If Paul Le Roux is really Satoshi, then Satoshi's wallet is in the hands of the CIA, and they probably already have the password, which could be obtained through torture.
An interesting realization I had is the fact that TrueCrypt FDE is only available through Windows even to this day in it's VeraCrypt form. By looking at the Bitcoin codebase you can tell satoshi was a so called "windows guy", he was compiling .exe only and Linux came way later. Paul used TrueCrypt and not dm-crypt, LUKS or any of the other Linux alternatives. So there is another connection. The list of coincidences I have is pretty good. Nobody is saying Paul is satoshi, it's just another decent contender in my book. As far as bruteforcing, cascaded ciphers were added in 2004 so the encryption used by Paul probably has a combo of AES-Twofish-Serpent or something along the lines with AES-256 and a strong password which means I don't believe 10 years of bruteforcing is going to be enough (assuming CSW's farm is legit and has been working on it for 10 years which I doubt). |
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Just found this gem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqpwuJw7cxYIf someone told me years ago that the Bitcoin blocksize drama would be discussed in Oxford of all places I would have thought that was the dumbest shit i've heard, yet here we are. Somehow CSW got there. You can even discuss "Is LOL really a kind of obvious spam?" at Oxford if you've got only a few thousand dollars to spare: Hire a Roomhttps://www.oxford-union.org/private_hire/hire_a_roomGoodman Library is present there; it's the place where CSW is talking in the video.Ah I see, so it's another business. Not surprised. I would argue that they have some sort of filters in place tho. I doubt discussing if lol'ing all over this thread is acceptable or not would be acceptable, excuse the redundancy. I would still claim that the irony of big blocks vs small blocks accusing each other of marxism is of interest. |
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Just found this gem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqpwuJw7cxYIf someone told me years ago that the Bitcoin blocksize drama would be discussed in Oxford of all places I would have thought that was the dumbest shit i've heard, yet here we are. Somehow CSW got there. He makes some good points in regards to marxism at around 44:00 onwards, however I don't get why he doesn't realize that gigamegablocks in order for everyone to be able to afford on-chain transactions could be argued to be a form of marxism, yet he doesn't see this, and claims the marxism in Bitcoin is having small blocks so everyone can run their Raspberry Pies to audit the blockchain. So who is the marxist there? |
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I guess the only thing I want to reply to is point 2 about centralization. Yes, megagigaterapetablocks will likely result in fewer fully-validating, non-mining entities. It will also likely result in fewer full-stack mining entities. So what?
People keep talking about decentralization as if it is an end in itself. Why? AFAIC, as long as there are no structural barriers to entry by new participants, the network is as decentralized as it need be. If there is no discernible marginal benefit from adding one more participant to the network, then by definition further decentralization is of no benefit.
And quite frankly, all public blockchains -- to the extent that said blockchain is economically significant -- will centralize thusly - at least with respect to mining. How many parties make up 51% of BTC hashpower? Four. Already.
Not to mention the fact that non-mining nodes provide zero benefit to the network anyhow. If you have sufficient economic interest to be a first-class tx creator, then fine. Pony up for a validating client. But don't delude yourself that your participation brings any benefit to anyone but yourself.
By having megagigaterapetablocks you are giving full control of blockchain audit to the "operators". I guess the only way some people would understand why centralization is bad is when forces collude to censor certain transactions, such as donating to Wikileaks or anything else that wouldn't comply with what they consider a morally correct transaction. The main reason Bitcoin has value is the fact that it works irrespective of any legal frameworks. CSW misses this main premise. |
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Perhaps look into CoinJoin with wasabi's blinded bearer signatures as an improvement for the classic "dude hosting a website for tumbling coins" approach.
In the eyes of the govt it's laundering no matter how you try to obfuscate it. Bitcoin is a govt tracking and control system that abolishes the 5th amendment. Stop pretending that's not what it is and stop pretending the govt is ever going to allow you to tumble anything without being considered doing criminal activity. If you don't want to be monitored in real-time by the slavechain, then you should boycott this garbage and use physical metals instead. Every gram of unreported gold you own buried on your backyard is also considered criminal activity. What's your point? If you don't want to be monitored, as far as using metals goes, it's useless unless you live in an local Amish type community doing commerce strictly within those borders as anything outside it would get quickly confiscated. Anyone that has a real business is going to need to settle transactions globally for which gold is completely useless in the 21th century. Customs are monitored way tighter than Bitcoin transactions. pereira4 nice to see you back, and particularly posting on this thread, saves me stalking you round the forum to read your good posts  what did you mean about a deleted post? I took a much needed break from posting on internet forums. About the post: this one I click and doesn't show up: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg51407781#msg51407781Edit ok it's actually there, it just wasn't scrolling all the way down because I have javascript turned off. |
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I wouldn't be surprised if Chipmixer disappears within the next year or two. The average time for a mixer services seems to be around 3 years. 5 the strongest ones, as low as 1 for the weaker ones. We just had Bestmixer taken out by the cops recently... hopefully im wrong but that seems to be the trend. Chipmixer will probably go away in similar fashion than Bitmixer did. Probably even if the site isn't annihilated by the cops, the developers may just become increasingly paranoid after X year and start afresh.
In a way, not that different from exchangers.. Livecoin may go cryptopia eventually. Again, I hope im wrong, but let's not be naive here. Most crypto related services are short lived, except those that have heavily regulated. Decentralize all the mixers! Make them un-cop-able! Not possible in the classic sense of a server involved. Maybe with lightning network, but then again, there's people that will not trust anything but on-chain transactions. Perhaps look into CoinJoin with wasabi's blinded bearer signatures as an improvement for the classic "dude hosting a website for tumbling coins" approach. There was recently a 100 people CoinJoin transaction which was successful. Note that a server is involved in wasabi but the stuff that's logged wouldn't allow an attacker to connect ins and outs. |
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just strange to me that i never see those proof of work failed errors on the x86 machine. but very often on the raspberry pi.
it is what it is i guess.
thanks
You could use bitpeers and extract the data from peers.dat. What this program does is dump data from the file in human readable format. What you want to do is get the IP's from your x86 and load them within the raspberry pi node, then monitor the log and see if you are getting the same volume of invalid proof of work errors. Simply do this: bitpeers --filepath /mnt/doge/.dogecoin/peers.dat --addressonly then open the generated .json file with a text editor and you will have all the IP's which you can use on the raspberry. |
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Only 2 signature campaigns left of any note, IMHO. Livecoin and ChipMixer. There are no openings ever on Chipmixer, unless you have massive stats, like 93+ trust, etc. I was kinda
told. (Joking I hope).
I wouldn't be surprised if Chipmixer disappears within the next year or two. The average time for a mixer services seems to be around 3 years. 5 the strongest ones, as low as 1 for the weaker ones. We just had Bestmixer taken out by the cops recently... hopefully im wrong but that seems to be the trend. Chipmixer will probably go away in similar fashion than Bitmixer did. Probably even if the site isn't annihilated by the cops, the developers may just become increasingly paranoid after X year and start afresh. In a way, not that different from exchangers.. Livecoin may go cryptopia eventually. Again, I hope im wrong, but let's not be naive here. Most crypto related services are short lived, except those that have heavily regulated. You guys are wasting your time with that LeRoux crap
It's no different than "wasting time" in technical analysis. We are just speculating as well, but at the fundamental analysis level. |
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In relation to what was being discussed earlier: CSW has put a deadline of around 2020 to hack Paul Le Roux's coins and dump on the market, yet, there's no reason to believe this. Why would he be so sure that he is going to crack a hard disk encrypted with probably cascaded algorithms and a very strong password at any given date? Supposedly his mining operation is actually a farm of computers trying to crack the wallet file, but even then, there's no way to really know when you could bruteforce it. Anyone that has attempted to bruteforce strong passwords with those algorithms has failed. I've forgotten passwords and I already assumed it's pointless to try to access the data again.
Not to mention the huge fail that would be if Paul had additional encryption once the first password is broken which I don't doubt since he was a very paranoid man.
And this is all assuming that any of this is true (Paul Calder being satoshi, having 1.000.000 BTC and whatnot, and not just being more cover up lunacy by Craig to avoid the aussie taxmen, keep his shitcoin on the headlines etc).
I think this is just FUD started by one comment on a topic in reddit. Some 'informed' guy suggested that nonsense in 2018 clearly to cause a dump. He stated that CW will receive Kleiman's keys to his shares in Jan 2020 and by then he has to crack the hard drive he supposedly stole from Paul Le Roux, so that he may prove he is Satoshi. But another user corrected this misinformation by citing Kleman's will that CW would get the keys of the shares that belong to Kleiman in 2020 OR 15 months after his death. These months passed a long time ago, CW got the shares and I guess this is the reason why Kleman's family sues CW. So even CW breaks the code it will prove nothing, since he has the shares already. Regarding the possible breaking, it won't worth it. The coins are stored in multiple wallets with little amount each (It was like 50 BTC each but I am not sure) , so breaking 1 of them won't bring him a fortune, nor it will prove he is Satoshi. And it will cost him dearly in terms of electricity only. True Crypt is a tough nut to crack, even with thousands asics it will take decades if not centuries for just one wallet to crack. Why do you assume that it's different wallets? It's different addresses. I doubt satoshi had a wallet per mining reward transaction (50 BTC at the time), so it should all be nicely kept within the same wallet, unless in 2009 a wallet only contained one address which im not familiar with. The Kleiman coins have already been debunked by wizsec, visit this: https://blog.wizsec.jp/2018/02/kleiman-v-craig-wright-bitcoins.htmlThe only reason im paying close attention to the Paul Calder cause is due the amount of coincidences. There's even the infamous post of 2002 which im not sure it has been mentioned here, in which the IP belong to the netherlands, and Paul Calder was apparently in netherlands during that time.  As far as cracking TrueCrypt, we should look at what features the program had in 2009. If cascaded ciphers were a thing back then, and so on. PS: The post you are replying to was deleted? Please stop deleting posts, we are having a conversation here and everything is related to price anyway, as if any of this actually happens it would definitely have an impact. PS2: I think CSW is a massive opportunist and the Paul Le Roux theory is just that, however we must keep digging. |
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In relation to what was being discussed earlier: CSW has put a deadline of around 2020 to hack Paul Le Roux's coins and dump on the market, yet, there's no reason to believe this. Why would he be so sure that he is going to crack a hard disk encrypted with probably cascaded algorithms and a very strong password at any given date? Supposedly his mining operation is actually a farm of computers trying to crack the wallet file, but even then, there's no way to really know when you could bruteforce it. Anyone that has attempted to bruteforce strong passwords with those algorithms has failed. I've forgotten passwords and I already assumed it's pointless to try to access the data again.
Not to mention the huge fail that would be if Paul had additional encryption once the first password is broken which I don't doubt since he was a very paranoid man.
And this is all assuming that any of this is true (Paul Calder being satoshi, having 1.000.000 BTC and whatnot, and not just being more cover up lunacy by Craig to avoid the aussie taxmen, keep his shitcoin on the headlines etc).
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Do NOT power up the HDD again on your laptop or any other regular computer, because the sectors in which your wallet file are setting could become overwritten and thus basically impossible to recover unless you hire some high tier forensics specialists. Just an overwrite and it will become a nightmare. Use special hardware for this. I don't think those apps will cut it, don't risk it. If you are serious, you should go deeper. If it not was a lot of money, I guess don't bother and use the software on hddguru.
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The situation in Venezuela with the UK refusing to repatriate Venezuelan gold also highlights the need for nations to have full control over their money. Bitcoin has advantages over gold in that it does not require physical storage and can be possessed by nations very easily. The key is having multiple highly-trusted people involved with strict oversight. I am not sure how this will be managed, but I imagine it will be similar to how nations manage nuclear codes or military secrets.
Water is wet. Countries have never controlled their own gold, it's a much more complex array of variables which involve game theory that collides with other countries and their jurisdictions. It's not easy to deal with gold when you are storing it overseas. Similar to Bitcoin, if the gold is not sitting on your own banks, it's not yours. Maduro should have known better and not store it overseas. One could argue that Bitcoin is a better store of value than gold, but it would also have problems. It's a click away from someone wanting to betray you. It has it's pros and cons. But all things considered, Bitcoin wins the match. |
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It would be great if Martin Armstrong open sourced Socrates. What's the big secret about it? If it's so good and it works, let people compile it themselves, and he would end up making MORE money than he would ever make by charging subscriptions into some obscure future-predictor. Pretty ridiculous if you ask me. Believing he will keep being right in the future is delusional at best. I think he is just a decent fundamental analyst, that's all. I don't believe in Socrates, Hyperwaves, and other so called "methods" to predict the future. Open source it or bust.
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Lol funny bitcoiners already trolling the US government with transactions.
They want to induce FUD into people using Bitcoin overall, since there is a risk that your transaction could have been mixed with some sort of tainted address by the government, which would result in you getting into trouble when you are completely innocent and just did your transaction which got batched with someone's else.
What will this create is the opposite effect they want: people will be too scared to sell for fiat, and will simply hold, since as long as you hold within Bitcoin you are safe from arbitrary government laws which could screw up a perfectly innocent man.
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As far as voting goes, it must be done on the Bitcoin blockchain. What other blockchain are going to trust? It would be rather counter productive to put it in any other blockchain, in fact I would trust the voting count to be more reliable by government officials than if it gets done on Ethereum or whatever other altcoin. Only the Bitcoin blockchain is decentralized enough for it to held votes.
How it would be done comes down to sidechains in my book. A sidechain could do this task better than cluttering the chain with a bunch of transactions per vote.
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I see there's a Legendary spot open, I would like to take the spot. Will edit post with details soon. I took a break from the forums but will be back posting daily now.
There's an open slot, but it's Sr. Member slot. I think you look at wrong/older date. Well, as of right now the OP says this:
Sr. Member spots open = 1/5
Hero Member spots open = 0/5
Legendary Member spots open = 1/5
So either that or the spreadsheet is incorrect. |
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I see there's a Legendary spot open, I would like to take the spot. Will edit post with details soon. I took a break from the forums but will be back posting daily now.
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I think it's because they have two or more "competing" pools, i.e. eu.antpool, asia.antpool, etc. Each pool has its own block template, maybe for latency reduction.
Well, it's similar to "option two" and I don't think antpool (or other parties) have malicious intent.
Big quotation marks in "competing" pools there. Indeed there's different antpool pools but not only that, im sure Jihan controls a bunch of these other mysterious pools which as far as im concerned, came out of nowhere, have no clear visible leader of the operation, no one knows where their headquarters are and so on. Then, there's under the table deals in which Jihan Wu is for sure involved. Haipo Yang and Jihan most likely are in contact. Who knows if Haipo and other CEO's of other mining operations aren't really CEO's of different companies but Jihan's employees getting paid to act as CEO's of different companies so Jihan can diversify his power without being accused of controlling the market with a 51%+ hashrate. I really hope advancements in ASICs can end the Chinese monopoly and hope your proposal is a success and actually functional. |
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Chipmixer devs should look into porting the website into the new tor format. It's supposedly more secure, more private, faster. The address format is longer so the current one is definitely the classic one. It has been out for a couple of months with no problems that I know of.
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Does this really even matter? The Government will just print more USD to pay for what it wants. The entire system is based off debt, there are more debts in the world than money to pay them all back. The only thing that keeps the USD a global currency is the military force backing it.
Maddof schemes can only work for so long. Eventually it's a non sustainable dead-end. The question is, for how long can the US be forced down everyone's throats as the global unit of account/world reserve currency? Given past precedents, it's only a matter of time that the USD hegemony ends. I don't give it more than 20 years, unless the USD for some reason destroys any past precedents which I doubt. What matters is what will fill the gap that the USD leaves: The CNY or Bitcoin? |
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