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521  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Vanitygen: Vanity bitcoin address generator/miner [v0.22] on: November 30, 2012, 03:28:00 PM
use "patch < nameofpatchfile"
I'm on Win7. Is there a way for me to still do this?

  • Get Cygwin.
  • Use its installer to install patchutils (listed under "Devel").
  • Open a Cygwin prompt (looks like the usual command prompt, but has a real shell behind it...usually bash).
  • Proceed as you would with a real OS.  Grin
522  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: CheapSweep: a script for low-cost address sweeping on: November 29, 2012, 11:34:31 PM
...and some statistics regarding the transfers I made while figuring this out:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhDiish0IKqvdHpUOVQzZDZQbS1LMWRFNmFvRXYtVVE

24.253.13.34 is the router for my home network; my mining rig is on this network, and it's where CheapSweep was developed and tested. 173.242.112.67 is most likely on the same subnet as 173.242.112.53, which the Bitcoin wiki recommends for relaying free transactions.  Two other IPs also appear.

Also interesting: Eclipse mined five of the six blocks containing my transactions.
523  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: CheapSweep: a script for low-cost address sweeping on: November 29, 2012, 11:09:18 PM
One more tip: If you use my script, you might want to make this change in ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf, as recommended in https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Free_transaction_relay_policy:

Code:
addnode=173.242.112.53
524  Economy / Web Wallets / Re: Blockchain.info - Bitcoin Block explorer & Currency Statistics on: November 29, 2012, 09:49:23 PM
I'd swear I had used the Blockchain.info iOS client before to send money from a watch-only address.  ISTR it prompted you to scan the private-key QR code before it would continue.  Now, though, it just throws up this error:

"Cannot ask for private key without user interaction disabled"

Am I doing something wrong, or am I imagining something that has never been supported?  The website prompts for the private key, and on my computer, it even fires up a Flash-based QR-code reader (which obviously wouldn't work on an iPhone, but I can copy-and-paste from a reader app). I moved all of my coin to a paper wallet and would like to be prompted for the private key when I want to spend something (it's printed on a business-card-sized slip of paper in my wallet).
525  Economy / Services / Re: Gigamining / Teramining on: November 29, 2012, 07:46:26 PM
After finding that I had a double refund from GLBSE, I've tried contacting Nefario to get this thing sorted.  At first, I just added him to the last PM I sent gigavps, but he's not receiving those (is it a restriction on scammers?).  I then sent email, as I had some concern about whether I would be properly credited if I sent the second refund to 1BgPRMk4uaJrohM1T9Cn4Hd9pHaEL6FH5j.  It's been two days, and still no response from Nefario.  Roll Eyes

I've send email to support@glbse.com and couple of weeks later forwarded to james@glbse.com
I've got response from the second email - but after several days.
So excess coins returned back, but no reply from him yet.

I had used doctor.nefario@gmail.com, which is in his profile here.  I've resent with the two addresses above...we'll see how it goes.
526  Economy / Services / Re: Gigamining / Teramining on: November 29, 2012, 06:38:22 PM
After finding that I had a double refund from GLBSE, I've tried contacting Nefario to get this thing sorted.  At first, I just added him to the last PM I sent gigavps, but he's not receiving those (is it a restriction on scammers?).  I then sent email, as I had some concern about whether I would be properly credited if I sent the second refund to 1BgPRMk4uaJrohM1T9Cn4Hd9pHaEL6FH5j.  It's been two days, and still no response from Nefario.  Roll Eyes
527  Bitcoin / Project Development / CheapSweep: a script for low-cost address sweeping on: November 29, 2012, 04:55:17 PM
I had a bunch of small transactions accumulated from mining, change, the various free-bitcoin sources, etc. and wanted to consolidate all of them onto one address.  I tried sweeping them with Armory, but it choked on the transaction when I went to offline-sign it.  Even before that, though, it said it was going to cost BTC0.024 to send, which seems a bit out of line.  I tried importing the privkeys to bitcoind and sending them directly from there, but it also insisted on a hefty fee.  I tried the bitcoin-nftf fork; it didn't work any better.

I then tried crafting a raw transaction of 66 inputs totaling about BTC0.025, one output, and a BTC0.0001 fee. bitcoind accepted it; after about three hours, it was confirmed. I'm not in a hurry, so this is acceptable. If you need faster turnaround, this script is probably not for you.

What follows is a shell script to automate this process.  You pick one or more source addresses from your wallet and a destination address that may or may not be in your wallet.  The fee is up to you.  By default, it will sweep inputs with at least 6 confirmations to the destination address; if you're sweeping from an address that receives generated coin from P2Pool, you'll probably want to include "-c 120" to avoid trying to send immature coin. The only dependency is a running bitcoind (0.7 or later).  The rest is fairly standard shell-script programming, with grep, sed, tr, and bc doing most of the munging.

Code:
#!/bin/bash

# CheapSweep v0.1
# Scott Alfter
# scott@alfter.us
# Donations: 1TipSAXbE6owdU24bcBDJKmL8JRxQe5Yu

help()
{
cat <<EOF >&2
Usage: $0 [options] -d destaddr addr1 addr2 ...

options: -d|--destaddr  destination address (REQUIRED)
         -f|--fee       fee to subtract from inputs (default: 0)
         -c|--confirm   minimum confirmations to include input (default: 6)
         -n|--no-send   don't send; dump the raw transaction to stdout
EOF
}

fee=0.0
minconfirm=6
OPTS=$(getopt -o d:f:c:hn --long destaddr:,fee:,confirm:,help,no-send -- "$@")
eval set -- "$OPTS"
while true; do
  case "$1" in
    -d|--destaddr)  destaddr="$2"; shift 2;;
    -f|--fee)       fee="$2"; shift 2;;
    -c|--confirm)   minconfirm="$2"; shift 2;;
    -n|--no-send)   nosend=1; shift 1;;
    -h|--help)      help; exit 1;;
    --)             shift; break;;
    *)              echo "Internal error"; exit 1;;
  esac
done
if [ "$destaddr" == "" ]
then
  help
  exit 1
fi

addrs=$(echo $* | sed "s/^/[\"/;s/ /\",\"/g;s/\$/\"]/")
total=$(bitcoind listunspent $minconfirm 21000000 $addrs | grep amount | sed "s/.*: //;s/,//" | tr "\n" "+" | sed "s/+\$/\n/" | bc)
total=$(echo $total - $fee | bc)

tx=$(bitcoind signrawtransaction $(bitcoind createrawtransaction [$(bitcoind listunspent $minconfirm 21000000 $addrs | egrep "txid|vout" | sed "s/\"txid/{\"txid/;s/\"vout\" : \([0-9]*\),/\"vout\" : \1},/" | tr -d "\n" | tr -d " " | sed "s/,\$//")] {\"$destaddr\":$total}) | grep \"hex\" | sed "s/.*: \"//;s/\",//")

if [ "$nosend" != "" ]
then
  echo $tx
else
  bitcoind sendrawtransaction $tx
fi
528  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Design a commemorative Bitcoin note for Halving Day on: November 28, 2012, 06:39:18 PM
I would love to see one of the various people that are designing Bitcoin notes design one that is special for Halving Day tomorrow.

Casascius?
Ninja?
Salfter?

How about it?

Calling me a "designer" is giving me a bit too much credit. :-) I took one of the Casascius designs and figured out how to change the colors.  The rest is a matter of knocking together a shell script that spits out some PostScript to print multiple notes on a page; I'm more comfortable with that sort of work than with anything that requires much in the way of artistic ability.
529  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Is bitcoin democratic? on: November 27, 2012, 06:32:08 PM
A democracy is 51% telling 49% what can or can't they do.

That is just one specific form "a" democracy can take. Just one form that does not define all possible forms.  

It's what they all tend to devolve toward, given enough time.  Look at what the looters and moochers pulled off three weeks ago if you want proof.

Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for lunch.

(Yes, I know that what we have is had was a republic, but with some democratic features.  The looters and moochers successfully pulled off a 51% attack.)
530  Economy / Marketplace / How do I cash out a CoinURL voucher? on: November 26, 2012, 07:02:09 PM
DailyBitcoins gave me yesterday, in addition to the usual BTC0.0005 (?) payout, a BTC0.005 CoinURL voucher.  Some poking around on CoinURL's website didn't turn up a method to redeem it to an address.  What are my options?  What can I do with this voucher?
531  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: My 2 wallet idea. on: November 26, 2012, 05:50:19 AM
With a barcode scanner they are much more user-friendly.
How is that?

With a barcode scanner (I don't have one of those, actually, and I guess most people don't) you can easily scan it, to get the data back in your computer... Seems less user-friendly than just keeping the data on your computer in the first place (or simply storing it on a USB flash drive or whatever).

Most people don't have dedicated barcode scanners, but smartphones and webcams are fairly common. Software that uses those to read barcodes is readily available.  Before I started using Armory, I ran all of my private keys through a copy of bitaddress.org to generate PDFs with addresses and private keys in plaintext and as QR codes. These are saved to a TrueCrypt volume and printed out.
532  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: My 2 wallet idea. on: November 26, 2012, 05:32:56 AM
Is there any advantage of a paper wallet over an encrypted one that you can simply backup on multiple locations (both home and online/remote) ?

A paper wallet for which the private key has never been put online will always be more secure. The difference in probability that a wallet might be compromised may be exceedingly small for an encrypted online wallet vs. a paper wallet, but it's still there.
533  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: should we make a bitcointalk TOR hidden service? on: November 24, 2012, 11:02:17 PM
Some kind of anonymous gateway might be fairly cool but the problem is anonymity is a double edged sword. Just ask (name escapes me), an old anonymous email service that got shutdown because of abuse (I want to say anonnet.fi but that's incorrect)

anon.penet.fi? They shut down in 1996 after the Cult of $cientology alleged that someone had used them to email their "secrets."
534  Other / Off-topic / Re: BFL to not match competitors products not shipped on: November 24, 2012, 10:46:44 PM
Here's the rub.  Based on BFL's statements the current Single 60 GH/s offering has ASIC chips at 50-60% of their claimed maximum clock rate.

You seriously believe that? Why would BMW sell cars that only use 50% of their engine power? Why would Intel sell CPU's that run at 1,3GHz instead of 2,3GHz?

IBM used to sell computers with the maximum hardware configuration, but with processors, memory, etc. disabled to varying degrees according to how much money you were paying them. If you needed more power, you called them up, paid whatever amount, and they sent someone around to enable more of the hardware that was already in the machine.
535  Economy / Services / Re: Gigamining / Teramining on: November 24, 2012, 06:32:51 AM
Most of the provisions don't sound too onerous, but notarization would likely cost a significant fraction of my investment.  It seems a bit like swatting a fly with a sledgehammer. I could see it as a possibly valuable CYA for investors with hundreds or thousands of shares, but for single-digit quantities? Unless something changes, it might almost be better to just eat the loss than go through the hassle.
536  Other / Off-topic / Re: Should BFL get a scammer tag? on: November 22, 2012, 03:58:12 PM
I doubt they'll even do a refund...

My understanding is that a few already have gotten refunds.  So much for that bit of speculation.
537  Economy / Gambling / Re: Stop gambling your coins unless you're playing for entertainment! on: November 21, 2012, 08:02:31 PM
The more you play, the more you're likely to lose them all. Don't play BTC gambling games to try and make you rick or "turn 0.24 btc into 0.25 btc for a nice number, they're not worth it. Only gamble if you want to lose your coins.

You could say the same for gambling in any currency.  It's a tax on people who failed statistics.

One question, though: on the one hand, you say gambling's a bad idea.  On the other hand, you have a gambling-related ad in your sig.  Huh
538  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: #assets-otc - Contract Management System on: November 21, 2012, 03:34:11 AM
I wish it was possible to provide a web browser with PGP functionality without the binary plugins, but unfortunately our modern and super advanced HTML 5 compatible browsers support basically everything I man could imagine; drawing canvas, vector graphics, A/V streaming with advanced codecs, OpenGL acceleration, and all the other fancy shit... but not a good old fashion RSA cryptography, neither a big numbers math.

You might want to have a look at this:

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/11/22/0422223/openpgp-implemented-in-javascript

The project referenced within has moved:

http://www.openpgpjs.org/
539  Economy / Currency exchange / Re: 100 trillion Zimbabwe $ bills - today for Bitcoins, tomorrow for free on: November 20, 2012, 06:47:15 PM
I like the display very much : )))

& I'm surprised that new user can not rate others unless he receives a rating first.
you're now rated at web of trust, the gribble bot should now process the ;;rate command w/o error

"Z$ trillionaire"  Smiley

Quote
[10:43] <salfter> ;;rate ptmhd 1 Received ZW$1T note & bitcoin 1g silver round in good condition
[10:44] <gribble> Rating entry successful. Your rating of 1 for user ptmhd has been recorded.
540  Economy / Currency exchange / Re: 100 trillion Zimbabwe $ bills - today for Bitcoins, tomorrow for free on: November 19, 2012, 11:13:30 PM
Received everything in good condition last week...made a little display for my office with them:



I tried leaving a rating at #btotc:

Quote
[15:06] <salfter> ;;rate ptmhd 1 Received ZW$1T note & bitcoin 1g silver round in good condition
[15:06] <gribble> Error: You have to have received some ratings in order to rate other users.

 Huh

If you're new to it, someone has to rate you first before you can enter a rating?

(My IRC nick is the same as my username here.)
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