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Link to Profile:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1230599Link to ANN:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2345008.0Background:BTCQ is an ERC20 token on Ethereum platform. It was sold in ICO at varying prices, starting from 10,000 tokens per 1 ETH to 2500 tokens per 1 ETH. Why Scam Accusation?Soon after their ICO finished, their official website went offline, their official telegram group was deleted and their Bitcointalk forum account was claimed to be hacked. As soon as this happened, the price of the token tanked on Etherdelta. Many people not aware of what had happened, thought the price was a good deal and purchased good amount of tokens. Later (within hours) the Bitcointalk forum account was restored to original dev and he claimed that a hacker had gained access to all official accounts including token contract (!) and had dumped cheap tokens on etherdelta. So they decided to swap the token to a new contract and provide new tokens in exchange of old ones, but disregarded the trades made for the old token on Etherdelta after the hack happened, putting the people unaware of the hack into a completely disastrous situation. People lost money due to this "alleged" hack and their incompetency. References:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2345008.msg26499621#msg26499621https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2345008.msg26503727#msg26503727https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2345008.msg26504067#msg26504067https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2345008.msg26521662#msg26521662https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2345008.msg26533822#msg26533822https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2345008.msg26616320#msg26616320https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2345008.msg26642948#msg26642948Unanswered Questions:- How did the hacker had accessed to all accounts at once? (Official site, BCT account, Token Contract, Telegram etc.) - How were these hacked accounts restored that quickly (within hours)? If it was a real hack, it must be a nightmare to recover all accounts. Even BCT forum accounts are hard to recover and takes time. - The dev claims they used same password for all accounts. Seriously?? This is what you expect from a crypto developer? And no 2FA anywhere? - How was telegram hacked? It is associated with phone number, not a username/password! - While offering new tokens in exchange of old ones, why the trades made on Etherdelta ignored? People doing those trades were unaware of the hack. - There is a large coin supply (about 45%) reserved for developer & promotions. Why can't this be used to compensate people who purchased the old token on Etherdelta after the hack? - Why is the dev completely blatantly ignoring / not answering any of these issues on the forum?
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https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-segwit2x/2017-November/000685.htmlThe Segwit2x effort began in May with a simple purpose: to increase the blocksize and improve Bitcoin scalability. At the time, the Bitcoin community was in crisis after nearly 3 years of heavy debate, and consensus for Segwit seemed like a distant mirage with only 30% support among miners.
Segwit2x found its first success in August, as it broke the deadlock and quickly led to Segwit’s successful activation. Since that time, the team shifted its efforts to phase two of the project - a 2MB blocksize increase.
Our goal has always been a smooth upgrade for Bitcoin. Although we strongly believe in the need for a larger blocksize, there is something we believe is even more important: keeping the community together.
Unfortunately, it is clear that we have not built sufficient consensus for a clean blocksize upgrade at this time. Continuing on the current path could divide the community and be a setback to Bitcoin’s growth. This was never the goal of Segwit2x.
As fees rise on the blockchain, we believe it will eventually become obvious that on-chain capacity increases are necessary. When that happens, we hope the community will come together and find a solution, possibly with a blocksize increase. Until then, we are suspending our plans for the upcoming 2MB upgrade.
We want to thank everyone that contributed constructively to Segwit2x, whether you were in favor or against. Your efforts are what makes Bitcoin great. Bitcoin remains the greatest form of money mankind has ever seen, and we remain dedicated to protecting and fostering its growth worldwide.
Mike Belshe, Wences Casares, Jihan Wu, Jeff Garzik, Peter Smith and Erik
Voorhees
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If you are a user of Nova Exchange, this concerns you: http://novaexchange.com/newsKindly note "Novaexchange" will have new owners and management effective April 2018, with major upgrades to the exchange to better handle scaling, stability and security.
For better management and security of customer funds we have decided to close down Novaexchange so that the users can withdraw all their funds with no participation/responsibility of action of the new management.
Preliminary plan:
2017-10-30 This information goes public, user registration closes, addcoin page closes, disabling deposits of ETC and ETH
2017-11-30 Deposits disabled for ALL coins, all users get level 3 verified account level
2017-12-15 ONE last deposit scan to take care of deposits made after 2017-11-30
2018-01-31 Email reminder to all registered users
2018-02-28 Trading engine stops, dice game stops, API stops
2018-03-31 Login stop, website replaced with information
2018-04-15 Support closes, all Novaexchange user data removed
Remaining user balances that has not been withdrawn before 2018-04-01 will be considered a donation and is not refundable. EDIT: Novaexchange has announced that they're not shutting down:Novaexchange has announced that they're not closing down. In view of the news, I'm closing down this thread.   |
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http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/right-to-privacy-is-a-guaranteed-fundamental-right-says-supreme-court/story-KvePlHt4UZK5igK0ecG6AL.htmlThe right to privacy is a “guaranteed fundamental right” at par with the right to life and liberty, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, a landmark verdict which will protect citizens’ personal freedom from intrusions by the state.
Issuing a unanimous ruling, the court also said a three-judge bench will test the validity of Aadhaar, a controversial 12-digit biometric unique identity project that the government is pushing widely but which has raised data breach and privacy concerns. Critics also say it could help the government spy on people, leading to multiple petitions in court challenging Aadhaar on the question of privacy.
The top court said the Aadhaar law will now be tested on Thursday’s right to privacy judgment.
“This right to privacy is protected under Article 21 and it is intrinsic to the Constitution,” said justice J Chelameswar, reading out the verdict for the nine-judge bench. Article 21 guarantees the right to life and liberty as inviolable fundamental rights.
Thursday’s verdict comes two days after the court in a landmark judgment struck down the Islamic divorce practice of instant triple talaq as unconstitutional.
The government had argued citizens have a right to privacy but it is not an absolute right. But petitioners in the case contended that the right to privacy is at the heart of liberty and freedom.
In upholding privacy as a fundamental right, the nine-judge bench overruled earlier judgements that had said the right to privacy was not part of the Constitution.
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A private Swiss bank is expanding a digital asset management service it launched earlier this summer to include new cryptocurrencies. Falcon Private Bank, as previously reported by CoinDesk, revealed that it would allow its customers to buy and hold bitcoin within their accounts through a partnership with brokerage service Bitcoin Suisse. The launch was said to come after consultations with Swiss regulators, including the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA). Now, that product line is expanding to include ether, litecoin and bitcoin cash. Customers of the bank will be able to start buying and holding those cryptocurrencies from August 22, according to today's announcement. Source:https://www.coindesk.com/swiss-bank-to-sell-ether-and-bitcoin-cash-to-customers/ |
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If I want to tip somebody for their help anywhere on internet and if that person is also into crypto stuff, what would be the best way to just tip a few bucks to him?
I know the obvious answer is to send some BTC, but looking at the price right now, I may need to send few hundred 'satoshi' and not full coins. And considering the high fees and transaction times right now with BTC, I am hopeful that there must be some better way/currency to do that.
Are there any existing tip bots? If yes, then which are the most popular ones and which currencies do they support?
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More than a month before the telecom department asked India’s Internet service providers (ISPs) to disable 857 mostly pornographic websites, it made a secret clampdown on covert online marketplaces hawking illicit drugs, weapons and torture videos, among others. In a 12 June order, the government asked operators to block access to eight URLs leading to marketplaces Silk Road, Agora and Abraxas. These marketplaces exist in the so-called dark web, meaning their IP addresses and the identity of their owners cannot be traced, nor can they be discovered through online searches. They trade in crypto-currency Bitcoin, out of sight of the formal financial system. “Under the powers conferred by section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and under the Information Technology (procedures and safeguards for blocking of access of information by public) Rules 2009, it has been decided to immediately block the access to the following 8 URLs,” the order, a copy of which has been reviewed by Mint, said. The 3 August order to block pornographic websites, was made under another section of the same law: Section 79 (b). Among the three, Silk Road is the biggest, which now goes as Silkroadreloaded.i2p. Except Silk Road which uses a .i2p domain name extension, others have domain names ending with .onion, indicating they use The Onion Router (Tor), to stay virtually anonymous and untraceable on the web. The existence of darknet sites selling illegal goods and services came to be known only two years ago when the Federal Bureau of Investigation shut down Silk Road, which facilitated trade in recreational drugs, and made over $8 million a month, the Hindustan Times reported on 10 August. Silk Road founder Ross William Ulbricht aka Dread Pirate Roberts was sentenced to life imprisonment. Last month’s ban on websites hosting pornography attracted a barrage of criticism. The government asked operators to block 857 sites named by Indore-based advocate Kamlesh Vaswani in a public interest litigation (PIL) that is being heard in the Supreme Court which has asked for a blanket ban on pornography. The order led to widespread condemnation and open letters to the Prime Minister. The government backtracked, asking operators to unblock those sites which do not have child pornography, essentially putting the onus on content verification on them. The ISPs, however, refused to lift the ban, asking instead for clearer instructions. On 10 August, the government told the Supreme Court that while it intended to ban child pornography, it was not willing to act as moral police and enter people’s bedrooms to ban pornography across the board. The government also agreed to discuss with ISPs modalities of what websites required to be banned. But the dark web poses a very different problem for the government. “It is a completely new paradigm for governments and law enforcement agencies. Most of them are clueless about it and some countries don’t even want to acknowledge its existence. The Indian government has the power to block sites under certain conditions given in 69A of the IT Act, under which most of these sites that come under darknet qualify. Most of these sites are engaged in highly illegal activities,” Pavan Dugal, cyber law expert and advocate said. Dugal also said that just by blocking the sites, the government was not making any difference to the existence of these illicit marketplaces. “India has taken the low-hanging fruit approach to the problem as most people access these sites using tools that hide their identity and location. Simply blocking the sites is like closing your eyes and acting as if something does not exist,” he added. Darknets, however, are used for more genuine purposes as well. Political dissidents used them to send messages during the Arab Spring, to escape state surveillance. Source:http://www.livemint.com/Politics/FPpzEHsC4t6525EFaxa3yL/Crackdown-on-underground-online-marketplaces-preceded-porn-b.html |
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I wanted to put this in Bitcoin technical section, but I didn't think it deserved to be there, so I posted this in beginner section. Let me clarify: YOU CANNOT CLONE, COPY OR REPLICATE YOUR BTC. I came across this article and I found it to vbe very funny, so I posted this up so that everyone can have a good laugh.  Short story on the beginingSome time ago I learned about a huge cryptographic project, called Bitcoin. I was glad and I started to learn the theoretical side of BTC. I was really motivated by the fact that Bitcoin is a currency, which makes the users independent from the bank agents. It is an excellent solution in such poor countries like India. The idea of Bitcoin and its mathematical background are outstanding. I learned every single element of the theory with curiosity. I started to put this knowledge into practice and use this currency practically, while receiving small sums in BTC for my Mathematics private lessons from students coming from different parts of India. It led me to discover one phenomenon by chance. I was waiting for a new BTC sum to appear, it was about 0.011 for solving a small list of mathematical equations. I obtained the information that the money transfer has already been done. I checked my BTC address using blockchain.info service to confirm the transfer. However, I was not logged in my Bitcoin Wallet. Blockchain.info still showed the old balance, which was about 0.021 BTC. Two days later I logged in my Bitcoin Wallet and I found out that the transfer was registered at the moment of sending money by the client! I was very astonished as it turned out that blockchain.info shows every single, even the tiniest transaction, and it is impossible to fake it. I decided to check what was the factor responsible for such a situation. Explanation of BTC CLONE phenomenonWithout mentioning technical and mathematical details, which are very complicated, I am going to describe only a general mechanism of this error. It occurred that a slight inadequacy within the process of information propagation concerning the transfer caused this effect. It is a complex mechanism, which was probably to some extent not properly implemented. In a nutshell, it is based on �convincing� particular elements of the BTC network that the transaction has been done through common to the sender and the receiver of the transfer information for subsequent elements of the BTC network about the value of transfer. However, there is such a moment in the system of subsequent transfer confirmations, where chargebacks with the same sum can be done and it results in two contrary pieces of information in �the system of confirmations�. The most important is that for each one Bitcoin Wallet address it would be a slightly different moment. It is hard to explain the reason of such a situation, but it is connected with the type of the server, where the blocks update takes place. I will describe it more precisely while having my calculations finished. Another important information is that only the part of �feedback confirmations� would work properly (it is complicated as well). THIS IS IMPORTANT - WORKING SOLUTION:What is the end result? In both wallets the same BTC sums are present at the same time � in the wallet of the receiver, there is a full amount sent and in the wallet of the sender, there is a return of a part of the sum sent. Practically it can be described as: The two BTC Wallets are needed: the sender wallet (wallet A) and the receiver wallet (wallet B). It should be estimated (checked in the table) in which moment (precise amount of confirmations for a particular address) the chargeback should be done. Being ready, we transfer X BTC sum from the wallet A to the wallet B. We check the number of confirmations using blockchain.info. Once there is an appropriate number of confirmations, the chargeback of the same sum should be done immediately (not sooner or later) from the wallet B to the wallet A. While having done all the operation correctly, we should have X BTC in the wallet B and a part of these X BTC, usually from 0.01% to 30%. It is strictly dependent on the amount transferred and the number of confirmations. Technical details are very complicated. The number of replicated BTC increases logarithmically in relation to the amount transferred and the number of confirmations, and in a perfect situation one would transfer all the chargebacked BTC and double their amount (it is impossible to replicate 100% of BTC). In a nutshell: the bigger amount you transfer between your two wallets, the bigger amount you replicate. Of course, those BTC replicated through chargeback are really the true BTC, and can be transferred on and will not disappear. We can make use of them.Here are the scopes of how much we obtain transferring the amount X (from A to B) and permanently replicating it through a chargeback (from B to A): 0.0001 BTC gives from 0.000001 to 0.000013 BTC of the revenue 0.001 BTC gives from 0.00001 to 0.00015 BTC of the revenue 0.01 BTC gives from 0.0002 to 0.0019 BTC of the revenue 0.1 BTC gives from 0.003 to 0.02 BTC of the revenue 1 BTC gives from 0.05 to 0.21 BTC of the revenue 10 BTC gives from 0.3 to 2.5 BTC of the revenue Probably (not calculated yet): 100 BTC gives from 5 to 27 BTC of the revenue 1000 BTC gives from 70 to 320 BTC of the revenue The amount of BTC in a particular scope (from to) depends on a particular wallet address and some aspects of its synchronization with the BTC network. To estimate the moment (precise amount of confirmations for a particular address), where �the chargeback� from the wallet A to the wallet B should be done, I created a small script-calculator. (calculator.exe), where you indicate your A and B addresses and this script-calculator counts your confirmations. It is made for Windows operating system, because I have no other systems at school. I am really sorry, but I cannot write it on a website as I do not know PHP. If it does not work properly on other Windows operating systems (we have Windows XP), I counted several million of BTC wallet addresses and put it into a table. You can search for your wallet address in the table and check the number of confirmations (available soon, i need to check integrity and correctness of data) If the cloning does not work properly, the test should be done taking into consideration other value estimated with the calculator. For instance, the calculator indicates the value 16 for your address, but the cloning is not successful, so you should try with 15 or 17. Remember, it is an experimental method, which requires more research. I am not a wealthy Mathematics teacher. My monthly salary allow me to buy only 0.37 BTC today. After paying the bills, buying food for children and family there is nothing left for the above mentioned experiments and BTC replication operations. If you enrich yourself a little bit thanks to this description, you can donate a small sum of BTCs to my address: 19fTAqRbUYUjwsJpM9ApCsddxgJqEaWG2U. While having an appropriate sum, I could be able to profit from the discovery described above. Thank you for your attention. Any question you can send to: Kashyap.Sharma.edu@hotdak.net. I am eager to help if only I am able to. I check my e-mail twice or three times a week. Link to Original Article:http://www.sharma.binhoster.com/ |
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Hello,
I'm in trouble and I need help from someone who has some knowledge on recovering Google Authenticator.
I have an Android phone and I had installed Google Authenticator app on it. I used it to generate 2FA codes for many websites (Not google, but other sites like some exchanges).
My phone recently stopped working and I had to 'factory-reset' it which wiped my Authenticator app.
I installed it again on same phone but it does not have any of my previous accounts I had setup before the wipe.
Now I am locked out of all sites and exchanges that requires 2FA code.
What should I do to recover my Access Codes for these sites?
Any help will be much appreciated, I am in real trouble if I don't get this sorted out.
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