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Welcome,

Security is job #1 before you store anything of value on a computing device.

We have been saddened here lately by hearing of people losing bitcoin to malware, virii and hackers, when it appears the most elemental of basic security procedures could have prevented it.

So, not to overwhelm you, but here's some basic security info to get you started, you should check/implement basic security on your machines before acquiring any amount of cryptocurrency, bitcoin or anything else. Should you want to secure large value amounts, additional advice should be sought.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh9KcpGGAVw
http://www.cmu.edu/iso/aware/presentation/sec101-idtheft.pdf
http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/cybersecurity-101_4.pdf
http://community.stratics.com/threads/tech-computer-security-101.89533/

This is a non-exhaustive list of "reasonable" first step security information, more specific advice would be available from the distributors of your operating system. Some of the links contain links to more in depth information.

While the advice given above is "a good start" and may keep you safe from run of the mill security threats, threats become more advanced over time and there is the possibility that you may be targeted by a sophisticated, directed attack if you are known to be holding large values in bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies. Defending against such an eventuality is beyond the scope of this little primer, and you should probably seek advice from professionals in the field.

Please feel free to contribute any tips and advice to this thread,

Flashman

Ladies and Gentlemen,

It's only just really sunk in with me, how low on the adoption S curve we are at present. We are quite substantially below 1% so far. Typical S curves tend to exhibit slopes of about 1 in 10 in their first phase. Beyond the first crook, in mass adoption phase, this becomes about 10 in 1. Tipping points in various technical innovations over the years appear to occur at between 2 and 5% adoption. This is the inflection point in the S curve.

Thus at the inflection point, adoption accelerates 10 times faster.

If bitcoin is capable of 10x price increase in a "bubble" at present, on our early adoption "bunny" slope, what the hell will happen when adoption rate is 10x?

I put it to you that a 100 fold increase in price is possible.

I do not think this is going to happen very soon, I think we will have to be at a 100 day MA of $10,000 and get at least 7 million North American users to hit tipping point. At the earliest, I think it's 18 months away. We need a couple of "bubble" cycles to get up there.


In essence a burst dam scenario, we are the trickle.


Flash.

Death to the usurpers, long live the king...

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/counterparty-recreates-ethereum-bitcoin/

Wesley, set a course for the furthest moon in the gamma quadrant, Warp 9.9. Engage!

Now as long as Gavin doesn't come up from the engine room saying the equivalent of "She canna take any more Cap'n" we're all good.

Hi,

AVG free just did an update I guess, because it's started blocking cgminer, only options it is giving me now is "remove" or "ignore but block" can't seem to add exception or tell it to leave it the hell alone. In the past it flagged it, but I was able to get it to leave it alone, now it's not seeming to give me that option.

fuck you very much AVG.

Any ideas, apart from deleting AVG?

thanks,

Flash.

First, you need something to start with, $100 worth of bitcoin, split this between two paper wallets.

Now, take your car, lift the driving wheels off the ground, making sure the car is securely supported.

Glue the paper wallets on opposite sides of one of the driving wheels.

Carefully climb into the car, and spin the wheels at 80mph for 10 minutes!

Congrats, you've achieved a million dollar turn over!



Teh Explains...

Typical size of a car wheel is such that it turns around 1000 rpm at 80 mph, so you spin your $100 around, or "turn it over" 10,000 times in 10 minutes.



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Flash

Hi gang,

A double question here. First off, I have an Aunt living in the UK who has been good to me, I'd like to send her a little BTC as a Christmas gift. She is computer competent, uses them professionally, but not a real tech wiz, got her home computer on the internet back in the days when you had to have a bit of a clue. Anyway, enough that I think she could "handle" BTC given a few pointers. I'd like her to be able to cash it easily if she wants. So which exchanges are amenable to transfers to UK bank accounts without taking forever? Preferably ones without too many options to get lost in.

Then secondly, I'm thinking of going over there to do the "Tourist thing" in early spring, will be around London a couple of days, but then heading out to see Stonehenge, historic sites away from the cities. I'd take UK pounds and credit cards, but "just in case" I'm wondering if I could get UKP for BTC easily with no bank account. Would I have to use local bitcoins? I'm thinking that's about the only way, not heard of many bitcoin ATMs over there. Are there any BTC to "service" purchase options? Like if Amazon UK sold tickets to a theme park or something, and I could use a service to buy them through BTC? Or perhaps BTC payment services that allow online purchase of bus or rail tickets or similar? Just want to have an idea of options in case some unforeseen circumstance swallows all my fiat. I can refund my CC by BTC by several "hops" as it were that take a few days each, but that might be too long a time considering I'll only be there a couple of weeks.... and would not do me much good if I lost my CC or something daft.

Oh finally, is there anything I should know about any BTC related sites that are blocked from the UK now? Would be shitty if I found that that default UK firewall thing had slippery sloped it's way into blocking pretty much anything that was slightly frowned on (For the children!)  and I couldn't get to exchanges or online wallets without having a "real" internet connection I could configure a proxy on, relying as I might be on public wifi or internet cafes.

Thanks muchly for any pointers,

Flash.

Hey folks,

I've been wondering if there's a solution to the problems of potential ground loop issues when you have ASIC miners plugged to a different circuit than the host device, or multiple different circuits.

Now I've only heard of this in the past when people have been plugging a monitor or printer into a different circuit and the ground loop through the interface cable causes erratic behaviour, even burns out parts on occasion.

Now, having a slight clue, I would check for DC or AC potential differences between the ground shields before actually connecting them.

This could also happen I guess in situations where you use multiple PSUs on one mining rig, such as in a BFL minirig or in a honkingly huge GPU rig, but the ground bonding between them should be a lot better, not being the shield of the USB cable.

Any thoughts?


Flash

Hi Folks,

Well we all know that BFLs 65nm tech looks like being rapidly outdated. But then we "knew" that 150/130nm ASICs were 10 years out of date when it hit the market. Yet somehow they ruled the entire first half of 2013, while everyone else was stuck in development hell. Will history repeat with the 28nm wonder machines? I don't know, but having some hefty discounts off 65nm chips sitting in your pocket could be a good hedge against getting stuck without hash, as bitcoin price goes vertical, envying the owners of that "outdated" tech, as we all were in the spring. Chips seem to be shipping quick from BFL, there's independant board projects to support and there's reported success in adding them to the now "pocket change price" jalapenos.

So there would seem to be value in these yet.

I am willing to consider that there might be value in your "old junk" too, since I do the "tech support" for a large extended family of technological laggards, and the too lame to game stuff is perfect for their browsing and facebook addictions.

So I have 48 credits worth $25 face value each off each BFL ASIC in 3 packs of 16. Delivery will be by transferring to your BFL account. Delivery of the goods for trade will need to be to Ontario Canada, so US guys probably don't wanna ship me whole system units.

I can use AMD AM2 stuff, DDR2 stuff, socket 775 stuff, DDR I could use 1GB modules of, got PLENTY of any smaller size... which means I could maybe use any of those old server motherboards that take 6 or 8 DDR modules and have a decent speed xeon or opteron in. (Have reg and ecc) I'm also needing dx10 or better PCIe cards with 256MB or better for basic graphics, yah, GPUs for looking at not hashing, go figure. Any other platforms considered if you're willing to part with CPU/motherboard combos of reasonable ooomph. can use X2s C2Ds PDs, etc. HDDs bigger than 200Gb, SSDs of small sizes, CF cards of 4GB up. Also consider "stuff to dick around with" older androids, moddables, hackables etc. Anything that needs a reflow/repair even I could be interested in.


I'm starting to feel bad now that these have been sitting in my account when "maybe someone could use them" got 5 year old hardware you feel the same about? Great, lets figure something out. Any and all offers now entertained.


so wotchya got?

Flash.

Hey smart folks,

I've got a mishmash of marginal GPUs getting retired from main mining machines, which are gonna be litecoin dedicated now I guess. However, the prospect of unused hash lying around irks me a bit, but of course, spending any kind of coin to get it running is not worth it. Just wanna glom them all together in one machine that I can turn on for new alts or leave pointed at middlecoin overnight when the electric is cheap or something.

So, I'm wondering about hacking a plain jane motherboard to provide more PCIe x1 connections. I've got a board I don't particularly care about, has one PCIe x16 and one PCIe x1 on it. Chipset is Xpress 200 for intel, board is an intel D101GCC. Chipset is supposed to have 22 lanes, but figure I'm going to have an easier time stealing lanes off the x16 and crippling it to 8 rather than finding the undeployed ones off the northbridge.

I've got some x1-x1 extensions I got cheap, figure I might hack up one or two of those. Don't wanna hack too many up trying though.

Has anyone done anything like this? Are there any resources anyone can think of to help me out? Been searching here a bit either there's nothing or I'm not getting lucky with keywords.

Thanks for any hints/moral support/allegations of idiocy for thinking about it.

Flash

Hi folks,

My credits for sale thread (linked in sig) was getting a bit of a mess. Gonna try and be clear and simple here.

What I've got:

48 BFL Chip credits worth $1200 face value total, representing approx 60GH worth of hashing. In 3 units of 16 credit packs worth $400 or ~20GH each.  

What I want:

About 1200 "hash points"  worth in hardware in trade for the lot or 400 "hash points" per pack of 16.

"hash points" are somewhat notional SHA or scrypt mega or kilo hash numbers maybe adjusted up or down a little according to desirability of card/item to me, it's just a bit of a coincidence that they seem to match with face value of coupons, due to heavy discount.

Got plenty of ASICs on order but would still like some cheap GPUs to mess with altcoins..

HD5850s I will take at 400HP per
HD5830s I will take at 300HP per
HD6870s I will take at 300HP per
HD6850s I will take at 200HP per max of 2
HD5770s I will take at 200HP per max of 2

Will take "needs fan" or "mines but won't game" for 100HP less, cards that might be higher HP or unlisted cards considered but subject to negotiation.


CPUs I could use with notional HP value to me, one of each only required..

Phenom II X4 95W or under, AM3 200HP
Core 2 Duo 2.2Ghz or faster 65W, 1066 or 800Mhz FSB. non-wolfdale, 200HP
Pentium D socket 775 100HP
Pentium 4HT socket 478 faster than 3 Ghz 100HP


Motherboards, with notional HP value, one only of each required.

Socket 775 or AM2/2+ DDR2 ATX board with 2 or 3 PCIe GPU slots. 300HP 2 slots, 400HP 3 slots
Edit: Or a socket 939 SLI board with CPU and RAM for 300HP or consider others with low end CPU included, just only have CPUs for above.
"any" AM2 board that supports a 125W CPU 200HP


Other stuff, well if you've got stuff I want to the value of over half the 400 for a pack, or don't quite have the points for the three packs, I'll consider other items for top up, maybe 16MB flash 50, 32Mb 100, 500gb HDD 100 etc, or DDR2 or large stick DDR RAM, which I'll get around to using, but not in actual want of right now. I just didn't wanna get offered a bucket full of USB drives.

I am in Canada, I'm expecting to deal inside North America, USPS shipping to me in Ontario should not be a much different than across US. I pay any customs taxes/fees at my end.

regards,

Flash.

Hai BTCers,

Unfortunately my personal capital raising efforts have not borne fruit, so I am sadly going to have to part with my BFL chip credits and watch you profit off them.

In this sale, you can receive one of three 16 chip packs, worth  $400 to you for a 60% discount, you pay only 0.1BTC each credit, 1.6 BTC per pack of 16.

3 packs of 16 available for 48 total chips, worth $1200 in total.

Buy all 3 and you save again, additional discount may be negotiated.

When you buy all 48 you will have almost "half a batch" in credits allowing you to order a full minimum order batch of 100 chips with only one other investor, thus limiting your risk. Or this may make it possible for you to afford a batch all to yourself.


I thought it prudent to post this sooner rather than later to garner interest, even though I continue my efforts to acquire the backing to use them myself. Act now if you don't want to be disappointed. These things are disappearing into bulk buys like rain down a sinkhole, which along with the possibility that I may yet be able to use them, makes me not over-anxious to sell too cheap. Time is money as they say though, so if you are PMing me a very lowball offer, expect that I will not entertain it for quite a while.


Open to escrow arrangements funded by the buyer, otherwise I suggest 50% up front 50% on delivery for payment terms.

Regards,


Flashman.

Hi BTCers,

So, with BTC hitting a low today, wanted to get some "by any means available" and I happen to have a surplus on my phone, which is not recoverable unless I want to spend hours actually talking to real people or something.

I was hoping to use this https://blockchain.info/wallet/sms-phone-deposits

But I don't get the button in my wallet I verified my phone number by SMS.

Can't find any info here about it that's recent. I realise the fees will be huge, but don't care, it's otherwise locked up unrecoverable money, and if BTC is cheap it's a good deal.

So is it known for sure they stopped this service, or does my wallet have to "mature" to be able to use it? The demo wallet no longer seems to show it, as a previous thread indicated it did.

Having a lot of trouble finding out ANYTHING about this, apart from that page on blockchain which by it's existance implies that they still do it.

thanks for any info or hints,


Flash