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by nwh 12y ago
I remember seeing a comment somewhere on their site that payouts will be in USD rather than BTC. Can't find it now, so I could be wrong.
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by nwh 12y ago
Almost as bad as Google's ridiculously scammy looking blogspot URLs it uses for official blog posts.
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by nwh 12y ago
Full site archive: http://archive.today/ZXNa8
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by nwh 12y ago
If anybody is wondering, the name refers to the Roland TR808 drum machine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_TR-808
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by nwh 12y ago
I do know that Alice Springs exists, but it's an error in the Geo IP database they are using rather than true data. That's where the general hand-waving "australia" marker is placed when they don't know more than th
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by nwh 12y ago
Even more visible in Australia, nobody lives in the center.
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by nwh 12y ago
Electrum is within a second, instant.
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by nwh 12y ago
You really, really don't want to be doing that. Use a proper SPV client.
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by nwh 12y ago
Nobody except for people running block explorers really needs this information. If you think you need it then you're probably using Bitcoin completely wrong. Address based indexes don't scale, which is why it doesn't create o
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by nwh 12y ago
They're a code that you type in rather than a number to call. I really have no idea how they work, but I imagine they're some sort of non-text non-call sort of thing? Don't really have anything sensible to google so I can&#x2
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by nwh 12y ago
For the Optus (and their MVNO) it's fairly trivial to just nuke the voicemail completely with a call to a specific code. Seriously, who even uses it anyway? Bear in mind that in Australia we are charged a clear dollar a minute to retri
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by nwh 12y ago
Question to someone capable of understanding the paper; how screwed is ECDSA?
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by nwh 12y ago
Ugh, yeah the documentation for anything related to Bitcoin is terrible. Originally it didn't use bloom filters, they're a new thing as of Bitcoin client version 0.8 and above. > the descriptions I've seen of SPV allowed
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by nwh 12y ago
The reality though is that most people will never, ever need this sort of information. Unless you have a particular desire to run a block explorer or other lookup service, you are only going to be interested in addresses that you own and no
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by nwh 12y ago
CPU resources or human ones? This package by Bitpay solves the latter. https://github.com/bitpay/insight
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by nwh 12y ago
It shows. Why do some API calls result in a negative balance? You can't have a negative balance. $ curl https://GUEST-TOKEN@api.chain.com/bitcoin/addresses/1dice8EMZmqKvrGE4Qc9bUFf9PX3xaYDp {"ha
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by nwh 12y ago
Anybody working with Bitcoin should really avoid services like this just for their own sanity. You've a wealth of freely accessible data in the form of the 20GB blockchain, why rely on trusting a third party for their uptime, privacy a
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by nwh 12y ago
When someone comes through the door and gives me anything but an illustrator file with the proper layers set up, they're going to get charged for someone to sit and weed them out of whatever format Sketch generates.
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by nwh 12y ago
You shouldn't use that anyway, that's a trust needing operation. A bootstrap.dat file is what you want, which wouldn't have the obfuscation applied.
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by nwh 12y ago
Keep in mind that if they're paying the network fees for the user they also lose ~0.0001BTC or more per transaction it's users make. They've got to make that up from somewhere.
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by nwh 12y ago
8000 nodes listening on IPv4. There's probably hundreds of thousands of non listening ones. Not every node is listening, not every wallet is a node. You can still be trustless even without a copy of the blockchain at hand.
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by nwh 12y ago
So a joker decided to embed some Anti Virus bait in the blockchain, just a few bytes is enough to make the software go nuts deleting a whole lot of files the Bitcoin client needs. The solution the Bitcoin developers suggest is pure old-scho
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by nwh 12y ago
The trouble is that the lock-in is immense. I know people with upwards of 20,000 PSD files in stock ready for when clients return and want similar jobs done. Every piece of print hardware I know of uses Pantone standard colours which no oth
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by nwh 12y ago
It's not really, a honeypot (ha, title relevant) like this only works if it is obscure, as soon as everybody is aware of them the game changes significantly. If being a persistent threat is more valuable than the honeypot to the attack
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by nwh 12y ago
My ISP has had IPv6 "coming very soon" since 2009.
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by nwh 12y ago
That's truly unpleasant. I don't get how anybody thinks that is acceptable behavior.
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by nwh 12y ago
Luckily no Flash to speak of there.
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by nwh 12y ago
What the fuck? That is absolutely not cool.
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by nwh 12y ago
Any run of three characters in sequence, forward or reverse, is marked as invalid. 123 876 432 would all mark the whole password as invalid, even if they only take up half the string. Yours would pass though, yes.
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by nwh 12y ago
No, it could have just been random. They've reduced their keyspace massively by doing that. Six characters, all numbers, no ascending or descending. 123849 is invalid as an example, as is 954391.

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