Seems like the Bitcoin mafia & mob don't want the other coins to succeed.
Why would you say that? You should give the thread a read before jumping to conclusions.  This was a classic case of a scammer who stole Bitcoins (and Solidcoins, but that chain was shut down and yet to restart). Mr Moon tried to make it look like his site was hacked, but he fumbled that ruse quite badly. Now people are trying to determine his identity in order to recover damages. |
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Any proof that he's the same guy as the lawyer as CV's brother? CV's mother's myspace page lists a YouthSuicide as one of her top friends. CV also complained about his family being harassed after an email was sent to Andre. You could wander through the #solidcoin IRC logs for Freenode.net and find a lot more stuff. |
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I would like to remind everyone of California Law
"California Penal Code Section 653m
Any further messages, emails, etc that are sent to me (or any family members, etc) about this will be forwarded directly to the police after I do a quick google/lexis nexus search and find out more about you. I will also contact your local police.
This is not a warning. In our country you cannot harass someone based on the assumption they did a crime - if you have evidence take it to the authorities.
Anyone has the right to contact you to collect the debts that you owe to them. In fact, it is a prerequisite for lawsuits to first contact you for payment. |
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I agree it is inevitable - but it is still a flaw.
The flaw is not that it is possible for specialized equipment to out perform general purpose computers. As you say, that is inevitable - it is the factor by which they do.
GPU's might outperform CPU's by 10:1 - So I must spend $50 in electricity for every $5 in BTC
However, if GPU's outperformed CPU's by 1.1:1 - then I'd spend $5.50 for every $5. You'd still have specialized hw, but you'd have general purpose computer participants too.
The flaw then is the ratio at which specialized hardware outperforms, and not having designed to minimize that ratio.
You have it backwards. GPUs are far more efficient than CPUs in electricity use. |
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I love the internet! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0737768/plotsummaryPlot Summary for
"The Untouchables" Mr. Moon (1961)
Melanthos Moon is a San Francisco art and antique dealer who manages to hijack a large supply of the special paper used to print U.S. Currency. He then arranges to spring from Leavenworth prison master counterfeiter Hans Dreiser to engrave the plates to produce the money. Eliot Ness and the Untouchables are soon on to him having followed Moon's henchman Benny Joplin back to his Oakland, California home. With the phony money available, Moon then approaches Chicago mobster Frank Nitti with an offer of $100 million split 50/50 with Nitti distributing the cash. Ness and his men are out to get one of the nearly perfect bills to get the serial number and stop the distribution of the cash before it starts. Written by garykmcd Are you saying that Mr Verdun is actually Victor Buono?  |
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Calling the UC Davis police, while a good way to vent, will have no effect. Nothing that has been discussed in this thread suggests that any criminal enterprise happened through any agency of UC Davis. None of the strikingly competent investigators who have done their homework on this issue have said anything about using school computers, school facilities, or any other element of the school in this effort. The UCD police will ask if the crime happened on campus, or involved campus related computers, and then tell you to call your local police. They might write upis a ticket if he parks illegally on campus, but they sure won't give a damn about your missing mooncoins or anything else that they can't wrap a nightstick around.
One of the IRC IP addresses resolved to an on campus location. Plus, most universities are interested if their students are committing federal crimes since it would result in egg on their face if they gave a degree to a felon. Both the FBI or the USPIS can investigate wire fraud, so a polite note to either of them would also be productive. Filing a local police report would be useful for documenting evidence for a civil claim. @ElectricMonk: the original sentence (a very meandering one in your defense) was: If his claims to be college student (although one who spent too much time star gazing and not enough learning to craft a coherent sentence) didn't bear out, I would expect his IP to resolve to Lagos or Moscowboiled down it yields If his claims to be college student didn't bear out, I would expect his IP to resolve to Lagos or MoscowHe was trying to say that upisdown resembles the classic Nigerian or Russian scammer archetype. When he says "I would expect", it means that if he had to guess (without foreknowledge of the where the IP address resolves to) he would guess Nigeria or Russia. |
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I found $174,108,376.60 between the cushions of my couch. Coincidence? More like bitcoincidence! |
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This is the stupidest fucking thing, when I go into a store to buy groceries I don't want to be turned away because I don't have the right kind of money on me.
Then read the signs on the door. Don't see the VISA logo? Guess what that means. They probably don't take VISA. Or maybe they do if you give them the secret handshake and make the sign of the blockchain.  |
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I doubt the police will get to you before one of the hardcore crazies from these boards does.
Carl Schroeder, I hope that wasn't a threat of violence (I'd watch what I say because you guys are just as easily to lookup). I haven't defrauded anyone out of any money or services, so I can't imagine why anyone would wish me harm. Also, I have been using this handle continuously since Doom II was released. It is the opposite of an anonymous one. I have neither sought nor needed any sort of anonymity to protect myself as a member of the internet community. Finally, I have never executed a single line of code from Solidcoin, nor did I ever use your exchange, so I was never harmed by any of your activities. I find it mildly amusing that you bothered to look me up on google, but not read my post history on these boards.  At this point I hope the police come because I haven't committed a crime and it would be easy for me to prove it (considering I have been doing a field internship most of the summer).
But if any of the crazies from the board want to continue harass me (continuing to believe I'm guilty without any evidence), I guarantee I will go to the police.
That was my point. Given the sort of people who were devout supporters of Solidcoin, and the fact that they were defrauded out of thousands of dollars, you should probably call the police and explain the situation to them. Rapidly. |
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Simply put, you guys can all go fuck yourselves with the way you have been treating me - the fact that you have no real proof I did anything and yet you treat me as if I'm already guilty (and then make the claim I have to prove my innocence). If you have anything to say, bring it to the police, because I don't give a shit anymore, I am done.
Also my school hasn't contacted me, guess they don't give a shit about your flimsy allegations either. Feel free to keep wasting their time though, I am sure your letters will not be ignored.
I doubt the police will get to you before one of the hardcore crazies from these boards does. |
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I dropped a polite email to the UC Davis police department that someone attending their university may have committed a whole lot of wire fraud.
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Add pictures of beautiful women in various stages of undress.
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Substitute "gold" for "bitcoin" and see if the statement holds true. Gold is seldom exchanged for anything physical. The amount of gold mined has been fairly steady between 2400 and 2600 tonnes the last decade and has been rising the last 3 years. Yet over the same time period the price has quadrupled.
Every two weeks, the number of bitcoins mined becomes a smaller and smaller percentage of the total number available. The number of miners should be irrelevant since in theory, it will not increase the rate at which bitcoins are added due to difficulty changes (except in the very short term).
It would be interesting to graph the number of bitcoins added to the system over time vs the price.
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I love it, bitcoin core devs are working on a bitcoin bank! Glad bitcoin is so decentralized!
Any time you don't like Gaven & Co.'s work, you can write your own client. You can start from where they left off, or you can write your own from scratch! Nobody is forcing you to use free and open software in ways you don't like. |
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Where have you announced you are an employee of Trucoin Gavin ? This is conflict of interest if you make a thread like this which clearly is a veiled troll of alt chains. I suggest you make a thread called "Bitcoin Block Chain : be safe!" as well- pointing out the bugs and lack of features in the mainline client. Anything you say about alt chains can be considered colored by who pays your bills. Its a vested interest. You need to include it in your sig on the forum at least.  If he is going to post those sorts of threads, he should do it on forums devoted to talking about bitcoin!  |
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He never stated it's faster. And it likely isn't if the pattern is big enough: GPU's can't access memory nearly as well as CPUs.
GPUs suck at accessing main memory. But they're very, very good at accessing on-board memory. See, for example (from a couple of years ago) http://blog.cudachess.org/2009/07/cpu-vs-cuda-gpu-memory-bandwidth/CUDA-enabled GPU offers up to 8X the speed of main memory and 4X the speed of L1-cache compared to a moderne CPU...
I predict it'll take... mmm... 3 weeks after source code is released for the first faster-on-a-GPU solidcoin 2.0 closed-source miner to come out. 8 weeks until there's an open-source one available. But my predictions are often wrong. That banging you hear in the background is Coinhunter mashing his backspace key.  |
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But does it run faster than on a CPU of approximately same "price and time range" ?
My guess is that the new hashing algorithm will be ROT26. Any GPU that attempts it will run so fast that it melts, leaving only CPU hash power! |
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I think I am more of a Bitcoin supporter than 90% of the people in this thread. Please...
You hide it well. Oh really, that's why if you go to TweetForum, and you start posting, I pay you in BITCOINS just to hear your opinions. Yeah that's 0.25 BTC per 100 posts. I hide it "so well" that many of my members are now earning Bitcoins just for talking about Bitcoins. That's not all I am doing that is Bitcoin related at the moment, I have several projects I am working on, with the latest one I just finished called http://bitcoincloset.com . I am a die-hard Bitcoin supported, and I can assure you that the majority of people in this thread have done way less for Bitcoin than I have... You pay people to post on forums and you sell T-shirts. I am sure everyone is very grateful for your efforts in these areas. In threads about forum threads and in threads about clothing threads we will respect your experience in these areas. As I said I have many projects currently in development(including a multi-payment currency exchange system). What do YOU do, other than accuse people of fallacy's you yourself are responsible for. Right now I am pointing out the failures of Solidcoin's development community. I am glad you brought up fallacies though, are you familiar with Ad Hominem? I don't care what you have done, what you are doing, what you will do, who you will do it with or who you will let watch because it excites you. When you post something that is demonstrably false, what you have done in the past and what I have done in the past has no relevance to whether or not your post was incorrect. Perhaps one of your projects will yield fruit one day, but astroturfer and t-shirt salesman probably should not have been your first claims to fame. |
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