oh yes & if someone could be kind enough to drop in a couple of 50k walls with bid at $9.86815 & ask $9.86817 for a minute at closing time I would very much appreciate that & would of course be more than happy to share the 2 Btc prize with you - muchas gracias

$9.86816

no I didn't mean random though that fits as defined here

I meant lame, totally spastic & never to go there again

totally dire - just me maybe but found it (like most TeeVee style crap) to be completely unwatchable, so so spastic

received my first Btc phishing attempt, my email was on the original leaked list, as some still fall for these I thought a heads up on the main board here would'd do any harm - details here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55578.msg664821#msg664821

please move if not needed

I received this phishing email in the last 24 hours (my email was on the original leaked list - surprised that they took this long to get around to it), forwarded it to Mt.Gox

from:    info@mtgox.com via de1.imhoster.net
sender time: redacted
reply-to:    info@mtgox.com
to:    redacted
date:    27 December 2011
subject:    [Mt.Gox] Your account is currently pending review.
mailed-by:    de1.imhoster.net

Dear Mt.Gox user,

Your account is currently pending review, please visit https://mtgox.com/forms/verification
For those users who have had their accounts marked for review, an explanation of why were are implementing these security measures can be found here:

Security Measures Explained

“Verified” Accounts are eligible for monthly/daily transaction limits of up to 5 times the monthly limit and 10 times the daily limit.

In order to apply for the “Verified” account status please attach a copy of the following documents:
- Your government issued photo ID (passport, permanent residence card or driver’s license) and
- A scan of either your monthly utility bill (power, phone, TV, gas, water, etc.) or a certificate of residency issued by your local government.

Thanks,
The Mt.Gox team

...these were the dodgy links in it going to:

http://www.mtgkx.tk/forms/verification
http://www.mtgkx.tk/entries/20471711-security-measures-explained

Genuine Mt.Gox reply:

Hello Redacted,

Thank you, this is indeed a phishing attempt. We will never send you an email asking you to log in anywhere, although we may occasionally send emails pointing you to the support page for information updates.

The email you provided has been documented, and will be used in our efforts to prevent phishers from continuing to target our users.

Kind regards,

Mt.Gox Support

I expressed interest when these were first mooted & contacted Cass, he doesn't seem to run any update to those who wished to buy one when they became available - at least this shows the reverse behaviour than someone who was up to no good, all being well & the next time I'm in the States I would really love to add this to my bank box there as a compliment to the Chinese gold & MTG Beta slabbed Goxs

didn't check it, many thanks am now - looks fab

photo or link to for pic of the 1 Oz gold 1,000 Btc coin when it appears please

Nice! Many thanks for the link

OK I think I get that, but I still don't follow exactly how bitcoins works in practice, I can send them to various bit coin addresses easily via the exchanges that hold them & so they use their private keys to do this but never having risked my own wallet I don't have experience in doing this & was completely unaware that a private key gives away the public address, i.e. the key is not just a key in real life terms it's also full access to the safe where the valuables are stored so perhaps key is a confusing term - it's basically open sesame to the vault

Another reason, apart from this one that I didn't even know about, for not starting a wallet yet is that I haven't been able to master the weirdness of if you send some Btc out from it the rest don't just sit there but do some relocation which means you may end up loosing them unless you have looked very deeply in to how this all works & realise that your backed up wallet is now obsolete as it gets reinvented ever time you do a transaction - I'm prob wrong on this exactly but it's my general impression of how it may work & reflects maybe the confusion of other new adapters to Bitcoin world

I've managed to master very fast how to loose vast amounts on Bitcoinica though - go me!

wow I am shocked that I've never come across this, private key is all you need to access any funds linked to it, for a non techy this is not at all intuitive, thank goodness my intuition has kept me away from managing my own wallet as yet because this is such a fatal flaw in my understanding

edit: haven't read the last 2 replys here yet as my keyboard is playing up & makes things slow atm...

.. it hasn't been given to you

keyboard batteries seem about to give up may have to post later though seems just got some juice left...                          

ah thanks for explaining I never even suspected it's like looking in to the rabbit hole I guess, also I'm not sure if I've got this bit yet:

that the public key (&/or?) address can be found (derived) from any private key, I'd assumed they were like a lock (public address) & a key (private key), that you needed to know both & which went together in order to send funds but now am seem to hear that if you have a private key you also own the public address even if                                   

Can someone post a pic or link to a photo of the 10 Btc silver coin as I can't find one on the Cas site - many thanks

sry - I'm getting lost trying to get my head round this, I assumed that the public key was the btc address

OK got it & fxd ur typo

OK thanks, though I have no idea what 2^256 is until I start to google it, 6 months plus I've had bitcoins & assumed erroneously that the Btc private keys were very similar to the Btc addresses, for newbies this is quite a learning curve they have to master unless like me they are willing to just trust the exchanges to hold for them, I have only now just heard of & assumed what base-58 is which I guess is the A-Z, a-z, 0-9 chars that a private key in wallet import format are made from

give them a 100 Btc Silk road gift card for new years

I've never had a need to look in to private keys before, just have https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Private_key & see that they're not just as simple as a Bitcoin address is, loads of different ways of showing them, most common seems to be the 51 chars starting with a 5 which I assume are drawn from A-Z, a-z, 0-9, i.e. from 58 total possibles that can be repeated