Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion

[Fatman3001]

Offtopic question,
How do I chose avatar picture on this forum? I tried to put Kodrić, Karpeles or Jeff Robinson on my profile picture but it doesn't work, how do I do it?

You will have to ask for permission from James Cameron. But I don't think the guys you mentioned were in the movie.

[Brewins]

Offtopic question,
How do I chose avatar picture on this forum? I tried to put Kodrić, Karpeles or Jeff Robinson on my profile picture but it doesn't work, how do I do it?

You can't.

That is one of the outstanding unsolved technical problems of bitcoin.  It is one of the reasons why I am skeptical about its future.  If those so-called bitcoin experts cannot even fix that…   

Do you realize that Theymos has nothing to do with any Bitcoin core development or any development directly related to Bitcoin, right?

Also if credit card and banks were so paranoid about security it would avoid many headaches for most of his customers and for themselves too

[BlindMayorBitcorn]

Offtopic question,
How do I chose avatar picture on this forum? I tried to put Kodrić, Karpeles or Jeff Robinson on my profile picture but it doesn't work, how do I do it?

You can't.

That is one of the outstanding unsolved technical problems of bitcoin.  It is one of the reasons why I am skeptical about its future.  If those so-called bitcoin experts cannot even fix that…   

Do you realize that Theymos has nothing to do with any Bitcoin core development or any development directly related to Bitcoin, right?

Also if credit card and banks were so paranoid about security it would avoid many headaches for most of his customers and for themselves too

[shmadz]

 
Avatar ban = digital scarcity,

just like bitcoin 

[JorgeStolfi]

Also if credit card and banks were so paranoid about security it would avoid many headaches for most of his customers and for themselves too

Seriously, someone explained why @theymos disabled avatars: because of a post out there showing that one can hide javascript in headers of image files. 

However, he must have misread that post.  It said that the hacker can post an HTML page containing a tag <script src="logo.gif"></script> and put malicious javascript inside the gif file.  When victims download that page,the javascript obviously gets executed.

But the only bad thing about that is:  if an admin is trying to analyze a malicious webpage and is looking at the javascript files it downloads, he may miss that one, because its name ends in ".gif" instead of ".js", and it can even be displayed as an image (for instance, in a previous <img src="logo.gif"/> tag). 

However, that risk does not exist for this forum.  The forum's HTML pages are not served by the hacker, only by the bitcointalk server; and they will not have <script> tags with avatars in them, only <img> tags.

To be doubly sure, the forum server could just pipe every uploaded image through a format conversion (e.g. GIF to PNG).  That conversion would mangle any javascript hidden in the header, so that it would not work even if used in a <script> tag.

[ChartBuddy]

Bitfinex

Bitstamp

Explanation

[Stevenirving]

Bitfinex

Bitstamp

Explanation

Chartbuddy you are without a doubt my favorite user on here.
I want you to know I love you

[BitChick]

Bitfinex

Bitstamp

Explanation

Chartbuddy you are without a doubt my favorite user on here.
I want you to know I love you

Chartbuddy is certainly the most neutral one here. 

[yefi]

Also if credit card and banks were so paranoid about security it would avoid many headaches for most of his customers and for themselves too

Seriously, someone explained why @theymos disabled avatars: because of a post out there showing that one can hide javascript in headers of image files. 

However, he must have misread that post.  It said that the hacker can post an HTML page containing a tag <script src="logo.gif"></script> and put malicious javascript inside the gif file.  When victims download that page,the javascript obviously gets executed.

But the only bad thing about that is:  if an admin is trying to analyze a malicious webpage and is looking at the javascript files it downloads, he may miss that one, because its name ends in ".gif" instead of ".js", and it can even be displayed as an image (for instance, in a previous <img src="logo.gif"/> tag). 

However, that risk does not exist for this forum.  The forum's HTML pages are not served by the hacker, only by the bitcointalk server; and they will not have <script> tags with avatars in them, only <img> tags.

To be doubly sure, the forum server could just pipe every uploaded image through a format conversion (e.g. GIF to PNG).  That conversion would mangle any javascript hidden in the header, so that it would not work even if used in a <script> tag.

The forum got hacked by exploiting improper sanitisation of images. If I understand it right, somebody managed to upload a .php file.

[Warren Buffert]

Litecoin been taking a whoopin today... I think others have finally caught on, but litecoin and the alt market in general is a harbinger to the direction of bitcoin itself, because they're smaller and we see the effects quicker. This bear market is far from over, folks. We're going nowhere but down. Cut your loose.

[jaberwock]

Litecoin been taking a whoopin today... I think others have finally caught on, but litecoin and the alt market in general is a harbinger to the direction of bitcoin itself, because they're smaller and we see the effects quicker. This bear market is far from over, folks. We're going nowhere but down. Cut your loose.

Litcoin already in the pre october, 2013 levels.

I wonder where it will stop and if BTC will follow the same pattern

[JorgeStolfi]

The forum got hacked by exploiting improper sanitisation of images. If I understand it right, somebody managed to upload a .php file.

Like that old piece of Unix wisdom:

  Q: How many system administrators does it take to change a light bulb?
  A: Just one, to lock the room and declare it off-limits to everybody.

[Blazin604]

The future of Crypto is Bitcoin and Digibyte

[Fatman3001]

The future of Crypto is Bitcoin and Digibyte

What about ethereum?

[ChartBuddy]

Bitfinex

Bitstamp

Explanation

[cbeast]

My ignore list is growing fast. Over 200 so far.

[BlindMayorBitcorn]

My ignore list is growing fast. Over 200 so far.

Is that bullish?

[Morecoin Freeman]

Litecoin been taking a whoopin today... I think others have finally caught on, but litecoin and the alt market in general is a harbinger to the direction of bitcoin itself, because they're smaller and we see the effects quicker. This bear market is far from over, folks. We're going nowhere but down. Cut your loose.

You should learn how to trade bro. Litecoin was another easy 10% flip just now actually ($1.6 bottom ; $1.8 top).

I don't trade litecoin tho, only bitcoin.

[catena5260]

Bitfinex

Bitstamp

Explanation

Funny how the walls are flipped on stamp and finex

[cbeast]

My ignore list is growing fast. Over 200 so far.

Is that bullish?

It's bull-something.