hi, does anyone know if there is a browser(s) that does not feed info back to google?. I use linux but am not a geek (unfortunately) so cannot access the linux info sites! I can access a windows platform but for eg: firefox sends info to google I have been informed?. I mean subject, key words, ip address etc. I am trying to avoid my browsing being logged by anyone either bitcoin related or otherwise. I do not accept if you are doing nothing wrong you do not have to worry because what is legal today can easily become illegal tomorrow!. regards.
What do you mean send stuff to google? Sure some browsers will log some data for research and send them to the company that made it, but browsers don't just send things to google. Google isn't the king of the Internet or anything like that. If you really want anonymity, use Tor. It prevents anyone from knowing who you are and where you are browsing and the nature of Tor also makes it not log anything at all. It uses different search engines that don't log any information and the open source nature of everything it uses makes it available to the public to see whether it actually does this or not. |
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I bought some stuff on NewEgg with Bitcoin. It was ok, but not necessarily too different than ordering the traditional way. I guess if you didn't have a credit card or bank account it would make this more attractive as you could still order online.
The one thing I noticed and did not like was the fact that by paying with bitcoin you basically give up any return rights. The best you can hope for it a NewEgg gift card, where you would need to buy something else from NewEgg. I suppose you could possibly sell it to someone else in order to get your Bitcoin or cash back, but this would be an additional hassle and you would probably have to sell if for a slight loss. i.e. $200 gift card for $175. I assume this is probably due to them using Bitpay as their processor, so they are not handling Bitcoin directly.
While it is great to see merchants accepting Bitcoin, until it becomes a true two-way currency I see it continuing to having an uphill battle with mainstream adoption. Once you can get your Bitcoin refunded I think the game will change.
The technical aspects of Bitcoin make it impossible to refund. But if people were honest, then they would give refunds if they handled the Bitcoin themselves. I'm sure that once big merchants start accepting Bitcoin that they will still give refunds in Bitcoin if they didn't do it through a processor. It makes them much more credible. The problem is that most places that accept Bitcoin use a processor and don't handle the money themselves. Neweg uses Bitpay and many of the other large places that accept Bitcoin such as Dell and Microsoft all use either Bitpay or Coinbase. |
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I voted to avoid it. Since we are giving companies those documents online, they could easily be hacked. I prefer methods which don't require KYC such as localbitcoins. Also, those requirements can be quite irritating for someone who doesn't have the necessary documents to prove their identity and address. For younger people who don't have any proof of residency or anything in their name (such as minors) they can't get Bitcoin through normal means even if they have a bank account or a credit card.
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Nodes will only accept and relay the first transaction that it sees that spends those inputs. Larry would need to spend the same inputs twice. Most nodes that see the first transaction will reject the second one since it spends the same inputs twice. It is part of the relaying rules. Miners also follow these rules. When they see a double spend, they go with the version that came first. Due to the network speed, Larry would not be able to do the common Race Attack. That would require him to be at both stores at once and send both transactions at the same time. Due to the network propagation, the first transaction sent will reach most of the network before Larry can even leave the first store.
Also, most businesses and business deals should only go through after a few confirmations. This ensures that the transaction cannot be double spent. The computer store would be very idiotic to let unconfirmed transactions to happen.
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The implications of this are crazy...we are due for a new Tor as it has been comprimised.
It has? How? The user is able to freely connect to the decentralized P2P VPN network freely through ways they choose. This allows for increased security. The static verification of identity can lead to security breaches, potentially causing the leak of sensitive information. Bitnet verifies the “identity” of its users dynamically through the blockchain, where the ever-changing credentials to log in are securely stored.
How would this work? Why would anyone store login credentials on the PUBLIC BLOCKCHAIN? All of this information is also completely anonymous. Connection to a VPN node through Bitnet is virtually invisible because this network is decentralized. Once connected, you can see what they see, while nobody else can see you. This VPN is, in ways, the “first civilian TOR.”
I don't understand what you mean by "you can see what they see, while nobody else can see you". Can you explain this? Also, does this provide the same protection as TOR where you need three relays in between you and the endpoint? Bitnet also enacts a unique domain system with virtually infinite possible combinations. The domain names are as follows: http://(wallet-address) without the parentheses.
So if someone know the identity behind that bitcoin address, they will know who is running the service. That means that the service owner needs to be very very careful in order to stay anonymous. Any business or enterprise may set up their own website on Bitnet with the only cost being server utilities. There is no required domain registration fee. Since this is P2P, a business may trade even outside of its regional limitations. This is especially useful in a communist state like China, where censorship is such a problem. You can see what you deem fit, not what the government deems fit for you. The list of applicable uses for Bitnet goes on from P2P instant messaging and phone systems; there’s a plethora of useful feature to choose from.
Sounds like tor Bitnet As a Whole
Tor and I2P are two similar projects to Bitnet. However, Tor and I2P receive heavy government and private funding because of their applicable uses in privacy and security. The developers behind Bitnet hope to create the third multi-node, decentralized client of importance.
In this sense, Bitnet really is a civilian implementation of Tor. Unlike the previous two, Bitnet is Chinese. Tor and I2P are American in origin and not necessarily tailored to the needs of people who need decentralized anonymity in the world. Bitnet comes in as a personalized system that can be suited to the needs of the individual user.
Oh great, the Chinese. The Chinese government and their censorship. Whoever makes this had better be very well educated in computer and network security. So far, Tor has not be cracked. The encryption is sound and so is the security. Whoever does this needs to make sure that the Chinese government and other censors cannot censor this network. I don't see how this will be any different from Tor? Why not just use Tor which is well established and has sound security? |
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You can enter the xpub keys into blockchain.info and see all of the transactiosn and the balance there.
I will have another look but as far as I know you can only import single addresses. Tried it earlier with the xpub of a HD wallet and it would not take it. Not into their wallet, but into the search bar. You can search those xpub keys and see the transactions and balace. I don't know about monitoring them though. |
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If you mean receiving adresses then it's about 6 Adresses only . also why I will be open to an attack ? they will be able to attack me even if I import and send to other adresses fast ?  it wouldn't make sense If you go into the console and do listaddressgroupings, you can see all of the addresses you have used. This includes change addresses. When importing into Blockchain.info, if you move the Bitcoin quickly, you are at less risk. Anytime you are giving anyone your private keys, you are at risk of being attacked, although bc.i's security is pretty good IMO. They do everything in the browser not on their servers. |
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The only things I have bought with Bitcoins are online. I haven't seen any store around me that accepts Bitcoin which kind of disappoints me.
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You are going to need a lot of time to get 1 Bitcoin from faucets. They only give out very small fractions of Bitcoin at a time. Most only give out a few hundered satoshi. 100 satoshi is 0.00000100 Bitcoin. As you can see, it is quite small and it becomes quite difficult to actually get any usable amount from faucets. You can go to faucets and use them to play around with Bitcoin, but you definitely cannot do anything of use with the Bitcoin you get from them.
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You can enter the xpub keys into blockchain.info and see all of the transactiosn and the balance there.
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Why is that site asking for your private key? You don't need to give anyone your private key to send funds anywhere. If you want to send funds to someone, open up Bitcoin Core and use the send tab to do it.
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I will do what you said first , should I dump using that command on the console of Bitcoin Core or Blockchain.info read the file wallet.dat like Bitcoin Core does ?
It depends on how many addresses you have used. dumpprivkey only dumps one key at a time, and with a lot of addresses, it can be very tiring. If you have only used 10-20 keys, I would recommend you use dumpprivkey. You can also use pywallet to get all of the keys out of it. If you decide to import it to blockchain.info, you better move all of you Bitcoin out of there fast and never use those addresses again. Uploading your wallet.dat to bc.i might be unsafe and could potentially leave you open to attack. |
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I don't suppose you could post a signed message from that account here?
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Is it a microsoft surface? Those things look pretty nice. You could probably sell it for some money instead of making nothing by destroying it.
How are you going to destroy it with a DS and a physical doge?
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the word combinations are quite big, and when you mix languages they're even bigger. If there was enough people using this method of generating private keys for collision, one just probably had to raise the words limit.,..  That's very true. I still think it would be possible to collide (in English, probably), especially if you were deliberately trying to collide. It would probably take a long time, but it is possible without a doubt. Of course it is possible. So is brute forcing someone's password. But, it is probably more cost effective to do other things with your computer. Remember, running a computer costs money (electricity costs) and it will take several times longer than your lifespan to reliably get a collision. |
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That is just like bruteforcing a password. While it doesn't seem like too much, it is in fact incredibly difficult and will take much longer than you would think. Think of it as trying to bruteforce a 24 character password. Pretty hard. Now instead of less than 100 characters to choose from for each character, you have hundreds of millions of words to choose from from each "character" That becomes pretty much impossible to brute force in any reasonable amount of time with current technology.
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You can download the bootstrap.dat file. That is the best way to speed yo synchronization times.
Not with the latest versions. With Bitcoin Core 0.10+, the bootstrap.dat is no longer faster than p2p synchronization. It actually might be slower since you need to download the file. It also is not very up to date, with the latest being a year behind. |
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Just a small idea maybe to have control more over each section having its own scam folder or closed and no longer in operation for the trades sections hardware and investment games gambling sites. This way would be a lot more laid out than people just marking scam and it being cluttered up. This way topic can be closed and moved and put into scam section of that section of the forums where if mods are active can move posts into it or have a set mod to keep members aware and move stuff into it. That way it frees up the legit and paying sections and keeps the scams or problem sites in its own section.
How do you decide if something is a scam or not? If they have not scammed yet there is almost no way to know 100% if they are going to scam and 100% confirmed scammers get red negative trust and just leave the forum, i mean no one would try to promote a website that has already been marked as scam in the forum. Well Cloudthink has been marked as a scam but they still actively promote themselves on the forum and people still do stuff to promote them. Just look in the services section and you will see a few threads with them offereing Bitcoin for people to promote their website. |
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guys if anyone could help ill tip you btc
im still getting the following error, what is this lrelease.exe?, im trying to compile litecoin 0.8.7.5 source
Recompile qt from source using the compile bitcoin-qt 0.8.6 with qt 4.8 instructions in the OP. ive compiled qt once again and still no lrelease.exe in the bin folder ive also compiled the latest version 0.8.7, and no lrelease.exe anyone have any ideas? What is the output of that compilation. It should have worked. This indicates that it isn't compiling correctly. |
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Consider a new coin called USD (or perhaps Digital Dollars or Electronic Dollars DDR or EDR). Perhaps a 2nd new coin called Physical Dollars (PDR or PDL). Some thought might be given to Pennies, Dimes, Nickels, Quarters, etc.
What does THAT do for you? On a 1 to 1 basis, you could track every single dollar created by the Fed. Each digital dollar would be identifiable and unique. An end to digital counterfeiting aka a bank or other entity creating an accounting entry that misrepresents the number of dollars in existence.
It does nothing for me. What it does for the U.S. government is it allows them to track every dollar. In order to allow fractions of a dollar, you would need to track every penny. I don't know what kind of effort it would take to track 400,000,000,000,000 electronic pennies, but it probably wouldn't be easy or cheap. With a decent sized computer cluster, they could easily audit everyone and make sure taxes are actually paid. People could also audit the government and it would reduce corruption or expose it since people could see all of the transactions. Of course that means that all of the corrupt polititcians won't want it. |
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