Not necessarily. Coins seem to be swept out of MtGox deposit addresses after 1-4 days, although it was faster months ago.

The odd thing is the coins are not being sent in the way a normal Bitcoin client would send them, the address balances are being nibbled at and combined with other small payments from other address to new addresses, like here: http://blockexplorer.com/address/12ViYXgordxUkmPhN5PAU9vJRHwc8jftfQ. The coins are sitting in that new address. Now the question is, is that a MtGox address or still the BitThiefs? If MtGox is willing to lock accounts because coins were long before used to scam MMORPG money, they should at least be willing to find, flag, lock, and IP log coins sent directly from mybitcoin users' addresses to the exchange, disclose that those are MtGox addresses if requested, and respond to subpoenas to the identity of the thief (for private action or to be handed over to the prosecution arm of juristictional law enforcement).

Along with the magical re-appearance of "Tom Williams" at the same time, we know it's the site owner, and I have a feeling they are being transferred to the exchange for quick sell, huge sells happening right after these transfers.

Yes, you seem to be able to mix driver version and OpenCL version to get the best of each without compatibility issues.

That is what I do, I actually run the ATI installer up to the point where it extracts the files, and then I cancel. On a completely driver-free system. I would then go to the device manager, find the video card, and then install the driver manually using the path C:\ATI\Support\11-12_vista32_win7_32_dd\Packages\Drivers\Display\W7_INF where they were extracted (or whichever version you want). That installs only the video card driver and no other stuff. Then browse your computer to C:\ATI\Support\11-6_vista32_win7_32_dd\Packages\Apps\OpenCL to install that driver's version of OpenCL. That's how you mix and match.

The ATI driver uninstaller leaves behind the newest OpenCL files, even when you choose "uninstall ALL ATI software". Follow these instructions before reinstalling: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=54693.msg651989#msg651989

That indicates a version previous to 2.6. If you want to be sure everything is uninstalled from 2.6 before proceeding, you can follow these instructions: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=54693.msg651989#msg651989

I would do a complete driver removal, in control panel, programs and features, uninstall ALL ati software with the Catalyst install manager, and restart your computer. Then follow the steps in that post to remove any remaining files. Then download ATI driver 11.6 or 11.11 (mining only, mining + gaming), install and reboot.

amdocl.dll and OpenCL.dll in the \Windows\System32 directory (on 32 bit windows). Right click on them, choose properties, pick details. 2.6 is version 10.0.851.3 through 10.0.851.6. If you don't like it, delete those files and reinstall OpenCL from an older version (typically put on your system when you installed the drivers in the directory C:\AMD\AMD_Catalyst_12.1_Preview_Windows_Vista_7\Packages\Apps\OpenCL\OpenCL.msi; replace 12.1 with the directory name of the version you want.

The bitcoin wallet is stored at ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/. All versions look to the same user directory location for your wallet.

If you didn't note it, I profiled the performance of Diapolo's kernel on my 5830 using both SDK 2.5 and the performance-robbing 2.6 here with lots of options and RAM clock speeds. It might give insights of where to go on the kernel for current driver OpenCL performance; the 58xx is a bit different than Diapolo's 5770 in how it responds to worksize.

The foundations seem napkin-sketched out already from Mike's post; I've started thinking it through, and a self-published alias might be the easiest addition. It would seem best to lift Namecoin's style of address registration with fee. There would certainly be a landrush period, and you would want to discourage squatting, so a significant but diminishing cost would better ensure interested parties might still find their desired alias available (see post #10 above; I paid .55 BTC in fees just for some fun...).

Implementation: You go into your address book, there is an option called "register label on network". You press this, it asks you to create an alias that other clients can see to send money to you. If you are not the first, you get an error that the alias is already taken. The alias is permanently included in the blockchain along with some bitcoins you donate as the fee, and then the address book will list all aliases registered to your address. Other Bitcoin clients would have a searchable database of all these aliases to find you as a recipient.

However, I don't think anything like this should be included in Bitcoin. Although not any more dangerous than "firstbits", it would make it too easy to spoof people into sending money to an "amazon.com" that goes to a malicious squatter instead. It also hinders anonymity and the sender identification that comes with one-time-use addresses.

samr hasn't logged into the forum since August. You might need to get the source yourself, try to set up a compile environment for it, and then modify the software so it searches for proper minikeys (only 1 in 10,000 or so mini-sized keys match the requirements if I recall) and then does the phrase check. Because of this additional difficulty, a normally 1-day phrase might take you 20 years though...

The answer belongs back on the vanitygen thread, but here's your option:
-f <file>     File containing list of patterns, one per line

oclvanitygen -k -f ListOfWords.txt -o FoundAddresses.txt

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Steering things back on course:

"filler", as used above, would be a "nonce".

From a glance-through read, it would appear that one would only be able to generate addresses for a single client at a time. Am a wrong, that the hashing and checking will find an address that would work for just one client. Currently, you hash once and see if the public address has any matches from an arbitrary list. Without the benefit of mining vanity addresses for multiple clients while looking for your own too, with minimal performance penalty, it doesn't seem an endeavour worth pursuing.

The second concern would be how to deal with distribution and bounties; now I'm thinking maybe something could be done better than just posting wanted addresses in a forum.

I have a new invention: unsolicited outsourced vanity address generation

It kind of works like this:

Address: 1Lukejrwhew7sj4TvWCKksaVo7aLpedHDt
Privkey: 5JB53xyWq9i81tBF2Tud9bpQwk1R2mjQA7gXNDHwp6QyiZC2T7K

Looks like I am 1% of the pool with a lowly 5770 thrown your way, let's see how it goes!

Bitcoins can't directly interact with the Namecoin network. You can buy Namecoins on an exchange with your Bitcoins, and then use those Namecoins to buy a domain. It's pretty cheap, about 0.0005 BTC for a domain name right now, less than $0.01 a domain name, and less than GoDaddy by far. That's probably why over 2000 domains were registered in the last 10 days.

The problem is that there are far fewer people using the Namecoin client than there are registered domain names. Of those that actually have a Namecoin wallet, far fewer of those use Namecoin to do DNS lookups - and why should they? You don't know where the names people have created will take you, and there are places it will be impossible to ever use Namecoin's DNS (try going to a Namecoin .bit domain on your iPhone...)

For getting to my own sites myself, it would be easier to use a hosts file. If my site is reallycoolsite.bit, I can't tell people to go to that address, they aren't going to be running a Namecoin DNS. It would be easier to use a DNS redirection service like afraid.org - at least everyone will be able to actually get to reallycoolsite.afraid.org if I say my site is there. Namecoin offers unblockable P2P DNS, but 99.9999% of the Internet is not set up to use these names and won't be, so it's close enough to "blocked" already.

Merged mining has steadied the difficulty and transaction rate of Namecoin; previously it would stagnate for months after a profit-raping mine-fest drove up difficulty. This also means new miners have Namecoins that wouldn't have heard about or used them otherwise, but not much is being done with them.

There is no limit to how far back coins can get zapped. At the launch of i0coin, I had 300-confirmation generates go pooof.

AMD appeared to already be silently updating the previous preview release, the version of it that I downloaded two days ago had Stream SDK 10.0.851.4 instead of 10.0.851.3. This release has 10.0.851.6. The Stream SDK/OpenCL version is what makes a difference in mining, and I doubt there will be many changes in the new 2.6 architecture (not like the huge changes from 2.5 to 2.6) now since it is not a preview, it is the current developer SDK.

Tested: Identical mining performance to previous preview.

One thing that wasn't changed: longest chain wins. If attacker can start at block 0 and get ahead of all that has been mined by the rest, poof, your generated coins are gone.

Why yes, all you had to do was look: AMD Stream SDK 2.6 (Catalyst 11.12/12.1) - Get your performance back! (Phoenix)

Go ahead and type in your password; compromised can mean key logger and screen shots, your wallet file sent to another computer, along with your bookmarks and address book. Hope you didn't use your password anywhere else, or have any btc in your wallet. Yubikey protects against a stolen Mtgox user/pass being able to log into MtGox without the physical fob code, but it doesn't prevent anything else a hacker might want to do.

Look out, another bubble?! What's old is new again!



I wonder if he sold those 200 coins for $6000 at the top of the last bubble... or doubled his money at .10