She'd sign a message which could be verified against one of the many copies of Satoshi's PGP pubkey floating around.

Personally, I think it'd be best if G.Max would just tranzizzle the OP post in cases like this.

Bitcoin crashes when dem investin realise 2 thangs
1. Da fact dat only 21 mazillion coins can be mined (assumin dat do not git altered) is irrelevant when they can be sliced up tha fuck into 100,000,000 sub units.

2. That there have already been raps bout increasin tha divisibility.


When exchanges start hustlin up in sub units it may dawn on playas dat tha scarcitizzle argument used ta promote Bitcoin is disingenuous rubbish. Yo ass know how tha fuck dey phat asses do dat shit.

What exactly is meant when only "secular" charities are considered?

The Salvation Army is clearly a Christian Protestant organization, but obviously, the vast majority of their work would please any secular Humanist. I mean - they don't just go somewhere like Haiti during a disaster, drop off a hundred-thousand Bibles and say "Godspeed!" There is some unfortunate homophobic sentiment within their structure, and other iffy history, but the organization has been affirmed by governments as "secular enough."

Would the Salvation Army be rejected as a charity for BTC100?

You must mean the MyBitcoin, Bitcoinica, Bitomat, Bitfloor, Bitcoin7, Bitscalper model.

Though... neither Global Bond Limited or Inputs.io have "bit" in the title. Maybe it's a new trend... 

There're a lot of them, now.

There are two parts to the theft you're describing. The attacker plants a keylogger (since almost all wallets are encrypted, now -- if yours isn't, it ought to be), and then does something to lift the .wallet itself. In most cases, you can protect against a keylogger by entering your password in with a virtual keyboard application (at least Armory has this by default).

There are all sorts of variations to this method, though... some clients may not demand a wallet password if you did a transaction in the last, say, 10 minutes. Running an insecure VNC server (or having one unwittingly installed) can result in a very potent attack in such case, since the attacker would need neither the wallet file nor the password, assuming the client is left open on the victim's computer.

Another attack (probably the most effective) will scan your computer's clipboard for bitcoin addresses. When detected, it will switch the text in the clipboard to the attacker's address. This way, if you are, say, depositing coins on Gox, when you paste the Gox deposit address in the client, you will instead end up sending coins to the attacker unless you closely checked what you pasted against the Gox deposit address (it's a good habit to ALWAYS triple-check pasted addresses).

Another possible attack would be to distribute compromised clients from the start. Most clients are released with various methods to verify the contents are what the host put there, but there is still some risk there, especially since it's doubtful more than maybe .5% of people actually verify.

I don't think anyone's compiled any firm list of things to look for, maybe because there are just so many different vectors. AV software, at the very least, should catch the keylogger, and most maintained AV definitions have protections against common Bitcoin wallet attacks, too.

In all cases, though, a cold wallet or paper wallet provides the best defense.

... last night, after taking a taste-bite of freshwater fish for the first time in a couple decades and immediately feeling lips and throat itch/swell, I went to PC and Googled homeopathic remedies for anaphylaxis. 

Your turn.

If you're willing to really work, you can make money in pretty much anything. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=294947

Scarcity and divisibility are not related...

The email's from llocalbitcoins.com -- big difference. 

Oh. So in this metaphor, you're willfully ignorant?  

Um... You'd starve, too. 

Here's a well-done example of a phishing attempt.

Hi, you got a new offer to your SELL advertisement. Message:
Hey, wondering if you can do this trade??

Deal: 384.47 USD = 1 BTC (price 384.47 USD/BTC)
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You can reply to this message by replying to this email. You can also reply on site: https://localbitcoins.com/ads/37726/103702 <- actual URL is http://llocalbitc[break, don't click]oins.com/accounts/login



Email conversation token: 3AWW4PUS1GSHSBGX2QD7N2OMI. Don't remove this from message when replying. Also reply above this message - the content after the lines above will be removed.

OP has not yet died of embarrassment, is troll.

"I have 1 pie."

"But you can divide that into small-enough slivers where it's 1.00 pie! Now there are 100 pie units and your pie is worthless."

"Well, shit. I never thought of it like that. Guess you're right."

I'd guess never, since they're generally banned for hosting spammers. There's not really a "rehabilitation period" for spamming the forum with time-share advertisements.

If you're on a banned exit node, you can usually just keep cycling through "new identities" until you find one which isn't banned (yet).

Some more rules to add to the growing, oppressive list:
*DO NOT PARAPHRASE! Keep their words and speaking style in-tact. Adding in "missing" words which are necessary for the sentence to make sense is fine, so long as you put it in brackets. If there's a line in an episode where a guest says "I really think the IRS has their knickers twist," you can instead write that as "I really think the IRS has their knickers [in a] twist." If there is a significant and obvious factual error, you can also add a note in brackets. I did this once where someone calculated - I think it was something like 2% of $2m as being $4k, when it is, of course, $40k.
^*Hopefully, you can figure out a good compromise between the "DO NOT PARAPHRASE" rule and the request to not transcribe "insignificant" speech quirks such as "umm," stammering, or if a co-host may choose to say "my testicles agree" every time a guest finishes a sentence.
*If a sound is important for context, add it somehow, maybe in asterisks *sound of bag unzipping* or something similar, maybe -sound of whatever- or [sound of whatever].
*All transcripts should be in American English (-ize instead of -ise), mostly because this is how most of the transcripts, so far, have been written. This includes some other related "American" writing rules, such as using the decimal as the radix point, so $25,000,000 is twenty-five million, not twenty-five. American English has some other minor rules you don't have to bother looking up unless you really want to... we use the oxford comma, for example. ("gays, lesbians, and bisexuals" instead of "gays, lesbians and bisexuals")

(condensed list of rules: add the participants at the beginning of a transcript, write in American English, transcribe the ads, don't paraphrase, be consistent, write like you want people to fully understand what people are saying.)

ETA: Exception to the "don't add breaks" rule. It was done appropriately in e56. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=294947.msg3575821#msg3575821

Whoa, whoa, whoa. He beat his wife after being charged, and now she's in a limo going to a haunted hay ride with him and the kids?

Well, hey - if you want to damage the man, fix the battered wife syndrome and have her leave him.

Referral links are usually your best bet. TF was paying unreasonable amounts. Hopefully they keep the Bitmit referral program after it's "shut down."

You people are difficult. Now it's green and sparkly so it has extra impact.

Verified for awesomeness (and only 12x12).

When TF was buying, each ad cycle could earn well over $50K, but now it's more like $10K per week. ~25% goes to mods (and part to himself, I think?). The rest goes into the forum treasury of ~5.6KBTC (>$2M). You're apparently doing ad revenue wrong.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=301062.0