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bitsalame, why there is porn in your list? It's not an illegal or bad thing
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Windows is safe, it's the people that use it that often are idiots
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Everyone?
Guiminer work without problems on both...
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The most probable thing is:
General lack of interest leads to slow death
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As I said, in order for Bitcoin to succeed, it needs to be made easy and safe. It is neither. And noone seems to want to truly address this.
^this |
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Ban dollar, is used to finance drugs, child porn and terrorism.
Arrest everyone using dollar, they are clearly helping the criminals!
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Didn't the ppl who lost the job pay taxes?  Why they should pay taxes if the government does not help them when they need it? |
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Still think that this had anything to do with luck? Well yes, i had no idea that bitcoin existed until some months ago. As soon i discovered it, i liked it but... you need to be lucky to DISCOVER it. |
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But spending billions of dollars on a ton of AMD GPUs simply so that you can destroy the bitcoin network is a negative sum game. 15 millions of $ aren't "billions"  |
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The client require a much better way to manage the wallet.
Why it is auto-created the first time i start bitcoin? It should allow us to create the wallet.dat file, choose where we want to place it. Allow us then to open another one for example. Maybe a file NOT named wallet.dat too?
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If you produce electricity via solar energy you could sell it. By using it for mining, you PAY for it, because you don't sell it. Learn economy 101 |
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A trade with bitcoins is protected by the law exactly like a trade with gold or what else
If i sign a contract where i exchange gold for bitcoin and you take the gold and run away without paying, well, law will protect me.
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When making your backups of bitcoin, the wallet.dat file is located in the user file, (actual users name), AppData, Roaming, Bitcoin folder.
Yeah, it's fascinating, the bitcoin client automatically put the wallet.dat very well hidden somewhere in the computer without even telling it to you And then we wonder why bitcoin is not widespread used? |
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It is not so hard for a rich guy or organization to spend 15millions to fuck bitcoin...
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Very doable if you can afford to spend 10/15 millions of $
Any rich guy could happily do it without problems...
Getting 50% would take a few million dollars, but rewriting many past blocks is much more expensive. Even if any of this does happen, it can all be manually straightened out after control is regained. Well he should buy the hardware and then run it long enough to have a longer blockchain Once this happens how can you fix this? The only way would be to organzie a separate network with the old blockchain and telling miners to mine on it until it finally become once more longer than the "bad one" It can be done but it require 1)a backup of the old blockchain 2)enough miners that know what to do |
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You forget the "do it for the lulz" factor
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How realistic(practical) this attack is ?
Very doable if you can afford to spend 10/15 millions of $ Any rich guy could happily do it without problems... |
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But the blockchain "lenght" is based both on number of blocks and difficulty
So if his chain is shorter but has a much higher difficulty?
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I agree. For one thing it relies on encryption and a public log. Encryption can be broken and with bitcoins as is, you can't force new encryption standards on old bitcoins. As for the public log, if someone branches from it or introduces their own log then we loose credibility of the currency.
Bitcoins is a good proof of concept, but I think the concept will be taken over and improved upon by companies who don't respect the same level of anonymity that Bitcoins and Tor promote.
Good luck breaking SHA 256  |
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