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They would have to be geek. They would have to like their fans. I think these are the only two requirements for this question. The reason why is this part of YoutipitWant to tip someone who is not on Youtipit? You can create a tipit for a person you think should receive tips but is not a member of Youtipit yet. Its easy, just create an Escrow tipit for them. All you need is thier Facebook profile URL and some bitcoins in your Youtipit account to tip them with. Once the tipit is created other people will be able to tip them and the person can claim the tipit at any time by registering with thier facebook account.To create an Escrow tipit for a facebook member click hereFirst, I want to point out how Youtipit does not capitalize the word facebook all the time, I like that :p I really could see a geeky enough person who enjoys their fans, even though they might or might not have tried Bitcoin otherwise, would at the least take this donation, which will naturally mean if they themselves do not check into things, their assistant will. Also, this would mean.. they are in! Ashton Kutcher is the only person I can think of that fits this description perfectly, but other than that, who could this idea really work for? Would you donate to try and make that happen? You would be putting your hard earned Coin, giving it to somebody who probably has more money than all of us, literally paying them to check out this shit going on. |
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Edit: New way to help NORML here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55685.0, the below link no longer seems to work.  A nice use for the Bitcoin Browser mining, I think people get the wrong impression about the technology as though it is something to be well profited from. http://www.btcseeds.com/p/raise-money-for-norml-using-your.htmlQ. So how does visiting this page help?
A. This page contains a piece of software called a bitcoin miner. Your computer fan may turn on because generating bitcoin takes computer power. It's essentially generating money to help support NORML!
It's nothing to be alarmed at, it will not slow down your computer because it only uses spare computer power.
Q. What is needed to run this page?
A. Javascript must be enabled. The following browsers are supported.
Firefox 3, 3.5, 3.6, 4
Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, 9
Chrome
Safari 3, 4, 5
Opera 9, 10, 11
http://www.btcseeds.com/p/raise-money-for-norml-using-your.html |
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Trying to find Bitcoin related podcasts myself, just seen this |
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https://mtgox.com/press_release_20110630.htmlCLARIFICATION OF MT. GOX COMPROMISED ACCOUNTS AND MAJOR BITCOIN SELL-OFF
Dear members of the press and Bitcoin community,
I. Background
March, 2011 – MtGox.com (Mt. Gox), now the world’s leading Bitcoin exchange, was purchased by Tibanne Co. Ltd. As part of the purchase agreement, for a period of time, Tibanne Co. Ltd was required to pay the previous owner a percentage of commissions. In order to audit and verify this percentage, the previous owner retained an admin level user account. This account was compromised. So far we have not been able to determine how this account’s credentials were obtained.
II. Bitcoin Sell-Off
On June 20th at approximately 3:00am JST (Japan Time), an unknown person logged in to the compromised admin account, and with the permissions of that account was able to arbitrarily assign himself a large number of Bitcoins, which he subsequently sold on the exchange, driving the price from $17.50 to $0.01 within the span of 30 minutes. With the price low, the thief was able to make a larger withdrawal (approximately 2000 BTC) before our security measures stopped further action.
We would like to note that the Bitcoins sold were not taken from other users’ accounts—they were simply numbers with no wallet backing. For a brief period, the number of Bitcoins in the Mt. Gox exchange vastly outnumbered the Bitcoins in our wallet. Normally, this should be impossible. Unfortunately, the 2000 BTC withdrawn did have real wallet backing and they will be replaced at Mt. Gox’s expense. Again, apart from the compromised admin account, no individual user’s account was manipulated in any way. All BTC and cash balances remain intact.
Given the relatively small amount of damage considering what was potentially possible, we have to question what the true motives of the attacker were. Perhaps the attack simply was not well-orchestrated but the possibility exists that the attacker was more interested in making a statement, hurting Mt. Gox’s reputation, or hurting the public image of Bitcoins in general than he was in any monetary gain.
III. Database Breach
Late last week we discovered a SQL injection vulnerability in the mtgox.com code that we suspect is responsible for allowing an attacker to gain read-only access to the Mt. Gox user database. The information retrieved from that database included plain text email addresses and usernames, unsalted MD5 passwords on accounts that had not logged in since prior to the Mt. Gox ownership transfer, and salted MD5 passwords on those accounts created or logged in to post-ownership transfer. We speculate that the credentials of the compromised admin account responsible for the market crash were obtained from this database. The password would have been hashed but it may not have been strong enough to prevent cracking.
Regrettably, we can confirm that our list of emails, usernames and hashed passwords has been released on the Internet. Our users and the public should know that these hashed passwords can be cracked, and many of our users’ more simple passwords have been cracked. This event highlights the importance of having a strong password, which we will now be enforcing. We strongly encourage all our users to immediately change the passwords of any other accounts that now or previously shared a password with their Mt. Gox account, if they have not done so already.
IV. Present Steps
We have been working tirelessly with other service providers in order to mitigate the potential damage to our users caused by the security breach. We’ve been informing our users to be especially cautious of Bitcoin-related phishing attempts at the email addresses associated with their Mt. Gox accounts. Users should continue to be especially observant of indicators of account compromise with other services—especially email and financial services.
We would like to give a special thanks to the Google team who were extremely proactive about flagging and temporarily locking customer accounts that appeared in our stolen user list. Their quick response no doubt significantly reduced unauthorized account access to Gmail addresses associated with Mt. Gox user accounts.
We’ve been actively researching the origin of the attack that led to the compromise of Mt. Gox’s previous owner’s admin account; however, our priority has been getting the Mt. Gox service back online and getting people access to their funds. We were finally able to simultaneously relaunch the service and launch our new site, with greatly improved security and back end, on June 26th, 2011.
V. Future Steps
The new Mt. Gox site features SHA-512 multi-iteration, triple salted hashing and soon will have an option for users to enable a withdraw password that will be separate from their login passwords. Other security measures such as one-time password keys are planned for release very soon as well.
The recent successful attacks on huge institutions like Sony and Citibank remind us that nobody is impenetrable. We are now operating under the presumption that another security breach will happen at some point in the future and we are implementing layers of fail-safe mechanisms to greatly limit the amount of damage possible. Of course, we’re doing our best to make sure those fail-safe mechanisms are never necessary.
While we are making great strides with the advancement of our security, we should remind our users that they too play an important role in securing their accounts. Please use a long password—the standard is not whether a person could guess it but rather whether a computer could guess it—and computers can guess pretty fast. Please do not share passwords across services—where passwords are shared, a compromise at one service means a compromise at all services. Help us help you.
VI. Apology
The truth is that Mt. Gox was unprepared for Bitcoin’s explosive growth. Our dated system was built as a hobby when Bitcoins were worth pennies a piece. It was not built to be a Fort Knox capable of securely handling millions of dollars in transactions each day.
We can attempt to blame the owner of the compromised account for the recent events but at the end of the day the responsibility to secure the site and protect our users rests with us. The admin account responsible had more permissions than necessary, and our security triggers were not as tight as they could have been.
Since the change of ownership, we have actively been patching holes while at the same time building a new Bitcoin exchange from the ground up. Going forward, we are certain that the launch of the new site will exceed the rightful expectations our users have of the service. We only hope that we can once again earn the trust of the Bitcoin community. In the meantime, we sincerely appreciate the patience all our users have shown.
We’ve got a backlog of emails we’re catching up on now but if you have any questions or comments about the recent security breaches and events, Mt. Gox in general, its founder or Bitcoin, please do not hesitate to contact us. We’re reading every message and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.
Mark Karpeles - CEO
Tibanne Co. Ltd. https://mtgox.com/press_release_20110630.html
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@ GoogleCodeJust launched in Google Labs: Swiffy, an SWF to HTML5 converter. Read about it here: http://t.co/flysVTO ^sk An excerpt from that link Today we’re making the first version of Swiffy available on Google Labs. You can upload a SWF file, and Swiffy will produce an HTML5 version which will run in modern browsers with a high level of SVG support such as Chrome and Safari. It’s still an early version, so it won’t convert all Flash content, but it already works well on ads and animations. We have some examples of converted SWF files if you want to see it in action.
Swiffy uses a compact JSON representation of the animation, which is rendered using SVG and a bit of HTML5 and CSS3. ActionScript 2.0 is also present in the JSON object, and is interpreted in JavaScript in the browser. This representation makes the Swiffy animations almost as compact as the original SWF files.
Swiffy is a great example of how far the web platform has come. Swiffy animations benefit from the recent advancements in JavaScript execution speed and hardware accelerated 2D graphics in the browser. Viva la Web! |
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http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208188132/Gold_rushToday our analysts detected a new threat spreading in the Russian sector of the Internet – Trojan.NSIS.Miner.a. This Trojan has two components – the legitimate bcm.exe file BitCoin Miner (not-a-virus:RiskTool.Win32.BitCoinMiner.a), and a malicious module that installs bcm without the user’s knowledge and adds it to the autorun registry. The infected computer then starts to generate bit-coins for the Trojan’s author. Of course, the Trojan’s code clearly indicates the server address where the cybercriminal’s account is located.  We decided to see how successful our nameless ‘miner’ was, and ended up getting a bit of a surprise.  Found from http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/icgo4/trojannsisminera_used_to_secretly_mine_bitcoin_on/
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I think some of the guys here need to combine powers with people at reddit (though no doubt you have accounts there and just keep it quiet that also use these official forums). http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/ichhl/bitcoin_gaming_ftw/The prevalence of GPU mining makes one application of bitcoins rather obvious: gaming. After all, who has GPUs? Gamers. I'd suspect that a large portion of current bitcoin miners are PC gamers. It makes perfect sense to give them something to spend their hard-earned coins on. But before I get to specific gaming uses, I think it's important to acknowledge that the biggest hurdle bitcoin faces at this stage is on the consumption side of things. There simply aren't enough good ways to spend bitcoins at the moment. More distressingly, the most popular ways to spend bitcoins are to obtain other currencies. In my mind, this almost ensures speculative bubbles and market volatility, which, will make merchants and service providers shy away from accepting bitcoins. In my opinion, what is needed in this crucial period is a robust service market which is relatively resistant to speculation. Such a thing could ultimately increase adoption and stabilize the market.
The solution, I think is a bitcoin gaming client/API. Such an application could allow a number of interesting possibilities including:
Server Donations -- Fast, anonymous ways to contribute to a favorite server. In this case, you'd be literally trading computing power stored (i.e. bitcoin) for computing power. There would be no need to enter your credit card information or anything else. The use of mods could make it as simple as just a button in-game.
Betting -- Allow players to bet bitcoins on the outcome of a match. This could be managed by a central authority or handled through bitcoin contracts verified by published server statuses. Interestingly, a secure technical solution might not be required. The purpose of the betting--unlike in poker--wouldn't be the money but rather to keep the game interesting. The bets on something like the outcome of a TF2 match would likely be voluntary and small enough so that welshers could be dealt with via community blacklisting.
Pay-to-Play -- Many online multiplayer games suffer from leavers and griefers. Currently, in many games there is no good solution. An permanent account ban is often the only solution but often ends up being a rarely used nuclear-option reserved for the worst-of-the-worst trolls. Servers which require an up-front bitcoin payment might help in this regard by making players invest, literally, in each match. At the end, the bitcoins could redistributed among the winning team and the players on the losing team which stayed and contributed.
Microtransactions -- Instead of in-game currencies, developers could use bitcoins for small in-game purchases. I could imagine this would be a good way for them to decrease the overhead of credit-card and paypal transaction fees. Note that, for retail games, this might work because the developer would still use traditional currencies to sell the game, limiting their exposure if bitcoins decreased dramatically in value.
And those are just the advantages off the top of my head. I think the community should begin working on such an application because it might just be a key way to make bitcoin more widespread and accepted.
And, even it doesn't, at least it would be fun... right?
What do you all think? All credit to reddit. I just liked this outline and I think it coincides with some projects I hear people talking about. http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/ichhl/bitcoin_gaming_ftw/ |
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Good news everyone! Researchers at Kaspersky Lab ( disclosure: my employer) has discovered a new piece of malware that plans Bitcoin miners on infected computers. The idea is to steal computer resources from infected computers to generate the valuable peer-to-peer virtual currency. Kaspersky Lab’s Alex Gostev said the new threat was discovered targeting Russian users with a Trojan that contains two components — a legitimate bcm.exe file BitCoin Miner; and a malicious module that installs the bcm without the user’s knowledge and adds it to the autorun registry.“The infected computer then starts to generate bit-coins for the Trojan’s author,” Gostev explained. The malicious hacker behind the Trojan did not generate any riches from this attack because the system detected the mining activity coming from multiple IPs. “The Trojan is Infostealer.Coinbit and it has one motive: to locate your Bitcoin wallet.dat file and email it to the attacker…We have also discovered source code on underground forums which locates the wallet and, using FTP, uploads it to the attacker’s servers,” writes Symantec’s Stephen Doherty. Oh wait, that wasn't good news at all. Well it is in the sense that this story comes out because the person was stopped http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/researchers-find-malware-rigged-with-bitcoin-miner/8934 |
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Consider it. No more allowing of ANY asking for ANY donations. Unless it is specifically asking to fund a certain venture, no more begging at all. Instant ban. Flip side to this, every person will have a unique address tied to them that if people like their posts, pop in a .001 btc or some shit. Whatever. Alternately, the forum could create a unique address for each new user, that way for everyone who does not want to give out their address, will have a public one tied to just the forum here  I forget why I initially thought of this, and there is obviously no need or rush for this what so ever, just a thought. In the end I believe a change like this could clean up a decent percentage of all subforums and threads themselves. |
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From http://blogs.forbes.com/petercohan/2011/06/28/can-bitcoin-survive-is-it-legal/...Mann pointed out that there have been many attempts at creating online currencies — including Digicash, Flooz, and Beenz. But they never caught on because their marginal costs to consumers and merchants exceeded their marginal benefits. Simply put, there was no compelling reason for the key participants to adopt these new currencies.
A historical look at currencies over the last 500 years reveals an interesting insight — a key limiting factor to adopting currencies has been the ability to make small change. Without small change, merchants could not use currencies to set precise prices. And until relatively recently over that 500 year sweep, governments did not produce enough small change to make currencies useful. Bitcoin might survive as a currency if it can find a way to make consumers and merchants better off. Mann notes that Bitcoin’s ultimate ambition well might be illegal in any event. After all, he points out, there are federal statutes that make it illegal to produce a separate currency. Whether Bitcoin violates those statutes depends on how far it can go along the lines of becoming a true medium for exchange.
But unless it can find a way to get consumers and merchants to adopt it, Bitcoin is more likely to go the way of Flooz (bankrupt in August 2001) than to challenge the dollar as a means of payment. |
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With how in depth things can get with this magical coin, pretend you have to explain it as simply as possible to a child, do it.
Example on how I guess I would go about it - Can't be as simple as "Mommy leaves her computer running all day and that makes the numbers appear for you to eat lunch with those Amazon gift cards I bought from btcbuy".. but I guess something to explain at least one aspect of Bitcoin to a child where they could understand.
Please show your work with your answer, thanks.
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Friends around the globe, We are Lulz Security, and this is our final release, as today marks something meaningful to us. 50 days ago, we set sail with our humble ship on an uneasy and brutal ocean: the Internet. The hate machine, the love machine, the machine powered by many machines. We are all part of it, helping it grow, and helping it grow on us. For the past 50 days we've been disrupting and exposing corporations, governments, often the general population itself, and quite possibly everything in between, just because we could. All to selflessly entertain others - vanity, fame, recognition, all of these things are shadowed by our desire for that which we all love. The raw, uninterrupted, chaotic thrill of entertainment and anarchy. It's what we all crave, even the seemingly lifeless politicians and emotionless, middle-aged self-titled failures. You are not failures. You have not blown away. You can get what you want and you are worth having it, believe in yourself. While we are responsible for everything that The Lulz Boat is, we are not tied to this identity permanently. Behind this jolly visage of rainbows and top hats, we are people. People with a preference for music, a preference for food; we have varying taste in clothes and television, we are just like you. Even Hitler and Osama Bin Laden had these unique variations and style, and isn't that interesting to know? The mediocre painter turned supervillain liked cats more than we did. Again, behind the mask, behind the insanity and mayhem, we truly believe in the AntiSec movement. We believe in it so strongly that we brought it back, much to the dismay of those looking for more anarchic lulz. We hope, wish, even beg, that the movement manifests itself into a revolution that can continue on without us. The support we've gathered for it in such a short space of time is truly overwhelming, and not to mention humbling. Please don't stop. Together, united, we can stomp down our common oppressors and imbue ourselves with the power and freedom we deserve. So with those last thoughts, it's time to say bon voyage. Our planned 50 day cruise has expired, and we must now sail into the distance, leaving behind - we hope - inspiration, fear, denial, happiness, approval, disapproval, mockery, embarrassment, thoughtfulness, jealousy, hate, even love. If anything, we hope we had a microscopic impact on someone, somewhere. Anywhere. Thank you for sailing with us. The breeze is fresh and the sun is setting, so now we head for the horizon. Let it flow... Lulz Security - our crew of six wishes you a happy 2011, and a shout-out to all of our battlefleet members and supporters across the globe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Our mayhem: http://lulzsecurity.com/releases/Our chaos: http://thepiratebay.org/user/LulzSec/Our final release: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6495523/50_Days_of_Lulz Please make mirrors of material on the website, because we're not renewing the hosting. Goodbye. <3 File list to see if you need to change your passwords up, which you should be doing anyways. 50 Days of Lulz.txt 2.64 KiB
booty/AOL internal data.txt 63.6 KiB
booty/AT&T internal data.rar 314.59 MiB
booty/Battlefield Heroes Beta (550k users).csv 24.67 MiB
booty/FBI being silly.txt 3.82 KiB
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booty/Nato-bookshop.org (12k users).csv 941.8 KiB
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Coverage CNN http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/06/26/tech.lulzsec.hackers/PC Magazine http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2387566,00.aspABC http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2011/06/26/3253699.htmBusinessWeek http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9O38N7G0.htmBonus Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/26/ryan-cleary-lulzsec-otaku |
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Seen this in the Bitcoin Discussion side of the forums http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=21923.0, not affiliated with him, but I like the shirt designs there and everyone is begging for starter coins, well here is a decent way to maybe earn some. Good luck Hey everyone. You may not have noticed, but I try to change weekly the slogan which is displayed in the changing banner box at the top of the page over at SquareWear.biz. I need some help coming up with next week's slogan. The name the whale contest we did went so well last week, I thought this would be fun too. Post your best slogan(s) here and I'll pick at least one to use. I'll break a bitcoin in two and then ship one half along with a whole coin to the talented winner. One other catch. To win you have to sign up on SquareWear to get the newsletter. (Go to the account page) If you already have an account, then you're eligible too. To get an idea of what I'm looking for, here are some of my past slogans: “So lame, they wrap back around to cool” “If a Jaguar and a robot had a baby it would be a SquareWear shirt.” “It’s like they mixed gold, fire, and magic to make SquareTees.” “When I sleep in a SquareWear shirt, I feel twice as refreshed.” “SquareWear is to t-shirts what Jesus is to Christians” (I took this one down, more it wasn't that funny than because of its irreverence) “Voted #1 US-based, cryptocurrency accepting, geeky-humor t-shirt site with a superscript in the name." “Helping nerds become nerdier” |
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3 page article that can easily be your link to throw out to people to help them catch up with Bitcoin http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/06/23/the_wikileaks_of_moneyFor something that few had heard of a month ago, the online currency Bitcoin tends to elicit pretty strong responses. Depending on whom you ask, Bitcoin is the "future of money," a "crypto-geek Ponzi scheme," an "online form of money laundering," or a tool for "libertarian hipsters and criminals."
The publicity has not been kind to Bitcoin, which has faced attacks from law enforcement, hackers, and cybercriminals alike. The currency's value has seen several sharp fluctuations. Early supporters appear to have lost confidence, and U.S. lawmakers are starting to ask tough questions. But shutting down Bitcoin may prove more difficult than its critics hope. And whether or not the experiment succeeds, its rise may herald the emergence of a new form of decentralized currency trading.The above was the intro, here are some notable quotes What makes Bitcoin unique is its peer-to-peer structure. There's no start-up company or central authority that can go out of business or be shut down by the police. Bitcoins can be purchased through online exchanges by wiring money from your bank account, and there are also sites that will provide users with a few free coins to get started. But for its advocates, Bitcoin is nothing less than revolutionary: What peer-to-peer file-sharing did for music and movies, and WikiLeaks did for government secrets, they say, Bitcoin will do to the global economy. "The swings are ridiculously large compared to any normal market. It's a gutsy day-trader's wet dream," he said. "This is currency trading on Internet time." "All currencies are used by criminals. Bitcoin is no different," Andresen says. "If Bitcoin becomes widely used, crimes like identity theft will be much harder" -- because transactions are tracked by the distributed server -- "while others, like avoiding cross-border capital flow regulations, will become easier." The disruptive power of Bitcoin on banks and central governments has surely been overstated, but these institutions might be better served to take its emergence as a warning rather than a reassurance: They may not be the only game in town forever. Full 3 page article at http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/06/23/the_wikileaks_of_money |
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I don't even live too far. No really. Uh, you'll need this 13LWGKEdFHkUUT9nFdbFRJRgVTPvphvcDS |
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