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9901  Other / MultiBit / Re: How to read wallet files programatically from Multibit Classic? on: March 31, 2017, 09:06:57 AM
You may not want to help this guy. He seems to be a leading suspect in at least one case of bitcoin wallet theft.

He released some software called "Bitcoin Find and Recover" which was touted as a GUI for btcrecover... however the github for this project has disappeared, and one user who attempted to use this Bitcoin Find and Recover had his wallets emptied...

very suspicious that suddenly he pops up asking for help with "a few wallets for which he has the password"  Huh Shocked Undecided
9902  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Do I have to back up Jaxx regularly? on: March 31, 2017, 08:58:17 AM
Pretty sure Jaxx is an HD (Hierarchical Deterministic) Wallet... Basically, those 12 seed words are the only backup you need for that particular wallet.

If you were destroy your computer tomorrow... buy a new one, and input those 12 words, it would rebuild your wallet from scratch, creating an identical copy... that is one of the major benefits of HD wallets.

Those instructions you found were very heavily biased towards Bitcoin Core (Bitcoin-QT) client... So you wont need to keep backing up your wallet, just make sure your seed words are nice and safe! Wink

9903  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Important , Find And Recover Bitoin is backdoor soft on: March 31, 2017, 12:54:07 AM
It would seem that the "Bitcoin Find and Recover" github has been deleted (removed?)... The entire "Alex-Jaeger" account seems to have disappeared from Github... so I suspect that it is indeed the culprit. My instinct is telling me that the guy managed to steal some wallets and has deleted the github before people find the exploits in the the code...

The OpenSSL binary you linked is relatively trustworthy as HI-TEC99 has thoroughly illustrated. I have used it myself without issue.

It looks like looks like racezefi has indeed got hold of some wallets Sad

Sorry for you loss, but hopefully this will serve as a reminder for people that they need to be ULTRA paranoid about running software that does anything related to their bitcoins/wallets/private keys... if you didn't check the code and compile it yourself, but choose to run precompiled binaries, you are potentially exposing yourself to the loss of all of your coins!  Undecided


9904  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Seuntjie' Dice bot programmers mode discussion. on: March 31, 2017, 12:31:41 AM
I think the problem is that you are just trying to copy+paste my code snippets directly into your script and expecting it to work  Undecided For the most part, the code I type in here should be considered at best "pseudo code" and at worst, totally broken Tongue

The error is most likely caused by "numbets" not actually being a declared variable. I think the inbuilt variable is actually called "bets", but I was trying to illustrate what the variable was actually representing...
9905  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread (EPL) on: March 31, 2017, 12:25:11 AM
Hello to all fans of England Premier League!
Once again i will share my best bets from this league, so lets start:

My 1st single bet will be the match between  Liverpool FC v Everton FC

Match:  Liverpool FC v Everton FC
Betting option:  Home and over 1.5 goals
Odd: 1.96
Stake: 0.015 (15mbtc)
Return: 0.029 (29.40mbtc)
I have to concur that this is a relatively decent bet... 1.96 odds is a decent return. I believe Liverpool will win... the over 1.5 is also a good choice as I believe that "Both Teams To Score" is also a good option... Liverpool have scored the most goals in the EPL this season, but their defense is still questionable...

What a drout for premier league action. I can't remember when there was a game on the tele to watch. Must of been a two weeks but it felt like an entire month. Embarrassed
Yeah... those international breaks are really annoying... especially with the run to the end of the season starting... and it being so crowded in the top 6 Wink
9906  Bitcoin / Mycelium / Re: Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet on: March 30, 2017, 03:44:04 AM
I think it is (or should be) pretty obvious to most people, that Mycelium is, for all intents and purposes, a "dead" project.

...snip...

#famousLastWords

Looks like my skill at predicting the death of projects is right up there with my skill at predicting altcoin movements on exchanges! hahah Tongue

Mycelium 2.8.8 released on the 28th March... looks like the fee system has been reworked a little (still no Manual fee though)... and apparently CPFP support!

Additionally, I note the github repo hasn't been updated as yet tho, but it is a start!

There is a non-public repo which is being cleaned up and should be soon be moved to the public github, it is planned to be working on public repo then.
vnnkl, is that non-public repo  only for the new flash MT version of the wallet or does it include the "current" version? Just curious when we can expect to see the code for 2.8.8... call me paranoid, but i like to be able to see what I'm running Wink
9907  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Seuntjie' Dice bot programmers mode discussion. on: March 30, 2017, 12:38:54 AM
any idea about how to make the script change for a certain amount of bets? I've managed to change it from 5, let's say to 1 red streak, but i would like the script to do this change to 1 for example for 100 rolls, and then go back to 5 red streak. Do you have any idea on how to do it? Maybe with numbet? thanks!

That is exactly what my code example was doing... when you lose, and the lossCount is >= 5, it reset your lossStartMult to 4... and then started a counter (lossStartMultCounter)...

every roll it would increment the lossStartMultCounter... and then if it got to big (ie. your target number "xNumberOfBets") then it would reset the lossStartMult back to the initial value and then reset the counter as well...

You could also use numbets, which is probably a lot cleaner Wink :

Code:
if (!win) then
  lossCount += 1
else
  if lossCount >= 5 then
    lossStartMult = 4

    startCount = numbets -- save starting point   

  end
  lossCount = 0
end

if numbets >= startCount + 100 then
  -- it has been 100 bets since we changed stuff
  -- reset all the values here
end
9908  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Can someone tell me where i find my private key in Bither? on: March 29, 2017, 12:36:52 PM
The text that it shows when you use the export (the 13 x 4 digits) IS the private key... it is just in a "Private Key WIF Compressed" format. This is 52 characters (13x4 = 52)... base58 and starts with a 'K' or 'L.

To double check this, I've grabbed a copy of the Bither, fired it up and generated a test wallet that has the address: 1AWnnam3v12UUbXW3LndYvgZKfYkNQGU4a

The export gives me a value of: L3AWRHyjowHCkdmffUyjqvgAejfzQ1xrXEzsBJ7oJr5iSpFrexDU  (Note: You need to remove all the spaces)

Then I went to bitaddress.org and under "Wallet Details"... copied the value into the "Private Key" box... and hit "view details"... it shows:

Quote
Private Key WIF
51 characters base58, starts with a '5'
5KAQRzKHx3L5UZM68p7xvgMChiqi6fjZWxjZfanVcmCVRSe6sGr

Private Key WIF Compressed
52 characters base58, starts with a 'K' or 'L'
L3AWRHyjowHCkdmffUyjqvgAejfzQ1xrXEzsBJ7oJr5iSpFrexDU

Private Key Hexadecimal Format (64 characters [0-9A-F]):
B16070710D0BD2CE966B4674C824FBE9F09A7F9613D68757B5223EF79E3D6DB7

IMPORTANT: DO NOT copy your actual exported private key to bitaddress.org and run tests there!! That could potentially expose your private key!!

If you need to convert it from WIF compressed to WIF, you will need to do it yourself, preferably on an offline computer... You will need to read about Wallet Import Format, WIF and also Base58Check Encoding

You could also download the offline version of bitaddress.org from their website and try that (click the "zip" link in the bottom left hand corner)... I absolutely NO guarantees that the code is safe... use it at your own risk!

9909  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: bitcoin casinos with zero deposit confirms, no rollovers and no ID documents? on: March 29, 2017, 10:58:58 AM
In a world of RBF, accepting zero confirmation deposit is the stupidest thing a bitcoin casino may do.
Are you referring to the scam where a user deposits into a zero confirmation casino... immediately gambles on a BIG payout bet... if they win, they just let everything confirm and claim their winnings, but if they lose they immediately execute an RBF transaction to attempt to recover their funds?

I concur... you are just asking for someone to try and game the system and cause all sorts of chaos
9910  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Guys can you give what wallet are good alternative for Electrum? on: March 29, 2017, 10:43:33 AM
Electrum is the go to wallet right now as the dynamic fee calculator is very good and you can always use RBF to send replaceable, not to mention hardware wallet integration with Trezor and Nano S. The Android app is just as good but without hardware wallet support.
I have to disagree... The Android App is terrible. The UI is horrible and the damn app just keeps crashing on my Nexus 7 tablet and my Galaxy S5 Sad

I heard many times about multibit-hd but is it lite weight or you still need to download the whole blockchain?

MultiBit HD is an "SPV" wallet like Electrum. You do not need to download the whole blockchain to be able to use it.
9911  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Does public key reveal that transactions end up in the same wallet ? on: March 29, 2017, 01:49:50 AM
or, if privacy is one of your overriding concerns, then you could just cut out the middle man and start dealing (pun intended) with Monero and on-chain mixing Wink

I'm sure one of the TLA agencies (if not all) are busy working on a way to unravel Monero... that is the sort of thing that keeps THEM awake at night Tongue
9912  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Seuntjie' Dice bot programmers mode discussion. on: March 29, 2017, 01:36:13 AM
The thing with the whole "House always wins" argument... is that people tend to look at it from their individual perspective...

It is perfectly within the bounds of mathematical reasoning and logic that an individual player can "beat" the house and walk away with a profit... (The odds of that happening tend towards zero the longer that individual plays.)

However, the house doesn't play 1v1... it plays 1vMany... and they rely on the majority losing more than the minority win... which is generally going to happen with the house edge and law of large numbers on their side...

congrats to the guy who made some money, just don't expect it to last forever... nor should others expect to be able to replicate the results.

Play for fun... and don't risk what you can't afford to lose. Wink
9913  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread (EPL) on: March 28, 2017, 05:10:53 AM
Ok good.  I want him to stay too.  For 5 more years if that's possible.  Would love to watch the torture among Arsenal fans hoping at every beginning of the season and come home empty handed in the end.  Grin

Anyway, here are my EPL bets for this weekend.  Feel free to criticize and make suggestions.

Burnley vs Tottenham Hotspur,  over 2.5 goals at 1.92
Manchester United vs West Brom, WBA win +1.5 at 1.984
Arsenal vs Manchester City, City win -0.5 at 2.30
Liverpool vs Everton, over 2.5 at 1.82

  • Not sure over 2.5 for Burnley v Spurs is a good idea... I can see why you did it, but if Burnley don't score, I'm not sure Spurs can get 3.
  • West Brom at +1.5 might be a decent bet, They've been playing well lately... They should be able to keep MU close.
  • City at -0.5 is a tough one... They were exposed several times by Liverpool, and despite Arsenal's current form, they're not at the top of the table for nothing. Maybe BTTS?? Still... you got pretty good odds at 2.3!  Cool
  • Liverpool vs Everton... over 2.5... Could be a solid pick... the Merseyside Derby can be exciting... and both Teams are in goal scoring form lately... I'd probably err on the side of caution and go BTTS again Wink
9914  Bitcoin / Mycelium / Re: Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet on: March 28, 2017, 04:30:44 AM
I think it is (or should be) pretty obvious to most people, that Mycelium is, for all intents and purposes, a "dead" project.

The codebase on github has not been touched for over 3 months. That does not sounds like a project in a active development. The "crowdsale" ended nearly a year ago... If I was an "investor", I would basically be writing off my investment as lost. There seems very little hope of a Mycelium update happening any time soon.

As OmegaStarScream has already pointed out... it takes about a minute or so to drop a note on Twitter or even posting here saying "We're still alive, project ongoing" etc.

Such a shame... as IMHO... Mycelium is (was?) one of the better Android wallets... Sad :/
9915  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Seuntjie' Dice bot programmers mode discussion. on: March 28, 2017, 04:04:38 AM
1st reply, everything i needed and i understand it!

HCP ... im lost for words!! thanks


-- there are errors when i try to run the script.
i edited the numbers in the array and the if < > e.g put 0.00000001 etc
it didn't start but i got it to start, then when it reached 0.00000010 it didn't stop

now it wont start

do i edit this?:
Code:
-- check to make sure we don't exceed the array size
  if arrayCounter > #myBetArray then
    -- reached end of list, prevent out of bound error
    arrayCounter = myBetArray[#myBetArray]
  end

  nextbet = myBetArray[arrayCounter]

end

ive messed with the script so much i cant remember what i did to make it start

have you tested it?

Firstly, it wasn't by any means a complete script... far from it... hence all of the "...do other stuff... " type messages spread through out the code... What I showed was merely a code snippet that should achieve the same functionality as the preset list..

If the script was meant to stop at the end of the list, then you'd just edit the "if arrayCounter > #myBetArray then" section and put a stop() in.

Code:
  if arrayCounter > #myBetArray then
    -- reached end of list, stop betting
    stop()
  end

I'm not sure what you mean by you couldn't get the script to start? If you just tried to copy and paste my original code without doing anything to it, it would probably not do anything because the nextbet value is not set before the dobet() function is called... so the site would (should?) probably reject the attempt as the bet would have been null or zero etc... were there any error messages displayed in the bottom left hand corner of the dicebot window?
9916  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Seuntjie' Dice bot programmers mode discussion. on: March 26, 2017, 11:25:22 PM
how do i recreate the preset list feature in programmer mode? but ad some advanced features.

say if i had a list that went:

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10

and

- Win on bet <5 jump back 1
- Win on bet <10 but >5 jump back 2

etc

how would i program that?

it took me a day to learn and programme my first script and without help this is the limit of what i can do:
but i do like the script Smiley

Firstly, congrats on the effort you've made to learn how to program and write scripts yourself, rather than just blindly using scripts others have written. That shows initiative and a desire to learn... I respect that! Smiley

To answer you question about the preset list... you can simply create an array with the bets you want... then you would just iterate over the list, moving backwards and forwards as you need...

Code:
...
myBetArray = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10}
arrayCounter = 1 -- LUA convention is that array index starts at 1 ;)

function dobet()
...
  if win then
    if arrayCounter < 5 then
      arrayCounter = arrayCounter - 1 -- jump back 1 in the list
    elseif arrayCounter < 10 then
      arrayCounter = arrayCounter - 2 -- jump back 2 in the list
    else
      arrayCounter = arrayCounter + 1
    end
    ... other win stuff ...
  else
    --loss, go to next bet in list
    arrayCounter = arrayCounter + 1
    ... other loss stuff ...
  end
 
  -- check to make sure we don't exceed the array size
  if arrayCounter > #myBetArray then
    -- reached end of list, prevent out of bound error
    arrayCounter = myBetArray[#myBetArray]
  end

  nextbet = myBetArray[arrayCounter]

end

Notes:
This code is really set for a list of 1-10. As the arrayCounter < 5 and arrayCounter < 10 is checking the position in the list... NOT the actual bet size... if you wanted to jump back based on bet size, regardless of how many items you had in your list, you would need to use something like:

Code:
  if myBetArray[arrayCounter] < 5 then
    arrayCounter = arrayCounter - 1
  elseif myBetArray[arrayCounter] < 10 then
    arrayCounter = arrayCounter - 2
  else

One last tip, try and indent your code... it makes it easier to follow the code blocks and see what end matches what block Wink
9917  Economy / Services / Re: ★★★ [6 SPOTS AVAILABLE] NITROGENSPORTS.EU Signature Campaign ★★★ on: March 26, 2017, 07:10:55 AM
It happens that often "Real Life"™ gets in the way of online endeavours...

Given that he has not been on the forum since the 17th, I suspect the Campaign Manager is just busy dealing with some crisis outside of a Bitcointalk Sig Campaign... and that, I think, is perfectly understandable.

This is really a bad thing for the payment that is not realeased by the OP.
if today or next day payment will release then we need to do post our posts in one day that will violate the the rule of campaign Smiley
Not necessarily. Last week, when he was a couple of days late, notaek just paid for the posts up until the Tuesday as normal... and set the "start post" for this current week at whatever your post count was on the Tuesday... NOT the Thursday number Wink

I'm sure that Nitro, being as big as they are, will make good on any payments owing, so I'm not terribly concerned about the campaign... I just hope notaek is OK Huh  Undecided
9918  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Is there a way for me to use a Mycelium HD wallet in Electrum or vise versa? on: March 25, 2017, 09:36:23 AM
Yeah... I only have the one "account" in my Mycelium wallet. I never had a need to create multiple ones.

Poking around in Electrum I don't see any obvious way to generate a 2nd account... so I'm guessing they choose to go the default only route for the following from BIP32:

Quote
An HDW is organized as several 'accounts'. Accounts are numbered, the default account ("") being number 0. Clients are not required to support more than one account - if not, they only use the default account.

So if you are in the situation where you have created multiple accounts, you'd need to find a different BIP32 compatible client, or perhaps move all your coins to the first (default) account.

NOTE: I also tried multiBit... and after it just monstered my computer and internet connection while syncing the wallet... it came up empty with different addresses... so it is doing something a little different under the hood than Electrum does.
9919  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Seuntjie' Dice bot programmers mode discussion. on: March 25, 2017, 09:31:36 AM
how to make a script that would have done 1000 bets stopped and showed what was the biggest and smallest rolls

Use the lastBet object... the value of the last roll is stored in lastBet.roll

Then you just compare each roll to the biggest/smallest value and save it if it is bigger/smaller. So, something like this:

Code:

--CODE HAS NOT BEEN TESTED!!

... other vars...

biggest = 0
lowest = 100

numBets = 0

function doBet()

  ... stuff ...

  if lastBet.roll < lowest then
    lowest = lastBet.roll
  end
  if lastBet.roll > biggest then
    biggest = lastBet.roll
  end
  
  ... other stuff ...
  
  numBets = numBets + 1
  if numBets >= 1000 then
    print("BIGGEST roll: " .. biggest)
    print("smallest roll: " .. smallest)
    stop()
  end
end


Hi again! Thanks to your help, i've managed to achieve more or less what i wanted. However, do you know how i can set the parameters inside the script to only make the change of lossmult during a certain amount of bets, and then go back to the initial? Any help will be much apreciatted! thanks

ummmm put in another counter when you change the lossmult? set it to zero, increment it every roll... and when it gets to the number of bets you set, you can just set lossStartMult back to whatever you want...

Code:
--CODE HAS NOT BEEN TESTED!

if (!win) then
  lossCount += 1
else
  if lossCount >= 5 then
    lossStartMult = 4

    -- NEW COUNTER
    lossStartMultCounter = 0
  end
  lossCount = 0
end

--Increment every roll
lossStartMultCounter += 1

-- if it gets to big, reset lossStartMult and reset the counter as well
if lossStartMultCounter >= xNumberOfBets then
  lossStartMult = initialLossStartMultValue (or whatever else you feel like)
  lossStartMultCounter = 0
end if
9920  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Does public key reveal that transactions end up in the same wallet ? on: March 23, 2017, 02:02:38 AM
Hello together,
I read quite a bit about bitcoin transactions, but never could find my question answered.

Say, I am sending out 3 transactions from my WalletA to 3 different addresses of WalletB.
a) Is it possible to conclude from the blockchain that the three transactions all land in the same wallet (the same public key) ?
b) Can specialized tracking companies by saving the public keys during the 3 transactions conclude that they all end up in the same wallet ?
Thank you.
In your particular scenario... I believe the answers are:

a) No. This is the point of minimising address re-use (using a different receiving address for each transaction), it "helps" (but does not guarantee) anonymity. What it will do, is allow people to link WalletA to AddressX, AddressY and AddressZ... but they can't look at those 3 transactions and say "X, Y and Z are all part of WalletB"... at this point, they could be WalletB, WalletC and WalletD for all we know.

What can happen from that point, is that then the person with WalletB sends out a single transaction that includes the outputs from those 3 transactions to X, Y and Z... and then people can track that and conclude that WalletA sent 3 transactions via Addresses X, Y and Z to WalletB, which then got sent on to other address(es)

b) As mentioned, until all those outputs that were put into X, Y and Z are spent as inputs to another transaction... it would be difficult to say with any certainty that those 3 address all belong to one "wallet"... Indeed, if the owner of WalletB then sent 3 transactions to 3 addresses, using a single output each time, it would be hard (although, probably not impossible using other methods) to link them all together.


I'm sure someone has thought up a use-case for tracking transactions through the blockchain... maybe hoping they get contracted by private eyes or lawyers (or the tax department Tongue) trying to trace funds that people are moving around... and are probably making some good coin off of it Wink
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