I'm not a fan of security by obscurity.
There's one thing I know: if I were to be malicious and have system rights on your PC, there is no way you can execute a Bitcoin trade without me taking everything from every wallet privkey involved.
Of course, you can try to make it look & feel different by using VMs, weird encryption, blah etc. But in the end, the hacker has your RAM, your keyboard input, your UIs, your network interfaces... no matter how you open and/or decrypt, he can do the same.
Unless, of course, all your software except Bitcoin runs in your sandbox from the moment you installed the system. That works.
i've been looking into qubes. have you taken a look at it? http://qubes-os.org/Home.html |
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bitcoins are only useful in the virtual reality of idiots minds This guy is really funny no. he is not really funny. he's paid - and probably pretty well - to do what he does. go back through a few of his videos, and take a careful look at the background; not at him. it's a production set - not an apartment - get it? what was it that vladimir said a couple days ago? "have we gotten to the part where they fight you yet?" |
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Rant warning:
They just don't get it - everything they say about Bitcoiners is true about themselves in some sense as well. Every fucking thing.
welcome to human nature. we become what we hate. every holier-than-thou god freak who rants against abortion has probably participated (in some way) in one. every republican who rants against deficit spending is probably living on maxed-out credit cards. every gay-basher probably dreams about rainbows. every democrat who rants against guns probably owns one. every tea-bagger who rants about government entitlement programs is probably standing under the dollar shower. the trick is to own a mirror. |
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i think advertising to people/sites/businesses that might accept Bitcoin is good.
exchanges, swipe mechanics, and integrating the two are key. we need a way to auto-load plastic from exchanges with one click.
advertising to aunt tillie out there in the heartland - not so good. a waste of money. we agree that the usability infrastructure (* cough * UI client * cough *) needs quite a bit of work. and the security infrastructure needs to be as transparent as internet banking.
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is this raw dog video related to the bitcoin porn website?
yeah. the guy is a dick with ears. |
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Adam Curry is on board. Not exactly A list, but he's not a nobody, either.
mmmph. the Podfather of Bitcoin... |
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i've come to love that steroid-soaked paid troll...
gun cabinet? check.
guitar? check.
microsoft software? check.
diploma? check.
medical wastebin? check.
teh folksy stoopid? check.
does anybody think for a minute that the guy is real? that's hard to believe.
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Perhaps a little heavy handed there :-) But the issue of R18 games is big here in Australia right now, and it looks like the people will win, and get what they want ( http://www.r18games.com.au/). I hope. The problem we have here, possibly similar to problems in America, is vocal religious political groups trying to speak for everyone, and somehow having more impact than they ought. e.g. Family First: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_First_Party"Think of the children" you wanna know something that i've found to be really nice about this forum? (and the Bitcoin community in general) there's so much less of that crap here. that: i have a claim on you because of my religious beliefs crap. i can't actually think of anything i hate more. |
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I mean I have a shitload of coins and I'm struggling to figure out why these should increase at all the next few weeks/months
spend some. it's that simple. the hard part is finding the stuff you really want that you can pay for with Bitcoin. me - i send out e-mails every day to vendors, asking if they'll take Bitcoin. it's a process. it's going to take time. |
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buy high sell low  - Bernanke - Fixed indeed. say Oldminer - by the way... i noticed your siggy has a marquee for Overplay VPN service. i'm kinda looking for one. do they take Bitcoin? didn't see the option on their site... |
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List it at bifreak for free. what if im not bi-sexual ?
What if you are?  I think you may have missed this one. heh. |
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richard simmons  I think hes a jew to boot (jewfro) could you possibly be any more offensive? oh... Richard Simmons was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Simmons was born to show business parents and raised Catholic in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Simmons |
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Neal Stephenson maybe? (author of Cryptonomicon)
+1 william gibson, china mieville, and neil gaiman too. |
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fantastic ad.
* sigh *
for some reason (* cough * ISP is comcast * cough *) i can't get to the wikileaks site at the moment. is Bitcoin prominently displayed?
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But wait, there's MORE!
with every sign-up you get a set of GINSU Edge-Shavers! guaranteed to make your Bitcoin stretch!!! |
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Daily growth of new members has also declined post-GOXED-day. Interesting to see that there were several days of high (>400 new members/day) sign-ups before the GOX debacle but the sign-up rate has cooled off after that. the most interesting statistic of all would be this: how many of those new members were banned or heavily edited by the mods in the days leading up to, and immediately after, the GOXing? it can't be that difficult a statistic to suss out from the forum database... |
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"i can't disclose my sources, but..."
"my brother-in-law heard..."
"the word on the street is..."
"a guy i met in a bar said..."
"michelle bachmann believes..."
* yawn *
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the exchanges need to separate their trading from their assets.
all assets should be held off-site, and updated every so often. if the site is hacked or goes down, the assets are unaffected and can be gotten out. yes - with the exception of the vanishingly small percentage that are actually involved with any issue. there's no reason that trading can't be run against a real-time ledger, rather than against real assets.
80% of the Bitcoin economy was frozen for weeks by the MtGox issue. there's no excuse for that. people should have been able to get their assets out within minutes after it happened. and trading would have resumed with barely a blip, somewhere else.
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Right now, I would DEFINITELY spend more Bitcoins if I could purchase more things I actually needed rather than simply use them to benefit the market.
absofuckinglutely. i don't want or need geek stuff, computer stuff, intangibles, or 99% of the stuff that's currently being hawked for BTC. i want regular gold-toe socks, levi 501s, soap, generic aspirin and other OTC meds, herbal supplements, bulk-pak food staples reasonably competitive with wal-mart, some guy to clean out my gutters, booze, movie rentals (on-line or redbox), and all the rest of it. |
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