1. Since private keys start with 5, you're going to be leaking the first digit of your OTP.
2. Using your OTP more than once can lead to it being compromised. You're lucky that the underlying private key data is random, but you're in trouble if one of your private keys is discovered.

Could you not just use the sha256 sum of the file as a private key?
You can then get the public key (bitcoin address) from that.
Then you transfer money in and out through that address.
This way you're not destroying money, and can avoid the fees for small transactions.

Create a transaction A
Output - To whoever
Change - To you.
Fee - To Random Miner.

Send change in transaction B
Output to Mining pool you want to support.
Change - None.
Fee - To Random Miner.


This way the mining pool is incentivized to make sure both your transactions end up in blocks, but it doesn't really matter who puts them in.
You'll just need to set your fees low enough to get your transaction relayed, and if you can submit your transaction directly to a miner you might even be able to avoid needing to do that.

The messages are still coming in. (to /dev/null at least)
I emailed a complaint.

I recently received an email claiming to be from mtgox (It most certainly isn't)


I've not been crazy enough to do anything with the exe file other than delete it.

Stick with SI prefixes.

10^-9 is nano

So the smallest (current) unit would be 10 nano(bit)coins.


Edit: It seems helloworld posted the same thing, but more quickly. I agree with him.

How do you prevent it being mixed with other coins?

Who is buying Ixcoins and why?

off topic of this thread:
My reading of that page says that The Mad Hatter is an alias that is interesting.
Which is NOT that Tom Williams = TheMadHatter.


Edit / Disclaimer:
I'm not affiliated with bitcoin2cash in any way other than that I've been paid to change my sig to advertise bitcoin2cash.
If I discover something shady is going on I will change it.
Until then I'm prepared to give the guy a day or two to respond to this thread.

Thanks. It seems I had to also delete some old instawallet cookies, but now it gives me new addresses as I'd expect.

Is there a way to get a new instawallet address?
It keeps giving me the same address and I'd like a new one.

You guys (britcoin/intersango/etc) have offline backups of your wallet.dat files right?

Surely this is a solved problem in the finance industry?

I think I like 3 the best but I'm still not entirely sure what the problem with it is.

Watch out for that first step. It's a duzy!

Have you checked out http://witcoin.com/ where you can do just that.

(Edit: reward/earn bitcoins for good content. Not borrow thyme.)

Why isn't a dependent transaction which pays a fee all that is needed? This requires no dropping of existing transactions.

1. A+B -> C + D
2. D+E -> F + (G - Fee)

In this case the Fee pays for both transaction 1 and transaction 2.
The only problem seems to be if you make a transaction with zero change and then want to add an additional fee. But that is up to the choice of the sender anyway.

It's thinking like that that got mtgox into trouble.

I'd just like to clarify this: There was NOT a bug. This happened before the 100 address pool code was added to the standard bitcoin software.

I'm fairly sure they offline computer doesn't even need a copy of the block chain to send a transaction.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transactions

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