I think they have that covered as of late.

That is true.  A business, particularly one like that, ought to keep good books.  I hadn't even thought about that.

I was serious, not so much anymore.

I feel like the only reason he found out this time was because of the massive withdrawl.

I would sit on them if I had them.  Sit on them and drain them for their worth slowly.

Well... at least that is what I would do if I was a malicious person, which I am not.


No problem.   You can keep them if you want.  0.31337 isn't much BTC in the grand scheme of things.  I have a hundred or so sitting around right now.

As it was an address on my phone I can't easily do that.  Instead I'll just send you an 31337 amount of coins.

Money sent to 1PKyq6aMKcCwn8cmb9Jc5SkNydLsQb5n7K.

Yeah that one was me actually.  I figured it was a pretty 1337 hack.

Anyhow.  If they stole the private keys why would they make such a huge withdrawl?  I would import those private keys into another bitcoind and make lots and lots of smaller withdrawls over the course of the next few months.

Most of the places I spend my BTC are like BitBrew and are very independent of the exchange rate.  I understand that this is not the norm, but places like that certainly do exist.  They change their prices up maybe once a month to make sure that they are about in line with exchange rates, but other than that they just a Bitcoin be a Bitcoin and not xx.xxxxx USD.

+1 This idea is fantastic.  I would love to see this in a future version of Bitcoin.

If this gets implemented, the next step is definitely adding it to the GUI somehow.  Make it very easy for lay users to make use of the functionality.

Anyone feel like porting this to MySQL?  Not everyone uses postgresql.  The more formats available the better.

I think I shall email the owner of Mr. Coins.  He should really make his root domain redirect to his www subdomain.

He probably loses a lot of business by not doing that.

My understanding is everyone is having this issue.  I've seen it mentioned in various placed around the forums.

He seems to be a lot less active in the community ever sense the convention debacle.

Ah.  I thought after we sent the coins to the address, we would send them back to ourselves.  You are suggesting that we keep the coins there.  That makes things much different.

Also thank you for your explanation of the pruning process.  That makes sense.

Wouldn't the same apply to sending a non-zero amount then?  Or am I misunderstanding how Block Chain Pruning is planned to work.  I thought that we need all the transactions leading up to a particular transaction to make sure there wasn't a double spend.  Therefore, we would need to keep the transaction that had the fee attached so that there is a record of how the miner got those particular Bitcoins.

Although I trust Mt. Gox, I personally feel like the way that BitBills and Causcious Bitcoins are going is the better way to go.  If one day I can no longer trust Mt. Gox, my BitBills are still safe.

Say Mt. Gox gets hacked, my redemption codes are now worthless, my BitBills are not.  There is more trust in the dual hologram system than redemption codes, not because Mt. Gox is untrustworthy, but just because of how the system is designed.

I'm getting DNS errors when trying to access Mr. Coin.

"The server at mrcoin.org ...Error 105 (net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED): Unable to resolve the server's DNS address."

Down for everyone is showing that site to be down.

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://mrcoin.org/

I forgot about the concept of Block chain pruning.  You are right, it might be best to send something to it.

Although, I don't think that a transaction with 0 outputs and a fee would be pruned.  Then the fee would be lost.

Version 0.5 actually comes with two UIs.  There is a bitcoin.exe and a bitcoin-qt.exe.  Depending on whether you want the new QT UI or the legacy UI.

So he could still poke around in the non-QT based one if he doesn't want to deal with QT.

Completely agree. xD  I personally left the forums for a few months.  It is good to not be obsessed with something all the time.

The math definitely adds up.  In the topic about it we discussed the math heavily.


This on the other hand is still a valid point.


You can verify that there is coinage on the address listed on the coin though couldn't you?  I think that casascius's physical Bitcoins have the BTC address that the money was sent to on them.  If they don't, I know that BitBills do.

Aye.  Although I haven't used them yet myself, they seem to be pretty reputable.  They also promise to handle all orders within 24 hours of payment receipt or they will process the order for free.  Mail usually doesn't take more than a day, so you are looking at 2-3 days max.  You can cut that down to 24 hours if you deposit money at a BoA or Chase.