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by nwh 13y ago
I actually did intend "prosperity" in this case, though "posterity" would work as well.
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by nwh 13y ago
Archive of the advertisement for prosperity/history — http://archive.is/pqsJT
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by nwh 13y ago
> it actually seemed like they thought that "the blockchain" is a file stored on blockchain.info People seem to confuse that a lot. It's a badly named service at the best of times. I wonder how many legal requests the si
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by nwh 13y ago
aria2c -x5 Easy.
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by nwh 13y ago
It's mentioned in the post that it was weighed down so much that it dropped off the front page almost instantly.
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by nwh 13y ago
Even if you're working on the same block, it's never the same work for the processor, the timestamp, order of transactions, number of transactions, and the coinbase all make the work unique.
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by nwh 13y ago
You could to a point, but you would need a lot of mining power and the ability to act quickly. BIPS didn't announce that they'd been compromised until over a week since the funds were sent out, so it's completely impossible a
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by nwh 13y ago
I don't think they're suggesting that, more just gross incompetence on the part of the developer, and a little bit of liberty about how "secure" the systems they have created actually are. It's a lot like inputs.io,
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by nwh 13y ago
Eh, not really. I don't think any form of electronics is recyclable, best you probably get is third world countries burning the boards to get the gold out and killing themselves with the gases produced.
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by nwh 13y ago
Address of the stolen funds: https://blockchain.info/address/1LuG91tcSQxKj32BsCoRkX7yQLfj...
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Bitcoin payment processor BIPS compromised, 1295 BTC stolen(bitcointalk.org)
72 points by nwh 13y ago|66 comments
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by nwh 13y ago
I don't believe this is fair. I walk into the supermarket and consciously attempt not to eat the first crap I come across, and it costs me vastly more than if I just went and bought a 10KB tub of mayo and ate it with a soup ladle.
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by nwh 13y ago
To do that the chip would have to be designed to have that feature already. Otherwise it's like looking at a bicycle and wishing you could repurpose it into being a plane. The structure is just not there to do that sort of modification
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by nwh 13y ago
There's no advantage in selecting them "randomly", the resulting hash is always random. If there was a benefit in some sort of incrementing method, the entire system would be broken. They do some optimisation with the way the
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by nwh 13y ago
No, they can't crack passwords. They increment a nonce at the end of a supplied string and only return if the nonce results in a low hash. They're not a generic "fast SHA" device like you're thinking.
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by nwh 13y ago
There's nothing special about this stuff really. The processors they are using at the moment are literally just standard SHA256 core designs slapped on a wafer. The ASICmimer gear is ridiculously inefficient, drawing something like 11W
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by nwh 13y ago
No. They look for low hashes by incrementing an appended nonce. That's it. Nothing else.
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by nwh 13y ago
• He posted a question on StackOverflow with his real name and the silk road address. • His first post on Bitcointalk was him introducing the silk road and then again about a job opportunity with his real email address. • He ordered fake ID
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by nwh 13y ago
Possible he didn't have have a password on his wallet, just his laptop, which was unlocked when they arrested him.
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by nwh 13y ago
You're no longer hellbanned.
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by nwh 13y ago
It's an infuriating bug, there's no real reason for it, and no pattern as to what triggers it. Some users see it daily others never see it. It's been around long enough to seriously irritate some users, hence the bounty.
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by nwh 13y ago
For those uninformed, "MasterCoin" is an impossible attempt at pegging Bitcoin to the USD (among other things). It of course doesn't work because there's a limited supply, which means that the prices are raised and you&#
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by nwh 13y ago
Cryptolocker spreads with a really stupid email message, and an attachment you have to extract and then execute. You have to be incredibly technically inept to get hit with it.
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by nwh 13y ago
That's generally not the case. You might be able to see some of my funds, but certainly not the entire contents of my wallet unless you're using very broken ones. I've hundreds of different inputs in my wallet, and you'd
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by nwh 13y ago
A shared wallet, not the "shared wallet" service. Many services use them internally, they're in no way a trap. > CoinJoin is nice too, but it does not look well in the eyes of "anti-structuring" laws. Neither i
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by nwh 13y ago
> There's no crypto code in Bitcoin that was invited by Satoshi and could have been badly broken in a subtle manner. Read up on the history of the client. Satoshi was innovative but could certainly not code securely to save themse
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by nwh 13y ago
If you're doing it persistently you just end up flooding the blockchain with useless information. At least with CoinJoin you're reducing the number of payment TXs that need to be stored and validated. The blockchain is already get
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by nwh 13y ago
Pretty much just CoinJoin, which is in development. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=279249.0
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by nwh 13y ago
Given it got broken up into 4000BTC chunks after the box TX, we can assume they are on paper wallets, probably distributed up using secret sharing. That's standard in the Bitcoin world.
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by nwh 13y ago
Users of blockchain.info. It's a little obvious, the amounts they transferred are "FBI" when typed on a phone keyboard.

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