Did anybody else get this error message for a few minutes while trying to load Bitcointalk.org?  What is Cash-generation.com? (The site doesn't load for me) And what does it have got to do with Bitcointalk? Did we just get hacked? I got a bit different type of error a few minutes back. I got a red page when I was about to open my profile page and it said - SSL Certificate is not verified and something like that. I thought my account was getting hacked. But after 5 minutes it was all fine and I changed my password to be safe.  Or is someone hacking bitcointalk? :O Lol don't think so  Hmm... So it seems that I'm not the only one who had a similar problem then. It does look like it's running normally now, and so far no one else other than us have been affected. According to the Wayback Machine and Google, Cash-generation.com used to be connected to HYIPs and once hosted a Russian site. There should have been a "see further details" type option which might have showed the domain name. I wonder if it was the same one. |
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No, I didn't get anything. Something may have installed a rouge certificate. Check your computer for any adware, also look through your installed certificates and look for anything suspicious.
I did a check on the domain name (cash-generation.com) and it appears to be unregistered. I checked the balances of my Bitcoin wallets and all my coins are there. Very strange. I'm using a shared wifi connection so perhaps there is something wrong with the router... My connection is as usual smooth! Just check the URL is exactly the same as bitcointalk.org. I think there is no problem, just ignore the pop up window!
Hmm... It wasn't a popup window. The whole site just looked like that for a while. |
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Did anybody else get this error message for a few minutes while trying to load Bitcointalk.org? What is Cash-generation.com? (The site doesn't load for me) And what does it have got to do with Bitcointalk? Did we just get hacked? |
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Just out of curiosity but does anyone know if admins are able to see the contents of past edits? I'm guessing the forum doesn't keep these hence the need to quote the address above? 1FaeuP9D9zCnRMiuGtLFY6KhrSf3ESEwKw
Witnessed. A signature would also be nice but it's not required.  Yes but it's probably not a priority and probably a hassle too. Signing a message from a Bitcoin address isn't that difficult. Most popular clients support it. Shorena has a nice set of guides showing how to sign a message from different clients here: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=990345EDIT: Oops nevermind. I thought you were talking about the second part of my post. |
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Looks pretty comprehensive. If you think you're missing any currencies which you'd like to add, go to Blockchain.info and see which ones they support.
EDIT: Found their list. Here are the currencies they support:
Yes obvisouly BTC is the primary currencies. I got only AED as extra by request, any other currencies you wish to add tell me now, i`ll soon release it It looks fine from here. Always interesting to see that sites never seem to miss out NZD. Our population is smaller than Minnesota and yet our currency always seems to be included in currency lists no matter where you go (back when I was into forex trading, this was the case as well). |
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But, the negative trust should be noticed by this time.
I don't see it. EDIT: Nevermind. I see you guys aren't in the default trust list. And how can you proof that the account was not sold...?
That is what I said in the beginning of the thread. Strange. It may be a possibility you sold the account a while back and are trying to reclaim it. O
That is of course a possibility and I'm sure it's been tried or done many times before, but also the person who (allegedly) hacked it could have only just sold it recently. Have you PMd the account to see if he responds? The new owner could be completely oblivious to the situation. It is possible. I will PM the real account. But, the negative trust should be noticed by this time. Actually this scenario happened at least once before. They were able to produce a signed message but it was later proven that the account was most likely sold so it became impossible to know if the account was hacked and then sold or if it was the old owner coming back to dishonestly reclaim an account that they previously sold. I'm not sure how the problem was resolved or if it's even resolvable at all but it does go to show that a signed message might not work in all cases. EDIT: Found the thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=741302 |
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It shouldn't be too difficult to get the real-time prices from Bitstamp and use the data to make something similar to Preev. Bitstamp, like most exchanges, probably has an API so you could make an API call to get the current price. Then it's simply a matter of converting the input (in BTC or USD) to the output (again in BTC or USD) simply by multiplying it against this price.
I could probably do it myself since I have some Python/Java knowledge although I'm not familiar with Bitstamp's API commands.
I`ve already done it, i`ll publish it soon 2-3 hours ( i have to debug it completely). That's great! Will it be using the Bitstamp price directly or a weighted average across multiple exchanges in the same way Preev currently works? It uses 2 sources at the moment, I added AED currency as a request from a user, but any other curreny is welcome to be added, until i dont publish it, i can make minor modifications to it , so tell it now if you want any other currency to be added. Apart from these: USD GBP EUR CHF CAD AUD NZD SGD BRL PLN CNY DKK HKD SEK TWD THB RUB JPY ISK CLP KRW AED Looks pretty comprehensive. If you think you're missing any currencies which you'd like to add, go to Blockchain.info and see which ones they support. EDIT: Found their list. Here are the currencies they support: ISK HKD TWD CHF EUR DKK CLP USD CAD MBC CNY THB BTC (duh!) AUD SGD KRW JPY PLN GBP UBC SEK NZD BRL RUB |
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It shouldn't be too difficult to get the real-time prices from Bitstamp and use the data to make something similar to Preev. Bitstamp, like most exchanges, probably has an API so you could make an API call to get the current price. Then it's simply a matter of converting the input (in BTC or USD) to the output (again in BTC or USD) simply by multiplying it against this price.
I could probably do it myself since I have some Python/Java knowledge although I'm not familiar with Bitstamp's API commands.
I`ve already done it, i`ll publish it soon 2-3 hours ( i have to debug it completely). That's great! Will it be using the Bitstamp price directly or a weighted average across multiple exchanges in the same way Preev currently works? |
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!!! WARNING: This user is a newbie. If you are expecting a message from a more veteran member, then this is an imposter !!!
I just wanted to say thank you for whoever put in this warning when getting PMs from newbies. I've noticed an uptick in people trying to scam those accepting my escrow services by impersonating me and asking for BTC. I believe this warning will stop those scammers dead in their tracks, and I just wanted to say thank you to whoever is responsible. I'll admit I have been a bit frustrated in the past by the lack of moderation when it comes to scammers, but this really is a great feature that I think will save people from losing their coins. Thanks! It was actually done 5 days ago by theymos. You can find the official thread with the announcement here: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1043941Moderation doesn't spend too much time dealing with scammers because there is too much of them and recognizing scammers and policing the forums for likely scams isn't as straightforward as it sounds. Most people who have been on the forums for long enough will probably make sure to double check the username to see if it's the actual person who they're speaking with but sadly, sometimes this doesn't always happen. Example: How did he scam assets out of you?
He created accounts with names that were almost identical to names on the stakeholderlist. So there would be dudexxx on the list and he would create an account dudexx. I always check on the google spreadsheet with the search function if the PMs really came from stakeholders. If the search function finds the text you are looking for it marks the entire cell green not just the letters which is why i didn't notize the one missing character. Cell lit up green so I thought it was a match... Link: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=677064.msg7673786#msg7673786 |
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So what happens after you accept the 2,000 friend requests? You say that they were all created by bots but can you actually speak to them and have conversations? Will it be a real person on the other end who controls these accounts, a chatbot, or will you get no reply?
What about things like likes, comments, etc. Will these friends be able to give me likes and comments on my stuff?
Do these friends also have their own photo albums? Do they make status updates and chat requests every once in a while like normal friends do?
These friends are programmed to do few things like sending comments, like pages, photo etc. randomly. You won't be able to have conversations with them or get them to like, comment for you. Oh OK. It's a very unusual and interesting service you're selling. I'd imagine those who would buy it would be doing it to seem more popular. Can't think of any other reason why... |
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I see that you are using a-ads. What is the profit per week? Even if it's a small amount like 50 cents, I'm curious. Send me a PM if you don't want to post it here. And where are the jokes? When I visited your site, all I could see were articles and pictures of altcoins...  |
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SatoshiDice has a long history and was once the largest dice site but ownership of the site has been transferred at least once in the past (although the sale involved a huge sum of money so it's unlikely that the new owners would use it to scam). PRCDice.eu has been online for almost two years and have enjoyed an OK-ish reputation so far. DaDice is very new but they have become popular very quickly.
Actually SatoshiDice hasn't been accepting US based players for almost two years now: Citing legal advice, Bitcoin gaming site SatoshiDice is closing to US players, moving to block all US-based IP addresses from the website.
Posting on Bitcointalk and the Bitcoin reddit page, satoshidicepr, an official representative of the site who asked to remain anonymous, said the decision, which is effective as of today, was taken following “extensive legal counsel.” Source: http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-gaming-site-satoshidice-closes-to-us-players/ |
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So what happens after you accept the 2,000 friend requests? You say that they were all created by bots but can you actually speak to them and have conversations? Will it be a real person on the other end who controls these accounts, a chatbot, or will you get no reply?
What about things like likes, comments, etc. Will these friends be able to give me likes and comments on my stuff?
Do these friends also have their own photo albums? Do they make status updates and chat requests every once in a while like normal friends do?
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This type of project would be better suited for crowdfunding OP. You can raise funds and those who contribute can be awarded a small percentage of the total coins. Without the crowdfunding effort, the coin dies. If enough people contribute then they will benefit since the value of their new coins will (hopefully) rise.
This type of project would be best suited to the partners, or family and friends. The OP is claiming to have 3btc in the coin that he can get out with just 0.75btc. The developers could either get paid after they made the changes, or the OP could get the money from family and friends. The fact that neither of these parties trust him is a red flag. He says it's a sure thing, but they don't believe him, and they know him best. Why should we believe him? This type of project would be better suited for crowdfunding OP. You can raise funds and those who contribute can be awarded a small percentage of the total coins. Without the crowdfunding effort, the coin dies. If enough people contribute then they will benefit since the value of their new coins will (hopefully) rise.
not to rain on anyone's parade but the coin is dead regardless. we have 1000 altcoins. does the world really need procoin? Maybe this type of fundraising would be appropriate for smart contracts then. That is, if OP is so sure that the value of the coin will rise and the devs are OK with delayed payment. The devs will be promised 2 BTC if OP's prediction comes true. The coins could be placed in a multi-sig escrow account and only released when the Procoin price increases. Use an oracle to get the price of the Procoin on an exchange. no, the world is fine with BTC atm.
There can be always place for some alts. P.S. Otherwise... a coin needs a lot more than 2 or 3 BTC. I know it from my own experience. There have been a few coins which had less than that and still turned out to be reasonably successful. |
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Its been a day now. Does your rank downgrade when you delete "x" amount of posts? Is it suppose to and for some reason its not doing it?
That is certainly the outstanding question. And from the look of things, no one really knows the answer. Either rank doesn't go down (like activity) or it does on the Tuesday upgrade or there's a bug. Time will tell. The activity does go down. You can see that TheGambler has 101 activity whereas he used to have 480+. The real question is whether or not rank goes down as well. Another good person to ask might be shorena who is running an account deletion service. She deletes all the posts except those which might be related to scams. You could ask her what happens to the accounts after most of their posts are gone: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=953262 |
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It shouldn't be too difficult to get the real-time prices from Bitstamp and use the data to make something similar to Preev. Bitstamp, like most exchanges, probably has an API so you could make an API call to get the current price. Then it's simply a matter of converting the input (in BTC or USD) to the output (again in BTC or USD) simply by multiplying it against this price.
I could probably do it myself since I have some Python/Java knowledge although I'm not familiar with Bitstamp's API commands.
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You can find some of his earlier posts here: http://bitcointa.lk/search/35874/It stops at August 2014 because Bitcointa.lk stopped mirroring the forums properly at around that time. He has scammed several times over several accounts.
Don't you realize the only thing you contribute to this forum is the enabling of scammers? So, you're calling out one of your own. Good for you. WTF else do you think people do with _bought_ accounts? I would think they're mainly used for signature campaigns. Escrow is advisable when dealing with even senior members and above. |
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Old threads don't need to be moved to Archival. Just lock them. Archival is meant to be used by moderators in only a few rare situations. (Though I don't mind if you move your obsolete topics there if you want to for some reason.)
Oh OK. Thanks for clearing that up. I usually just lock any thread that I don't need anymore and leave it in the original board anyway. |
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This type of project would be better suited for crowdfunding OP. You can raise funds and those who contribute can be awarded a small percentage of the total coins. Without the crowdfunding effort, the coin dies. If enough people contribute then they will benefit since the value of their new coins will (hopefully) rise.
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The owner of Mt. Gox has a web host that accepts bitcoins: http://www.kalyhost.com/There used to be a web hosting section on this page: http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade which you can still find if you access the history. Or do a CTRL+F for "host" and you'll find more suggestions. Here's another one that hasn't been mentioned yet: http://www.bitcoinvpshosting.com/Don't let the name fool you. The offer shared hosting plans too. Unless you want to migrate an existing site, then shared hosting is probably best for someone who is just starting out: http://bitcoinvpshosting.com/bitcoin-shared-hosting/And another one (although their prices are a bit high): http://blog.rimuhosting.com/2013/12/09/now-accepting-bitcoins/You may want to check Namecheap.com They accept bitcoin but I don't know if its compulsory to buy a domain with them to host! If you want free hosting : www.2freehosting.com is the best Edit: What do you want to host exactly? Interesting. I don't think I've seen a web host that only offers free hosting before. Usually they have multiple tiers and you're expected to upgrade if your website becomes big enough or you get sick of the ads. I wonder how it is that they stay profitable since it's not really mentioned in any detail in the FAQ and they seem to lack ads. If he was he wouldn't be asking here for any hosting site which accepts Bitcoin Yeah, that's what I thought as well. A hacker who is probably in control of a large botnet isn't going to be asking this type of question. Unless it's done intentionally to throw people off, I guess. |
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