The last bold statement. Anyone using payment cards issued abroad, should know that ATM's have video surveilance, and thus take appropriate measures to avoid detection. If you withdraw a lot of money in your closest ATM for a long time, you will get visits from the police/tax authorities.
Wigs and beards  I have a real hair like Rasputin and beard like Osama bin Laden. What should I wear to appear bald? Maybe bike helmet will do the job when cashing out cards. |
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I told You that BFL is a scam! And I know how to spot scams better than most of you!
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According to this topic https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=114701.0 the sharing of private key from deterministic wallet is bad. As I understand the attacker need to know both private key AND the chaincode to calculate and steal all other possible keys, right? The chaincode is kept on computer and as long as the computer security is not compromised the chaincode remains secret. |
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If an attacker reveals a way how to make an attack. He will, likely, keep it in secret. Also, if the attack lets to find a hash with ALL zeros then "difficulty" will make no sense anymore. The probability of SHA256 being completely cracked is very low. All zeroes will not make sense of difficulty anymore, that is completely true. But in my opinion the greatest threat for Bitcoin existence is global internet blackout. Bitcoin might be completely decentralized, the internet infrastructure is very centralized. ISP providers must comply with ever increasingly totalitarian laws to operate. Most countries in European Union have silently passed laws that enable total internet kill switch in "cases of emergencies, natural disasters or civil unrest". This might not be relevant to original question about SHA256 being cracked, but this total blackout is more realistic threat to be worried about. The alien invasion also can cause Bitcoin to fail because aliens might start >50% attack with spaceship's onboard computer, but we don't think that this is a way how Bitcoins will fail, right? |
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Sorry, but I disagree. If coming up with a hash with lots of zeros is faster than simply finding a nonce, But this is extraordinarily, unbelievably, impossibly unlikely. The block has to be 1) a valid bitcoin block, which heavily limits what data can be used to find a collision and essentially goes back to using a nonce, and 2) limits you to ONE SPECIFIC hash whereas searching for ANY hash with the correct leading number of zeros is many, many magnitudes easier. Bitcoin mining is essentially already a partial-collision attack. I mean other type of attack. Not attempt to find a collision for an existing block, but attempt to find nonces for new ones with insane rate. So the miner software needs to be updated that will find new blocks via attack method. This is still serving as a valid proof-of-work and the difficulty will adjust for new block rate. |
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explaining bitcoin to people is rather difficult considering most people cannot master attaching files to an email.
U srs?  This is absolutely true! I deal with such situations every day. Most of computer users should not be using computers because they will never master them beyond simplest tasks. |
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HD48xx is the minimum series supported for mining.
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could there be modification to the official bitcoin protocol to avid something called "Getting a gun pointed to your head for BTC" Probably by then someone will code a remote control for machine gun turret in original Satoshi client. There is no reasonable way to prevent physical robberies happening without also preventing or making extremely hard for someone to use his own bitcoins. Maybe sending slaves back to cotton farms will reduce incidences by 80% but not guaranteed. And 1000$ per BTC is not that valuable even if you are early adopter. Make a paper wallet from them and put in safe with time lock. Some people have even more valuable things on them and they are not so paranoid about them. |
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There are many alternate cryptocoins. Some of them are just as good as Bitcoin except none needs them and because of that they are nearly useless. And then there is some outright scams and brain farts. I suggest to compile all of worst ideas of really bad coins and make a successor for SolidCoin 2.0 called Scamcoin 3.0 1. It must be closed source and proprietary to protect the inner workings of the scamcoin from evil hackers. 2. The block reward should be constant forever to discourage hoarding that will make Bitcoin to fail. Instead people having scamcoins will be in never ending spiral of spending on unnecessary things and services. That will make a Scamcoin 3.0 successful! 3. There must be a central authority who issues and controls scamcoins that backs them up. 4. Every atomic unit of Scamcoin will have unique identifying number https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=117224.05. Every 1000 years on average there will be a so called "super scamcoin" mined that will allow to steal 15% of all scamcoins in existence. Alternatively the central authority protecting network can be able to issue such "super scamcoin" to legal authorities under court order or subpoena. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=118348.0Please post a link to genuine forum posts suggesting that Bitcoin should do X or we need new cryptocurrency that have X instead of Y. I will edit this post and add sources like Wikipedia does. If this goes well we might see them actually implemented just to show how bad these ideas are! |
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The "Fix or break it Yes-by-default" and "click first - think later" approaches failed miserably! The first Google result returned some usable tutorial on ICH10R similar to yours http://www.evga.com/support/faq/afmviewfaq.aspx?faqid=59203I cannot help further as I don't know what you pressed in popups when drive died first. Edit: OK I think that the 2 instead on just one popup was because there is actually 2 volumes on the drives. The question is why they are not shown as bootable. P.S. The System needs better I/O performance than linear speed, the storage needs balance of both. The stripe size should be otherwise when the volumes was initially created. |
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If You are behind NAT then don't open incoming 8333 port (disable UPnP in bitcoin settings) and bitcoin will connect to max of 8 nodes. Just that simple, just that clean!
Thanks all for your numerous "Just that simple" solution. If you haven't noticed, I'm inquiring about a solution for the general public. The general public has their bitcoin client behind a NAT without a forwarded port and therefore only 8 connections. Those who know how to open a port know who to limit the bandwidth using an external program. But it would be neater to have it integrated in the client itself. The general public should not be using computers at all unless some miracle pills are found that can cure retardation. use netlimiter Net Limiter occupies NDIS driver interface and introduces additional problems. |
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my friends ask me: Isnt this illegal?
I asked them why they tough that and they sed: Its actually a program that gives you free money! Working at construction site is illegal because it gives you free money! Consider changing your friends, they are retards. |
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I would like to see "Higher than x" bidding possibility not only "Less than x". If PRNG is prone to high numbers then it is not fair.
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Chip and PIN may not have totally eliminated all fraud, but who would have thought it'd do that anyway? Technology always advances. Casascius POS terminal is very hard to be cheated by customer. Double-spends are possible but it can be almost eliminated if there is some slight waiting period before the server detects it and alerts. Only the seller can cheat by redeeming private key himself before customer does it. Credit card system is fundamentally broken in many ways and I love it! They are a brainfart of banksters and controlfags. |
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EMV already useless, read Bruce Schneier's blog he has a dozen or so posts on how security researchers cloned, MITM attacked or otherwise bypassed the chip.
Chip+Pin simply passes off the liability to the consumer and offers no real security. They already busted a ring in Brazil that was wholesale cloning chips, and now there's a whole new field of fraud in NFC and Visa 'paywave' technology
So how can I make copy of my own credit card with fully functional EMV chip? Contactless tech does not belong to EMV discussion. Don't compare apples to oranges. |
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Atlas, we are following Satoshi whitepaper rules without changes! There is some work done on technical side of things like version messages, database engine or fucking up user interface to make it noob appealing and harder to use, but the rules are still the same and will remain the same! Satoshi seemingly had a policy that clients should work (maybe with less security) for at least two years after they were released. I think this is a good goal. Any new clients being work for at least 2 years since release of newer version would be nice rule to follow! This will not allow damaging changes to be forced by single new version release upon majority of "noob" users. And I would be able to synchronize my computer when I come out of jail if something bad happens. bitcoind is currently the only stable implementation of a full Bitcoin node AFAIK I think Ufasoft Coin is a full Bitcoin client and node. And CPU miner also! |
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If You are behind NAT then don't open incoming 8333 port (disable UPnP in bitcoin settings) and bitcoin will connect to max of 8 nodes. Just that simple, just that clean!
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This might be a bad news for carders lol! In some parts of EU there is absolutely no cards issued without EMV chip and the magnetic stripe might soon go away completely although no proposal is announced about this. It is still good as a backup measure or tool for carding. Remember the key statistic: US is a quarter the world's card volume, half of the world's card fraud #money2020 Because in other parts of world most of the cards are EMPTY! You cannot cash from empty accounts of poor people  |
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I couldn't find a torrent for anything newer than version 5. Can you post a magnet link? I'm talking about other P2P systems like DirectConnect and Gnutella2 Someone with good TPB account (Trusted or VIP status) can make a torrent of 0.7.1 version and upload it to TPB. My own account got suspended. |
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It is not known whether this is a bug or intentional, but the reference client never adds the genesis transaction to its index. Thus, its outputs cannot be spent. Changing this would imply giving Satoshi an instant switch to fork the network. I'm sure we respect him a lot, but not enough for that It could be changed but made spendable only after some block in the distant future, such as block 500000, where the likelihood that all current clients have been abandoned and upgraded is overwhelming. Once that block is reached and is long passed, the code enforcing the restriction can be abandoned. A reason I would suggest that it should be changed is it represents an easily overlooked exception to the definition of a valid transaction. In a future where there are as many choices of bitcoin client as there are SMTP servers today, I would submit that this is a risk that will grow on its own if not taken care of in the present "era", because many bitcoin clients will be written in the future that treat this as a spendable transaction. We must know if that private key even exists anymore to do such efforts. Otherwise it is like serving fresh meal every day in front of White House in a case if alien spaceship lands some day and they want to eat. There is no other consequences of this first 50BTC being unspendable, right? But if Casascius is Satoshi as I suspect he might have a motive to make these 50BTC spendable sometimes in future. Spending subsequent transactions to the address the genesis transaction was made to is possible because those transactions are normal transactions that every bitcoin client knows about. Does not Bitcoin require all coins in inputs to be spent? Or I must read the white paper and specs 4-th time? |
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