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[sam53]

ORB was added before Lebowskis, very very undude...

Agree, also there are GLX, HBN, STR, PHS,... so many good ones.

[jdebunt]

I made a CMC deposit from my wallet to cryptsy earlier today, it has 112 confirmations on it, however it's still not in my cryptsy account.

Status: 112 bevestigingen
Datum: 2/08/2013 18:12
Aan: C6xWUM5uyRDV4qvvD1vdmF3D1ZaQeYtCLk
Debet: -6.51 CMC
Netto bedrag: -6.51 CMC
Transactie-ID:: a94a4ae7d27e5cbac25bad13c207722c6290310f11661fcf973b8b99473cd63c

Any chance you can look into this & adjust?

[Lauda]

ORB was added before Lebowskis, very very undude...

ORB is a scamcoin, should be banned forever from cryptsy.
Lebowski is decent, I like the weird name 

[BitJohn]

Cryptsy started asking me for all these personal security info and questions today, so I pulled my coins out. Don't like the sound of that.

So this came up quite a bit today. The reason for security questions is owner validation. We have users losing access to their original signup email. So in order to validate them we need another method. Just like any site that asks personal security questions you can make the answer anything you wish. Just know the answer! So question like Whats your mothers maiden name you can put 67890%^&*(1223 that's fine but know the answer. So if you do lose your email access permanently which until recently I myself didn't think was a real thing but some people do. We have a way to validate your the owner and give you access to your coins by changing your email.

[bholzer]

Cryptsy started asking me for all these personal security info and questions today, so I pulled my coins out. Don't like the sound of that.

So this came up quite a bit today. The reason for security questions is owner validation. We have users losing access to their original signup email. So in order to validate them we need another method. Just like any site that asks personal security questions you can make the answer anything you wish. Just know the answer! So question like Whats your mothers maiden name you can put 67890%^&*(1223 that's fine but know the answer. So if you do lose your email access permanently which until recently I myself didn't think was a real thing but some people do. We have a way to validate your the owner and give you access to your coins by changing your email.

Seems smart to me -- I really don't see a disadvantage here. Our accounts are used for transferring, trading, and sometimes even storing valuable virtual currencies -- I have no problem going through a few extra steps to verify my identity if it means my investments are safer.

I had an incident once where I lost my phone (slipped out of the pocket in a new pair of slacks)...which was linked to my email. The person who found the phone reset my passwords for various websites and confirmed the resets via my Email...which they now had access to. If there had been an additional security question on the sites in question, there's a chance it would have never happened.

I was tipped off when I checked my deleted Email and saw the "reset password" emails in there (the idiot never deleted the trace) -- I got everything straightened out quickly and eventually even got my phone back...but securing and modifying the compromised websites was the biggest hassle out of everything.

[BitJohn]

Cryptsy started asking me for all these personal security info and questions today, so I pulled my coins out. Don't like the sound of that.

So this came up quite a bit today. The reason for security questions is owner validation. We have users losing access to their original signup email. So in order to validate them we need another method. Just like any site that asks personal security questions you can make the answer anything you wish. Just know the answer! So question like Whats your mothers maiden name you can put 67890%^&*(1223 that's fine but know the answer. So if you do lose your email access permanently which until recently I myself didn't think was a real thing but some people do. We have a way to validate your the owner and give you access to your coins by changing your email.

Seems smart to me -- I really don't see a disadvantage here. Our accounts are used for transferring, trading, and sometimes even storing valuable virtual currencies -- I have no problem going through a few extra steps to verify my identity if it means my investments are safer.

I had an incident once where I lost my phone (slipped out of the pocket in a new pair of slacks)...which was linked to my email. The person who found the phone reset my passwords for various websites and confirmed the resets via my Email...which they now had access to. If there had been an additional security question on the sites in question, there's a chance it would have never happened.

I was tipped off when I checked my deleted Email and saw the "reset password" emails in there (the idiot never deleted the trace) -- I got everything straightened out quickly and eventually even got my phone back...but securing and modifying the compromised websites was the biggest hassle out of everything.

Exactly the scenario this protects against. Again the answers don't have to be true they just have to be correct when we try to confirm. I personally have made up answers for any security question myself various pass phrases with symbols etc but I'm paranoid.

[Walt Sobchak]

ORB was added before Lebowskis, very very undude...

ORB is a scamcoin, should be banned forever from cryptsy.
Lebowski is decent, I like the weird name 

Have you seen the movie The Big Lebowski?

[jonoiv]

another one for starcoin and cloudcoin  please

[Taxidermista]

Cryptsy started asking me for all these personal security info and questions today, so I pulled my coins out. Don't like the sound of that.

So this came up quite a bit today. The reason for security questions is owner validation. We have users losing access to their original signup email. So in order to validate them we need another method. Just like any site that asks personal security questions you can make the answer anything you wish. Just know the answer!

Weird questions BTW. I don't know what "6th grade" is or what a "second name" is. I think there is also one question about child nicknames or stuffed animals (?!?). I suppose these are normal questions in the States but are really weird here in Spain. It would be much better to give the option to users to write both the question and the answer.

[broken_pixel]

ORB was added before Lebowskis, very very undude...

ORB is a scamcoin, should be banned forever from cryptsy.
Lebowski is decent, I like the weird name 

I guess you never saw the movie? 

[monocolor]

GLX, STR and PHS!

[BitJohn]

Cryptsy started asking me for all these personal security info and questions today, so I pulled my coins out. Don't like the sound of that.

So this came up quite a bit today. The reason for security questions is owner validation. We have users losing access to their original signup email. So in order to validate them we need another method. Just like any site that asks personal security questions you can make the answer anything you wish. Just know the answer!

Weird questions BTW. I don't know what "6th grade" is or what a "second name" is. I think there is also one question about child nicknames or stuffed animals (?!?). I suppose these are normal questions in the States but are really weird here in Spain. It would be much better to give the option to users to write both the question and the answer.

Ok that made me laugh literally. I agree there may be some cultural confusion there. I will talk to vern about a custom option.

[erk]

Cryptsy started asking me for all these personal security info and questions today, so I pulled my coins out. Don't like the sound of that.

So this came up quite a bit today. The reason for security questions is owner validation. We have users losing access to their original signup email. So in order to validate them we need another method. Just like any site that asks personal security questions you can make the answer anything you wish. Just know the answer! So question like Whats your mothers maiden name you can put 67890%^&*(1223 that's fine but know the answer. So if you do lose your email access permanently which until recently I myself didn't think was a real thing but some people do. We have a way to validate your the owner and give you access to your coins by changing your email.

Seems smart to me -- I really don't see a disadvantage here. Our accounts are used for transferring, trading, and sometimes even storing valuable virtual currencies -- I have no problem going through a few extra steps to verify my identity if it means my investments are safer.

I had an incident once where I lost my phone (slipped out of the pocket in a new pair of slacks)...which was linked to my email. The person who found the phone reset my passwords for various websites and confirmed the resets via my Email...which they now had access to. If there had been an additional security question on the sites in question, there's a chance it would have never happened.

I was tipped off when I checked my deleted Email and saw the "reset password" emails in there (the idiot never deleted the trace) -- I got everything straightened out quickly and eventually even got my phone back...but securing and modifying the compromised websites was the biggest hassle out of everything.

There are lots of ways to do security that don't involve giving out personal information. This isn't one of them.

[BitJohn]

Cryptsy started asking me for all these personal security info and questions today, so I pulled my coins out. Don't like the sound of that.

So this came up quite a bit today. The reason for security questions is owner validation. We have users losing access to their original signup email. So in order to validate them we need another method. Just like any site that asks personal security questions you can make the answer anything you wish. Just know the answer! So question like Whats your mothers maiden name you can put 67890%^&*(1223 that's fine but know the answer. So if you do lose your email access permanently which until recently I myself didn't think was a real thing but some people do. We have a way to validate your the owner and give you access to your coins by changing your email.

Seems smart to me -- I really don't see a disadvantage here. Our accounts are used for transferring, trading, and sometimes even storing valuable virtual currencies -- I have no problem going through a few extra steps to verify my identity if it means my investments are safer.

I had an incident once where I lost my phone (slipped out of the pocket in a new pair of slacks)...which was linked to my email. The person who found the phone reset my passwords for various websites and confirmed the resets via my Email...which they now had access to. If there had been an additional security question on the sites in question, there's a chance it would have never happened.

I was tipped off when I checked my deleted Email and saw the "reset password" emails in there (the idiot never deleted the trace) -- I got everything straightened out quickly and eventually even got my phone back...but securing and modifying the compromised websites was the biggest hassle out of everything.

There are lots of ways to do security that don't involve giving out personal information. This isn't one of them.

I think the point is don't put in personal information in its a pass phrase like any other any information can be provided as long as you remember it when you enter it. Favorite teddy Bear is probably not the most intrusive question but if teddy needs a more anonymous name then make it A$%^65ty.

The security part of verification ends when the end user losses his keys to his information. So then the question becomes how does the user regain access to his information and prove he is himself without losing anonymity that many crypto users want or do we just say sorry well hold your coins for eternity.

How do you propose a user proves ownership of his account? We feel this is the best way for a user to prove they own the account and is a widely accepted practice but are open to other ideas.

[Molitor]

Cryptsy started asking me for all these personal security info and questions today, so I pulled my coins out. Don't like the sound of that.

So this came up quite a bit today. The reason for security questions is owner validation. We have users losing access to their original signup email. So in order to validate them we need another method. Just like any site that asks personal security questions you can make the answer anything you wish. Just know the answer! So question like Whats your mothers maiden name you can put 67890%^&*(1223 that's fine but know the answer. So if you do lose your email access permanently which until recently I myself didn't think was a real thing but some people do. We have a way to validate your the owner and give you access to your coins by changing your email.

Seems smart to me -- I really don't see a disadvantage here. Our accounts are used for transferring, trading, and sometimes even storing valuable virtual currencies -- I have no problem going through a few extra steps to verify my identity if it means my investments are safer.

I had an incident once where I lost my phone (slipped out of the pocket in a new pair of slacks)...which was linked to my email. The person who found the phone reset my passwords for various websites and confirmed the resets via my Email...which they now had access to. If there had been an additional security question on the sites in question, there's a chance it would have never happened.

I was tipped off when I checked my deleted Email and saw the "reset password" emails in there (the idiot never deleted the trace) -- I got everything straightened out quickly and eventually even got my phone back...but securing and modifying the compromised websites was the biggest hassle out of everything.

There are lots of ways to do security that don't involve giving out personal information. This isn't one of them.

I think the point is don't put in personal information in its a pass phrase like any other any information can be provided as long as you remember it when you enter it. Favorite teddy Bear is probably not the most intrusive question but if teddy needs a more anonymous name then make it A$%^65ty.

The security part of verification ends when the end user losses his keys to his information. So then the question becomes how does the user regain access to his information and prove he is himself without losing anonymity that many crypto users want or do we just say sorry well hold your coins for eternity.

How do you propose a user proves ownership of his account? We feel this is the best way for a user to prove they own the account and is a widely accepted practice but are open to other ideas.

Using Country of Residence as a fail-safe security question is about one notch above using Gender. I fudged my actual residency, and let me tell you, if I start getting penis enlargement emails written in Uzbek, there's gonna be hell to pay.

[BitJohn]

Cryptsy started asking me for all these personal security info and questions today, so I pulled my coins out. Don't like the sound of that.

So this came up quite a bit today. The reason for security questions is owner validation. We have users losing access to their original signup email. So in order to validate them we need another method. Just like any site that asks personal security questions you can make the answer anything you wish. Just know the answer! So question like Whats your mothers maiden name you can put 67890%^&*(1223 that's fine but know the answer. So if you do lose your email access permanently which until recently I myself didn't think was a real thing but some people do. We have a way to validate your the owner and give you access to your coins by changing your email.

Seems smart to me -- I really don't see a disadvantage here. Our accounts are used for transferring, trading, and sometimes even storing valuable virtual currencies -- I have no problem going through a few extra steps to verify my identity if it means my investments are safer.

I had an incident once where I lost my phone (slipped out of the pocket in a new pair of slacks)...which was linked to my email. The person who found the phone reset my passwords for various websites and confirmed the resets via my Email...which they now had access to. If there had been an additional security question on the sites in question, there's a chance it would have never happened.

I was tipped off when I checked my deleted Email and saw the "reset password" emails in there (the idiot never deleted the trace) -- I got everything straightened out quickly and eventually even got my phone back...but securing and modifying the compromised websites was the biggest hassle out of everything.

There are lots of ways to do security that don't involve giving out personal information. This isn't one of them.

I think the point is don't put in personal information in its a pass phrase like any other any information can be provided as long as you remember it when you enter it. Favorite teddy Bear is probably not the most intrusive question but if teddy needs a more anonymous name then make it A$%^65ty.

The security part of verification ends when the end user losses his keys to his information. So then the question becomes how does the user regain access to his information and prove he is himself without losing anonymity that many crypto users want or do we just say sorry well hold your coins for eternity.

How do you propose a user proves ownership of his account? We feel this is the best way for a user to prove they own the account and is a widely accepted practice but are open to other ideas.

Using Country of Residence as a fail-safe security question is about one notch above using Gender. I fudged my actual residency, and let me tell you, if I start getting penis enlargement emails written in Uzbek, there's gonna be hell to pay.

You could put it as the planet mars if you'd like or your country of residence could be a pass phrase the questions are irrelevant as long as you know the answers.

[Lauda]

More security @Cryptsy! 

[Hilux74]

Please add Elephant Coin.  Just because it had a minimal premine shouldn't keep it off the exchange.  It has a decent enough minjng following.  Let users decide if it lives or dies...it deserves a chance.  You guys give chances to coins like GIL for no better reason than its 'dev' is a chatbox fanboy.

[darksoft]

Please add Elephant Coin.  Just because it had a minimal premine shouldn't keep it off the exchange.  It has a decent enough minjng following.  Let users decide if it lives or dies...it deserves a chance.  You guys give chances to coins like GIL for no better reason than its 'dev' is a chatbox fanboy.

+1 and how

[datguyian]

Favorite teddy Bear is probably not the most intrusive question but if teddy needs a more anonymous name then make it A$%^65ty.

This seriously cracked me up for some reason.