I knew they were going to give him life. They wanted to make an example out of him. If this was a state charge he might have gotten a lesser sentence. The feds don't like to mess around to much. I am not sure why the U.S. likes to send so many people to jail and forever. He better hope for a presidential pardon later in life or something.
That's what I was thinking, but I'll bet that no future USA president would touch this case. This will only happen if evidence comes out that he truly isn't DPR and they make an HBO documentary about him. Lol. |
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Theymos made a change to the activity updates after the hack because it was slowing something down. It's not updated every hour anymore.
May i know how often is it updating? Yesterday there is no changed yet I'm not sure. Theymos is kinda vague about it. It took several hours for my activity to update on Tuesday. Previously, every hour the server went through every single post in order to recalculate everyone's activity. This was amazingly slow and for some reason it's now blocking other database transactions occasionally. Therefore, I changed it so that activity is only calculated for people who were active recently.
Mine should have updated as well, I believe. Mine should have changed on May 27. My last post before May 27 was May 25. Shouldn't that be considered active? Has the hack caused the 2 week limit to be moved down a few days? |
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Life is pretty severe, but I guess they needed to send a message.
All other controllers of deepweb black markets have now been put on notice.
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It is possible that what you are describing is a server syncing issue.
You may have generated an address and that generation was never logged with blockchain.info servers.
So, it is valid address generation, but was not "saved" to their server.
Try the following to see if it exists in your JSON:
You should sign into your account,
go to the "Import/Export" tab at the top,
click "export unencrypted" to the left side of screen,
at the drop down tab, choose "Bitcoin-QT Format",
then scroll down and see if your missing address and its private key is there
Be careful with this information since this your unencrypted wallet information.
All your addresses and privatekeys should be stored in there, if they have been properly synced to the server.
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As a matter of fact I shared a link to a decent game that I thought was interesting and the fact I have 1 post is I just got into Bitcoins and was checking what was out there. I like to play games and I can find one that gives a little back from playing I would like to know. the link I shared was my referral but in no means was I trying to spam.
Posting a link that contains a referral (especially your own referral code) is against the rules. If you modify your original post, a Mod might not delete this thread. |
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This might be a dumb question, but why aren't emails also hashed on the server?
(If the user decides not to display it in their own profile, the only people who know it is the user, mods, and the server).
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There are at least 614 known altcoins. To keep an altcoin alive and tradeable, there must be a few miners and a blockchain. For how many of those altcoins has the infrastructure died? Voyacoin, for example, was launched in February 2015 and was dead by May.Market cap above $1B - 1 coin. Market cap above $100M - 2 coins Market cap above $10M - 8 coins. Market cap above $1M - 32 coins. Market cab below $1M - 572 coins. Most of the ones below $1M have no market. But are their blockchains still live? Or did they stop paying their blockchain hosting bill.Some of them are still active and others are gone. If you look at your example, voyacoin, according to coinmarketcaps, they are receiving trade data from C-Cex. Here is a link: https://c-cex.com/?p=voya-btcSo even though the blockchain reader is gone (not being paid for or whatever), it is still being traded on that exchange. As long as one single miner is still mining the coin, there is a blockchain, but there might not be a blockchain reader around anymore. In the past, when I traded altcoins (which I was very unsuccessful at), altcoins would die off everyday. Exchanges would usually advise the users that a altcoin's blockchain is dead (hard forks or no miners) and freeze the trades, till it was fixed. If it was fixed. Many altcoins are scams/pump&dumps/etc. If the infrastructure for a coin is totally dead, it is usually de-listed, especially on coinmarketcap. So if you see 614 altcoins currently, it is possible they are still active in some sort of way. But ultimately are slowly dieing. Edit: spelling |
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1 Satoshi = 0.00000001 ฿ = (Satoshi)
10 Satoshi = 0.00000010 ฿ = (Finley)
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Is 10 satos really called a "Finley"? I have never heard that before. Pretty funny. Any btc links that actually refer to that being an agreed upon denomination? |
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It recently occurred to me that all this speculation about "who" Satoshi is might be a red herring, and that the name does not stand for an individual person but for a top secret gov't operation. Then I started to wonder how to crack the enigma of that elusive name, and it soon became clear that it had to be an anagram for something. As I researched further into this I became convinced that this has to be the answer to "who" Satoshi is. After some exhaustive work I arrived at what seems to me the most likely decipherment of the code and I now present it in these forums for the review of the bitcoin community. You may not agree with the specific anagram I came up with as there are many other possibilities. But it seems undeniable that the name "Satoshi Nakamoto" is some kind of code. Solving the code could be the key to the survival of bitcoin. Here's the anagram I came up with:
A NSA Soma hit to KO
KO is of course a term from the sport of boxing which means "knockout." Soma is a fictional drug from the Aldous Huxley novel "Brave New World," which is used to keep the masses docile and controllable. I don't think the term "NSA" requires any explanation in these forums.
And with this it becomes clear what's really going on with bitcoin. I'm not saying to avoid bitcoin and never use it. It's possible that the people will be able to re-direct bitcoin from its original purposes of governmental control, or even to create a new crypto with different aims. But an awareness of these hidden realities is advisable as we move into an unknown future.
First of all, government secret operations do not usually name a program (or "code name") that actually corresponds in a meaningful way to the actual purpose of the program. It is more likely that if it was a secret op, that the creator would be associated with an actual person in society, for credibility and mass adoption. Second of all, if you really think about Bitcoin/bitcoin, and all its possibilities and how it can truly change many systems that exist today (ex. tech, banking, government, social), then I personally do not believe a secret op would want to create and release this upon the world. If you and your group liked the status quo and were attempting to maintain it, I do not believe Bitcoin/bitcoin in the long run, will help your objectives. It could potentially erode it. Even though I enjoy reading the Satoshi conspiracy theories, I do not believe he created Bitcoin/bitcoin to control people, but to free them. |
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Ive recently discovered bitcoin generators that supposedly "Generate bitcoins" at the click of a button.I got curious and was wondering if anyone actually successfully used a bitcoin generator
Do not use them. That is not how bitcoin works. It is most likely malware or etc. If you downloaded anything, delete it and scan your computer with Malwarebytes. Stay away from "bitcoin generators". Edit: corrected spelling |
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On reddit, Gavin has responded favorably to cryptodude1's proposal that Bitcoin's 10 minute block interval be reduced to 1 minute. If it is done at the next block reward halving (about July 2016) the block reward would drop from 25 BTC to 1.25 BTC in order to maintain the 21 million BTC limit. Difficulty would be reduced by 10x. http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/35hpkt/please_remind_me_once_again_why_we_cant_decrease/cr4wk0gI think 1-minute blocks is a good idea. The best time to roll that out would be the next subsidy halving (makes the code much simpler).
We still need a bigger max block size, though.
... My mind has been blown. I still consider myself a major noob in relation to all the working of the bitcoin protocol and etc, but every other day, someone is stating that the 10 minute block time is also an important security feature. In the event of a roll back (bitcoin bug) and we were using a 1 minute block time, we could have a chain of hundreds or even a thousand blocks reversed. What would we then need to tell average users and merchants then? What about future users or merchants? Instead of the 6 blocks deep being consider secure, we are gonna say 60 blocks deep is now the safest? But I dont know really. As i said I'm a noob. I'm going to guess that Gavin was joking. But if he wasn't then I'm really lost. |
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Sweeping coins should not cause any delay.
Do you see your transaction from your blockchain address to your mycelium address?
Are you asking about a problem with waiting for a single confirmation?
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I scanned the painting with a tricorder. It detected subpace vacuoles with a covariant triaxilating frequency. I'm still waiting for the computer to finish a multipolar analysis.
Geordi and Data had already performed that analysis, in a previous post. They determined it was just subspace distortion related to a Romulan Warbird being cloaked near by. |
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What would happen if it came out that the "stolen" mtgox coins are the very same coins that the DEA confiscated from Silk Road?
My understanding is that the "silkroad coins" were found on Ross's laptop, not within the Mt.Gox server(s). Ross had it open, in a non-encrypted format, allowing them all to be swept into their own gov controlled btc address. It is possible that this story is actually incorrect and was created as cover and etc, for the Court proceedings. It is now known that certain aspects of the Prosecution were not based in technical mechanics and fact, and seemed to be insider info. (Karpeles?) Would the government have to pay back mtgox creditors for stealing and auctioning off their coins?
Great question! But I think not, since USA gov would state that the coins were used for the purpose of illegal activity. It is kind of like when Police seize a vehicle used for drug sales. They will seize the vehicle and it becomes their property. If you had a loan on the car, you would still be obligated to pay it, even though the Police seized and sold the actual collateral. The Police would not pay the bank on your behalf, from the sale proceeds. You would still be on the hook. I believe, IMO. But very interesting indeed. |
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I have been pondering about this idea for some time now, and I think this could be done several times, but is it advisable to sell your bitcoins together with the wallet.dat and privkeys? I just thought that if Satoshi's coin hadn't move for a long time, maybe he/she sold it using this method. I'm not entirely sure about the idea, but is possible. ....
It is possible, but.... I do not think he would "sell" his wallet.dat to some secret buyer, and then that buyer would not move all coins once, to ensure their control. If what you say did indeed happen (theoretically), I would think Satoshi would of passed the wallet.dat to someone, but only if he would be dead soon. So in that event, he is dead now and his coins are in the hands of a friend/his spouse or his child(ren). Selling a wallet.dat (and not moving the coins) is too risky for everyone otherwise. |
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I am tired and annoyed of reading articles telling there is no women in bitcoin space..
Why are people writing articles like this?
if women are busy watching tv let them watch..
Are we all feminist?
Those who have what it takes to be involved in bitcoin, do get involved like Blyth masters, and do we complain about that?
are women going to solve the blocksize debate?
are they going to take bitcoin mainstream?
why the hell should we care about women in bitcoin space?
Females represent approximately 50% of the global population. Sure would increase the chances of mainstream adoption if a good chunk of them were "into it". That pretty much is the reason right there. Remember GEMZ? The mobile messenger that rewards users for using it with "Gemz". http://getgems.org/It was really marketed toward female instant message users on iphones and etc, since they tend to use messaging apps more then men. Currently Gemz going rate is around 6000 sat, which I don't know if is good or bad. (Not following it). It was an interesting idea, to introduce women into the crypto world, but my understanding is it didn't really work. |
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Please provide link to the original discussion board and the thread(s) in which you reference,
as well as your original user name(s) on those forums.
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With BTC, we are all basically going back to a "gold standard",
but with a modern day processing/clearing house (blockchain).
BTC is a form of "digital gold".
How can there be an ability for "chargebacks" when you are basically paying in gold? (In theory)
"Chargebacks", IMO, can only exist in a credit system, which Bitcoin/bitcoin claims to be against.
Bitcoin/bitcoin is a payment system for a gold standard currency,
not a credit system with reserve banking and payment reversals.
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I am talking about the people employed in this business. We are talking about 1000's of job losses as time goes by.
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As time advances, and new technology is created, it is normal evolution that areas of industry/employment will no longer exist or have humans employed. These jobs will be gone, IMO, except for collectors (ex. coin/gold/silver/hobby stores). One day even you will wake up and see that even your job has been rendered null. |
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