I find it a little odd that Core team (who presumably control Bitcoin.org?) could be at all certain about the origin or target of such a threat.
No. The people who have commit access/contribute to Bitcoin Core do not control Bitcoin.org. The people who work (or have commit access) on Bitcoin.org are Cobra, saivan, harding, etc. They are usually quite different from the Bitcoin Core team. From what I can understand so far, Cobra skipped the peer-review process around 2 hours ago and pushed this commit. Bitcoin-core-dev: |
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Summary
Bitcoin.org has reason to suspect that the binaries for the upcoming Bitcoin Core release will likely be targeted by state sponsored attackers. As a website, Bitcoin.org does not have the necessary technical resources to guarantee that we can defend ourselves from attackers of this calibre. We ask the Bitcoin community, and in particular the Chinese Bitcoin community to be extra vigilant when downloading binaries from our website.
In such a situation, not being careful before you download binaries could cause you to lose all your coins. This malicious software might also cause your computer to participate in attacks against the Bitcoin network. We believe Chinese services such as pools and exchanges are most at risk here due to the origin of the attackers.
Mitigation
The hashes of Bitcoin Core binaries are cryptographically signed with this key.
We strongly recommend that you download that key, which should have a fingerprint of 01EA5486DE18A882D4C2684590C8019E36C2E964. You should securely verify the signature and hashes before running any Bitcoin Core binaries. This is the safest and most secure way of being confident that the binaries you’re running are the same ones created by the Core Developers.
Currently found on Bitcoin.org. There seems to be a lack of information regarding this. Any information (speculative posts are likely to be removed due to be insubstantial)? |
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Think the increments are in 0.02BTC miffman  It didn't matter either way. 
The deal has been finalized. minerjones was chosen as the escrow. |
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Both account sales (multi accounting included),and campaigns should be straight out forbidden.
While we may be able to enforce a signature campaign ban (at least to a reasonable degree), I don't see how we could enforce a ban on account sales. We could however, make it bannable and thus more risky for the people who engage in these trades (issue a permanent ban for both the seller and buyer). How? Bitcointalk does not know when an account is sold.
The best that one can do is determine whether it is probable that an account changed hands. Since Sr. members and higher accounts are more prone to be trusted and do scam.
A common misconception by ignorant users. There is zero reason for one to trust an account by default just based on their rank. |
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username that is affected is: jseppeli
Here's a link to make it easier for everyone that is lazy. Do you (by any chance) know the reason behind this ban? I've failed to find information regarding that ban. Keep in mind that sending any money to that Facebook account is not going to do anything. |
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Reason: Ref. link.
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This topic has been moved to Trashcan.
Reason: Insubstantial duplicate. Please look around the sub-board or use the search function in the future.
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I wouldn't call it a failure, far from that. It was just generally "overhyped" as people had expected it to gain a lot more attraction outside of the Bitcoin ecosystem. I'd say it is quite early for OpenBazaar and there need to be a lot more changes/improvements before it can take off. I was genuinely intrigued when I've read their roadmap, back in May. Anyhow, if I'm correct (looking at the yearly chart) the number of listings keeps growing. There's not a lot of merchants on it and OP is right: the number of them hasn't changed in months. So yeah, great concept, but in practice, far behind Ebay in usefulness.
You're comparing apples and oranges. It's still not easy to use for the average Bitcoin user.
The usability should improve once they reach some of the specified changes (e.g. IPFS, improved search). I've yet to install it myself. |
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Done.
Bitcointalk does not have a Facebook account. Is bitcointalk really charging 0.25BTC for unlocking account! That's approx $140 according to today's exchange ratio!
No, it isn't. Please give us the link to the Facebook account and the username of the account that is locked so that we can investigate what actually happened. There are multiple reasons for which an account could end up locked. |
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Lauda has used the buy-it-now attack. It is super effective. Please PM me regarding this. I would like to use minerjones as an escrow for this one.
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i'm sure the media make it,bitcoin as for now already marked as a bad things by few dumb people and they keep spreading to their nearest people
it's such a double standard by media,when criminal uses dollars it's very common and not the currency's mistake,but when criminal uses bitcoin,it's bitcoin's mistake even bitcoin don't have brain and can't spend itself
It is obvious that the media (or the people backing it anyway) tends to use this for manipulative purposes. However, that does not mean that we need to succumb to that. This does not paint a bad image for Bitcoin; if it did, it could have been a set-up all along anyways. You obviously have no idea what you're talking about. That blockchain explorer is showing false information, it should be: Total Received: ~ 122,482 BTC. This has been confirmed on Blockchain.info and blocktrail. In addition to that, we are talking about ~14k transactions that have likely nothing to do with this incident. Even if the total received was 1 million BTC, that still does not mean that 1 Million BTC was there (someone could inflate this number). |
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1. Satoshi Nakamoto is NSA and he is going to pay the 1 million Bitcoin.
That's just pure nonsense 2. NSA will buy 1 million Bitcoin and give us a nice increase in the price.
I highly doubt that, and it would be really hard to purchase 1 million Bitcoin in a short amount of time (especially without pushing the price insanely high). 3. NSA won't do shit . (which is the thing likely to happen in this case)
Let's see how this one unfolds.
I don't see why this is bad publicity for Bitcoin. When someone demands a ransom to be paid in dollars, nobody bats an eye. When someone demands a ransom to be paid in Bitcoin, everyone loses their mind. |
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Reason: Ref. spam.
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Time will tell I guess, and right now, it's still a long way to go! Auction ends at 1st Sept, 21:00 (9pm) UTC.
Oh, damn. I've completed missed that part as I was bidding on a mobile device. This may even get more interesting. I'm most likely not going to participate further, but I will surely keep an eye out. Good luck! |
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Where are all the damn #42s?!
We are on the lookout for some of these but are unable to find them. The story is similar for me. I have a huge list of [ur=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1578576.0l]genesis coins up for sale[/url]; they may be of help to someone. -snip-
It may be time to put another box on auction or sell it. The previous two and hybridsole's were inadequate. |
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.51 BTC  Really? I'd thought that it would go high, but not this much and definitely not this fast.
IIRC the #1 was peeled off or something? I'd say that this makes this one fairly more attractive. I may have mistaken this with another set of coins though. |
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Where do I find the list of people that reserved/got the sets numbered < #10? I think I've asked about this on IRC, but didn't get a clear answer. I may only be interested in the series if I'm able to acquire a low number. The coin itself does look decent.
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I'll take the last 3 spots but I would have to wait till tomorrow to buy bitcoins via localbitcoins to pay
Reserved. As soon as you pay up tomorrow the raffle can begin. |
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