than what happened on 23/6 and 1/7. Now I'm just wondering who is doing it and how long they can keep it up. |
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I think there is 26k tx in the mempool from nodes that are not cutting out the spam. So roughly 26k are waiting a single confirm.
In relation to who is behind the last test/attack, it was either Chinese miners or Chinese LTC Pumpers. That is why no one has taken credit.
Who ever it is must be spending a whole lot of money to be keeping it up this long. I guess I'm surprised not to find more talk on this board somewhere about how long this might go on and what it's costing the perpetrator to continue. The nodes that blockchain.info uses may have different rules then what other nodes may use. If you look at blockchain.info's rejected inventory you will see that it is rejecting a large number of transactions that are including fees that are less then what many other nodes will relay by default. When those transactions are not yet confirmed and a new transaction that relies on at least one of those outputs then blockchain.info will think the transaction is invalid when it is not. Thanks for the additional info here My node is showing 42k unconfirmed transactions that will take up 132 MB worth of block space. This is probably a more accurate representation of the unconfirmed transactions out there.
You should really not rely on blockchain.info for this kind of information because they have a long history of getting things incorrect. I understand. And I'm aware of bci's history. However, when it comes to what's going on now, even a very blunt instrument is sufficient to show that there's a large difference between the state of affairs with respect to unconfirmed transactions for the last 7 days or so and any 7 days in say, may 2015. Something/someone is doing something and I'm more interested in the moment in finding out more about who that might be than finding out exactly how many transactions are in the queue. For me at the moment, observing that the queue is waaaay huger than it typically is is a sufficient measure. They are also incorrect regarding the number of transactions per second. A much better source, http://statoshi.info/dashboard/db/transactions is reporting between 1 and 2 transactions per second right now, this is probably more accurate. The overall best way to get information about the current state of the network is to get it from bitcoind that is running on your full node. If you are lucky, you can rent a VPS for only a few dollars per month with high enough specs to support running bitcoind, if you are not lucky then you can rent one for only ~$10 per month. Yes, I have computers. I run linux, I'm happy to run a full node and I used to do so. At the moment I'm not doing so, but I appreciate your suggestions here. What is your txid? I will look at it for you Post or PM me the txid and I will see if I can help you out I guess I could tell you the transaction id but I'm not sure what you mean by "help me out". Unless you have a lot of hashing power at your disposal I don't see how you're going to get my transaction into a block any faster, are you? Just curious what your offer of help is supposed to mean. Thanks for the replies, fellas. |
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I ask because I sent a 256byte transaction with a 2KSat fee almost 5 days ago and still no confirmations. What is your txid? I will look at it for you Thus I keep checking the number of unconfirmed tx and thus I keep seeing how high it it. But I haven't found a bitcointalk thread discussing this current situation/attack and I'm really starting to wonder what's happening.
There is not actually a "number" of unconfirmed tx on the network. Each node has it's own policy of which tx to relay, some based off of size verses tx fee and some based off of who is sending/receiving the tx. For example, if you were to "ask" eligius how many unconfirmed transactions there are, they would give you a much smaller number then if you "asked" AntPool. Kind Regards Good point about the fact that there's not actually an official number of unconfirmed tx on the network. I understand. However, I can look at http://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions and see that there are currently more than 19K transactions waiting for confirmation according to one particular node. When I looked at this page anytime in the past few years it tended to be between 500 and 1500 unconfirmed transactions, so the change is an order of magnitude. I think that kind of scale overcomes any sort of difference between nodes. Ie, it's not the case that bci has 19K unconfirmed tx and antpool has 500. The same page shows that transactions are being sent at approx 0.8 per second. These numbers are simply much higher than they were a month ago. Something is happening. I'm just trying to figure out what. |
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Hi everyone,
I know about the "stress tests" of a few weeks ago, these were publically discussed and there was a group taking credit for it and talking about how much they spent and cetera. But in the last week transaction volume and backlock of unconfirmed transactions seem to have hit new heights and are staying high. I haven't yet figured out who or what is behind this. It seems like if it were just another spammer doing a "stress test" attack then they're going to have to run out of money sooner or later.
I ask because I sent a 256byte transaction with a 2KSat fee almost 5 days ago and still no confirmations. Thus I keep checking the number of unconfirmed tx and thus I keep seeing how high it it. But I haven't found a bitcointalk thread discussing this current situation/attack and I'm really starting to wonder what's happening.
Tips/links/explanations much appreciatated!
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