If you use a trusted escrow, you don't have to fight over who goes first.
Although, in the case of PP transactions, escrow doesn't stop someone from being chargeback scammed. @OP: Try to stop dealing with newbies especially those who have been flagged in the past - newbie trades have a tendency to end in tears. |
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I called them, and their rep said the remaining money was sent back to payment method, Bitcoin, call them.
Haha, well at least they're trying to take up some adoption - even if they haven't done any reading or trained their staff. The education should catch on pretty quick; the hard part has always finding retailers who are willing to accept it. Although I am rather amused they assumed that Bitcoin was like another financial entity that could somehow alter transactions, it kind of opposes the whole notion of decentralisation. |
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Yeah, that makes sense, still not working on my side, must be the VPN of my school.  and I got so excited for nothing.  Yeah, it's probably something on your end - as at the moment I'm still going fine lol. It's ok though, you won't have to wait too long - hopefully should be about a week or less before we have PD3. Will be very interested to see the new layout and features. |
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If they are a scam: Why do they sometimes "run out of stock"?
Of course, somebody could claim: To look more legit. But: If they are a ponzi, why would they even care about looking legit? Wouldn't they just sell as much as they possibly can to make as much money as possible? A ponzi "lives" from new customers, so turning them down from time to time would be a pretty stupid idea, huh?
For the same reason that scam artists wish to look more legit - your going to get a lot more money looking legit than if you have a giant neon light flashing 'I'm a scam'. Turning them down would really only increase the hype and make people more intent on buying - haven't you seen the effect when people ask you something and you decline to answer. Their curiosity gets the better of them and they cannot help but pester you for an answer. By creating false scarcity people tend to value the asset more even though its not true. I myself am invested in PBmining, but with some hindsight I don't think it was such a good idea. Even if they are not a scam, I'm doubtful they'll last long enough to fulfill their 5 year contract (although I'd love to be proven wrong). |
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Why did the value of 1 BTC fall from ~1100 USD in December to ~450 now? I can understand volatility for a couple 100 dollars even, but the value has almost halved. Is this due to the Mt. Gox hacking?
Haha, as if someone can explain the whimsical fancies of humanity. Economics tries hard and the theory works to an extent - but when working with humanity somethings are just completely illogical. I'd say the fall is just fear cramping demand from people simply out there speculating on the price (plus people's expectation that negative news will drop the price so they sell out and hence drop the price - ie self fulfilling prophecy). There is going to be a crapload more volatility before we see anything closely resembling stability. |
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I don't ensure because I can't ensure but the book will sell much more than 1 BTC. The lender won't lose a satoshi. On the contrary, he will make 3 times more.
And how can you guarantee that? If you are so sure I don't see why you can't pony up some collateral. Not to mention what happens if you book earns squat - how are you going to be able to pay back the loan if at all? |
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Primedice down for anyone else?
Does this mean... that finally... it is happening?
I'm so excited.
Nope, PD is up on my end. Check it again. Anyway, I'm pretty sure that Stunna would have made an announcement as to when the upgrade was going to happen - after all you don't really want to panic those users who haven't heard about it. |
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I was wondering about how private keys are stored in wallet.dat.
I use bitcoin core 0.9.0 as my hot-wallet, I have a series of public keys i use for different purposes.
If I import a private key with the command: importprivkey (e.g. a selfgenerated vainity key)
Will this key just be added to wallet.dat in equal terms as the other private keys, which bitcoin-core has generated?
What happen if this newly imported private key later get compromised? This will compromise funds send to the corresponding public key, right?
I know I have almost answered the questions my self, just want to have a confirmation that I understood the application correct.
Is there any good know practices about using vanity keys? Should they be also be kept separate from you other keys, or is it find to use bitcoin-core to manage all your private keys?
Yes in Qt it is just the same as the pregenerated ones and any future ones you may generate. If it gets compromised, it is the same as for any other private key, those funds can easily be moved and you'll unfortunately lose access to them. Vanity keys are exactly the same as the keys that are used normally, just that they have been found by bruteforcing private keys to match a specific pattern, so treat them no differently. On a side note, if you're creating vanity addresses, try and make compressed keys as there is no reason really not to, and they use less space and IIRC they may lead to you needing less tx fees. |
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What's wrong with the randomness that is used on dice sites like Just-dice?
That one is pretty random too, to be honest.
Because they are not per se truly random but instead pseudo-random being generated by a seed and combined with various other factors. So while they 'approximate' random numbers they are no truly random numbers themselves yet still good enough for the purposes of running a dice game. It's really all about how picky you want to be. |
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Doesn't wallet.dat falling into the wrong hands allow someone to get access of all the coins ?
I'd rather keep a damaged wallet , until I can find a trusted person who can recovering it , rather than giving it to a newbie with only one post who would be likely to just steal it.
Before anyone uses this , just consider that the OP has ONE post only.
Correct, an unencrypted wallet has all the private keys in the necessary format to allow them complete control over your coins - meaning that someone untrutworthy can easily steal them. NEVER send anyone a cleared ersion of your wallet - I would even be hesitant of sending an encrypted version I it doesn't have sufficient length and entropy. |
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Karpeles is a French Jew living in Japan, there's nothing American about him except his weight.
Is he still a French citizen? Although he has been living in Japan for the last 5 years, I have heard that acquiring the local citizenship is notoriously difficult fo the ethnic non-Japanese. As for as I know, he's still a French citizen - just that he moved to Japan after committing small-time fraud in France. I don't think he is yet a Japanese citizen although I'm not too clear on that. |
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I don't have anything for collateral.
Then I'm sorry to inform you that in all probability you're not going to get a loan as you don't have any reputation here so you can hardly expect someone to trust you. |
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Now I didn't get Gox'd mind you, but I kind of don't want the US go.v (or any other govs) getting involved with taking him to face justice. That is against what Bitcoin is all about. How can we claim to be decentralized and controlled by no government, but want them to step in and get involved when a problem happens? I've heard BTC referred to as the Wild West right now because it's unregulated, and I actually kinda like that metaphor. It's true though, there ARE definitely scammers and gangsters out there. It's up to us to stick together, spread good, trusted word-of-mouth about companies amongst each other, and build a stronger community where only the trustworthy (secure) businesses survive.
Just because we want it to be decentralised and not actually controlled by a government doesn't mean we condone or should condone theft from others. I'm personally fine with him facing court considering he either tried to seal the coins or was just grossly negligent and incompetent - to the point he should never ever run an exchange again (not that I think he will). |
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Honestly if you're not spamming I find it hard to believe you can't wait 6 minutes to post your useful, relevant and informative post. I mean really 6 minutes isn't even that big of a time delay - unless you have the incessesant desire to spam.
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I doubt 25% of the people that voted have more than 50BTC
Just another classic example of people filling their own insecurities by trying to boast on the internet. I mean really now, anyone doing that should step away for a bit and meet some people in meatspace. |
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I really don't see why you couldn't just go to your local embassy and seek some help there. If you were legit I'm pretty sure they'd have no problems helping you:
a) get in touch with relatives who can arrange for your travel
b) fly you over themselves
Plus, how is having BTC going to help you pay for your fare, you'd need to convert that into fiat before it's of any use.
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Wont be able to access the Chromebook for a couple of weeks. He kept it in a Safety Deposit Box and the bank won't holds it for 30 days with a proof of death. Hopefully it will show something.
Do you know if he always stored his Chromebook in a safety deposit box with his bank? If so, it seems (to me at least) a probable solution as a cold storage method with the two strings being the password for the computer and the other for his wallet. It doesn't look like any private key I've ever seen, nor does it seem to be a seed necessary for recovery of a wallet. |
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Apple isn't going to take this lying down - if they want to they can easily remove it from the store or they an strongarm them legally. I'm highly doubtful they'll accept a store that will exist to compete with their market, they'll stamp it out and kill it soon enough.
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I'm not for or against your proposition, but theymos isn't going to do anything about this. Trust spam isn't allowed. If I see anyone posting dozens of fake trust ratings (from one account or many alt accounts), I will delete all of their ratings. But Inaba is hiring multiple people to create these ratings. It is impossible for me to determine whether these ratings are "real" or not, so I'm not going to delete them. (Obviously all negative ratings are very likely to be fake, but I'm not going to guess about this.)
I agree that it is a little annoying to see a wall of negative ratings, but this is in the "untrusted" section. The way things are set up currently, untrusted ratings can be easily spammed in a number of ways. That's why those ratings are hidden by default.
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Personally, I'd now send all your BTC to a new address and trash all the addresses of that wallet (which were backed up to your email).
If someone gains access to the backup that was emailed, either by hacking ya - or from sniffing it in transit (can you be sure it wasn't?) - your 2 factor auth no longer protects you (it's just for logging into the website) and an adversary simply has to brute force the encryption (password = your blockchain.info log in password when the file was generated).
Just sayin.
Technically speaking he could 2FA both his Blockchain and email account and that would make it nearly impossible for a hacker to actually gain access to his wallet. I personally prefer cold storage systems, but I do admit that Blockchain is a useful hot wallet for making purchases and payments on the run, so I understand why people use it. |
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