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1381  Economy / Speculation / Re: 300 is broken, to never see again on: January 03, 2015, 02:45:15 PM
You can thank the paycoin groupies that are pushing this 1000s BTC scam that I bet is being dumped into Fiat as we speak.

It's ironic how the guy that represents PayCoin is named Josh, just as it was the case with Butterfly Labs. And guess what, both broke their promises. When I suddenly recognized the weird similarity between GAW and BFL I insta-dumped my speculative paycoins I can afford to lose.

Seeing BTC falling under 300 I insta-dumped a good portion of my hot wallet. However, I'm not holding any fiat, I bought nubits instead. NuBits is an excellent hedge against the collective downtrend of all other cryptos. Thank god I invested heavily into NuShares when they first came out, it has covered all my losses I'm having in BTC, PPC and now XPY. NuBits is like a dream come true.
1382  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: CryptoGraffiti - Block Chain Message Encoder & Decoder on: December 27, 2014, 01:02:38 PM
Here's some great news! Under the Write tab there is a button Import to Paystamper. PayStamper is essentially a means to let a dedicated cryptograffiti encoder save the message to the block chain for you. But that's not all you should know about that button.



Some time ago someone made a very interesting donation to cryptograffiti.info:
https://blockchain.info/tx/075dacbc6eff01de36a1e03bb8b2fe58e49e9e5bd17f6e588b8ddf19f6bcb9e1



As you can see, the donation contains duplicate output addresses (make sure to enable the Advanced mode at the bottom of blockchain.info's web page). So far I deemed it impossible to make Bitcoin transactions that contain duplicate outputs. However, it clearly is not impossible. Thanks to that particular donation I started to develop the needed functionality that would allow PayStamper to also include duplicate outputs in the same transaction.



This functionality is now done. Whenever your message contains duplicate chunks and your normal wallet would not allow to make the transaction, import the message to PayStamper and it will save your text no matter how many duplicate outputs it contains. Because PayStamper is currently under development the paystamper.com and cryptograffiti.info/paystamper are not synchronized. The version that is pointed by the CryptoGraffiti.info's Write tab is the latest version of PayStamper so I'd recommend you use that link instead of going to paystamper.com.



How to make a transaction to duplicate outputs? There are 2 ways. You could change the source code of your bitcoin-core wallet. Comment out the exception that is thrown on duplicate outputs when you attempt to create a raw transaction with RPC (see the highlighted line below, it's from rpcrawtransaction.cpp).


Or, the way paystamper does it --- before calling createrawtransaction replace the addresses with unique indexes that map your real output addresses. After receiving the hex string of the raw transaction replace the unique index address substrings with your actual output addresses.

Here's the Lua code I implemented to do the trick explained above:
Code:
function bitcoin_fun_create_raw_transaction(inputs, outputs)
    -- Because Lua dictionaries cannot have a predefined order we must
    -- construct this request manually.
    local outputlist = "{";
    local k, v;
   
    local mapping = {};
    local order   = {};
    local index;
    local index_hex;
    local hex;
    local salt = "MPGdJA7KX9TwBB7i";
   
    for i=1, #outputs do
        k, v = next(outputs[i], nil);

        index_hex = hash_SHA256(i..salt, false);
        index_hex = string.sub(index_hex, 1, 40);
        index     = string.fromhex(index_hex);
        index     = Bitcoin.stringToAddress(index);
        hex       = Bitcoin.addressToString(k);
        hex       = string.tohex(hex);
        mapping[index_hex] = hex;
        table.insert(order, index_hex);
       
        --log("mapping["..index_hex.."] = "..hex);
        outputlist = outputlist..'"'..index..'": '..v;
        if (i < #outputs) then
            outputlist = outputlist .. ", ";
        end;
    end;
    outputlist = outputlist .. "}";
   
    local inputlist = JSON:encode(inputs);
   
    local request = '{\n'..
                    '      "id": 1,          \n'..
                    ' "jsonrpc": "2.0",      \n'..
                    '  "method": "createrawtransaction", \n'..
                    '  "params": [ '..inputlist..', '..outputlist..' ]\n'..
                    '}';
    --warn(request);
    response = url_post("http://"..bitcoin.rpc_user..":"
                                 ..bitcoin.rpc_password.."@"
                                 ..bitcoin.rpc_ip..":"
                                 ..bitcoin.rpc_port.."/", request);
    --warn(response);
    if (response ~= nil) then
        local t = JSON:decode(response);
        if (t ~= nil and type(t) == "table") then
            if (type(t.error) == "table" and type(t.error.message) == "string" ) then
                log("Bitcoin createrawtransaction: "..t.error.message);
            else
                local k,v;
                local s = 1;
                local e;
                local bad = nil;
                -- Replace indexes with real output hex representations that may
                -- contain duplicates.
                for i=1, #order do
                    k = order[i];
                    v = mapping[k];

                    s, e = string.find(t.result, k, s, true);
                    if (s ~= nil and e ~= nil) then
                        t.result = t.result:sub(1, s-1) .. v .. t.result:sub(e+1);
                        s = e + 1;
                    else
                        bad = k;
                    end;
                end;
                --warn(t.result);
               
                if (bad ~= nil) then
                    warn("Index hex "..bad.." not found from raw transaction.");
                    return nil;
                end;               
            end;
            return t.result;
        end;
    end;
    return nil;
end;

This added functionality should be a lifesaver for people who want to save ASCII art or other texts that contain repetition to the block chain.
1383  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Why is Ripple price going mad right now? on: December 20, 2014, 06:57:30 PM
It's obvious you are simply here to argue. People like you drive away people who have good information.

You're so right and I'm so out of this topic now Cheesy bye
1384  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Why is Ripple price going mad right now? on: December 20, 2014, 04:48:18 PM
It's not your place to judge him. You say "his refusal to defend Ripple seems like an emotion driven excuse". "Seems" is the key word here. You don't know his thoughts so take your judgement of him elsewhere. We are all tired of the thousands upon thousands of posts of people spread FUD about every coin that does well. It's overdone to the point of not being worth it to respond to every criticism of every coin.

It's not your place to judge me. You say "It's not your place to judge him". "judge" is the key word here. You don't know my thoughts so take your judgement of me elsewhere. We are all tired of the thousands upon thousands of posts of people judging about every post that does well. It's overdone to the point of not being worth it to respond to every criticism of every post.

Quote
I'm really trying to muster up the energy for a proper response but to be honest, the negativity on this forum towards anything that isn't bitcoin or promising overnight riches makes it not worth the hassle of posting. Any discussion of Ripple is met with false accusations of centralization, scamming, or shilling. Why should anyone waste their time writing up a lengthy reply? Ripple is going to succeed with or without approval from the bitcointalk peanut gallery.

"his refusal to defend Ripple seems like an emotion driven excuse"

Well, doesn't it seem like an emotion driven excuse? Read the bold parts, they radiate so much emotion that we could even derive a soap opera from it. Even if misterbigg personally didn't intend to embed any emotion to his reply it's worth pointing out that these discussions could get emotional. After all, we have hundreds of bitcoin peanuts here and only one Ripple advocate. Unjustness always generates hot feelings in humans.
1385  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Why is Ripple price going mad right now? on: December 20, 2014, 03:38:54 PM
Hyena, are you aware that Carlos Castaneda was faking it all. I mean this is quasi-buddhistic bullshit fit for socially awkward people.

And yes, I am saying this as big fan of CC.


Faking what? If it works then how can it be fake? I do believe that Carlos was just used as a puppet by those Mexican sorcerers and I know that Carlos himself failed to follow the teachings of don Juan but that does not invalidate the teachings. Especially when you apply your own common sense and test the whole thing out yourself. Do you really need BBC to tell you what's what?

Every relationship between people is artifical in some way and starts inside, but this approach does not help to go deeper. You are only putting here oil into flames. If one has to solve his inner problem to not fight with other people is the same problem as that he has to fight with other people to solve his problems.

Yes, I am putting oil into flames, deliberately, because I want to see what happens. I'm not doing it to help anyone specifically or to feel like a guru or to secretly hope that I'm doing something for the greater good. None of that. I'm doing it to learn. I know that these ideas will meet opposition and the only way to really test their plausibility is to confront the opposition. If it's real it can take the pressure.

I somehow like your posts very much, but there is a truth above the truth always. And I think you know it. Nothing can be described in very short sentence, e.g. "opposition is always present" -> therefore it has no sense to trying to avoid it. That is nonsense that ends in asylum. Yes, opposition is always present, but there are situations where it actually amazingly has sense to avoid it, or at least try. To rest, to change perspective. That is also the cosmic dance.

You are right but you misinterpreted my original intent. I wanted to draw misterbigg's attention to the fact that his refusal to defend Ripple seems like an emotion driven excuse rather than a ruthless choice. If he pretended to be upset then I would congratulate him for the impeccable practice of controlled folly. If, however, he was really upset by the nature of Ripple's opponents then here's a chance for him to evolve and show his self-importance who's the boss.

There's nothing wrong with refusing to defend Ripple here in this topic but there's something wrong with the self-pity that makes you feel as if this situation is hopeless and no one here understands you and everyone here is against you. I wish people reminded me my own indulging when it happens. When I get upset on a phone and start raising my voice, for example Tongue
1386  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Why is Ripple price going mad right now? on: December 20, 2014, 02:44:00 PM
You should take it as a challenge without attaching any petty feelings to it.

Quote from: Carlos Castaneda
The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

A warrior might take up everything as a challenge but a strategist chooses his battles wisely.

The moment you lose your nerve is when you have lost the battle that is between you and your self-importance. You're referring to human wars/battles which is a completely different thing. The battle I'm talking about is within you not between you and me. You can either defend Ripple here or not --- it's up to you --- but your choice should be free of petty feelings, which apparently it wasn't, since you're referring to Ripple's opponents with a negative superficial generalisation.
1387  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Why is Ripple price going mad right now? on: December 20, 2014, 01:13:38 PM
it's a good thing you pointed this out, i hope someone from ripple labs is lurking these forums and give us an answer.

I'm really trying to muster up the energy for a proper response but to be honest, the negativity on this forum towards anything that isn't bitcoin or promising overnight riches makes it not worth the hassle of posting. Any discussion of Ripple is met with false accusations of centralization, scamming, or shilling. Why should anyone waste their time writing up a lengthy reply? Ripple is going to succeed with or without approval from the bitcointalk peanut gallery.


i agree with this response.

I don't think it's a good excuse. One should not let negativity affect them. If you encounter opposition and give up then the bad guys win. Opposition is always present, that's the nature of our universe. You should take it as a challenge without attaching any petty feelings to it.

Quote from: Carlos Castaneda
The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse.
1388  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Why is Ripple price going mad right now? on: December 19, 2014, 03:10:08 PM
I think it poses a big question --- whether Bitcoin will remain due to it's advantage of being the first or will it be dethroned by others. Fact is that decentralization is the future. Everything that can be decentralized will be decentralized. Ripple is perhaps the last pathetic breath of the centralized money transmitting system that is based on debt (IOUs).
I think the advantage is the key point and bet on the advantage.

But even Bitcoin used for real transactions is of course based on IOU. Any money is and always will be. Otherwise it is not money.

Bitcoins have nothing to do with IOU's because there is no debt system inside Bitcoin plain and simple.

Also, how will the ripple network overcome foul nodes? Essentially the bigger the ripple network grows the higher is a chance that some node will be compromised or will go rogue and run away with money. the nodes could even practise some sick reserve banking. At least with bitcoin it is cool that all the nodes either follow the same protocol or become incompatible. ripple is a much more loose concept.
1389  Economy / Speculation / Re: Weekly Parabolic SAR just flipped the side! on: December 19, 2014, 12:54:30 PM
This is critical Cheesy the pSar is about to flip again. This whole topic might turn out to be a premature ejaculation and the bear market could continue. As always, the next weeks are absolutely critical to the BTC/USD!
1390  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Why is Ripple price going mad right now? on: December 19, 2014, 12:13:59 PM
Ripple crashing  Shocked

Stellar too Tongue some dude was so right about stellar a couple of days ago. Maybe he mentioned it even in this very topic? I wonder if there exists some technique already how to abuse these pump and dumps? Buy in at the first spurt and start gradually selling as it goes higher? Prices doubling seems to be very ordinary during pump-and-dumps and thus it would mark a safe bet when to pull out, right? I mean, normally pump-and-dumps make the price rise 3 to 10 times.

edit:
As XRP crashes, does that mean BTC will start to rise soon?
1391  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Why is Ripple price going mad right now? on: December 19, 2014, 11:54:42 AM
I think it poses a big question --- whether Bitcoin will remain due to it's advantage of being the first or will it be dethroned by others. Fact is that decentralization is the future. Everything that can be decentralized will be decentralized. Ripple is perhaps the last pathetic breath of the centralized money transmitting system that is based on debt (IOUs).
1392  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Anybody here uses Shift or Xapo debit card? on: December 18, 2014, 12:30:00 PM
Xapo is total JUNK!!!. Been waiting for their card for months, contacted their support several times, nothing.

These guys are much more professional and everything works fine.

https://anxbtc.com/

last time I checked anxbtc was just a lame prepaid card thad does not convert your btc in real time.
1393  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: How does Xapo Debit Card work in Europe so far? on: December 18, 2014, 11:18:08 AM
in case you interested i found another forum that seems to be more active than this post here where i see people talking and sharing experiences " all good for most part " Check it out if you interested  Wink          https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=893226.new#new

thanks for the info
1394  Economy / Speculation / Re: It's happening! --- 3̶6̶0̶$̶ 454$ on: December 18, 2014, 11:17:05 AM
We're back to square one. Prepare for fear, uncertainty and doubt. In order to pump ripple, bitcoin must be dumped. I wonder if the XRP pump is actually correlated with the BTC dump.
1395  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Why is Ripple price going mad right now? on: December 17, 2014, 09:49:33 PM
Another Aurora coin.  The "available supply" is deceiving as it actually isn't available, that amount is mostly held by Ripple employees who signed lockup agreements preventing them from selling for several years.   The end result is only a miniscule amount of Ripple is actually put up for sale and there's a bidding war for what little available Ripple there is.




This and sheep. I'll never touch Ripple.

There will be more hacks, I'm pretty sure. As XRP price goes up they become target for hackers. Even if their protocol is secure their employees might not secure their holdings well enough. Also, a centralized corporation can be taken down, no problem. Seems like a classic pump and dump to me.
1396  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Why is Ripple price going mad right now? on: December 17, 2014, 09:38:13 PM
I found this from the Nu community forum:
https://discuss.nubits.com/t/nubit-vs-ripple/893 (NuBit vs Ripple)

It's a good find in a sense that it refers to a vulnerability found from Ripple's and Stellar's software (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=823064.0).
1397  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Why is Ripple price going mad right now? on: December 17, 2014, 02:30:51 PM
Holy shit, the 1000 free XRP I got 2 years ago (and everyone else who wanted) are now worth 23$. Time to sell Tongue I wonder how I get BTC out from rippletrade.com? It doesn't seem so obvious.



Bitcoin Bridge lets Ripple users make payments to Bitcoin accounts

https://ripple.com/bitcoin-bridge-lets-ripple-users-make-payments-to-bitcoin-accounts/

You can use the bridge to send bitcoin to any address from your ripple wallet. The bitcoins you hold in your ripple wallet are IOUs and the bridge owner sends real bitcoins on your behalf.

Okey but where exactly is the bitcoin bridge? I don't see anything in rippletrade.com. The linked article is outdated and https://ripple.com/client/ is no longer available.

you can't 'see' it but it's there. just send your funds to your BTC wallet and ripple sends your BTC via snapswap gateway.

It's a scam. I entered my bitcoin receiving address and sent 0.01 BTC, it's been several hours now and I haven't received anything. What a piece of crap.

edit:
Ok I just received the bitcoins. Boy it took time and ironically the transaction occurred right after I had called it a scam  Cheesy
1398  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Why is Ripple price going mad right now? on: December 17, 2014, 12:56:03 PM
Holy shit, the 1000 free XRP I got 2 years ago (and everyone else who wanted) are now worth 23$. Time to sell Tongue I wonder how I get BTC out from rippletrade.com? It doesn't seem so obvious.



Bitcoin Bridge lets Ripple users make payments to Bitcoin accounts

https://ripple.com/bitcoin-bridge-lets-ripple-users-make-payments-to-bitcoin-accounts/

You can use the bridge to send bitcoin to any address from your ripple wallet. The bitcoins you hold in your ripple wallet are IOUs and the bridge owner sends real bitcoins on your behalf.

Okey but where exactly is the bitcoin bridge? I don't see anything in rippletrade.com. The linked article is outdated and https://ripple.com/client/ is no longer available.
1399  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Why is Ripple price going mad right now? on: December 17, 2014, 12:37:21 PM
Holy shit, the 1000 free XRP I got 2 years ago (and everyone else who wanted) are now worth 23$. Time to sell Tongue I wonder how I get BTC out from rippletrade.com? It doesn't seem so obvious.

1400  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin is definitely the future. on: December 15, 2014, 11:14:55 PM
...
A few weeks ago I had to send some money to a friend in Florida. I sent him 100$ and moneygram took 11.50 out of that.
...

You sure got some broke-ass friends...  Why didn't you send Bitcoin instead?

He wasn't a bitcoiner. Bitcoin will be atleast 2000 by the end of 2015, mark my words.

Yes yes yes, and turtles can fly. Pure speculation, not backed up by any facts.

What is the name of this subforum?

I think we need a speculation sub-subforum for these kinds of discussions because clearly just one level of speculation recursion is not enough.
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