You have a Bitcoin address in your clipboard from a payment you made earlier, you try to copy another address but didn't press the key hard enough so when you paste it you paste the wrong address.

Always triple check addresses before sending

I think what franky1 was saying is that these sites can't monitor the entire bitcoin network, they can only monitor a very small amount of listening nodes so you're not getting the full picture. Additionally these sites can't easily monitor nodes that don't listen (unless those nodes happen to connect to them) which is about 95% of them.

I'd say 40% is about accurate. This is mostly due to the low cost of VPS/Dedi servers in the US compared to the rest of the world. I have 6 nodes in the US for this reason.

About the 2 million IP's, keep in mind that figure includes recycled IP's, if you're on a dynamic IP it'll keep changing and you'll keep adding onto that. It's not easy to tell exactly how many unique nodes there are. One node could have many IP's or it's IP could regularly change.

If you want to mine bitcoin OP, you need to buy specialized hardware (an ASIC). A general purpose computer is now obsolete for mining Bitcoin, ASICS are hundreds of thousands of times faster than PC's.

There may be some altcoins you can mine however if you want to do that. You can sell them for Bitcoin and "mine bitcoin" that way.


Actually you are wrong... twice!

He meant the GPU came out in 2003. But also the general idea of Bitcoin was thought of before 2003, Satoshi was just the first to publish a fully working client for an idea people had been talking about since the late 90's.

http://www.weidai.com/bmoney.txt - written in 1998
http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/12/bit-gold.html - also worked on since around 1998

It was a dank and thorny rape; the porn downloaded in Lackawanna - except at occasional intercourse, when it was lost by a maniac Dank on LSD who wallowed down the streets (for it is on Whoppers that our penny-farthings ride), cackling along the bomb, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the fire that struggled against the dankness.

Get you in trouble? not at all. And I'm sure at least some of your internet traffic is inspected by the NSA if not collected and stored already, so they are already watching. I don't know if they will actually watch you more carefully. In theory they should based on how XKeyScore works but I haven't received any confirmation from the NSA on that

Recently Tor Developer Jacob Appelbaum released some of the definitions XKeyScore uses to pick out potential targets. The ones he released show that the NSA mark anyone who searches for privacy tools or even views an article about them as a target (they obviously do this for other things too but Jacob decided to only release these definitions for now).

Usually the NSA store your data for up to 30 days but they retain information on targets longer (up to forever!).

All the website does is open a number of the websites mentioned in the definitions, which include torproject.org, tails.boum.org and even articles on LinuxJournal.com and boingboing.net. All of the sites are completely safe and not illegal but the NSA describes these websites as "extremist".

http://boingboing.net/2014/07/03/if-you-read-boing-boing-the-n.html

Obviously simply viewing an article about Tor doesn't make you a threat to national security, but allegedy the NSA thinks it does.

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