At this point it looks like if your hash was not found all further communication will be ignored, and your funds will be spent on covering Bitcoinica's loss.  |
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would that help fasten up the payout process? i dont want to drive to london... but berlin is a possible No. What helps is sending your information or anything usable to verify@bitcoinica.com to be attached to your ticket. Getting the numbers exactly right if you can remember them is also very useful. What will hurt your claim is an inaccurate or falsified report. Claims not matching the records are pushed to the back of the queue. If I've never received any replies to my mails to verify@bitcoinica.com, does that mean that you've got all data I could possibly provide you, or that I have been silently flagged as a scammer trying to exploit the claim process? I could send another mail asking for a status update, but I don't want to waste your time or risk being considered suspicious for nagging. |
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The addresses was generated before Firstbits was announced. The whole thing was obviously created to harvest misspent transactions. Luckily no one relies on Firstbits, it's a bad idea: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=74917.msg830230#msg830230Not sure why sites like Blockchain.info displays Firstbits representation of addresses so prominently... |
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Actually there is an easy way. Contrast this situation to when MtGox was breached last year. MagicalTux performed a transaction of 424,424.4242 bitcoins, as requested on IRC, to prove his control of funds.
I think it's safe to say that Bitcoinca have outgoxxed Mt. Gox this time. I'm almost beginning to sympathize with the cracker who attacked Bitcoinica because he hated Bitcoinica. |
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Qui tacet consentire videtur.
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A few months ago I asked Linode(my VPS) if they would accept Bitcoin as payment. They said no. So, I went onto their IRC channel and asked the people there why not. I got laughed at and scolded.
So, today I tried it again. Again, ridicule. You would think that intelligent techies at Linode would be able to wrap their heads around Bitcoin a little easier than the average dolt. But no. They're too brainwashed.
This is exactly how Linode and their fanboys responded to IPv6 support requests for almost a decade. They're clueless about security, technology, PR and business. Shy away. |
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I don't believe so, but the issue of not including transactions is far less serious than some give it credit for.
Mining empty blocks will at most slightly increase the time transactions take to get confirmed.
Wouldn't thin miners facilitate 51% attacks since they will continue to build upon the last block, regardless of whether it's valid or not? With the help of the Mystery Miner's 15% network power couldn't that make a 36% attack viable? |
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Did you think I shouldn't have control over the hardware I've purchased, the electricity I pay for, or the software I run?
Of course you should, I was merely voicing my opinion. Sorry for trolling. In my defense, I am a clown. What this does is start the path towards the competition to secure the network and process transactions in exchange for a fee. This is required for Bitcoin to be sustainable in the long run. Obviously the most profitable miners will be the most successful in their endeavors wresting control away from those who are not. This is the free market at work, and it's going to continue to be a fantastic ride.
It'll indeed be a fantastic ride, and more thought-out fee policies are needed. My objection was to DaT's intention, as stated in the MM thread, to rise his fee threshold to 0.01 BTC right now. The current transaction traffic is minuscule. What we need is growth, and I don't see how fees higher than regular bank transfers will encourage new users to play with an experimental network. Fees will accumulate as the traffic increases. As a casual miner who are unlikely to mine many blocks on my own I'd rather take my hashing power to a pool whose operator share these views. |
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So it has come to this. P2Pool miners joining the Mystery Miner in the transaction throttling attack. Bitcoin is still an experiment being bootstrapped. Gatekeepers asking for fees is not what we need to get the ball rolling. It's interesting that 'ol evil Deepbit now has the most liberal fee policy for standard transactions.
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I'd be willing to bet $100 of my own real money that this is a botnet. I'd think so too, but during the height of the 2011 Bitcoin hype there were several mining botnets. This was extensively reported by AV blogs and tech news outlets. There was also a rush of infected power users joining this forum asking what was going on. The Magical Mystery Miner appears to have more power than any of the unidentified miners that turned out to be botnets last time, but MM have managed to stay completely under the radar... |
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This is the kind of headlines that will drive people to help test the pre-releases. Everybody loves massive performance improvements. Fingersnappin' good work!
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By including more free transactions than any other larger pool, P2Pool included, Deepbit appears to care more about Bitcoin's future than most miners. Should Deepbit be compromised, participants will take their hashing power elsewhere and evil blocks will be orphaned. I'm more concerned about the Magical Mystery Miner, who doesn't seem to have Bitcoin's best interest at heart.
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Either we ask mtgox or we try to find out on our own we are already acting like police officers.
The Magical Mystery Miner have done a lot of work to stay anonymous. Why would he suddenly give his credentials to the biggest entity in the bitcoinsphere? All the Magical Mystery Miner blocks I've seen so far have unspent generation transactions anyway. Someone yesterday port-scanned the IP, now what are we going to do?
Do we try to break in into one of the nodes?
Send abuse emails?
Calm down. These are just regular Bitcoin users relaying blocks and transactions like they're supposed to do. It could be my node, or it could be yours. We already know that DeepBit and Eligius have relayed the Magical Mystery Miner's blocks to BlockChain.info. |
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Looks like the magical mystery miner is now connected only to other miners, thus appearing as Eligius and Deepbit on Blockchain.info.
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Violently awesome! Does the migration process support the satoshi client's new compressed pubkeys?
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speculation forum is becoming a bit like 4chan You must be new here.  |
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i imported 5 private keys from Multibit into Armory. 1 of the 5 should've had .0001 btc in it. does Armory read that small of an amount? Does it show up after restarting Armory? I've had problems with Armory only scanning the first address when importing multiple keys to the same wallet. |
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Building an impenetrable bank on a ship with cracks in the hull. Smart idea?
If only someone could come up with some kind of decentralized way to store value to rid of us of all these single points of failure. Oh, that's right. You don't really care about what Bitcoin actually is. It's all a big lottery ticket to you. |
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