I will repost from the Ripple forum:

Amazing the number of dormant accounts that never ever posted in BITCOINTALK.ORG that have come alive so that they can get Ripples. Look for any user with "JR.Member" and see how many post they have done. These accounts were created years ago and never had a single post until after the giveaway.

Almost half of the giveaway addresses on page 58 are from 2011 and never had a posting until today.

This approach to a giveaway is falling apart due to this abuse. Also results in a ton of spam postings.

An example: (easy to find)

RaducuIulianu
Registered Date: June 16, 2011, 09:23:04 AM
#Post: 6 (All on March 1st)
Ripple Account: rEiUFmQbeEJKmHdSTuCTfBwUAck6A8jfT5
Immediately moved to another account: rEiUFmQbeEJKmHdSTuCTfBwUAck6A8jfT5 which has a ton of 40K transfers to it.

What the...? This means Bitcointalk is either compromised or one of its admins got really low.

Maybe this has to do with the old hack that leaked some passwords and attacker has access to old accounts now?

This guy just gathers money from all acounts into this one:

raRuz7se7tqNQJECUWjJdqSnEAR3F2PgcK

and then caches them out to BTC via Bitstamp.

Anyway, I think this fraud has to stop. Both OpenCoin and Bitcointalk guys should do something about it!

Ripple has enough negative attitude towards it without such fraudulent, shady affairs.

EDIT:
Sorry, the original post is 1.5 months old, didn't notice the date so I guess it's not that urgent.

But still - was anything done about that? Did you try to figure out who the bad guy is?

BitRing is an Ad Exchange service for Bitcoin sites.

The concept is very simple: you show other people's ads on your site and they show yours.

This would help promote various Bitcoin-related services to the users.

Get more exposure for your site.

Start Now!

I've created a project for informal BIPs (Bitcoin Improvement Proposals) on Idea Informer.

More as a test to see if that form of feedback would be interesting to people.

Feel free to post your suggestions or vote on existing ones (I've just posted a bunch off the top of my head )

http://bip.idea.informer.com/

I've tried once to compile it. Gave up.

I don't understand why can't you bundle all the needed libraries and distribute the complete source code with the client?

1) You will get more trust. What's the point of doing code review if you can't compile a binary version from it?

2) You will get more developers involved. I, personally, can't spend several days, figuring out just how to compile it. But if it were a matter of loading it into VS and hitting Build, I might work on small features or optimizations.

And the most annoying is that I don't see any rational reasons not to do it! Why hasn't it been done from the beginning? Are you trying to impose some sort of an artificial "entry barrier"?


P.S. I am specifically talking about Windows.

The very first milestone for virtually every bitcoin web service would be a login/user management system.

I thought it would be nice to have an open source, "peer-reviewed", off-the-shelf system that you could just drop into your project and be reasonably sure that there are no major screwups there. And we all know how badly this is needed

Now, is there such a library already?

Maybe some other (not-bitcoin-related) off-the-shelf library? (googling for it right now)

The problem is that for this library to be easily reviewed it should be small and simple, but yet usable, extensible and flexible to support various types of web services.

I'm not even sure such library is feasible...

Any ideas?

I've created an intentionally minimalistic bounty system:

http://forum.qbizy.com/index.php?action=bounty

So if you need something done - post it there.

You can be sure that at least one professional programmer who cares about the fate of Bitcoin will keep an eye on it

Discussion: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=41798.msg520783#msg520783

[actually contributed something to BitCoin have write access]

IDEA: A forum where only people who have actually contributed something to BitCoin have write access.


This current forum is way too noisy. There are many smart and decent people here, who are putting their personal time and money to create something for BitCoin.

Wouldn't you like to see a place where such people could have a discussion without having to deal with all the noise, all the scandals and freemason bullshit, same newbie questions over and over again, etc.?

Well, as usual, if you want something done – do it yourself  
So here it is – I’ve installed an SMF 2.0 forum for this:

http://forum.qbizy.com

(If this project takes off I will move it to a separate domain and hosting).

So if you think it's a good idea to have such a place – register with an email from the site where one can see your contribution or drop me a line at bitcoin@qbizy.com.


You're probably thinking "what, some schmuck with less than 50 posts will now judge my contribution and decide who’s in and who’s out?"  

You're right I am not a hero member here, and I am in no position to determine how valuable your contribution is. I will just try to check that there is a contribution, that's all.


I love the BitCoin idea. I want it to succeed. Workers of the BitCoin world – unite!  

Seriously. Go register.

I wrote a simple program to display BitCoin price in the system tray:



The price is determined by Mt.Gox.

Download: http://qbizy.com/btcmon/
Donate:    1btcm18qxuqY7MgicZ1bmfZRVqGiDekax

I wrote a simple program to display BitCoin price in the system tray:



The price is determined by Mt.Gox.

Download: http://qbizy.com/btcmon/
Donate:    1btcm18qxuqY7MgicZ1bmfZRVqGiDekax

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Fuck it.

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