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Economy / Services / Re: GPUMAX | The Bitcoin Mining Marketplace
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on: July 14, 2012, 02:28:12 PM
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It is all in the eye of the beholder (or customer in this case).
For people who have enjoy gambling and do not want to invest in their own mining hardware then GPUMAX is perfect. Maybe you win, maybe you dont.
Looking at it using the same logic some people would ask why other sit in front of slot machines when they *know* that the house has an edge (i.e. they are paying for more for the coins they might win). There are about 9,001 answers to that, but it is very similar.
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Economy / Services / Re: [ANNOUNCE] TORwallet - anonymous mixing wallet service
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on: July 13, 2012, 10:20:00 PM
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We are experiencing some issues with our tor server at the moment. Its not responding to its public IP address. There has been some rough weather in the area and a power outage. We believe that the UPS on the server may have ran dead before the power came back. One of us has to physically drive out to where the server is located and check on/reset it. Please give us a couple hours to get this resolved. Do not worry about your funds, we will be back.
Probably not the best idea publishing time and cause of outage on a public forum. You just narrowed down the possible physical locations of your "hidden" server somewhat. Depending on who is searching i would say ALOT. Compared with other data or other side-channel attacks it might even be possible to find the IP. |
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Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: A public plea for help regarding Bitcoinica and my 24,841 BTC
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on: July 13, 2012, 08:04:54 PM
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Apparently Mt.Gox knows who withdrew the 40k+40k, but they choose to protect the hacker.
Now that's just asinine, if true. Evil Bit Burglar: "Mt Gox, plz send me, the Bitcoinica thief, lots and lots of stolen monies. About 80k should do for now."
MtGox "Sure BitBurglar, no problem. Here they are, you have fun retiring in St Tropez." iCEBREAKER: "I've been using MtGox for a year with no problems, can I have $100 send to my Dwolla?"
MtGox "ZOMG Y U try to launder money? We insist U give us copies of your GOVT DOX so U identity can be stolen EZ next time we get our shit haxord!" Haha, now to spread FUD (because that is what the forums are for now right?) MtGox is bitconica hacker |
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Economy / Collectibles / Re: How would you like to design a bitcoin banknote?
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on: July 13, 2012, 07:31:18 PM
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or if anyone, it ought to honor famous scientists or engineers that brought about fundamental advances in the science of computing.
Or pictures of the LHC, Cern, ISS, Apollo rockets, internet, fire, electricity, light, bridges and other similar great advancements in science/engineering. I nominate Al Gore... for without him we would have no internetz. |
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Economy / Long-term offers / Re: [BitcoinMax.com] Paying 6.9% per week... Small accounts welcome.
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on: July 13, 2012, 06:47:10 PM
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I actually am perfectly happy with having to PM for a withdrawal. This means that a hacker would have to compromise BOTH my bitcoinmax account AND my forum account to steal funds.
I don't know how withdrawals work, but wouldn't the attacker be able to get your funds without access to your bitcoinmax account? First PM saying "please change my withdrawal address", then PM again a few days later saying "please send 100 BTC". They'd have to guess how much you had in your account I guess, and going over might tip payb.tc off that something fishy was going on. Is there something in place to prevent this attack? This is a very good point. Personally I would prefer that *any* withdrawal requests would be GPG signed; however it isn't reasonable to assume that payb.tc accomodate the 14,001 different ways people want this handled. Putting myself in his shoes I am not sure how I would want to handle that where it would provide good security vs easy management. Remember guys he is only getting %0.1 which is not alot. Very true, in some ways I wish he would take a little extra - this would provide more incentive to give time to the project and less incentive to run away! (This is not to say I doubt his commitment or integrity) I don't think that giving him a bigger cut is any incentive to not run away. But this does pose an interesting question: If payb.tc were to offer it; how much per week would you be willing to pay for 'extra services' and what would those services be? My extra services would be: - Google Authenticator login (although not a big deal until withdrawal requests come to the web) - GPG Signed Confirmations for account changes/withdrawals. However I am not sure how to answer my own question of 'how much' I would be willing to pay (vs gambling that I won't get compromised). This is all assuming that payb.tc isn't just Intersango and going to 'get hacked' anyway  |
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Economy / Long-term offers / Re: [BitcoinMax.com] Paying 6.9% per week... Small accounts welcome.
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on: July 13, 2012, 06:38:25 PM
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I actually am perfectly happy with having to PM for a withdrawal. This means that a hacker would have to compromise BOTH my bitcoinmax account AND my forum account to steal funds.
I don't know how withdrawals work, but wouldn't the attacker be able to get your funds without access to your bitcoinmax account? First PM saying "please change my withdrawal address", then PM again a few days later saying "please send 100 BTC". They'd have to guess how much you had in your account I guess, and going over might tip payb.tc off that something fishy was going on. Is there something in place to prevent this attack? This is a very good point. Personally I would prefer that *any* withdrawal requests would be GPG signed; however it isn't reasonable to assume that payb.tc accomodate the 14,001 different ways people want this handled. Putting myself in his shoes I am not sure how I would want to handle that where it would provide good security vs easy management. Remember guys he is only getting %0.1 which is not alot. |
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Economy / Long-term offers / Re: [BitcoinMax.com] Paying 6.9% per week... Small accounts welcome.
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on: July 13, 2012, 05:20:36 PM
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imho, with the addition of SSL, it's perfect as it stands.. I hope his security is better than bitcoinica..  My only "wishlist" would be a form of some sort to request a withdrawl, save the email. I actually am perfectly happy with having to PM for a withdrawal. This means that a hacker would have to compromise BOTH my bitcoinmax account AND my forum account to steal funds. Just my 2 cents. |
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Other / MultiBit / Re: MultiBit
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on: July 13, 2012, 03:09:18 PM
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Thanks!
Note that this is all pure user interface work. The buttons click and everything but they they don't do much of anything yet.
There is still a fair amount of "down in the engine-room" work todo yet.
I understand... I do software development for a living, so I understand that there is WAY more work to do than looks like. But I love what I am seeing |
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Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: 100% proof pirate runs a ponzi (thought experiment)
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on: July 13, 2012, 02:55:53 PM
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So, if anyone here has big money with pirate - what would you do if he disappeared tomorrow?
Be pissed for a day... then move on. Nobody that has money with pirate is under the delusion that it is risk free, far from it. But high risk=high reward. I certainly don't want to see my coins disappear, but if they do I will still eat, still pay my bills, and still goto the movies. But if they do not disappear.... I will still do ALL of that, just more of it  |
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Economy / Gambling / Re: BTCBlink.com - Yet another bitcoin game.
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on: July 13, 2012, 02:46:58 PM
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An change to the inputs or outputs of a transaction changes the tx id completely. So all I need to do (as site operator) is keep changing the 'change' address of the tx that buys the last ticket until I get a tx id that makes me the winner. It doesn't give any more security than just letting each user pick a single 'lucky digit' salt.
Seems like this might be like mining itself... you may find a winner immediately or in 3 weeks. Could be alleviated by using a pre-selected mixer, which I think you suggested earlier. I guess I am biased to the idea of using the blockchain for as much data as sanely possible due to the availability and distribution. |
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Economy / Web Wallets / Re: Blockchain.info - Bitcoin Block explorer & Currency Statistics
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on: July 13, 2012, 01:56:41 PM
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Does the bonus get credited after, and not deducted from the TX cost?
The bonus gets credited in a separate transaction back to the sending address. I'll be adding more clarification on exactly how the bonus system works shortly. The bonus will be a 0.5% if coins are need again in future. So is the bonus still being offered? |
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