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[TeeGee]

Those are excellent mochilles.

[Chase]

Those are excellent mochilles.

I agree!  I love the 4th one and it gets my vote, including best font.  

[RJF]

Those are excellent mochilles.

I agree!  I love the 4th one and it gets my vote, including best font.  

Yes, nice work, very professional looking and grabs your attention...

[DNotes]

Not sure if I'm late to the logo party, but as a designer I couldn't help do my own interpretation.

Great job Mochilles! Plenty of time left.

[Dyna]

Those are excellent mochilles.

They are. Thanks mochillies.

This is going to be an extremely important site that will target VIPs in the political, regulatory, media, and business world among others. If have you great talent in an area you believe could be helpful, please let us know. I encourage our community to give this project the highest level of support.

[infovortice2013]

maybe dceb should go all in caps like trademark

the big problem of using a QR like logo its the easy supplantation by anyone. but use the QR like end point works too.

[DNotes]

maybe dceb should go all in caps like trademark

the big problem of using a QR like logo its the easy supplantation by anyone. but use the QR like end point works too.

It is a bit important to make it easy to read and understand, and everyone reads it the same way. Intended to be read as D C E Brief. That can be achieved by separating DCE from Brief in some way.

[DNotes]

Working on testing out a few formats for the site. I will likely be using wordpress as the platform.

If anyone is interested in working on the site layout and design, we would be happy to provide a bounty.

The bulk of the design will need to be around the content and layout of the content. We need to make it easy to find the information quickly. Possibly title/image style, click into the executive brief, with the option of digging in deeper into the content.

[RJF]

It's getting to be a full time job keeping up with you Alan! 

http://bitcoinist.net/dnotes-alan-yong-comments-regarding-greece-needs-a-global-currency/

[DNotes]

It's getting to be a full time job keeping up with you Alan! 

http://bitcoinist.net/dnotes-alan-yong-comments-regarding-greece-needs-a-global-currency/

Good find! Yep, you may need a team lol.

[DNotes]

A warning for those using brain wallets.

Brainflayer: A Password Cracker That Steals Bitcoins From Your Brain

FOR BITCOIN FANS, the notion of a “brain wallet” has long seemed like the ideal method of storing your cryptocurrency: By simply remembering a complex passphrase, the trick allows anyone to essentially hold millions of dollars worth of digital cash in their brain alone, with no need to keep any records on a computer.

It turns out, however, that your mind is a surprisingly vulnerable place to put the key to your crypto-liquid assets. And now one hacker is releasing the brain-thieving software to prove it.

Next month at the hacker conference DefCon, security Ryan Castellucci plans to release a piece of software he calls Brainflayer, designed to crack bitcoin brain wallets and let any hacker suck out the digital cash stored in them. In fact, wise bitcoiners have known for years that brain wallets—despite their promise of hiding crypto treasure in the most private depths of the user’s mind—are often unsafe. Castellucci says his cracking program is designed to serve as a public demonstration of that insecurity for those who still haven’t gotten the message, and put an end to the practice for good.

[...]

The problem, says Castellucci, is that humans don’t choose strong, random passphrases as well as they think they do. And any hacker can patiently guess millions upon millions of passphrases, converting them into private keys and trying them on every bitcoin address on the blockchain, the public ledger of all bitcoin locations. Even when a bitcoin user thinks she has chosen a sufficiently strong passphrase for her brain wallet, Castellucci says it often can’t stand up to the cracking resources of thieves motivated by an instant cash reward. “The usual bitcoin private key is long enough that no one is going to guess it before the sun burns out,” says Castellucci. “But if they just have to guess your passphrase, they’re going to do it, because people are terrible random number generators.”

[...]

http://www.wired.com/2015/07/brainflayer-password-cracker-steals-bitcoins-brain/

[Dyna]

It's getting to be a full time job keeping up with you Alan! 

http://bitcoinist.net/dnotes-alan-yong-comments-regarding-greece-needs-a-global-currency/

Well, RJF, at least you don't have to pick-up skype call at 3:00 AM (CST) with some saying "Did I wake you up? Oh, sorry, I forgot that we are not in the same time zone". LOL.

[IMZ]

Perhaps this is a good time to offer to set up wallets for anyone who has expressed any interest in Dnotes/cryptos? A year ago, it was "Fiat = stable; cryptos = volatile and unknown."

But now it's: "fiat = less stable; Dnotes = established and rising steadily in price."

I am happily blogging away here:

http://cryptomoms.com/forum/cryptomoms-com/5/crypto-kindergarten/537/msg4348#new

Mark (IndiaMikeZulu), Australia

[Dyna]

Check this out:

http://insidebitcoins.com/


DNotes is in the Rolling Headline News! Quite cool.

[RJF]

It's getting to be a full time job keeping up with you Alan! 

http://bitcoinist.net/dnotes-alan-yong-comments-regarding-greece-needs-a-global-currency/

Well, RJF, at least you don't have to pick-up skype call at 3:00 AM (CST) with some saying "Did I wake you up? Oh, sorry, I forgot that we are not in the same time zone". LOL.

I hear ya, I used to be in the same boat when we had the ISP, anytime, any day... 

[Dyna]

Perhaps this is a good time to offer to set up wallets for anyone who has expressed any interest in Dnotes/cryptos? A year ago, it was "Fiat = stable; cryptos = volatile and unknown."

But now it's: "fiat = less stable; Dnotes = established and rising steadily in price."

I am happily blogging away here:

http://cryptomoms.com/forum/cryptomoms-com/5/crypto-kindergarten/537/msg4348#new

Mark (IndiaMikeZulu), Australia

"Perhaps this is a good time to offer to set up wallets for anyone who has expressed any interest in Dnotes/cryptos?" I will also support that, Mark.

On a different note:

This is by far the best article I have read regarding Greece’s debt crisis.  If you are a serious observer, it is certainly worth reading. I am deeply concerned that the crisis will spread with very negative global impacts. Some “argued, it might create global financial shocks bigger than the collapse of Lehman Brothers did.”  I hope not, but if the Chinese stock market continues its free fall, I may not be far from that camp. The last time, many major corporations got into serious financial trouble. This time around, it will include local governments, state governments, nations and their fiat currencies.

Greece’s Debt Crisis Explained

By THE NEW YORK TIMES UPDATED July 8, 2015
Liz Alderman, James Kanter, Jim Yardley, Jack Ewing, Niki Kitsantonis, Suzanne Daley, Karl Russell, Andrew Higgins and Peter Eavis contributed reporting.

“…………..  How likely is there to be a ‘Grexit’?
At the height of the debt crisis a few years ago, many experts worried that Greece’s problems would spill over to the rest of the world. If Greece defaulted on its debt and exited the eurozone, they argued, it might create global financial shocks bigger than the collapse of Lehman Brothers did.
Now, however, some people believe that if Greece were to leave the currency union, in what is known as a “Grexit,” it wouldn’t be such a catastrophe. Europe has put up safeguards to limit the so-called financial contagion, in an effort to keep the problems from spreading to other countries. Greece, just a tiny part of the eurozone economy, could regain financial autonomy by leaving, these people contend — and the eurozone would actually be better off without a country that seems to constantly need its neighbors’ support.”

Read More:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/business/international/greece-debt-crisis-euro.html?_r=0

[Mochilles]

Further iterations.

https://i.imgur.com/quTWYSH.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/VeI5XPi.jpg

[DNotes]

Further iterations.

Thank you Mochilles, these are looking very good.

[TeeGee]

I agree, top work mochilles.

[kanus1113]

A warning for those using brain wallets.

Brainflayer: A Password Cracker That Steals Bitcoins From Your Brain

FOR BITCOIN FANS, the notion of a “brain wallet” has long seemed like the ideal method of storing your cryptocurrency: By simply remembering a complex passphrase, the trick allows anyone to essentially hold millions of dollars worth of digital cash in their brain alone, with no need to keep any records on a computer.

It turns out, however, that your mind is a surprisingly vulnerable place to put the key to your crypto-liquid assets. And now one hacker is releasing the brain-thieving software to prove it.

Next month at the hacker conference DefCon, security Ryan Castellucci plans to release a piece of software he calls Brainflayer, designed to crack bitcoin brain wallets and let any hacker suck out the digital cash stored in them. In fact, wise bitcoiners have known for years that brain wallets—despite their promise of hiding crypto treasure in the most private depths of the user’s mind—are often unsafe. Castellucci says his cracking program is designed to serve as a public demonstration of that insecurity for those who still haven’t gotten the message, and put an end to the practice for good.

[...]

The problem, says Castellucci, is that humans don’t choose strong, random passphrases as well as they think they do. And any hacker can patiently guess millions upon millions of passphrases, converting them into private keys and trying them on every bitcoin address on the blockchain, the public ledger of all bitcoin locations. Even when a bitcoin user thinks she has chosen a sufficiently strong passphrase for her brain wallet, Castellucci says it often can’t stand up to the cracking resources of thieves motivated by an instant cash reward. “The usual bitcoin private key is long enough that no one is going to guess it before the sun burns out,” says Castellucci. “But if they just have to guess your passphrase, they’re going to do it, because people are terrible random number generators.”

[...]

http://www.wired.com/2015/07/brainflayer-password-cracker-steals-bitcoins-brain/

Specific words will generate the same private key every time, as soon as I figured that out, I stayed away from brain wallets. So if I tried "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" and got the private key, I could check it against a list of addresses to see if I get a match. In this case, the list of addresses is the entire blockchain.