snailbrain : just discovered a nasty bug ... linux mint 64-bit ... I tried to "Backup Wallet" and selected the destination file I had used for a previous namecoin-qt wallet back-up. It crashed immediately and left following error message. Qt has caught an exception thrown from an event handler. Throwing
exceptions from an event handler is not supported in Qt. You must
reimplement QApplication::notify() and catch all exceptions there.
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EXCEPTION: N5boost11filesystem316filesystem_errorE
boost::filesystem::copy_file: File exists: "/home/noone/.namecoin/wallet.dat", "/home/noone/Documents/nmc_wallet.dat"
namecoin in Runaway exception
Segmentation fault Edit: if this happens to anyone else be V. careful about what you do next or you may lose all your namecoins. The file wallet.dat left in data dir should be in a current state but the back-up wallet file in the destination dir may not contains keys of the current wallet. Proceed with extreme caution or you could easily lose namecoins ... I noticed that my total wallet balance was left in a state of "sent to a now non-existing key". I had taken precaution of making manual back-ups before this occurred so no harm done ... "It happens if an old Boost version is used (< 1.40.0) and you're backing up the wallet into an existing file. Old Boost did not have overwrite file option. I looked in the Bitcoin source, they do not specifically handle this (file overwrite), but make it show an error (instead of full crash). So I guess we'll just copy Bitcoin approach." https://github.com/namecoin-qt/namecoin-qt/commit/dd3cfe49295e9bc0531b213f3ac0102448945d13Good work. I'll test that in the next day or so (doing some back-ups right now). I noticed a couple of other boost errors (might be related to older version) but they are not major (one on shutdown for example) and will post them when I isolate them better. |
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I think we are getting close to the precipice again ... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-21/chart-scared-bernanke-straight... the last two time fails-to-deliver spiked was the Aug '07 credit market seizure and Sep '08 money market seizure ... either of those two events, if allowed to run their course naturally, would have been "the end". The US treasury market is the big pole in the main tent and the rest of the circus is looking pretty tatty, basically it is the last thing holding it all up ... and the entire capital market 'sentiment' is now hinging on utterances from the lips of fed chariman on whether he will be buying or not buying in this market. After the recent sustained buying to prop this market up the Fed now holds over 25% of the outstanding treasury stock. The big problem that is out there, and has been for over a decade is the billions in ghost treasuries that are in the electronic form that do not exist in any legal reality. No one is quite sure where all these ghost treasuries come from but think it is mostly naked short selling of treasuries that went into the system, possibly from now defunct institutions, or even just simple criminal treasury counterfeiting. When fails-to-deliver spikes it means that the treasuries market is no longer clearing/settling. It would be like if transactions on the bitcoin network stopped getting confirmed into blocks. Imagine that the treasuries are the money stock (bitcoin) of global commerce and they have no legitimate mechanism for verifying creation (coinbase) transactions and no reliable means of clearing/settling transactions in such a way that you can prove there are no bad actors gaming the system. That is what they are trying to stabilise and the fails-to-deliver spike whenever they lose control. |
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I can see why this article got exactly zero comments ... but gawd, what an airhead.
It had to be said.
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Buying local gold soon  Wife is a happy wife. I recommend you print a paper wallet and give her some XBT, that will help too. (Every time she wants to sell it, make sure and if push comes to shove start preaching about security and how technical it is and how in trust worthy the exchanges are ... She has more btc than most people on the forum. She also bought asic miner stock at .85 and she is only cashing out the dividends. However she likes to show off so whatever. She makes me happy so i try to do the same. Sounds like she has everything she needs ... give her some children? |
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snailbrain : just discovered a nasty bug ... linux mint 64-bit ... I tried to "Backup Wallet" and selected the destination file I had used for a previous namecoin-qt wallet back-up. It crashed immediately and left following error message. Qt has caught an exception thrown from an event handler. Throwing
exceptions from an event handler is not supported in Qt. You must
reimplement QApplication::notify() and catch all exceptions there.
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EXCEPTION: N5boost11filesystem316filesystem_errorE
boost::filesystem::copy_file: File exists: "/home/noone/.namecoin/wallet.dat", "/home/noone/Documents/nmc_wallet.dat"
namecoin in Runaway exception
Segmentation fault Edit: if this happens to anyone else be V. careful about what you do next or you may lose all your namecoins. The file wallet.dat left in data dir should be in a current state but the back-up wallet file in the destination dir may not contains keys of the current wallet. Proceed with extreme caution or you could easily lose namecoins ... I noticed that my total wallet balance was left in a state of "sent to a now non-existing key". I had taken precaution of making manual back-ups before this occurred so no harm done ... |
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relevant, http://www.cnbc.com/id/100641133Many gold producers will struggle to stay afloat if the gold price slumps below $1,200 analysts have told CNBC, potentially putting the gold mining industry at severe risk beyond 2017, according to Goldman Sachs predictions. This is the same signal I use to buy bitcoins and gold, silver, copper (zinc and nickel also) ... when price get near, at or below cost of production monetary goods are a steal  .... dyodd. how far below $1200 in your estimation is a steal? Well, at $1180 it is 10% bargain, at $900 it is 25% off bargain, at $600 it is a 50% c.o.p. off bargain ... pretend you are buying that latest pair of shoes you have always wanted and go shopping for money in that frame of mind. Money is a deferred purchase of a real good that you want/need so try to put yourself into the future when turning that money into real goods when buying the money (deferred purchase) itself, and you might get a bargain at both ends, i.e. twice the bargain . |
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relevant, http://www.cnbc.com/id/100641133Many gold producers will struggle to stay afloat if the gold price slumps below $1,200 analysts have told CNBC, potentially putting the gold mining industry at severe risk beyond 2017, according to Goldman Sachs predictions. This is the same signal I use to buy bitcoins and gold, silver, copper (zinc and nickel also) ... when price get near, at or below cost of production monetary goods are a steal .... dyodd. |
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The chains of your enslavement seem to rest comfortably around your mind. What's curious is why you feel the need to try so hard to convince others that it should be the same for them? Edit: in other news DuckDuckGo private search engine sees 33% rise in usage since widespread secret govt. surveillance revelations. http://www.cnbc.com/id/100825956 |
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BTW: What I never quite understood is: why not do the holy grail (= price finding) in Namecoin, too. Should be quite simple. Maybe one could even use atomic transactions to match orders. Kiss Speed and order volume might be limited but I think that is the case with Bitmessage, too. Because it would grow the namecoin blockchain for what? ... price quotes and bids? Namecoin is not a good idea for messaging. Bitmessage only holds a 2.5 day cache in a secured state. People need to think a little harder about the cost implications of carrying around an ever-growing data load on thousands of machines. Quickest way to kill a blockchain would be to make it unusably unwieldly. |
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Encryption itself seems safe, but the problem is that for SSL/tls the centralized certificate authorties which are subject to government coercion, hacking and the like. Meaning fake certificates and man in the middle attacks. Plus some centralized vulnerabilities in tor.
Without some type of working peer to peer CA (perhaps tied to bitcoin or namecoin) this is a big vulnerability as Moore's law marches on because it becomes easier and easier to monitor more and more. (Or save more and more for use later). Namecoin project has recently got TLS (https) working for names in the namecoin blockchain, "NAMESEC" ... i.e. TLS without CA's is now possible using namecoin blockchain and .bit domains. http://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4285#p4285.... the "NAMESEC" protocol |
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The only surprising thing to me here is: a long bitcointalk thread where nobody questions the official story of the MSM. I wondered this myself and came to the conclusion that no-one even bothers questioning the MSM because they implicitly assume (KNOW?) that they are spinning propaganda ... it must have been like this with Pravda during the USSR. |
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Innovative compliance,  ... I guess everyone has to make a crust somehow .... juxtaposing innovation with compliance doesn't make it innovative though. |
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Snowden isn't in any danger at all (except, perhaps from kidnap by foreign intelligence operatives).
It's absurd to think the US authorities would try to kill him. He would have been perfectly safe had he stayed in the US too.
You might not have been paying attention ... |
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Yeah US corporates and Mega-banks can evade multi-hundreds of billions using daisy-chain ownership and debt-equity schemes .... but worry not, we are watching bitcoin like a hawk  |
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Hi, you have just arrived from Wall St. haven't you? I'm not sure we need your kind around here. Report yourself to Bart Chilton and/or Jennifer Shasky Calvery .... Thnx. Good evening, Now, this might have only just occurred to me now and of course this would constitute fraud but what is stopping an individual from getting a line of credit in the 6 figure range, then purchasing a massive amount of Bitcoins then rinse with bankruptcy? I imagine the individual wouldn't care about his credit if they had several hundred thousand in the 'wallet'. Your thoughts? P.s. I hope someone is foolish enough to do this, it would prop the price up a bit for the rest of us Legal notice: All this topic and all replies are fictitious works for entertainment purposes only. To perform the action herein would constitute Fraud. |
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"Okay, lets not start sucking each other's dick just yet." -- The Wolf, "Pulp fiction"
In the meantime, let's actually build the Bitcoin economy please.
this fits ... |
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Wise move ... they have effectively balked at entering the rabbit hole. We could tie them up in complexity for years if they come down here.  |
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Ask Bart Chilton what happened to all the gold and silver bullion MF Global was holding in customer accounts that disappeared?
He is head of Commodities Futures Trading Commission right?
How does hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bullion go missing on your watch and no-one asks him how? It is not like Jon Corzine lost it down the back of the sofa ....
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Edit2: wife just gave drive-by comment that she didn't read the 't' (on a laptop background sized image) on first glance ... had to do a double-take, stronger cross-bar for the t? totally up to you (she didn't have contacts in either ) The 't' is fine, it's just the angle + camera focus. See the earlier ones on page 2. good point ... perpendicular on looks fine. Thinking of rotating perspectives, wonder if anyone wants to do an animated gif with the big O-globe rotating about it's axis of symmetry ... 'made round to go round' and all that  |
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