this is why its best to not use a hosting providor that specialises in bitcoins. as they are more then likely to know how important the wallet.dat file is, and thus be tempted to access it.
it is best to use professional hosting that does not advertise itself as bitcoin orientated, or best get a server and good internet upstream speeds and run your own webhosting. do not rely on third parties that you dont personally know, to look after your wealth. especially if they have the keys to your wealth.
Counterpoint: Linode. In spite of not accepting Bitcoin they have been attached in some way to many of Bitcoin's biggest hacks. If you want to run any hot wallet. Even one that keeps coins for a mere minute before shuttling them away to cold storage, you require control down to the iron. |
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This is a piece of text that should be included in any AML/KYC sticky near the top. It doesn't address details of the problem, but addresses ongoing risks presented by AML/KYC efforts. Absolutely, for sure! Post an address and I'll send you BTC0.03. For everyone else, to clarify, I am looking for something to be made that is not specific to MtGox. You can and should link to any existing information (like the MtGox thread, for example), but I want the actual content to be pretty general. Also, since I'll be paying for Atruk's contribution, I would now like that or something like that to be mentioned. Thanks you: 1Magr1FdjAHeST3aVeFQSMZdPKSzWWSfpL Beyond what I wrote I don't know if there is much to be written which won't be different in the next one to twelve months. Major English language exchanges want generally a Driver's license/ID Card Scan plus a utility bill, BTC China wants and national ID number or passport number, RoboCoin's atm wants a god damned palmprint. Thankfully I was in early enough to take the easy part. |
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Hi Everyone,
My name is Dylan, and I work in Mt.Gox's Compliance Division.
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Obviously, that doesn't count. You have to at least put some of your own effort into it. Come on, guys! ticoti posted some useful information. Improve the post, and you'll BOTH get 0.03 bitcoins! Oh, by the way, I'm raising the bounty to BTC0.03  This is a piece of text that should be included in any AML/KYC sticky near the top. It doesn't address details of the problem, but addresses ongoing risks presented by AML/KYC efforts. |
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are they no good either then? can you post an explanation? or are you adding to the mental rot also?
Here you go. Perhaps you ought to explain to twentyseventy there why it is that the link will have to continue to be posted. you lost me completely, but hey ho, if i offended anyone, i am sorry Vircurex is run by the Cryptostocks person. The article linked in the linked posts goes over a lot of problems with that particular operator. |
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How does one "learn" "web of trust" - what does that even mean?
Do you have any suggestions for someone new getting into this? As I said if we are to leave the poor performers behind there has to be better options.
Presuming I can trust you (which I am).
Thanks
Well: http://bitcoin-otc.comTheir wiki explains a lot of the basic how to do things so you can get up and running. The general idea though is to transition from less than incredibly reliable things like CoinBase to doing business with individuals who have their continued reputation staked on a successful trade. Learning to WoT though involves doing the work and the reading to build your own personal Web of Trust. Bitcoin-otc supplies a nice tool, but you have to interpret the information it contains on your own. |
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This thread...  What next? FBI agent claims to be assassin, posts pictures of assassinated targets from FBI database as proof, guy pays him for hit, and is arrested instead of having target assassinated? Scammer tag, scammer tag! Well, that would be a scam... |
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It's a bit of a pain right now,I will grant you
I tested the markets a couple of days ago and got brutally low balled by potential buyers
We need more exchanges that are reliable and banking integrated
A lot the the problem right now with the over the counter market is liquidity. |
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I recently discovered that I had a goo chunk n Atl coin that came strong vs the BTC so I converted of course  Anyways, I been selling the BTC for money pac cards. All has gone fine and well the first day or 2 until last night and today. They locked all my cards. I then called each card to unlock and the messages on all 3 of them more or less said "due to recent activity on your card, we have decided to close your cards... please press star to unlock, but you can not add more money onto the cards." So now I have still close to 4 BTC I need to cash out. I am wondering how to do this. I have set up a coinbase account and linked to the bank account, and I am waiting on the deposits that they do to confirm the account... Another thing I worry about is if I do transfer the cash from there to the bank account, will it actually be accepted....I never used anything like this and its still a rather large amount of cash ( hey at least to me ) Any ideas would help. I hate paypal because I trust them as far as I can throw a 400 pound woman. They messed with me a while back by holding funds while they "investigated" all my sales which more or less froze the whole account and the funds were released slowly by each sale they found out was okay. I also have done 2 WU transactions for about 1500 total in the last day... I dont know how picky they are about flagging people. I also have done 1 moneygram for 1800... again I dont know how they are about doing multiple transactions or getting large amounts of money in a short time. Doing a lot of MoneyPak transactions in a short period of time from geographically disparate sellers can lead to this. See if you can withdraw from the cards using an ATM and if not retaining a cheap attourney to draft a letter requesting a check for your outstanding balances may be in order. I can still buy online charges so the money is there to be used. I think I have delt with almost all that are here located in the US. The only one that has not been was done via WU. The problem is that Greendot is all US and even intra US reloads if too diverse and frequent can set off their money laundering flags even if nothing of the sort is occuring. Blah figures. And its not like they call you to find out or you can talk to them to unlock and keep the card going. Its just "we closing you and go pound sand if you dont like it " How about the other 2 methods of moneygram or WU? I know they both charge a crazy fee. Or would it just be better to transfer the money into the bank account? If so large lump sum of 4K or do it in smaller bits? For large amounts wire is probably best. Into a bank account is generally best because of whatever extra rights that affords you. I fyou want to keep trading for small amounts though and save most of your BTC for later, I'm not disliking the AMEX/Walmart BlueBird card. Takes Vanilla reload rahter than MoneyPak, but it isn't hard to get people to trade for. |
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I recently discovered that I had a goo chunk n Atl coin that came strong vs the BTC so I converted of course Anyways, I been selling the BTC for money pac cards. All has gone fine and well the first day or 2 until last night and today. They locked all my cards. I then called each card to unlock and the messages on all 3 of them more or less said "due to recent activity on your card, we have decided to close your cards... please press star to unlock, but you can not add more money onto the cards." So now I have still close to 4 BTC I need to cash out. I am wondering how to do this. I have set up a coinbase account and linked to the bank account, and I am waiting on the deposits that they do to confirm the account... Another thing I worry about is if I do transfer the cash from there to the bank account, will it actually be accepted....I never used anything like this and its still a rather large amount of cash ( hey at least to me ) Any ideas would help. I hate paypal because I trust them as far as I can throw a 400 pound woman. They messed with me a while back by holding funds while they "investigated" all my sales which more or less froze the whole account and the funds were released slowly by each sale they found out was okay. I also have done 2 WU transactions for about 1500 total in the last day... I dont know how picky they are about flagging people. I also have done 1 moneygram for 1800... again I dont know how they are about doing multiple transactions or getting large amounts of money in a short time. Doing a lot of MoneyPak transactions in a short period of time from geographically disparate sellers can lead to this. See if you can withdraw from the cards using an ATM and if not retaining a cheap attourney to draft a letter requesting a check for your outstanding balances may be in order. I can still buy online charges so the money is there to be used. I think I have delt with almost all that are here located in the US. The only one that has not been was done via WU. The problem is that Greendot is all US and even intra US reloads if too diverse and frequent can set off their money laundering flags even if nothing of the sort is occuring. |
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I recently discovered that I had a goo chunk n Atl coin that came strong vs the BTC so I converted of course Anyways, I been selling the BTC for money pac cards. All has gone fine and well the first day or 2 until last night and today. They locked all my cards. I then called each card to unlock and the messages on all 3 of them more or less said "due to recent activity on your card, we have decided to close your cards... please press star to unlock, but you can not add more money onto the cards." So now I have still close to 4 BTC I need to cash out. I am wondering how to do this. I have set up a coinbase account and linked to the bank account, and I am waiting on the deposits that they do to confirm the account... Another thing I worry about is if I do transfer the cash from there to the bank account, will it actually be accepted....I never used anything like this and its still a rather large amount of cash ( hey at least to me ) Any ideas would help. I hate paypal because I trust them as far as I can throw a 400 pound woman. They messed with me a while back by holding funds while they "investigated" all my sales which more or less froze the whole account and the funds were released slowly by each sale they found out was okay. I also have done 2 WU transactions for about 1500 total in the last day... I dont know how picky they are about flagging people. I also have done 1 moneygram for 1800... again I dont know how they are about doing multiple transactions or getting large amounts of money in a short time. Doing a lot of MoneyPak transactions in a short period of time from geographically disparate sellers can lead to this. See if you can withdraw from the cards using an ATM and if not retaining a cheap attourney to draft a letter requesting a check for your outstanding balances may be in order. |
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Agreed This is stealing and the behavior of the owners/operators is outrageous, in my opinion. That policy is completely unjustifiable and I hope nobody uses this site until it's changed.
On the other hand the BitBet operators are strictly following contracts between themselves, shareholders, and bettors. The action that creates a valid Bitcoin transaction is called a signature for a reason. In this case snackman signed a transaction to a recipient who had already GPG signed a contract with shareholders describing exactly how this situation would be handled. |
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Hey guys , I live in Toronto, Canada. I own some bitcoins and even though I don't really wanna sell btc I need abit of money Right now. So I looked for some local bitcoins people and other sellers that advertise e transfer or local sale . One of the vendors I bought btc before and it was at my. Gox rate . Now he and one other buyer that I tried to buy from, they are saying mt gox is no longer the standard for price setting and they wanna buy from me using Canadian exchange site virtex , which has the price there Under 1000 dollars avg where mt gox is like 1150. I am only looking to sell like .1 maybe . 2 So I know it's not a huge difference but I feel like I'm getting ripped off especially considering that same guy that wants to buy from. me under 1000 rate is selling on localbitcoins for 1300 for btc. Is this a common practice that I should just accept even though it feels like I'm getting undervalue for btc especially considering that they can resell same btc much higher so easy. I need money now and I don't have time for online exchanges . Are these really my only realistic options and is this really how it is right now or are people taking major advantage of sellers and buyers right now. It just doesn't feel right. That a big price difference even for something as small as . 1 btc. Thx everyone
The short story is that the more trading you do and the more reputation you build, the more people you will find you can trade with. Generally that can allow you to trade on more favorable terms. |
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HERE PANKKAKE ADMITS HE IS OFFERING A COMMERCIAL SERVICE TO TROLL ON COMPANY THREADS AND TO DAMAGE THE COMMERCIAL INTERESTS OF THE COMPANIES THAT HE IS PAID TO TARGET. To be fair most companies he troll eventually seem to reveal that they deserve all of the criticism he directs their way. LabCoin makes a prime example of that. |
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oh please let it not be true, i just dodged the MCXNOW scam and i dont want to hear this for Vircurex.
i havent had issue with logins just real slow confirms. he has a twitter feed so maybe get hold of him that way.
i dont want to haul my coins out again..FFS
SC
I used to enjoy VIrcurex, but their shitshow of an IPO which was admittedly not as bad as McxNow's was still nearly a dealbreaker. Their being hacked a second time this spring was a dealbreaker though. |
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i wanted to get serious about securing my bitcoins. so i bought an ubuntu notebook with the intention of keeping it offline to store my coins, keeping all wallet/backups all offline. in the interest of preventing malware from ever entering my machine, i wanted to download whatever i needed onto a flash drive and put it on the offline machine. so i wanted to authenticate the download of bitcoin QT... that further required download of GPG4WIN (openPGP) to verify the signature when downloaded. so i downloaded GPG4WIN and used sha1 checksum to verify its integrity. i installed it and ran kleopatra. so i figured since GPG4WIN provides an OpenPGP signature for its downloads, that i would start with that. here's the problem -- when i go to import the .sig file, i can't. .sig is supposed to be openPGP, but kleopatra only seems to allow importation of .asc, .cer, .cert, .crt, .der, .pem, .gpg. is that right? am i missing something? so i figured, maybe i am going about this wrong? i go to decrypt/verify files. the binary and signature file are in the same folder. when i go to decrypt/verify, i get the message "Not enough information to check signature validity." when i click to show details, it says "Signed on ... with unknown certicate ... The signature is invalid: No public certificate to verify the signature." can someone explain what i am missing? i feel like i am supposed to get GPG4WIN's public certificate and import it, after which it will be able to verify correctly. but what do i do with this .sig file?!?! i can't seem to find any public certificates posted at gpg4win.org. this is going to be the end of me. bitcoin and associated technology is so frustrating in how difficult to use it is for the average user.  If you are using Ubuntu you really shouldn't be able to run GPG4win. What you want to do since somehow this software stack is working is import the public keys, but not just GPG's. You want to import the public keys that each program is signed with. The thing about GPG unlike the shitty x.509 system you don't start with signed root certificates, so you will have to import public keys from every party whose signatures you will want to check. GPG is handling the .sig fine it seems. If you want a really nice GUI frontend for GPG I recommend setting up the Geany text editor with the Geany GPG extension. I've had a guide to setting it up here: http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2013/10/31/signature-thursday-geany-a-gui-text-editor-for-gpg-tasks/ |
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Giving your platform a try on Bingo BlogI look forward to seeing how this works. |
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Now, it could be said he's doing this to remove some "taint" with this move.
Well it is the same reason Pirateat40 ran GPUMax However, I do find it hard to believe such a "competent, pro, C++ programmer" would neglect a use case scenario in which simple site maintenance and support would be blatantly overlooked. A secure CLI interface could be drummed up to add this support with adequate logging and used to maintain the site.
Well yeah, this whole thing kind of illustrates that RealSolid is not and never was a competent C++ programmer. |
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I'm also confused by this. Double spending is not a concern, with proper precaution (see this reddit thread). Rudimentary game theory makes it abundantly clear that I wasn't attempting to double spend a losing bet. Also double spending is like, super easy when you don't include a tx fee. I do it quite often when the network won't pick up a transaction I need confirmed fast. |
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I'd argue that your regular presence in the BitBet IRC for 10 months or more associates you more than the average user.
It isn't BitBet IRC, it is #bitcoin-assets. The BitBet people just hang out there... |
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