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on: November 15, 2012, 05:02:44 PM

Does anybody else find it disturbing that somebody who runs a Bitcoin exchange would run DoS tests on the main bitcoin network? That seems like behavior that could be reported to his upstream ISP(s). If he was "testing" some little email service provider by trying to fill up all and keep busy of their SMTP server with bogus connections (here I'm talking out my ass, I have no idea if there is any DoS protection with SMTP) I think that'd be against any reasonable ISP's terms of service. And if he's using a botnet... then what the hell is somebody who runs an exchange doing with a botnet?

on: November 15, 2012, 02:11:49 PM

Saw this on #bitcoin-dev IRC chat today: Quote 07:59 phantomcircuit jgarzik, i actually have code to ddos the entire network 07:59 phantomcircuit it works 07:59 phantomcircuit but i run out of local port numbers before i get past about 100 peers If I found a DoS vulnerability I wouldn't brag about it in public-- I'd tell the developers privately. And isn't testing a DoS on a production network immoral/illegal ?

on: October 24, 2012, 08:49:34 PM

Wait... ... so if you get lucky and generate a POS block you lose control over those coins for 520 blocks? What if I need those coins to pay somebody in the meantime? How fast are PPCoin blocks-- how long would I have to possibly wait?

on: October 04, 2012, 07:08:27 PM

I asked this when I was in Newbie jail and didn't get an answer: Is Litecoin dying? I looked at coblee's github (he is still the main ltc dev I think) and no commits in a few months. Maybe ltc needs a foundation!

on: October 02, 2012, 12:51:44 PM

Quote from: AvL42 on October 01, 2012, 11:29:02 PM [ Code: createrawtransaction '{["txid":"9a8b7c6d5e4f","vout":1}]' '{"1abc":42}' Error: Error parsing JSON:{["txid":"9a8b7c6d5e4f","vout":1}] What am I missing? You started with curly-brace then square-brace. Try [{...}]

on: September 30, 2012, 03:24:42 PM

That wiki page needs updating, the new 'raw transactions' api lets you create transactions from specific previous transactions. See: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Raw_Transactions

on: September 30, 2012, 02:57:48 PM

Quote from: AvL42 on September 30, 2012, 10:17:35 AM Received outputs are associated to the respective address's account, but spends (at least, those not generated by the satoshi-client itself) get booked on the "" account. And "move" may be used to update the inter-account balances. You can use the 'sendfrom' RPC command to send from an account other than "" This wiki page explains it: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Accounts_explained

on: September 30, 2012, 02:54:37 PM

volavak : you should start a bet at http://betsofbitco.in/ , you could make some coin if you are right.

on: September 30, 2012, 02:52:45 PM

Quote from: davout on September 30, 2012, 02:29:09 PM As of today, no Bitcoin exchange has insured fiat deposits since no Bitcoin exchange is regulated as a financial insitution nor does any exchange partner with a financial instition for fiat storage. I would pay more to put my dollars into an insured account. I don't really like or trust the FDIC though so would prefer a privately created insurance. But FDIC (or whatever national equivalent, if the exchange is overseas) insurance for my dollar balance would be better than nothing. I would pay more if my bitcoin deposits were insured against hack/theft, too. It doesn't have to be insurance, a surety bond deposited with some mainstream institution that I trust would be sufficient. ANYTHING, so I had some idea that I would get at least some of my money back if the exchange got hacked in the time between depositing cash or bitcoins and withdrawing bitcoins or cash.

on: September 30, 2012, 01:46:48 AM

Is litecoin still being developed? I see the last commit was a few months ago: https://github.com/coblee/litecoin/commits/master Did somebody else take over development?

on: September 30, 2012, 01:43:01 AM

Hello, my name is Alex. I guess I should change my nickname to "BoringMcBoring". Python coder, thinking about playing around with bitcoin...

on: September 30, 2012, 01:17:30 AM

Do any of the exchanges insure deposits?

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