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21  Other / Meta / Bitcoin Tip bot like on Reddit? on: July 20, 2013, 12:53:18 AM
A Bitcoin Tip bot for these forums would be cool. Like the one they have on reddit. This would encourage better discussions  Grin
22  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I could spend .05 bitcoin from my pool account now? on: July 20, 2013, 12:26:09 AM
I don't know, why don't you try and see?
23  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Are banks holding wires sent to Bitcoin Exchanges? on: July 20, 2013, 12:24:18 AM
dont fucking buy btc you idiot

I beg your pardon?
24  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin address blacklist Database on: July 20, 2013, 12:22:49 AM
This isn't going to happen.

ok King Trade Fortress.
HAH, you are stupid and your opinion doesn't matters.

Neither does yours.
25  Bitcoin / Project Development / SmallWallet - A super lightweight, secure, discreet wallet. v1.3.20 Alpha on: July 17, 2013, 06:39:06 AM
SmallWallet
A super lightweight, secure, discreet wallet.


! WARNING !
THIS PROJECT IS STILL IN ALPHA AND THUS YOU SHOULD BE CAREFUL! MONETARY LOSS IS POSSIBLE!

The most secure ciphers are those that nobody knows how to decrypt. This is the reason SmallWallet is so secure. SmallWallet uses PRESENT, one of the most compact encryption methods ever designed (being 2.5 times smaller than AES). PRESENT is not very well known. However, this is it's strong point. A potential hacker might try AES, DES, Blowfish, IDEA, RC4, and TEA before they try PRESENT. Needless to say, this will take a long time. The only weak point, however, is SmallWallet itself. If a potential hacker finds out you use SmallWallet, they'll use PRESENT right away.

However, SmallWallet also provides protection against that with false password entropy. False password entropy is a system I developed in which the application asks you to put junk letters in certain parts of your password. The location and letters of these junk letters are somewhat remembered, so a key logger wont be distinguish from your password and a junk password (%50 of your password would be junk). All you have to do is remember your last SessionKey, and this will make your password entropy secure. However, forgetting your last Session Key is no problem, however false password entropy will chose different locations for those junk letters, which might be an advantage to key loggers.*

SmallWallet also provides offline support, so you never have to type or receive sensitive information while you are connected to the internet (which might protect against malicious SSH or something similar). Just turn off your internet connection, log in, sign the transaction, log out, and as soon as you are back online, SmallWallet will send your transaction for you.*

If you don't like the PRESENT encryption algorithm, and or prefer to use something even smaller, we will provide a Tiny Encryption Algorithm version of SmallWallet. And if you are even more concerned with space, we will provide a method of compressing code and tjat wallet.dat, and decompressing on the fly (performance in exchange for space)*

  • Is very lightweightWill be whence ECDSA is compacted which will be done soon.
  • Uses PRESENT super light weight function for encryption
  • Uses non-standard methods of storage but still provides export to standard methods (and thus looks like nonsense to hackers)
  • Protects against key loggers and other viruses using false password entropy (don't bother looking it up)*
  • Offline support.*

* NOT YET SUPPORTED (PLANNED FOR VERY NEAR UPDATES)
† IS ARBITRARY AND IS CURRENTLY BEING IMPROVED

TODO CHECKLIST

  • [  ] Using false password entropy to protect against keyloggers
  • [] Uses online resources to get data including balances and recent transactions
  • [  ] Showing recent your transactions without downloading blockchain
  • [] Live promt that features shell-like argument passing
  • [] Uses PRESENT super light weight encryption function
  • [  ] Non-standard mneumonic system in case of loss of file
  • [  ] Maintains password entropy position similarities (to confuse keylogger further)
  • [  ] Gets all data from Junction.co or any other website that uses Junction Co API
  • [  ] Junction Co wallet API
  • [  ] Use compressed code for SUPER SUPER lightweight feature
  • [  ] Transaction signing and submitting to network
  • [] Generating addresses using standard ECDSA, Ripemd160, and Sha256
  • [  ] Lightweight Ripemd160 and Sha256 Python implementations
  • [  ] Uses Junction Co as a lightweight method to check for internet connection
  • [  ] Has configurability as to white sites are used
  • [  ] Offline transaction signing
  • [] Balance cache updated every 15 minutes
  • [  ] Compact ECDSA Python implementation

    PLEASE LEAVE SUGGESTIONS
    I'm trying to create this client for everyone. If you have ANYTHING that would improve this client, PLEASE post it.

    GITHUB, SOURCE, DOWNLOADS
    v1.3.20 ALPHA downloads: https://github.com/Plazmotech/SmallWallet/releases/tag/v1.3.20
    v1.3.20 ALPHA source: https://github.com/Plazmotech/SmallWallet

    BETA TESTERS
    I need Beta testers! Please consider testing this wallet. Report any bugs! Suggest any ideas! Any help is appreciated Smiley

    Donate
    If you like my work, please consider donating to 1HqnYcfyY3pqqxGQZWCTjUnsSKMVPzUmAH (That address was created and is mantained through SmallWallet Wink )
26  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / I'm going to Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Salzburg, Munich, and London. on: July 17, 2013, 05:40:53 AM
I'm going to Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Salzburg, Munich and London in September. What are the best Bitcoin places I can visit? I do intend to spend as much BTC as I can Smiley

For clarification: I don't have that much BTC only about 0.9 but y'all get the point.
27  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Address Collisions. on: July 15, 2013, 01:13:08 AM
What language are we talking in

I believe it's known as "bitcointalk"

Or, y'know, math.
28  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Garr255/Werner - Auction shilling on: June 22, 2013, 05:58:23 PM
Had Garr255 warned people he could manipulate the prices would you still participate in the auction? After all, Garr255 has a right to sell his products for whatever price he would like to, and might've just been using the initial "auction" as a way to gauge the demand for the chip, and then set a price he would be willing to sell at.

Is that a rhetorical question, and if not, what would the answer change?  If i came to a shillathon, my buying strategy would certainly differ from that of a real auction.  I'd still show up & see how desperate the seller is to sell, but i wouldn't "bid" Cheesy  Perhaps if i knew the seller was gauging the market, i'd bring 10 shills of my own & troll the price up absurdly high, just to get the seller to overstock & be forced to sell at a loss Grin

You evil, evil genius.
29  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: There are only 21 THOUSAND bitcoins on: June 21, 2013, 08:37:48 PM
We could say there are ONLY 21 THOUSAND bitcoins, and have them subdividable like 11 decimal points. Just to put a perspective on the arbitrariness of how we define the limit.

Actual BTC limit = 21000000.00000001

Could just as easily be: 21000.00000000001

Or even: 21.00000000000001  (only 21 bitcoins in existance! lol)

So, we could say "21 thousand bitcoins ONLY!" But does that mean there are only 21 thousand bitcoins? No.

They're all the SAME QUANTITY of UNITS allowable. Pretty arbitrary really.

Just food for thought.


…So? Bitcoins were made to be divisible in 8 units… (or 1 byte)
30  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Do ASICs make Bitcoin more decentralized? on: June 21, 2013, 08:34:52 PM
Some whiners think that ASICs are centralizing everything because they cannot buy one and make a buttload of coins.

But ASICs are the end of the line for hardware advances up until quantum computing, and even then it is so far away and it would be years before the return on the processing power of a quantum computer could match an ASIC.

As it is, several companies are popping up to provide ASIC chips. And they are looking to mass produce these things. Meaning a future of millions of cheap ASICs to be used primarily for mining bitcoins. N00bs will be able to buy an ASIC on Amazon and have it delivered in a few days to be plugged in and run with very little knowledge of mining. Unlike GPU mining or even CPU mining.

This may not be the case right now, but after a year or so there will be tons of ASICs out there. They may even be embedded in other electronics like TV boxes that pay for TV shows via bitcoins mined from your ASIC chip. All you pay is electricity costs. Or free cell phones with embedded ASIC to pay for your service, just make sure you keep it charged.

The only way to speed things up through hardware is just to have more ASICs. There is no next step for a long time.

Quantum Computers are not replacement for Classic Computers. Quantum Bits (qubits) operate on quantum states. Classical bits are represented as 0's and 1's, where qubits are represented as probabilities on a plane.

In otherwords, classical bits are represented as 0 or 1.

Quantum bits are represented as a|0> + b|1>.

The only difference in speed this makes is quantum computers are faster at doing quantum calculations (they can take shortcuts because of the fact that gates can manipulate qubits in an algebraic manner), but will not speed the process of doing hashes (something not necessarily algebraic)
31  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How many bitcoiners are there out there? on: June 21, 2013, 08:29:38 PM
Definitely a lot more people than say 2 1 years ago.
32  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Garr255/Werner - Auction shilling on: June 21, 2013, 08:17:35 PM
Okay, I am making an open request to Gar255 so I have nothing to hold against him. I ask he does the following:

1. Verify you are still sending me the miner and have intent to so

2. Verify you plan to send the 5bitcoins

3. Confirm you wont ever shill bid your own auctions ever again

Sounds reasonable. I'm sorry for your "loss", but I must ask you one question.

Had Garr255 warned people he could manipulate the prices would you still participate in the auction? After all, Garr255 has a right to sell his products for whatever price he would like to, and might've just been using the initial "auction" as a way to gauge the demand for the chip, and then set a price he would be willing to sell at.
33  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Garr255/Werner - Auction shilling on: June 21, 2013, 08:11:24 PM

I agree that what he did isn't morally correct even without these alterations.  I'm kidding, i know, typo i can't read..  If he called it anything other than an auction, the buyers would have no preconceptions, and thus would be *forced* to ask "how exactly does this work."  People assume they know how auctions work, see my point?
edit: strikethrough.

N… No I don't see what you're trying to say.

Or at least, what I extracted from your post is that you believe Garr255 calling it an auction was a mistake, he should have called it something else so people would be forced to ask how it works, and thus would be informed of the rules of the "auction" beforehand, therefore negating the moral invalidity of Garr255's actions?

Pretty much, though moral invalidity is a bit high flung & confusing for me.  Wrong.  People presume they loosely understand what an auction is. The word "shill" -- never used in any but the derogatory sense -- is a part of that understanding, specifically that shilling is illegal & thus would not be a part of an honest auction.  See where i'm going?

Yes, and I agree.
34  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Garr255/Werner - Auction shilling on: June 21, 2013, 08:10:06 PM
If Garr255 hadn't of called it an auction, rather, a multi-person multi-account multi-person bargain that functions rather like an auction would you agree that what he did isn't morally incorrect?

It's a multiperson BARGAIN. He's allowed to change the price to whatever he wishes. The buying must make the decision to either buy or drop the at the current price Garr255 is offering.

It's ridiculous people think the mere fact that Garr255 is setting a price to something he is selling is morally wrong. Garr255 can do whatever he pleases with the price of what he is selling (As long as he commits to a buy). What's morally wrong of Garr's actions is the decision to keep this price manipulator anonymous. Had he revealed the existence and admitted to the use of the account before beginning the "auction", his actions would be completely free of any moral fault.

The mere fact that he has an 'anonymous' account that he pretends to act like someone else, to me, is morally wrong and deceiving.


I completely agree to that, however it's beside the point. The point is the moral validity of manipulating the prices to his desire, which I find completely valid.

Had Garr255 warned he would "shill" his "auction" beforehand, it would remove the need to use a anonymous account.

It just seems like you are trying to shed a positive light on a situation that didn't actually happen?... fact is, he did do it anonymously. As you said, if he didn't, we wouldn't be here right now.

I'm saying his actions as a whole were partially incorrect (due to the fact he used an anonymous account), however the act of setting his own pricepoint wasn't. It seems people here are arguing that his setting of the pricepoint of his own items is morally incorrect, which I find ridiculous.

Hell, if you were to sell your own prized possession and the price people are willing to pay for it is below the price you're willing to sell at, wouldn't you want to manipulate the price?

I do, however, once again, agree 100% that the act of doing so using an anonymous account is very incorrect.
35  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Garr255/Werner - Auction shilling on: June 21, 2013, 08:06:20 PM
[...]
 What's morally wrong of Garr's actions is the decision to keep this price manipulator anonymous. Had he revealed the existence and admitted to the use of the account before beginning the "auction", his actions would be completely free of any moral fault.

In other words, if he shilled from his own account (why bother with establishing an alt if everyone knows it's you?), everything would be fine, yeah.  Lulzy, 'coz no one would be stupid enough to think of the charade as an auction, but ethically wrong?  No.

+1

Who would participate in such a farce?

I would. He's selling his stuff, why shouldn't he have control over the price of the sell? Hell, if he wanted to he could sell it for a fixed price of BTC100, but he didn't, instead, used the "auction" as a tool to gauge the demand of his audience, then placed a price point.
36  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Garr255/Werner - Auction shilling on: June 21, 2013, 08:04:14 PM
If Garr255 hadn't of called it an auction, rather, a multi-person multi-account multi-person bargain that functions rather like an auction would you agree that what he did isn't morally incorrect?

It's a multiperson BARGAIN. He's allowed to change the price to whatever he wishes. The buying must make the decision to either buy or drop the at the current price Garr255 is offering.

It's ridiculous people think the mere fact that Garr255 is setting a price to something he is selling is morally wrong. Garr255 can do whatever he pleases with the price of what he is selling (As long as he commits to a buy). What's morally wrong of Garr's actions is the decision to keep this price manipulator anonymous. Had he revealed the existence and admitted to the use of the account before beginning the "auction", his actions would be completely free of any moral fault.

The mere fact that he has an 'anonymous' account that he pretends to act like someone else, to me, is morally wrong and deceiving.


I completely agree to that, however it's beside the point. The point is the moral validity of manipulating the prices to his desire, which I find completely valid.

Had Garr255 warned he would "shill" his "auction" beforehand, it would remove the need to use a anonymous account.
37  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Garr255/Werner - Auction shilling on: June 21, 2013, 08:01:50 PM
If he wanted to win the auction then obviously he was willing to pay BTC63, no? He's still not forcing anybody to pay money they would not be willing to pay. This is equivalent to refusing a price in a bargain, something perfectly reasonable.

I don't see any problem in what Garr did, however I am disappointed he didn't warn people he was doing this. However, that's still not something worthy of a scammer tag.

Right, except they weren't bargaining. They were in a binding auction, and last time I checked, an auction doesn't automatically get advanced to the maximum amount that a bidder is "willing to pay".

If Gar255 hadn't of called it an auction, rather, a multi-person bargain that functions rather like an auction would you agree that what he did isn't morally incorrect?

I agree that what he did isn't morally correct even without these alterations.  I'm kidding, i know, typo i can't read..  If he called it anything other than an auction, the buyers would have no preconceptions, and thus would be *forced* to ask "how exactly does this work."  People assume they know how auctions work, see my point?
edit: strikethrough.

N… No I don't see what you're trying to say.

Or at least, what I extracted from your post is that you believe Garr255 calling it an auction was a mistake, he should have called it something else so people would be forced to ask how it works, and thus would be informed of the rules of the "auction" beforehand, therefore negating the moral invalidity of Garr255's actions?
38  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Garr255/Werner - Auction shilling on: June 21, 2013, 07:57:56 PM
If he wanted to win the auction then obviously he was willing to pay BTC63, no? He's still not forcing anybody to pay money they would not be willing to pay. This is equivalent to refusing a price in a bargain, something perfectly reasonable.

I don't see any problem in what Garr did, however I am disappointed he didn't warn people he was doing this. However, that's still not something worthy of a scammer tag.

Right, except they weren't bargaining. They were in a binding auction, and last time I checked, an auction doesn't automatically get advanced to the maximum amount that a bidder is "willing to pay".

If Gar255 hadn't of called it an auction, rather, a multi-person multi-account bargain that functions rather like an auction would you agree that what he did isn't morally incorrect?

FYP

If Garr255 hadn't of called it an auction, rather, a multi-person multi-account multi-person bargain that functions rather like an auction would you agree that what he did isn't morally incorrect?

It's a multiperson BARGAIN. He's allowed to change the price to whatever he wishes. The buying must make the decision to either buy or drop the at the current price Garr255 is offering.

It's ridiculous people think the mere fact that Garr255 is setting a price to something he is selling is morally wrong. Garr255 can do whatever he pleases with the price of what he is selling (As long as he commits to a buy). What's morally wrong of Garr's actions is the decision to keep this price manipulator anonymous. Had he revealed the existence and admitted to the use of the account before beginning the "auction", his actions would be completely free of any moral fault.
39  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Garr255/Werner - Auction shilling on: June 21, 2013, 07:49:24 PM
If he wanted to win the auction then obviously he was willing to pay BTC63, no? He's still not forcing anybody to pay money they would not be willing to pay. This is equivalent to refusing a price in a bargain, something perfectly reasonable.

I don't see any problem in what Garr did, however I am disappointed he didn't warn people he was doing this. However, that's still not something worthy of a scammer tag.

Right, except they weren't bargaining. They were in a binding auction, and last time I checked, an auction doesn't automatically get advanced to the maximum amount that a bidder is "willing to pay".

If Gar255 hadn't of called it an auction, rather, a multi-person bargain that functions rather like an auction would you agree that what he did isn't morally incorrect?
40  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Garr255/Werner - Auction shilling on: June 21, 2013, 07:32:18 PM
...

If he wanted to win the auction then obviously he was willing to pay BTC63, no? He's still not forcing anybody to pay money they would not be willing to pay. This is equivalent to refusing a price in a bargain, something perfectly reasonable.

I don't see any problem in what Garr did, however I am disappointed he didn't warn people he was doing this. However, that's still not something worthy of a scammer tag.

Yet another person I will NOT have fiduciary dealings with.

This is a very useful thread.  I could not devise a better test for determining who is and is _not_ honest.


I'm honest, I wouldn't do an auction and use a sock puppet for it, but I'm saying I see nothing wrong with it, just the method he executed it (Using an anonymous sock puppet) was bad. If I were to do an auction, and I genuinely wasn't happy with the prices I would raise the current bid, however I wouldn't use an anonymous sock puppet, and I would warn people I might do it beforehand.
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