Isn't the probability of phone battery building up unventable gas right around 100%? I've gone through three separate batteries on an S3 just running a WiFi router application through it. Battery starts to bulge, back panel stops latching on the phone correctly, so I toss it in the "explosion-resistant" pouch in the back of the property in a hole. No place to properly dispose of it anywhere close. I reckon I'll have a weapon of mass destruction within the next couple years.

General good practices:

• Lending used to only require some sort of "proof of reputation" (anything from a long post history, ID, or Web of Trust stats to a full credit report) from lendees. Due to an exceptionally high incidence of scamming, this is generally no longer the case. You generally MUST put up some form of collateral (usually some type of alternative cryptocurrency, like Litecoin or Quark). This depends heavily on the lender, and physical collateral may also be accepted (motorcycles, watches, PMs).
• Please refrain from requesting unnecessary "confidence loans" (a loan you don't need, but want to take out simply to show you'll repay). This was an issue a year or so ago, where scammers would take out incrementally larger loans, pay maybe .1BTC in interest, then take off with a 1BTC loan. A history of so-called confidence loans inspire more hesitancy than confidence.
• This subforum has an exceptionally high amount of trolling. Legitimate lendees are scared away or simply don't care to subject themselves to unjustified degradation. Skepticism is okay, but please try to be civil. Either way - if you request a loan, be prepared.
• Almost all loans issued in this subforum would be at rates considered to be exploitative in most countries. We're talking about something like 5-15% monthly (there are some more favorable alternatives, such as seeking out the Islamic Bank of Bitcoin). Use short-term loans responsibly, do not use loans for naked market positions or otherwise attempt to arb, and you should only use short-term lending from strangers as an absolute last resort.

Scam trends:

• There is an ongoing scam issue where "lenders" are saying they'll issue loans for collateral. The "lender" then takes the collateral and disappears. Prevent this by using reputable escrow providers or only dealing with lenders you trust. Keeping in mind that proving available funds isn't necessarily connected to whether or not a lender will steal collateral and disappear, you can also ask a lender asking for collateral to show he has the funds to lend you by signing a message with his private key (most BTC clients have a GUI allowing you verify messages, though they don't all use the same scheme to do this -- if a message fails to verify, you may wish to ask the signer to tell you which client and scheme he used so you can double-check using the same set-up he has ).

Please post new repeat scam tactics here. They will be added to the list.

Thanks. ADB (EasyList, rather) is more trouble than it's worth anymore.

Maybe something changed with my browser or config, but whenever I click the "new" icon (for the last ~4-6 days), I'm always directed to the most recent page I've seen rather than the most recent post. It's causing the loss of precious seconds.

Maybe the Senate hearing wasn't a waste...

Tibanne is Gox's parent company (Gox being the only major subsidiary, 2nd largest being Kalyhost which is insignificant in comparison), which handles virtually all of MtGox's affairs (legal, finance). They used to be more public about the connection, but it looks like Gox doesn't mention Tibanne anywhere on the site, now, and Tibanne no longer publicly lists Gox or Mutum Sigillum (which used to be the shell company Dwolla transactions went in and out of) on their site.

Yup. It's public right on this site.

Aside this, we can look at other potentials. Strike through those you're not registered on and we may find one in common.

bc-casino.com
bitcoinica.com
bitfinex.com
bitfunder.com
bitmit.net
bitratings.microhosting.com
blockchain.info
btc-play.com
btcguild.com
btclot.com
btcmine.com
bitvps.com
coinworker.com
dollar-trader.com
eclipsemc.com
give-me-coins.com
glbse.com
inputs.io
minethings.com
mtgox.com
ozco.in
pool-x.eu
satoshisquared.com


(I'm pretty sure I received a very similar email a good while ago, too. My memory's crap, though. No longer in email account. Probably deleted or marked as spam and it was automatically pruned.)

Final price lowering. 5 SimCity codes, 8 BF4 codes in stock.

Well, you might.

Because you still have to trade them for BTC??

Let's call it a facgtthunlu

There are more than enough approved transcribers to get the last ones finished in a timely manner and I would've been willing to let many more people in if there weren't so many exceptional transcribers on that list. Many people not on the list did a very good job, but because so many did an outstanding job, I was able to make a pretty harsh cutoff and still include a relatively huge group.

Having a whitelist eliminates the particularly bad submissions which take up a ton of proofreading time (money) and result in lower-quality transcriptions. Since new people are unproven, it'd be a stupid ev- risk to take at this point since we already have a large, fantastic group.

That'd ruin one of the greatest benefits of malware targeting GPUs: in almost every OS's default task manager, it does not display GPU activity. With reasonable intensity settings (which Scrypt mining requires on most cards to prevent HW errors, anyway), it would be almost impossible to detect, especially considering how many people stuff desktop PCs into little desk compartments (minimizes noise, but would help prevent them noticing the high heat and noise from GPU fan going @ 100%).

What'd indicate a botnet is a steady hashrate cycle, where at some times, very regularly, hashrate dips and peaks, which is the expression of people turning their PCs off when they're at work or sleeping.

Well, it depends. Hot dogs have resale value and are therefor just another national currency token ("NCT"). Should you issue hot dog vouchers ("HDVs"), you would obviously need to register as a MSB (or US equiv.). Especially with the implementations of smart property in alternative protocols, there is a high probability of HDVs developing an underground market where pedophiles and terrorists sell HDVs for national currency to fund their activities. You will need to implement AML/KYC/BSA protocols for your business and do thorough checks on your customers, enforcing non-transferrable rules by yourself.

Looking at everything as an NCT, caterers are basically the most extreme of money-launderers, taking NCT from one person ("payment") and distributing ("feeding") NCT to unverified individuals who, say, show up to some underground rape/murder/terrorism party. You may just call it a wedding, but without doing AML/KYC checks on your friends and relatives, there's really no way to tell whether or not those hors d'oeuvres are supporting terrorism and sexual child exploitation. Being a responsible citizen, you must assume they are.

Google.

There is no GPU which will do 70mh/s. It sounds like you might be trying to mine on a Scrypt pool with software set to mine SHA256.

No, because Scrypt is ASIC-resistant. It isn't resistant because ASICs weren't already out for it, but because it's difficult to create an efficient, low-cost ASIC for Scrypt. Just check out the price and specs of pre-orders on potential vaporware right now. Even with all that risk, they're still more expensive than GPU mining.

Move $9.5M -- fee - $.18
Move $36M -- fee -$0
Move $180M -- fee - $0

 

There is no reason Litecoin can't succeed, and there isn't a reason Litecoin necessarily can't exceed the value of Bitcoin unit-to-unit. It's important to note they aren't "versus" each other. They both have different strengths and weaknesses and are better-suited to some areas more than the other. This includes all of the altcoins, as well as virtual currencies which aren't BTC-offshoots, like Ripple.

Bitcoin basically just has more mass and momentum. Should a multi-crypto wallet come out (and I don't imagine this is more than a year off), the landscape may change significantly as the barrier to accepting major altcoins decreases. Bitpay/similar support would also be very disruptive.

It's finally happened. http://casascius.wordpress.com/2013/12/10/possible-counterfeits-to-be-aware-of/

Cas also told the counterfeiter exactly what to fix.