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by mv4 9y ago
He is just hedging.
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by mv4 9y ago
The really scary (or even shady) part to me isn't a complete outage, but a controlled selective one - where some functions become unavailable to some people. That creates massive opportunities for abuse.
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by mv4 9y ago
Secret of success: buy low, sell high. Unless you are a Coinbase customer (because they will selective disable your ability to act when prices move quickly). I've witnessed it at least a dozen time personally, and stopped trading altog
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by mv4 9y ago
wouldn't it be more accurate to say "wallets"? I am sure many of these are owned by large groups of people.
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by mv4 9y ago
Re: "When you buying Bitcoins they go to your wallet and you can verify the transaction on blockchain.info." Not necessarily. For example you can trade on GDAX (between ETH/BTC/LTC/USD) without hitting the blockcha
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by mv4 9y ago
I think the parent comment was referencing "wash trades", where you trade between your own accounts to create an illusion of active trading (or movement up or down - whatever your objective may be). Currently this is very easy to
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by mv4 9y ago
Tracking won't accomplish much, they run transactions through mixers/tumblers, and you quickly lose track. Here's the money from the NiceHash hack two weeks ago (or "hack") getting moved out, in plain sight: https:
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by mv4 9y ago
... especially if Coinbase decides to add XMR as their 4th menu item
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by mv4 9y ago
I am starting to see the same patterns.
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by mv4 9y ago
The funds sat there for a week. Now starting to see transfers out, 1,000 BTC at a time.
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That wallet from NiceHash heist? the began moving BTC(bitinfocharts.com)
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by mv4 9y ago
I remember the days when adding the word "e-commerce" to your penny stock had the same effect. Good times.
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by mv4 9y ago
Over last couple of weeks, I received a dozen or so contact requests on LinkedIn from "Blockchain and ICO experts". They don't have any other verifiable jobs on their resumes.
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by mv4 9y ago
In my case, I sent some ETH to "my" ETH wallet at Coinbase, received an email from Coinbase alerting me of the incoming transfer, and then - nothing, that ETH is nowhere to be found except on the blockchain (it's not showing
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by mv4 9y ago
I noticed the recent micro transactions (0.0001 BTC) into the wallet, following the alleged heist. Any ideas?
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Alleged NiceHash hacker's wallet: who's sending BTC to it and why?(bitinfocharts.com)
2 points by mv4 9y ago|1 comments
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by mv4 9y ago
and I would do it.
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by mv4 9y ago
Flash crash.
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by mv4 9y ago
They are very well funded, and they can afford scalability. It's not that hard, given the number of transactions even at peak so far. So yeah, I find these weird circuit breaker patterns suspicious. The worst part is "partial&quo
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by mv4 9y ago
They are rarely completely offline. But, they've been experiencing all sorts of "minor outages" and partial service degradation. And when you can't trade or transfer between wallets, the fact that their portal is "u
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by mv4 9y ago
I was wondering the same thing about GDAX/Coinbase. I've been seeing "partial" outages both on their portal and their API side. Partial outages are the worst, as they only leave 'some' of the participants unabl
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by mv4 9y ago
I think Warren Buffet also questioned Bitcoin a few years ago, will try to find that reference. I also just remembered that I questioned it too on Twitter, after seeing some hype from Andreessen, and he promptly blocked me.
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by mv4 9y ago
I am building one right now for my shed.
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by mv4 9y ago
This Russian startup designed a heater that mines Ether: https://thenextweb.com/tech/2017/10/13/russian-ethereum-heat...
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by mv4 9y ago
Was on call 24x7 for several years, took me 10 years to recover. I still hate getting called with no prior warning, can't help it. It messes you up.
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by mv4 9y ago
Yes, amateur hour all around - it's almost as though random individuals with limited tech experience are allowed to mess with a production system. But, this is exciting and fun, and I feel good things will emerge from this eventually.
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by mv4 9y ago
Interesting analysis. What I always find interesting about these crypto incidents is how quiet everyone is, including the parties that end up "losing" significant amounts irreversibly. There's never an investigation.
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by mv4 9y ago
Good point.
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by mv4 9y ago
Mark made much more, and would never release that. He chose to very publicly implement various fake news detection tools instead. This one here was a token gesture, a rounding error.
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by mv4 9y ago
You don't want to be a rockstar or a ninja?

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