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1641  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Transaction Malleability Reloaded on: March 19, 2014, 02:12:00 AM
Hi Serpens! I will be doing a demonstration soon, the problem is that we have 3 am at night over here and I am a bit tired.
But what I can say at least is, that such unprofessional people should never ever be part of a development team involved in a multi-billion-dollar-project.
This guy sounds like "if you say anything bad about bitcoin, i will give you a bad rating, mimimimi". I am sorry, but this is unprofessional.

I am really thinking about offering a donation of 50 BTC to the bitcoin foundation if they kick this guy out.

Dear EK, given the walls of text you are makeing , and the magnitude of your claim, you would be up 3.AM no worries setting out a brief proof....

You have had signed messages or so forth as you requested and only walls of text follow.

Do you see how this make you harder to believe?

I/m not ruling anything out, it just he story does not square at this time
1642  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Address watcher... on: March 19, 2014, 02:05:58 AM
does tor encrypt my data though until exit node or something???

what about i2p?

Yes, data to first node is encrypted, data from first node to second node is encrypted on top of data from you to second node is encrypted, data from second node to third node is encrypted on top of data from you to the third node, then, everything from there on isn't encrypted (unless using application layer encryption, such as HTTPS).

so [on tor] then they would know where I am looking...but not what I am looking at it that correct or what the responses were..
1643  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Address watcher... on: March 18, 2014, 09:50:24 PM
does tor encrypt my data though until exit node or something???

what about i2p?
1644  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Address watcher... on: March 18, 2014, 08:37:26 AM
I developped a small CLI script in ruby doing just that with the blockchain.info API.
You can check it out here on github.

I hope this helps.

thanks...how would i look without revealing my ip....12p or something?
Why are you so afraid of revealing your IP(as it pertains to BC.i)? Chances are you visited Blockchain.INFO long before you started to want to hide your IP.

i was watching a youtube video on local blockchain usage and they recommended a benefit was the blockchain.info or any hosted chain could collect and thus match ownership to IP's, vis traffic analysis if you keep looking at say the same address it become mroeo fa certiantity the owner is sat on that IP. It does not matter if I have visted blochaine ans the very small amount of BTC I had has all been moved on to knew keys I have not looked at.

specifically this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UImXoukuF5Y
1645  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Address watcher... on: March 17, 2014, 09:11:20 PM
I developped a small CLI script in ruby doing just that with the blockchain.info API.
You can check it out here on github.

I hope this helps.

thanks...how would i look without revealing my ip....12p or something?
1646  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: New Pywallet 0.0.1a3 on: March 17, 2014, 11:45:54 AM
hi yes I run pywallet on os, you need to get mac port and python twisted etc.


can some one help me with the correct form of the comandline to dump a wallet keys with a password and voulme change, I don't seem to be able to get the order right.
1647  Bitcoin / Project Development / [ANN] CoinWatcher...available now 48hrs. on: March 17, 2014, 11:42:45 AM
you can find it here
https://sourceforge.net/projects/coinwatch/files/coinwatch_rc12.zip/download

put your addresses'(s) in the folder coinwatch/putAddressHere.js

read the read me / terms

you may see a go button, you should not have to press it/don't press it.

just load up into a browser, I recommend tor for you own addresses.

This code will stop working  on or around the 6th of April.

I have put some random addresses in there already for you to just try and as examples of how to put addresses in




How do you watch your addresses without firing up qt/s , down loading software, entering addresses every time into block explorers etc?
EDIT[1]

OK

so I have put together a proposed design to do this for BTC, LTC and PPC if there is enough interest I will code it up




desired features
sum of each.
sum in btc of each,
USD value and
total value



[ORIGINAL POST]
just wondering.

I could not find any solution that ticks all the boxes, eg multiple coins, not easy to trace, enter once, no qt, or block-chain to down load...



So I just put together an address watcher...if you put the addresses and coin type into a javascript file, save, and then hit go in the html, and it scrapes out the values on each address.

Used with tor you can watch and not be traced so easily.

Its made to be straight forward and robust

I could not be bothered doing a load text file, so just did this kinda auto, by makeing a .js where you put the addresses. I figured you have to enter an address at least once anyway no matter how you do it.

good for doge,ppc,ltc and btc. Easily add a few more.

if there is enough interest I may distribute it.
1648  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: MAJOR BUG IN BITCOIN-QT! Payments on blockchain but not in Account on: March 17, 2014, 11:34:46 AM
as long as you have the private key for the public address you are ok.

check this us an offline import to a new wallet after dumping priv key....but do this offline

then clear out blockchain and down load or import into electurm
1649  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Gold Bugs Attack Bitcoin In their Ads on: March 17, 2014, 10:31:42 AM
I watched the video for some 20 minutes when my browser froze. Had to restart the video but got angry that I couldn't fast-forward or something so I ended up just googling what the hell he is talking about. Apparently it's collectible gold coins.

Don't new boxed Lego sets outperform gold coins?

actually they do. If you hang onto a large new lego technic set, eg the 8043, and don't unbox it, it could easily double in 3 to 5 years, infact most do. if you unbox it then it will hold value at worst or still go up a bit.

That why lego technic is so good, the only "toy" you can buy, play with and not loose value on.

The reason is, well the box, plans, inserts, inlays and some parts no longer made, eg I have 1970's / 80'd technic sets.

There is no way to set up the prinitng presses to make those boxes again, it would be harder than a rare stamp. I t captures like nothing else nostalga from an era.

so yes lego technic for large sets probably does out perform gold and many other asset classes. The only thing that would kill you it it probably does not have the depth of market to sell alot into. But 10 or 20 at 100% in 2 years you can do.
1650  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Is thier a way to look at a blockexplorer efficently without revealign your IP. on: March 14, 2014, 10:04:57 AM
I recently watched a youtube video on the issues with using block explorers, eg they can IP log and have a good idea if that IP is related to those addresses if you keep looking

Is their a way to look at a blockexplorer efficiently without revealing your IP.

also Would a protocol update that allows the block chain to be queried sort of real time with each not thowing out a portion of the blockchain they hold, so as to distribute the query load? or some other scheme



Tor or i2p might be useful. Anonymizer.com type services  - If it is only an ip logging threat from the block explorer you are concerned about.

You can always run bitcoind locally and query it.

It would be cool to set it up via DNS so you could query <address here>.something.com

There are probably lots of other options too

:-)



hmm sort of like a namecoin but for blockchains sat round the place

query coin.....
1651  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I'm From The Government And I'm Here To Help You!: New York To Control Bitcoin on: March 14, 2014, 10:02:31 AM
the more I think about because of the nature of BTC / Crypto's, I think the harder a govt tries to regulate they will only force evolution faster and drive price up....

the nature of BTC is that it can't be manipulated at the whim of a single entity, and even if it could a crytpo that is more robust will arise.

Its hard to think of an endgame where cryptos don't take 99~100% over from fiat.
1652  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Is thier a way to look at a blockexplorer efficently without revealign your IP. on: March 12, 2014, 01:21:34 AM
I recently watched a youtube video on the issues with using block explorers, eg they can IP log and have a good idea if that IP is related to those addresses if you keep looking

Is their a way to look at a blockexplorer efficiently without revealing your IP.

also Would a protocol update that allows the block chain to be queried sort of real time with each not thowing out a portion of the blockchain they hold, so as to distribute the query load? or some other scheme

1653  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Discusions with a Banker...and how to make them really think on: March 12, 2014, 01:17:17 AM
I have a few bank(st)er friends

I.e. those who work in major banks and deal with core currency issues, swaps, forex etc.

Some of them know I am involved in BTC but I only mention it casually, and in fact avoid talking to them about BTC to much if at all because I don't want to come of as a  fundi-btcer....

However, if they choose to raise a BTC issue with me, and have "a go at it", I will critically respond to their position / views.

Talking with bankers is interesting, as some of them can see the implications of BTC even if they don't understand the tech.

A Banker on the weekend raised with BTC specifically me the GOX debacle. This had his back office chattering about BTC for the first time en mass.

One interesting misconception  he had that their is some one to shut down, I.e. the US, China or whoever would not allow the BTC protocol and they would get them to shut it down. I explained that short of turning the internet off you likely cant do it. And even if you could, another crypto would come out that could not be shut down or was an order of magnitude harder to shut down.

He raised all sorts of arguments and reasons, some ok eg the FIAT / BTC gateway issue.

He could see that if this think ever gained more traction Banks, his job and the structure of society was in for a lot of change.

Instead of listening to the answers he just kept reverting to "they" wont let it happen, and put great faith in the USD now as proved by the GFC (according to him) as THE reserve currency and maybe RMB as a reserve currency in 10  years.

I finally had had enough and threw down the gauntlet.

BTC has evaluated near 1 million times against the USD in the last 5 years. What do you think the US or USD can do if this happens every 5 years....

now I know how hard it would be to do this due to the total money supply, eg 1 billion a coin is well... not reasonable....even for perma moon bulls but I said it to show that even if I am wrong and it does a fraction of what it already has done, what exactly are you going to do....

that was pretty much the end of any resistance from the Banker.....he couldn't argue that BTC had already done this and had to concede that another 10 x,  100x, 1000x rise was possible, which leaves a huge amount of buying power on the table.

A few notes on his general views.
Banker: How would he not get shot up at the local mall, if there was no police force due to taxation reduction?
My answer, shooting people up is not an economically viable activity when there is nothing to gain.

Banker Governments had failed to tax enough as they could not provide enough services
My answer, Government don't provide services effectively, they are massively inefficient.

How could BTC buy anything if Govs outlawed it.
My answer, jurisdictions would be arbitraged out according to their in efficient laws and holding companies would arise that would buy assets on behalf of BTC holders. Capital outflows would discipline in-efficent jurisdictions (as happens today, but with more speed in BTC) and inflows reward efficient regulations.

Another good point that really stumped the banker was how BTC can be used to transfer x100 million of buying power to some one anywhere or any time....in fact any arbitrary amount. This was something that the current system could not do. The Banker had no recourse on this point, but complained it should be allowed to happen, and the Gov would stop BTC. I asked him who exactly would the stop, and how, there is no one to "stop". 

Interestingly the Banker went on to asset registers, eg property title registers and how they are needed. He to his credit sort of indicated that the need for colored coins would exist. I said he was right and this was one of the properties the block chain crypto's has.







1654  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Etherium v NXT on: March 10, 2014, 07:55:39 AM
so it will be "turning complete" as well

I don't know the answer to your question, but you might be interested to know that the term is Turing complete, named after Alan Turing.

yes my typo...I failed a turing test along time ago
1655  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: We are losing Bitcoin.Bitcoin had its 15 minutes of fame We are losing our dream on: March 09, 2014, 10:12:15 AM
Here's the issue as I see it,

The general public is never going to look at a form of currency "as their dream". If you try and turn this movement into something that only attracts people who don't have much to live for and are consequently looking for answers in fanatically belonging to a culture group then of course it is going to turn off the mainstream.

They simply don't care about any of that, they just want comforts and convenience.

Bitcoin is a social project of sorts, but it has a basis in technical innovation not as a support system for "looking for answers". I realize that sometimes the line separating these two elements is fuzzy but this project will not succeed unless it provide something useful for the society at large, rather than things that are only of interest to a very small and uninfluential, yet very idealistic, segment of the population.

I don't get the feeling the inventor of this implementation did it out of altruism. I think he did it either for a political reason, or if actually working alone, for personal reasons. So I don't think the view that "satoshi is watching over us" is very insightful or much more than an example of a limited perspective.

The kind of mind that can create something like this isn't going to be interested in watching out for the welfare of random individuals and probably doesn't even relate well to people he is very familiar with.

the solution that bit coin provides is hard to underestimate on so may front
[1] Unsiezable wealth, this has never occurred in human history. Prior to this, some one could always take you money/house/gold, shares whatever away from you and use it themselves. Bitcoin no.

[2] Adaptive tech. Being open source makes is easy to adapt to a new environment. Most other tech not like thus alt all.

[3] The only competition for state actors. No company is out there producing competing currency to the state

[4] Unlimited transfer of wealth. You can transfer any amount of wealth to anyone in the world any time

[5] Distributed Autonomous Corporation via the block chain et.al. The first new no state issued form of organisation of capital and labour in 100 years or so, and a seminal one at that.

[6] Possibly the most vibrant community in the world, just look at alts. Say what you may but there is an evolutioar process going on in their that make moores law look passé

[7] The state in its current form will not survive the bit-coin protocol, we have seen a 1 million x devaluation of the USD in the last 5 years alone. Fiat can't survive this again and again.
1656  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: We are losing Bitcoin.Bitcoin had its 15 minutes of fame We are losing our dream on: March 09, 2014, 09:45:53 AM
when I see threads like this, I buy bit coin, it going to do another 10x.
1657  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Corrupt OS defeats air gap. on: March 08, 2014, 01:49:02 PM
I know it's hard to understand because systems like Mt. Gox created a mindset in people that you are totally blind regarding your Bitcoins. That's not the case with multisignature-based services though!

Problem: People STILL don't know what happened to Mt.Gox coins. Whose hands they are now, when exactly they were transfered, what addresses the cold storage was on, etc., etc.
Solution: In a multisig service you can monitor your wallet in real time on the blockchain. If we somehow stole coins from you, you would know that immediately. We would have no excuse.

Problem: When a centralized service fails, often all users lose money. That was the case for Mt. Gox, inputs.io, Flexcoin and others.
Solution: You cannot steal from all users in a multisig service, unless Bitcoin itself has some fatal flaw (in which case we're all doomed). It could be possible to plant malicious javascript to the website, but that would be detected quite quickly and only a handful of users that were using the site at that specific time could be harmed. The "reward" is much, MUCH lower for a thief, so there's less incentive to risk a criminal act.

Sample scenario: let's say that at some point we have 10,000 BTC in our wallet (hint: we have *much* less at this moment). Most users only store few BTCs in their wallet, and only 5% of Bitcoins is in active usage at any given moment. So if we're lucky, we're get 500 BTC out before people find out. Is ~250,000 EUR worth risking jail time? For an individual, maybe. For a trade registered AG company with 75,000 EUR founding capital, not so much I think.

i never  quite undestodd with  2fa eg google authenticator or phone based system, what happens if you loose your phone???
1658  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: NXT (you're moving too fast to comprehend! ) on: March 07, 2014, 03:32:23 AM
what may be happening (re price) is that all the extras nxt offers like etheiruim and coloured coins and master coin, are either ahead of what is needed, or actually a bundle of switches, which can will get cheaper to operated every year to opererate.

the real distributed exchange will be the game changer, the one where banks don't know you are sending and recieving from the distributed exchange.

the questions of the moment are mining tax effect good or bad, and initial distribution. bitcoin suffers from the former and nxt from the latter even if it is just a uniformed view thats view is prevalent.

Peercoin and maybe NEM could hold the real future, BTC will likely fork to Peercoin POS+POW within 10 years.
1659  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Do any coins give a continuing small percentage to the dev? on: March 04, 2014, 11:53:24 AM
thanks any heads up on how they implement the tax???

wow 20% how about 0.15%

way to spend effort for nothing
1660  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Do any coins give a continuing small percentage to the dev? on: March 04, 2014, 11:12:06 AM
There is so much going on in here it hard to keep up, but I think I saw some coins that give a continuing small percentage to the DEV's....is this true? I can see it could be done as a percentage of mint stake and premine but wondering if anyone knows anything.


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