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that sounds like the way that i will code the app, i have a windows phone and it is more of a pain to code and release than android, or i may just make the page on my site using that system, thanks
you don't really need to code an app for this. just click on the link and read the text as i explained above if you want a quick, and small way of checking the price otherwise you can check coindesk, bitcoinwisdom and many other sites that have big charts and a lot more functionality to read the price. ###
Are there any apps on the Windows phone platform that will do BTC to USD conversions on the fly?
If not, it's about time that someone made one.
i may be able to do it since windows phone programming is based on a simple xaml interface and c# code behind it. i will do it if there is enough interest but i will only release the code on github if i do it someday. |
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there you go: https://www.bitstamp.net/api/ticker/you see here a JSON reply, look at the "last", that is the bitcoin price preev or any other site you see is reporting. you can also write a little code, put the response in a JSON var and get the ["last"] key. - i may do it later if i get the time- |
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I recently read on RT that TOR is no longer safe since CIA was able to bribe one of the developers. I never used it to be honest but that must be nasty  the way TOR works is that you go through a series of nodes and your communication encrypts another time on each jump until you reach your destination. so unless CIA or any other agency is controlling all or majority of the TOR exit nodes i don't see how they can control it! besides there are much easier techniques to find you real IP address without needing to do any of the above stuff. p.s. my question here was a mere curiosity to learn more about bitcoin and find out what information i am broadcasting when sending a tx. I think most of the internet users have no idea about what IP is!
lol, that's true. and also too lazy to google. |
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i remember when you could claim 5 BTC from faucets  it is more correct to say i know about it rather than remember! |
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i post this since the entrance is already ended [3] and i am curious how this thing is going to turn out to be and which bitcoin address is going to be the recipient of the 1000 BTC and also the ~1.3 BTC gulled deposits. lets follow the coins  None, or the Eater address if the timed transaction has been made correctly. the eater transaction with the lock_time is indeed correct and the input (cc3e582bc673e8aaf9cd98a3ceccda966a9d93bd7bc3c0edc1d59dfef5fd050b) is still unspent. {
"lock_time":425000,
"size":223,
"inputs":[
{
"prev_out":{
"index":1,
"hash":"cc3e582bc673e8aaf9cd98a3ceccda966a9d93bd7bc3c0edc1d59dfef5fd050b"
},
"script":"47304402204506f42bc2ed8920e719c7f5da77f01c81dfa0e0873869d9be067af12706f00602206967c1018bd33528e73438c13ac2664eec7c7e1d6a743652ec96681897017f25014104c5eb97c372d1666166497a9f8937c7f351fe679977e0b04ff304596a4f1f984c95b1458fec741e1b414dc5c3a6adb6c75fc4a370952d08e59197e94e7eced185"
}
],
"version":1,
"vin_sz":1,
"hash":"b9aa02d992ecc9997c8e27e0d0fe81d17a73c5b903e1dd29d082b3e71e5be9d2",
"vout_sz":1,
"out":[
{
"script_string":"OP_DUP OP_HASH160 759d6677091e973b9e9d99f19c68fbf43e3f05f9 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
"address":"1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE",
"value":100000000000,
"script":"76a914759d6677091e973b9e9d99f19c68fbf43e3f05f988ac"
}
]
}
but it doesn't mean that input is going to stay unspent forever. it can be spend before block 424900 with 100 blocks room to work with |
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“Gullibility is a failure of social intelligence in which a person is easily tricked or manipulated into an ill-advised course of action. It is closely related to credulity, which is the tendency to believe unlikely propositions that are unsupported by evidence.” as you may know, on 3 August 2016 there was a post on bitcointalk [1] and reddit [2] by someone saying he will giveaway 1000 BTC to a random lucky user who posts his address. in bitcoin it is easy to provide a public proof of owning the address *: Address: 1BfxSuxJqXuizBbTcP238JZY9DT4eqvzJG
Message: bitcointalk rekcahxfb 1470232659
Signature: HItHu5HG+WAsqESx8vA3U7G/OHtTk1Gz9cy2qHmF2hSjI+d71Qs5zNlt1zvB3F/hFBXsy5vAjDFUC3rPQb2QVUY=
if you don't know what 1470232659 means, it is Unix Time Stamp and it converts to 08/03/2016 @ 1:57pm (UTC)this little topic caused a massive surge of alt accounts on bitcointalk. the topic was closed on 4 Aug by mods. now here is the funny part, rekcahxfb starter of the giveaway topic had a password reset via email and then the first post was edited and it was now asking for 0.001 BTC entry fee to a new address and this little trick has already gotten 781 victims by the time of writing this or  (balance is auto-update) edit:this went up to 0.9 BTC. and also the other funny part is, some people decided to gull themselves and started to send 0.001 BTC to the original address, generating a nice revenue for the owner or owners of the two said addresses.  (auto-update balance for the original address) it is about half a bitcoin profit! i post this since the entrance is already ended [3] and i am curious how this thing is going to turn out to be and which bitcoin address is going to be the recipient of the 1000 BTC and also the ~1.3 BTC gulled deposits. lets follow the coins 1) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1574127.02) https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4vykkr/1000_btc_giveaway_from_your_friend_rekcahxfb/* this reminds of the Gullibility level of people back when Craig Wright claimed to be Satoshi without providing any normal proof. you see how easy it is to prove you own a bitcoin address! 3) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1581290.0
update 1 (8/12/2016)the coins are on the move  original 1000, secondary transaction
update 2the alleged winner was on the forum with another name before: profile and laundering money in form of loans! |
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thanks for the explanation If the person that wants to track you can monitor all traffic both to and from your IP without actually connecting to your node, then they can see every time you send a transaction without first receiving it.
i always thought the traffic between the nodes is also encrypted! is there any particular reason for not using a simple SSL encryption for this? this may be a little far fetched but isn't there a possibility of a man in the middle attack? i don't know what an attacker can gain from doing this except messing with one node but that is the first thing that comes to my mind with an un-encrypted communication. |
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i have been seeing a couple of users asking about using TOR with their client and using google i found more people looking for hiding their real IP when sending bitcoin transactions. so i started reading some technical stuff and this is what i found out correct me if i am wrongreading the technical information about a transaction i understand that transactions and blockchain is not recording any IP. so continuing reading broadcasting a transaction and mempool with this paragraph about IP log it says "finding the source is hard" but i can not understand how it can even be possible to find the source unless the person who wants to log IPs is either connected to you and watching you or connected to every single Full Node to log all IPs when first sees the transaction being broadcast from a source which i don't think is even possible. besides a normal client is connected to max 8 peers (right?) so when broadcasting the transaction those 8 will see the source IP and the rest will see 9 different IPs (8 peers+source) and then it grows so unless one of those 8 are logging IP i don't see any other way. edit: changed the link for MAX_OUTBOUND_CONNECTIONS |
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With a paper wallet you have to physically keep it hidden (theft), and it is physically fragile (fire, water). A good alternative is generate a paper wallet, store the info on an encrypted USB key and destroy the paper. Make many copies, store them in many places. I don't trust Windows, I use a USB stick bootable to Puppy Linux, and keep the keys in a Truecrypt partition. I know the Truecrypt project is officially closed, but I choose to trust it. i like it. i did this with Ubuntu and Electrum. everything on one USB disk, everything encrypted although i am looking for more interesting ways like one of those Linux from scratch like Arch to make a custom linux distro only for holding the wallet. |
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found the button and moved it.
you got the idea. i was thinking about the possibility that the mines spend the coins from the hackers address to a bitfinex address. they usually write transactions from a to b. so i thought they could also write a transaction where they force the attacker to send it back. i figuerd it would work fine if the majority was for it and i did not saw my mistake. I think i do now.
the miners do not have the private key of the hackers address to sign it. so this whole idea of mine would not result in a valid block. Am i right?
Theoretically it is possible. In every single Bitcoin full node there would need to be an exception coded for the block and txid of the transaction which returns the funds. Under every other circumstance, it would be considered invalid, and for anyone that is writing Bitcoin transaction validation code, it would be an annoyance to have to keep that exception there. theoretically it would be a fork with consensus . i assume something like this situation needs to happen: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=823.msg9531#msg9531 (not to be mistaken with what OP is asking, this was a bug but practically they invalidated the block 74638 hence the transactions that exploited the bug in 2010) |
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If we know the address of the stolen bitcoins and agree on an correction of the hack.
would it be possible to agree on a future blocknummber and one miner, who mines just this one block with just this one transaction from the hackers address back to bitfinex.
after this one block every thing goes back to normal.
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are you looking for a way to "reverse the transaction"? because what you are explaining here sounds like you want that miner to "spend" the coins from the hackers bitcoin address and sends it back to bitfinex address. (not possible) p.s. move your topic to "Development & Technical Discussion" board. there is a button on bottom left. |
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If this has been asked please direct me to correct thread. If its really dumb please explain why.
If i create a new electrum wallet. I have money transferred into it. Then i delete wallet from my computer. If my computer has not been previously hacked, is this a fairly secure method of storing bitcoins. Obviously i have my seed written on paper. So five years from now could i just create wallet from seed and everything would be there?
Thanks,
Valdos
as others have said it is possible but it has risks. my proposal, 1) download a linux distro that you like. if you are not familiar with linux download Ubuntu which is famous, safe and has a huge community for solving your problems. 2) burn it on a DVD 3) boot into the live linux using the DVD 4) now in this step since you just want a bitcoin address to dump bitcoin and hold for a long time you can use many different options. there are even smaller simpler ways to create a bitcoin address. but since we are here, install Electrum 5) write down seed, send funds shut down PC, nothing is saved on your PC to worry about! |
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Is it coded to pursue some sophisticated strategy or it just places orders? i don't know about sophisticated strategy, but i am using some things  And did some things help you make some monies? meh some monies teehee. |
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i have never heard of this wallet but a little search shows that it looks trusted. and it has been around for around a year (Jun 2015 came out of beta). although it seems to be a little centralized, it uses a centralized service (bitpay servers most probably) to send/receive It would be interesting to know what other people are using. i am using electrum which i think it also has an android app which i don't use. |
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In fact you are wrong.
i didn't get which part of my comment was wrong, can you please explain? He can restore anytime the electrum he used at the beginning by just having the seed of the electrum wallet with him every time he uses Tails.
that is right but why not just simply use a normal linux distro with normal persistence ? What he wants to achieve of course is fully anonymity of his bitcoin transactions. Bitcoin is pseudo-anonymous by default but with this little trick it can become completely anonymous.
you don't reach anonymity by using TOR with bitcoin. bitcoin transactions (to my knowledge) don't store or reveal your IP address to the world. (what you see on blockchain.info is different) bitcoin transactions can still be traced by chain analysis and if the bitcoin address is linked to the person then he and all his transactions can be found. |
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you are? can you show us how it did and which indicators are used by the bot? we're talking crypto here or what? FOREX EA is possible but still bots always have issues as it always depend to the pair, trend and fundamental news which always affect the market. yes it is a crypto-trading-bot for both bitcoin and altcoins separately. no, sorry but i can not show you anything because as i said i made it for myself. and it is still a developing process. maybe i release the source code on github or something in a few years in the future ###
Is it coded to pursue some sophisticated strategy or it just places orders? i don't know about sophisticated strategy, but i am using some things |
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Bitcoin has switched to forked code in the past.
#snip#
when was this? |
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