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Fiatleak only shows bought coins so it would only prove a higher volume in trading. And it's common knowledge that most Chinese exchanges fake their trading volume. See BTC China on the vide recordings of the recent BitcoinSummit.
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Why did you get involved in Bitcoin/Crypto? If you have another answer post it in a reply.
I'm into Bitcoin because I was so fascinated by how brilliant the system is. Got hooked after studying how it works for a couple of days. Is this really the case? I do not believe that a little bit. Why not? I work with Internet security and programming, so how could I not be fascinated by a system like Bitcoin? |
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Why did you get involved in Bitcoin/Crypto? If you have another answer post it in a reply.
I'm into Bitcoin because I was so fascinated by how brilliant the system is. Got hooked after studying how it works for a couple of days. |
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These icons are great and I will probably use some of them. I'm missing a hash icon. I'm not sure what it would look like.
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You could just use an exchange which never holds a single satoshi belonging to users. Kinda hard to steal (or "steal") what isn't there.
There's a reason today's exchanges are off the blockchain. They talked about it today on the CoinSummit. I'm not saying that an exchange that works on the blockchain is impossible, but it would be quite a complicated thing to pull off, and fita holdning would still be subject to fractional banking — Just like was the case with MtGox! (They blaimed fiat delays on the banks but in reality were probably using other customer's funds to fill Bitcoin withdrawals) |
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I don't get why this thread is not getting more attention. It appears Karpeles is following a plan to deceive the customers once again after running off with millions of dollars of wealth and there's 3 replies!?
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I think the incentives to claim they're hacked and run with the money is just to big, considering that it's impossible to prove that the hacking were inside jobs. MtGox is not the first exchange were owners claimed they were robbed, ran with the money and later gave the victims part of the money back: According to an anonymous high-profile source, the first and original bitcoin scam was the online coin wallet Mybitcoin.com. People would deposit hundreds of thousands of coins there, as the currency was new and hundreds of thousands of coins weren’t yet worth a lot. Then, on July 29, 2011, the site went blank, just like the Gox website did. People panicked and gradually accepted a catastrophic loss of funds. On August 11, 14 days later, the site came back online and declared – just like Gox – that they “had been hacked”, had filed for bankruptcy protection, just like Gox, but “had managed to recover” 49% of the funds. People could fill out claim forms to recover these funds – 49% of their original balance. As this was enough time for most people to internalize the loss, they were happy again at the sudden windfall; things suddenly weren’t as bad as they had seemed. In the meantime, the anonymous person who ran mybitcoin.com disappeared with a huge amount of money, according to the source. In other words, the scam cynically exploited people’s loss and grief to actually make them happy when they got something back. Most “hacks” of bitcoin sites since then have actually been copycat scams of mybitcoin.com, again according to this source. - See more at: http://www.dailytech.com/Bitcoin+King+Pt+II+Mt+Goxs+Dictator+Karpels+Proves+Tragically+Flawed/article34452.htm#sthash.upwWVHJk.dpuf |
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This article appears to be a plug for Bitsource and/or just the "bitcoin exchange guide" website. Why else would it list an unknown and more amateurish exchange first in the list? Supposedly for newcomers and accepting credit cards?! This is a disaster waiting to happen.
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I suspect an address collision. People around here think it is not that common. But, just like the lottery, someone wins every week despite the fact that the odds are "astronomically near zero". 1/35,000,000,000 doesn't seem like good odds, but just go ask the guy who won $500million what he thinks of that theory.
Your wallet probably was being 'shared' by an unknowing party and those were actually his $1200 and he probably actually is the guy who took them after noticing his address was being used by someone else (you)
To give you an idea of the numbers involved: There are 1,921,075 different addresses in the block chain. That's less than 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000001 % of all the addresses that can be generated. – Artefact2 Aug 30 '11 at 21:42 |
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So you supposedly have a compromised computer that send what you type to mr Evil. He immediately manages to login as he is notified of the new posible password that your computer sent out. Then the coins disappeared while you were logged in.
For this to work, blockchain.info must allow more than 1 simultaneous login, so they?
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Yes, it can. As paid service, however:
- use vanitygen to generate your own 1Rain, 1Sunny, 1Snow, 1Tornado etc. BTC addresses
- import these into Bitcoin Core using importprivkey and fund them
- form a transaction from all these vanity addresses to my 1WeathrState subscription address
- then, each day my system will send you 1 mBTC to one of your vanity weather addresses
- thus, you can see incoming transaction indicating the weather for your location right directly in your client!
- I collect just moderate 5% fee for this wonderfull service
No need for vanity addresses as he can just create some receiving addresses and put proper labels on them; Sunny, Snow, Volcanic Eruption, Northern Lights, Zombie Outbreak etc. |
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Input address? What's that? I don't remember seeing that in the specs anywhere.
I mean what is generally called "input" or "inputs", basically the hash(es) from where the bitcoins in a transaction are taken. In blockchain.info it's returned like this: "inputs":[
{
"prev_out":{
"hash":"a3e2bcc9a5f776112497a32b05f4b9e5b2405ed9",...
}
}
] I'm new to raw transactions as you can see. |
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Casascius coins  |
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MtGox is not the first exchange were owners claimed they were robbed, ran with the money and later gave the victims part of the money back: According to an anonymous high-profile source, the first and original bitcoin scam was the online coin wallet Mybitcoin.com. People would deposit hundreds of thousands of coins there, as the currency was new and hundreds of thousands of coins weren’t yet worth a lot. Then, on July 29, 2011, the site went blank, just like the Gox website did. People panicked and gradually accepted a catastrophic loss of funds. On August 11, 14 days later, the site came back online and declared – just like Gox – that they “had been hacked”, had filed for bankruptcy protection, just like Gox, but “had managed to recover” 49% of the funds. People could fill out claim forms to recover these funds – 49% of their original balance. As this was enough time for most people to internalize the loss, they were happy again at the sudden windfall; things suddenly weren’t as bad as they had seemed. In the meantime, the anonymous person who ran mybitcoin.com disappeared with a huge amount of money, according to the source. In other words, the scam cynically exploited people’s loss and grief to actually make them happy when they got something back. Most “hacks” of bitcoin sites since then have actually been copycat scams of mybitcoin.com, again according to this source. - See more at: http://www.dailytech.com/Bitcoin+King+Pt+II+Mt+Goxs+Dictator+Karpels+Proves+Tragically+Flawed/article34452.htm#sthash.upwWVHJk.dpuf |
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I hope so. Got a lot of questions.
If you send him a question about model trains, he might answer you! But he will not answer anything BTC related, really, why do you think like that ? I have a theory that if a Japanese person strikes a conversation with Dorian about model trains and gains his trust, Dorian may open-up - in confidentiality of course - about his involvement with the BTC project 2008-2011. Just a kind word to new people on this forum: Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto is not the Satoshi Nakamoto. Most people that were into Bitcoin for a while never believed it was him. |
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Hi, i coded Bitcointa.lk. Announcement thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=515932.0I always hated how Bitcointalk.org was administrated (or how it was not administrated at all), so i woke up one day and decided to do something. Short features list: -Real time synch of every message -Posts removed on [Suspicious link removed], but you can still read them; you can also see a history of deleted messages-You can use it to post on [Suspicious link removed] And naturally, i did it for free and i didn't spent a million dollar in the process. Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #aROgnmf7qUAOcdNMGood job. I think the bitcointalk forum could do a much better job at attracting new bitcoin users. Now they come here and see a default simple machines forum with a few tweaks. It could be much more inviting and professional. Bitcointalk also has lots of funds to accomplish this from all of the donations that are now worth a small fortune. |
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