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So something like a distributed CDN?
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It won't take long for the next one to figure out that it needs to go thru a proxy, and probably some kind of shifting one that makes use of the infected systems themselves.
Nonetheless I'm glad to see that deepbit at least does a manual check when many IPs are detected.
i think your talking about Fast Flux |
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This just happened. Lost the rest of my BTC. I have my wallet encrypted on my HDD; had 25 BTC stolen from me. Im out. I HAD 100 in MTGOX, then it got hacked and I dont have access to them. My account requests were denied. Well, heres a screenshot. I know its not proof, I could have shopped it, but here you go.  F*UCK this makes me angry. I know, the wallet should have been encrypted and whatnot, but the application should have implemented that a long time ago. If you feel like helping me out with anything, I suppose you could send a few to this (new) address :/ 1p8whNBtrXxT1aYSqM6MsP4e7y55gX3zm Thanks for reading. Goodbye, money. |
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$16 and falling on MtGox as I write this. The 'island of stability' around $19 to $20 didn't last too long. Those 25k stolen BTCs being unloaded today after being laundered over the last couple of days? Dead Cat Bounce has had its run? ($30 -> $10 -> $20 -> sub $10 if that's the case). Interesting times.
Like any economy, it will have its ups and downs; we seem to be experiencing a nice little downtrend. I wouldn't worry too much about it. |
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What happens when the flash inside the arduino hits 10,000 writes and dies ?
Nothing is backed up, unless you have at least 3 copies of it. One physically at a different location (fire,flood,volcano,earthquake,...)
Another thing is what happens when the owner of the wallet.dat file ultimately dies (through accident or natural causes) and brings the security pass phrase with them to the grave ?
Yes the value of bitcoins increases for everyone else as there are fewer coins, but that is of no help to the remaining living family who are broke.
Use redundant, checksum'd EEPROM (3+ chips with the data written to it in encrypted form). You can get a good 100,000 writes out of each. Then when the time comes, you get a little warning light that says "Replace me bitch!" and you can swap out the EEPROM chips for new ones. Old data is copied to the new chips, verified, and then the rest of the chips are swapped out and written to with the existing data. Ill make a visual aid in paint real quick....  Whats that? Spelling? I cant hear you lalalala! Edit: pic |
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Amazing company; ordered 5 x16 extenders  |
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How did they convince you to buy those cards? Not trying to be a downer, but they are overpriced for what you get.
For mining? 6990 is one of the best for price to performance. The difficult part is finding one, as it is sold out almost everywhere. I wouldn't say they are the best "bang for your buck" card. They are 730$ each for 830 MH/s; but you could get 3 5850's for 450 (3*150), they each hash @ 300MH/s, totaling out to 900MH/s.... |
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Could not connect to database server..
But the pool is fine |
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All of these threads are reactive. Every single one of them, every time This is the second time deepbit has gone over 50%. Nothing was accomplished after the first time. [Tyco]'s thread about coding a an attack detector barely got any interest. The best idea I've seen so far is an ad campaign to try to get users to go to other pools.
If people think this is really a big problem and [Tyco] is such a huge threat then come up with some realistic ideas about how to solve it.
1) Inform users of the problem and try to get them to distribute themselves. Hint: You're going to have to reach them outside of here since a good number of them will probably never come here. You can't make users leave either. It is their choice where they mine.
2) Put some technical skill into getting a block chain monitor working so that people will know if/when something happens instead of being reactive.
Because tycho knows an attack detector is impossible. Forked chains are simply abandoned by those who discover them, they are not reported anywhere where we could analyze if they are being utilized to create double spends. Hhhmmm .. maybe it could be deployed by multiple people across the network, or even something put into a future client so it's detected by all nodes and reported somewhere voluntarily like antivirus databases. I'm not a coder, but I can at least come up with ideas instead of criticisms. WHat youre talking about would require literally every person running bitcoin to update their client to your specific version. And agree on a central authority to monitor double spends. Why don't we just avoid the matter altogether and stop mining for someone who could destroy the currency's value? Or DDoS the hell out of his servers until he's below the 50% point. Maybe because apparently all the posts here about this topic haven't solved the problem. Apparently it's either not persuading people or not reaching enough people. Because that would make you a hypocrite for crying how he's doing something unethical to the network and then doing something unethical to him to get what you want. But since you don't have a problem with ethics it doesn't matter to you, does it? Wait, if you don't have a problem with ethics then you shouldn't care what he's doing to the network. Except what he's doing isn't illegal in most nations. So your saying you wouldn't do anything to prevent the network from being compromised, even if it is unethical/illegal? Your cash? |
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Hum... good luck, there are already pools with 0 fees.
They were not capable of handling the extra volume when deepbit overflowed (during the recent DDOS attack on deepbit). Then move to Slush's while the rest recuperate. |
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My idea is a lot friendlier.
I totally agree, and dont want to see ANY hostile action taken against part of the Bitcoin community, but Tycho is not responding to the "increase fee" method, which is what Im assuming you meant by "give him 3%" method. Well, "increase fee" is one way of putting it. But pledging BTC to him at a steady rate that'd match the 3% of the 50-100% of the network's Bitcoin generation is what I mean. I get what you mean, but "O Great Overloard Tycho" is not something I like. I dont want to have to pay a HUGE fee just to protect a network that could simply point its hashing power away from Deepbit. |
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Is anyone contemplating a REAL DDoS?
Not something done by a single person, but by the community collectively?
inb4 unoriginal
My idea is a lot friendlier. I totally agree, and dont want to see ANY hostile action taken against part of the Bitcoin community, but Tycho is not responding to the "increase fee" method, which is what Im assuming you meant by "give him 3%" method. |
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Is anyone contemplating a REAL DDoS?
Not something done by a single person, but by the community collectively?
inb4 unoriginal
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Deepbit just hit 50%. We are still alive. Now everyone stop whining.
This proves you DON'T GET IT. It's not a "50%..the end" thing...its a User A: "....some time later...what's this? double-spending? can't be...." User B: "@twitter...btc chain broken..sell." Thing. The possibility of your scenario is so slight that it's not even funny. In the even that it did happen, the price will drop, mining won't be profitable and everyone that's only in it for the money and they would get out. The network would recover and rebuild, a little more wiser. From a new block chain. Thats not a very easy thing to do, now that people can look at the original Bitcoin blockchain and say "Oh, yea, you can double spend in that thing.... Not very secure. Lets NOT use that technology." The exploit was recognized and explained by the creator. I trust the protocol. If you don't then you should sell out and close up shop. But the protocol is insecure once someone gets >50% (or even close). So why would anyone trust it after a failure like that? |
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[Tycho], any chance you will lower your hashing rate?
Or even better, make your fee go up as hashing rate increases, so we reach a nice equilibrium?
Nothing personal.
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Deepbit just hit 50%. We are still alive. Now everyone stop whining.
This proves you DON'T GET IT. It's not a "50%..the end" thing...its a User A: "....some time later...what's this? double-spending? can't be...." User B: "@twitter...btc chain broken..sell." Thing. The possibility of your scenario is so slight that it's not even funny. In the even that it did happen, the price will drop, mining won't be profitable and everyone that's only in it for the money and they would get out. The network would recover and rebuild, a little more wiser. From a new block chain. Thats not a very easy thing to do, now that people can look at the original Bitcoin blockchain and say "Oh, yea, you can double spend in that thing.... Not very secure. Lets NOT use that technology." |
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Btcmine is down too...no where to go now!! Except deepbit...
Must..not...
Points virtual bitcoin launcher aat IlbiStarz |
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Hm... does anyone else notice how small btcguild's slice looks? According to btcguild's website, they are getting about 400Ghash/s... wouldn't that slice be a bit bigger?
Also, btcmine.com is now down for maintenance it seems...
Its proportional to the entire power of the network, so I think its OK. bitcoins.lc is also down..... |
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