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Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Scam Report Romanko
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on: June 21, 2015, 11:41:23 AM
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I wanted to buy the code for BTC -e ,Users Romanko met with me personally,I took my cash 2,000 usd ,He promised to give me the code BTC-e for an hour ....and I gave two coins Bitcoin and all ....
I don't understand. - You gave $2,000 for BTC-e code and then you have another 2 BTC? Confusing... Are you using translator? He tricked you.....
I gave him cash a week !!! after we cheated Alexander N aka EvBitcoinFan , He promised to sell me the code BTC ,I paid cash at personal meeting ....
Wait a minute... In the other thread, you and Romanko said EvBitcoinFan cheated you. Now you are telling you and Romanko cheated EvBitcoinFan?  As has been stated, please post proper accusation with proof. You saying it is not proof.
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Other / Beginners & Help / Re: bitcoin wallet lifetime ?
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on: June 21, 2015, 11:26:20 AM
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1) How are you going to spend it? You are going to print out a few hundred lines of codes and you can't really spend them. Use a paper wallet generator if you aren't going to use Bitcoin Core on a machine. Most of them have nicer layouts.
What are the differences in spending from a paper wallet with private key from Bitcoin core and other generators? |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How is bitcoin better than litecoin?
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on: June 21, 2015, 11:11:27 AM
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It still baffles me how high on the crypto list litecoin is, why? Just cause it was early and everyone is stuck with their hundreds of radeons?
Because of it's market and it's support and the early release was one of the reason for it's market and support like Bitcoin. |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: New Solution to Block Size Debate
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on: June 21, 2015, 11:08:50 AM
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I am only falsifying your statement "limit was set without any reason".
That was not my statement. Bitcoin has always been and will always be vulnerable to some kinds of theoretical attacks. If miners wanted to, they can do all sorts of nasty things to the network. Satoshi's decision was fighting with the symptoms and was never a good solution for the long term. I agree that when the network was young it was sort of a safety measure similarly to having block chain check points hardcoded into the protocol. These days are over now, it's time to grow up and ditch those safety wheels. DOS attack is a practical one. Like I said, I am not against increasing block size limit but I am against removing block size limit. You didn't answer this: Out of curiosity, have you at least took the time to read old discussions to know why a limit was set?
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I don't that would be a secure way. People owning big amounts could easily alter it. CMIIW.
Holy shit, people owning big amounts of shares in any company are also in advantage when voting for change. That's how it's supposed to be. You have more coins, that means you're a bigger stakeholder and your vote must count more. Not for Bitcoin. With this, an organization or a person can easily control Bitcoin and do in their way without consensus. This must not be for Bitcoin. |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: New Solution to Block Size Debate
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on: June 21, 2015, 10:44:14 AM
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It is hard to predict who mines next block and we can't enforce miners to include or exclude certain transactions. OP_RETURN was also used to spam blockchain and your argument of miners choosing is invalid IMHO.
Oh and now we have much better situation, right? I'd say that miners choosing the block size is the lesser evil. Miners could also combine their power and make a 51% attack, think of that. Miners have the ultimate power either way. They can mine zero tx blocks if they want to, they can decide what TXs to include and what not even though we have the max block size limit. Right now bitcoin is heading towards slow and painful death due to Satoshi's paranoia and distrust for miners. HOW ON EARTH CAN YOU DISTRUST MINERS IF THEY SECURE THE NETWORK?! Out of curiosity, have you at least took the time to read old discussions to know why a limit was set? I am not distrusting miners, instead, I am telling it is a security measure. Bitcoin is still vulnerable to DOS. FYI I am not telling we should not raise block size limit. I am only falsifying your statement "limit was set without any reason". There's also a possibility to vote with your bitcoins what the block size limit should be and that voting can be included in the block chain itself. Take a look at NuShares and how shareholders pass motions in their network. The votes are stored in the block chain and the protocol counts the votes and decides what the maximum block size limit should be. Miners can vote with their coins that they mine. Bitcoin holders can vote with theirs. We have the technical capabilities to solve this problem democratically and yet I see people only throwing trash at any improvement suggestions. From this I deduce that you are the traitors of the bitcoin network and should be banished from bitcoinland forever.
I don't that would be a secure way. People owning big amounts could easily alter it. CMIIW. |
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Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Paper wallet
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on: June 21, 2015, 10:24:48 AM
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A paper wallet is private key(s) printed or written in a paper. Most times, private keys will be generated in an offline computer for making it super-secure and then printed. Printing via wifi is not secure. P.S. You can use https://www.bitaddress.org/ to create paper wallet. Don't do it online. Download webpage(.zip file) and then generate private keys from an offline computer and print it. |
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Other / Beginners & Help / Re: bitcoin wallet lifetime ?
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on: June 21, 2015, 10:19:41 AM
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hello,
I like to know where I can create a secure bitcoin wallet where I can keep my bitcoins for years, when I see websites that offer bitcoin wallet, I fear that one day the site no longer exists, and I lose all my bitcoins.
thanks.
If you keep a paper wallet on bitcoin core, make sure you backup your wallet after every 100 transactions i believe, or it was something similar. If you use online wallet then also make an offline backup. Blockchain.info says that they dont have acces to your funds , so even if they go down, if you have your backup offline you can restore it on another wallet. 1) You're right. But Bitcoin Core isn't considered as a paper wallet since it can't be paper. It can only be used as a offline wallet. 2) It depends on which online wallet you are talking about. Some online wallets doesn't give you control over your private key while some will allow you to have control over your private key and some will send you a nlocktime file which contains your UXTO to spend when the time specified expires. 3) They can easily change a code which captures private keys by capturing passwords or falsify transaction informations. 2) I was talking about blockchain.info, its by far the best online wallet out there so far. They allow you to have your private keys exported and they dont have access to it. Of course i would not trust them with 10000 bitcoins, but i`m sure 0.1 or smaller chunks like that are ok to hold there. 1) You can just print out the private key from the Core wallet, so its is a "paper wallet" then. 3) If they didnt scammed anyone yet, they have no reason to do it now, i consider them the safest online wallet, as safe as online wallets can be. 2 & 3) No. Blockchain.info is not as safe as online wallet can be. The developers have done big mistakes, even stupid ones. I recommend GreenAddress. When comparing, GreenAddress is better. |
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Other / Politics & Society / Los Angeles police shoot unarmed man in head; and then handcuff him!
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on: June 21, 2015, 09:58:28 AM
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Los Angeles police shoot unarmed man in head – and then handcuff him • Man with towel around hand appeared to flag officers down for help • Police handcuffed unconscious man as he bled profusely  The man, who is believed to be Hispanic and in his forties, was shot after failing to respond to a police order to ‘drop the gun’, an LAPD spokesman said.An unarmed man was shot in the head and critically wounded by Los Angeles police officers on Friday night, after he appeared to be flagging them down for assistance. A passerby recorded graphic video of the incident from a car, and then posted it on Twitter. The video showed officers turning over the man, who appeared to be unconscious and lying on his face, and handcuffing his hands behind his back as his head bled profusely. The Los Angeles police department said the man, who was not immediately named, had a towel wrapped around his hand and the two officers believed he was concealing a weapon. The man reportedly waved over the officers in their patrol car in the quiet Los Feliz area of LA, north-east of Hollywood, at about 6.30pm. The officers got out of their vehicle and one ordered the man to “drop the gun”, LAPD lieutenant John Jenal told local television news on Friday night. Jenal said the man “extended his arm towards the officers”. The man did not respond to the police order and he was shot, Jenal said. According to the LA Times, officers later discovered the man was not carrying a weapon. The man, who is believed to be Hispanic and in his forties, was taken to hospital. On Saturday afternoon, his condition was described as grave. Witnesses said they heard three or four shots ring out during the confrontation. The LAPD said on Saturday it was standard procedure to handcuff any suspect. Surrounding streets, including a major local thoroughfare, were closed off until 2am on Saturday, causing gridlock in the area. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/20/los-angeles-police-shoot-unarmed-man-in-head
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Vita - 60% PoS | PoS/PoW | MARKETPLACE coming soon | FULL MEMBER DEV
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on: June 21, 2015, 09:38:25 AM
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-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
The official escrow address for this distribution is 1DAySjUjTCShUV3emB22w2unBwcbXS3zaZ
The held Bitcoin will be released to the seller, Berau, if these conditions are met:
- Release of wallet source code and executables *before* ICO ends.
- Stability of blockchain.
- The address(es) which contains 5 million Vitas are mentioned publicly.
- A doc with relevant details like Bitcoin txid and users' Vita addresses are maintained properly.
- Agreed amount of Vitas are send to users within 48 hours after ICO ends.
If any issues arise with the distribution, I will mediate and release Bitcoin accordingly.
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
1MZakirz92c76pK6BNy1NAEmbWYpDcP7mh
GzKJW3MbEV7fC90VfNsDAt7wphRq3aMuwctme0tR3CZ6Ymnop7whgLSPKp/wio1UFUOGGyVWSaNIpsQQ/MK1Lgo=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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Other / Off-topic / Your Phone Ain't Safe As You Think!!!
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on: June 21, 2015, 07:40:41 AM
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Your Phone Ain't Safe As You Think!Another week chock-full of hacks and vulns, and if you thought your password manager and cell phone were safe, you’ll want to pay close attention to the LastPass breach. After the Sunday Times posted an unsubstantiated article quoting anonymous government sources alleging that Russia and China cracked the cache of files liberated by whistleblower Edward Snowden, security technologist Bruce Schneier came to Snowden’s defense and took it a step further, positing that they had likely already accessed the files long before Snowden did. -snip- Be Careful Which Networks You Connect to on Your Samsung Galaxy S6Over 600 million Samsung Galaxy S phones are susceptible to a major security risk in the phone’s default IME keyboard. The vulnerability would allow an attacker to eavesdrop on calls, read incoming and outgoing text messages, install malicious apps, and access the camera and phone. It was discovered by NowSecure mobile security researcher Ryan Welton last December and presented at the Blackhat Mobile Security Summit in London earlier this week. It’s hard to pin the blame on just one company. Samsung’s default keyboard uses SwiftKey technology to power typing features such as word predictions, and SwiftKey made the mistake of failing to use TLS encryption in the zip archive file sent during the language pack updates. This leaves users vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. Samsung added fuel to the fire by giving these updates system-user-level permissions, allowing them to bypass Android’s normal protections. And although Samsung made a patch available to mobile carriers on March 27 of this year, the carriers are taking their sweet old time to push out the updates. While waiting for a patch, you can reduce their risk by avoiding public Wi-Fi or using a VPN. OS X and iOS Flaws Let Hackers Steal Keychain, 1Password ContentsThink you’re off the hook because you’re on an iPhone rather than a Samsung Galaxy? Not so fast. A group of researchers found flaws in the sandboxes protecting both iOS and OS X that could allow hackers to steal passwords from your keychain and the password manager 1Password. The researchers submitted malicious proof-of-concept apps to the Apple store. The apps were accepted in the store, and researchers were able to bypass sandboxing protections. 1Password has tips for users on its blog to help mitigate some of the risk while waiting for a fix. “In light of the vulnerabilities, users of all OSes should limit the apps they install to those that are truly needed and explicitly trusted,” wrote Ars Technica Security Editor Dan Goodin. {...} Read more at http://www.wired.com/2015/06/security-news-week-phone-aint-safe-think/
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Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Which wallet program?
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on: June 21, 2015, 07:17:35 AM
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It did not install properly - each time I ran make keep getting errors....
what type of error? some along the line of a corrupted wallet, or error for the client itself? did you compiled it successfully? No. He was getting BDB error. He only have 1GB RAM which may cause problem. I think it's good for him to use lightweight clients. |
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Other / Meta / Re: Minor trust score algorithm change
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on: June 21, 2015, 07:07:55 AM
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Where did you get your info on ??? ?
In my case, re-doing bobsag3's negative trust was not necessary and -ck's positive entry, posted 4 months later, had no effect.
That is not true. The first negative rating will cause the previous positive ratings to be disregarded if the net trust score would be positive if all positive trust ratings were to be taken into consideration. After the first negative rating, subsequent negative ratings will cause the negative trust score to increase by a factor of an exponent of 2. Any positive trust ratings after the first negative rating will count as normal.
You are right. Stupid mistake of mine. Thanks for correcting! For those who may be interested, here is what changing the depth level can do ..
Default trust depth level 0 level 1 level 2
[ IMG]http://img.techpowerup.org/150621/lv0.jpg[/img] [ IMG]http://img.techpowerup.org/150621/lv1.jpg[/img] [ IMG]http://img.techpowerup.org/150621/lv2.jpg[/img]
level 3 level 4
[ IMG]http://img.techpowerup.org/150621/lv2.jpg[/img] [ IMG]http://img.techpowerup.org/150621/lv4.jpg[/img]
Others won't see in the way you see unless they add you to their trust list. When you view it, your negative feedback is seen as trusted and it affects trust rating but not for us(who haven't added you). |
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Other / Politics & Society / Re: ISIS breaking new ground as new leader in terror groups
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on: June 21, 2015, 06:03:35 AM
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Is there any actual benefit for US for killing a lots of people (indirectly)?
It all depends on oil and gas. In most of the cases, they invaded the countries to take away their oil deposits (Iraq, Libya.etc). Most of the oil fields in Iraq and Libya are now being controlled by the American corporations. With Afghanistan, the intention was something else. Afghanistan is the no.1 producer of opium poppy, which is used to manufacture heroin. The Americans are encouraging opium production in Afghanistan, and exporting the same to Russia and Iran. As a result a large part of the younger generation has become drug addicts in these nations. It's sad people go to this extent for money. I guess we should make people remember 5 th of November.  |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: New Solution to Block Size Debate
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on: June 21, 2015, 05:45:35 AM
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Better to not have any hard limit at all, and allow a configurable soft limit for miners.
That's a good idea. Miners protect the network so let miners decide how big blocks to allow. edit: the max size was implemented because of paranoia and not because of any real reasonNot true. It was added because of excessive spam transactions. Also see http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/37303. False. Miners could have chosen not to include spam tx-s in the blocks. Your argument is invalid. It was paranoia and hardcoding a max size was a kludgy hack that could have been solved on a different level by the means of prevention. Hardcoding a max block size is fighting with the symptoms and that is just a pathetic means to solve a problem. It is hard to predict who mines next block and we can't enforce miners to include or exclude certain transactions. OP_RETURN was also used to spam blockchain and your argument of miners choosing is invalid IMHO. |
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Other / Politics & Society / Re: ISIS breaking new ground as new leader in terror groups
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on: June 21, 2015, 05:34:48 AM
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This just proves that you really can't control the monsters you creaste.
Yet, different governments go ahead and fund these groups.
"different" governments? In 99% of the cases, these groups were created by the United States and its NATO allies. This practice started in the early 1980s, in the Afghanistan. The Americans funded a group of radical Islamists to fight the Soviet forces in Afghanistan. After the Soviets left Afghanistan, some of the factions transformed itself in to the Taliban, which is the predecessor to the Al Qaeda. This process was repeated in Syria, Iraq, and Libya. And this is currently ongoing in countries such as Macedonia and Lebanon. Is there any actual benefit for US for killing a lots of people (indirectly)? |
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