Given that OP hasn't been online since 13 minutes after posting this thread and his trust page shows that his password was changed recently, it looks like he listened to your advice.

Since his account was registered in 2012, he could have sold it for some BTC too although it's probably too late now. It's a newbie account so it's probably not worth much but he might have gotten a small amount (like 0.01 BTC) for it.

It's true.

Basically, an attacker managed to gain root access to the server and a portion of the database containing users' information was compromised.

There are multiple threads about the incident in the "Meta" section (link) which is probably a better fit for this thread rather than "Development & Technical Discussion".

There is also an official announcement by theymos which goes into more detail about the hack:

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1067985

It's advisable to change your passwords and weaker passwords are especially vulnerable. If the list of email addresses was compromised/is leaked, then you might see more spam coming into your inbox as well.

I don't think the restriction is in place yet. It won't be a requirement until the 20th. Your dogecoins shouldn't be affected:

Thanks for the answers. That was similar to what I thought (since the external servers grab their data from core nodes which are full clients).


If a protocol update was announced and not all miners agreed to the fork then the network would bifurcate. Electrum and Multibit have rapid development as you point out so I would think that if there is any compatibility issue (and there seems to be none for the example that I posted in the OP) then they would modify their code to "speak" with the core nodes on the correct fork of the Bitcoin blockchain.

At least that was my assumption.

Is the starting bid 0.01 BTC (what it says in your title) or 0.05 BTC (what it says in your post)?

And is the price for each domain or the whole lot?

The first exchange I used was Mt. Gox but I lost interest in Bitcoin shortly after making my account there. Over the past year, I made a few small purchases off LocalBitcoins which I've been quite happy with.

I'm not a trader and my experience so far has been that while the prices are a little bit higher there versus other exchanges, the volatility of Bitcoin makes this pretty much irrelevant especially for smaller-sized purchases.


Oddly enough, there aren't that many exchanges in Australia at the moment so your choices are pretty small. You could try this one:

http://www.independentreserve.com/

I think they're currently the biggest one there.

Just curious but how would this scale? Does Timothy McVeigh who killed 168 people get the same punishment as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev who killed 4 people? Or does McVeigh get 168 times more heavy work than Tsaenaev (and then death)?

And what would happen if they refused to work? Would they just get a normal life sentence? Or a normal death sentence?

Feeding someone only bread and water would probably count as torture in itself since the human body can't get the nutrients it needs for survival from just bread alone. Forget 10 years. He'd be dead in 8 months.

Yes, that restriction is no longer in force.

There was a thread about bringing back the newbie jail posted a while ago (it's a subject that pops up every now and then):

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1006758

The general statement from the staff was that it doesn't actually prevent people from creating sockpuppet accounts and scamming/spamming the board and that the restrictions are only a minor annoyance to them while at the same time, it puts off average users from contributing.


That was the beginner & help board (and the local boards). The term "newbie jail" probably isn't even completely accurate since the restriction was removed once you made several posts, not when you actually stopped being a newbie.

Just recently, I spent a day without access to food or water for 24 hours. It's surprisingly more difficult than you think and by the end of the experience, I was starting to get dizzy and weak (and very thirsty and hungry too of course). And that was just in my own home. Being trapped in the woods after a long day of strenuous exercise and hiking for 12 miles with the sun beating down on you would have definitely been a very uncomfortable experience.

Also, as a survival tactic, what she did probably doesn't make much sense. Any water or nutrients from the breast milk would have simply been reabsorbed and reallocated to other areas of her body as needed.

If you look at the stats for those in death row, it seems unlikely that he will actually be executed:


It also seems that the decision to actually hand down a death sentence hasn't happened (yet) since that's for the judge to decide:

I wouldn't say it's always profitable. Even the most highly experienced traders can experience large losing streaks sometimes. The difference (or so I've been told) is that they don't let their emotions take control. They have a strategy in place and they follow it in order to cut their losses when enough is enough rather than letting them drag on and on.


But a sideways market can also be a good opportunity for a trader who knows his stuff.

Quoted!

Also, to the guys who replied to my post above, thanks. I see MZ's link works so it's probably just a problem on my part.

I think the idea is that you can invest a modest amount of BTC, wait a while for the world to realize the benefits of the technology, and then become part of the wealthy elite since the value of your stash of coins would have grown by then. It worked for the first generation of Bitcoiners, and it could work for us.

Say if someone had invested just $3,000 into BTC in October 2011 when they were going for $3 per coin. $3,000 isn't enough for someone to be considered part of the wealthy elite. But if they held onto their coins and sold when they were worth $1,000 each, he would have $1 million and therefore become part of the new wealthy elite.

And most people like dhimasnk, you, and I who registered in 2014 lost money from Bitcoin.

I think the price will rise eventually though.


I remember browsing that site back in 2011 when I got into forex trading. I knew about Bitcoin too back then but I chose forex instead.

Fortunately, after losing a bit of money from a poor trading decision, I was able to get most of it back, withdrew my funds, and decided to never trade forex again.


So you're pretty much back to where you started from then?


What difference would it make?

Converting fiat to BTC puts buying pressure (a good thing) on BTC but spending that BTC puts selling pressure (a bad thing) on BTC since it would be converted back into fiat. So wouldn't the two effects simply cancel each other out?

Not to mention there would be buying/selling fees cutting into it as well...


Price in June 2011 was $33 per bitcoin. Price in January 2013 was $13 per bitcoin. Between those two points, the price dropped down to almost $2 per bitcoin at one stage.

I think we still have hope.


The floor would have been $165 which it reached back in January (albeit only momentarily).


Google and Facebook built their companies on their schools' networks.


Do you mean Colored Coins specifically or the concept of colored coins in general?

The rates for this campaign are a bit confusing. Only the rate for senior members and above (0.0007 BTC per post) is listed in the OP while there are sig codes for all ranks but no mention of rates alongside them.

Do posts made in this campaign roll over?


Oops. You're right. I looked at the thread starting date (March 30) and the date back then (May 4) and forgot there was a month in between. Not sure how I missed that.

I tried verifying bytezero's signed message posted below but the verifier at Brainwallet.org isn't working.

The button to verify the message is missing and nothing happens after I paste in the appropriate fields. I tried it with a few other messages and the same thing happens so there must be something wrong with the site.

The message:

I see what you mean. The only exchange I've ever used was BTC-e and I remember they had a variety of options for transferring fiat and some were supposed to be faster than others so that might be something worth looking into. I think 3 days is usually the standard time it takes for funds to be transferred from a bank account to an exchange. In any case, it's probably a good idea to keep some USD on the exchange for situations like those.

There would still be a lot of US players who don't want to deal with setting up Tor or paying for and setting up a VPN (I know free ones exist but usually most people pay for VPN services) so I think the drop will be quite significant.

Didn't realize there were so many Russian players on Primedice or that they even had their own chat for that matter.


I'm guessing the 5 billionth bet has been reached by now. What prize did that person get (assuming they got anything at all)?


From what I've seen, most other dice sites copy PD's design and features. I would prefer a higher faucet too but it's not bad by any means.

Here's an interesting thread about this very topic:

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=504149

If Satoshi chooses to dump his coins (and all of them), the price would be brought down to the single digits for a while but it wouldn't go to $0 except perhaps momentarily depending on the depth of the orderbook of the exchange he dumped his coins on. Across all exchanges, there are more than a million buy orders at $1 and several times more in orders above this so it's unlikely to go too low before climbing back up again.