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1  Economy / Gambling / Re: Primedice.com | Since 2013 | Longest Running Crypto Casino | 113 BTC Jackpot! on: November 14, 2022, 04:31:13 AM
I was just thinking about this dice site and how beneficial it's been for these guys running the site properly instead of running away with money like so many scam sites have been doing over the years. I'm actually curious how much they made since they started. But also, I have some respect for them just keeping this running for so long. That's how you do it. Site doesn't even seem to have changed all that much either, but I might be wrong. I haven't been using it much myself for a long time.
2  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: LBRY.IO - DICUSSION THREAD on: March 13, 2021, 05:39:39 PM
Yes, people can tip you LBC for your videos. The Lbry team also pre-minned some 100million coins or something for giving away and helping LBRY grow. On lbry.tv they give away some of these I take it for you being active there.

One big guy, EEVBLOG, talking about electronics, says he gets more on LBRY than on Youtube nowadays too (at least per watch).

https://lbry.tv/@eevblog:7/eevblab-85-youtube-tax!:4

I really like what I've seen so far and https://odysee.com/ is a really nice frontend too (it's using LBRY as the backend)

Donald Trump hasn't joined as far as I know.

I can see this take off for sure, as a nice alternative to Youtube.
3  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Leobit.io - new online bitcoin wallet on: September 29, 2019, 08:09:25 AM
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Cold wallets goes online!

It's not a cold wallet if it's online.
4  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bought my first BTC @ $4600, slightly worried on: September 15, 2017, 06:35:02 PM
When I saw this: https://cdn.howmuch.net/content/images/ex3-5-1.jpg it really put things in perspective for me. So, I'd say, just be patient. Unless someone find something critical with Bitcoin I only see it going up long term.
5  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: GSSSA - Hide your wallet in shares on: September 08, 2017, 12:47:48 PM
Bitcoin has multisignature which allows split keys without any single point of failure. Anyone considering secret sharing should first have a darn good reason they aren't using multisig.

Is there a user friendly, technically not-challenging implementation of this?
Might be something I look into too actually. To make it ease that is. But need to see what is out there first...
6  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: GSSSA - Hide your wallet in shares on: September 05, 2017, 05:25:48 PM
I have some concerns with this post:  Huh
The post is "a bit pushy", also the question why noone is answering - so soon? What is the offer? It is unclear. And some "I have a big project in my mind, which I cannot tell you at this point in time" creates more doubts than questions on the reputation of the post.

Usually it is not recommend to download software/libraries from untrusted sources.
As such it is good to have the sources on github.
Compiled executables can have too many negative impacts, and we don't know yet, what it gives. We'd need a reference with checksums first, so this can be verified on some systems with users from the community, to raise level of trust.

That said, I like the sharing idea, I see it like steganography. Also it is similiar to the seeds we have in use. What makes your approach different from the existing solutions? What improves their security or handling? Can you elaborate a bit?


A bit pushy? Sorry about that. I saw the views come in and no comment, so I figured someone must have something to say about this. Smiley

And regarding the "big project", it's just something I've been thinking and worked on long and are a bit excited to finally open up to the public. It suits better in a new post and I'm trying to finish the last necessary touches with it. Maybe I should have waited to mention it. I'm just excited about it and hope it will do well.

I don't recommend downloading software/libraries from untrusted sources either. I thought the links could help getting a view into the binaries, but sure. I highly recommend reading the source code and build yourself to make sure it's not doing anything fonky. Since it's written in Go, building yourself is really not that difficult. One of the good things with Go.

I'm not sure exactly how one would go on about showing that the binary can be trusted. Someone trusted needs to examine and build it and provide the hash of the file I suppose.

How it differs? Well, it's not much different to other solutions I suppose besides generating readable words and being a binary to easily run locally through the command line. I suppose one thing that could increase the security is to also provide your own wordlist. That way, this is also needed to get the secret back. You can do that as it is right now using the --dictionary parameter. Also, note that this is the first version I did. I had in mind also adding a simple webserver (since it's easy to do in Go), and I could add a GUI interface to it too. That way you would have both the GUI or command line way of doing things. And who knows down the road what else could be made with this to improve it. And I suppose using words helps a bit to make sure there is no typo mistake in the share (provided you don't print this on a printer of course). If you for example have "bid aroumd aware blouse artwork", you could guess it's suppose to be "around" instead of "aroumd".
7  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: GSSSA - Hide your wallet in shares on: September 05, 2017, 05:04:54 PM
Almost everyone I've ever seen link to their own binaries on virus total was in fact distributing malware.  Virustotal is worthless for the kind of custom malware that is often posted on this forum and gives people a false sense of security.

There are many programs out there for shamir secret sharing, such as http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/  most implementations I've seen leave a lot to be desired, including insecure random number generation which doesn't grant full information theoretic security, to incorrect share splitting such that sub threshold collections are sufficient to recover most of a key, to just gross timing sidechannels which any secret key handling software should avoid.

It is my view that In general, secret sharing is largely snake oil in practice because you must have a computer to split and join keys and if that computer is compromised your security is gone.  If you really had a compromise immune computer, just leave your key there and avoid the pointless ritual.

Bitcoin has multisignature which allows split keys without any single point of failure. Anyone considering secret sharing should first have a darn good reason they aren't using multisig.
Thanks for input. I know binaries are not really recommended to download without proper testing and investigation., but I thought virustotal could help out. So, I put the linux binary here to make it more convenient. But I hear you. Who knows what the binary is really doing, right? Well, I totally understand. Go ahead and use the source code. Since I'm using Go, building isn't much of a problem anyway really.

This was just a tool I thought could be handy, and yes, that link pretty much does the same, but here you get a local binary, and also, it generates words (you can also provide your own wordlist to make it even more secure, but you have to use the same again to get the secret back), so it's a bit easier not to mistype. I'm providing another local, offline option. And actually, I did have in mind to also enable web server there (since it's made in Go its easy) and also expand and make a nice GUI for it.

You could print this on paper, cut it up by the shares and different shares in different locations. Nobody would ever know how many would be needed. And maybe not even understand what those random words were for.

But sure, please do use multisig instead. This was just a fun little thing I created. I did actually noticed that you could see part of the secret, depending on what little was changed, but I suppose that is how the algorithm works.
8  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Moneyless Society on: September 04, 2017, 11:56:09 PM
If we give everyone what they want, then what's the meaning of life by that point? Let's assume, people can have what they wanted easily wherein there's no work required for them, the level of cooperation we have today will significantly reduce. People will never work unless it is on their best interest (non-monetary based interest) and consider the number of people doing their life choices based on money.

And thinking crimes will be reduced when you let people have what they want is short-term planning and it's kind of infant-minded. Humans will always find ways to harm each other one way or another, because on any society whether it is old or new there's always disagreements. And we did our best to settle this disagreements through the systems we have created. In my opinion, all we need is balance.
Meaning of life would be to live your life. Spend time with friends and family. Travel and see the world (for free of course). Meet new people. I think the lazyness nature of humans might be a problem yes. And, yes, there will always be crime, but if you could get everything you wanted, certain crimes would most likely disappear.
Can you wake up now and face reality? This is planet earth, where human wants are unlimited amist limited means for satisfying them so you will never be able to give everyone what they want no matter how hard anyone tries to. If as you fantasized all monies are destroyed, how would you fuel your cars, book your travel tickets or replenish your food stock when  you run out of supply?
It's a thought experiment where the idea is that you think about it from different perspectives. I'm either for or against this. It's about having a discussion about it.
Then let's discuss it dude. It is a hell of an interesting topic. I really wanna debate on it (I won't cross my limits). I think, it is practically impossible and just a sweet dream. Greed runs in human blood and money satisfies that greed. People might deny this fact but you cannot judge a person unless he is in some sort of authority.
It sure is a very interesting topic. Especially if you come into the right mindset about it. An open mindset. Practically impossible? Maybe. The greed angle is interesting, but if you could get all you wanted, I wonder what would happen then. After a while you might get tired of wanting it all as there is no challenge to it, and you might want to value living a purpose-filled life instead... who knows... Smiley
9  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Moneyless Society on: September 04, 2017, 11:52:23 PM
It sounds to me like this is quite the mindset change that might be difficult to grasp at first. Again, I'm either for nor against this. And I don't have all the answers. I just find it a fascinating thing to think about and discuss. There is no right or wrong point of view to this. It's a discussion.

If everybody got what they wanted, would it really be valuable to be greedy? Again, money would have no value. What would greed mean then? If you could get 100 cars, what would be the point if you couldn't drive them all? To show off? Again, mindset issue. Nobody to show them off to as everybody could do the same, and having many cars would have no real purpose as you can't drive them all at once anyway. The reason people fancy expensive cars is because of the value of them. Not so much the practicality always. Possibly the design.

So, I don't have all the answers either, and I do not know what would have happened. This is why it's up for discussion here. Smiley
10  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: GSSSA - Hide your wallet in shares on: September 04, 2017, 06:05:21 PM
Anyone here tried this yet? Would love to hear some feedback.

Thanks!
11  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Moneyless Society on: September 04, 2017, 06:03:22 PM
I'm just throwing this idea out there. It's nothing all that new, and there would still be laws and police around. I was just thinking that we have quite an abundance of "things" and resources which is what this is mostly about. If you want to sleep with women, then obviously that is up to you and the women. This is obviously nothing you will just get. But, if you want a car, there you go. Want to fly somewhere? There you go.

Oh, and gamble with money for things would then be pointless I suppose. Smiley
12  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Learning to program on the blockchain? on: September 04, 2017, 05:53:03 PM
My favorite language right now is Go https://golang.org/ (made by Google). Quite easy language to learn as the specs are not that much.

And I just came over this: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/cloud/library/cl-ibm-blockchain-chaincode-development-using-golang/index.html
13  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / GSSSA - Hide your wallet in shares on: September 03, 2017, 02:00:45 PM
Hi!

I came over this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2096081.0 and was inspired to make this command line tool to be able to hide text in plain sight. I just love the idea of splitting something up in parts, and where you need a certain amount of parts to be able to get a secret back. So, perfect for a bitcoin wallet. Do like 10 minimum needed, and 50 shares and put them all around. Nobody has any idea what they are for. And you need 10 of them to get the secret. Or something. Smiley

I'm working on another larger project (which I will post about very soon), and thought to include this tool there. However, I figured, why not start with giving this away for free to show that I'm a giving person. Smiley And also, to start building up trust and hope that as many as possible can join my larger project later. I can't wait to open it up to the public! Anyway, more about that later. Now more about this tool.

In the spirit of trust, I put the code up here: https://github.com/Chillance/gsssa
Not perfect, as it was just thrown together in a short period of time. But it should work. Please go ahead and test it out.

I've also build binaries for your convenience:
gsssa_linux_amd64 - https://virustotal.com/#/file/be5c05c3a36e4d9602f33252c3666356c4d8d550d8d0979d6671d0d3dc37f3af/detection
https://ufile.io/uf17v

gsssa_windows_amd64.exe - https://virustotal.com/#/file/a60617be6745fc8b23987a25a42271373a9474dd7eaf740c74fce84fcc4d1799/detection Ok, so this one reports TrojanDropper.Dapato.yae for some reason. I run Ubuntu and the binaries are build through Docker, so I'm guessing it's a false positive. Same file here using another service: https://virusscan.jotti.org/en-US/filescanjob/n4g4r7ulq6
I asked in IRC and someone said:

"Cylance often triggers when it sees binaries it's never seen before"
"also, we're now seeing some Go malware in the wild, so it's likely picking up on common strings across all Go compiled executables for windows"

I will skip this for now. You can build from the source code, or let me know if you want me to put the binary online.


Here is an example run. I use the defaults of 2 minimum, 3 amount of shares, but you can change this with the --min and --amount parameters. After creating the shares, I remove "Share 2". And as you can see, it still works to get back the "secret". For now, a new line in the share there is important. And yes, there will be more words on longer secret. I know, it might be a pain to write it all down by hand which I would have preferred myself too. Oh well, might be something to solve in the future.
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~$ ./gsssa create "my secret sentence"
# Share 1
assume another atom adjust attract believe athlete attitude ball bulb base apple boss blossom bulk broccoli blossom abuse bring acquire betray brass blur bacon above amateur blind bachelor bomb bench any artefact
board answer birth budget barrel basic bird become banana bring alcohol banner boat absurd assume anxiety ankle aspect angle before arrest boss animal around bring alone alone area aerobic avoid buzz baby

# Share 2
broccoli author boil acquire budget budget because aunt between abstract auction apology blind actual black alert arrive action already balance brother brush bubble boring board address bleak balcony area brain bench bundle
ball brother battle apart blind bless believe about attitude bleak bounce age age busy addict cabbage act balcony assault alter breeze bring bottom battle around balance atom absorb awake across brief attend

# Share 3
anchor album accident cabbage barrel brain allow alien april address brass arch addict among bundle become asthma beach axis arch busy axis april any arctic away bind brother because affair august air
bamboo angle attend artefact auto blood broken arrow boy alpha before brother below body balcony absurd attract arrest barely abuse assist aspect blast bicycle bachelor behind bench balance average acquire buffalo awkward

# You need 2 shares out of these 3 shares to be able to get your secret back.

 The file "shares.txt" is now created with above shown information.

~$
~$ vim shares.txt
~$
~$ cat shares.txt
# Share 1
assume another atom adjust attract believe athlete attitude ball bulb base apple boss blossom bulk broccoli blossom abuse bring acquire betray brass blur bacon above amateur blind bachelor bomb bench any artefact
board answer birth budget barrel basic bird become banana bring alcohol banner boat absurd assume anxiety ankle aspect angle before arrest boss animal around bring alone alone area aerobic avoid buzz baby

# Share 3
anchor album accident cabbage barrel brain allow alien april address brass arch addict among bundle become asthma beach axis arch busy axis april any arctic away bind brother because affair august air
bamboo angle attend artefact auto blood broken arrow boy alpha before brother below body balcony absurd attract arrest barely abuse assist aspect blast bicycle bachelor behind bench balance average acquire buffalo awkward

  ~$
  ~$ ./gsssa reveal
RESULT: my secret sentence

Thank you.
14  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Moneyless Society on: September 03, 2017, 10:38:43 AM
If we give everyone what they want, then what's the meaning of life by that point? Let's assume, people can have what they wanted easily wherein there's no work required for them, the level of cooperation we have today will significantly reduce. People will never work unless it is on their best interest (non-monetary based interest) and consider the number of people doing their life choices based on money.

And thinking crimes will be reduced when you let people have what they want is short-term planning and it's kind of infant-minded. Humans will always find ways to harm each other one way or another, because on any society whether it is old or new there's always disagreements. And we did our best to settle this disagreements through the systems we have created. In my opinion, all we need is balance.
Meaning of life would be to live your life. Spend time with friends and family. Travel and see the world (for free of course). Meet new people. I think the lazyness nature of humans might be a problem yes. And, yes, there will always be crime, but if you could get everything you wanted, certain crimes would most likely disappear.
Can you wake up now and face reality? This is planet earth, where human wants are unlimited amist limited means for satisfying them so you will never be able to give everyone what they want no matter how hard anyone tries to. If as you fantasized all monies are destroyed, how would you fuel your cars, book your travel tickets or replenish your food stock when  you run out of supply?
It's a thought experiment where the idea is that you think about it from different perspectives. I'm either for or against this. It's about having a discussion about it.
15  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Moneyless Society on: September 03, 2017, 10:15:22 AM
In reality that would not work.
If everybody gets what he desires for free, then everybody just does what he wants to do.
But who does the things nobody wants to do? Like working in the channelization for example?
There are so many jobs people would rather not do, but these jobs are necessary to keep your society intact.
Money is the motivation for everybody to work.
And if somebody does not get the job he wants, he must take another one. To earn money, to lead a life.

Absolutely. Although, this could be a push to innovate and make robots to do the things we don't want to do. Smiley
16  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Moneyless Society on: September 03, 2017, 10:05:45 AM
One thing about money, it could represent a specific quantity of time, productivity and innovation.

If someone wants 100 houses and 100 cars that breaks down to a certain amount of time, innovation and productivity to construct.

If money is eliminated some other system would arise to fill the vacuum.

Concepts like productivity and time and their relation to money aren't easily tweaked to give everyone want they want all the time. Like some said satisfying essential needs with a minimal & efficient productive effort is the opposite aim of industry.
Ah, yeah, this reminds me of a discussion I had regarding improving things and innovation. With money, companies want things to break down so people buy again. Like, the light bulb for example. There is one made many years ago (that still works? or at least worked for a very long time). But as a company, you don't want that, so you make it a bit defective so it breaks and people have to buy a new one. With a money-less society, wouldn't' there be more focus on actually innovating and make things better and better?
17  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Moneyless Society on: September 03, 2017, 10:02:03 AM
Hi,

I wanted to run this by you and see what you say.

What if we scrapped money altogether and just gave everybody what they wanted?

I know it sounds ridiculous, and everybody would just go for 100 cars and 100 fancy houses, but if you think about it, if you could get everything you wanted, all those things wouldn't be as valuable anymore, and it would lose it's "richness" appeal and people would be bored by it after a while and just settle with what they actually needed. Don't we have all the technology and resources to make this happen? It could also mean less crimes would happen then too.

Sidenote: I love the idea of bitcoin so I don't really want to ruin bitcoin, but hey, maybe we could go there with bitcoin somehow... Smiley


There aren't ferraris for everyone, and the people in charge aren't going to let their power go to redistribute wealth. I like the idea of an open source society as described by Jacques Fresco, but unfortunately I don't see that happening anytime soon, we may need 1000's of years to get to that point. In the meantime, im pretty sure cryptocurrencies will be the next step, creating a global economy, possibly inter planetary, so you better start stacking up on BTC soon, for a lack of a better alt.
Yeah, I don't see this happening in a long time either. If at all. I just thought it was worth to bring up and think about and see what people say. Trying to get into the mindset of it and think about it for a while intrigued me. Smiley
18  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Moneyless Society on: September 03, 2017, 09:55:49 AM
Hay, why are you fantasizing too much? ... We must try before getting something ,, that's life. Nothing is instant, and bitcoin ,, we have to fight to be successful, not everyone who jumps in bitcoin become rich ..
This is just a thought experiment where the whole idea about "getting rich" doesn't exist anymore since everybody get what they want. Smiley
Your experiment, can make everyone bored, because there is no challenge to get something, everything is available .. Is not it going to make a lazy man .. maybe you can look for other experiments .. For example, to provide jobs for the unemployed and the poor, It is better.
You know, that reminds me. Some healthy elderly people get bored with their pension life, that they go back to work. So, as a side effect can be that when people get what they want, they will help out as they will be bored otherwise. Smiley
19  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Moneyless Society on: September 03, 2017, 09:53:35 AM
Money is just a convention used to regulate commercial transactions. In the ancient times it was useless because people lived in small villages, commerce was not developed so they used barter to exchange stuff between them. Nowadays it is impossible to do (at least on a world-scale) because commerce and markets are too gone too far...
Commerce is producing all kind of crazy things. "Hey, you want a fidget spinner? Sure, here you go. We apparently have so many resources we can create these things too."
20  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Moneyless Society on: September 03, 2017, 09:48:11 AM
If we give everyone what they want, then what's the meaning of life by that point? Let's assume, people can have what they wanted easily wherein there's no work required for them, the level of cooperation we have today will significantly reduce. People will never work unless it is on their best interest (non-monetary based interest) and consider the number of people doing their life choices based on money.

And thinking crimes will be reduced when you let people have what they want is short-term planning and it's kind of infant-minded. Humans will always find ways to harm each other one way or another, because on any society whether it is old or new there's always disagreements. And we did our best to settle this disagreements through the systems we have created. In my opinion, all we need is balance.
Meaning of life would be to live your life. Spend time with friends and family. Travel and see the world (for free of course). Meet new people. I think the lazyness nature of humans might be a problem yes. And, yes, there will always be crime, but if you could get everything you wanted, certain crimes would most likely disappear.
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