These guys below are worth researching for your article:

Satoshi Nakamoto
Harold Finney
Gavin Andersen
Vitalik Buterin
Jeff Garzik
Peter Todd
Mike Hearn
Andreas Antonopoulos
Charlie Lee
Luke Dashjr
Mark Karpeles
Nick Szabo
Peter Wuille
Michael Marquardt
Jed McCaleb
Amir Taaki
Andreas Schildbach
Paul Vernon
Evan Duffield
Jackson Palmer
Barry Silbert
Naval Ravikant

Their contributions to the community can't be ignored, ranging from contributions to: Bitcoin Source Code, VC Funding, Coin Service Creation (Exchanges, etc), Alt Coin Creation, community growing.

The speakers at that conference look pretty reputable, with that said I am skeptical that their will be a complete compromise of the scheme that Bitcoin uses, maybe a small subset of addresses. If their appears to be a larger weakness with the current scheme, we will just update the project to solve this problem wether it be: increasing the key space (Longer keys) or possibly using an alternative method of encryption in place of the weakest of the two.

Its a matter of time before weaknesses are discovered, but these scenarios have been thought out well ahead of time. At some point I expect everyone will have too generate a new address with stronger forms of cryptography.

I read through the white paper quickly and have a few issues with the way it works, how do you determine that all 100 delegates are unique, your assuming that their is never a bad actor or collusion, this would have the same issue as Bitcoin if it had a higher marketcap more centralization of the 100 delegates. I think the white-paper needs more scenarios of attackers trying to compromise the system. Since you only need 51% vote you only need 51 delegates to agree on something? What if each delegate actually controls 2 delegates, then 26 people need to agree on something?

While I agree with the issue of centralization in regards to ASIC's, it does make mining Bitcoin something not most can do. I think Satoshi truly intended for 1 CPU = 1 Vote or maybe he predicted this.

If you think about traditional metal mining operations that's similar too how they run anyway, its largely inaccessible to produce large amounts of precious metal unless you have a huge amount of money to invest on equipment, land etc.

You will get better answers if you posted this thread to the speculation forum, alot of users their track the price of BTC with traditional technical analysis etc. Some people probably have models they would share where they think BTC will cross 1000 again and at roughly what time.

My best advice would be to have patience hold your coins strong, the price will go up and down, but the technology remains the same and we all know it should be worth way more than what we see today in the future.

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Hi All,

Earlier tonight I was doing some research/studying for a discussion tomorrow, I kind of got off on a tangent and got too reading about the Generals Problem etc.

One of my queries tonight lead me to this page: https://bitcointalk.org/oldSiteFiles/byzantine.html

Looking through the oldSiteFiles directory their are some cool pictures of the early client and an early Bitcoin logo.

https://bitcointalk.org/oldSiteFiles/

I found one of an early Bitcoin client that I had not seen before, a client running with only 213 blocks and 3 connections! Not many people mining back then (I haven't yet looked up any of the addresses in the screenshots)

In the off-chance others have not seen any of these screen captures or read the description of the Byzantine problem it might be worth taking a look.

If these are pretty commonly known sources please ignore the thread/let it die.

Edit: Might be some content from bitcoin.org, that html page redirects back to it as Home

I had a thought earlier probably no correlation:

When did we learn about the "bewareThEFALSesatoshi" - Was this before satoshin@gmx.com was hacked and Theymos created the thread?

Did the creator know about this false Satoshi before hand or was it simply a coincidence?

Edit: Answering my own question, we learned about the false satoshi warning on September 4th. Theymos made the: satoshin@gmx.com is compromised
September 8th

If Uber starts accepting Bitcoin I will spend 1 BTC on Uber Rides. Never used their services in the past but will consider it now if they do.

Edit: Being specific

did you try dollartalk.org? jk 

I saw this also today,

http://lifehacker.com/5-million-gmail-passwords-leaked-check-yours-now-1632983265

Tool to check:
https://isleaked.com/en.php

You can use 3 wildcards ex sato***n@gmx.com when checking

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fhabrahabr.ru%2Fpost%2F236283%2F

(Degavas1337 later contacted us to say that handle was a throwaway, and that he actually goes by LulzClerk. The Degavas account was only recently created, which supports the story, but make of it what you will.)

Satoshi should burn his coins by sending them to an unspendable address  - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Proof_of_burn

https://twitter.com/LulzClerk

Supposedly this is the guy who is doing it not sure if it is true

Found two articles on forbes and bloomberg about it:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2014/09/08/ebay-announces-first-foray-into-bitcoin-with-braintree-unit/

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-08/ebay-s-paypal-unit-to-start-accepting-bitcoin-payments.html

Damn I came here to post that here is the agenda looks like he speaks in 1 hour and 30 minutes maybe.

http://techcrunch.com/events/disrupt-sf-2014/agenda/

If your at all curious what happens to a currency when it has been completely mined, I recall a few months ago someone in the community making a coin called "preminecoin"

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=427519.0

This coin when released was entirely mined out, I am not sure how the coins were distributed to users but the only way to earn PMC right now is collecting the TX fees you get when users send the coins around.

The best of luck!

This is very sad news, He will certainly never be forgotten.

This is most likely the case, did you download any altcoin wallets or mining tools on that machine recently? Does your email have 2 factor authentication?

If I was you I would take this opportunity to avoid using online wallet services like Blockchain.info altogether. I'm not saying Blockchain.info is susceptible to attacks more than any other methods or will be attacked in the future, but most every online wallet I have used was hacked at one point and people lost varying amount of coins. Look into offline Cold Storage, the most recommended offline wallet is Armory.

Coinbase has security steps in place to prevent this from happening to a user if they protect themselves. You can setup 2-Factor Authentication for Buys/logins/api key creations + Email notifications, I think I read in one blog post that you could even have your coinbase buys go directly to your multisig "coinbase vault" after the waiting period.

Any buys on coinbase over 1000USD are not instantaneous, a 10btc buy on coinbase most likely you can get them too cancel the pending order if you inform them you were hacked and provide details etc. The reason they can cancel it is because it takes multiple days to receive coin values in amounts greater than 1000, also I've heard from people that some banks won't debit coinbase right away with larger purchases so that can add yet another day or two before the funds leave your account. Since all of this waiting for the coins happens before your account ever gains control of the coins you should have enough time to contact coinbase and your bank and get it canceled.

tldr; Worse case scenario in my mind someone does manage to get into your coinbase, they would make a buy for ~999.99 dollars each week you don't notice because it would be instant and they could broadcast a transaction to a wallet they own within seconds.