I am not very sure how anonymousspeech operates. For some reason, their site is not opening at my end !!! But, they must have received the payment from Satoshi. So, what if the Govt query them about the source of the payment ? Because, at that time, there was no bitcoin to make anonymous payment.
AnonymousSpeech accept cash in the mail and require no customer details. I am pretty sure that Satoshi hasn't accessed via his IP and most of the VPNs only store IP addresses for 24hrs, so his IP would be wiped a few years ago.
He always used Tor when doing anything in a web browser. Not at all. This forum was created by Satoshi and then past down through a few admins and now theymos is the Head Admin here. |
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As long as the hash matches with the download from the official website you are good to go.
What if the website has been hacked and the hacker has replaced the download with one that contains a backdoor and then changed the hash? If you want to be sure your copy of a Bitcoin client hasn't been tampered with you really need to verify it is signed with a trusted key. |
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They are signed with PGP. We're the other binaries signed by the built-in Windows checker? Here is how you verify the PGP signatures, though admittedly this is harder to do on Windows than Linux: -Download gnupg4win (or use the 'gpg' command if on Linux, comes preinstalled on most distro's). -Get a copy of lead developer Wladimir van der Laan's public key: https://bitcoin.org/en/development- open command line and import it with gpg --import <file> -Get a copy of the PGP signed hashes here: https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.10.0/SHA256SUMS.asc-Open a commandline and verify it using gpg --verify <file> -If you get good signature, open the file with notepad and look for the name of your binary, the bit to the left is the hash of the file. -Calculate the hash of your binary, you can use fciv or openssl (openssl sha256 <file>) if you have it installed, and compare if against the hash in the signed message, if they match your copy is good. -For extra safety, verify you have the right key for Wladimir by sourcing it from multiple locations. |
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Lol! in this post OP is trying to change 9.5 BTC into Amazon, yet in this other post he's trying to buy BTC with a credit card. It seems like he's been buying a lot of Bitcoin with credit cards recently. Suspicious isn't it, you would think he would just buy the laptop with his credit card, but... maybe it isn't his credit card at all... Hello 247exchange.com I want to exchange $1850 Us Dollars from Visa credit card into bitcoins. How much do you charge in fee's for the exchange?
IGOT are stupid idiots and that Julie support staff character is a fucking idiot! IGOT blatantly LIE when they say you can deposit Credit Card via Bpay.
You can not deposit with a credit card through Bpay that is a huge LIE! Bpay credit card deposits are charged a 21% cash advance fee from your bank!
Also I sumbit I.D documents for verification and they come back saying "pictures blurry". Are they fucking serious? My I.D scans are 600 dpi quality!
IGOT nopt to bve trusted! They are LIERS!
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Is it just a web hosting plan or is it a VPS?
If it's just a web hosting plan, you can't install bitcoin-qt. You need to get a VPS preferably with at least 50GB diskspace and atleast 1GB ram.
If you must use a web hosting plan, you can use the API's of a few different services (like blockchain.info). If one API stops working or returns obviously bad information, you can automatically switch to another.
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Government-controlled fiat is a bad idea, and shifting the centralization to private companies doesn't fix anything but merely compounds the problems. When will people learn?
Bitcoin isn't exactly immune from scammers either. Any new technology is going to be exploited or hacked by thieves looking for their paycheck. Both people, governments and corporations need to be one step ahead and keep themselves as secure as they can. The article is actually about chargebacks, which Bitcoin does not have, although the ability to dispute tx's via something like multisig is something we will inevitably need for cases of scammers, but not cases of theft. |
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All internet-based companies should probably be based out of Switzerland or some such country, where the tentacles of US / China cannot reach.
No such country exists. |
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https://blockchain.info is an informational website that displays information from the Bitcoin blockchain, economy and network, such as transaction data, mining statistics, node information. https://blockchain.info/wallet is a wallet service. It is a browser-based wallet written in Javascript. It is different to some other browser-based wallets such as Coinbase in that you control the private keys to your Bitcoin yourself. The advantages of this are that blockchain.info is easy to use and requires no setup, and your encrypted wallet is stored on blockchain.info's cloud, so you can access it from any computer and you control your private keys. The disadvantages to this service is that you are entirely dependant on blockchain.info, if the website is down you will need to install another wallet and import a backup of your blockchain.info wallet in order to spend your BTC, if you did not keep a backup then you would not be able to access your wallet, and blockchain.info is frequently down. Also blockchain.info knows everything about your transactions, while they claim not to store this information, it is still being sent to their servers whenever you use their wallet. Another disadvantage is while you control your private keys, a change to the code on the blockchain.info website, by malicious staff or by a hacker, could easily steal all your Bitcoins. Another one is that blockchain.info is written in Javascript, it needs to be in order to work in a browser, and Javascript is not the right tool for cryptography. It is easy for blockchain.info to accidentally introduce a bug that could lead to your private keys being stolen. This happened very recently to blockchain.info and lots of Bitcoin could have been lost, but a good guy managed to use the bug to transfer the BTC out of peoples wallets before a bad guy did and he gave it all back to blockchain.info, preventing the Bitcoins from being stolen.
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The problem is this could cause an increase in the number of orphaned blocks if a block takes longer than 2 minutes to propagate the network. Even at the current size of the network 2 minutes to propagate is pretty likely to occur for slower/poorly connected nodes, and it will happen very frequently if the network grows. Also you are increasing the number of blocks generated per day, each block has a blocksizelimit which is an anti-spam measure that keeps full node bandwidth/resources limited, you would essentially be increasing this by 5, the people who support the 1MB blocksizelimit would not like this change.
A lot of problems with this solution...
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The thing is that I'm not a fan of having an antivirus in Windows nor having a firewall, they need lots of resources, makes PC slowlier and clumsier...  You can always turn off real-time protection on your anti-virus scanner and just do a scan on every downloaded file and a full scan every 1-2 weeks. While this is significantly less safe, it's a lot better than no anti-virus and won't use up much resources. Anti-virus should really be a failsafe anyways, you shouldn't solely rely of them to keep your PC safe. Windows 7+ has a built-in firewall which doesn't use much system resources. |
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Makes lots of sense. What if my offline device gets broken, or burnt, or w/e? Is there a super safe way to store bitcoins? I'm getting to the idea there is no 100% safe way to do it. My online wallet could get hacked and my offline USB/HD could crack...
OS does matter to be honest . Using Linux would be better then using Windows because most of viruses out there are written for Windows. So you could increase your safety by using Linux . I would suggest you to use Electrum as a wallet , because It gives you a 12 words seed when you setup the wallet for the first time , and you can recover your Bitcoins & wallet with those words in a case of a computer failure or device get burnt as you said etc ... So just keep those words in a vault in a piece of paper or whatever . and you should be fine ~ Madness If you don't know anything about Linux, then you shouldn't use it as you're more likely to configure something wrong, install something malicious or not update it properly. A lot of Bitcoin stealing malware have variants for Linux, the "less viruses" thing doesn't really matter when you are specifically being targeted by hackers. It's best to use the OS you are most comfortable with. While were on this topic, is a MAC any safer than a PC?
Not really. Most modern OS's have similar security features. |
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Use the OS you are most familiar with. Use any modern version of Windows, Mac or Linux and keep it fully updated. About backing up your wallet, when storing a backup remotely make sure it is encrypted with a strong enough password to prevent against bruteforce. Assume your adversary can do 1 trillion guesses/sec. The best password is one that is randomly generated and is at least 120bits strong, which is roughly 14-16 characters of letters, numbers and special characters. If you are using a password you made up yourself and didn't randomly generate it will need to be significantly longer than this. I would not recommend using MEGA, as if you lose your MEGA password there is no way to regain access to your encrypted wallet, so you have to remember two passwords and the chances of you forgetting passwords and losing your Bitcoins is greatly increased. Also as you probably know megaupload was shut down and all data was deleted, so I would stay away from MEGA just in case. Google Drive seems ok. What would be a good way to store an online backup for my wallet then? Maybe uploading it to Google Drive, or MEGA?
This will only make things worst . Keeping your wallet Online is the worst idea you can get mate . Hacker don't need to hack your PC , he should simply hack your Gmail or MEGA Account (not even hacking probably simple Brute force cracking) and he is in . I suggest keeping them in Offline device . ~ Madness Remote backups are OK as long as they are done properly. They are useful in the event your house burns down or something terrible like that, or if you are travelling a lot. |
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You should contact WoodCollector, he has one that he doesn't use as much anymore. Just be sure to use escrow if you end up buying from him. I knew someone was going to post that once I saw the title  |
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Hahaha! One does not simply do that. But since you said that you've already done that, can you teach me how to print my own USD notes and strategies on how to dump them?  Very simple. you take a piece of paper and write "$1 million monopoly dollars" on it. Then you go on the internet and create a bunch of shill accounts and start shilling the fuck out of your monopoly dollars. Then you go around to local businesses and continuously nag them to accept monopoly dollars as payment. Because your monopoly USD has the same fundamentals as USD and is interchangeable 1 on 1, you will essentially double the money supply of the real USD, just like the OP proved in this very informative and useful thread. By the way, this technique works with anything. I made my own "better version" of gold recently and tripled the supply of gold. |
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Anyone can make their own coin on the same fundamentals as bitcoin and claim it's interchangeable 1 on 1. Effectively doubling the amount of bitcoin in circulation. So the real supply is infinite.
Yeah I know. I printed my own monopoly USD notes yesterday, they work just the same as normal USD notes. You can blame me for the latest "whale-dump" on USD. |
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Mark Karpeles as CIA agent? Dude who before MtGox was selling Magic the Gathering cards online? It is hard to believe in this conspiracy theory. People are just crooked, they do not need government permission if they want to steal money they would do it on their own.
Mark Karpeles didn't sell magic the gathering cards. He bought MtGox off of Jed McCaleb (of Ripple Labs) who originally registered mtgox.com, it used to have something to do with Magic The Gathering, but the domain had been unused for many years and in 2010 Jed used the domain for a Bitcoin exchange and sold it to Mark Karpeles a few months later. |
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The forum already uses its own hashing method, IIRC its 10,000 rounds of RIPEMD160 with a unique salt per user. This is as safe as it gets.
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