Yes. Do you have the time to track all the addresses and hope one lands at an identifiable source? I don't. And I doubt any law enforcement agency has the time and knowledge. But if someone here has the time and can collect enough information, maybe it can go somewhere - finally?
I didn't loose that much, no  |
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I'll buy this. I was wondering the same thing when I saw the sell volume and this post. If a decent percentage of old addresses can be found and shown to have recent activity, I don't think the unclaimed coins story will hold.
Even if they are spending the unclaimed coins (which I don't believe) it's still stealing our money in a daylight, isn't it? |
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It's probably too late already but if you still have your old mybitcoin addresses, maybe we could make a list of those that still own some coins.
Maybe one day they will make a mistake and withdraw them to an address that we can identify a real person by..
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Uh, piotr... maybe if you could express yourself a little bit better. Until you learn how, perhaps you should go back to the sandbox, ok?
I believe I expressed myself well enough - if you don't get it, I'm sorry, I cannot help you further, perhaps you should go back to the sandbox, ok? |
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I dunno... I'd have to ponder it more... but if they used a shared wallet, like instawallet, Bitcoins in your mybitcoin.com account might have actually been stored in another bitcoin address. What address you put in to is not necessarily what address you get out of.
OK - let me just make one remark here. This topic is only meant for people who understand what I am saying. All the rest: just shut up, please - I'm not going to explain it to you, if you haven't got the point by now. |
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Uhm... you actually BELIEVE the official explanation?  Can you read? Or maybe you don't understand simple sentences...? |
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You can't determine, with only this information, who is actually spending the Bitcoins - hackers or site owners.
I can, basing on the official explanation from the site owners of how the money was stolen: After careful analysis of the intrusion we have concluded that the software that waited for Bitcoin confirmations was far too lenient. An unknown attacker was able to forge Bitcoin deposits via the Shopping Cart Interface (SCI) and withdraw confirmed/older Bitcoins. If it was stolen like they claim, these addresses would be empty before the service got shut down, or at least after people took the remaining 49%. Only the owners of mybitcoin have private keys to these addresses and only they can send money from them. The bullshiting time is over. |
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The story about some alleged evil doer who managed to withdraw money from mybitcoin using a double spending method - it was all bullshit and we can prove it today.
I have been monitoring some of the addresses owned by mybitcoin, to which I used to transfer my money.
Some of them still had some coins, even after they allowed people to withdraw the "remaining" 49%.
That was weird already back then...
But recently they started spending the remaining 51%.
Check out these few - they used to belong to my old mybitcoin wallet:
197oprrx1H4u6dNSDCavhB247YmBwGuWa8
1Fv74A11EWzekD5g1oWEdKkBvm6sAvJEuN
1Ae2JQxADft9J7tvHJoc46es2z6SLSfVCV
Interesting, hmm?
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"direct connection" to old websocket url is deprecated. you should now use socket.io to get an ID which will be part of a websocket url you can use. So you see the new "indirect connection" working reliably? |
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..I try to get a simple python client running for days now. When I finally managed to connect via websockets, the first thing I read was "deprecated, use socket.io instead". Even though it's "deprecated" it's still much more reliable than the socket.io interface. So please don't turn it off! The only problem is that it doesn't work with the latest Chrome and other late WebSocket libs... and nobody wants to fix it.  That's probably why they labeled it "deprecated". |
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As someone asked me to share my code, I`ve started uploading my alpha version of Bitcoin implementation in Go (GoBit) to GitHub. I hope a few people will find it useful once everything gets online. For now the code is still a work-in-progress, but I'm hoping to get something running on it soon. https://github.com/ThePiachu/GoBitNice. How to you plan to store the blockchain - which DB? |
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I can see both sides of it. Overall I think Zhou does a good job of presenting himself and maintaining a good character, though I still think he shouldn't have made the explicit recommendations he did. It's better to do a public "recommendation" explaining the reason for it, rather than secretly betting against own customers. |
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I though Zhou did a pretty good job with Bitcoinica, up until that point. I don't think I'll ever use it after that. Not that there was a high chance I would have used it anyway. s that were said, whether it was obvious to the market or not.
This situation only proves that he is an honest guy. Otherwise he'd just get some USD by selling the customer's BTC. Obviously bitcoinica needs an investor who'd put some cash in - it cannot go on like this. |
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"No reserve" again |
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Now with the Qt version it should be quite possible to even have the working GUI. But no, I haven't heard of any such build, though I would also like to see it. And there is indeed a working bitcoind - it can send and receive. The only problem you might have is with the power consumption. http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=66756 |
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I'm really looking forward to when this is in the mainline client.
Same here. Me too. If you're concerned about less advanced users going crazy, just add a command line switch to enable the feature, please. It will serve a good purpose. |
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I agree, some more security would be nice.
If anyone breaks into my account, by guessing the password or whatever, he can just steal it all.
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thanks! |
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@tysat, not to look far, go to this article: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=7269.0.. and click the first link. @theymos, no problem, but I'd have to change the source code so it's a matter of trust. just find the function that writes a post into html and add some str_replace there. anyone can do it |
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Most of the OWS people probably don't see Bitcoin as a solution to the problem. The problem, as I see it, is financial institutions stealing money from the people and getting away with it. Bitcoin gives no guarantee to solve this issue. Though, of course the way it gets created gives a great benefit to the people, over the traditional money. But I don't think the majority of OWS protestors understands that - maybe not yet, maybe never, maybe it doesn't matter who creates the money and only matters who has them... IMO, if Bitcoin will ever get adopted to the public sector, it will rather be by the bankers. After they run out of traditional money, they will adopt any currency out there to keep the institutions running. They did it with gold few centuries ago, they can easily do it with Bitcoin, especially when their times turn bad. OWS protesters are not focused to care about money - banks are. So despite of being a big fan of Bitcoin, I would keep Heaven out of the equation |
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