i think mit students are the least people in the world who need free money
I don't think that this is about free money. This is about spreading knowledge and essentially some coins. And the people who donated the coins donated it for a purpose - getting it into the hands of a lot of very technically minded students who can do development for it. If someone else want to donate to a homeless shelter, no one is stopping them. |
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Is this a late April Fools Joke?  Or innumeracy. :-) |
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I think technically, it is implementable. That is, bitcoin owner can state somewhere in the block chain that bitcoins in that address cannot be sent, which can add one more level of security. Also, the owner can voluntarily reveal his identity in public, or to a trusted third party.
Anonymity should be an added feature, not a mandatory feature, and that will improve the overall security.
1. Anyone can state "this public address is me" right now. You can be non-anonymous without any feature changes. 2. A private key states that coins cannot be sent. That is its function. No additional feature is required there either. If you require a second or third signature for more security, then use multi-sig for the trusted third party. |
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I won't rehash what others have pointed out about the current version, posting the transaction id etc, but you also might consider using the testnet until you have the bugs worked out.
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There are no transactions. It's like the wallet with funds in it never existed-- the address, private key, and coins are nowhere to be found. Although when I search the address on Blockchain, I see the transactions and funds. The private key extraction does not work (error is: Private key for address 13hZ8DCJ1jQgdgSDZx6DvnGpZbKii11KE9 is not known (code -4))
I'm stuck and pretty disappointed that upgrading to a new bitcoin wallet could cause me to potentially lose a significant amount of bitcoin. Any other suggestions?
If you have a backup and/or have the private keys, you won't lose the coins. Shorena made the point above, having a good backup is critical. However, as was stated below, it looks like you may have resolved the issue since they were moved. |
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You are correct. I would put a note like cryptsy to say "Do not mine to this address", only send confirmed coins.
They'd have to be solo mining, not on a pool or going through an exchange. And I'm sure bitcoind won't show them as spendable, so just check that and you'll be covered in this super duper rare case that will never ever happen. A few pools send newly mined coins - p2pool for example, although that is the exception. :-) |
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Note that I am for fair taxation
I think everyone is for "fair" taxation. The problem is that people disagree as to what is fair. - For some, no taxes at all is the only fair system.
- For some, Fair taxes are where everyone pays in the same amount.
- For some, flat taxes (everyone pays in the same percentage of their wealth) are ideal.
- Some hold that progressive taxes (where the rich pay not only more than the poor, but a larger percentage of what they have) are best.
- Some say that the more even the wealth distribution is, the fairer it is, with communism being the only truly fair system.
I think that when most people talk about fair and vote for politicians who promise it will be "fair" when it gets right down to it, they mean they want someone else to pay and they do it by voting rather than coming right out and showing up at Bill Gates' door with pitchforks. In short, they want someone with more income than they have to be forced to pay for something they want, but don't want to pay for. Then they use lots of excuses to justify it. :-) |
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I tried to create swap area but unfortonetly i haven't right to create.
I got the following error "swapon: /swap: swapon failed: Operation not permitted"
Is there any another solution, or i have to discuss this problem via VPS hosting administrators?
Given that the error is "Cannot allocate memory", it is memory issue. You'd have to ask the admins or switch to a different provider - digital ocean has some nice options, btw. As I, and someone else said above, try limiting the connections. Also, as I said above, check the version - the current is 0.9.1 and your version is showing 32400 which is 0.3.2.4 iirc. The newer versions may handle memory better. |
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Time and time again I see people panicking over Bitcoin and how it could crash any second and the ignorance frankly frustrates me. If you look at any bitcoin chart it'll show that Bitcoin has actually been gradually rising over time. The only reason it has been volatile lately is because it just recently got caught in the public eye. This caused a large amount of speculators to put money in and out of Bitcoin, which caused the swings we've witnessed recently. The fact of the matter remains though that Bitcoin has not fundamentally changed at all since 2009. If you bought in at ANY time before the price hike in November of 2013 then you're still up on your investment. I read some of this from the articles below if you want to see some charts/data for yourself. http://www.panture.com/should-i-sell-my-bitcoins/http://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2013/02/14/why-i-dont-think-bitcoins-big-price-rise-is-another-bubble/My only quibble is with "gradually"! :-) Otherwise, makes sense. |
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People worry about this because some of those mega-whales (like Satoshi or the purported 650k Gox thief) can severely crash the market. When you buy bitcoin you not only put faith in the protocol but also on the rationality of mega-whales.
Even a huge dump of coins would only depress the price for a short period of time and would help increase the so-called "fair distribution" by enabling more people to buy more coins at a lower price. If you had someone dump 650k coins and the price hit $1, it would be snapped up in a very short period. Plenty of people would say, "shoot, I'll put 1000 Euro in as a gamble." |
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You early adopters got to buy at $1000 !!!
In 2019 we pay 5,000,000!!!!
not possible considering the lowest possible unit of a bitcoin is 0.00000001 It is infinitely divisible with a change to the software. And if there is no change you could track sub-Satoshi's off the main chain. |
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The part highlighted also looks odd. You may want to download and build from github because that version looks really old. Did you by any chance do an apt-get for bitcoin? iirc that version is way out of date. ...
"version" : 32400,
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I have no idea what this error mean, or how can i resolve this kind of error.
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How much RAM does the system have? You may be able to enable swap on the machine and fix the issue if you can allocate a few more GBs in swap space. As mriou says, this is a memory issue. e.g. swapon /var/swap.img once you've created the swap image file. [edit: see https://wiki.debian.org/Swap ] You might also be able to decrease the number of connections which I've heard may decrease memory usage. I haven't tried that, I just make sure the machine has enough memory with some swap space too. This should probably be in the tech support thread too, btw. |
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1. Incorrect, each private key corresponds only to a single private PUBLIC key. You'll have to import each one that contains a balance in it. Alternatively if you want to take use of Electrum's deterministic system you'd need to send it to one of the generated address rather than importing as imported keys aren't restored from seed.
2. It doesn't matter if they have your address - it's designed to be public and shared. What you don't want to is to expose the 12 word seed (e.g eat burgers potato nuggets etc) as all the addresses can be determined from there.
3. Java =/= Javascript - they are completely different things that have different features and functions. As far as security goes, being paranoid is good but it's a lot of effort. For most people making sure to scan their stuff with an AV and not clicking random links plus having an encrypted wallet is enough. For those worried about leaks in RAM then they may use a cold storage solution but it is a bit more effort.
Best advice is to keep you're wallet encrypted. No one not even the NSA would be able to bruteforce the encryption hence you'd be fine (except if there's a hole in the implementation - but there are bigger concerns if there are).
If you need any more help feel free to ask.
Sorry, but this had to be fixed  Flashing BIOS or not has nothing to do with "Bad BIOS" (the virus you are refering to). Afaik you cant check for Bad BIOS other than trying to boot from a CD. If you can boot from a CD, the BIOS should be fine. Heartbleed will not affect you personaly, unless you run a server. It basicly can reveal secret information from a server that uses openSSL (in an old version). This might include things you send to this server, but it is not a way to inject malware to your PC. Esp. not if its offline. Not just servers. Anyone running the correct versions of OpenSSL. Some android phones have been reported to be vulnerable. Bitcoin 0.9.0 was using the current version (since updated to the fixed version of OpenSSL) and was vulnerable. So not just servers, although they were much more likely to be targeted. Also, bios can boot and yet still be altered. Bios is just a program after all that can be used to compromise your machine. Done properly, you wouldn't even know without checking the checksum or signature. |
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Perhaps they should rephrase the title: "Corrupt Officials try to block capital flows out of China"  In a totalitarian regime, undermining the system is a good thing. |
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On the download page on bitcoin.org you can click the link "Verify signature releases" which will download the signatures and then you can use the signatures to verify it is the correct release.
E.g something like
gpg --verify ...
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Why not start slow and do a 20-30% conversion. If the pundits are right, the dollar is going to crash and silver will go up for sure if that happens. We don't know if Bitcoin will be hurt or helped by the crash of the dollar, though my guess would be that Bitcoin will get a boost.
This is a good suggestion. If bitcoin increases in price to make $25k worth life-changing, 30% ($8k) will also be life-changing. And50% would be life-changing. If you have to be convinced either way though, think long and hard about changing course. :-) |
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Definitely run clamxav just to be sure - or one of the other ones out there. Better to be safe.
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I'd give a few things a try.
1. If you can create an offline wallet, you could always send your coins to a new address that has not been on a public machine just to be safe.
2. Then try running clamxav to make sure you don't have some type of trojan or something. It is free, and reputable.
3. If you are clean from 2, you can always use something like Little Snitch to monitor your incoming and outgoing connections in order to help determine what is going on. I think Little Snitch is free for 30 days or so.
It is hard to say whether it is an attempted hack without more info, but best to be safe vs sorry.
;-)
p.s. This should probably be in the "Technical Support" thread btw. ;-)
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Hi have a transaction that i didn,t send what can i do??
After answering Danny's questions, check your PC for viruses, key loggers, and other malware so you won't have your coins stolen next time. Make sure you follow secure practices for the future. Unfortunately there isn't much else you can do if you don't control the destination. |
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