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If your bet had won, you may have had a chance of getting it back as it would have been sent to MT Gox, but it lost, so there is a slim chance of recovering it.
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I have located a suspect, his name is 陈建海(Chen Jianhai). He's NOT my friend and we have never met in person. He was one of my previous business associates because he's very familiar with credit card fraud and he advised me a lot (in terms of fraud prevention, of course) when I built my virtual goods payment processor in late 2010.
He has knowledge of my secret gmail address and I have once re-used the password in his web shop
His English is not very proficient and I'm sure that he's not reading this forum at the moment. I'm giving him a call now to persuade him to admit his wrong-doing and return the funds.
I'll post another thread soon.
I haven't been following this hack, but from what I understand the MT Gox account was hacked because the password was hard-coded into the source code. Are you saying that this associate, who had access to this email acount since 2010, also happened to be the first person to find the password in the source code, and then tried to frame you by using your anonymous email which you've only shared with a handful of people? |
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Anyway, opensource, that joke. Imagine, if BBQCoin was source-closed. No attacks. So, bitcoin, be closed source!
There would be many many more attacks if BBQ/Bitcoin were closed source. Not too long ago a DoS vulnerability was discovered in the Satoshi client and chances are it wouldn't have been discovered if it wasn't open source. Also, who would develop Bitcoin if it was closed source? And why would we trust the developers? |
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CPU-chains will never work IMO. No matter what hashing function you use, an FPGA/ASIC can be manufactured that can run that function more efficiently than a CPU.
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@Blazr: My wallet has the address 18sS8Dbx16HbJ8vQPzV4jwnmeu1z6zbHmF = (A), and it has initially 60BTC. The problem is when I've sent 1BTC from 18sS8Dbx16HbJ8vQPzV4jwnmeu1z6zbHmF, and the wallet balance become 59BTC, according with http://blockchain.info, from my wallet left 2BTC, and not 1BTC, to the following addresses: 1Ps3vZQxPt6cEdgQNMFqqZAaoUN1bEB7hQ = (B) 1HYjmxq8V3Dr1PfnGMWFSt3wkPe62jsGn4 = (C) The address (C) is the address where I intended to send 1BTC, the address (B) I don't know why it was generated and 1BTC was sent to (B). If you say that my wallet has 2 addresses( A and B ), it's OK, because this means my wallet has 58+1BTC, but this behavior it's not so natural for me, moreover my version of Bitcoin client(v.0.6.2 beta) does not show as I would have 2 addresses. PS: the transaction info which sent 1BTC: Status: 92 confirmations Date: 7/23/2012 06:10 To: 1HYjmxq8V3Dr1PfnGMWFSt3wkPe62jsGn4 Debit: -1.00 BTC Net amount: -1.00 BTC Transaction ID: 533710b97e466eb715e4d3d94a95fe6806ac95001457b1255d906a9b7eac26db So, for this transaction,the Bitcoin client states I've sent 1BTC to address C, and for the same transaction, the http://blockchain.info states I've sent 2BTC, one into B and one into C: Transactions (Newest First) 533710b97e466eb715e4d3d94a95fe6806ac95001457b1255d906a9b7eac26db2012-07-23 03:11:07 18sS8Dbx16HbJ8vQPzV4jwnmeu1z6zbHmF --> 1Ps3vZQxPt6cEdgQNMFqqZAaoUN1bEB7hQ 1 BTC 1HYjmxq8V3Dr1PfnGMWFSt3wkPe62jsGn4 1 BTC 89 Confirmations -2 BTC These 2 different info I saw for the same transaction confused me. Thanks. Bitcoin works in a slightly different matter than you would think. Someone paid you 2BTC. You want to send 1BTC to someone out of this 2BTC. What the Bitcoin client does it take that 2BTC, and sends 1BTC of it to the recipient and the rest (1BTC) back to you in an internal address called a change address (B). |
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5. buyer gets escrow release confirmation with SMS, with secret escrow code
Whats to stop the seller from forging the escrow SMS? That's very easy to do. |
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Buy something with bitcoins that you can easily sell (such as a GPU) and then sell it for fiat.
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So i buyed this miner from BFL from USA to Europe and of cource i have to pay tax (150 euro).
Now say that i wanna upgrade to those new things, i will have to send it back.
Do i have to pay tax again when those come?
Yes. You'll have to pay tax on the new mining equipment when it arrives. Second question: If i refuse the delivery of the first one, it gets send back anyway no? that way i wont have to pay tax and shipping.
Or is that wrong?
If you refuse delivery it'll get sent back with no tax. You will most likely still have to pay for shipping though. |
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Which is the real amount of BTC I have on my wallet, 58 or 59?
59BTC You have 2 Bitcoin addresses in your wallet. You have 58BTC in this address: http://blockchain.info/address/18sS8Dbx16HbJ8vQPzV4jwnmeu1z6zbHmFand 1BTC in this one: http://blockchain.info/address/1HYjmxq8V3Dr1PfnGMWFSt3wkPe62jsGn4Another question: supposing I have in my wallet 10BTC, and I want to send all these 10BTC to another address.
Will Bitcoin client succeed to perform this operation, since it needs 2*10BTC, but I have only 10?
Yes. If you have 10BTC, you can send 10BTC to someone. You don't need any more (apart from perhaps a transaction fee of ~0.0005BTC) I'm using Bitcoin client version 0.6.2-beta.
Note: after a while, I've sent another 0.5BTC, and this amount was substracted from my wallet and arrived on the destination,
so everything fine, except that blockchain.info doesn't show this transaction, neither updated the No. Transaction or Final Balance.
Here is that transaction, it came out of the address with 1BTC in it: http://blockchain.info/tx-index/13196364/cea8bdb1003f05fb285bb37c51e1a7abc20f0d2b213dae950f2ae1a9d913eb80 |
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Incoming wires can come from phished accounts, but outgoing transfers ? How are these vulnerable to fraud ?
Most countries have money laundering regulations in place with different requirements. MT Gox only wants to make sure their ass is as covered as possible in case they ever do get into trouble in the future. |
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no references here - privacy is key to all customers.
Ok cool, we'll all just take your word then that you've been doing this for 6 months & handled over $200,000 through PayPal. Seems legit. |
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I am legit - been doing business for over 6 months. I have references.  Well, you should post your references here then. |
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Seeing as its his first post, I'd be careful when dealing with him until he has a reputation built up.
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Can you do a GBP withdrawal from Gox to a UK bank account ? Does Gox have a UK bank account ?
Nope, only Japan. Much fees there ? SEPA or domestic or SWIFT ?
Only international wire transfer. For me it costs 30euros to send the transfer + exchange fees from EUR to USD + whatever Mt Gox's bank charges them to receive it (probably another 30euro). No idea what it is for a withdrawal, but I assume its equally as pricey. It costs me nothing to deposit/withdraw from Intersango. Maybe that explains it.
There was nothing to explain away in the beginning. Exchanges have different prices, thats how arbitrage bot owners make money. For some reason you thought that because Intersango had a higher rate than MT Gox, they were scamming. I always fail to understand your logic. Do you think I'm a scammer as well? |
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Why buy at 6.2 on Intersango when you can get them on Gox for 5.7 GBP  Because it'd take me 3 weeks to transfer money to MT Gox, and 1 hour to do it to Intersango. MT Gox don't take GBP either, so I'd have to exchange my GBP for USD, which my bank will charge me for with a higher than market exchange rate + a commision, probably bringing the cost close to 6.10GBP/BTC in the end. I'd also have to use wire transfer to get money to MT Gox, which my bank charges me for and MT Gox's bank may charge again on their end. Also, why buy at mtgox when its $0.20 cheaper at BTC-e? |
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Let us be realistic. Who is buying BTC now at 9.7 USD ?
Somebody who has an order on Intersango for 130BTC @ 6.20GBP. Once that order is filled, the price will(should?) drop down rapidly. Check out the order book yourself. Clearly a scam attempt to run with all the BTC and cash out.
You mean they placed a fake order so that they could run off with 130BTC extra? EDIT: looks like it was filled, and price has dropped to 6.10GBP ($9.50), and is continuing to drop. |
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Seems like a easy plan to steal as much BTC as possible then take off into the sunset ...
Looks like a nice arbitrage opportunity to me. Only 130BTC available at that price though, after that its 6.10GBP. Pirate's escapade has cleared out a lot of liquidity on the order books of exchanges, which is most likely why this happened. |
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So miners won't prioritize high fee transactions. It's in their best (economic) interest to include ALL transactions.
Then why do we have fee requirements? Surely we should all pay a 1 Satsohi fee per transaction and miners will keep including our transaction's. |
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Your coins are not fire proof
Neither are dollar bills. |
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