sorry für OT: Kennt irgendjemand hier den 'echten' Akka? Sein account wurde gehackt und ziemlich sicher auch seine gmx email-adresse. Er soll sich bei theymos melden um seinen btctalk account wiederzubekommen. mehr info: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=917636.0;allhab ihm eine sms geschickt perfekt, ich danke dir und klaus für's crossposten im stuttgart-thread. |
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Molecular, aren't you from Germany? So is Akka IIRC... Maybe some German Bitcoin website was hacked.
Also ThomasV who also lost his gmx address is from germany. gmx is a german email provider, so this is probably the cause for the amount of germans affected. |
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Note to self: Start an email server.
+1 I ran one in the 90s. Gave up at some point when it got harder to send emails via smtp around 2005 or so. I'm reconsidering this now. |
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I heard a suspicious rumor that it was somehow possible in some cases to reset the password of GMX accounts by using the persons date of birth only. I haven't checked it out because I don't have an account there, but it might be a good idea to look into it. Regardless everyone should stop using GMX, they're obviously very incompetent.
This whole story stinks. I don't belive in this "random dumb script kid hacks Satoshi Nakamotos email account" story at all.
There is someone simply trying to let us think Satoshi is still alive.
As far as I can see, you only need to know date of birth to reset a gmx email account password. Maybe he used the same DOB as in the p2pfoundation profile? Or maybe the kid found some way to automate it bypassing the CAPTCHA. I just checked out the password reset procedure on gmx.de. It's possible to use the phone-number or alternate email address to reset pw. Nothing about date of birth. When I tried to regain control of my gmx account in December, I called. They asked date of birth, but it wasn't enough. I had to email scans of my ID, which they only checked casually (I know because I called right afterwards and the guy said (paraphrasing): "ah, I see it's still valid, so that's ok, I'll send you reset-link"). So that's a possibility, although I doubt the exploit involveds a phone call. Also noteworthy: after my account has been taken over (as said this happened 6-8 times in the last 3 weeks) and I regained access, website displayed many (100s, sometimes 1000s of failed login attempts). I'm not sure if imap/pop login failures count here (I have multiple imap clients polling frequently, so if pw is changed, they will fail login). |
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sorry für OT: Kennt irgendjemand hier den 'echten' Akka? Sein account wurde gehackt und ziemlich sicher auch seine gmx email-adresse. Er soll sich bei theymos melden um seinen btctalk account wiederzubekommen. mehr info: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=917636.0;all |
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I can confirm account Akka was hacked (I informed theymos right away, thanks for acting, theymos), I bet he had a gmx-address registered with the forum.
My gmx account has been repeatedly taken over (about 6-8 times) since around Dec 16th.
How did the hacker know your email address associated with your account? Was it publicly known prior? I'm assuming he got it from the mtgox leak back in 2011 (or was it 2012?). It's very likely someone using gox in 2011 also has a btctalk account... and a valuable one at that  That's what I'd do if I had that exploit and was a black hat: take all gmx addresses from that leak and attack those dudes... there might be some bitcoins to be had. |
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I can confirm account Akka was hacked (I informed theymos right away, thanks for acting, theymos), I bet he had a gmx-address registered with the forum.
My gmx account has been repeatedly taken over (about 6-8 times) since around Dec 16th.
Those incompetents at gmx said I should check my PC for malware.
It became clear there is an exploit that allows password reset by an attacker.
The attacker tried to gain access to various of my bitcoin-related (and other) accounts. I know some of them because I saw password reset mails: bitcointalk (failed), bitstamp (failed), anonibet (successful, he got 0.007 BTC), dropbox (don't know, don't use it), paypal (failed), blockchain.info (failed), bitcoin.de (failed), twitter (failed)
I'm not sure why he failed on so many accounts. PW reset should've worked just fine for many of them, maybe I interrupted him. I also don't understand why he didn't try to lock me out of my gmx account by changing secondary security features (phone number, security question, alternative email address). I was always able to re-gain control of the account by using the registered phone-number.
I migrated all relevant sites from that gmx account.
I'm really pissed at gmx, why don't they close that hole already?
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Still no proper squeeze  I wouldn't expect it at these prices. At 400, 500 it might get interesting. |
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This is getting to be a concern.
I've got some low-placed bids, but the problem with that is that if there is a flash crash, Bitfinex has an algorithm to delay it. And they also might intervene to reverse orders as they have done once. So it is hard to predict how to take advantage of this. I'm guessing that a small crash will be acceptable, but a larger one could be slowed down (and thus partially stopped) or lead to reversed orders. So very low bids are less likelier to succeed that you would otherwise expect.
A cascading short-squeeze would mean the price will crash upwards, not downwards, right? |
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Was ist denn mit bitfitnex?
Seit 18:04 kein Handel mehr auf bitcoinwisdom angezeigt.
Hat es jetzt den naechsten erwischt?
Waren fast 18 Minuten weg, aber gerade gings weiter und zwar aufwärts! ...ich habe einiges an Kohle auf bitfinex liegen... gibts dort Probleme? nein. Aber wieso hast du da Kohle liegen? USD oder was? |
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"NUR" ist gut...  kannste rechnen? Ja. Bitstamp hat im Schnitt ein Handelsvolumen von 12k Coins pro Tag. Bei der normalen Fee von 0,5% bräuchten die 60 Tage um die Coins durch die Einnahmen zu ersetzen. 18k Coins sind zwar nicht wenig (4,5 Mio USD), aber noch verkraftbar. les ich aber ne ganz andere rechnung hier: https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/2repff/bitstamp_exchange_issues_megathread/EDIT: wenn das stimmen sollte können wir uns von Bitstamp verabschieden. Fuck, hab mich verrechnet. Sind tatsächlich 300-400 Tage. EDIT: Ich rechne das nochmal genau nach. Ich hatte die Zahlen nur mit meinem organischen Kohlenstoffbasierten Rechner überschlagen, was ja bekannterweise sehr Fehleranfällig ist. Hier das ganze nochmal mit Silizium: Laut Bitcoincharts hatte BitStamp in den letzten 2 Monaten im Schnitt 12279.37 Coins am Tag gemacht. Die Fee beträgt je nach Kunde zwischen 0.35 und 0.5%, im Schnitt schätzungsweise 0.4%. Da bei einem Trade beide Parteien Gebühren zahlen, sind das insgesamt 0.8%. Allerdings hat BitStamp trotz Allem noch laufende Kosten, deswegen rechne ich mit 0.5%. 12279.37 x 0.005 = 61.40 BTC am Tag Bis jetzt sind 18866.56 Coins auf der ominösen Adresse angekommen. Das würde also 18866.56 / 61.40 = 307.29 Tage, also 0.84 Jahre dauern. Aber: das Volumen in den letzten 30 Tagen war verhältnismäßig klein. In den Monaten zuvor war das Volumen viel höher. In den letzten 2 Jahren wurden bei Bitstamp über 10Mio Coins gehandelt. Bei der gleichen Rechnung wären das über 50k Coins Gewinn. Die Chancen stehen also ganz gut, dass Bitstamp bereits Rücklagen hat, die sie verwenden können, um zumindest einen Teil der Verluste auszugleichen. wenn es sich mit dem diebstahl so verhält sind sie erledigt. da handelt dort keine sau mehr. die beraten jetzt vermutlich über die exit strategie mit ihren risikokapitalgebern. triff sich gut dass der CEO eh in USA ist. wieso hatten die überhaupt 18k coins im hotwallet? Scheint mir unnötig viel. |
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guess what, a ton of people were selling coins on loan on Bitswamp (that is how they manipulated the price so low over the last 6 months) ... and now bitswamp has conveniently 'lost' coins ... i.e. the swamp is net short of coins.
go figure, it is not rocket science, someone has been selling non-existent coins and the swamp administered it. Good luck to anybody willing to deal with the swamp, you'll need it.
I never had much love for Bitstump after they told people "You remember those funds you sent us? We're going to need an identity theft kit from you if you want them back." IIRC, even Gox gave people fair warning. I was all done with exchanges before Bitstump came on-line so I was only watching from the sidelines. no they didn't give fair warning. At least not in my case. Out of nowhere KYC stuff was required to pull my coins (early 2013). Thanks god I pulled out in disgust at that point. |
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This is our final warning to create a new model for exchanges.
distributed models like https://bitsquare.io/ could work well. |
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I suffered a pretty bad cold the last 2-3 days.
Not sure if bitcoin price follows my health or the other way around.
I'm feeling a bit better today. Looking forward to tomorrow.
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* masterluc buying frenzy   Not sure I get the "buying frenzy" line. Care to explain? I believe what the master is trying to convey is that he is feverishly and madly buying.  That's how I understood it as well, but it doesn't mesh with his (sub) 200 throw-over remarks on the same page. Cryptic guy maybe he's just saying the throw-over is a possiblity, not a necessity. Just in case. |
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 thank you! will check it out soon enough. |
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If we see double digit Bitcoin in 2015 then I am quite sure that an Altcoin could have the throne up for grabs.
I though mass adoption and infrastructure would solidify btc's place. But I'm less certain now. Enough investment in an Altcoin wouldn't be unthinkable. Plus it seems like just clown-money in Bitcoin atm anyway - ie just buyers looking to trade and not use for anything productive. Silk Road was the best thing that happened to BTC. Those days everyone knew someone that was actually using Bitcoin to buy drugs with (where I live anyway). After the shutdown all those guys sold and most can't be bothered using the other dark markets after the shut down and buy their shit back on the streets.
Black Markets are flourish as ever. Your information is wrong. Conceited kunts like you are half the reason people can't be fucked with this tech. Let me rephrase. Silk Road was the only time I've seen so far that average people who would otherwise not care about BTC were forced to use it (adopt it) because they wanted their online drugs. Henceforth when they had to work a little bit harder or were too scared after the shut down they left the scene. Not saying it was the right direction for BTC but it demonstrated for me how it needs to be adopted to succeed. And it will not be successful based on the sound-money arguments without a systemic financial collapse of the currency system (still possible). Until then pay-wave credit cards have BTC beat. I was with you until the very last sentence. You're arguing sound-money property would be a win for BTC if fiat system fails and with you next breath you state the BTC would be beaten in payment space. I don't think BTC will go down by not being a good payment system. It's already a bad payment system. |
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