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Most of Hearn's work in Bitcoin looks like it was for BitcoinJ. He did make 3 BIPs and two of them were accepted.
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I still believe in Bitcoin. I started with Bitcoin in 2012 primarily as a get-rich-quick scheme, but pretty soon afterwards I learned there was so much more than that. As a tech guy, I am very interested in the technical workings of Bitcoin, the development, and all of the possibilities that we can do with Bitcoin and the blockchain. I still believe in Bitcoin, but less as an investment and more as a technology.
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Thanks for the advice.
This address is no longer usable as I have lost the redeem script. Someone sent some 300 bits to the address but I think it is lost forever... It has effectively became another bitcoin burning address... sigh..
I will try again to generate another throwaway address and will play with it, before I actually generating a real address.
I would recommend that you try your testing on the testnet. You can get testnet coins from a testnet faucet and those coins are worth absolutely nothing. Those coins are free and always will be, and are perfectly safe to lose. |
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If base64 was used it wouldn't matter if any website went down due to the image being hosted on here.
Wouldn't that take up more resources (i.e. storage) for the forum? That's true. Base64 increases the size of images nearly 30%, and if we wanted to cut off middlemen to take advantage of the pros I mention it should be hosted on the forum as text. Thing is, the forum is already storing quite a lot of text, base64 would likely end up being used by advanced users which imo wouldn't be a big percentage. The main advantage would be that images using base64 would stay up as long as the forum does, plus there's not going to be any need for proxying (which has proven to be unreliable). Would there be a way that we could encode those images as text but not have to take up so much space? Something that makes it at least the size of the image, if not smaller, but definitely not bigger. |
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The problem with post quality checkers is that there is no way to objectively determine post quality. That site uses the length of the post, but that does not always indicate the quality. Some long posts are really bad quality and some short posts are enough to answer the question. The only real way would be to create an AI that can judge post quality, but that is way overkill for something like this.
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I think you should spread out your buy. If you buy a large amount at one time, many banks may think it is suspicious and some exchanges might think so as well. This could cause your account to be frozen or in some way limited so that you can't withdraw your Bitcoin without it being a huge pain. By spreading it out, you can avoid this entire problem.
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That thread only has 5 developers that posted there. I think we can do better than that.
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If you make 10 000 posts yearly it will still take you 100 years to reach that post count. In other words it is pretty much impossible within your lifetime. Even if you reach that amount, nothing will happen. Phinnaeus Gage has the most posts (~21.4k) even though he has been inactive for a while.
All i need to do is live to 115 and post 10000 posts a year, or 200 posts a week! Or before you die you can pass of your account to your grand children to keep posting for you. |
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It looks pretty nice, but it is missing the most important thing in Bitcoin, Bitcoin Core, the reference client!
Is there any particular meaning to the heights of the bulidings? It looks like it is making all of the big centralized services and companies the forefront of Bitcoin.
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The thing is that phones can be lost, robbed, broken more frequently than a Desktop. It is more a safety thing than a security thing I think.
Exactly this. No matter how safe you coins on your Smartphone are if you just lose your smartphone. Same goes for laptops btw. That's why I prefer a trusted online wallet.That is so much less secure than either of the two you just mentioned. The most secure is to use a hardware wallet. Having the wallet on a desktop is still very secure, much more so than on a phone and much much more so than an online wallet. |
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I think iPhones are safer than desktop and Android less safe, majority of comments here are about Androids, with iOS you are pretty good secured. If u want to access to my phone u have to cut off my finger to even access my phone not to mention passcode for spending my btc, so until you have spend the time to even access my phone, i have transferred my funds somewhere else.
First of all, fingerprint sensors are easily fooled. Secondly, they don't even need your fingerprint. They can just enter the backup password to access your phone. Same goes for androids. And getting the passcode for your wallet might be different, but it will be the same difficulty for both android and iphones. Even so, you could still end up downloading a virus to either type of phone since they are both vulnerable, and that could steal your Bitcoin too. |
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You can recover your coins from another device if your phone breaks, regarding stealing if you have money stored in your phone u must be smart enough to have passcodes on it aswell. Untill the thief has unlocked everything i already have transferred my funds somewhere else.
I surf the web, download movies, games, etc. on my pc so its a greater threat than my phone, not to mention i can access my funds on my mobile much more easily and make payments.
I also surf the web, downlod movies, games, etc on my phone as well. So my phone is just as big as a threat to my wallet as my pc is. Except I also keep my coins on in a cold storage wallet that isn't connected to the internet, cannot download anything, and only has my wallet on that. That is far more secure than storing the Bitcoin on my phone. And if you think you can't get a virus on a smartphone because you downloaded the app from the official app store, think again. Just do a google search and you will find many cases of apps that were viruses that were allowed on official app stores. |
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The thing is that phones can be lost, robbed, broken more frequently than a Desktop. It is more a safety thing than a security thing I think.
This. Even if I was sure that online wallet is secure and never will be hacked there is always possibility of physical robbery, you can drop your phone, soft update can go wrong etc. There is no such problems with stationary PC. Even I thief broke to my home (highly unlikely) he would take my laptop or smartphone first, because my PC is rather heavy and big. lmao seems u arent familiar with smarthphones at all? You dont lose your coins if you drop your phone, you can revover it easily. btw your pc can just malfunction, get virusses, get damages and tons of other things aswell. Really? How do you recover the coins from a phone you dropped that the screen completely shattered so that it is unusable? And smartphones can malfunction, get viruses, and become damaged and tons of other things as well. For a thief to access your coins, he would need to unlock your finger print to even access the phone, or your passcode or pattern code, then he has to unlock your app (if you have set up passcode for apps), then he has to send your money which also requires the passcode. Untill then i already have transferred my funds somewhere else, so good luck buddy.
That is only if you set a passcode for your phone, the app, and the wallet. |
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It's most likely the opposite. People have no idea how to keep their desktops/laptops secure and it is much worse then it comes to the mobile area where apps can have access to almost everything. Another problems would be apps that carry hard to remove exploits (tends to happen in android). It is not possible for a smartphone to be safer than a Linux machine solely dedicated for a wallet, running behind a hardware firewall.
Using desktop has much more risks, so many virusses, links, downloads, can cause a robbery. There are two risks to this. You can have a less technically secure desktop but it is more likely to not be stolen or you can have a smartphone which is technically more secure but more likely to get stolen, lost, or broken. With a desktop, you can control everything and all the software installed on it. You can't do that with a smartphone. A desktop can also be configured to have encrypted hard drives, sandboxing, and whatever else that makes smartphones more technically secure. After all, a smartphone is really just a tiny computer. Desktops can also download the full blockchain so you aren't relying on someone else for the right data. A proper cold storage desktop wallet cannot download viruses and should not have anything on it except for the wallet software. Also, a desktop cannot be as easily stolen, lost, or broken as a cell phone is. |
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I agree account recovery is currently an issue and isn't really getting dealt with properly but it's difficult to find mods who can be trusted with having access to the database/being an admin. The fewer people who are the better and more secure for everybody but I do think either another admin or someone who could deal with account recoveries would be beneficial but it's probably not a priority as frustrating as that may be for those who have lost access to their accounts.
No need someone to have access to database, but someone in middle who can check, verify and after everything looks fine, forward approved request to admin,this way admin's inbox won't filled with spam and he will get only approved request with proofs that he can take action to reset details. The way I understand it is that you need database access to approve a request. A signed message is only the start of what needs checked. I read from time to time that those with locked accounts due to using the security question were asked additional questions. I assume these are cross checks with data directly from the database, e.g. from PMs. I know that database access can be dangerous, but what if they just had read-only access. Then that staff member would only need to be trusted to not give any information away. He can read what is in the database in order to ask the right questions but can't modify it so it isn't harmful to the site if the wrong command is sent. Also with sending the reset emails, why would this need database access? The user is providing an email address and there is already an automatic mechanism to send the recovery emails and to reset the password through that email. Couldn't the staff member just send that recovery email for an account to the specified address? |
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Just ignore it and report it as spam. However, you should look into securing your Patreon data since there was actually a Patreon data breach at the end of september.
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it is possible but theymos have to give them permission to change/view passwords and view IPs and other stuff to see if an account was indeed hacked.. very huge responsibility.
They wouldn't need to have permission to change or view the passwords (and hopefully Bitcointalk does not save the passwords so that they can be viewed, just a salted hash because otherwise that would be a huge security risk). They would only need to be able to send out the recovery emails, which are already done automatically when someone requests a password reset via email. Other stuff though for determining whether an account was hacked, that would mean they have some access to more stuff like logs, but I don't think it would be terribly huge of a responsibility. I don't think they would have access to PMs or access to the database itself since that wouldn't really be necessary. |
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In fact, it is interesting to observe that people refuse to accept Euro/USD payment in Japan, even they know that those foreign currencies are much more stable than Japanese Yen. People only trust their domestic fiat currency for some strange reason. I don't think they are forced by government violence, they just unconsciously made the choice due to fear of financial loss from a foreign currency
Why would someone in Japan begin accepting the Euro or USD for payment? They can't spend that anywhere in Japan so naturally they won't want to accept a foreign currency that cannot be spent domestically. |
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Some accounts just dont get recovered though, even though there is a signed message. If someone has to wait for a month and longer I dont think its because theymos and / or BadBear dont have the time to handle it. Its way more likely that there is more and its just not publicly known.
But at least letting the person know that the account won't be recovered for X reason would be nice. It seems like BadBear and Theymos don't do that, they just leave the user in the dark. If we had dedicated staff, they could formulate a decent response and work with the person instead of just ignoring them and keeping them guessing as to what they did wrong. I feel like if this was really a very, very pressing issue, they would have promoted another global moderator to an administrator position. Ultimately you should be responsible for your account yourself, with such a large forum a recovery procedure that isn't just a regular email reset is obviously going to take a long time.
Even with the email resets, some people don't use real emails since they aren't really necessary. You need an email to sign up, but it isn't verified. For some people, they think using the secret question will be faster and easier, but end up getting themselves locked out. In those cases, then they can't do anything and just need to wait for Theymos or BadBear to recover the account for them. It would be much faster if some staff actually did it as a job. |
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I got you , but that would be insecure and I'm not saying that moderators are not trustworthy .. It's just that giving Database access to different people can cause some problems and moderators can get hacked and that will result in hackers getting database access etc ... I don't think it worth it (at least this is how I see it) . The less people have control the better .
But do they really need database access? The recovery would just be sending the person the recovery email. All that staff needs to do is to figure out whether that account should be recovered by whoever is contacting them. Then they just send the recovery email if the account should be recovered. |
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