Haven't seen anyone mention this so I guess I'm the first with this problem.

The program doesn't detect my gpu. I'm getting this when I start it.

2011.07.31 [06:49] No OpenCL-compatible GPUs detected
2011.07.31 [06:49]  Unfamiliar CPU Core2 Quad Q8200 - using default power meter

My GPU is a HD 6990. I have catalyst 11.7 and amd app (ati stream) SDK 2.4 installed and I'm on ubuntu 11.04 if that helps. Phoenix miner works fine so there shouldn't be anything wrong with my opencl.

I'm getting the "There is no screen to be attached matching miner-1" message when starting the Autominer. I'm on ubuntu 11.07. Got x running and everything installed that I'm supposed to.

Is there any chance you could make the older version available? I had no problem running the one before the new interface.

The OP would be close to having a point if the mt gox terms didn't specifically state that they were merely connecting buyers and sellers and had no hand or responsibility in any of the deals. For the record terms and conditions when signing up for a website is just as legally binding as a contract or an oral agreement for that matter. The difference in these lies in how easily you can prove that there were a agreement in court not how binding they are.

Suddenly your other posts makes sense.

Heh.

This.

Which of course begs the question of why magicaltux would try to pin this whole thing on someone he knows most likely had nothing to do with the hack. The obvious answer here is that he needed a scapegoat and he needed one fast. The sooner people start blaming Kevin the less heat magicaltux and thus mt gox will have to take. He must know that legally he can't put over any responsibility for this on kevin so I assume he's doing this because he hopes that he can get mt gox back to its former glory after this is over with. I for one am not going to make a single trade there.

The current evidence stacked up again Kevin is that he was logged in when the crash happened and that he's apparently good with computer security. While this is apparently enough to convince some of the lesser minds on these boards I somehow doubt it's something that would hold up in court.

Here's an idea. Let's not turn into a creepy mob and try to look up the address of Kevin and post it on these boards because magicaltux want someone to blame for all of this.

That's just an idea though. Being the personal army of the guy too lazy/incompetent to get decent security in place for a site that handled millions of dollars sounds fun too.

Being the one that played the hacking card this might be a bit silly but that's not how a market works.

Also for the record this game is broken since the USD/bitcoin ratio is fixed and if this would go on long enough the price would stay around $14.29 ($1000/70)

Can I play the hack card and sell 500k bitcoins for $0.01 each?

I really hope the other markets learn from this and start treating bitcoins and the money they're handling as actual money now.

I find it baffling that there's still no service offering two-factor authentication/one-time passwords type of security. If none of the established markets get on this I'm seriously thinking about starting my own. I don't think it's over the top for the markets to offer the same security as online banks. Right now we're nowhere close to that.

Okay this is just getting silly. The behavior of Mt Gox here is completely unprofessional. If you suspect that Kevin is the hacker/worked with the hacker then you go the legal route. Trying to slander him on a forum isn't the right way to go.

The sad part here is that you already know this and the reason you slander Kevin on the boards is that you hope that if people get someone to blame for this they'll forget that this is all Mt Gox fault. You're making Kevin a scapegoat and hope that people will keep trading on Mt Gox when this thing is over and you can open up trading again. I really hope people aren't falling for it.

Mt Gox weren't ready to go from trading cards to actually currencies and the whole clusterfuck that has been their handling of this case has proven that beyond reasonable doubt. For the record I think the lack of security measures was enough to leave mt gox, the rest is just icing on the cake.

His windows time seems a bit off for some reason but it does match the timestamps from the ticker in his cmd window.

This proves nothing though. Obviously anyone that made a profit from the crash were logged in around the same time the hacker was since that's when the crash happened. If magicaltux can provide logs showing that kevin put the buy order at 0.01 USD per bitcoin before the market started going down then that would be reason for suspicion but magicaltux haven't made that part public and possibly can't (I'm not sure what the rules on banking secrecy is here) even if such logs exist.

I honestly hope people abandon Mt Gox after this fiasco. Not in any way because I want people to abandon bitcoins. I hope bitcoins won't be affected too much because of this and from the look of things on other market sites it looks like the worst is over. People have a too strong connection between mt gox and bitcoins anyway.

Mt Gox have had big security flaws and an assortment of other bugs on the site that have gone unfixed for a very long time. People on this board keep defending magicaltux mostly arguing that he's a nice guy which while I'm sure is true doesn't qualify him to run a currency exchange. If we want to be able to use bitcoins as a real currency and want it to have value we need to start treating it as something with value.

Any site that's trading with currencies or anything else where they have to hold significant amounts of money for their customers with these kinds of security flaws wouldn't be taken seriously and still I feel like we're trying to sweep this under the carpet in this case. I think it's because we're afraid that bitcoins will go under without mt gox and I don't think that's true. There are other markets and they will be much more populated now that mt gox have proven to be run un-professionally.

For the record I'm not making this post because I'm angry at mt gox for losing bitcoins. I haven't. As soon as the complaints about peoples accounts getting stolen started streaming in from left and right I felt something was wrong and removed all my money and bitcoins from mt gox. I make this post because if we don't move the main exchange of bitcoins to a market where people feel secure then that will have an effect on the trading.

I think it was simply for the money.

We'll see when Mt. Gox goes up again if it was actually true that only one account was compromised. I have a hard time believing that actually since the hackers obviously had the option to get into more than one. What I find much more likely is that a lot of people will have bitcoins missing from their accounts. The main reason I can think of to crash the market would be that it allows you to withdraw a large amounts of bitcoins from accounts without hitting the $1k limit. I wouldn't be surprised if they managed to empty a lot of Mt Gox accounts of their bitcoins.

I got your English.

You dumb now.

Are you getting it?

Death to grammar

Death to spelling


Oh and since we're taking credit for thing we didn't do here I call dibs on inventing electricity. You're welcome earth!

PayPal might freeze trades with bitcoins. I think it's because they don't allow currency trades over paypal or something along those lines.

It's probably safer and easier to just make a dwolla account. That eliminates the trust issue that comes with private trades too.

Thanks a lot for all the replies especially PMX-67.

While we may pick this idea up again soon it's on ice for the time being due to the instability on the bitcoin market. Hopefully we can pick it up again and go through with it once the markets open up again and we can verify that the currency is at least fairly stable.

The first problem confuses me a little, mostly because these attacks had absolutely nothing to do with anyones wallet file.

The second is just a terrible suggestion and goes against the very basic principles of bitcoin and what it's supposed to be.

Safer banking solutions would be great and they will no doubt come when bitcoin grows bigger but for now just calm down a little and look at what actually happened. These attacks happened due to a site (mt. gox) having security flaws and the attacks only affected accounts at that site. They had nothing to do with how bitcoin works as a currency.

I have a friend that owns a fairly small scale webshop dealing in hardware.  It's based in sweden but ship both from here and poland. We were talking half seriously about setting up a separate webshop selling hardware for bitcoins. It doesn't seem like a entierly bad idea. A webshop is a pretty obvious place to start accepting bitcoins and if there's one thing bitcoin enthusiasts might be interested in it'd be hardware.

What we couldn't figure out though was what the law on taxes would be. This would be located in sweden but I assume this is a question that might come up no matter where you're located. Are we supposed to pay sales tax on the bitcoin we charge for the products? If so what's the swedish tax office bitcoin address?  Jokes aside does anyone have any info to enlighten me here?

If we do decide to go ahead with this idea it could be up and running fairly soon since the products are already in stock for his other webshop.

Fancy economics aside it's pretty simple. For the price to go up there have to be people willing to buy bitcoin. We got a influx of investors with the media attention which drove the price up. A lot of those people were looking to make quick cash though and that's why we see the drop now. Hopefully there will be more people interested in investing in bitcoins. It'd help if there were more services/products tied to the bitcoin. Of course with the bitcoin being as unstable as it is right now it's hard for shops to accept it since that means extra work and an added risk for them.