Seven emails from someone I don't know, giving me advice I don't need, encouraging me to change exchanges even though I already have accounts at both, and trying to get referral fees out of it - that sure meets my definition of spam.
Spam is getting advertisements for male performance products or whatever, for no good reason, out of the blue. Ms. BS's timely and responsive email blast was primarily an advisory about the MtGox situation, with the additional option of using TradeHill as a handy replacement also being provided. Your objections just go to show that no good deed goes unpunished. Mt. Gox had already e-mailed everyone, there was no need for any self-appointed "hero" to spam his affiliate link 8 times to 60,000 people. If the e-mail had arrived ONCE, BEFORE the official Mt. Gox mail, and had NOT had commercial content, you might have a point. |
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Googling "goemitar" turns up interesting results... |
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I do not know if this is real or fake. However, this is an direct download link that I hosted. Please comment... http://bit.ly/kE3Q4D[Edit: Holy shit, this is real. I found my email & password in the CSV. Shit just got real...]
This is completely against every privacy consideration that this file is openly distributed.The genie is out of the bottle, trying to stuff it back in isn't going to work. |
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If they cant get the passwords because they're hashed, then... ummm, how did they do it?
So it's easy to crack hashes passwords, takes a few minutes per password Incorrect. The amount of time it takes is related to the complexity of the password. "monkey" will be found in seconds, but something like "efweug#%_#Tsafwef24g" will take years. |
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Just wait until the first buffer overflow exploit in the client. Then things will really get interesting.
IIRC, there already was one, where someone generated a crazy amount of coins for themselves. There was a panicked update spree and the 'good' blockchain overtook the bad one once everyone had updated. Not a buffer overflow. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Incidents#Value_overflow |
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Thanks for answers. Have one more question. The constraint isn't 2 hours since the last block, it's two hours ahead of the the current network time, not the last block time.
How does system deal with local time? e.g. +2 GMT and -4 GMT. Everything is in UTC, of course. |
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Tip for Windows users: I discovered that if you create a shortcut to namecoind.exe and execute that instead of the exe directly, namecoind will go into the background so you don't need to have a useless command prompt window hanging around.  |
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Im getting every few seconds, "Problems comunicating with bitcoin RPC" on GUIminer. Is that normal with this Pool?
It seems that the pool has outgrown what its infrastructure can handle. I got a lot of "miner is idle" messages now, so switched back to mining Bitcoins for a while... |
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WTF is FreeOTFE and why would one use it instead of TrueCrypt?
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ditto. and, why was the 'generate coins' option removed? will you bring it back or is that only for elitists who can understand setting up scripts?
I somewhat agree. Theoretically a 10mhash CPU could generate 0.35 BTC over the next month if the difficulty stayed stagnant. It won't, but still that is a great way to distribute small amounts of currency to new interested users. Sure, flash a warning perhaps that it might deplete their CPUs lifespan and increase their electrical bill... but don't restrict them from the possibility that was once there. A lot of people don't want to have to install more than 1 program in the course of a their days. One is more than enough to frustrate many of my friends. FFS, just start the client with the -gen option then. |
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Thanks for reviving this old thread.
I've added a "vanityAddress" function in my bash lib:
Cool, except it doesn't work... bash: ibase=16; n=${1^^}; while(n>0) { n%3A ; n/=3A }: bad substitution
Which version of bash are you running? (I suspect yours doesn't accept ${1^^}) Mine is GNU bash, version 4.1.5(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu) GNU bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) I tried your script on several Linux servers, apparently none of them had a new enough bash... Could you rewrite that line so it works on bash versions that are actually included in distributions? |
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You do realize though that a lot of advertisement has been made stating that bitcoin is THE micropayment solution.
No one with any authority has said such a thing. |
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What do you get for signing up with a referral code? I couldn't find any mention of that on the site.
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