I suppose that any sort of media file hashed would be a relatively good source of random bits, but I'm not an expert in this topic. If it were me, I'd be sure to either use a whole file or some portion of it which is definitely not a header (first bytes of many filetypes are going to be the same for every file of that type).
Don't use a picture that is already posted on the internet, and don't use a song from the top charts. (actually, don't use any song unless you are sure you are the only person who recorded it.) Definitely don't use a recent movie even if it never won a grammy award. But just in case you do, make sure your equipment goes through an analog portion. So there is some noise introduced. I tell you what I will do when I get my new DSLR, is I'm going to go around town and take pictures until the memory card is full. Copy those files to an offline computer. Then hash each one of them. To be hard core, use the RAW format of your camera, if it is available, or the highest resolution. Good luck with anyone figuring out 24 megapixels of data. Right, well I guess that is one way to be "hardcore" but I think the point here i just to provide an initial random seed to an otherwise and deterministic procedure. It seeems to me that if you are taking hashes of random media (or, IMHO, just sampling from /dev/urandom) you should be fine. Am I missing anything crucial? |
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Hello,
Is that ok for the admins of the forum that someone is making a lot of fake accounts and then selling them?
BR,
Gondel
You can make and have as many accounts as you wish on here. There are no rules against it and selling accounts is not prohibited. Ostensibly this is the case. However, is there any actual discussion of it on meta? I didn't find anything related. I'm still at a loss as to why anyone would pay anything for a newbie account, though. That seems crazy. |
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Do they have any promotion now ?
Can you be more specific? There are 66 player freerolls for a small amount of chips kicking off all the time. The donkdown is a weekly radio show but there's also a freeroll with a pretty significant pot if you can win it. I think if you ask a more specific question you can get a more specific answer. Anyway, I recommend you make an account and try out the site. Cheers! |
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OP needs to be marked as scammer unless he reveals who he sold it to, or the buyer comes forward. THere is no proof he had anything to offer. He only marked it as SOLD because everyone is questioning him. Further proof is that he said he was going to sell to 3 people but it sounds like he only sold to one.
In other words I agree with Jody.
I agree, I don't want to get into a trust war with anyone, so I'm not going to go out of my way to mark 'secret' as a scammer. But I consider this the marking of this a SOLD to be highly suspicious, most likely specious and incredibly silly. (going out of my way for the s-adjectivese there but i think you guys see my point.) correct as most of us is always confirming if they really buy something from trader but as of now i cant see any single sentence or words that someone has really brought his secret method lol i guess OP is just pissed of that is why he marked this thread as sold or much more likely OVER Absolutely, if someone speaks up that they really bought this, I'll stand corrected and eat my crow. Otherwise it seems like a silly way to try to bow out with honor from the OP. |
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It looks like I've finally got my shares from cgb.minar.cc so I think I'll have another whole CGB to my name. I'm such a small fish but I enjoy the learning experience mainly. Just wanted to rebump a question from earlier in the thread, was there really a moment in which CGB was worth .5BTC or was someone pulling my chain? I really gotta know.
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I spoke up about this repeatedly on this thread but the OP hasn't yet replied. Eventually I had to walk away. You're absolutely right that the price has changed and so has the market. I'm not trying to be insulting, I just think it's kind of a shame that there's been no word on this front.
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I wonder what this would look like with RFC compliant plain-text mail? I always have images and html mail disabled for security (and readibility).
Technically, there is the possibility of providing both things - so people who only accept plain-text mail will see that version, and those who accept the html version will see it. Not sure if this is the case here though. Good point. I get a lot of emails that are obviously composed in html and I'm seeing the stripped down version. Some look better than others. The most annoying is when there's a message in there that says "having trouble seeing this message? ...". I always want to reply "no, apparantly you had trouble composing it in a conformant way".  |
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Wow. After losing 750,000 Bitcoins. Who would trust them again? Not sure what's more insane, people who will use their new exchange or they thinking they can just start another.
That's what I cannot wrap my head around. The name itself will keep people from using it, even under new management. Yeah, I think that I couldn't agree more. I'm suprised if this is real. What's embarrassing is that about 8 months ago I would have told someone that Mt. Gox was the only exchange to be trusted. O how the mighty have fallen. |
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There are a few places and threads here:
1. using dice
2. using camera pointed at the sky
3. using random input from keyboard
As for the camera part, just use a brand new memory card, and take videos and pictures as you walk all over town of anything in any angle.
By the end of the day, you have thousands. Pick a few dozen as input, then hash the entire file to get your new "random" number.
I know how to calculate the sha256 hash of my files, but how am I going to get my private key and bitcoin address from it? The idea is that you use the random number as a seed for generating a bitcoin address. There are some other threads about how to generate a bitcoin address by hand. |
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I did look back and didn't see a solid rebuttal which is why I asked you to quote it/them for me. :head-desk: Eesh, you're really gonna make me hold your hand and walk you through it then? Fine, on we go: 'Absolute' truth is 'that which is'. So, you will concede at this point that your use of 'absolute truth', as opposed to simply employing the term 'truth', was superfluous hyperbole and entirely unwarranted, yes? Now, in terms of your particular raison d'etre, philosophy or, as I prefer to call it, pretentious navel-gazing rhetoric - Let's look at your attempt to employ argument from abstraction, such as math, as equal to that which is observable and measurable via the scientific method. Using abstract concepts as the basis for believing you are emplying objective reasoning *outside* of the realms by which the scientific method can be employed, namely, the observable, measurable and testable reality that is our Universe, unfortunately misses one rather important fact or, to use your word, truth. Abstraction is derived from actual, tangible, measurable, observable, things. You know, those things what the scientific method gone done and got all clever on your ass about, to your chagrin. Abstract concepts, such as math, generally represent things that actually exist or are a stated quantity of undefined 'things' for the purposes of mathematics and, when they do not represent things which actually exist, guess what they are? That's right, they're arbitrary made-up-shit(tm) from our imagination and entirely devoid of any objective value whatsoever (other than entertainment). They may be pretty, like the flower is pretty but without the physical flower or a representation of such with which we can base the abstract notion of floral 'prettiness' on, you're fucked. So your philosophical word-salad about 'truth' and 'God' is just as irrelevant as it is intellectual dishonest because, as much as you want your abstraction to stand up on it's own, it doesn't. Abstraction that is not derived from substance is not reasoning, it is speculating. There's definitely a lot of emotional language in here. But I just want to point out a couple of things: * 'abstraction', the term, as used in math and philosophy is concretely defined (see the lambda calculus for a very generalized defnition). in a sense abstraction is exactly what science does: it boils observables down to explantory (yet directly unobservable) principles. For example: you drop an apple from a given height (this implies you come to agreement about what you mean by 'apple', 'height', 'drop', etc). You do this repeatedly. You record the time it takes for the apple to the the surface below it (this assumes you come to agrement about what you mean by 'time' (hint: counting the oscillations of a cesium atom may help)). You find that the value you come up with for this example is repeatably equal. Then, here's where the abstraction comes in: you define the abstraction of 'gravity', you posit that this explains observable phenomena related to the acceleration of the fruit in your experiments. You feel especially satisifed when your result generalizes to all objects (not just fruit!). Thus, gravity is an abstraction, and very much a scientific notion. Okay maybe i'll leave off there. It seemed like these discussants weren't taking into account the fact that abstractions are relevant to scientific systems---especially where abstractions provide generalizations over directly observable phenonmena. This is the crucial part, the grounding out in observables. If you don't meet that criterion, you're in the realm of metaphysics and supernatural---by definition outside of science. |
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OP needs to be marked as scammer unless he reveals who he sold it to, or the buyer comes forward. THere is no proof he had anything to offer. He only marked it as SOLD because everyone is questioning him. Further proof is that he said he was going to sell to 3 people but it sounds like he only sold to one.
In other words I agree with Jody.
I agree, I don't want to get into a trust war with anyone, so I'm not going to go out of my way to mark 'secret' as a scammer. But I consider this the marking of this a SOLD to be highly suspicious, most likely specious and incredibly silly. (going out of my way for the s-adjectivese there but i think you guys see my point.) |
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It's a very good thing for people to have all the information on the campaigns. They can decide what is best for them and makes the whole process for everyone. It could also attract others to join in and that is always a good thing.
Agree, it's really good to have a centralized place for comparison and contrasting. I used to use bitmixer.io but realized that it wasn't at all offering a competitive rate. In the end I had to switch to RGC for the seriously better rates---it really can't be beat. |
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can someone provide link for donkdown I can't find it ty
For the donkdown radio show or the freeroll? I was able to get into the freeroll on the android client under 'tournaments'. Is that what you were asking about? |
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Hello quantitative and impressive people of the internet:
Here are some stats I'd love to see but don't see how to generate---maybe you folks see more than me.
* frequency of appearance of new altcoins---how many altcoins appear per unit time (you choose the most germane unit)
* average length of life for an altcoin---what's the average time between first block mined and last block mined for an arbitrary altcoin. i suppose that what happens at the end of an altcoins life is that no one is mining it anymore. but if the fact is that there's always some joker who keeps mining then maybe the metric for end-of-life should be when the price hits < some_relevant_low_value.
What do you guys know about this stuff?
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Amazing that TF still has all those defunct businesses in his sig link. Does he really want to remind people about his outstanding debts from inputs.io and the like?
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Isn't there a new altcoin called summercoin. I totally thought that's what this thread was going to be about. My bad. Still, it's a cute connection.
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It's funny to me how many folks misunderstand the notions 'science' and the notion of 'God' (as popularly accepted) in that they don't see that by definition, the two don't really interact. Science requies observation, measurment, repeatibilty. God is usually defined as not being directly observable, so that just takes him/her/it out of the picture right there. If your notion of God *is* measureable, then I think it's a nonstandard sort of God because it's no longer a super-natural notion your talking about. I don't have any belief in a supernatural beings, but my nonbelief has nothing to do with scientific experiments. On the other hand, I don't believe that black rats (Rattus rattus) have wings with which to fly, but that nonbelief is based on repeatable observation, so you could say it's grounded in scientific experiment (although in this case the experiment is a little to basic to worry about --- simply look for wings on the nearest rat).
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Is it the same folks? Or a new set of folks trying to capitalize on the old name. But wait, after such losses and reputation crashes, is the Gox name actually a good thing anymore? I'm confused.
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I wonder what this would look like with RFC compliant plain-text mail? I always have images and html mail disabled for security (and readibility).
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Why the hell can't people trust each other? What the fuck is wrong with this world? I have spent 50 fucking days of my life posting on here to help you all and I can't get a transaction done without being attacked by trolls?
WTF.
You can tell when the injections start wearing off. Dank gets very desperate. dankkk is probably not dank. Don't be an idiot and send some coin/money to someone who is going to scam you.  No im not dank, i got accused of being a scammer though because of my name. So i looked this guy up and saw the this thread. I was asking dank how much he needed. Whoa, a terrible namespace collision. dank with one 'k' is a pretty looney dude. This makes me ask myself: can we change our forum name? If so, what does that do to all your stats? I guess I need to post this in meta. |
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