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I find Bitcoin great for making charitable donations.
I generally prefer PayPal and VISA for buying things of any significant value, and am happy to pay a premium for their services of discriminating scammers/flakes and making me whole if I meet one. The cost and hassle of obtaining BTC and keeping them secure usually outweighs the PayPal fee anyway to my way of thinking.
I think that Dwolla are filthy scum for their business practices vis-a-vis Tradehill and I would not use them if they paid me money to do so. Not to mention that they seemed to have mooched off the taxpayers of Iowa to get going, and may still be for all I know.
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This order is officially closed.
CCM, I presume the next batch is still Open? I sent you a PM and I did it right this time so you should have it! Is there an issue with paying by a MtGox account with 6-Confirmations? Do you have an order form or do we just pay and post the transaction details here? Should I send an email concerning the order by pgp? any payments are going to go into the next order. next order will be placed when 50 units are paid for. if orders will keep coming in, i'll keep running it... as far as sending from mt. gox or other exchanges etc...: you don't control that sending address, so it's theoretically possible for someone to sign that message and claim they placed that order and not you. therefore, it is highly advisable to send from address/es you control and can sign a message with. when I'm done with accounting for the first order, i'll put up some pics/instructions on signing messages too. For those who may not be clear on this: Currently: - blockchain.info accounts can be set up for free. As many as one wishes. - blockhain.info accounts can sign messages. - it should be relatively straightforward to set up a 'throw-away' blockchain.info account, send the necessary funds (with possibly a little more in case transaction fees are desirable) from one's Mt. Gox account to the blockchain.info account, thence on to the Group Buy. This will allow one to sign messages demonstrating proof of ownership. Notes: - There may be other wallets, but I've only used blockchain.info so it is the only one I can speak to. - Best to take notes and log the info from the 'throw away' account just in case it is needed in the future. - Although blockchain.info claims to be pretty robust against various form of exploitation seen in the past, it's still and on-line wallet and very few people are going to be studying the decryption code to verify that it is legit. Still, in a use-case such as this, one is only risking money for a short amount of time. I personally weigh the risk of Mt. Gox being locked by the authorities as higher than blockchain.info engineering a heist anyway. |
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The fun continues into Monday. For posterity: ----- Jon Matonis @jonmatonis 33m Exploit I used to compromise Mr. Matonis's Yahoo, leading to all his accounts being jacked: http://goo.gl/TAfzA Enjoy. ----- Now all of Jon's tweets are back, but he is down to zero followers and followings. I'm kinda wondering if Jon either has control, or is leaving control in the hands of the attacker to gain information. But I have no idea how Twitter and it's support structures work. As always, it would likely be monumentally stupid to simply execute the downloaded program (which, like the one yesterday, I have a copy of if anyone wants it.) |
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both guys are members of Bitcoin Foundation, both guys wanted to cooperate. But my opinion is Coinlab's Mr. V is a Bastard. He chose war instead of peace.
If someone signs a contract to do something and then doesn't, you don't just suck their dick. You sue their ass. Unless you are a total sucker who likes being made a fool. As best I can tell, the details of the contract are not public. So, unless you claim to be privy to information that others are not, it's kind of hard to take your argument very seriously. Seems to me that things started to go sideways when customers realized that their accounts (information and possibly funds) were being sold off without their authorization and pitched a bitch about it. I've lost trivial amounts of funds in two instances when 'investors' bought accounts. One was Bitcoinica, and the other was Instawallet (though I do not know if Instawallet was sold or gifted.) In fact, it seems that CoinLabs has involvement with some of the same parties that purchased Bitcoinica and seemingly nose-dived it into the ground (where 2 or 3 BTC which used to belong to me got lost...and I suspect 'found' as well.) To my knowledge the only time the equation has gone the other way was when that Polish exchange 'lost' their funds in a (purported) EC2 accident. When Krapeles bought it the customers got their coins restored as I recall. Edit: I pro-actively correct my statement about the details of the contract. The details of the supposed failure in compliance remain murky I would say. |
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I've looked around at some documentation, but could not really spot any answer to my question. And I've never mined. I'm wondering how much data, compared to the normal peer2peer transaction data, a miner needs to solve hashes when working for a pool?
If there is a reduction in data size, it is a matter of
- the pool operator handling and discriminating out unspent or invalid transactions or other cruft?
- the pool operator handling some sort of optimization of datastructures while all the transactions are actually seen by the miner in some form?
- the pool operator computing Merkle hashes for sub-sets of the data and handing them over or something like that?
Edit: Shit! wrong board for this post. Mining support or software would have been better. Oh well.
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As best I can tell, the core belief of a Libertarian is if they can rip off someone, it means ipso-facto that they are superior and deserve to have the victims money by virtue of that alone. In practice, at least.
Troll harder. Fuck! I'm going to have to. I still only have '8-13' ignores. I thought sure this would bump me up to the next level  --- In actual fact, I believe most everything I say here and think it is worthwhile that casual observers don't come to the conclusion that Bitcoin is a complete Libertarian mono-culture. OTOH, I'm hardly a 'rah, rah, go-team' analyst of Bitcoin itself either, so I'm not sure how much good it does for the cause. But I ramble... |
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As best I can tell, the core belief of a Libertarian is if they can rip off someone, it means ipso-facto that they are superior and deserve to have the victims money by virtue of that alone. In practice, at least.
Hmm, about the only thing that I ever hear libertarians saying that the government needs to prevent is force and fraud. Can someone be ripped off without fraud? Ya, well, I'm not real versed in what Libertarian thinkers write, nor do I care alot about what they, or anyone else writes. My comment is more directly related to observations in Bitcoinland which is rife with Libertarians and has a truly impressive level of fraud, theft, and all manner of unseemly things going on. It also introduced me to the Laize Faire City thing which was both very entertaining and entirely predictable for such a structure. That the then editor of their paper and current principle in ButterFly Labs was also involved in ripping of seniors for $25M (a so-called 'colorful history in off-shore Libertarianism' to quote ~inaba) was completely non-surprising to me. Now to be fair, a lot of my friends and neighbors are Libertarians and I would trust them with my life and a fair amount of my money. And have. But that's no fun on this forum  |
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It's pretty obvious that the big draw for a lot of you people is that you don't have any real money or a very good idea of how to get any. So getting rich on BTC is great fodder to go along with fantasies of life in some Libertarian commune. No, It's obvious that you're referring to people who obviously don't understand free markets and entrepreneurship. Since these are basic core beliefs among libertarians, it's pretty safe to say that you're talking about non-libertarians with that remark. As best I can tell, the core belief of a Libertarian is if they can rip off someone, it means ipso-facto that they are superior and deserve to have the victims money by virtue of that alone. In practice, at least. Afterall, there are tons of CEOs of fortune 500 companies that are libertarians. Peter Thiel gives tons of money to libertarian causes every year.
So do the Koch bros. Looks like they are cultivating an army of dopes to support they scheme of distributing the costs (air pollution, cancer, etc) and privatize the gains. Unsurprisingly, putting money into your pocket is not really foremost on their list of priorities. I wish it were not such a far-flung fantasy because the rest of us would be better off if we didn't have to support you. What exactly is your problem with freedom bro? I'm all about freedom. I very much wish you to be free to spend $10k or whatever for some plot in some barren shithole wasteland, some part of a rock in the ocean, or fraction of a rusting barge. |
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Hey Friedcat!
Thanks for being explicit (and pretty well thought out and fair) about delivery details and such.
Getting hashing power widely distributed to non-commercial enthusiasts is something that I think important and I have a lot of respect for your efforts in this direction.
edit: syntax
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It's surprising how much schadenfreude there's been around this. I don't know much about Matonis, but is seems like a lot of people had very little respect for him.
I'd derive amusement about something like this no matter who it happened to. Even if it were myself! No harm, no foul. OTOH, it becomes a bit criminal depending on what that binary does. I assume that the attacker would stay out of the kitchen if he (most likely 'he') cannot stand the heat, and I'll enjoy it even more if he get's caught. --- FWIW, this is IMO yet another somewhat valuable illustration of just how difficult it can be to maintain control of one's data these days, and that really needs to be a factor in being realistic about crypto-currency design. |
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Funny. @octal is a friend of mine, was at BTC2013.
Twitter has 2FA now -- really unforgivable for a visible frontman of the BTC world.
I should be more clear that the attacker who had control of Jon's account was communicating with @octal. Hey attacker? Tell us if Jon's Yahoo! password was some permutation of 'liberty', 'rand', 'atlas', etc and I'll send you a few bucks. |
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----- Jon Matonis @jonmatonis 5mHis email was plastered everywhere, I got into his Yahoo (Not bruteforce), took his Twitter, forbes account, etc. @octal Expand ----- I'll be looking forward to the new Jon's blog post of Forbes |
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Sure, it can't be Twitter staff is doing it on command, for fun or something else. Why would they do it? They are just cool company offerring "make your stalker's life easier" services,
heavily backed by anti-cryptocoin kind of people, no?
The tinfoil is reaching critical mass. Maybe, maybe not (and probably not for BM's hypothesis though I would not rule it out.) My Android phone was hacked some months ago with what seems to perhaps have been a zero-day and my mail seems to have been broken into in that attack. It was dumb luck that the phone had connectivity only briefly or I may not have ever known. The attacker seemed to be clumsy though (or very very good...sometimes it's hard to tell.) I now no longer allow my phone or Windows machine access to my real mail which is awfully inconvenient, but what can ya do? Hopefully for Jon, he was similarly careful. |
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Just a heads-up that the guy's twitter account looks cleaned up, but the last post downloads a binary: file ~/Bitcoin.exe
Bitcoin.exe: PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit Mono/.Net assembly
SHA256 (Bitcoin.exe) = 8de78e122abe638554cd3e824e7d13975cb3886817e4666aeee081dc77e10ace
Caution is advised for those on Windows. Put more clearly, it would likely be a bad idea to execute it. Edit: Aaaand it's gone! If anyone wishes to take a crack at de-compiling it, PM me. |
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Jon Matonis
@jonmatonis
Board advisor to startups in bitcoin, gaming, mobile & prepaid. Previously CEO of Hushmail.
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--- latest tweet ---
Jon Matonis @jonmatonis 38m
If you donate ill suck your dick, or eat you out (ladies):
14yMcPkqUVYrXFLwxJdSS34ae7reFmg5PJ
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Ouch! That can't help is 'advisory' credentials much. At least in terms of advising about security...
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Libertarians [and/or juveniles] OTOH...there must be 50 threads about that on this forum. Gee, I wonder why any libertarians would be interested in Bitcoin...  It's pretty obvious that the big draw for a lot of you people is that you don't have any real money or a very good idea of how to get any. So getting rich on BTC is great fodder to go along with fantasies of life in some Libertarian commune. I wish it were not such a far-flung fantasy because the rest of us would be better off if we didn't have to support you. |
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Why is it that when you get more than a few hippie liberals in a room together the conversation always turns into, "hey - let's make a commune." <pic snipped> I've not heard talk of a commune from hippies ('my people' historically) since I was a kid in the early 70's. Libertarians [and/or juveniles] OTOH...there must be 50 threads about that on this forum. Would you, could you, one a boat? Would you, could you, with a goat? |
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If any of you ebay whores... Yeah, those ebay whores are the worst. *Checks price. Currently going for $1025* *Dons fishnet pantyhose* ...holy mother of... No shit. That's crazy! I cannot imagine that very many will sell for that kind of price (if they buyer intends to pay at all) but I've been wrong before. If it were me, I might hang out at home Tue locked and loaded with OO buckshot awaiting that second box if I could not arrange will-call. |
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Got any candidates? (Not snark, I mean it. I hate what the USA has become. It doesn't even resemble the nation I grew up in, and I am only middle aged.)
Although I agree significantly, I'm not really completely convinced that the US has ever been all that angelic. The Vietnam war and the Latin American activities which transpired during at least part of my early lifetime were pretty repulsive. It is true, however, that the spoils of our 'activities' have been more evenly distributed in times past. Of course that does not excuse morally wrong activities, but it does add incentive to not wish to participate. And as sure as eggs are eggs, an increase in income gap brings with it the need for enhanced internal security apparatus. The Assange thing knocked Sweden way down no my list of interesting options and elevated Ecuador to near the top. As best I can tell the actual people of Ecuador themselves had some understanding of the Wikileaks/Assange details, and support their government's actions. To me this says a lot about the people. Like most folks though, I've mostly thought about such thing and have made little concrete action. |
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i hate liers and cheats, this bitcoin community has too many.
I to, but in fairness you are being a little bit over the top. imo. In this case ~finlof had/has a reasonable plan to ship the item in a timely manner. Yes, he is shifting some risk of ~arklan pulling a scam to the perspective e-bay buyer, but that is, to me, not an unrealistic part of playing this game at this time. ~finlof is absorbing a big risk of charge-backs, and if somehow he fails to hold up his side of the deal, it would probably the best thing that ever happened to the buyer at these prices anyway Yes, his e-bay text is a little to 'sales-ee' for my tastes, but that's why I will never be in marketing and would never be any good at it. |
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