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Here's a bitcoin/tor "equivalent": http://torbrokerge7zxgq.onion/ http://torbrokerge7zxgq.onion/ or http://torbrokerge7zxgq.onion.to/ http://torbrokerge7zxgq.on

by kanzure 13y ago

Here's a bitcoin/tor "equivalent": http://torbrokerge7zxgq.onion/ http://torbrokerge7zxgq.onion/ or http://torbrokerge7zxgq.onion.to/ http://torbrokerge7zxgq.onion.to/

jimktrains2 13y ago
How long must they have let scallion/Shallot. https://github.com/katmagic/Shallot https://github.com/katmagic/Shallot is quoting a 10char prefix on the order of decades for a single machine.
- kanzure 13y ago
  That's funny, I'm actually running scallion in the background right now. I am thinking about spinning up some ec2 instances to just pay $10-$50 to finish sooner. Pretty sure this is what TorBroker did too..
- bjterry 13y ago
  It's an interesting question how much added flexibility decreases the time. If you add a letter to the pattern it increases the complexity by a factor of 36 (26 letters, 10 numbers), but if you add an optional letter it actually halves the complexity, because strings are acceptable either with or without the match. If their pattern was torbroke?ra?ge? then based on the time quoted, if it takes 2.5 years for 9 letters, we'd expect only 114 days for 9 letters plus three optional letters. The fact that they only have one letter missing means they probably didn't have much more than 2 optional characters, since you would expect on average half of them not to appear.
tlrobinson 13y ago
If you transfer Bitcoins to a Tor hidden service you're just asking for them to be stolen. One cool thing about Bitcoin is you can use "colored coins" [1] to track shares of stock, then you can use Bitcoin's "script"[2]/contracts[3] to do trustless/atomic trades. It requires the company (or some other counterparty) to issue the stock as colored coins though, so for now it's limited mostly to Bitcoin related companies. You can even do trustless cross-chain trades, for example if a you wanted to trade Litecoin for a Bitcoin (or Bitcoin blockchain-based colored coin) [4]. [1] http://coloredcoins.org/ http://coloredcoins.org/ [2] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script [3] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts [4] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts#Example_5:_Trading_across_chains https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts#Example_5:_Trading_acro...

by kanzure 13y ago

Here's a bitcoin/tor "equivalent": http://torbrokerge7zxgq.onion/ http://torbrokerge7zxgq.onion/ or http://torbrokerge7zxgq.onion.to/ http://torbrokerge7zxgq.onion.to/

jimktrains2 13y ago

How long must they have let scallion/Shallot. https://github.com/katmagic/Shallot https://github.com/katmagic/Shallot is quoting a 10char prefix on the order of decades for a single machine.

kanzure 13y ago
That's funny, I'm actually running scallion in the background right now. I am thinking about spinning up some ec2 instances to just pay $10-$50 to finish sooner. Pretty sure this is what TorBroker did too..
bjterry 13y ago
It's an interesting question how much added flexibility decreases the time. If you add a letter to the pattern it increases the complexity by a factor of 36 (26 letters, 10 numbers), but if you add an optional letter it actually halves the complexity, because strings are acceptable either with or without the match. If their pattern was torbroke?ra?ge? then based on the time quoted, if it takes 2.5 years for 9 letters, we'd expect only 114 days for 9 letters plus three optional letters. The fact that they only have one letter missing means they probably didn't have much more than 2 optional characters, since you would expect on average half of them not to appear.

tlrobinson 13y ago

If you transfer Bitcoins to a Tor hidden service you're just asking for them to be stolen. One cool thing about Bitcoin is you can use "colored coins" [1] to track shares of stock, then you can use Bitcoin's "script"[2]/contracts[3] to do trustless/atomic trades. It requires the company (or some other counterparty) to issue the stock as colored coins though, so for now it's limited mostly to Bitcoin related companies. You can even do trustless cross-chain trades, for example if a you wanted to trade Litecoin for a Bitcoin (or Bitcoin blockchain-based colored coin) [4]. [1] http://coloredcoins.org/ http://coloredcoins.org/ [2] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script [3] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts [4] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts#Example_5:_Trading_across_chains https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts#Example_5:_Trading_acro...