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Its a tragedy but i don't think its a global concern.
Sure someone can break in and force you to give him your bitcoins. Or your jewelry, your safe, your dog.
It's a bit like someone stealing your debit card at gunpoint and asking your NIP.
Doesn't seem like it's something that would randomly happen.
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Hehh white Collar crime is only a few years in prison and its quite possible the BTC are (allegedly) stashed somewhere safe.
It can quite possibly be impossible for authorities to reclaim them.
I hope the culprit get what he deserve but people seem to be getting away with BTC crimes pretty easily...
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It was my mum's birthday yesterday. And I wanted to buy a birthday cake for her, but when I reached the bread shop, I realized I forgot carrying my wallet and I had only a few bucks in my pocket. I tried to talk to the boss of the shop if I can pay by bitcoin, to my surprise, she said YES and finally I paid the cake by bitcoin.  This is my first time to use BTC as real money buying a real physical goods. As a bitcoiner, using BTC online is very common. Have you ever used Bitcoin as Real money to buy Real/physical goods? plz share your experience.  I paid 0.1BTC to my classmate for her photo. Haha, that's kinda creepy! I bought a couples of things, tigerdirect takes BTC so its pretty convenient. My first direct purchase was USB keys and Ethernet cable for my GPU rigs and other miners  I can also pay my bills or credit card so with, in a sense, i can buy almost anything with BTC  |
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All Gifts are tradable. I bought them myself in the North America store (Canada). I can show you or trade rep from steamgifts and steamrep. Payable in bitcoins. Don't Starve Together - 9.5USD
http://store.steampowered.com/app/322330/ Sold. Revolution Ace - Online Coop - 0.50USD/ea Retro shoot 'hem up with RPG elements; http://store.steampowered.com/app/274560/Escape Machines - Single Player - 0.50USD Early Access Sci-fi RPG-ish thing(?) http://store.steampowered.com/app/363490/I will need your email to mail you the Gift and your profile URL. After we come to an agreement i will send you a unique address. You will send me the bitcoin and after there is a confirm i will e-mail you the copy. |
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I live in Canada, i can use Bylls to pay my bills directly in bitcoin. Your credit card number is a bill number you the payments can be done directly to your CC.
All my monthly stuff goes through my CC so basically, if i had the BTC i could live strait off that.
Such an option where you live would help?
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Block size would scale well by being recalculated in %size based on need, like how difficulty is calculated, no?
And a blockchain the size of Peta gb. Weren't people talking about making the blockchain smaller by using checkpoints?
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Oh boy, over 200% already.......One would like to think that after a 666 block, the next dozen would be under or around 100%
the 10 before the 2x 666 block were really good. I started mining Sha for the first time ever on that block. When i started it was at 70% xD Can't say i been doing good so far with my 1th. Fun ain't it? If you haven't seen these already, check out this thread and associated website: http://www.poolpayouts.com/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1059040.0Haha. Well it's been HELL of a block to start on. (Pun) It's an interesting experiment and also pretty much what i expected to see. I figured after 100 blocks found on Kano, i should be fairly close to 100% luck. |
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Oh boy, over 200% already.......One would like to think that after a 666 block, the next dozen would be under or around 100%
the 10 before the 2x 666 block were really good. I started mining Sha for the first time ever on that block. When i started it was at 70% xD Can't say i been doing good so far with my 1th. |
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Silk road was seized by the fbi. I am trying to figure out if this solves the LE problem. Can we truly DECENTRALIZE websites. Keep them out of reach for good.
But that was not Tor's fault. That was operator error. That was Ross Ulbricht failing to have good Operation Security, not Tor failing to do its job. I guarantee you that people will be arrested and sites seized on your network due to the stupidity of the operators, not because the network is broken. Tor is perfectly fine and works as intended. I thought Tor was vulnerable due to "Exit node eavesdropping"? Tor has certain vulnerabilities yes. https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/tor-vulnerability-0729This talk about more recent work on Tor Security. Tor isint perfect. Its also vulnerable to man in the middle attack. It's just very hard to trace back but its not impossible especially with user error. For example its possible for private data to be gathered over Tor if you use js or mishandle the browser. |
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Still looking.
Interested in up to 3 Antminer S3 or 1, maybe 2 Antminer S5.
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One thing to keep in mind about most surge protectors - every time they protect vs a surge, it degrades them. Eventually they degrade to the point they are providing ZERO protection.
Definitely applies to any surge protector using a MOV (or combo types with a MOV as the last stage, though those type last longer as the other circuitry soaks some of each surge leaving less applied to the MOV to degrade it).
I remember there being at least one type that does NOT use a MOV and does NOT degrade, but I also remember that type being VERY EXPEN$$$$$IVE.
The one i'm using has leds and self test unit, i assume it will tell me if its not protecting since the led for it are there. And i never had any surge trip the surge protection which force you to manually reset the power bar. Do micro-surges damage the "MOV" too? |
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Hey who knows. Maybe we'll have a technological breakthrough that will create some super quantum or sub space computers that will generate 3^^^^3 hash per second and crack all the private keys in a nano second flat. It's not like you can disprove that its not possible (was it?) I lost track  |
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Young people dont want to understand anymore how stuff work. They jsut use it and dont care about how its work.
This is pretty sad.
Same thing about bitcoins in the future, you think kids will wanna know what the blockchain is and how transactions are verified etc? No, they will just care about using it and that's all I care about. Kids will go: Whaaaaaaaaaaaa!? 10 minutes blocktime?! Or Whaaaaa!? You had to manually copy paste addresses? Whaaaa!? You had to encrypt your stuff to stay secure? xD Then we'll watch a version video of this in 20 years and we'll chuckle. |
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Non bitcoins coins have blockchains and not all are PoW, so why would you need BTC?
The block chain is just newer ledger technology, there is no reason for banks to be unable to incorporate concepts based on bitcoin.
Yes, but what they would have would be a an intranet ledger for their own use. And if it has no token of worth attached to it then it's simply the same as programming whatever you like into an intranet ledger. That's not really a blockchain. That's just a cheaper banking system (for them.) Huh, the banks would use it for the Dollar as an internal ledger, yes. Using block chain technology. They could develop that into many things. If your definition of blockchain is "not a blockchain if there's no cryptocoin attached" sure, but that's not what the blockchain is. You don't need bitcoin to generate blocks of transactions and have internal nodes accept/reject. |
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Nope. I very doubt government will want to relinquish control... As a sub currency it could gain mainstream use but i think there will be much blood before BTC replace the Dollar. |
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Haha there's a huge wealth disparity on BTC. Having more people hold won't changing anything.
Having more people use BTC however would help increase its trade volume.
That could help its value!
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Non bitcoins coins have blockchains and not all are PoW, so why would you need BTC?
The block chain is just newer ledger technology, there is no reason for banks to be unable to incorporate concepts based on bitcoin.
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I still think that Bitcoin should be made in a way that you can transfer whole wallets to someone. It would include making a portion of the record in the blockchain to be client coded in such a way that if you transferred a wallet, you could no longer access it. Only the client code you transferred it to would be able to access the wallet. You would still be able to transfer individual bitcoins from any wallet your client managed in the same way as usual. I should think that such a change would make transparency even less than it is now in some ways... especially if you could go into the programming in your client, and change its code to the client code you just transferred your wallet to. (You wouldn't be able to do this if you transferred your wallet to the client of someone else. In that case, you would have given up access to the wallet. A different client would have it.) That's awfully complicated. Why not spend 3 cents and send your whole balance to someone else's and skip all the security things? I dont really see a reason to do otherwise. Wouldnt your way just be a way to transfer funds skipping fee? And if so, how would it be accepted by the blockchain? |
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I would wait to see the next gen of ASIC and then decide if i grab some newer ASIC or cheaper ASIC that get dumped from the upgrade in difficulty.
Should be able to ROI pretty fast and lose only little value!
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