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I can't think of anything.
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Let the action commence...!
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I saw the price dip to 18.9 just now.
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Bitcoin is dead if a major flaw like that is exploited. I mean, really dead. People not already using it will never have enough faith to put their wealth in the system, people already using it will abandon it and try to sell their coins as quickly as possible, and a few loyalists will try to salvage it with some recoding, but it will never return to the value it had before (whatever that value point was).
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Not to mention the PM system is just plain horrible here.
Whose idea is it to show every single person's PM and line them all up? I feel like I'm going to accidentally use the wrong BTC address or PayPal email eventually and mess everything up.
Agreed. I greatly dislike SMF, with a passion. As soon as I can move to a different forum and get most of the information/discussion that matters to me, I will. |
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This is the dumbest bullshit ever.
Of course it is, because you said so. How can we ever doubt you, you are such a SMART-ASS ! Everybody please ignore this "advice."
Yes, and become easy prey to hackers of all sorts. The way to secure a wallet isn't by your laughable Rube Goldberg machine. Generate a wallet on a dedicated airgapped machine, write down some of its addresses, encrypt the wallet and back up the encrypted file. Then send BTC to the addresses.See how that works? Now you have a bank from which you can make withdrawals to smaller wallets. Use your brain to figure out how. Christ. How hard can this be? It's amateur hour at forum.bitcoin.org... Since a wallet file is really just a collection of private keys, it seems as though keeping a text file with a collection of private key/address pairs would make just as much sense, if not more sense, than a wallet.dat file itself. Send varying amounts of BTC to each address, and keep track of the addresses on another computer so you can check them for balances in blockexplorer. Then, once PK importing is implemented into the client, you can simply import the private key relating to the address that you wish to "withdraw" from your savings wallet. That way, your wallet file never has to touch the outside world, even to withdraw. The most you ever risk is the amount related to a particular savings address, which can be limited or spread across more or less addresses based on how paranoid you are. |
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I think bitcoinsforums.net in particular is becoming more and more well known (I keep seeing it mentioned in other threads here), but there is little incentive for a person to change to a new forum without many other people changing to the new forum as well. If this forum were to go down completely, for a day or longer, people would find these other forums rather quickly.
But, if you wish to help decentralize, come post on that forum as well. Every post has the potential to make it more attractive to more people to encourage more people to join. We just haven't reached that critical mass yet.
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I also very strongly agree with making the "official" forums a more neutral place. There are plenty of other places to discuss politics.
If you all want Bitcoin to succeed, you will support the removal of the Politics subforum.
Bitcoin will never be taken seriously with the number of posts advocating tax evasion, overthrowing the government, etc. Businesses want no part of such activities, even if the business owner might even agree with such sentiments. Businesses play by the rules, so that they can continue conducting business.
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Thanks theymos! That makes sense. How is a newbie expected to make useful posts?
Questions can be useful if the newbie has taken appropriate care to be clear, concise and neither the question nor the answers have appeared in the forum in any obvious places before. Just to raise the usefulness of this post: I'd like to point out that newbies are posting messages essentially void of any useful content in order to escape newbiedom. This probably decreases the usefulness of the board for the newbies who actually play by the rules making them want to escape etc... I think the current newbie confinement strategy is failing and an alternative needs to be found. How about "Newbies must request whitelisting and their posts are reviewed for usefulness before acceptance"? Similarly, non-newbies should be demoted to newbie if their posts show insufficient usefulness upon review. ByteCoin I think you'd have trouble getting newbies to post at all under those guidelines! Every question that they ask now is already answered somewhere. I agree with you that there is a chain of uselessness in the newbie forums, but am just not sure how to fix that. |
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Yeah, I do need to change that... just haven't thought of what I want to put there. Don't want to use the classic coin icons, since that just makes things confusing... maybe the bitcoin, but tainted a different color? Like... magento?  Open to ideas. |
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Is there no gui client for the namecoin wallet like there is for bitcoin? Or am I just confused about how to run it...? I have namecoind running, but obviously, that's not a gui.  Is namecoind the only thing available at this time? |
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Mine! But it's not exactly popular. I do my best to make sure it's scam free though.
I don't like there isn't a specific forum to trade just BTC here and you have to sift through all the garbage with all these random offers to find the BTC sales. Also it's confusing as hell looking in the "Buy" "Sell" forums and everyone posting in the wrong place.
Do you mean trade just BTC for USD or BTC for another currency, instead of actual items for sale? You know, that's a pretty fantastic idea, I think I'll create a separate subforum for that on my forum. |
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How is a newbie expected to make useful posts?
Or by useful, do you just mean not spamming and being obnoxious?
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Hey, at least my CPU usage doesn't go up to 100% when I visit it (which I've come to half expect from any new bitcoin sites sprouting up). |
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Honestly, I'd give a relatively new used server value of about half the original purchase price. Not many businesses want to buy used because of the lack of support that comes with it. They want something that works, and if it breaks, have someone out there in a matter of hours to fix it, on the vendor's dime. With a used server, they don't get that luxury, so it's worth a lot less.
So 50% of whatever you paid for it is my answer.
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I'd be surprised if you find someone who wants to pay you $3-$4/day for 0.2BTC. Just seems silly, IMO. But good luck with the search.
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A lingering question I have is, why were only 25,000 coins taken? It sounds like you had more coins than that. And what have you done to secure the remainder of your coins?
Yep I had a bit more than that..not much more..the thief took 25,000.61 BTC. My only theory is that he had an earlier copy of my wallet? But still that does not make sense as I used the same payout address for all the funds I mined as for the very first address the client generated...soo technically he should've been able to get those funds as well. Maybe this was his way of showing me the middle finger..sort of like "here you go you stupid fuck..I left you something so you can buy yourself something.." I don't know, I am merely speculating and speculation does me no good. It's possible that he didn't have the entire blockchain downloaded when he thought he did, so it didn't show the entire balance. |
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Ok, I know they exist. But is there an online wallet or payment system that could give a unique payment address every time a user visited it, and would also allow a user to input a note when making the payment?
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