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great find. i always knew they were here.
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Not a press hit.. but a notable use of bitcoin. Bitcoin prices being offered at InfoSec Southwest 2012 march30- april1, austin texas Demolition Derby CTF http://www.infosecsouthwest.com/demolitionderby.html... Prizes Prizes for this competition will be based on points collected from captured flag files. Top-ranking competitors will all receive a complimentary pass to next year's conference, as well as their choice of one of the following prizes: A 25 BTC Casascius Bitcoin, courtesy of Trammell Ventures A Bug Hunter's Diary, The IDA Pro Book, and Gray Hat Python book bundle, courtesy of No Starch Press wi*spy 2.4x, courtesy of Harris Crucial Security DIY Security Camera Kit, courtesy of Harris Crucial Security In addition to the prizes awarded for points, each flag file will contain an encrypted Bitcoin private key which will have some Bitcoin value sent to it. The list of Bitcoin addresses for the keys and their values has been posted here and can be independently verified using Block Explorer. Once the competition is complete, we will publish the encryption key used to encrypt the Bitcoin private keys here on our website. At that point, the "gold rush" phase will be on for the competitors to decrypt and import these keys into their Bitcoin wallet and "sweep" (claim) the Bitcoins for themselves. Each flag file will also contain the cleartext Bitcoin address for the encrypted private key so that competitors may verify the key's value on the Bitcoin network and keep a running total of how much BTC their flags are worth. GOLD RUSH!!! The encryption key pair used to encrypt the Bitcoin keys included in the flag files has been posted! Grab them here! ...
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April 02, 2012, 12:56:40 AM Last edit: April 02, 2012, 01:48:53 AM by julz |
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Related to the Reuters hit above.. same author released a brief overview of bitcoin:
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ahahaha. sorry to spam the thread, but this quote from above article apparently made at the Digital Money Forum in London is priceless and should go down in the history books for later reference: "Bitcoin is not going to fly because there is no central bank or power base. It's doomed to fail."
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April 02, 2012, 02:57:11 PM |
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This puzzled 'international ECommerce specialist' still hasn't understood that the utter non-reliance of bitcoin upon it's founding coder is a strength. Forbes Still A Bitcoin Fan? 2012-04-02 Melody Wigdahl http://www.onlinepaymentnews.com/forbes-still-a-bitcoin-fan-4922.html/... considering that the ‘alternative’ currency is anonymous, decentralized and virtually nothing is known about the coder that originally created the system – and who now seems to have disappeared…..one has to wonder why it continues to get so much press?
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This puzzled 'international ECommerce specialist' still hasn't understood that the utter non-reliance of bitcoin upon it's founding coder is a strength. Forbes Still A Bitcoin Fan? 2012-04-02 Melody Wigdahl http://www.onlinepaymentnews.com/forbes-still-a-bitcoin-fan-4922.html/... considering that the ‘alternative’ currency is anonymous, decentralized and virtually nothing is known about the coder that originally created the system – and who now seems to have disappeared…..one has to wonder why it continues to get so much press? That's pretty humorous. Do we need to know anything about Leibniz or Newton to use calculus?
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April 02, 2012, 03:34:38 PM |
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(calvinayre.com is an online gaming news site, Calvin Ayre being the founder of the Bodog online gaming and entertainment brand)
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April 02, 2012, 07:36:52 PM |
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First off I want to know which of you had a Pint and made this quote because it's marvelous! "Bitcoin is not run by people with hot sexual appetites for hotel maids" one trader and Bitcoin enthusiast told Reuters over a pint of Guinness in London's financial district. Second off the above reference as well as this one: 'Workers at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs in London and New York have been visiting online Bitcoin exchanges as often as 30 times a day, according to documents seen by Reuters. Neither bank wanted to comment.' bother the heck out of me. The last thing we need is somebody with the pockets of G.S. to come in and either push the market down to basically a collapse, try and own the entire market or have their programmers go to work in developing trading programs and totally skew the market and screw over the smaller players. Right now I don't see it being of much interest to them as the volume is just to low but if they came in full bore the only ones getting anywhere with Bitcoin at that point would be Goldman or those early miners who are sitting on thousands of coins.
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April 03, 2012, 01:42:37 AM |
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think of all this additional trading contributing to the liquidity of Bitcoin. this is only a good thing. think of it being like the early days of the COMEX for gold futures trading. no economy around gold at all; just billions traded each day equivalent to currency trading. ![Cheesy](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif)
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April 03, 2012, 01:54:13 AM Last edit: April 04, 2012, 06:08:25 PM by julz |
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that is very good. keep up the good work!
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A fascinating (and complex) post about 'mental poker'. (URL dated April 1st - but the topic is too complicated for me to judge if any of it is a joke!) Reminds me of the Bitcoin brain wallet. Poker is hard, especially for cryptographers Matthew Green (cryptographer and research professor at Johns Hopkins University) 2012-04-02 http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012_04_01_archive.htmlI may not be a poker player myself, but decentralized mental poker appeals to me, mostly because it would be a lot harder to shut down -- especially if it was tied to a peer-to-peer currency such as Bitcoin. (On the other hand, you'd be playing for Bitcoin. So there's that.) ... ... This has been a long post, and while I hope it's given some of the flavor of the problem, obviously there's still tons I haven't said. For example, how do you check for winning conditions? How do you handle players who 'drop out' when the cards don't go their way? And finally, how would you tie the result of the game to a Bitcoin 'pot'? (Bitcoin script seems like a great candidate for this, but unfortunately it's not well supported on the actual Bitcoin network.)
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tom's hardware now including Bitcoin mining in it's 2012 benchmarks! GPGPU Benchmarks 2012-04-03 http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/graphics-card-benchmarks-charts-review,3154-3.htmlBitcoin Mining Apart from synthetic benchmarks, Bitcoin mining is one of the few practically useful, albeit somewhat narrowly focused, examples for GPU computing. A problem of using Bitcoin mining as a benchmark is that the existing OpenCL miner will typically not support a new graphics card generation upon release. Thus, we have to keep updating the OpenCL miner and benchmark results. discussion: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=75144.0
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