641
|
Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bullshit
|
on: March 08, 2013, 03:45:23 PM
|
banning *anything* will be the end of bitcoin raise awareness and use social pressure to encourage the actors on the network to act in it's best interests Bullshit.Not every user of the network is acting in its best interests. On the contrary: there are and there will be many people who will try to destroy the network or simply use it for their own means / their profits without caring about how this affects other users. We need to be prepared for everything, not whine around because somebody is using a known vulnerability. Vulnerability needs to be fixed and that is end of discussion.
|
|
|
642
|
Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: [ANN] TorShops | Create your own .onion store with full bitcoin integration
|
on: March 08, 2013, 02:34:18 PM
|
I don't have access to TOR where I currently am, so i have questions:
1. Is the source avaiable ? 2. Can anybody view the source, or just buyers ? 3. Is this a honeypot ?
1. Source is not available, since we are offering this as 'software as a service'. Ah so you must have very gullible buyers. As somebody mentioned above me: Doesn't this invalidate the whole point of using TOR in the first place ? Isn't this a perfect example how a government-run honeypot would work ?
|
|
|
643
|
Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bullshit
|
on: March 08, 2013, 01:32:02 PM
|
"Transaction spam" is the largest issue threatening the fledgeling currency called Bitcoin. (...) Miners have a love and hate relationship with this transaction spam. They love the fees, but hate that they need to store every one of these transactions on the hard drive, FOREVER. They cannot be pruned since they are unspent outputs. (...) We do not have a mature network, and we're in the bootstrapping phase. SatoshiDICE is consuming the "startup capital" (current state of low fees, high subsidy, and lots of free space in blocks)
What a load of nonsense. I myself do not care about SatoshiDice at all, but seeing people making a drama about it makes me itchy. Exactly. This whole thread is complete bullshit and waste of time.
|
|
|
644
|
Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: [ANN] TorShops | Create your own .onion store with full bitcoin integration
|
on: March 08, 2013, 12:44:10 PM
|
Get your own .onion store with full Bitcoin integration.
You want to run an independent shop as a Tor hidden service anonymously? You want to accept Bitcoins as payment for your goods or services? Maybe already selling on SilkRoad but you would prefer to have your own website? TorShops lets you create a shop like this for affordable prices. With TorShops anyone can run a store as a Tor hidden service and accept Bitcoins without having to worry about technical details. Create an account to contact us if you have any questions!
I don't have access to TOR where I currently am, so i have questions: 1. Is the source avaiable ? 2. Can anybody view the source, or just buyers ? 3. Is this a honeypot ?
|
|
|
645
|
Economy / Economics / Re: The 2040 problem
|
on: March 08, 2013, 11:54:17 AM
|
So, have we resolved it yet?
Been practicing necromancy much ? Are you a professional Lich, or just an adept ? Seriously guys, this forum should have an option to close very old topics. Perhaps automatically, by vote or by owner.
|
|
|
646
|
Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin under ATTACK now: What YOU can do to help!
|
on: March 08, 2013, 11:04:40 AM
|
* Put pressure on SatoshiDICE to stop the transaction spam. The principals involved in SatoshiDICE are Erik Voorhees,
If he can spam Bitcoin network that means its a vulnerability. Vulnerability that needs to be fixed. It is pointless to "put pressure" on anybody. On the contrary, its good that somebody shows us what needs to be improved. SatoshiDICE is not our enemy, just an opportunist using an opportunity. If ever governments decide that they don't like Bitcoin after all, SatoshiDICE will be the least of our problems. A real enemy like that will use any means possible (including spamming the network) to harm BTC. So perhaps let's grab this opportunity to harden the Bitcoin protocol instead of complaining. . . Pressuring SatoshiDice is a band-aid, not a solution. The Bitcoin system is supposed to work, we're not supposed to ask people to do us a favor and not use it. To solve the problem of unprunable small outputs, we need some form of output upkeep costs. +1
|
|
|
648
|
Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Is this an honest client?
|
on: March 07, 2013, 10:26:59 PM
|
I would like to try this. I don't want to take the time to figure out if it is a Trojan. Will it steal my bitcoins? Has anybody checked this?
Highly unlikely. Such things are almost trivial to spot by an experienced developer or even better: code audit - oriented developer/specialist (when you have the source code).
|
|
|
650
|
Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How many coins will be lost due to people dying?
|
on: March 06, 2013, 11:25:09 PM
|
How do you plan to make them (un) recoverable?
Armory has (or will have soon) an awesome feature built into the paper backup system that allows an M of N recovery. Fully customize-able. I plan to print 10 sheets of paper that each have a piece of the puzzle to recover my cold storage wallet. It will require 7 pieces of the original 10 to recover the wallet. 6 of them get distributed to family and friends with instructions to hold onto them until I die. 4 of them are to be in the will itself, this way, the other 6 can never do anything before I actually die (not that I couldn't trust those people). Seems pretty complicated. Wouldn't it be easier to create a RAR archive containing the wallet with enough repair/recovery data, and give only part of the data to your family ? With proper balancement of amount of recovery data, the same thing could be achieved.
|
|
|
652
|
Economy / Currency exchange / Re: Is there a market for a Bitcoin to Liberty Reserve exchange?
|
on: March 06, 2013, 10:57:05 AM
|
Good morning,
I wanted to poll the community and ask if you all believe there is a market for exchanging Bitcoin to Liberty Reserve.
Absolutely yes. There is. Still a lot of people who don't yet know about Bitcoin is using LR, C-Gold, Pecunix, Perfect Money etc for their semi-anonymous trading. Making an exchange will help these people move to Bitcoin, so i would say that there will be market for it at least for the next 5 years, until everybody of them moves. I was stupid not to make an exchange like this myself, but now its too late for that. So i wish you good luck and good profits.
|
|
|
654
|
Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin crashes at $51.5
|
on: March 06, 2013, 08:39:55 AM
|
Wrong forum. This belongs in "Speculation". I suspect it will get moved as soon as the mods see it, but you are welcome to move it yourself if you don't want to wait.
Yep.
|
|
|
655
|
Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin crashes at $51.5
|
on: March 06, 2013, 08:27:10 AM
|
When it does, i'll be selling the information of what price it's going to bottom out at (and hence when to buy up).
lulz. you be rich man, yeah? yeah, here be dragons
|
|
|
656
|
Bitcoin / Press / Re: 2013-03-05 Namecheap - We now accept bitcoin
|
on: March 05, 2013, 08:58:21 AM
|
This year, Bitcoin may become mainstream almost as fast as Gangnam Style.
Interesting comparison. Well, in my defense - Gangnam Style is also an "Internet thing" just like Bitcoin. And just like Bitcoin it came out of nowhere, nobody expected it and it drastically changed the world (world of popculture in Gangnam's case). Gangnam style is kind of a revolutionary thing just like Bitcoin - it shows an important thing: that simply anobody today can become famous, start a revolution using Internet and change the world in a relatively short time (before the internet era such changes would take decades or even generations). Both Gangnam style and Bitcoin show that we live in truly remarkable times when just anything can happen tomorrow, growing at exponential speed. (I am serious, this is not a joke)
|
|
|
660
|
Bitcoin / Press / Re: 2013-03-03 - Monetary Metals - Is Bitcoin Money?
|
on: March 04, 2013, 03:34:01 PM
|
I wonder how much metal speculation is backed fraudulent paper? If there was a run on gold, how much would anyone get delivered? I suspect that much if not most of the gold trade is fictional. At least with Bitcoin, fraud is limited to exchanges and it is cheap and easy to move to more trusted exchanges if desired. This keeps Bitcoin exchanges honest. Gold is only honest money if it is in your hand.
If for whatever reason people chose to trust bitcoin banks, those banks would be regulated and required to prove they really own the amount of blockchain bitcoins they claim to own. Such audit is near impossible with gold. + n, n-> ∞I wonder how much metal speculation is backed fraudulent paper? If there was a run on gold, how much would anyone get delivered?
0%. The day there's a run on gold, governments will intervene and declare a stop on all gold trades. QFT. //So much truth about how this fucked up system works in just a single topic.
|
|
|
|