That's quite optimistic of you especially in the bitcoin space. When a hack happens in bitcoin, news of "lost" coins usually follows. Just be happy bitcointalk didn't get Goxed.... well I guess it sort of did.

If signature campaigns are banned:

1. Accounts won't be bought/sold as people mainly buy farm accounts for signature campaigns.
2. Accounts won't be held as collateral and some members will even stop lending due to this.
3. Members (except scammers) will stop creating new accounts as now their account won't have any value.
4. Activity as well would be affected


I support banning signature campaigns if the first 3 points do take place as I don't support these account sales and find it immoral to farm accounts just to earn few bits. 

Since omegaflare is doing it, I should too!  Better late then never...

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I once got this message too but here's how it happened with me. I was using Blockchain.info and Electrum wallet. So I had some coins in the blockchain wallet and I tried sending them, it showed sent but they didn't hit the blockchain, I entered the Tx ID at several blockchain sites to check but nothing, so I panicked and thought maybe it's getting hacked.

Immediately after that I exported the key out of blockchain and imported it into my electrum and pushed the transaction and it went through but it showed the warning message when I checked it on the blockchain.info site, which you described above but it did went away after a day I think. So my guess it will go away on it's own in a day or two.

quindi - aspettate - mi state dicendo che è estremamente pericoloso usare l'app di blockchain??

No. Email is something you need to remember and use with ease, so good luck remembering these lines of numbers and letters of bitcoin address. For normal daily uses bitcoin address as email is total overkill and is counterproductive, too long, case sensitive. Maybe it will be only liked by ultra bitcoin nerds who want some geeky looking emails...

Can anyone explain me how was bitcoin hacked and why was it hacked

I've definitely noticed this. One guy that only ever comes around nowadays to be a good samaritan and warn us about big crashes and possible death is kwukduck but I haven't seen him in quite sometime. Guarantee if/when we dip below 230, he'll have a new thread up about a huge crash coming. Smh. 

We are discussing the feasibility of creating our own hosting location, having our own facilities, not giving another random 3rd party access to the server. I thought you were aware that the hosting company staff were the weak link in this hack. The way to get around that, is to change to a facility operated by an employee of the Bitcointalk. That would involve building our own infrastructure, hiring staff to monitor its physical location, etc. That would also involve owning property to build on.

If we just rent server space from an already established company, we face the same issues. Not having complete trust of the people who have access to the server. So if we are talking about just changing hosts to something that isn't a large operation in a giant datacenter to a shared location with a couple of other people, we still have to worry about the human factor.

That's like saying: We don't ban child porn, because there will always be pedophiles.

You can't prevent anything completely , but you can reduce the bad impact and stop it from happening on your forum.

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This is true, but how much time would it take to really monitor all account sales?  You would need at least one full time position to do this.  Maybe the forum staff feel that their time is better spent elsewhere?

Well unless malevolent becomes active and proves that he's still in full control of his account, then he would be likely to retain his position as a Global Moderator. He hasn't been around for weeks now, but I'm pretty sure he received the email from theymos.

SO glad I stopped using BTER months before this happened shame to see it happened and many other exchanges getting hacked. but the question comes did they really get hacked or just another cover up story to move away. If really got hacked and everyone at loss then indeed it is a shame and is going to take some work to recover from it or to even continue business. I think with every exchange should have some sort of reserve funds that have enough capital and insurance for unseen events happening to put into the business as a security locked up sealed until such events happen and can easily recover with insurances.

I would third that.  In fact, I would much rather prefer this forum goes through a big security upgrade (hello, we need 2FA???) instead of upgrading the design and features.  With the new forum, the security might even be worse...

Security is first priority, features are second priority, and design is third. Security has to be top notch, because we transfer money here and we do high value irreversible transactions. 2FA should definitely be here by now, its a bit late for that.

The person responsible is the hacker and they should be held accountable, but the forum as well as any other site shouldn't be expected or relied upon to keep your info invincible or 100% safe because things like this can always happen. It's also the user's responsibility to make sure all their other accounts are safe and if your other accounts get hacked because of the leak then thats your fault for having poor security practices. The only thing you wouldn't be responsible for is your forum account getting potentially hacked but if you've changed your details then all should be fine.

The effect of not doing anything about these "ad sig" campaigns is becoming rather obvious now.

There are very few technical people bothering to post much at all and the vast majority of nearly all posts that I see (and I have blocked much of the worse boards on this forum) are just rubbish posts (made of course by ad-sig posters).

Basically those that used to find this forum useful and interesting are now "moving away" and I suspect this will continue unless the new forum works out some better balance.

I'm sure some whinging whining ad-sig posters are going to respond to this post with "but I should be allowed to earn my 0.0001 BTC" and yes, unfortunately that is what this forum believes you should be allowed to do.

To put it plainly "the ad-siggers won" and their victory is a forum completely full of useless posts made by kids earning pocket money (a victory for "free speech and capitalism" might be what the spinners would call it).

If you have some Bitcoin and wish to see Bitcoin continue growing.. go ahead and host a new node. It will greatly help the Bitcoin network. Remember, every person count. Thus, every nodes count.

Are there any future plans also for EUR / GBP denominated cards?

iv actually been through ddoss suggestions on here in the past. dont know if they didnt like my idea or was just ignored. id set up a few cheap vps load balancers. set software can only respond to certain requests so it filters out damaging traffic to the main website. i know ddos attacks are getting bigger and more complex but so are defenses. and in fairness this isnt a massive site so dosnt attract the worst ddos or hackers mostly because its a forum and little info/money to be gained from it. i do however respect the fact passwords where atleast encrypted... see  alot bigger sites fall at that point