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2321  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Sync Stuck - Bitcoin Core (linux) on: April 27, 2015, 12:19:40 PM
What version are you running? 0.10.0? (Or 0.10.1?)

It is v0.10.0

You might give 0.10.1 a try.
2322  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Sync Stuck - Bitcoin Core (linux) on: April 27, 2015, 12:05:46 PM
What version are you running? 0.10.0? (Or 0.10.1?)
2323  Other / Off-topic / Re: Please Help - Ransomware has stolen my files and I need to pay in BitCoins on: April 26, 2015, 02:56:03 PM
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Yeah, some of you haven't read thru the parts where I stated
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You would do well not to take advice from anybody that has an advertisement in their signature space on this forum.

The vast majority of those are people that are being paid per post to advertise with those signatures.  Therefore, they'll say just about anything in a discussion thread just to increase their post count (and therefore increase their income).  Generally, they know less about the topic they are discussing than the person asking the questions.

Danny is correct. 

Often the people with the ads in their signatures are doing nothing but spouting random advice that is often not accurate merely to get the ads in front of people.  Be wary of advice from people with the signature ad campaigns.



2324  Other / Off-topic / Re: Please Help - Ransomware has stolen my files and I need to pay in BitCoins on: April 26, 2015, 02:28:38 PM
Scratch that, TruCoin seems a bust.

All I got was a "you have been added to our list" message and I read that people waited and waited and nothing happened.

I live in the middle of nowhere in Northern MI, so I can't just walk out and meet folks for a transaction.

Any suggestions for a specific site that seems to have quick turnaround?

Thanks

TB

Since you are in the US, coinbase.com has fast turnaround - or at least they have in the past.

I too have seen reports where people paid and got their files unlocked, so if you need the files, this is pretty much the only way.

Good luck.


2325  Other / Off-topic / Re: Please Help - Ransomware has stolen my files and I need to pay in BitCoins on: April 25, 2015, 10:12:16 PM
A lot does depend on where you are.  Converse is good and legit, but not everywhere.  They are in the US, EU etc.
2326  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Proposal for some BIP with KYC elements on: April 25, 2015, 09:45:45 PM
I know, there are people who wanna buy drugs/weapon/child porn, this BIP is not for them, they can always use "old school" wallets that will not support this "regulation feature".

I'm not following you.  Couldn't such users still choose to use the regulation feature but simply supply false information?  If everyone is free to supply whatever information they wish then who benefits from such a scheme?

I have to assume you have some plan for ensuring a reasonable level of metadata integrity but I cannot discern it from your post.


Interfaces for regulation must begin to develop, this is nothing about hurting the Bitcoin user's privacy, we need to break away from that "drug dealer "character and understand that protocol-level standards will create strong ground for that Nobel technology.

Why do you consider the Bitcoin technology noble?  What value do you see in Bitcoin that does not already exist in better established alternatives?

First of all, thanks everyone for the reference,
Implementing this "trust" layer on wallets should be a decision of the wallet developers,if they decided to add a BIP like that,they will be responsible for verifying their customer's information,otherwise their service will not be considered 'trusted',(i didn't mentioned that,but its the wallet service provider responsibility).
The direction here is to create some standard for verifying identities,because i see that every new bitcoin "company" trying to create her own standard and what i think is that we need to create some consensus in a much lower level then everyone apps/services.
If you set a single and simple way for every wallet provider for verify his customer (merchant/costumer) then is a much better way to start and create trust between wallets-merchants-costumers.
The "open source" approach is good for developers,not for regular people who want to understand who they can call in a case of emergency,this is the reason why "series" wallets who determined to keep peoples money must be under a much harder laws of the protocol/bitcoin community.
We can think about the SSL and the Certificate_authority
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security
If the "authority" is faking the SSL,no one will be her client and she can not exist as a business because she's not loyal.
Same process like that should translated to the Bitcoin echo system as a BIP i think...

About your second question "Why do you consider the Bitcoin technology noble?"
For me bitcoin is not money,its "Value over the Internet",it can be the "next generation of money",i never see other platform that works worldwide so good that can transfer any value within a seconds,its just something amazing.
Another major thing,the Bitcoin system is just "working",as a user I never saw any bugs, always the money goes to his destination,any amount that i ever sent,the transaction went smoothly (hundreds of transactions).
All the "bugs" and risks out there (51% attack,scalability of the blockchain and more..) are just "tasks" that developers will resolved over time,for regular users the bitcoin is really a simple thing that just works great ,but i still think that it will take at least 7-15 years for that technology to become adopted seriously.


One doesn't want to use the certificate authority as an example. As a centralized authority they can be coerced or compromised. Look at the issues with MITM from various countries for example - China, probably the NSA etc.

A distributed solution like name coin for domains is important here.  Centralized is the opposite of the philosophy of bitcoin.

Edit:  In practice the CA's have been compromised at the governmental level and even in egregious examples haven't always been punished in the market place because few people are aware of the issues. 

2327  Other / Off-topic / Re: Please Help - Ransomware has stolen my files and I need to pay in BitCoins on: April 25, 2015, 04:26:21 PM
Hello

To say I'm a noob is an understatement.

I need your help.  My work at home computer is infected by the TeslaCrypt virus, and after trying everything I can think of I had decided to pay the bleeping ransom to get back all the work I have lost.  Except that getting my hands on some bitcoins is not that easy, apparently.

Look, I just want to pay market value from paypal or my mastercard and buy 2.5 bitcoins.  I had no idea it would be so difficult.

I signed up at localbitcoins.com because that is what was suggested by the hackers.  But nobody there will sell me 2.5 bitcoins and they want a crazy amount more than market value for them.  So instead of $550 it's going to cost more like $1000.

I can't afford that.  I'm probably going to lose my job if I can't get these files back.  It's months of work.  I'm about to fall off the wagon here, I need help.

What is the safest way for me to buy some bitcoin, quickly, to satisfy the demands of this hacker?

Can I buy them anywhere that accepts credit cards and will that "address" work for ransom demander?

Please help me

Thanks

TB

If you don't have a backup, you are taking a risk that they won't decrypt it.  But if that is your only option, then it is worth a try.

However, you can try coinbase.com and buy coins there. It depends on your location though. They are not available everywhere.  I am not sure if they do credit cards or only bank accounts though.

2328  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Foundation Director: No Plans to Fund Core Development on: April 25, 2015, 10:56:31 AM
Bitcoin Foundation has proven to be too scandalous in the past. There is no wonder that Bitcoin Core developers don't want to be associated with organisation with not so pristine past.
The only problem with their decision is that MIT will have too much of an influence on developers now imo.

Given how long RMS has been at MIT, I doubt they'll exercise a lot of influence. MIT seems pretty hands off.  :-)
2329  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Last in first out on: April 25, 2015, 10:20:08 AM
The distinction between two individual coins makes no sense. From a trading perspective you bought 1@1 and 1@.5 you now have 2 and paid 1.5 for them. If you sell any of the two for more than .5 you still have more than you had before.

If he is in the U.S. (or elsewhere), it could be relevant to be able to choose your tax lots.  Eg you realize a loss on some coins vs a gain on others.

From a technical perspective you are right, but from a tax perspective it could matter.  At most brokerages you can say "sell the 100 shares lot of INTC I bought on date X, not the 100 shares I bought on date Y."  Even though they are fungible, the government views them differently.

Whether the OP had tax concerns, I don't know. They should let you pick.
2330  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: variance in block times --- std deviation on: April 24, 2015, 07:29:07 PM
Hi,
Here are some discussions about it block times, standard deviations, means, medians, probability densities and distributions.  Instead of re-doing the math, I think these do a reasonable job of explaining it.  But, perhaps they will spawn other questions or not answer it.  ;-)

In regard to the 30 minute comment,  ~95% of the time there is at least one block found every 30 minutes.


http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2vocap/what_is_the_standard_deviation_of_time_between/

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/25293/probablity-distribution-of-mining

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=906082.msg9955875#msg9955875


2331  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Is it possible to implement PoS (Proof of stack) into the Bitcoin system on: April 22, 2015, 07:35:22 PM
HI People,

I really like the idea of PoS, to stabilize the bitcoin prize and to prevent the big miners to sell huge amount of BTC every day! And ofcourse as a way to profit.

I'm wondering if it is a doable project and if it is possible to implement into the blockchain such a technology?

Thank you


As Danny said, it is certainly possible, after all this is software and there are a lot of examples of it out there.  You are free to go to github, fork the software, implement it from the examples, fork the block chain at a particular block number and attempt to convince everyone to switch to the POSCoin which won't be bitcoin.  It would be a good experiment and something that would be education for you to try.

From a practical standpoint, it won't happen under the current circumstances, but I think you should go ahead and fork the software and block chain and try the experiment!



The idea is not to swith from POW to POS but to use them together
I don't think it will be so difficult to convince people to use, let's say "my wallet", because they will earn interest from their coins doing nothing.
Ofcourse it is just my opinion

First, this won't happen in bitcoin itself, you'll be creating an alt-coin or sidechain.

But just to clarify, you'll have to explain how changing the wallet alone will change the bitcoin from a PoW to PoW-PoS hybrid system.  


2332  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Hi, BTC market monitor(BTC Winner) app comes! on: April 22, 2015, 05:03:48 PM
Hi, The best BTC market monitor app comes! Update market price very timely! What's more , its very stable. Once install it, you won`t miss any key trading time. Enjoy it now.

You can search key word "btc winner" and download it on the google play.

You will want to move this to the appropriate section.

2333  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Is it possible to implement PoS (Proof of stack) into the Bitcoin system on: April 22, 2015, 05:02:56 PM
HI People,

I really like the idea of PoS, to stabilize the bitcoin prize and to prevent the big miners to sell huge amount of BTC every day! And ofcourse as a way to profit.

I'm wondering if it is a doable project and if it is possible to implement into the blockchain such a technology?

Thank you


As Danny said, it is certainly possible, after all this is software and there are a lot of examples of it out there.  You are free to go to github, fork the software, implement it from the examples, fork the block chain at a particular block number and attempt to convince everyone to switch to the POSCoin which won't be bitcoin.  It would be a good experiment and something that would be education for you to try.

From a practical standpoint, it won't happen under the current circumstances, but I think you should go ahead and fork the software and block chain and try the experiment!

2334  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: sub, sub, sub wallets or wallet trees e.g. loan accounts on: April 21, 2015, 05:32:34 PM
Can Bitcoin create subaccount trees? Being able to create subaccounts would enable multifunctionality to the Blockchain. E.g. wallet/lend/wallet2/1 would specify a particular loan. The loan could be paid out of and into this sub/sub/subwallet. The loan history would be recorded in the blockchain.

Is anyone creating loan accounts on the block chain another way?

Bitcoin works on the concept of inputs and outputs, see  https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction

Wallets and accounts, sub-accounts etc are, more or less, abstractions.   It seems like you want to build something on top of the block chain, but I am not sure exactly what you are proposing.  Depending on what you are trying to do, someone might have solutions. It looks like you are, perhaps reusing addresses (again, something of an abstraction) which also is not recommended.

If it is just loans on the block chain, perhaps you could do something with colored coins or maybe multi-sig, but since I'm not sure exactly what you re asking, that is just a guess.

If you can explain more, perhaps someone can respond in a more detailed fashion.

:-)

2335  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Bitcoin-qt 0.10.0 stopped working - ReadCompactSize() : size too large on: April 20, 2015, 08:09:16 PM
I'd be curious as to what OS you are running, where it is running (e.g. host), memory etc.  ;-)

2336  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Bitcoin-qt 0.10.0 stopped working - ReadCompactSize() : size too large on: April 20, 2015, 05:57:34 PM
That's what I want to avoid. Anyway, if there is no other way, do you know where can I find a torrent file with the blockchain?
Thank you.

Since it appears you are running 0.10.0, you don't want to use the torrent. 
2337  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Bitcoin Core 0.9.3.0 stuck at 3 hours behind for synchronizing on: April 19, 2015, 11:18:45 AM
Is there a reason you are using 0.9.3 vs 0.10.0?
2338  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: Hash Rate Cut by 25% - Why? on: April 17, 2015, 08:12:20 PM
I can do that when I get back home. I am back in the office now.
Thanks for trying to take a look for me! I will post back in a few hours.

You might also trying point it at a different pool or two - such as p2pool (it may report a slightly lower rate, but generate the same0 - and see if you are getting the same hash rates at the other pools. 

This way you can see if it is a pool issue or something else.
2339  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Where is the Blockchain stored on my computer? on: April 15, 2015, 05:17:01 PM
I was wondering where the blockchain was stored on a normal windows computer. I believe it is in the temp folder as it isn't in the bitcoin-qt folders.

I only question this as I would like to move all this data from two different drives to one drive set just for bitcoin.
I have the blockchain on one drive, and the wallet itself on another drive.

I'm just wondering because I am expecting a larger ledger in the next couple of years (maybe even months).

This should help:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory
2340  Other / Archival / Re: Setup Automatic Payments?? on: April 15, 2015, 11:28:29 AM
Looks like it is cross-posted here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1025016.0

Since they are identical, you should consider deleting one.

Not two, three.  He made each in Beginners & Help, Technical Support and Development and Technical Discussion. Total = 3.

Wow. I didn't look in that section.

It looks like a typical Ponzi scheme.
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