As far as I am aware, there are no other outstanding claims.
I have not heard from A1B user 'Sweetsnelda'.
All other miner's were paid.
Even though there were others willing to help, no one else was needed.
Anything remaining I did keep, as allowed by Raize.
Thanks again to all involved for the help in aiding the miners, resolving the issue, and the like.
I think the correct spelling is actually "sveetsnelda", who has an account on this forum. |
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Have the address(es) where the stolen coins were withdrawn to been published? I don't recall seeing anything. Presumably there was a single 1k+ transaction to the cracker's address.
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To clarify, each botnet is a payload on individual machine. Thats how i understand a botnet. In distributed computing, you can say its a node but its not technically correct to say a distributed network a botnet.
Making a botnet is trivial, inserting such payload on a machine is not. Therefore, its not reasonable to think there are hundred thousands of botnets.
My theory is simple, there are more investors in mining business. Big miners will just get bigger. They can estimate well the cashflow. Ppl who say its botnets are in denial.
The payload is the virus on the machine, the botnet is the collective whole of all infected machines. "Bot" is short for "robot" and "net" means "network" - i.e., a network of robots. |
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Eliminate captcha, eliminate the lolz.  Zomg, recaptcha is pedo |
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Posted on admin on April 22, 2008 // |
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You don't need a protocol change to do that if it's already possible to put your information in it.
Just change the extra information to
your name + previous block hash you've mined + sign(your name + previous block hash)
It should be possible to not insert this information so real anonymous mining stays possible.
Anyone can get the previous hash from your pool. It's in the blockchain, after all. However, publishing some kind of signature based on the block number or hash, signed by a pool's private key would be ideal. |
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1. Bitcoin exchanges (you have to be clueless to think it's easy)
2. eBay for Drugs
3. Assassination market
4. Online strip club
5. Pyramid scheme
Done, done, done, done, and done. Next? |
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Honestly we need strongly signed blocks. It can be optional but I imagine most pools would sign their blocks. Major farms (GBLSE) would sign blocks to prove their contract's hashing power. I think a majority of p2pool miners and even some solo miners would strongly sign their blocks.
While not everyone would sign blocks it would eliminate the false positives and reduce the amount of unknown to the truly unknown.
Strongly signed blocks can be the precursor for more complex pool based services (like 0-confirm surety contracts).
What is the benefit of signed blocks? So we can see who mined it? Yes. Right now, anyone can put almost anything in the blockchain to "prove" who made a block, but that doesn't stop anyone from putting someone else's info in to masquerade as them. There isn't usually any incentive to do that though, except in the case of something such as a botnet. And can you imagine the chaos if someone with a moderate sized botnet started posing as a popular pool? It could make it appear that a pool was scamming its miners by not reporting blocks. I think the major pools should publish the IP addresses that they publish blocks on, so that we can get a handle on who is submitting which blocks even before we start looking at signing. If they are going to always publish blocks from a specific IP as a way of identification, then they will need to disable relaying functionality, otherwise said botnet would just relay through them. |
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It's not because of the competition, it's because the code is shamefully horrible and might be used by clone startups to scam more users.
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Can't we change the conditions, to the person having the last post for the longest, counting all the times between posts?
Hint: I'd win.
Posting for shits and giggles. |
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(You are likely right, but...) You need to ask that other person to compare the SHA256 hash for his/her executable with the one you scanned. Actually it would be nice if BFL would publish the hashes for the files they are posting. |
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did i mention that this is rediculously simple ... ?
meaning i just want an admin panel that will show me the stats
so im just asking for a bitcoin mining pool in my VPS ...
also price updated to 300 dollars
Did you forget about this thread? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=78264.0I will now proceed to rant about pools. Setting up a mining pool is not simple, and requires extensive knowledge of what is going on behind the scenes. A mining pool is guaranteed to fail in interesting and unpredictable ways. You must be prepared to fix the problem yourself, unless you are also going to pay someone a fair rate for some kind of maintenance contract. An improperly secured pool or pool server can and will be hacked, and all coins stolen unless you have adequate protections in place. Just as running the pool software itself is complicated, so also is running the security protections and software on the pool server. In conclusion, it isn't worth it to run your own pool unless you know how to create it yourself or set up the existing open source options yourself. End rant. EDIT: Graet found the link first.  |
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Never received my coins or Response from customer service. It also seems that my IP was blocked from their live chat program. I was told transfer would take no longer than 5 min. If you want to check blockchain I was going to have 5 btc sent to a virgin address at 1PZkR9xLb9pqmJXYt6n2GhPVfaQTULDNiU as you can see there has never been any transfers to that wallet address, I figured this would happen but 11.99 was not much to lose to prove a scam to the community.
Log in to paypal and file a dispute against them. The more people that do this, the faster that they get shut down. |
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He's back, spamming the hell out of the german forum.
theymos should really lock the foreign language forums with a newbie jail also.
Back? He was never gone, you just happened to see that one before I got to him. Even if thymos doesn't want to hand you a perma-banhammer, I would support a software change in the forum that allows global mods to temporarily ban a user (for an hour or so). |
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Wish I still had my botnet up and running.
Very reassuring to see some of the "big" people in BTC and their backgrounds ... Joke. I am sure it was Do you guys have evidence that guy is selling Linode coins  He isn't selling any coins at all. |
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Honestly we need strongly signed blocks. It can be optional but I imagine most pools would sign their blocks. Major farms (GBLSE) would sign blocks to prove their contract's hashing power. I think a majority of p2pool miners and even some solo miners would strongly sign their blocks.
While not everyone would sign blocks it would eliminate the false positives and reduce the amount of unknown to the truly unknown.
Strongly signed blocks can be the precursor for more complex pool based services (like 0-confirm surety contracts).
What is the benefit of signed blocks? So we can see who mined it? Yes. Right now, anyone can put almost anything in the blockchain to "prove" who made a block, but that doesn't stop anyone from putting someone else's info in to masquerade as them. There isn't usually any incentive to do that though, except in the case of something such as a botnet. |
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I need to change my bitcoins to cad cash and the spendbitcoins rate is too low and going from btc to usd to cad also has too many fees. Any ideas?
I'm trying to sell my btc on the forum but nothing yet.
I've heard good things about cavirtex, does their fee schedule and liquidity look good enough? https://www.cavirtex.com/home |
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