https://www.dropbox.com/s/fmo3q2gz7k4t7dq/destinia-no-btc-option.png

No Bitcoin? Problema?

I can see that ages ago I sent a very small amount of BTC to the NXT address but can't remember what else I did. I've tried a bunch of my longest passwords but none have any balance... what might be my next steps to figure out how to recover any coins?

Ok.  Seems like thing to do then is :

-new user2,  seed new wallet,  send coins to that wallet, back it up. Add password less ability to run that wallet software from user3 with the sudoers file example I showed in 1st post
-new user3 for browsing and desktop. Login as this user graphically. No sudo capability for this account
-keep original user1 for sudo to root only. Access it via ctrl+alt+f2 or just login as root

This would be in addition to majority of coins in a paper wallet which you'll need a Webcam or phone wallet to access, not to mention physical access to the age they're stored in.

Hope this helps. This should all be setup out of the box or just apt-get'able

 
 A lot of people give their browser and it's fully unvetted extensions access to their wallet by running their browser as the same user as their bitcoin wallet. Seeing as the NSA have poked a hole in Firefox and arrested people with it we can rest assured that this is not a far fetched attack.
 If you're running linux it makes sense to at least make use of the security features it offers. The question is, what is the best setup for this?

- Is it best to run your browser as a different user to your X session and bitcoin wallet?


 - Sandbox prevents copy and paste... so that's pretty useless. If you run your browser as a different user then you then need everything else running as that user because if you download to your home directory you then need the filemanager to be able to read that directory. It then becomes really tiresome changing everything else over.

 - So... perhaps it's better to run your bitcoin wallet as a separate user and keep everything else as before? Then have a shortcut on your desktop to run bitcoin as that other user. You can then interact and backup by copy and paste... but you don't have access to ~/.bitcoin (or ~/.electrum)


 But hang on...
the chances are that your current user has sudo capability to root... and it's also common thanks to Ubuntu to have the same password for logon as to sudo...
 so how do we change that? I mean, what's the better setup for su/sudo regards that? Am I on the right track here? How do you have it setup?

Can't see GM reenabling gold payments any time soon. I got a feeling they got the heat from some kind of external power

Great find. I didn't know about that!

Here's a link to that
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=91843.0

Sadly not in production AFAIK

Nah, the FDA just stopped them from commenting on health related stuff in the data so now you have to do it yourself. The ancestry stuff is still the same and you still get the data download that you can process either yourself or with 3rd parties.

I can see why the FDA wanted to put a stop to that part but the way it's done is so stupid. I don't live in the USA and I understand Google isn't a doctor...
 ...I trust google more than both doctors and the FDA....

Looking to buy for a reasonable price. You'll need some rep and I will check.

 -j

I couldn't find the "item received" button to release escrow, needs to be clearer

Stumbled on the UK FOI request here:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/bitcoin_minutes_3#incoming-443667

And the earlier USA one to compare:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=103276.20

"Bitcoin themselves are not a currency and therefore are
outside of the FCA’s regulatory remit"
^ this was their view... however... their view can change as we infer from the next section....

"Confidential information for these purposes is defined as non-public and
non-anonymised information which relates to the business or other affairs
of any person (without their consent) and which was received by the FCA
for the purposes of, or in the discharge of, any of its functions under
FSMA and which is not in the public domain."

"disclosure of the material requested would be likely to prejudice
the United Kingdom’s relations with another State"

^ The UK is probably working with the USA on this. The UK will probably follow whatever decision the USA takes. The UK did not see Bitcoin as a currency but if the USA does they will probably copy that stance.
 All guesses, but better than nothing.

If this is smoke and mirrors,
the FOI isn't always enforced so well. The key would be to leak info showing that it's flaunted to remind. An example of another fail:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/what_was_your_bas_observer_obser#outgoing-204061

Looking at requests in general you see more refusals around financial subjects. The key could be to not ask directly but to investigate something around the subject and hope they mess up with info that allows us to confer the facts. We could divide requests up separately and cross-corrolate.

Remember, these are FSA requests, now it's renamed as the FCA.

This is great!

Thanks for your help. You've actually been more helpful than support on some of the exchanges. When I asked Bitstamp they said "Europe" to which bank (!)

Couldn't get it to build on fedora.... could do with a rpm...

Could really do with an RPM...

Are funds segregated?

Mt.Gox = Japan... but which bank?
Bitstamp = Slovenia... but which bank?
BTC-e = Bulgaria... etc
BTCChina = ? HK? China?

Will edit original post to update info (thanks people):

BTC-Exchange.info: Citibank (United States), Barclays Bank (United Kingdom) and Fidor Bank (Germany)
Bitstamp: Unicredit banka Slovenija d.d (subsidiary of the Italian branch)
BTCChina: Bank of China, ICBC, Agricultural Bank of China, China Merchants Bank

When a new technology comes along fighting against it is always going to be an uphill battle.

In this case we're looking at the development of coin tracking. Like it or not there has been various heists and as a result of that people have started coin tracking. This has already happened. It is not a threat for the future, it is a threat that has already been applied. It may have been used by the FBI already.
(If only it was applied to the MyBitcoin wallet thefts and Mt.Gox thefts so I can get some of majority of coins lost back...)

When a technology such as coin tracking starts to come into play you have to go with the flow because fighting it is like trying to make water flow uphill or dam a river. It's better to divert it into something positive.
What would the interpretation of that be in this situation? That's where it gets interesting.

As a start I think the best thing to do is put coin tracking into the hands of community and democracy in order to prevent it from tyranny. In order to do that there has to be a way to easily share feelings of trust regards each address - a distributed credit rating... only this time it really is a credit rather an debit rating!

For anybody reading this thread not up to speed on the history there was a paper written on coin tracking... anyone have the link (I can't find it)?

I've trialled Waveaddict, S3052 and the other guy who's name I forget. They've all got their problems so there's room in this area.

However, there's no clear methodology on your signals and no free trial to live forward test so it seems a bit silly. It's also 4-5x more expensive than transparent newsletters showing their methodology. Obscenely expensive. Even futures signals aren't this expensive.

I do like that it's clearly communicated - that is the best thing about it.

Also, it's got the whiff of scam about it's presentation.

All I have to gauge when China got involved is:
http://thegenesisblock.com/mapping-bitcoin-adoption-a-global-perspective/

Isn't there anything more accurate in terms of gauging where China became so dominant in Bitcoin?

candidate for plugin

Can we super-impose a graph of Chinese market share onto these graphs. I think that would be very revealing

I'm sure the forum used to have it...
can't see it now nor mentioned after searching...?