Latest posts of: justusranvier

Quote from: btbrae on December 05, 2013, 08:28:53 AM

Beginning of the end for China's bitcoin boom?

It will certainly be spun that way by everyone looking for cheap coins.

This tweet doesn't point to an actual story:

https://twitter.com/BloombergNews/status/408505176170184704

Wait until the exchange rate hits $10000. They won't be able to keep the treasure hunters away then.

That first graph would be better if you made it a log scale so that we can actually see the data from before February.

Quote from: Parzival on December 04, 2013, 06:46:49 PM

Could you help a bitcoin novice and tell me where is the best technical documentation of the bitcoin client. And in which programming languages has it been implemented so far? I know the original is in C++ but any other like Python?

Java: http://bitsofproof.com/
Go: https://blog.conformal.com/btcd-not-your-moms-bitcoin-daemon/

Schooling is a program designed to inhibit education.

Source: John Taylor Gatto

There is nothing that beats Armory for cold storage.

If you're doing cold storage and think that somehow involves Bitcoin-Qt you're doing something very wrong.

Use Armory for cold storage.

Bitcoin is a distributed timestamping and script processing engine.

Currency and payment processing is just the first program that we've decided to run on it.

Quote from: PenAndPaper on December 04, 2013, 07:51:03 PM

Am i the only one around that can't tell sarcasm in this chain of quotes? Embarrassed

Forget about the sarcasm - the point is that you should never reuse a password. No exceptions.

If you're not using some kind of password manager to generate a unique, random password for every website you're going to get burned sooner or later.

Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on December 04, 2013, 03:19:45 PM

It is a breach of the social contract on which Bitcoin is built upon. Bitcoin was built with certain promises in place, users voluntarily chose to use that system based on those promises.

If Bitcoin ever disregards output scripts then it's as broken as a calculator that sometimes says "2+2=5"

It's not a new feature, it's not a compromise, it's broken.

What I'd like to see in the new wallet format is for the "Receive Bitcoins" button to produce a new xpub, not a single address, and for address book entries to prefer an xpub over a single address.

It would enable the privacy-preserving use case described here: http://bitcoinism.blogspot.com/2013/07/reclaiming-financial-privacy-with-hd.html

The media is irrelevant. People who dismiss Bitcoin because that's what the talking heads on the screen tell them to do don't deserve to be early adopters.

Quote from: DaRude on December 03, 2013, 11:40:55 PM

Yeah but the fact that he tried to tumble 96k and then put it together back in one ~~wallet~~ address doesn't give him much hope. How many ~~wallets~~ addresses with 90k+ balance do you think there are

Quote from: RodeoX on December 03, 2013, 08:44:06 PM

Why aren't you haters in this thread writing your representatives in Washington

I avoid intentionally interacting with mafiosos and terrorists as much as humanly possible.

Quote from: hilariousandco on December 03, 2013, 06:24:34 PM

And a ridiculously strong one for your bitcoins/banks etc. Dictionary words and birth year ain't gonna cut it.

Most bank websites in the US actually forbid strong passwords. The strongest I've ever seen is maximum of 12 characters, only letters and numbers allowed.

Typically you're restricted to 8 letters and numbers only.

Quote from: tsoPANos on December 03, 2013, 04:22:29 PM

I don't think that bitcoin will reach 10k.
People will start selling as soon as it about 2k or a bit more..
So, no. 5 or 10 bitcoins will not make you rich.

Quote from: gweedo on December 03, 2013, 06:16:00 PM

They are hosted on the forum's server so their would be no benefit to proxing them.

Not all of them are.

Some people have their avatars set as a remote URL.

It looks like some avatar images are not being proxied.