Wow. Now this is a serious move. This wasn't the mindset I was expecting from folks running Bitcoin.org. Are they afraid of change? Experimenting? No one will lose anything if the fork fails... We just keep Bitcoin as it is and our lives keep going The Github thread on which this was discussed is pretty interesting: I don't believe the XT developers claims about only activating when 75% of the miners support it. I doubt that's how XT will actually fork, because they'll never get the support from the Chinese miners, and they know it, and they've always known that.
What they're probably going to do is to keep trying to get big companies on board to try to eventually make some "economic majority" argument and force it through with checkpoints and ignoring the longest chain. This is pure speculation. This the same as a company releasing a product and its specifications and you don't believe on its specifications... Like there was someone better to show you specifics about the product than the company who designed, built and released it  If XT "forces" anything (whether it's checkpoints or not), they've failed. That's why we can't just... coerce Coinbase into switching back to Bitcoin Core because that's not how Bitcoin works. |
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So if I steal your money, you threaten to dox me if I don't return it, and I make a post saying "Don't worry, I'm working on it, and, BTW, this is really me!" you wouldn't dox me?
In such case, yes, I would reveal personal information so nobody would deal with that person again, as that person would most likely scam again (or would at least stop scamming now that their personal information is known). But that's not the case we're seeing here neither what you propose would really help right now. |
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I don't see that website mentioned on Blockchain's website. How can one confirm that this isn't a phishing website?
How it can be a phishing website ! It is the real blockchain.info domain and it has https protection. And they warn users from using big funds because it is still tested Edit : the site is mentioned in their blog : https://blog.blockchain.com/2015/11/23/introducing-the-v2-receive-payments-api/All right, thank you, checked their blog but didn't check posts beyond December |
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I don't see that website mentioned on Blockchain's website. How can one confirm that this isn't a phishing website?
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This is very encouraging. I am satisfied for now that there is a reasonable chance this is the real Master-P. I am putting your doxing on hold indefinitely pending your refund of held funds. I am glad you are sorting it out.
ELI5: Why Master-P [real or hax0r] posting should delay dox dump? Ethical issues + it could probably lead to thread moderation/locking/deletion. Doxing is not prohibited here, but it may be limited, depending on the situation. |
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I hope they credit Satoshi on the patents  Speaking more seriously, when people try a centralized blockchain/ledger they will want to try a real, decentralized one  |
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Good news indeed, but this doesn't seem to stop investigations on people selling and buying coins on LocalBitcoins. Also: Nevertheless, we’re talking about a status quo in which law enforcement takes and often keeps “cash and property from people who are never convicted – and in many cases, never charged – with wrongdoing.” And at least for now, this practice will be less common. Emphasis on the bolded part. I think what happened to you can still easily happen again, unfortunately, but at least it seems there will be less incentive for local police enforcement to do it. |
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I was indeed finding it really strange that funds are not moving, if the supposed hacker took control of everything he would leave with the coins immediately...
Good to see that you are really interested in fixing this up. Can you tell us if the addresses that contain our coins are under your control or if they belong to the hackers?
I can't tell. Some of the address, for example my tipping address seems are ones I recognize that I previously generated in the escrow wallet. While some others I don't recognize, it could be new addresses generated by the hacker. He does not need the private key to generate new addresses using Armory, I don't think. I find it odd that he didn't simply just have people send coins over to his own addresses? I am not sure either way. Perhaps he did and he's just holding the coins to help convince people that I do indeed have control over them when I don't. Either way I am working on this, trying to figure out the safest possible way to restore my wallets without losing everything, or anything at all. I think most people were angry (me included) of the thought that you'd sold your identity. I hoped beyond hope that it wasn't true because it felt like a kick in the balls for lots of people here that trusted you.
Even if I were to sell my account in secret it wouldn't have been for 1 or 2 bitcoins. Correct, no private keys or passwords are needed to generate new addresses in Armory. But if some addresses aren't from your Armory wallet that's quite a bit disturbing and makes us go back to square 1 |
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Although Nano does look like a generic USB device, it's really easily recognizeable by someone that was willing to steal you Bitcoins.
OP, to achieve what you're aiming for, the best way to do it is having an encrypted wallet.dat on a regular USB device. I don't think that there are any hardware wallets resembling/mimicing/imitating a generic USB drive
Yep, nano is again a pretty cool looking wallet, but easily recognizable. I guess my only alternative for now is a generic pendrive with an encrypted wallet.dat inside a hidden volume, maybe with veracrypt? but anyway, the point is to have the functionality of the hardware wallets, this idea wouldn't allow me to use in such way. Maybe your best bet would be disassembling a Ledger and cramming it on a regular USB device "enclosure"? I don't know what would be possible to do that fits your needs, just guessing  |
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The OS in which you feel better with and in which you can implement whatever security measures you see fit would be the best answer That being said, Debian, Ubuntu, and other variants are commonly used for nodes. |
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Hi, I am tired of using blockchain.info payment api and other apis. They are all unreliable and jump with their naked buggy ass in your face from behind when you are least expecting it. So I would like to run a full node with my own wallet. My target is to have something as simple to use as blockchain.info or blocktrail.com or blockcypher.com or other payment api's for different applications. I have plans for different applications on different servers which all will make calls to that one single node, to receive and send payments and query for blockchain data. And of course it all has to be secure. The problem is, I have very limited knowledge and experience in running a linux server. So the question is: Are there any good tutorials out there, which will help me set up a full node and wallet on a vps, step by step till the point where I can just send post request to that full node server and will get back all that blockchain data and will be able to generate private keys and addresses and send transactions. So that the full node behaves for me like blockchain.info or blocktrail.com or www.blockcypher.com or whatever API, but with a little more control and reliability. Or do you think only very linux-experienced people should set up own full nodes with wallets? You can always just buy a Bitseed and plug it into your router. Why not just make a node yourself at home with a Raspberry Pi or old hardware? And this wouldn't ultimately solve his problem fully, he'd still have to develop and implement his own API/payment gateway/whatever he sees fit for his uses. |
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You can take this as a reference. Basically Bitcoin isn't illegal anywhere (as in the law explicitly says "Bitcoin is illegal") but the use of digital currencies is prohibited in some places, or discouraged. A Bitcoin transaction itself is always safe. |
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Thank you for your time!
sorry wrong word in the previous post, not mentioned ---> noticed.
What does it mean well connected? Does it mean the server itself has a fast connection, or that I need to configure the node to have a good connection to other nodes?
Is a SATA harddrive enough for the node, or should it be a SSD? What about the free space, some tuts say one should reserve 100 GB, is that enough for the near future?
Well connected means having a fast and persistent connection that can connect to as many nodes as possible at the same time. I don't think there's a specific configuration in order to achieve this (I've read quite a few things about nodes and setting them up and haven't found anything that could improve connection count) A mechanical hard drive is enough. You'd just have better performance on an SSD. Yes, 100GB is enough for near future. The blockchain is currently about 60GB |
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I think this has a fairly nice explanation on those transactions and matches what you're looking for |
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Mt Gox coins? Sold by the USA Gov? Last I heard (most of) the Mt Gox coins were nowhere to be found, and the coins sold by the USA were the ones from Silk Road...
Oops you are right, that was a huge fail from me sorry about that. Different cases Mt Gox coins, if found are (supposedly) going to their right owners. Silk Road coins were seized for alleged criminal activities and afterwards auctioned, as per US law. |
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Mt Gox coins? Sold by the USA Gov? Last I heard (most of) the Mt Gox coins were nowhere to be found, and the coins sold by the USA were the ones from Silk Road...
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Why reindex everything when there's no need for such? If your client doesn't sync, it doesn't directly mean that your files are corrupted, it just means you have a connection problem, as far as I know. Reindexing would take time and wouldn't be needed.
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Then why did he bother to reply here again? Somewhere he also posted that he doesn't care about being DOX-ed.... all are lies my friend  BTW, somebody should try PMing him on Steam. Maybe that would be helpful, since he already claimed, Steam accounts can't be hacked! i was the one who originally messaged him about the issue, and he has removed me since this blew up. i also recall EAL (the mod) was on his friends list too under the steam ign EAL F. Skillz (profile home page, saw it by chance), but i dont see him on there anymore either. pretty likely he (master-p) has already purged his steam to completely cut off ties from the forum. If master-P has been hacked and the original owner of master-P is in control of his steam account, then cutting communication is irrelevant as he doesn't have any of the escrowed funds and supposedly some forum members have the original owners' personal information. |
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Never heard of the guy but he seems to have quite a few followers and he indeed mentioned a really fun fact about Bitcoin. Maybe some of those 5 million followers are now curious to know a bit more about Bitcoin |
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OTP: One time password Your 2FA password (Authy code) is, somehow, wrong. Try again, you might be checking the code for another app or website |
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