Washed bitcoins? lol I doubt the US marshalls even understand bitcoin.
However, some undefined group in the US Government do have the private keys relating to this group of coins. Who is to say that the bitcoins do not suddenly vanish either before or after delivery to the winners of the auction? Agree, this is a situation which could happen. I think to keep this large amount of btc in one single address is not very responsible; |
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yeah, not sure though that the proper sanctions will get off the ground - but yeah, a military solution would probably only make it worse. Especially given that so many in Crimea seem actually glad to join Russia. Maybe half of the people there, it seems, or more.
Europe seems depending on natural gas from Russia - but Russia also seems dependent on Europe - so as far as sanctions, not sure who would blink first.
I'm not sure if Ukrainians should be happy to either be part of EU nor Russia. Cyprus is part of the European Union, but.. we all know how that went. Anyway, as for trade between Russia and Europe. The European Union and Russia have a strong trade relationship. EU imports from Russia are dominated by raw materials, in particular, oil (crude and refined) and gas. For these products, as well as for other important raw materials, Russia has committed in the WTO to freeze or reduce its export duties. The EU is the most important investor in Russia. It is estimated that up to 75% of Foreign Direct Investment stocks in Russia come from EU Member States (including Cyprus). Source: http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/countries/russia/ |
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You could do web-surfing trough a virtual machine. none of the scripts would then have access to your machine
Ghostery allows to block ads, trackers and scripts if I'm not mistaken
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I've created a bitcoin chart on bitprize.orgWhat do you think about it? Any ideas on how to improve it? |
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This may be the very BEST moment for Russia, China, Iran, etc., to move against the USA while we have a VERY weak president that Americans despise. LOL, time will tell. Russia, China, Iran.etc are not stupid enough to attack the US. An initial attack will come from the US only. But I don't think that Obama will initiate such an adventure. Let's wait for Hillary. China gets money/resources from both Russia and the US, war may not be in their interest. Full list of Chinese war involvement here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China (not a lot since 1980) |
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On a side note, they managed to compromise my Bitcoin Museum about an hour before they transferred everything. I think my service provider caught everything changed, but I've been restoring everything for the last few days.
Do you mean they got into your website? In that case, every webserver has log files. This log files show the method of attack, IP addresses etc. It might provide some clues. The log files are on different directories depending if you use Apache, NGinx, ISS etc; There was a couple of Trojans. Also found them on my my pc. I may have tracked them to my laptop when I was downloading and installing files on both computers. Your PC was not secure. You cannot randomly download software on a computer that stores around 8000$ worth of coins. Are the trojans still on the computer? The one thing to do is find it. Then use a Hexeditor to see if you can find any information in the binary. |
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China has around 20% of the world population. The US in comparison has around 5%.
I think this may be of an influence, other than the things mentioned in the thread here before.
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The notion that Putin would go "nuclear" even if we were to do something to restrain him in the Crimea is silly. Not that we are.
Agreed, a nuclear war would be neither beneficial for the US nor Russia. There is no profit in it, both economies would have severe damage. In addition, the cost is much higher than the benefit. This is mainly used a fear tactic to get support for war amongst citizens. |
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Or so it may seem. Not sure how far the crisis in Crimea will go - or how far Russia will go with the Ukraine. The other eastern European nations are quite concerned also about Russia.
The Middle east, of course, is standard fare.
And Iran is accusing the US of sabatoge. Not sure what might come of that. I don't think Israel strking Iran is off the table yet.
And China is making threatening noise in the east Pacific.
Anything left out?
Global war on privacy, terror, drugs. There are tons of wars going on since 2000s and before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_2003%E2%80%932010https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_2011%E2%80%93present Also you left out the US secret wars. (and secret wars of other countries) |
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I think it's going to be around much longer. In the same way that IRC is used today, even though that protocol was introduced in 1988. Sure, other protocols will come - as happend with chat protocols. IRC didn't get replaced by say Skype, and I think with Bitcoin it will be the same story. Different uses;
I think in the short term, we will see that a lot of the alt coins get dumped - leaving only a few coins in use. When shopping online, you may have a choice between three crypto-currencies in addition to creditcard payment methods. I don't think we'll see shops where you can pay with 1000s of different coins, that's simply impractical.
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Looks like T-72 or T-84 tanks but I could be wrong. I think its a 90s tank model. Does anybody know?
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Received payment
Thank you Stunna!
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I think vires in numbers or other bitcoin quotes would be cool
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Thought I had enrolled successfully but my name isn't on that list  Where can I find the list? Enrolled a long time ago You enrolled a long time ago? This is the first month that we have used google docs to enroll, so you have to enroll using the google docs link yes, I ment a few weeks ago  Did you use the google docs form? I haven't been following this thread much, but I don't think that link was available back then. Stunna said it was a one time thing that you had to do moving forward... yes, I've used the forum. I think payment may take a few hours more |
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Thought I had enrolled successfully but my name isn't on that list Where can I find the list? Enrolled a long time ago You enrolled a long time ago? This is the first month that we have used google docs to enroll, so you have to enroll using the google docs link yes, I ment a few weeks ago |
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Thought I had enrolled successfully but my name isn't on that list Where can I find the list? Enrolled a long time ago |
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In the early days of bitcoin mining, i actualy backed up wallet.h from bitcoin folder.
60+ BTC went poof. i learned lession the hard way also, wasnt worth much back then , but now...
Too bad none of those date restore programs could recover the real wallet.dat on hdd, coz it was overwritten by other files.
the header file? for newbies, backup the whole bitcoin directory - or better yet- backup your entire disk. |
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The genius of this person, is to huge to comprehend. A quote from Satoshi's white paper. " A block header with no transactions would be about 80 bytes. If we suppose blocks are generated every 10 minutes, 80 bytes * 6 * 24 * 365 = 4.2MB per year. With computer systems typically selling with 2GB of RAM as of 2008, and Moore's Law predicting current growth of 1.2GB per year, storage should not be a problem even if the block headers must be kept in memory." Why use memory as a benchmark? Technology, sure did their part, in his prediction.  Are we paying tx fees based on kb, because they want the blockchain {ledger} to be smaller? Because a benchmark of say CPU would not make a lot of sense, in this kind of application. Computation time of an individual machine, sitting on some numbers which is not crunching numbers is not that expensive. (Miners do a lot of number crunching). Memory or diskspace on the is limited. A payment system needs to be scalable over time, that is why memory is an important benchmark. In case too much memory is used, the operating system kills (closes) the application. If you are using a standard windows machine, you can test this by opening notepad and copy+paste large chunks of text in it. Notepad will eventually crash. We pay fees to keep miners busy, afaik. Some wallets also charge a fee to the developers. |
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There have been malware for iOS and also Linux, but they're less in number because of the single reason that attackers want to attack majority of the users, so they attack mostly Windows. True, but there are additional reasons. Linux users generally don't need to go on the internet looking to download software from unknown sources, this reduces the risk to a high degree. The default dvds come with so much software, it would be an exception to download from an official repository. |
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