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Is that really all it is? So … waiting for three confirmations always takes up to half an hour?
Simple enough!
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I'm familiar with transactions and blocks and all that, but I'm still not sure exactly what a confirmation is.
I guess a "confirmation" happens when a miner has looked at your transaction and determined it to be valid with regards to its inputs, outputs, signatures, timestamps and whatnot.
But what does a confirmation look like (as in: what information does it contain)? How is it published? Where is it stored?
For each transaction, how many times will it be confirmed, in practice? Looking at some old transactions, they seem to have thousands of confirmations.
Thanks.
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Oh please anything but Blake. I have a lot of coins riding on this at betsofbitcoin. Go Skein!
Do you have a link to the bet? Go Skein! |
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What is solely possible is you're the 2nd to last link in the chain and that's their silkroad server your node is talking to that's responding that fast with data that pretends it left the network and came back. There are six nodes involved in a hidden service request. Three chosen by the client, and three chosen by the server. None of them know they are participating in a circuit that ends up at Silk Road. yeah, they could add a built in delay to fake it but they're not that smart  It's a real shame they can't all be smart, like you. |
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Super short summary: an exact clone of silkroad got shut down despite existing only in Tor. This site had a history of being hosted on the clearnet and accepting payment via PayPal and others. This was how they were caught. Them having moved to Tor by the time law enforcement got to them has nothing to do with it. This site was nothing like Silk Road. You're a buffoon. |
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Everything on the internet has an IP address or nothing else could reach it. And if that IP address is 10.30.100.10, it doesn't help you much. and they don't have sufficient coordination to do an enter-exit attack There is no exit involved in hidden services, so that attack does not help you much. But if you want to believe that the FBI is stupid, ignorant and does not have authorization to investigate an online marketplace of hard drugs and that Silk Road will execute PDF scripts you upload to it and load images externally and is run by idiots and none other than you have any sort of understanding of how Tor works even if you just learned that there is such a thing as hidden services, then go ahead, I guess. |
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Please explain how Silk Road has been in operation since February, 2011.
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any web server sitting only in the TOR network would get identified and found out in like a day. So if those idiots think they're safe, they're not.
Are you aware that Silk Road has been in operation for almost two years? It has gotten tons of press coverage, and an American senator demanded that authorities take it down. How can you seriously claim that Silk Road would be taken down in a day, and is run by idiots? You might as well claim that this "aeroplane" thingy will never fly because it's many tons heavy and it's made of metal. |
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BitPay is back from their DDOS now. Any information on whether they paid their way out, and if so, how much?
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Supercomputers
Yes, crypto doesn't work "because supercomputers". |
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I wonder what smartphone adoption is like in Finland. Or do they all use Nokias?
Nokia makes smartphones too. |
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Obviously it will be announced at the conference, yes. Unfortunately, with all the built-up hype, it is almost guaranteed to be a major anti-climactic let-down.
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couldn't someone just run a program to load all random urls until they find ones with coins in them and take the coins?
Yes, in the same way that someone could just try all the private/public keypairs and see which ones correspond to Bitcoin addresses with coins in them. |
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They can also recognise encrypted traffic and filter that.
Encrypted traffic like the SSL people use to access their banks? This doesn't work. TOR servers are known and can be blocked on IP basis.
Far from all Tor relays are knows. Many are being kept secret and shared with people who need them. These relays are called bridges. |
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I live in a relatively small city in a very small and backwards country full of farmers and snow. I have buy and sell ads on LocalBitcoins.com just for fun. I put my old stuff on bitmit and I've sold a few of them to people abroad.
But the other day, a fellow countryman bought something from me on bitmit! omg. And then the next day, a dude contacted me on LocalBitcoins and he's now bought btc from me in person. wth?
It's easy to get the feeling that things are suddenly taking off. Fun!
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I'm stuck at home this weekend, and home is not London.
What are the best ways to follow the talks from home? Will there be streams? At least an audiofeed? Liveblogs? 24-hour CNN coverage? Anything?
How about post factum; will recordings of the talks be published?
Edit: And if not, the organizers should keep in mind that I would gladly pay good bitcoins to watch live. So shut up and take my money.
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here here!
You mean "hair hair". Impressive find, and as always, Zooko had something to do with it :-) |
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The blockchain.info wallet does this too, and I've set it up to send me email whenever I receive or spend btc, which I do from bitcoin-qt where my private keys are. Great setup. |
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If someone is savvy enough to set up a network of clandestine cash-to-BTC locations across the US by then, they stand to make a fortune if they can minimize any criminal liability from doing so.
This is why everyone should register on localbitcoins.com and offer to both buy and sell btc locally there, even if they don't need it personally at the moment. It makes btc more "liquid" and more available in a way that is very hard for authorities to crack down on. |
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Maybe they are fake coins?
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