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1321  Economy / Long-term offers / Re: [BitcoinMax.com] Paying 6.9% per week... Small accounts welcome. on: June 10, 2012, 03:13:57 PM
Honestly you are doing us a favor, we should be making your life difficult.
Typo or freudian slip?

HAHA!!!  Damn iPhone keyboard!  of course we should not be making payb.tc's life difficuilt.
1322  Economy / Long-term offers / Re: [BitcoinMax.com] Paying 6.9% per week... Small accounts welcome. on: June 10, 2012, 02:34:32 PM
also a reminder to everyone:

please do not send ANY deposits less than 1 BTC.

they don't get picked up automatically by my script, and are a hassle to include manually, so they'll be ignored at the moment, until i get around to updating the code again.

thanks.



I would suggest saying that you will not include them manually and thy will be returned to sender sans 0.005 TX fee, or considered a donation if below that amount.   Or just a donation period.

Honestly you are doing us a favor, we should be making your life difficult.
1323  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: You think you don't need to trust blockchain.info ? Think again on: June 10, 2012, 02:03:14 PM
After sleeping on this something else has occured to me on the topic.

Certain hosted walelts that "do it right" (namely strongcoin and blockchain.info) may actually be *more* secure for many of the reasons stated in this thread aginst them.

The biggest one, that I have yet to see mentioned, is the isolation imparted by the browser. 

I think it has been hashed to death and we all agree that unless you are implementing your own bitcoin clcient 100% from scratch or you review each and every line of library code each time it changes that you are imparting some level of trust on someone.

In this regard the browser/javascript based wallets are acutally more secure IMHO because they are isolated and can only access the funds I give them the private keys for.  As opposed to a desktop client that feasbly could capture every bit-cent that flowwed through that system.

I just think the whole FUD against the managed wallets (again those who "get it right") is unbiased.  If you want to take a walk down the road of "what could happen if a solution provider woke up evil this mornign" then consider...

Most people install the desktop clients in binary form, and even those who compile their own don't check the source code.  Lets say that the Armory/Electrum/Satoshi (seems how we are picking clients with absolutly no proof or knowledge) developers decided tthey were evil and deployed slightly modified client that say for the enxt six months gathered every private key that ever passed through it, even paper wallets.

Then on a "bitcoin black friday" the evil dooers decided to empty all of those addresses.  Most people wouldn't even know until it was WAY too late, and the few people that were actually taking the propper precautions to prevent this would be inconsiquential compared to the funds they would actually capture.  Furthermore because they are desktop clients there are about 1000 and 1 ways that they could capture the wallet.dat files of other applications and exfiltrate them.

My point is: Unless you are one of a very few people in the community who write this from scratch, you are trusting someone.  That doesn't really matter if you are trusting them to write a library, a desktop client, or a website.

Also web clients have certain features I find very attractive such as:
 - There is no wallet.dat on any of my systems to steal.
 - I have two factor authentication to my wallet, so even if my password if compromised I still have a window of protection from my two factor which would be impossible to do correctly in a non-hosted solution.
 - I have access to my wallet on all of my devices, including my un-jailbroken iDevices.
 - It looks better than any of the other desktop clients I have tried.
 - I don't have to wait 2+ hours for the blockchain to download
 - Payment notifications

These are just a few of the things I can count off the top of my head.  If you decide that you would rather use a desktop client then that is great.  That is the great thing about choice, and we have alot of great (and for the record I believe trustworthy) sources to choose from.  But to spread FUD that is opinionated and uneducated is just irresponsible.

1324  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: You think you don't need to trust blockchain.info ? Think again on: June 09, 2012, 06:58:46 PM

I don't consider leaving $100k in one bitcoin address a wise security decision, I don't care how "offline" it is. Mistakes happen in the worst ways possible.


what's the difference btwn holding that amount in one vs. many addresses?

With multiple wallets/addresses you need to capture multiple private keys tO spend the coins. As Ben said: mistakes happen in the worse way. If you only have one address run onmistake and EVERYTHING is gone.
1325  Economy / Long-term offers / Re: [BitcoinMax.com] Paying 6.9% per week... Small accounts welcome. on: June 09, 2012, 05:05:56 PM
Can't wait until I have my BTC for my first deposit. 
1326  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Vanitygen: Vanity bitcoin address generator [v0.17] on: June 09, 2012, 04:23:01 PM
Now if we could just working instructions for OSX Lion.
1327  Economy / Web Wallets / Re: Blockchain.info - Bitcoin Block explorer & Currency Statistics on: June 08, 2012, 11:08:01 PM
Just jailbroke my iPod 4G and it keeps rejecting my password, I even copy-pasted so I *KNOW* it was correct.

I have suspicions that it is because the camera on the iPod sucks and is mis-reading the QR code, but that is just a guess.

What can I do?
I don't understand what you could have copy-pasted.  You open the app, click "Pair Device" and then scan a QR code.  Theres no pasting to do.

QR codes have an incredible amount of redundancy in them and I would be very surprised if your camera was mis-reading it.

Sorry... I copy and pasted my decryption password, which is quite complex, to ensure that I was not mistyping it on the iOS keyboard.  I also attemtped to enter it on a bluetooth keyboard.
1328  Economy / Gambling / Re: Running a site legally (OR how to do it and not get a boyfriend?) on: June 08, 2012, 07:47:38 PM
ssaCEA, can you explain why you don't accept bets from US residents? My understanding of the gaming laws are similar to yours - that the Feds went after the poker sites because of the games they were playing with payment processors to get around UIGEA. Doing business in BTC seems like an easy and obvious way to not violate UIGEA.

Or to piss them off enough to come after you.  Anyone in the US that really wants to play at strike sapphire can, they just have to put a little work into it and it isn't the sites fault the user purposefully circumvented their checks.
1329  Economy / Web Wallets / Re: Blockchain.info - Bitcoin Block explorer & Currency Statistics on: June 08, 2012, 06:17:06 PM
Just jailbroke my iPod 4G and it keeps rejecting my password, I even copy-pasted so I *KNOW* it was correct.

I have suspicions that it is because the camera on the iPod sucks and is mis-reading the QR code, but that is just a guess.

What can I do?
1330  Economy / Gambling / Re: [SOLVED] Satoshidice doesn't pay me! on: June 08, 2012, 03:22:41 PM
Are you sure about this being resolved ? As I still have outstanding payments i'm waiting on.

How long have they been outstanding?

I see the max bet is still pretty low which says to me that there have been some major TXs lately.
1331  Economy / Gambling / Re: Running a site legally (OR how to do it and not get a boyfriend?) on: June 08, 2012, 03:20:49 PM
My worry is that there is a judicial ruling stating that the UIGEA only applies to sports betting; however the US Justice department (the one responsible for the actual prosecution) has publicly stated they disagree and will go after ALL gambling sites.

There is no such ruling.   The WIRE ACT applies only to Sports betting which is why the UIGEA was passed.  The UIGEA clearly applies to any form of gambling.  A coin flip side would fall under the domain of the UIGEA.  The question that remains undecided is does the UIGEA apply to tx involving Bitcoins? 


You are correct, I mis-typed.  Thank you for clarifying TangibleCryptography.
1332  Economy / Gambling / Re: SatoshiDICE.com - Verified rolls, up to 64,000x winning on: June 08, 2012, 03:19:52 PM
The limits are dynamically adjusted based on house funds, so at the time the limit was 50 but now it is 5, at least thats from my understanding.
I think this is dangerous for the house, because the limit dynamically reduces immediately after any large payout.

Therefore, most of the largest bets are going to be ones that the house loses.



The tradeoff ribuck is that there is supposed to be guaranteed funds to payout any win, granted there have been problems with unconfirmed funds being used to payout wins, but they come through eventually.

If there was no dynamic limit and two big payoffs hit in close proximity then SatoshiDICE may be put in the position of having to say "Umm... we will have your money tomorrow" which would kill it's rep.
1333  Economy / Gambling / Re: Running a site legally (OR how to do it and not get a boyfriend?) on: June 08, 2012, 03:08:50 PM
A couple good things to note about the BetOnSports case.
1. BetOnSports was offshore, in the UK, but it's a incorrect to say they were completely outside the US. Actually the majority of their business was to and from the United States. "Completely outside" would mean the business was both located outside and marketing only outside the States...that it stayed completely away from the country. Which it didn't.
2. Carruthers was on US soil when he was arrested.

I am on US soil, hence my worry.

5. No one knows whether US federal anti-gambling money transfer legislation (specifically UIGEA) applies to Bitcoin or not; no lawyer has yet written a legal opinion about it, much less tested it in court.

My worry is that there is a judicial ruling stating that the UIGEA only applies to sports betting; however the US Justice department (the one responsible for the actual prosecution) has publicly stated they disagree and will go after ALL gambling sites.

I also notice that Strike Saphire is blocked in the US... so obviously you have some concern as well.  May I ask where you operate out of?
1334  Economy / Gambling / Re: New Proposal - Looking for feedback on: June 08, 2012, 12:07:14 PM
Yes
1335  Economy / Gambling / Re: Running a site legally (OR how to do it and not get a boyfriend?) on: June 08, 2012, 12:06:19 PM
You sill control your DNS gweedo so it would only be temporary censorship.
1336  Economy / Gambling / Re: Running a site legally (OR how to do it and not get a boyfriend?) on: June 08, 2012, 02:59:04 AM
Very interesting...   AnonOps used CloudFlare for a bit too.
1337  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: [FAQ] Safest E-Wallit on: June 08, 2012, 01:52:46 AM
The blockchain.info wallet is very similar to last pass in the sense that their servers only store a blob of data, all the encryption/decryption happens in your browser.  Also they support two factor authentication which makes it slightly stronger than most desktop clients IMHO.

I have never used strong coin so I can not speak to that.
1338  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Leaving Bitcoin on: June 08, 2012, 01:48:07 AM
I can quit Bitcoin anytime. I just don't want to right now.

Addict
1339  Economy / Gambling / Re: Running a site legally (OR how to do it and not get a boyfriend?) on: June 07, 2012, 10:47:44 PM
By the way, federal anti-gambling laws in the United States are unconstitutional, especially since it’s legal for some people, while illegal for others. Think of it this way, say lobbyists from Las Vegas lobbied the federal government to make certain kinds of gambling illegal, unless the states had laws legalizing it prior to the federal law.

See the first paragraph in the link I posted:

Quote
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled in November 2002 that the Federal Wire Act prohibits electronic transmission of information for sports betting across telecommunications lines but affirmed a lower court ruling that the Wire Act "'in plain language' does not prohibit Internet gambling on a game of chance." But the federal Department of Justice continues, publicly, to take the position that the Wire Act covers all forms of gambling.

In other words: they will still arrest your ass.  I don't want to be arrested.  I see you are operating out of LA AnonymousBat, what is your legal strategy, if I can ask.
1340  Economy / Gambling / Re: New Proposal - Looking for feedback on: June 07, 2012, 10:42:09 PM
Sweet, I think I was #1

Now 9 other people need to go find it so I can make some BTC!
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