Please try and help me out by pushing this raw tx if you can:


If I can't get it back via a doublespend then I hope that if the lucky miner is one of the major pools then they would consider making a generous donation to the CIYAM Project (as otherwise that is 100 BTC less I will have to pay people for tasks).

I would just like to to say that I have paid 5 BTC (txid 5728734a6c577dc479e6b4a0693745e7d53836f2ea99481dde6326ae0f4ddf07) for this service and I think he has done a pretty straight up job.

Although my understanding of security is pretty good it is always helpful to get a good analysis of your server to make sure you haven't made any stupid mistakes.

Thanks for a good service Steven!

I would be happy to create a project for you on CIYAM Open which will help you to manage the funding (you can fund individual tasks as well as have an address for Project Areas [which are nestable] and an overall Project address) and *no* bitcoins are stored on ciyam.org nor will you be charged any costs for this service (I am allowing the first 10 projects that are started on it to be fee free for life).

It already has a sophisticated bidding system (not bidding on price but on deliverable date) to let you decide upon which dev to "assign" the task to and each task can have "skills" attached (special tags) to which "points" get added to the user if the task is "completed" (and deducted if "rejected").

This stops the whole "multiple people competing for a bounty" problem and provides a clear and easy to follow approach to managing software projects (I managed a team of 6 devs for several years using a similar approach but with *hours* rather than *bitcoins*) and lets you make better informed decisions about which bid to accept by comparing the skills of the bidder.

It's a complete workflow system for funding and managing software development (and has had years of work put into it) so please at least take a look (http://ciyam.org/open).

Ouch - yes that would be real pain (am only transferring a 1000 or so bytes at the most with my system).


Understood - it is more of a "duct tape" kind of solution (I did play in a few rock bands).

Have you also considered QR code support (you are welcome to use the CIYAM Safe scripts at no cost)?

As well as giving the CIYAM Safe a workout before I begin to fund tasks for CIYAM Open I will be adding some support in the next few days for automatically being able to register users (although if anyone is interested to join up now just send me a GPG encrypted message with your preferred user id and an initial password).

Great - as BCB has graciously decided to pass on the 2 BTC it will be awarded to this task.

And again thanks to all who have helped out - this topic itself has been a test of the "work model" that CIYAM has been developing and I think it's turned out pretty well.

Wish I could be of more help - did you check the MD5 checksum (I think SUSE Studio can show you that)?


That's very kind - and I am happy to have that 2 BTC put towards the Arch Linux version.

Also any latecomers please realise that as BCB was the 5th other member to post in this topic there is no further BTC up for grabs now (sorry but xmas is over now).

Nope - that should work fine - corrupted image perhaps?


That would be much appreciated as I would be happy to keep a much smaller distro as a download from ciyam.org - if possible I would also want instructions on how to go about rebuilding the distro myself if I wanted to make changes to the CIYAM Safe tools - would that be very difficult?

Actually I did start with Puppy but it all just got too hard trying to work out how to set it up (not being familiar with creating distros and having SSH only "online" access to Linux) so I went the SUSE Studio path for the convenience.

As stated I am willing to create a project on CIYAM Open for further work on this and to even donate some BTC towards it but I am far too busy with other things to spend more time on this "side project" (although the disto is bloated and the UI is clumsy it gets the job done which is all I need for CIYAM Open to safely handle its BTC).

If there are any Aussie clients of Tangible who would be interested in reselling BTC for AUD to myself directly please PM with your rate.

Private key for 1DTtB3FgCsnEfjfBsivg2JNAYyzhxsgdxa is 5JtayZzciFXqPcjLGsBxSTs6iQcneTDr6n3KMuVkmPwTBKsv53D.

2 BTC should be on its way to 1GEEKqKUf4WwdsQuRd3wjHVYHA8NxUg1rU (txid c1a7964c7016536e4c9e6f61ad31e2b7b34f53a867874a02c755ac1601fde3a0).

Okay - I think if you have followed the thread you should see it's fairly straight forward.

PM sent.

I think it's probably the fact that it is "testing" (which is why if no other takers I will tunnel the funds into some "programming" tasks that might have wider appeal).

BTW - if any of the posters here are interested in joining CIYAM Open then let me know (currently membership is limited to "invitation only") - basically this task is an example of how it will be run (i.e. a non-competing chance to demonstrate a provable result in a limited time-frame for a guaranteed BTC reward if successful and I will be personally investing at least 100 BTC to get the ball rolling).

Although I don't normally pay much attention to "Scammer" threads I think I remember reading that "c4n10" has some skills in testing server security - so I could be willing to help him out with this situation if he wouldn't mind donating some time to some security testing for ciyam.org (the tricky part would be proving that the testing has actually been done - am open for suggestions about that).

Well it is interesting that there is still 6 BTC available (2 BTC reserved for the 3rd poster who hasn't posted again yet and 4 BTC in the "pot") but seemingly no takers.

I will still keep the offer open for the 3rd poster until 48 hours after their post but if there are no other takers for this within 24 hours then I will use the funds left over to fund some other tasks on CIYAM Open (which may be more interesting to members who are programmers).

Also if John has any interest in furthering the CIYAM Safe project (such as changing the distro as he had mentioned) then I would also be happy to donate the remaining funds from this testing task towards that cause (as another project on CIYAM Open which he could manage as he sees fit).

Okay - have made a note about that one.


Yup - when I start using this regularly for paying CIYAM Open devs I will most likely be whipping up another script or two to simplify the "text work".

The distro was really a question of how easily I could put it together and for me SUSE Studio wins hands down for simplicity (am not really a Linux guru and unfortunately I just don't have any spare time to be playing around with other distros so unless they have their own online SUSE Studio equivalent that I can get working in an hour or so then this is not likely to change).

I'm sure it would be possible, however, to "trim" the distro that I have created although I think it would be hard to shrink it down to say half the size it is now.

Thanks again for the suggestions!

Yup - I will be making some changes as per notes I've taken already but if you have other suggestions as to how to make it less confusing they would be appreciated (initially I only really wrote it for myself to use so no doubt I have left out some things that seem obvious to myself but not to someone new to raw tx's).