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361  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: List of all cryptocoins on: December 22, 2013, 04:52:06 PM
I don't get it. Why this topic is pinned to the top? It doesn't make any sense now. Times changed.

Anyway it's just an opinion of one person who is subjective as any other of us.

As long as he keeps updating the OP in a timely manner with objective criteria on the order, I see it as a great one for a sticky. The OP contains enough info on alternative links to see alternative orderings, so no objections to sticky from my side now.
362  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: BitcoinSpinner on: December 19, 2013, 02:58:28 AM
Congratulations! I always like to see a bitcoin business going out of business without big chaos like being hacked or so. Guess it's really time to change my sig from Spinner to Mycelium Smiley

How are the other Mycelium ventures doing? Is the bitcoincard coming soon?
363  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why is there no Bitcoin day? on: December 17, 2013, 05:25:22 AM
Bitcoin Pizza Day: May 22nd
364  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Bitfetch - Anonymous Remote Torrent Downloading on: December 16, 2013, 06:17:20 PM
Rate was last changed around Sept 13.  Since then the value of bitcoin has gone from $150 to $850.  How about changing it?

Quick! Change the rate now! Tomorrow there might be no reason to do so anymore Wink

No, seriously, I would find it fair to deduct balances in $$ as Ƀ is to volatile. Ƀ prices have to be adjusted every day else.
365  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Bitfetch - Anonymous Remote Torrent Downloading on: December 14, 2013, 05:28:13 AM
I would bet my balance vanished again :/ How else could I reach exactly 0 by using it up? Does it expire after a month of inactivity? Not amused.
Did you use your token link to log back in? It's probably not in your cache anymore after a month.

Well, yeah, most likely that is the problem and I addressed it before. Why not optionally let me log in with something my password store would remember for me? Most likely I have the bookmark somewhere, too but optional login would help others from getting too mad at bitfetch, too.

Would it show in your history?

Yeah, it was in my history and I wasn't really worried it would be gone for good but I wanted to make a point as bitfetch does not force me to the actual url. instawallet did it better I guess. I went to instawallet, it would forward me to instawallet/w/somerandomid and now if I hit bookmark, I would not bookmark instawallet but instawallet/w/somerandomid.

I expect bitfetch to run into the same issues instawallet (willingly as I would guess) ran into.
366  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Bitfetch - Anonymous Remote Torrent Downloading on: December 12, 2013, 08:46:38 PM
I would bet my balance vanished again :/ How else could I reach exactly 0 by using it up? Does it expire after a month of inactivity? Not amused.
Did you use your token link to log back in? It's probably not in your cache anymore after a month.

Well, yeah, most likely that is the problem and I addressed it before. Why not optionally let me log in with something my password store would remember for me? Most likely I have the bookmark somewhere, too but optional login would help others from getting too mad at bitfetch, too.
367  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Bitfetch - Anonymous Remote Torrent Downloading on: December 12, 2013, 06:07:55 PM
I would bet my balance vanished again :/ How else could I reach exactly 0 by using it up? Does it expire after a month of inactivity? Not amused.
368  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: publicly available research drone on: December 12, 2013, 05:44:54 PM
I also thought about it. So you want a TOR hidden service, where you can demand video on some GPS coordinates anonymously and pay with BTC?
Possible, but it would be limited for a region, where the aircraft sits.
How to find enough people, who invest in hardware to run a wide spread service?

If people can 3D-print these drones, equipped with solar cells and contribute them to the network, it could become a funny whack-a-mole scenario with LE actually gunning them down with no actual persons made responsible Smiley
369  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: List of all cryptocoins on: December 12, 2013, 12:17:17 AM
PS : Can someone explain what PPcoin does to use less energy ?

PPCoin is now called Peercoin and uses proof of stake instead of (a significant part of its) proof of work.
Bitcoin miners need: expensive hardware + electricity < value of coins mined
Peercoin miners need: expensive hardware + electricity + coins held < value of coins mined with a strong weight on "coins held"
370  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: [ANN] Tip4Commit.com - support opensource projects, contribute and earn bitcoins on: December 10, 2013, 07:20:34 PM
As services go out of service, here is my question how you will handle going out of service? Will you do an instawallet and keep the money for you? Will the maintainers get the money to continue the payouts at their own discretion? Will you get "hacked"? How much is in hot wallets? How much will you cover from your private money? Who are you?
371  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: publicly available research drone on: December 10, 2013, 02:27:44 AM
ok, the title got me excited. What I hoped to find:
Upload waypoints that you want to see images of. Bid for your waypoints. Public waypoints can pool bids and video is shared publicly. Private waypoints hide the drone's waypoint and provide the video only to the payer.

With many drones all over the place this could be very interesting for all kind of applications. The drones could be controlled by humans and clients might be among others news channels that want airial footage of events.
372  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: List of all cryptocoins on: December 09, 2013, 01:32:07 AM

I don't intent to be rude or anything, but for us frenchmen this coin sounds very funny,
because in french's slang it means "In Your Ass" 

It's used like this, as an example ;

Joe:  "where did you find that ?"
Jim: "dtc"



lol

Dans ton cul? You really have an abbreviation for that? Cause the letters pronounced in french wouldn't make me think of that phrase.
373  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Invictus Innovations ProtoShares Cheat Sheet | CPU Mining on: December 09, 2013, 01:26:40 AM
So I have almost a dozen machines running

Did I get this right that with ProtoShares I'd rather invest in one huge huge huge miner than in 12 machines? Or is there an upper limit of RAM that I could possibly put into my machine?
How much RAM do your 12 machines have? I'm just curious …
374  Bitcoin / Press / 2013-12-07 La Segunda: Bitcoin: la fiebre del oro se apodera de internet on: December 09, 2013, 12:44:20 AM
La Segunda published an overly bullish article both online and on paper. For copyright reasons I only present an illegible shot of the paper version:


Read the full article online here.

Feel free to post translations here. I hate machine translations and have no time to do a full translation but the article is totally bullish and announces the value of bitcoin to go to 10kUSD short term and µɃ to be used mid term. The have many factual errors including a funny one: coin4ce is named coin4con which is only funny for English speakers. I guess Chileans wont see a pun though Wink

Edit: The title means something like: "Bitcoin: Gold fever grips the internet"
375  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Invictus Innovations ProtoShares Cheat Sheet | CPU Mining on: November 21, 2013, 04:22:01 PM
Just found this gem, read the white paper and like it a lot!

Edit: I like the memory-hard approach with momentum but would not endorse the blockchain just yet as I briefly read something about a huge pre-mine which is one of the ko criteria for every alt-chain.
376  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: bitcoinity.org/markets - live bitcoin price charts on: November 21, 2013, 03:16:39 PM
Requested visits chart below. I'm not even completely sure how accurate it is, since many people seems to be just not closing the bitcoinity tab ever (thus not visiting it every day).

I never close 3 of these tabs (btc.cn, stamp, gox) and check them regularly. Love to see the rate as title.

You might want to check actual usage of your service in more detail. Never focusing the tab does not mean I don't care about the title changing but these insights might still be valuable for you.

Not sure how this could be reduced to one tab with likely less traffic as I like the info in the title and switching through 3 tracked currencies would be harder to read.
377  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Instawallet claim process on: November 21, 2013, 02:53:19 PM
Please explain this one:
"There is also a very precise reason why the claims period had to be limited to a fixed time-frame."

I think this has been answered before, but it doesn't really matter, the answers are probably buried in this thread among giszmo's butthurt and tvbcof's irrelevance.

We've been hacked and got proof that the hacker got access to our database in read/write. (and no IW didn't leak wallet URLs, if anyone is interested I can link the proper humiliation I gave Roger Wehbe who was trying to peddle this nonsense for weeks, meanwhile begging for tips, anyway, I digress).

So our hacker got access to our database, meaning access to all wallet URLs (and all the information you have provided for that matter). So if you follow that meant we *had* to define a specific claims timeframe.
Had we allowed the claims to run forever the following would have happened :
 - legitimate users claim their funds
 - six months later, when no one cares anymore the hacker comes and picks up what's not been claimed

With a deadline we were forcing the hacker to reveal himself if he tried to claim wallets, we figured most decent wallets would be claimed by their users and that a double claim would immediately raise suspicions (especially if they were coming from the same/a weird IP or if we fingerprinted the same browser on 100 large duplicate claims).

So that was the first reason.

The second reason to have the 90 days time frame is quite simple too, as you know, Bitcoin wallets after being hacked are quite often insolvent.
So the reason for the fixed time-frame is that it allowed everyone to file a claim without rushing in a bank-run like scenario where the first claimants would get paid 100% and the rest would get whatever was left. By having a fixed time-frame we managed to accurately determine whom to pay and how much at the end of said period.

Since we had to set the payouts in stone before actually paying it also meant we'd have to start paying everyone at the same moment, so when we had to determine the time-frame length 3 months seemed the appropriate number in order for people to get access to their money in a reasonable time-frame while at the same time leaving a reasonable delay for people to place a claim.

Does this answer your question ?

This all makes sense but I doubt it is legal. If my bank shuts down and doesn't inform me that in 90 days my money will be theirs to use as they please, I doubt they would get away with it. Why not 900 days? Why not 9 seconds?

90 days are completely arbitrary and while it might be a nice incentive to get the hacker to come forward, it can't possibly be a way to steal users' funds the way you try now. Keeping the money is not just legally wrong, it also is morally wrong.

If you would give the remaining money to charity, you would win on moral ground but run into trouble once people come after you on legal ground.

I guess the best way would be to put this money into escrow with some reputable entity and fully disclose the legal situation. Giving the remaining money to charity after a 10 years delay (guess in Germany such liabilities would not expire for 10 years) might turn out interesting, too Smiley
378  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Bets of Bitcoin - Bitcoin betting on real world events on: November 21, 2013, 02:30:19 PM

Name:   coinjedi
Posts:   184
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Date Registered:   May 27, 2011, 01:37:11 PM
Last Active:   September 04, 2013, 03:27:22 AM


He still hasn't been online / logged in since early September.

...I'm sorry.  Sad

Perhaps a forum moderator could be so kind and helpful as to plaster a WARNING
 about this state of affairs in big red letters, to the start of the first post on the first page of this thread?

I mean: If bets aren't being closed, then the site is useless.

If bets are being closed, then it must be assumed that CoinJedi has surrendered to the dark side.

Scam accusations go to another forum. The way would be that coinjedi would get marked as a scammer, not the OP in this thread.
I got my money out in time and was skeptical about this service all the time. Crossing fingers it takes a surprisingly good turn.
379  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Instawallet claim process on: November 21, 2013, 12:42:40 PM
Look, there is a very precise reason a proper claims process with a proper claims interface was set up.
There is also a very precise reason why the claims period had to be limited to a fixed time-frame.
There is also a very precise reason why claims were only processed when people were able to provide the correct URL to their wallet(s).
And finally there is a very precise reason why the claims were processed through this interface and not by e-mail or by teleported napkin bits with half a URL written on them.

I think you fail to understand at least one of these reasons, tell me which one and I'll explain.

You guys can easily check in your database/systems that the evidence I have given you is correct. Richard did it! So why don't you?? As I said, I understand if I had no evidence etc... but I do. All you have to do is verify the information I gave you. Also, Im asking for you to give me back less than 20bitcoins, you guys were in charge of 10000s of bitcoins. For me these bitcoins are a lot of money! Im sure you still have enough unclaimed coins where people really have no information or have forgotten their urls, but Im trying to claim mine with the evidence and information I have of all the wallets. You know, I believe that if you really want to listen and help me out you would! Richard wanted to, and he tried, but its seems nobody else working for Paymium wants to make any effort to even listen to me! Only thing you answer is that I missed the 90 days so too bad, we are now gonna steal ur coins!! How fair is that?

The 90days window was a joke from the start. Get a lawyer. Don't wait for january as this might be an intentional delay to have whatever expire in their jurisdiction.
380  Bitcoin / Press / Re: 2013-11-19: Buying a new identity on: November 20, 2013, 02:45:42 PM
What exactly are you proposing? That services require you to have a costly account to mitigate the potential to create thousands of accounts for free? Why donate to miners and not a set of charities? Why exclude people who only have an annual income of 200$?
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