What a bunch of n00bs.
Seriously, though...
You have to ignore those figures for at least 24 hours after a reset. It's an easy mistake to make, I'll admit. I wondered what the heck was going on the first time I saw it -- but I assumed something was messed up.
I'm not a noob, and I checked for a disfunctional statistic. I'm used to it being off for quite a while after a difficulty adjustment, but as I was watching it, the stats were rising instead of adjusting. And I still waited for four hours to mention it because I wasn't sure. You need to wait longer. That being said, the price is holding steady. I think everything will be ok. |
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Are there any other arduino parts people would like to see stocked?
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Most probobly a payment to a merchant would be made with partially tainted and partially clean bitcoins. As time goes on more and more transactions each would have a small amount of taint in them. And we are supposed to do something about this?
This is exactly how real world cash works as well. I bet some of the cash in your pocket (if you have any) has at once time been either stolen, used for drugs or other illegal acts. Cash is that way.
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General complaints
In addition, Mt. Gox's WebSockets are down WAY too much. It seems like half the time, Clark Moody's awesome WebSockets market depth and time & sales live feeds don't work (not his fault) and my indispensable SierraChart plugin's live feed stops working too (not slush's fault). I am really getting tired of putting up with all of this. With Mt. Gox making many thousands of $$$ per day in hefty fees, I really think they should be able to do a much better job ($23,439,882.93 traded in last 30 days * .0065 = $152,359.24 in the last month alone. I wonder how they are using all that money...).
Actually I think they make more then that. They charge both the buyer and seller the same .65 fee, so it is 1.30%. So more like $300,000 this month if I am doing my math right. I would like to see a lower fee and a better site as well, but I have to thank MTGOX because the level and complexity of the attacks against them are serious. They are under all kinds of attacks, flooding, DDOS, brute force etc. |
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Strange. the iMac i overtook in my university (guest account, logged on in background) still mines.
All day, all night. and due to multi-user-login it's seems still usable for the other students (otherwise they would had shuted it off already)
I am not saying it will fail, but it has a much higher chance of failing running 100% GPU load on an iMac for a long time. You may not have any problem. You also may be CPU mining which still puts heat stress on the machine, but it may not be as bad. |
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Honestly, if this isn't a scam I'll be surprised.
The funniest part is I wrote most the text.
It's a complete rip off from TradeHill.com
They didn't even change the part about being incorporated in Chile....
Maybe a scam, maybe a rip off. Either way ripping someones code and text isn't the way to gain respect in this market.
If you trade on their exchange I'm sorry.
I was noticing the copying of the text. "navigating the international...." A few things... Where are the rates? Do they really charge .25 % on Dwolla or 25 cents like most others? I dove into tradehill right away due to the rep of the creator. I am not so confident here but will wait and see before sending money. |
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They really do hate bitcoin. I think part of the reason is all of the article posts seem like they are pumping bitcoin and therefore are 'slashvertisements' and spam. Most of the anti bitcoin responses involve the words tulips or ponzi. It is kind of funny but I do recommend no more bitcoin things be posted on slashdot for a bit.
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Look at the second address. FfUUkUp wow, the irony. |
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Sorry to hear about your loss. In all likelihood it wasn't a virus or malware - it's a bit too early for that and if it was we'd see way more stolen wallets. From what you've written, I'd say it's a targeted attack. Depending on amount stolen, you may want to hire IT forensics expert. If it was a script kiddie you have a good chance of catching him. If you consider to pursue this, I suggest you turn your computer off ASAP. Unfortunately, we gonna be seeing this more often as value of Bitcoin increases  The problem is that I can't shut the machine as this is my work machine. I doubt any forensic expert can do shit. Bitcoins are 100% non reversible and even if this "expert" were to find out the IP address of the person who got it there is no guarantee that it was his real IP and well I'd be spending more than 25,000 BTC just to chase this. What I'm going to do though is shut the machine down and let the symantec antivirus clean the supposed infection it detected when I ran a scan of f-secure online scan (for some reason it detected a bunch of virus in the temp dir where the online scanner stores its temporary work - could be false). And then I'm going to backup my important data. Format and reinstall the machine. Then I'm going to sell whatever bitcoins I have remaining, take it as a life lesson, and count this as a not so fun experimentation with cryptographic currency. I am then going to focus on making plain old paper dollars and store them in a bank where at least I'll have the full force of society or some central government insurance backing me up - not to mention some recourse to the law in case of any theft. I would put in a trouble ticket in at mount gox right away. I am not saying they will do anything but it is worth a shot. |
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The best way to protect against this is to have an encrypted wallet file that you use as a savings account, and rarely access. Leave a smaller amount of coins in your regular wallet and the incentive to attack your computer is lessened.
And the damage is reduced too if it happens. Good idea. |
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If you stored your wallet.dat in three online sites unencrypted, any one of those places could have possibly taken the bitcoins by loading that wallet.dat on their client then spending the coins.
Spreading the file out in multiple places isn not necessarily the best idea unless the file is securely encrypted by YOU and not the place that is storing it.
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I imagine him waiting until Bitcoin saturates the planet, buying a sandwich, securely deleting his wallet, and moving on to his next adventure.
That will be a story cooler than any Hollywood movie. Indeed. Here's more: The sandwich shop boy happens to be a block chain geek and notices that he's selling a sandwich (spoiler: to a woman) for the first coins ever minted, but he doesn't say anything. He is inspired and leaves the sandwich shop to do amazing thing X. I like that. He also might make some of us rich by buying stuff (even small stuff) from our online stores. Now we have collectable bitcoin with a touch of Satoshi. I can only dream. Of course I have never checked my coins so I probably already spent it! |
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I like the calculator but wish it did not figure in the price increase in bitcoin the way it does. Could it be an entry for a growth rate there as well? |
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As far as I know you can not naked short sell bitcoin.
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I dont see a bitcoin price on the site, the dollar is the only pull down currency option
The prices are in dollars until the last part of the checkout, then it gets converted to BTC at the mtgox.com rate. You then pay in bitcoins. Otherwise I would be changing my prices a lot! |
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The cards have arrived early and are available for sale now. They are also available (until sold) for LOCAL PICKUP in Baltimore today until 7pm.
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