They should have off-site backups.
the server named emergency-backup with 0 days old does worry me I noticed. This could mean: - Panic move by zhou?
- Hacker made it prior to taking the screenshot?
- They lost everything.
- Something else.
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They should have off-site backups. Although zhoutong's wording in [Emergency ANN] does perhaps suggest otherwise. In any case, they could have bought most - or all of the coins already. |
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Could anyone be so sweet as to pastebin the relevant IRC logs?
How much was returned in all, the full 18k? Or just specks and dust?
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I'd like to use this bump as an opportunity to ask, is there any interest in 3, 6 or 12 month codes?
I was thinking about it this when I made my purchase.  Didn't bother asking, since I suffered a case of headbanging, caused by your service. So. The question I had in mind was: If I do this again, can I "fill up" my account for say, 3 months? Or will it "spill over", or stop me, or fail in some way, leaving me with 30 days only. |
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So Bitcoinica got rooted and robbed. In expectation of the announced mass leak, I've got an exercise for you ninjas. Assume for a minute that: - My name is Joe Average. Hello.
- I love my Bitcoins. I have a good number of them for some reason.
- I'm completely naïve when it comes to securing my accounts.
- I'm of reasonable intelligence and able to carry out simple instructions.
- I prefer to use the login javerage across all services, and I like the password JoeBitcoin123.
- I have an account with every major money-handling merchant, service and exchange.
What steps should I follow to manage my credentials in a more safe, more sane manner? Securing the wallet is already covered, so we can assume that my Bitcoin Retirement Fund is stored on a stick in some secure vault. Consequently, I'm mostly concerned with risks involving the compromise of 3rd party services. Some sub-problems:- How do I produce sufficiently strong passwords for each account?
- How do I store and retrieve tens of strong passwords safely?
- How do I keep track of logins, passwords, email addresses, and other account data
across tens of services over several years, for use by many devices? - What precautions should I take when sites get compromised, when account data gets leaked?
- How do I stop myself from eventually being lazy, eventually getting robbed?
How do you stay safe? |
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For the future (and it wouldn't be a bad idea if all identity-requiring businesses did this), you should supply a field where we can upload a GPG public key that matches the email address. Then you should send all emails encrypted to that key, but more importantly ... the owner of the address has a way of proving their identity in a way that is significantly harder to forge than a JPG of a passport.
Okay. Sounds brilliant. Is this infeasible for some reason? |
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The next months will bring all financial markets down hard, no matter if PM, stocks, EURUSD, whatever. The only thing that may rise is BTCUSD.
Heh. Are you a clown, or just a joker? |
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I'm placing a bid on bitcoinherald.
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Since the new forum software will never actually get written (or be usable if someone attempts it) can we please get some real forum software working for this place until this hypothetical software is written?
The specification in "Looking for someone to create/modify software for this forum [2200+ BTC]" could use a rewrite, with the words "shall", "will", and "must" used more sparingly. Make the $10000 bounty known outside this forum. HN? /r/programming? |
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Maybe bitcoinica should use their website for that sort of thing and not a forum.
Yeah. Hardly the most professional way to handle a crisis on their part. MyBitcoin all over again, the exception being sporadic newsflashes to the 50 page heavy [ANN] thread. Which, come to think of it, was what MyBitcoin did did as well? *shakes head in disapproval* |
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Prices seems to be fucked up, pictures don't load, placeholder texts seem to be in place... Did you release a bit early?
It looks good, for being broken in so many ways. To add to the list, every product page breaks the layout (in Chrome), and the "New iPhone 4S" ad with the lorem ipsum breaks when you click it. Sadly, this is the first impression I'm going to take away. Question: Can I actually by taffy at $0.0000000? PS: Two points of precision should be enough. 2nd Question: Are you using floats for prices? |
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This forum is the beating heart of internet discussion of Bitcoin, and it is not a healthy heart.
I had a specific point in mind. Namely: One of the uses of bitcointalk.org is announcements, such as; [ANN] Critical vulnerability (denial-of-service attack) and [Emergency ANN] Bitcoinica site is taken offline for security investigation. These announcements can be important to your health, wealth or well-being. They also get picked up by mainstream media. The Bitcoinica thread is/was used as the central channel of communication by the main parties. It has around 950 posts atm. If you are affected by this incident and just found out about it, or, you are a reporter from some news biggish agency, on a tight schedule, and you want to cover the main points of it intelligibly... Well, you'd be facing 50 pages of actual [NEWS] floating in a sea of circle-jerking filth, trolls, counter-trolls and angry, sometimes vengeful rants. I should rephrase this in more generous terms, but it'll have to serve as a probable first impression for visitors to bitcointalk. My (personal, not-important, but not likely unique) opinion is that bitcointalk.org (sometimes) reflects poorly on Bitcoin and everyone involved. This saddens me a smidgen. So, I would pleasantly surprised if the discussions and their participants were kept on a slightly shorter leash. I would love reddit/slashdot style karma based, crowd sourced moderation, where a sufficient number of down-votes hides your comment. Lastly, I thought this was beautiful and really well worded. I echo your sentiment exactly.* Nobody needs to be hated. However we sometimes need to ignore some people and feel sorry for them that they're unable to be friendly to others.
* - Though I wouldn't cry if it were easier to ignore. It gets tiring, to have to feel sorry too often. |
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free speech is worth protecting.
Yeah. The freedom to create your own internet forum when you get banned from this one. This forum is the beating heart of internet discussion of Bitcoin, and it is not a healthy heart. |
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It's for websites like reddit, etc, where groups of misinformed individuals will spread their FUD at a rate faster than the few supporters can respond to, making it an unfair and bias debate that basically is unapproachable from all sides. Oh shit. If I am curious but uninformed, and I meet a literal army of troll-fighting proselytizing Bitcoiners I'm going to turn really sceptical really fast. Edited to add: The word " de-trolling" makes me cringe. Set the facts straight, by all means, but never try and fight a troll in a stand up fight. As the saying goes: "Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience." |
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What, you've never mower astroturf before?  Sounds like a business plan... Wright & Co. - Digital gamekeepers for all your astrogardening needs. |
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Why can't we gang up on them too with actual truth coming in from all directions?
Ahahahaha. "Trolling for truth?" This won't end well. |
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you are free to close the tab after sending the coins if you've provided an email address
In other words, you need to either make this step mandatory OR explicitly warn the customer of the consequences in cases of laptop power outage or other acts of god.  |
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Nifty. Saved me a bit of money. One thing: When I clicked the redeem link, Step 3: YOUR CODE, the page that has the offer to give you an #otc-rating disappeared irretrievably. After clicking that link I can only view 1: CHOOSE AMOUNT. (What's that supposed to mean anyway, there's only one amount to choose from.) So, maybe open the redeem your code link in a new tab or something? |
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