Thank you chris, that is much better

1: With vanitygen you add your own entropy by selecting an address with a 1XXXXXXX prefix, there is nothing random about it short of what comes after 1XXXXXX by selecting XXXXXXX you move yourself out of the over used "random" space

2: I wont argue this, instead i issue a challange, 1, Get drunk, i mean tipsy drunk. 2, attach 5 note cards (3X5) to the wall. 3, stand back 20-25 feet from them. 4, try and hit one, then try and hit the same one again.     (in short, its fun, and more random than you will get from most other sources)

3: I really dont want to get too much into this one, If your making this claim, i assume you have looked through the entire source code for armory before (prior to their latest 2 releases) so there really is no need for discussion here.

4: Right, and wrong at the same time. We are not making claims nor trying to convince anyone of anything, that would be futile around here to say the least, this is a community filled with sheeple, trolls, and the under educated with a few bright minds mixed in to try and balance it out. We knew this coming in. Instead, we are releasing some of the software we have developed to allow others to do it themselves. As more participate, the "thefts" (hopefully will be returned to their rightful owners upon proving a point) will begin to happen more often, and sooner or later someone will hit something BIG or nail someone of importance and when they speak up, then there will be nothing left to discuss.

 

Is this a joke or are you serious? Honestly you should try and keep up on the news or searching for an answer.




The average person can get bandwidth of 30 mpbs download and 5 mpbs upload for less than 45 dollars per month in some areas of the U.S.

Nodes will be fine as storage becomes cheaper paired with cheaper technology and cheaper and cheaper internet. Pretty soon phone carriers will be going towards 5G as the next thing then 6G and 7 G and whatever. I used to pay 87.99 a month for my 30 mpbs internet and now its a lot cheaper. I also used to pay 79.99 for 15 mbps internet. There is no problem and you need to stop making things up. Point us to an actual problem if you are so convinced there is one. The potential problems you point out are not problems and never were, you just got a bunch of idiots commenting on it because they don't know any better.


/thread

That's arbitrary. If he is Satoshi, then yes it's newsworthy. But if such assumption was based only on questionable evidence (name-match, the fact he didn't trust government too much etc) then the court may decide it was not newsworthy and that they violated his privacy.

agreed +1

Cryptography is a complex subject, and cannot always be discussed in 5-word sentences (I even bolded the parts that actually needed addressing). I will try, but you may not like the results.

1. You claim nearly all CSPRNG is flawed. Then, as a workaround, you recommend vanitygen, which uses a.... CSPRNG (a fairly common one, OpenSSL). Can you explain the difference?

2. Your dartboard scheme for creating entropy is slow and biased, the sort of thing no cryptographer would ever come up with. Why did you?

3. You claim that "paperwallets" are superior because they use entropy from a mouse. You cite a bunch of wallet clients you claim to have found "through heavy testing" to be faulty, and yet every one that you cited also uses real-world entropy, just like "paperwallets". Armory, in particular, uses mouse input plus several other sources of real-world entropy. How could a cryptography expert miss this fact?

4. You've made extraordinary claims. If you are unwilling or unable to provide extraordinary proof (which is understandable for a work-in-progress), you will likely be ridiculed unless you can at least provide extraordinary professional credentials for your "few dozen mathematicians, statisticians, and even a half dozen cryptographers with over 45 years combined education." Why have you done neither?

Is that better?

I don't care about ads themselves, I care about the spam generated by it. 

Dorian is not (was not) a public person. They published his name, photos, full details based on the incorrect assumption that he is the creator of bitcoin.

The question is did they have a reasonable information to violate his (and his family) privacy. Not to mention they might have put his safety on the risk, as the real Satoshi allegedly owns a huge amount of bitcoins.

make some alterations to your posting style if you plan to continue advertising in your posts.

And that "addresses" are not spent, "outputs" are.

And that transactions don't have timestamps?

And that the timestamp on a block is unreliable as an indication of current real-world calendar time?

And that the change you are proposing would require so much modification to the way the protocol works that it would likely destroy the consensus system and the fungible nature of bitcoins?

they clearly know what they are doing though, so perhaps they are not dumb or delusional at all.  

The reason you dont see account selling at other forums, is because their demographic is different. This isn't the hello kitty fansite forum. We cater to the bitcoin community, all of which knows basic anonymity measures and know how to bypass any measures that we could possibly put in place. Why create laws if we can't enforce them, it just makes us look like jackasses.

Well, to address a couple points here, first off, banning account selling is something that the Bitcointalk staff is not able to do. We can ban content (the example kiddy porn was used) because that is posted here, and we can delete the post and ban the poster. If you make 50 accounts on different tor nodes and then make a contact via pm or skype to sell the accounts, how exactly do you expect that we can stop that without spying through your pms and hacking your skype? By publicly allowing account selling, its not a surprise to anyone, so everyone has a bit of suspicion in them when dealing with someone. If we said we banned Account selling, then the majority of people who knew how to get around the system would be able to do more damage to unsuspecting people.

Yes. The new money created by lending in fractional reserve banking drives its purchasing power from the theft of purchasing power held by everyone at the instant before the new money was created.

Glad to have helped you by increasing your level of knowledge.

Everyone. Quite literally.

If you do not understand this, then you do not understand how fractional reserve banking works. Read the rest of this thread for the briefest of introductions to the topic.

Have you been buying up customer orders at a discount hoping to be able to cash in on potential refunds from BFL?

The only "evidence" that you presented