Your paranoia has no technical basis: small payments to your account cannot result in compromise without some other social engineering or malware/virus shit going on.
Did you ever go to one of those "free 0.000005 BTC" sites? There are a few of them and they will pay out.....eventually. Perhaps you gave them your address a few days ago and their transaction finally went through/out.
This is more than likely what happened. Don't worry, be happy ^.^ |
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Whoever runs the escrow service. What it is: A middleman who holds onto the coins during the transaction. If the buyer marks that he has received the item(s) the bitcoins are released to the seller. If there is a dispute the middleman, usually, opens a case and the matter is looked over with the coins being delt with accordingly.
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I have a few btc related domains i would like to sell. Let me know if you are interested!  WantFreeBitco.in YourFreeBitcoin.com |
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I've seen a few RPi's going on bitmit for reasonable prices, though I didn't look into their seller's history.
There is a seller on here who sells them on bitmit. His post is in the newbie thread i think...looks legit |
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I am interested, but 1.5 is a little steep for me  If you buy one from the Casascius website, it will cost you 1.5 BTC + the cost of shipping. If I recall, Casascius stated that he was keeping the premium on individual coins unchanged at .5 BTC extra. Molecular's offer was popular at 1.5 (and now, 1.48) BTC, and this current seller is offering an airtite case. It's a pretty good deal. Oh, sorry I didn't mean it wasn't a good deal. I was only stating that it is simply to steep for me; unfortunately |
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I am interested, but 1.5 is a little steep for me |
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Wow cool. Thanks for posting. I love BitMit. I might just be picking up a few toys Oh, and can you get me an ASIC? |
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Oh, and I dislike Instawallet. I wouldn't use their services ever; I did once, was quite disappointed, and immediately switched to a different service. I just want people to know that unless you educate yourselves on security issues you are open to easy discovery/attack by wardrivers, and other 'hackers' of any sort. Oh, I also hate The Big Bang Theory. Fuck that show. @mattypoo yeah I noticed your edit, and I don't think you understand how wardriving works. I don't really care to educate you on the ins and outs of the subject; but a good wardriver isn't 'sniffing' just one ssl encrypted site. People use the same password for other sites too  Just...understand that some people are more creative than you. Just because you think you're safe doesn't mean you are; at all. There is nothing common about common sense. |
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This just happened to a friend of mine too, a substantial amount of bitcoins lost from an instawallet account a few hours after sending them there. The only device used to access instawallet was an iphone that he had control over at all times between first accessing the account and the theft, so there is only two possibilities here: - There is an iphone wallet stealer trojan or similar in the wild.
- Instawallet was hacked or the theft was internal.
My advice is to not use this kind of service, use something where only you can control the private keys to eliminate one risk factor. If you need to use instawallet or similar services, send the coin somewhere more secure as fast as possible. There is another possibility: was he possibly using a wifi network? It is incredibly easy to hack routers using WEP/WPA/most wifi encryption algorithms to intercept information. In fact this is one of the most widely used, and easiest, ways to steal personal info. Please people never use WEP(cracked in 1997, considered exceptionally compromised, yet is still widely used).
Try to use WPA2 or a direct connection while sending passwords over any network. If you aren't sure; do not use it! It is worth the annoyance. You do not want to risk using a wifi network that is not properly encrypted. Stay safe, and keep updated on the latest security issues Your friendly online battmann. I highly doubt a bitcoin attacker just happened to be listening on wifi and wanted to steal bitcoins. Why not just say Apple stole them? That is about as likely. Lol what? You're joking right? The possibility of stealing personal info by wifi cracking is very possible. Especially if someone geeky and close to the victim knew about his stash; heck even just a random wardriver doing what he does best is more plausible than a well known company (that encourages opening a police case to settle particularly annoying customers claims) stealing from their customers. |
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This just happened to a friend of mine too, a substantial amount of bitcoins lost from an instawallet account a few hours after sending them there. The only device used to access instawallet was an iphone that he had control over at all times between first accessing the account and the theft, so there is only two possibilities here: - There is an iphone wallet stealer trojan or similar in the wild.
- Instawallet was hacked or the theft was internal.
My advice is to not use this kind of service, use something where only you can control the private keys to eliminate one risk factor. If you need to use instawallet or similar services, send the coin somewhere more secure as fast as possible. There is another possibility: was he possibly using a wifi network? It is incredibly easy to hack routers using WEP/WPA/most wifi encryption algorithms to intercept information. In fact this is one of the most widely used, and easiest, ways to steal personal info. Please people never use WEP(cracked in 1997, considered exceptionally compromised, yet is still widely used).
Try to use WPA2 or a direct connection while sending passwords over any network. If you aren't sure; do not use it! It is worth the annoyance. You do not want to risk using a wifi network that is not properly encrypted. Stay safe, and keep updated on the latest security issues Your friendly online battmann. |
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I have used Jon exclusively ever since I first bought BTC from him. Best. BTC. Vender. Ever. Enjoy his services guys; it'll change the way you get your coinage. Buy with confidence |
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Thanks!
Welcome ^.^ Next TwitterGame starts NOW! |
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Appreciate the mention! Working on starting a thread right now! do you run cryptocurrent? really like your site design, credibility is important have a few established members to vouch for you I can vouch for him 100%. Best BTC guy I have ever done biz with; seriously. He quoted a customer 2 hours, delivered, and lost a bit of money on the transaction. Best customer service I have ever seen; its redick. Just my 2 satoshi's |
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Date registered Feb. 10th 2013.
No comment. Just stating facts.
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Thanks
More than welcome. Next TwitterGame tonight |
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How small was this rock hammer?
Like I said, 6 GPU's (2 are new 7950's, the rest are the old ones after upgrades I have done past 2 years) I am hashing about 1,800 Mh/s. I started back in the day with a 5770, upgraded to 6850, then upgraded to Xfire 6870's. Just replaced those with 7950's. So, back in December, I brought all the old Mobo's and GPU's out of the closet and fired 'em up on mining. Tight. Good job broski |
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Oh yeah, ha ha, butterfly I was doing them now don't.
R u interest in good time? You want eggrollBTC?
Visit here why nots *insert link*
Who said scam? I don't know this scam. Who are you? Do not question my first post is coinurl...
Etc, etc...
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How small was this rock hammer?
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