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Hi, how can I reach MTgox admin? I was trying to send him message, but did not get reply. I am having problems with not deposited funding via LR - probably due to DDOS attack.
Does anybody help?
info@mtgox.com |
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Go Bruce! when's the episode 2? you still selling mtgox dollars?
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sounds to me like extortion? MagTux?
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no probs for me.  |
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I haven't been scammed yet. But of course my first few trades and transactions were only with people who had tons of posts on the forums or ran a business (like CoinPal) or had a super good OTC rating, and I always sent first and started out with small transactions. Now I have a bit of a rep, and I'll do small transactions with new people (provided they send first), and larger transactions with well established people.
I feel like it's pretty easy to not get scammed if you structure how you go about trading in a reasonable way. Yeah, if you do a 400 btc transaction with a guy you've never seen before and you send first, there's a really good chance you'll get scammed. But that's freaking stupid. How have you been scammed, and is there anything about how you've been trading that you think might lend to scammers seeking you out? Like always sending first, or trading large amounts with new people over Paypal, or something like that..?? Use your head, and plan ahead of time if you need cash for bitcoins, so that you don't have just jump on the first buyer you see. Use not just the OTC web of trust, but your own brain's web of trust. Does the person have a lot of posts and arguments in the econ forum about why Bitcoins are a good currency, and his account was created a year ago? Even if I haven't traded with him, that makes him seem more legit. Does he have a high OTC rating and can sign something form that account's key to prove it's him? Also good.
Or does he just have one post saying he wants to buy bitcoins with Paypal? There's good ways to reasonably protect yourself, even in an anonymous environment like this. It takes TIME to build a reputation, and TIME is something fly by night scammers don't want to spend. So look for people who've been around, and the people that THEY recommend. Build your own "web of trust" via this community and other good places like it.
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justmoon, can you clarify; where are the private keys stored esp. in the situation in the future when we have smartphone, laptop, and desktop clients?
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I'm sorry for the lack of private beta. Due to unexpected delays, the private beta will be skipped, and a public beta will launch on the forth. My bad.
Dont feel too bad things happen . I think its partly because you had to help people setup glbse that youre behind so I hope people dont give you a hard time. maybe he should hire lulzplzkthx to help him with those people. after all, they just contribute money. lulzplzkthx did such a good job on the ad. |
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I'm sorry for the lack of private beta. Due to unexpected delays, the private beta will be skipped, and a public beta will launch on the forth. My bad.
forth? what the heck does that mean? |
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congrats guys. nice work. |
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That's a fantastic visualization. What is the left-hand axis? Time, I suppose, but it wouldn't hurt to label the axes.
yes, always label axes; he's not the only one around here who doesn't... |
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tcatm, that is fr*cking insane! great job! |
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this strategy intrigues me the most. what you're basically saying is that if i have a million btc in my wallet today i could send 999,999 of them to one of my receiving addresses right now but before i receive them i can close the btc client, disconnect my computer from the internet, back up my wallet.dat and encrypt it, go and stick multiple copies of it everywhere,but the bottom line is that all 999,999 btc will be stored in the block chain out on the network ready and waiting for me to download them to my wallet.dat when i want to recover them in 10 yrs or so. is that about right? yes or no answers please.
Yep. Get 1M coins. Get another computer. Load Bitcoin on it. Do not connect to internet. Do not download blocks. Write down an address from this wallet. Encrypt wallet. Delete original. Send coins to the address. Wait..... Unencrypt. Spend. are you saying this is a way to double spend? Nope, they're saying that a wallet doesn't need to be online to send bitcoins to it :-) ok, i get it. takes me alittle while sometimes. basically he was stating the same thing i was about storing your btc in the block chain in the network except he is saying you can send ALL of them up there and use a different wallet. and theoretically you can wait an infinite time if btc survives. have any of you had the balls to save your btc this way? |
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What's cool about having your savings account on a CD-R in a safety deposit box at the bank is that you can STILL send bitcoins to that wallet! When you go to the bank and get your CD-R and set the wallet up again, all your bitcoins that you sent to that wallet will magically appear. If I ever have lots of bitcoins, that's what I'll do this strategy intrigues me the most. what you're basically saying is that if i have a million btc in my wallet today i could send 999,999 of them to one of my receiving addresses right now but before i receive them i can close the btc client, disconnect my computer from the internet, back up my wallet.dat and encrypt it, go and stick multiple copies of it everywhere,but the bottom line is that all 999,999 btc will be stored in the block chain out on the network ready and waiting for me to download them to my wallet.dat when i want to recover them in 10 yrs or so. is that about right? yes or no answers please. Yep. Get 1M coins. Get another computer. Load Bitcoin on it. Do not connect to internet. Do not download blocks. Write down an address from this wallet. Encrypt wallet. Delete original. Send coins to the address. Wait..... Unencrypt. Spend. are you saying this is a way to double spend? |
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yes,
Bitcoin is that awesome!
so why'd the hell did u write that long backup piece and then have the nerve to ask for donations? this would seem to be the best, non hassle, easiest strategy of all. forget the USB flash drives, holes in the ground, beds, po boxes, friends, wills, lawyers, safes, vaults, Truecrypt, 7zip, archives, keyloggers, media cards, email attachments. why do we keep self flaggelating ourselves about this topic. If btc survives you're a billionaire, if it crashes, all those btc's in cyberspace aren't worth beans anyways.  Why not? nah, just joking with you!! see smiley face? |
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What's cool about having your savings account on a CD-R in a safety deposit box at the bank is that you can STILL send bitcoins to that wallet! When you go to the bank and get your CD-R and set the wallet up again, all your bitcoins that you sent to that wallet will magically appear. If I ever have lots of bitcoins, that's what I'll do this strategy intrigues me the most. what you're basically saying is that if i have a million btc in my wallet today i could send 999,999 of them to one of my receiving addresses right now but before i receive them i can close the btc client, disconnect my computer from the internet, back up my wallet.dat and encrypt it, go and stick multiple copies of it everywhere,but the bottom line is that all 999,999 btc will be stored in the block chain out on the network ready and waiting for me to download them to my wallet.dat when i want to recover them in 10 yrs or so. is that about right? yes or no answers please. Yep. WAIT A MINUTE! Get 1M coins. ON COMPUTER #1? Get another computer. ON COMPUTER #2? Load Bitcoin on it. ON COMPUTER #2? Do not connect to internet. Do not download blocks. ONTO COMPUTER #2? Write down an address from this wallet. FROM COMPUTER #2? Encrypt wallet. Delete original. AGAIN ON COMPUTER #2? Send coins to the address. FROM COMPUTER #1? Wait..... Unencrypt. FROM COMPUTER #2? Spend. FROM WHICH COMPUTER? |
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yes,
Bitcoin is that awesome!
so why'd the hell did u write that long backup piece and then have the nerve to ask for donations? this would seem to be the best, non hassle, easiest strategy of all. forget the USB flash drives, holes in the ground, beds, po boxes, friends, wills, lawyers, safes, vaults, Truecrypt, 7zip, archives, keyloggers, media cards, email attachments. why do we keep self flaggelating ourselves about this topic. If btc survives you're a billionaire, if it crashes, all those btc's in cyberspace aren't worth beans anyways. |
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What's cool about having your savings account on a CD-R in a safety deposit box at the bank is that you can STILL send bitcoins to that wallet! When you go to the bank and get your CD-R and set the wallet up again, all your bitcoins that you sent to that wallet will magically appear. If I ever have lots of bitcoins, that's what I'll do this strategy intrigues me the most. what you're basically saying is that if i have a million btc in my wallet today i could send 999,999 of them to one of my receiving addresses right now but before i receive them i can close the btc client, disconnect my computer from the internet, back up my wallet.dat and encrypt it, go and stick multiple copies of it everywhere,but the bottom line is that all 999,999 btc will be stored in the block chain out on the network ready and waiting for me to download them to my wallet.dat when i want to recover them in 10 yrs or so. is that about right? yes or no answers please. |
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doesn't Truecrypt recommend setting up a different container or volume on each of your backup sites and then separately backing up the wallet.dat into each of them? its a pain to open and close each container.
The reason for that recommendation is to prevent detection of hidden volumes. If you don't use hidden volumes, it's not necessary. so just to be clear (since this is important) since i don't use hidden volumes, i can create 1 Truecrypt container for my wallet.dat and then drag and drop that one container to all my different destinations; Dropbox, Blackberry media card, USB stick? |
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I encrypt the backup with a very long password with the help of Truecript, 1 copy on Wuala, 1 on my hdd, 1 on an usb stick and one on an external hdd. Better save than sorry, and I would get an hart attack if I lose my wallet with the current rates. doesn't Truecrypt recommend setting up a different container or volume on each of your backup sites and then separately backing up the wallet.dat into each of them? its a pain to open and close each container. |
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