If you transfer amounts between "accounts" (via move) then I am pretty sure that no blockchain tx occurs (the accounts are to help with handling "user accounts" for a Bitcoin service).

Although strictly speaking CIYAM Open doesn't *have* employees, however, all tasks completed are paid for in Bitcoins (a list of recently completed tasks can be found here: http://ciyam.org/open/?cmd=list&ident=M100L152&chksum=3d4ba7a7).

Although far from easy to use http://ciyam.org/rawtx_helper.html may be of some help to those who are putting this together (welcome to any of the .js if it useful).

Is it really likely they would be able to get 200,000 computers (presumably using 99% of CPU) actually working (presumably undetected) for that to work?

Trying to use CPU to mine bitcoins in 2013 - got to wonder exactly who would write something as stupid as that...

If you are using brainwallet.org then about the only thing you need to trust is that they have done the math correctly (i.e. that the address is correctly derived from the private key) and you are concerned about that then you might want to put both bitaddress and brainwallet in your offline distro.

Actually - the only problem I've had is with GPG private keys (they are big enough that you basically have to split them into two).

For simple raw transactions they are fine (even when using Cheese to capture an image and then using ZBar to read that).

I would advise you to use a computer that *never* connects to the internet to do this.

Browsers often save forms without you even being aware of it so just disconnecting and later reconnecting is not necessarily safe at all.

Payment of 0.1 BTC sent: https://blockchain.info/tx/0a50c13e2ff93c4f4a6d3bf5cf54cb669823a9a2a2db9d98ce720d353c451118


If you guys are interested in getting the project put on CIYAM Open let me know.

The CIYAM Safe uses this approach although it does not include Armory (you could always add it to your own distro).

http://susestudio.com/a/kp8B3G/ciyam-safe

(being SUSE it is not exactly a minimal live OS)

It uses ZBar (and includes Cheese also in case your cam doesn't work with ZBar as it uses older video libs).

Just realised this is the Armory sub-forum - well I hope no-one sees CIYAM Safe as anything that competes with it (it was really only designed for offline tx's rather than so much as an offline wallet) and if any of the scripts I wrote are of use then welcome to grab them to add to Armory.

I also pretty much do a backup after every tx - I also save my source code after every line changed and do git pushes generally after every commit.

By default the "key pool" is 100 and assuming every send you do requires a change address then provided you had backed up around 100 tx's prior to your current one then they will all be able to be recovered.

I am satisfied that you have waited long enough (a week in "bitcointalk time" can be quite long) - so be sure to include an address in your post.

Certainly there are 9.8 BTC at that address: https://blockchain.info/address/1HGM9JYuX6K359b19XQj3ohzxjYoJDey1o and the other address that 9.8 was supposedly sent to has 0 BTC: https://blockchain.info/address/18cB1JqWs4QGZ43rkR2pmxBuen7MDpMXBm

Am not sure what might have gone wrong with the tx as being a single UTXO and being very old it should not even require a fee.


You could try that but assuming you are wanting to *not* broadcast that tx now then you should stop running bitcoin (as it will keep trying to broadcast the tx every 30 minutes or so).

And assuming you have a backup of the wallet that was *prior* to that attempted tx (but does have the original 9.8 BTC) then replace the current wallet with your backup (keep a copy of the current wallet *just in case*).

Assuming all looks fine when you restart Bitcoin then you should upgrade your client to the latest (you need to do this by May 15th anyway).

I used a simply picture linking memory technique to memorise a list of 20 basically random English words in just a few minutes.

By recalling the picture journey daily (without writing anything down) I was able to remember the list for a couple of weeks which was pretty impressive but now I can't remember much of that at all as I didn't keep it up so the important thing is to use memories that don't fade as at least an initial starting point (and recent memories are not a good choice).

Actually I should provide more detailed instructions - for example choose a memory that no-one knows about except yourself (e.g. you nearly forgot your anniversary whilst on holiday but luckily remembered and never told anyone about it) - it can only be as good as the effort you put into using it (and clearly you put in a lot of effort into your own approach).

This is also something that might be of interest: http://ciyam.org/memory_key.html

It creates a code which you could then hash or use as a password for a brainwallet.

(for real use only offline of course)

If your time stamp is out by a lot that will invalidate your block (AFAIA).

Thanks for clarifying things Rassah and as stated I wish you guys all the best (and don't for a second regret the donations that I made which all went to good causes AFAICT).

(to Radio Head - "Paranoid Android")

Please could you watch the charts, I'm trying to get some rest.

For all those forum newbies trolling me to death.

What's this...? (I may be paranoid but I'm not using Android)
What's this...? (I may be paranoid but I'm not using Android)

When I am king I will be first to break that wall
Killing alt chains which are of no consequence at all

Amp usage makes you look pretty ugly
Hashing and squealing ASIC little piggy

You don't dox dude
You don't dox dude
Why don't you just dox my name?

Start scammer thread, man
Start scammer thread, man
Why don't you just dox my name?
I guess he did....

Fall down, fall down
Come on fall down for me
From an all time
From an all time high... high...
(repeat)

That's it, dude
You're leaving
The tag sticks
The trolls and their screaming
The newbies laughing at
The panic, the losses
The panic, the losses
God loves his miners, God loves his miners, yeah!