ok so I have a ubuntu vm that I ran bitcoind on and took several snapshots in esx a year later or esx won't boot the vm saying the vmdk file is corrupt. I managed to copy the vmdk files off the server using linux vmfs tools but still can't access the vmdk files with vmware. The base image loads up fine but doesnt have the wallet file and none of the snapshot delta files will load. Any ideas on how to get the wallet file? I know makomk has a linux wallet recovery program however I don't think I can mount the linux virtual disk. I'll throw some one a few btc if they can help me get my wallet.dat as thanks.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25091.0I think that should work as long as you give it the vmdk file instead of a block device. If not, setup a loopback device and use that. |
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It's not that bad. If the larger block miners are >50%, they will build off the longest valid chain, so they will ignore the smaller block miners blocks since they have a lower difficulty. If the smaller block miners are >50%, they will always have the longest chain and no large blocks will ever survive reorganization for more than a couple confirmations. Block headers contain the hash of the previous block, so once your chain forks, the blocks built after the first split block are not compatible with the other chain.
No— "longest valid chain", all of the nodes which have not adopted your Bitcoin-prime will reject the >50% hashpower's "invalid chain" to the 'true' Bitcoin network those miners will simply stop existing. From one currency you will have two. It is a maximally pessimal outcome at the near 50% split, and it wold be against the issue of any Bitcoin user to accept a non-trivial risk of that outcome no matter what the benefit. I'm not sure I understand the "No". As far as I can tell you are agreeing with me, but your notation is confusing me. I was just refuting his claim that bitcoin prime miners would accept the blocks of the bitcoin classic miners by explaining that blocks wouldn't be compatible between chains since they have to include the hash of the previous block. |
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The HTML5 phishing attack works on any OS, and for the monkey-in-the-middle attack, you wouldnt even have to download malware, just buggy software that opens an attack vector is enough. Vulnerabilities in eg Firefox tend to be crossplatform. If you think you are so secure just because you run linux, tell me the output of java version "1.6.0_24" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.11.5) (ArchLinux-6.b24_1.11.5-1-x86_64) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.0-b12, mixed mode) |
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dose no one see the price is being blatantly manipulated up  epic crash in 5... can you provide the links and reasons please ? If you watched http://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/ like me and adam you shoulda been able to see it I've got that and btccharts.com open and I'll I see is the creep to $20. |
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The first thing you need to understand that it's not just a matter of the majority of miners for a hard fork.... it's got to be pretty much everybody.
Quite true. In fact even more so because "old" protocol nodes will only accept small blocks, while the "new" protocol nodes will accept either small (<1MB) or large (>1MB) blocks. Thus all blocks produced by old miners will be accepted by the new ones as valid, even when there's an extra 500KB of transactions waiting in line to be published. You'd need like a >90%, simultaneous switch to avoid total chaos. In that case substantially all the blocks published would be >1MB, and the old protocol miners wouldn't be able to keep up. If normal nodes switched at the same time, they would start pushing transactions that old-protocol clients / miners would lose track of. It seems very likely that when / if the change takes place, blocks will have been at the 1MB limit for some time and the end of the limit would immediately result in 1.5MB blocks, so it would have to be coordinated well in advance. It's not that bad. If the larger block miners are >50%, they will build off the longest valid chain, so they will ignore the smaller block miners blocks since they have a lower difficulty. If the smaller block miners are >50%, they will always have the longest chain and no large blocks will ever survive reorganization for more than a couple confirmations. Block headers contain the hash of the previous block, so once your chain forks, the blocks built after the first split block are not compatible with the other chain. |
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Oh wait I have a brilliant IDEA, lets take something physical like paper currency, make it digital like Bitcoins and the next logical step for this is to make bitcoins physical again like Physical Bitcoins by Casascius. That my friend is moving forward why didn't i think of that Physical to digital back to physical again. that makes so much sense.
What do you mean by that? Physical bitcoins are a good way to air-gap your bitcoins to prevent them being stolen or lost due to data losses. It's a quite common business now (see the marketplace) so a new entry would be really competitive, if you're thinking to take part in that. edit: Sacarsm detection fail  You know how easy hologram stickers are to reproduce. For all you know the Casascius Bitcoin could be empty or a fake. You should really spend less time making fun of a very well respected community members and calling your users "idiots". I was half interested and even downloaded the app, but fuck that, you're a dick. I don't like respected members of the community using hacked iPhones to purchase my Brownie Coins and then redeem them for Bitcoins. Next time you do this at least don't use an obvious username that is the same username as you bitcointalk username. I'm going to assume by "you" you mean the "idiots" because I did not buy any Brownie Coins. Anyway, I didn't understand you before since the earlier message says nothing about hacked iPhones, just jailbroken ones, which many people do for customization reasons. It was not clear to me at all you were talking about your first bouts with scammers. If they are in fact "respected members of the community", here is they place to discuss it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0 |
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dose no one see the price is being blatantly manipulated up epic crash in 5... can you provide the links and reasons please ? I'm going to take a wild guess and say no. Adam makes all kinds of shit up... he expects a dramatic move in every direction except left at all times. |
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If it's physical then you can steal it, break it or loose it.
If it's on your iPhone, you can steal it, break it, or lose it. I'm pretty sure the Casascius coins sitting in my safe are more secure than the browniepoints you're selling. please study before you write, the iPhone does not hold any Bitcoins. I am not trying to be a dick here but give me some respect. I have been in the industry for some time now and I know a little something about technology. Considering that I designed a system that secured over 5 million devices. In my humble opinion Physical Casascius coins are not what i would consider Secure. Again, way more secure than my phone. Are you saying if I have browniepoints in my account there is no chance someone could send themselves bitcoins if they stole my phone? No I am saying the application does not hold any bitcoins at all and it does not talk to any servers that have bitcoins, to answer your second question. YES this is not a perfect system that is why it's called Brownie Coins, The Brownie coins they keep have no significant meaning to their life. People Please Note: don't put your life's savings into Brownie Coins Yes it is possible that some one may steal them. So your product is subject to the same risks as Casacius's physical bitcoins, but your counterargument is that what you are selling isn't worth anything to the person who bought them? Okay, I'm just trolling now... I get that browniecoins are not intended to be held, but to be immediately converted. However, I would suggest you work on your professionalism so you don't clutter up your commerce threads with these types of discussions. Making fun of a well liked product around here adds nothing to your thread and makes it look like you're trying to take a cheap stab at Casascius when he was just trying to warn you about what has happened to people in the past. |
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The first thing you need to understand that it's not just a matter of the majority of miners for a hard fork.... it's got to be pretty much everybody. Otherwise, you will have a blockchain split with two different user groups both wanting to call their blockchain "bitcoin". Unspent outputs at the time of the fork can be spent once on each new chain. Mass confusion.
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Says the guy who's been ranting on for months about ASIC being fake. Congratulations, you've been added to my ignore button. You win a fucking gold star.   Don't worry smoothie, I'm still holding out so I can smack you back in line when you get too far out in left field  . |
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If it's physical then you can steal it, break it or loose it.
If it's on your iPhone, you can steal it, break it, or lose it. I'm pretty sure the Casascius coins sitting in my safe are more secure than the browniepoints you're selling. please study before you write, the iPhone does not hold any Bitcoins. I am not trying to be a dick here but give me some respect. I have been in the industry for some time now and I know a little something about technology. Considering that I designed a system that secured over 5 million devices. In my humble opinion Physical Casascius coins are not what i would consider Secure. Again, way more secure than my phone. Are you saying if I have browniepoints in my account there is no chance someone could send themselves bitcoins if they stole my phone? |
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besides do you want to support bitcoin or chinese website?
So you want us to make bad financial decisions as some sort of sacrifice to the bitcoin gods? pedophiles love bitcoin, many of them members of this forum
Where the fuck did that come from? Nothing I can see prompted this. 1st time you initiate unfriendly discourse. Now take a video of yourself holding a sign "This is 420 the lonely loser who trolls on bitcointalk forum because he has nothing better to do with his miserable life"
Fuck off you idiot
Again, completely unprofessional. If you're unwilling to provide proof your product even exists just say so. It wouldn't help you sell anything, but it would hurt your chances less than what you did say. And then: Yes you can, as i can always sell this pen for paypal or real cash and forget about bitcoin and unfriendly community
 Please do. We don't need your help, bitcoin is working just fine without your insults and demands that we make bad economic decisions with our bitcoins. |
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The last thing bitcoin needs is to become the official currency of the 'jihad'. Hopefully it's NOT sharia compliant in any way at all.
Such an ugly ignorant comment. This was posted under "press" - the comment is only in reference to the PR-implications for bitcoin. Nothing else. More specifically in reference to the comments to the original article. Thanks for the clarification; however, you are still saying that you want Muslims to be excluded because Muslims using bitcoin will deter ignorant people. Bitcoin is opt-in. If Muslims want to use it, that's great. If ignorant people don't want to use it, then they can swim in their cesspool of dollars, but maybe they could overcome their ignorance and prejudice instead. +21,000,000 |
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What's up with these people coming in and throwing around insults and then expecting us to embrace them as merchants? You're going to have to learn a thing or two about customer service if you want to separate me from my bitcoins. |
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well pfft. sold my recent mined btc. figure people are going to buy avalon gear and the middleman will dump them
on the market soon after. be crazy not to.
Or a lot of folks like me and my friend are buying at market price right now, to grab BTC to order AVALON ASIC in 9 hours.. I'm pretty sure the 600 order of this morning will not affect the price at all  And Avalon, who is rushing preorders in order to pay for parts before the weekend is up will turn around and sell $1500*600 = $900,000 into the bids beginning at 9 am. Unless we get some buyers stepping up, that would take us to around $16. There's always more buyers sitting off the books, but that's still a lot of selling pressure to absorb in a day or two. I'm pretty sure (I've read it somewhere a while ago) that Avalon pay some of their supplier in BTC. A reference would be great, but I also don't find that too hard to believe. Good news if true. |
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The last thing bitcoin needs is to become the official currency of the 'jihad'. Hopefully it's NOT sharia compliant in any way at all.
Such an ugly ignorant comment. This was posted under "press" - the comment is only in reference to the PR-implications for bitcoin. Nothing else. More specifically in reference to the comments to the original article. ig·no·rant /ˈignərənt/ Adjective Lacking knowledge or awareness in general; uneducated or unsophisticated. Lacking knowledge, information, or awareness about something in particular: "ignorant of astronomy". Maybe improve your knowledge rather than defending your ignorance. |
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Oh wait I have a brilliant IDEA, lets take something physical like paper currency, make it digital like Bitcoins and the next logical step for this is to make bitcoins physical again like Physical Bitcoins by Casascius. That my friend is moving forward why didn't i think of that Physical to digital back to physical again. that makes so much sense.
What do you mean by that? Physical bitcoins are a good way to air-gap your bitcoins to prevent them being stolen or lost due to data losses. It's a quite common business now (see the marketplace) so a new entry would be really competitive, if you're thinking to take part in that. edit: Sacarsm detection fail You know how easy hologram stickers are to reproduce. For all you know the Casascius Bitcoin could be empty or a fake. You should really spend less time making fun of a very well respected community members and calling your users "idiots". I was half interested and even downloaded the app, but fuck that, you're a dick. |
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If it's physical then you can steal it, break it or loose it.
If it's on your iPhone, you can steal it, break it, or lose it. I'm pretty sure the Casascius coins sitting in my safe are more secure than the browniepoints you're selling. |
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Not a long-term bear but Avalon is going to need to dump 600 * $1,499 back into fiat currency, probably half of that before the Chinese New Year. The real question is if a larger sell off will happen to try to grab some arbitrage before Avalon moves.
I figure less than $21.00 through tomorrow, then dropping back to $18.00 or higher until after CNY.
when do they start taking orders? 9am EST |
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well pfft. sold my recent mined btc. figure people are going to buy avalon gear and the middleman will dump them
on the market soon after. be crazy not to.
Or a lot of folks like me and my friend are buying at market price right now, to grab BTC to order AVALON ASIC in 9 hours.. I'm pretty sure the 600 order of this morning will not affect the price at all And Avalon, who is rushing preorders in order to pay for parts before the weekend is up will turn around and sell $1500*600 = $900,000 into the bids beginning at 9 am. Unless we get some buyers stepping up, that would take us to around $16. There's always more buyers sitting off the books, but that's still a lot of selling pressure to absorb in a day or two. |
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