The withdraw isnt confirming though - all day - whats going on? Is it a real transaction?

Less than 1 BTC. Nothing a site that advertises a 400+ BTC jackpot should need to delay for 3+ days.

Been waiting on a withdrawal for 3 days now. You claim instant, but somtimes up to 2 hours. How do you figure 3 days into that? Just "forgot"? Because a withdrawl queue is somewhat hard to forget.

I smell scam.

Hate to break this to you, but if the root password really was Abc%1234 you don't need sql injection to find that (side note: SQL injection won't reveal the root password for a server*). Any standard brute force tool will find that password in a matter of minutes. Surprised it took only 5 hours for you to get hacked.

* Yes, in a roundabout way you could eventually find the root password with sql injection being your first foot in the door. But it won't reveal it as a matter of course.

If you believe that, or if you believe sql injection is a way to, as you put it, "inject false bets into the database", anyone who may have invested with you should, as much as I hate all this bitcoin hacking bullshit, probay thank whoever did it for saving them money. You've no business soliciting investments on a server with both rusty latch security and an admin who doesn't seem to understand the most basic security concepts.

I'm not trying to be a dick. What happened sucks. But if what's said here is true they did you, your "investors", and anyone gaming there a favor.

Understood - but why require me to send you my wallet and guessed password, instead of YOU providing a way to interface with the software?

I've spent half the day writing an autohotkey script to type in a password list into the software.

With the bitcoin wallet - I can try passwords via RPC.

With Armory, there is no way to do that, and you have an internal tool that will try, yet, we can't have it, and instead you want us to send the wallet and password. Thats not right. On what planet is is MORE acceptable to ask users to take that risk, than for you to provide a simple tool.

If your reasoning behind not providing the tool is "security" and fear of it falling into the hands of hackers, security through obscurity is pointless. Using a free windows tool I've fired off a brute force process. Yes, it's slower than a direct RPC call, but it's running now. You not providing the tool is not stopping anyone from trying to brute force a wallet. Outlaw the guns, only the criminals will have the guns. Don't release the tool, only the hackers who really want to brute the wallets will create their own tool. End result? Honest customers with a problem are really inconvenienced, and you've stopped no one.

You can close my ticket, I found a way to do it myself.

Later when I find some free time, I'm going to figure out a way to do it directly, without having the GUI open and a script program typing passwords and clicking buttons.

Then I'm going to release the software.

And you keeping your tool out of the hands of the people who NEED it becomes utterly irrelevant. Again: End result? Honest customers with a problem have a solution to try, and you've still not stopped a single hacker.

Thanks.

(Side note: Today, sober, I wouldn't curse, but how I feel is no different. It's a jackass move to have an internal tool you won't share, under the pretense of keeping hackers out. At least, thats the only reason I can fathom for not releasing it)

Wait. I have to give you my wallet and my thoughts on my password? I was under the assumption you'd give me access to the tool.

Please take this in the most respectful way possible: you can go f*ck yourselves.

What company in their right mind asks a use for that?

I would rather lose the btc I the wallet than give unknown people my wallet file AND what I believe my password to be.

I'm not trying to be an asshole here - but given the choice between giving the internal tool to users, and keeping it private and asking users to send you their wallet and approximate password, you guys are absolutely insane, and arrogant pricks, if your choice is "send us your info."

Close my ticket. I'd rather lose the bitcoin than risk ANYONE else getting it.

You just completely lost my faith in your software. Wtf is wrong with you people?

EDIT: I didn't see the end part about the python script. I'll try grabbing it and using it. That being said - no - I'm not giving you my wallet and approximate password.

EDIT 2: My gf had a party tonigt and I've had a few drinks. I may not exactly be polite. 😁😁

Except... There's no such thing as another password that will "also work".

Thanks for the info. I submitted a ticket.

Guys - it's a brute force tool. Which is utterly useless if you have a secure password. Will take years to figure it out.

The only reason I'm asking for this tool is Armory does not have an RPC interface or anything similar - if this were my bitcoin-qt wallet for which I effed up the password, I'd simply just brute force against the RPC with a perl script. But since it's Armory, and I need to manually type in all my password guesses, which would take forEVER, I was looking for electronic assistance. Which, thankfully, Armory has.

Unfortunately I havent heard back yet. It's the weekend. I hope I'm not waiting til Monday. 

As for how you validate it recreated the password - you use it. If it works, it did it right. If it does't, it didn't How does the Armory client know you typed in the right password?

I'm travelling and need to access my bitcoin that I keep in my cold storage wallet. Brought my offline laptop that houses my offline wallet with me knowing I'd likely need access to it. (I mention this because i do not have access to my unencrypted paper backup for a week until I get home).

Apparently, I used a hyper secure password which I cannot remember the exact details of. Here's the issue: I know how I made the password. It's X number of different phrases/passwords I've used before, spaced out with various symbols, with a symbol or three at the beginning/end. I spent 30 mins last night typing in every combo of those things I could remember, and kept failing. I know there are tools that can brute force a bitcoin wallet, but I have no idea if anything exists for armory. Would really help to have access to my coin before I got home next week.

Something that I could give some patterns to and let it try until it figured it out.

Anyone have any idea if there's any software that could help?

Thanks for the insight, thats actually extremely interesting to wrap your brain around.

It doesnt SEEM like thats what is going on given the patterns, but, maybe the plan is to completely crash the price, take all the earned BTC, then once the price had bottomed out, take that BTC and buy back tons more? But as I type that, it makes no sense - not in THIS case - where the dev owns, via premine, literally 96% of all coins out there. No reason to manipulate just to get more. That being said, with other coins thats a very valid tactic.

The more I see this play out (the other components to this coin are also now going haywire, and there are either a lot of paid cronies still hyping it, or more likely, a TON of koolaid drinking sheep too dumb to smell the smoke) the more I think the dev is just an utter imbecile who thinks that by undercutting the price he'll sell more of the premine. If he had half a brain he could have easily doubled his take.

Oh well. It was fun to watch anyway.

No, I was hoping to hear a well thought out answer. Not the standard "its a scam!" or "dumping the premine!". Scam, very likely. Dumping the premine? Well, duh. But that wasn't my question. I was HOPING to hear intelligent answers that might explain why he was intentionally driving the price down. If I made a scamcoin with the intent to dump the premine, I sure as hell wouldn't post a sell for .000102 when the next lowest sell was .00073 as it was this morning on one exchange. And before the chants of "Hes just trying to dump it faster!" start - I'll repeat - for a few days the low sells appeared AFTER THE PRICE STARTED TO RISE. There was big buy support. Price going up. Big sell 10% under the going rate. You only do that if you're monumentally stupid, or there's a reason for it.

And as for your second question, what serious dev would intentionally devalue his own project? Exactly. That was my question in the first place. Not to debate if he was or wasnt - the fact he was is obvious. I was hoping those with more experience than I might have insight as to why someone would WANT to do that.

Which explains why he's intentionally taking less profit than he could get by dumping the price lower than the going rate when the price is actually climbing.

I see now I asked for opinion here in error. My apologies. Expecting a well thought out reply on an internet forum is like buying a lottery ticket. You can wish and pray... but your chances of getting what you hope for are infinitesimally small.

Except the coin didnt exist 8-10 weeks ago and never had a high it was pumped to. It hit the market and stayed relatively steady for weeks, until a few days ago.

It was never pumped. Also, one thing I forgot to mention in the OP is that the premine is as I write this 2000x larger than the rest of the available coins.

In one day on one exchange there were 6x the qty of non-premined coins traded.

In other words, it's the premine thats being sold.

So, no, it's not a pump group.

Possible. The coin has another component to it where the coin can be used to buy that. And that other component is supposed to support the value. Kinda complicated but I'm intentionally being vague because the instant I say the coins name this gets labeled as FUD and fanboys and trolls alike chime in.

So it's hard to describe the other half of the coins purpose without giving it away. Suffice it to say that I believe it's not just a dump, it's too well orchestrated to lower the price to be just that.

Just looking for others thoughts as to what the reason could be.

Right. Understood. Thats the simple, "I havent bothered to actually think about the answer" answer.

But it doesnt explain the systematic, methodical, intentional devaluing of the coin. Not devaluing because a crapton is being dumped, but devaluing by intentionally posting sell orders much lower than the current, people are actually buying it and the price is rising value, and then when the lower sell orders are gone, intentionally WAITING for the price to start going BACK UP before posting another downward-price-driving sale.

Anyone who's put as much work into the website, the theory behind the coin, the possible scam supporting it to make it look worth investing so he CAN dump it... Would not be so stupid as to purposefully destroy their own profit by methodically lowering the price, and pushing it down EVERY time it shows life and starts to climb again.

Any smart dev dumping a coin would dump a ton... and then let the price recover. Maybe even buy some back, show buy support, stack low buy orders to weight the market depth charts. Then dump some more.

There's more to this than merely dumping. If you truly think thats "just a dump" then maybe the noob isn't on this end.

And yes, I'm very obviously new here. I obviously know nothing about crypto

Theres a coin I've been watching lately thats been doing well. Not naming names because it's pretty irrrelevant and I've no interest in bringing it any attention.

For a month or so the price has held steady at lets use .004 BTC as an example. Up some, down some, but overall hanging out at about .004 BTC.

Now this coin had a very large premine that was to be used to fund some other feature of the coin. All seemed pretty legit.

But a few days ago, the known premine address started taking massive withdrawals, and exchanges started seeing massive sales and volume skyrocketed.

Then I noticed a trend starting. EVERY time the price would stabilize, huge sell orders would appear at about 10% LOWER than the going rate. For example, the SELL column would look like:
.004001  42.82764
.004050  12.1298367
.004059  67.23645872
.004060  23.89237

And then this order would appear:
.003600  2589.23947
.004001  42.82764
.004050  12.1298367
.004059  67.23645872
.004060  23.89237

A very large price BELOW the lowest sell price, and a massive amount of it.

And they'd pretty quickly get snapped up, there was obvious buy interest in the coin. And no, I dont believe it was the dev also re-buying the coin, too much chatter in text rooms and too much volume to be that coordinated.

And after the price went down... a few hours later as the price started to recover...
.003620  42.82764
.003621  12.1298367
.003645  67.23645872
.003650  23.89237

Again, a huge 10% drop below the going rate would appear...
.003200  3100.00
.003620  42.82764
.003621  12.1298367
.003645  67.23645872
.003650  23.89237

Over and over this has happened over the course of about 3 days. The price is now about 25% what it was 3 days ago.

My question to the community in general: Can anyone think of a good reason for a dev to INTENTIONALLY drive the price down. Lots of chatter in chat rooms about the dev dumping the premine - thats no doubt. But from what I've noticed on orderbooks and examining API data, only about 25% of the premine has been dumped like this. If a dev is dumping the premine, if it were ME doing it, I'd do it carefully. Over time. And making sure I'm selling a lot more than 25% of it. So I'm not destroying the price in the process. Or if I were in a hurry, I surely wouldnt post the sales at 10% below the going rate... go a little under, to keep the coin from devaluing so quickly.

There was no large pump that was then dumped on - the price was stable for weeks.

Why would a coin dev intentionally DEVALUE the coin? Thoughts? Conspiracy theories?

No input whatsoever on any of those ideas?

Can't wait to see more.