Odd: 20k BTC were first SOLD, then 2 Minutes later BOUGHT again:
No, both spikes are buys. (The 1 minute candle opens at 10.17, spikes to 10.50, closes at 10.13.) |
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9.80...  10? |
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Probably bitcoinica was never hacked altogether, bitcoinica to me looks like a scam (especially after the "no backup" and the last "money that was on mtgox lost" news)  Yeah, their story is about as fake as the Colorado shooting. Someday, soon hopefully, it will come out that all the Bitcoinica/InterSango guys are establishment cronies (freemasons). |
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You need to specify which attack you are talking about in order to claim that the "security" of a hash function is so-and-so. For a collision attack - finding two messages that hash to the same value - 2^128 attempts is required (to have a 50% possibility of finding it) for a 256-bit hash function. But in order to find which message hashes to a certain hash you need to try 2^256 combinations (for a 50% probability of succeeding).
Also, if a password has 2^80 combinations you need to try 2^80 combinations in order to have a 50% probability of finding the correct password, not 2^40.
Shouldn't that be 2^(N-1). ? In this case, 2^79 tries gives equal odds of finding the key. |
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If you wan some business to accept BTC, DO NOT! tell them that BTC is a "blaa blaa new currency" but talk about it as a way to transfer currency for 1/10-100th of a cost thy pay for CC, DC etc payments now. Do you know what 5 USD or EUR card payment will cost to a merchant? Find out and weep!
This "new internet currency" bull shit as to the biggest PR fuck up ever for BTC.
If they get worried about btc-fiat exchange rate, introduce them to a service, that virtually eliminates this risk.
BTC is a low cost and secure way to transfer money with out banks, domestically or internationally.
I concur.  In a nutshell: Sell the points that are important to the merchant, not the points that are important to yourself. If you are in the business of selling socks and underwear, odds are you care nothing for philosophical and ideological advantages. |
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OK, genjix. We will leave Zhou Tong be for now. Let's talk about the Bitcoinica source code you leaked. So, the encoded file has the exact same thing on the /bitcoinica_legacy/.git/logs/HEAD file 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 939e877106a5bd479f350adc6d9e4170c62df8f3 genjix <genjix@nite.(none)> 1338505438 +0200 clone: from git@github.com:bitcoinica/bitcoinica_legacy.git Cloned by Genjix from the bitcoinica private github repo on May 31 2012... Interesting  And look at who packed it... surprise surprise drwxr-xr-x genjix/genjix 0 2012-07-07 20:18 bitcoinica_legacy/ Care to explain the above? I've been wondering about this. Did you (genjix) leak the entire bitcoinica source code? If so, why? |
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Yep, I spent my profits on fine drink and women; the rest I just wasted. Twice I spent >$1000 at Bevmo - those were fun trips. Also hosted several dinner parties, too, feeding 20+ people each time with enormous primal cuts of meat (usually full 13-15 lb briskets), while people helped themselves to a cabinet full of liquor. Good times, and bitcoin was mentioned many times - good advertising, eh? There's no way I could have drunk all of those bottles myself, reinforcements were needed. Seriously, I don't think there's anything more important in life than to, y'know, live a little. Learned that bit of wisdom in Africa, actually: death might come at any time, don't save all your money, spend some of it, too, and enjoy life.
I like you, your stories, and your style. Welcome back to Crazyland. |
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Is it normal to dox someone without them having provably committed a crime or tort?
Well, do you know a lot of non-criminal/covert organizations that don't reveal personal information about their key personnel? Today: "The shadowy CEO of Microsoft, previously only known to the public as "The Dancing Monkey" has been revealed to be Harvard dropout Steve Ballmer. Documents leaked on the internet conclusively proves his identity. Microsoft officially declined inquiries into the matter, stating only that the identity of "The Monkey" has long been known to insiders, and that people should mind their own damn business." |
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I just bought Diablo 3 from Awalt541.
Super smooth trade and really fast.
Bought a copy today. I second everything craked5 said. Super fast, super smooth. Thumbs up!  |
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Here's another lucky martingale escape: lessthan 16000 Bet Amount: 0.25 Outcome: LOSE Payment: 0.000750 Profit: -0.24925 Cumulative Profit: -0.24925
lessthan 16000 Bet Amount: 0.50 Outcome: LOSE Payment: 0.002000 Profit: -0.498 Cumulative Profit: -0.74725
lessthan 16000 Bet Amount: 1.00 Outcome: LOSE Payment: 0.004500 Profit: -0.9955 Cumulative Profit: -1.74275
lessthan 16000 Bet Amount: 2.00 Outcome: LOSE Payment: 0.009500 Profit: -1.9905 Cumulative Profit: -3.73325
lessthan 16000 Bet Amount: 4.00 Outcome: LOSE Payment: 0.019500 Profit: -3.9805 Cumulative Profit: -7.71375
lessthan 16000 Bet Amount: 8.00 Outcome: LOSE Payment: 0.039500 Profit: -7.9605 Cumulative Profit: -15.67425
lessthan 16000 Bet Amount: 16.00 Outcome: LOSE Payment: 0.079500 Profit: -15.9205 Cumulative Profit: -31.59475
lessthan 16000 Bet Amount: 32.00 Outcome: LOSE Payment: 0.159500 Profit: -31.8405 Cumulative Profit: -63.43525
lessthan 16000 Bet Amount: 64.00 Outcome: LOSE Payment: 0.319500 Profit: -63.6805 Cumulative Profit: -127.11575
lessthan 16000 Bet Amount: 128.00 Outcome: LOSE Payment: 0.639500 Profit: -127.3605 Cumulative Profit: -254.47625
lessthan 16000 Bet Amount: 219.00 Outcome: LOSE Payment: 1.094500 Profit: -217.9055 Cumulative Profit: -472.38175
lessthan 16000 Bet Amount: 219.00 Outcome: WIN Payment: 876.589924 Profit: 657.589924 Cumulative Profit: 185.208174More balls than brains, that one. Kudos upon him. |
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Beep beep, this just in from #btcst: 17:49 <pirateat40> Hey guys, I have a lot of coins moving around (PPT accounts to BS&T accounts and BS&T to PPT accounts).
It's not only causing issues with backend but it's delaying real withdraws to account holders by reducing the funds in my operating wallets.
So, if you're moving funds to another account please let me know and I can do the transfer internally to ease the process. Thanks BTCST Default Readyness Condition:
CODE ERNIE
17:52 <ineededausername> Also, I just want to put in a word for pirate:
it makes his day much easier if you schedule withdrawals in advance. Please do that so we can avoid queues. All hands on deck! |
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MyCryptCoin is currently broken. "Click here to proceed" yields: Server Error in '/' Application.
Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".
<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->
<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="Off"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>
Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.
<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->
<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>
Terrible error handling.
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classic.mtgox.com always seems to work better for me when the main site starts to lag. Also the android app as a last resort.
Thanks for the tip! After two 1000+ BTC mis-orders on the new site, I only use the classic site, which has better UI separation between the buy and sell sections.
Thanks for the tip!
The new site is just terrible UI design for volatility traders like me, where one often enters multiple buy & sell orders one after another.
Yeah. Had a couple of mishaps like that. Simultaneously buying and selling to myself.  Or accidentally selling instead of buying, as sometimes the Sell Bitcoins tab switches to the Buy Bitcoins tab after placing a sell order. (Upon reloading the page most likely?) "Well, there goes my earnings for the day." Not fun. Shame on me for being sloppy, shame on Mt.Gox for bad UI design. 
Obviously, they gain earn fees from these bad trades. Still, any business that hurts their customers is not good business for any service. The Order type: SELLING/BUYING column of the Your Open Orders tab could use solid color RED and GREEN backgrounds, in place of the indistinguishable alternating blue/white of today. How can I best forward this suggestion to Mt.Gox? PM tux? |
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BS&T was opening to the public on August 1st. It is now opening to the public on August 13th.
In fact the referral requirement was lifted yesterday and you can already open an account. Curiouser and curiouser 1st -> 13th -> apparently yesterday Funding problems? Plank or Keelhaul? I think not. The pirate is hoist with his own petard. |
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Read through Pirate's posts. If you read inbetween the lines you will know exactly what he's doing.
Beyond taking on debt at rates that even a love child of Warren Buffett and Bill Gates couldn't repay? Fascinating quote though, where and when is this from? The part I think a lot of people miss is the differences between a rally and a crash as far as how the market reacts. So, I'll attempt to explain it.
During a...
rally a couple big buys cause people to jump on the train, riding it up the hill without much movement on the ask side of the order book.
crash a couple big sells induce panic that not only sell off coins but cause orders to be ripped from the bid side of the order book. Driving prices into the ground.
Granted, there will be people buying at any price but the traders are smart and we've got some big players in the market this time.
My two cents are free.
-pirate
Why doesn't he keep his mouth shut, if he's going to burn it to the ground? I mean, if you're George Soros and you're about to break the Bank of England by shorting the pound, surely you wouldn't be letting people know in advance? Dun dun dun. |
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I just tried the LastPass account. I didn't expect to be able to log in, but I was able to using the original credentials!
And LastPass didn't log the IP that reverted the master password. It's so weird.
What. The. Hell. |
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Would you say you are 100% sure? 90%? 50%?
Absolutely 100% certain that it was planned and staged. Not sure of the specifics of how it was done though. Is all of the media in on it? Wouldn't you expect there to be at least one honest journalist somewhere? You're saying this whole incident didn't happen. Do you believe 9/11 happened? (As in things blew up and real people died.) Have you been able to pick up on things like this your whole life, or is it more of a recent thing? Why are you able to see these connections that most people don't? |
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