Huh, interesting. Could that point to a broken 2FA implementation on Havelock's side? If that was the case, at least thief would have only been able to steal the coins from his/her account. If it was a general problem though, why not steal more or everything? 2FA still requires that the authentication mechanism on the sever to be secure and uncompromised. If the hacker can somehow gain access the users table on the database then all bets are off, because they could do things such as turn off 2FA for any given user. |
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In response to the “everybody should be armed” argument, people should simply ask the gun activist whether or not they support Iran getting a nuclear weapon. By the logic that the gun activist applies, everybody is safer when everybody is armed, and this would translate to support for Iranian weapons; in reality, these people almost always say that Iran isn’t a rational actor and that giving them a nuke endangers everybody around them. When they say this, you should simply tell them that not every gun owner is rational and that unrestricted gun ownership is the micro-equivalent to letting every country have nukes.
Still waiting. On a fundamental level, they (Iran) have as much right as any other country to own and operate their own nuclear weapons. I would be happy to live in a gun-free society if nobody else, especially the military and police, also were disarmed. |
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If they want to sell those Bitcoins, then let them go to the exchanges and sell try to sell them, but the community as a whole, including the exchanges should treat those Bitcoins like 'dirty' Bitcoins and have NOTHING to do with them, and not trade them... because after all, aren't they dirty Bitcoins?
It is important to maintain the fungibility of all bitcoins. Any attempt to taint coins should be avoided. |
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did KNC send out the bonus neptune devices already? and if yes are they used ones?  I've opened a couple of boxes of bonus Neptunes. They seem brand new but the paint job is not as good as when they first came out (smudgy). Also the controller no longer comes with a display. So far I've bothered to set up one and it runs perfectly at 3.5 TH/s. |
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Maybe somebody is just running a pool on Microsoft Azure?
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I don't know about the other model but I have melted 5 of these SeaSonic Platinum 860W PSUs at the modular connectors by drawing over 250W per PCI-e cable over an extended period of time. This was with various miners. |
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Even though I hate that idea, that's actually pretty big, too bad they haven't gotten rid of BitLicense still.
I wouldn't be surprised in NY if it ever came to a situation where you'd need to apply for an NY State Bitlicense first before you can pay your NYC fines in bitcoins. |
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If you ever do this please don't let others connect to your node over port 8333. You'd be doing a disservice to the overall performance of the network.
Is it pointless running a node on Android? This reddit thread says nodes without port port 8333 open cannot make connections with nodes joining the network or looking for more connections. http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1scd4z/im_running_a_full_node_and_so_should_you/cdw3lrh?context=3Quoting a post on the reddit thread. Having a maximum of 8 connections corresponds to bitcoin not being set up to listen to the outside world on port 8333, usually due to a router or firewall. If a node is not listening for connections, then it can only connect to existing nodes that have their port open. Nodes without their port open cannot make connections with nodes joining the network or looking for more connections. By running a node without the port open, you are essentially taking resources from the network but not giving anything back yourself.You can easily open port 8333 on your android phone. The question really is weather or not the phone is capable of actually providing any meaningful amount of resources to the network Exactly. In fact if a low-power node craps out in the middle of serving out blocks to other nodes that are unfortunate enough to be connected to it those other nodes could hang for 30 seconds or more before giving up and then trying to request the information from another node. When I download blocks for a new Bitcoin Core installation with no special settings, it takes about 2-3 days to catch up with the current blockchain. When I do the same thing but I set "connect=" in bitcoin.conf to another of my own nodes that is running on good server hardware with 1Gbps internet bandwidth, it takes at most 6 hours to download the blockchain. The reason why the former is so slow is because there are a lot of crap full nodes out there and as Bitcoin Core randomly connects to them your download slows down or even stalls. |
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If you ever do this please don't let others connect to your node over port 8333. You'd be doing a disservice to the overall performance of the network.
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Heck, were the cap completely removed, and some major pools concerned about spam (aren't we all?) stated that, for their own values of X, Y and Z, that they'd not relay blocks larger than (say) 500KB that pay total fees of less than X satoshis per kilobyte, and would not even build on blocks paying fees of less than Y per kilobyte unless they had managed to become Z blocks deep, would have a huge deterrent effect of making it expensive to try to spam the network. Not many people are willing to risk 25 BTC to make a point, never mind be willing to continue to do so repeatedly. X, Y and Z wouldn't need to be uniform across pools, and of course could change with time and technology changes. An equilibrium would be found and blocks would achieve a natural growth rate than no central planner can properly plan.
Yes, it makes sense to remove/raise the hard limit from the protocol and let individual miners set their own limits since they are the ones most in touch with what the optimal parameters would be for their individual setups. If we went to a 20MB cap tomorrow I'd guess that no pool would even try to build blocks anywhere near that size given the high risk of getting an orphaned block with the current state of the network. |
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UPS just informed me of an unexpected 15.5 kg package coming from Sweden. I wonder what it could be?
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So much for the supposed anonymity of the btc blockchain..
Bitcoin is pseudo-anonymous. This has been discussed. And if it is pseudo-anonymous why they haven't find bitstamp thieves yet? The analogy here is that you need to catch them first by other means, then use the evidence in their wallets to trace the coins to the Bitstamp theft. |
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If anyone should have become an overnight millionaire it should have been me. I've been involved in virtual economies for many years now (mmorpg gold exchanges) and if anyone should have had the foresight to become an early adopter of bitcoin it should have been me but instead I was wasting my time fucking around with virtual gold. I wake up every morning feeling depressed.
You could have done worse. Some people are wasting time feverishly buying into every new alt coin trying to make up for missing Bitcoin. Hint: the next big thousand-bagger will probably not be an alt coin or Bitcoin N.0, although I still feel that Bitcoin has room to grow. |
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Some old threads could be useful to necro to put some things into perspective such as "Bitcoin is dead. We will never see $31 again."
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Your bank account can be seized just for spending less than you earn over 10 years.
Luckily, not all countries are that insane.
In Canada, it is merely suspicious (but not illegal).
That doesn't make sense. Did you mean 'spending more'? If you have more than $10,000 in your account from smaller payments, that is considered structuring. I don't understand how you can accumulate such a sum by spending more than you earn. This only applies to cash deposits. Direct deposits of $9,999 every two weeks from ADP is fine. |
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3. Is anyone talking about the decline in personal computers?
I think I own less personal computers than I did 10 years ago, but now I operate several personal (non-business use) cloud servers one of which is dedicated to running a full node. It is no longer necessary to run a PC at home 24/7 to operate one. |
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From here, it makes complete sense to send your stash to a newly created paper wallet that have never been used to spent from the address, in effect makes the public key never been exposed to before on the blockchain.
But dude, when you transfer coins to an address, everyone will know if you like it or not. It is a feature of the blockchain. You cannot hide your coins. Actually no, you send coins to the ripemd160 hash of a public key, until you spend said coins the public key is not revealed. Just to clarify - the fact that I can go to blockchain.info after I send coins to a paper wallet address, type in that public key, and it is displayed on the screen with the proper balance - that isn't the public key being "revealed" to the network? -B- You send to an address, not to a public key. The address is derived from the public key through a 1-way transform. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/File:PubKeyToAddr.png |
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