I miss him. He's been around these forums since like forever, always posting. I wonder if he's OK. Hope so.

I get that too sometimes. Usually refreshing the page (not sure if it's automatic or not) solves it.

If my understanding of ponzis is correct, I would think that if new deposits slowed down, payouts would simply take longer and longer to fulfill.

Check out Coinmarketcap.com. A lot of coins in the top 20 have a 24 hour volume lower than that.

I've printed a rudimentary paper wallet that's really just a private key and an address on a piece of paper. I keep it in a box under my bed. My concern is that if it went missing or someone broke into my house and stole it, my funds could be compromised. I doubt any thieves today would know what to do with a private key and would probably ignore it or throw it away but if Bitcoin becomes more mainstream, then the thieves of the future might realize what it is and figure out a way to spend it.

So how does one obfuscate a private key?

For example, a really basic method might be to pass the whole thing through a substitution cipher.

Or perhaps it might be possible to incorporate the private key into a coupon by scanning an existing coupon, embedding the private key into the space where the serial number is supposed to be, and printing it. Make sure the expiry date on the coupon is set to a date before the current date so that any thief who finds it will think it's worthless and won't try to redeem it.

Or find a really complicated-looking paper in a computer science journal and secretly stick your private key in the middle of all the code and equations so it doesn't look out of place before printing it.

Anyone got any other ideas?

This thread might be of interest to you:

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=588413.0


I'm not too sure since I'm not involved with these coins but I think BBQcoin was a dead coin that was later revived and i0coin was possibly another one as well.


Would you say that Tenebrix and Fairbrix are dead? Most people probably would, but there are still people mining it and running nodes, apparently:


I guess you could say that a coin is dead when there are no longer any people maintaining the network. But even such a coin could one day be revived. The code is open source, after all.

Interesting. Take a look at BCN on CMC. It seems that the double stars are now gone:



Not sure if NXT ever had them but it no longer shows them there either:



My thoughts: While NXT was premined, the premine was necessary in order for the IPO to happen. And BCN is a bit of a special case here, since there isn't really another comparable example of a coin that remained under the radar for so long (except maybe perhaps Bitcoin ).

Yes and no.

It is a bit fad-like but unlike country and animal coins, anonymous coins introduce a new feature to the market that is in demand. Animal coins faded away when the hype surrounding them died and every single country coin launched has turned out to be a major disappointment. But I think that there would always be the case for an anonymous cryptocurrency, although they will probably only appeal to a small niche once the current hype/craze/fad subsides.

Well let's see:

LTC market cap: $234 million
NXT market cap: $61 million

Assuming that they ever do intersect sometime in the future, the most probable point for this would be $234 million + $61 million ÷ 2 which equals $147.5 million.

So that would be my guess.

LTC has been doing quite poorly this year, whereas NXT has done reasonably OK so I wouldn't be too surprised if NXT overtakes LTC.


It peaked around a month ago at ~10 cents didn't it?

Holy crap. Massive 12% drop on Coinmarketcap.com too. I thought whales were supposed to be smarter than this.

Same here. I use Blockchain.info but I switch to Blockr.io when it's down. For example, it's running a bit slowly at the moment and I keep getting CloudFlare errors. A quick check on Downforeveryoneorjustme.com seems to suggest that the problem isn't limited to me and the site seems to be down for everyone. Not quite sure why.

And thanks for the links! I didn't know there were so many of them. Interestingly, one of them (Blockexplorer.com) was made by theymos who is also the owner of this forum.

Pretty much what everyone else already said plus a couple more: Watching movies, surfing the web, learning about random things off Wikipedia, reading ebooks, posting on forums, listening to music, email, news, online banking, typing stuff, mucking about with programming languages but never getting anywhere, etc.

Not really that much into gaming however. I might be if my laptop wasn't 10 years old.

EDIT: Oh, and Bitcoin too. Not mining of course but just running my Electrum wallet.

Even though TigerDirect was the first to accept Bitcoin in that industry, this is still very good news. Ever since Overstock started accepting Bitcoin earlier this year, many companies have begun accepting Bitcoin as well. Not only small companies but big ones like DISH and Expedia too. It seems like 2014 will be remembered as the year of Bitcoin merchant adoption.


I thought they did?

Decided to play around with forex trading back in 2011. Lost about $200 in the space of three days, or about $100 in one. Fortunately made most of it all back a few days later, withdrew it all, and never traded forex again.

My guess is that it's been moved. Searching for "Quark Wallet - Mining Debug?" on Google reveals an older cached version that shows the thread in the Mining Support subforum. But that same thread is now in the Mining (altcoins) subforum.

This could be the reason for the move:

BTC isn't an altcoin, and you can't mine it profitably with either CPUs nor GPUs nowadays. You could mine LTC with a graphics card but scrypt ASICs are now available which have the same hashpower but consume a fraction of the electricity costs.

10 days, 0 hours and 0 minutes! Another milestone reached!

Same here. The doge meme existed before dogecoin was created. I believe it started on 4chan (or perhaps reddit?).

So is their business model real or fake?

I've heard of them being described as a Ponzi scheme and this thread is in the gambling section so that seems to support the theory. But the company is registered and they seem to be staffed by real people and have real offices and mining gear. I just watched their promotional video and still don't understand what the whole thing is about. Do they design ASICs like Avalon and BFL or do they sell cloud mining contracts like CEX.IO? Or is it both?

I remember my first phone back in the early 2000's which had no color screen, no camera, and cost about $150. It was difficult to find a phone under that price and very few sold for under $100. Now there's a store in my area selling phones with color screens and the cheapest one they have is selling for about $5. Normally they're a bit more expensive than that but it's still easy to find ones selling for $15 or less. You can also buy a smartphone for less than $50.

The cheapest laptops are only slightly cheaper now compared to back then (which seems to disprove the idea that Moore's law is the reason) and cars haven't changed in price at all since then so what the heck happened between 2000-2005 and now that made mobile phones get so damn cheap?