Yes you can manually set the fee with lots of wallets. Usually it displays a warning if the fee you enter is clearly too large, depending on the wallet in question.


Sometimes they pay and sometimes you pay depending on the exchange.

Yes thats a much better article.

Nope. Looks like it was mined by an anonymous miner. It COULD be Bitfury, wouldn't hurt to email them and check.

Wow that article is very badly written.


Looks like the author didn't even bother to read the blogpost that the Tor Project put up: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-security-advisory-relay-early-traffic-confirmation-attack

In short: they are COMPLETELY different attacks. The attack in the OP's article is the one that was used against Freedom Hosting back in August 2013, where they hacked the freedom hosting server and served up malicious javascript to anyone visiting the kiddy porn sites they were hosting.

This issue has been patched (it was a 0-day exploit in Firefox) and similar exploits can be prevent by DISABLING JAVASCRIPT like you are supposed to do when using Tor as javascript can do all sorts of evil things such as this.

The attack detected by the Tor Project recently is MUCH more serious. It involves running hundreds of malicious Tor nodes and using traffic analysis techniques to determine the users IP. It was also used to determine the IP's of the hidden services they were visiting. This kind of attack was already well known in theory, it is just the first time someone has successfully pulled it off, especially in a large scale and for such a long time (5 months).

Additionally it shows a huge failure on the part of the Tor Project as they had actually detected these malicious nodes hours after they originally came online in January but they thought that it wasn't enough nodes to pull off the attack.

Please note that this attack was ONLY executed against people visiting Tor hidden services. If you used Tor for general internet browsing you are unaffected. In addition it has been found out that the attack was executed by security researchers and it appears they are going to destroy all the information they collected (users IP's) so we dodged a bullet this time.

I've been trying to find out who mined the block and can't for the life of me figure out how you guys found out it was Bitfury. Seems others speculate it's ghash.io who controls that address. I haven't seen any definitive answer as to who mined that block.

How did you guys determine it was Bitfury? All I see is "Unknown with 1AcAj9p Address".


(and who is Bitfury, didn't there used to be an early ASIC manufacturer named that? I thought they were bankrupt)

Oh my god this is gold. Thank you kind sir, I needed a good laugh.

Agree with everything you've written.

Although one problem with Linux is how easy it is for malware to get root access on a Linux desktop OS (one with a GUI). A keylogger can be written in just a single line of bash script and it is capable of keylogging your root/sudo password because most Linux distros have no kind of GUI isolation at all. It can then use the password to gain root priviledges.

Microsoft have actually tried to do SOMETHING about this. I am sure it is probably defeatable though.

Linux definitely has more security features built in than Windows, but a badly configured or unpatched Linux system isn't safe. Just because you use Linux doesn't mean you are safe.

Additionally I think that it would be easier for malware to hide on a Linux system than on a Windows one. We've seen malware thats hidden at a kernel level, something that is not so easy to do in Windows as you'd probably need the source code for the kernel to do that.

On top of that most of the common Linux X servers do not do any kind of GUI isolation at all. Microsoft made an attempt at least, though I don't know how good it really is.

Windows gets a lot of flack, but really it's security isn't all that bad. A lot of PC manufcaturers preinstall tons of bloatware to make extra money and additionally lots of people run pirated copies of Windows which don't receive any security updates. When those people then get viruses/hacked they try to blame Microsoft when it is themselves or their PC manufacturer who is at fault.

A fully patched and properly configured Windows installation running software built from known good sources is safe.

Bitcoin is a CURRENCY. A good currency is one that is universally accepted. The more people willing to accept a currency the better.

You seem to think Bitcoin is something other than a currency. What do you think Bitcoin is?

He is already "linked" to the USD by accepting it via PayPal.

Thats actually quite interesting because the 30,000 BTC that was sold was seized from the Silk Road server which they are alleging LE had no search warrant for. The problem is Ross never put in a claim to say he is the owner of those BTC, so unless he or someone else comes forward to say they belong to them they'll get to keep the proceeds from that auction.

The BTC seized on his actual laptop (100,000+ BTC) is being battled out right now. Ross is claiming they are the proceeds of Bitcoin trading. If he can prove he is the rightful owner and they were obtained legitimately he will get to keep them. He needs to have proof and it's unlikely that he does but how do we know, maybe they were actually from Bitcoin trading. I've read the affidavit and while it's obvious the FBI are not telling us all the facts they haven't come forward yet with a whole lot of proof to backup their claims that he is DPR and ran Silk Road etc. It's possible they don't have any hard evidence at all although I doubt that very much as they have a 99% conviction rate.

You should out him by posting as much information as you can.

He will keep on scamming. People Googling his details may find this thread and you'll prevent further scams - or even better: potential employers might find this thread too and you can bet he'll regret scamming you if that ever happens.

I wonder if the store will actually accept BTC or is he saying that he is now just accepting fiat from bitpay/coinbase.

Allegedly there was a procedure in place by Silk Road staff to allow for the easy launch of Silk Road 2 if anything bad ever happened to the original Silk Road.

From what I can tell, all the Silk Road bust has done is provide free advertising for darknet marketplaces. After the bust there was a huge rush of people to sign up on Silk Road 2 and competitors, most of which are running smoothly.

Looks like they don't have the time sync feature for iOS yet:

https://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/issues/detail?id=329

Thats pretty annoying, I copied those instructions straight off of the website and there was no mention it was on android only.

Does it not work anyway? it should work so long as both devices have an accurate time set on the clock.

Sending BTC within your wallet or to other wallets really doesn't give you any privacy effect. The coins can be tracked using taint analysis. If you need privacy you need to mix the coins using a mixing service. CoinJoin is "pretty" good and is trustless.

Sending from one wallet to the other or within the same wallet requires the same tx fee.


Not really. If you use coincontrol properly it makes no difference whatsoever.

These addresses already have a balance on them. Sending them dust wouldn't aid in revealing the wallets structure unless they were previously used but now empty addresses.


Yes you should do this. Keeping your wallet as a paper wallet like you are doing is generally a bad idea.

Somebody sent 1 satoshi to thousands of bitcoin addresses. People do this from time-to-time because it doesn't cost them much to do, hard to think of a reason really, sometimes it can be a mistake or technical bug on their end, sometimes for no obvious reason at all. It's nothing to be concerned about - you can't stop someone from sending you free BTC. I have received tons of these over the years, some much larger than 1 satoshi.

Every bitcoin address that has received coins is public in the blockchain, we just have no idea who they belong to.


Yeah you can do it on your WO computer so long as you restore the WO wallet on it and not the real one.

https://bitcoinarmory.com/download

Also read the part about verifying signatures.

Reading that thread there are many people accusing the developer of putting viruses in the coin.

Be WAY more careful in the future. Don't run ANYTHING you aren't 9,001% sure is safe. If you are installing software that has the source code available, learn how to compile it from source. Running the exe puts a lot of trust in the developer as the exe can do ANYTHING. People can check the source code for viruses but they cannot easily check the exe.


You should not just delete the directory like this guy recommends. You should do a fresh Windows install. This is the only way to be sure you've removed it.

Uh oh. netsh.exe is a similar name to a windows system file. There should not be a file named that in the zipcoin directory!

Looks this isn't the first virus accusation against this coin:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=721306.msg8190098#msg8190098

Did you install the binary (.exe, .msi) or did you compile it from source?

Can you go to the folder C:\users\MyUsername\Appdata\Local\Spoon\Sandbox\Zipcoin-Qt\2.0.0.0\local\stubexe and post a list of all the filenames in there? make sure you have "show hidden files and folders" enabled too:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/show-hidden-files-in-windows-7/