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by nwh 13y ago
Streisand effect.
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by nwh 13y ago
Hyperbole. Bitcoin is presented in some media as an "anonymous" "untracable" currency, but it's really neither. (Repost from dead original thread)
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by nwh 13y ago
Being labeled Satoshi regardless of truth is pretty much going to get you robbed, kidnapped or killed. This dude lives in this town and has $400M of untraceable currency? The article gives his name, face, address and relatives. You can be s
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by nwh 13y ago
Hyperbole. Bitcoin is presented in some media as an "anonymous" "untracable" currency, but it's really neither.
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by nwh 13y ago
Being labeled Satoshi regardless of truth is pretty much going to get you robbed, kidnapped or killed. This dude lives in this town and has $400M of untraceable currency? You can be sure as hell that somebody will do something stupid to try
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by nwh 13y ago
Not actually a server that's spinning up though is it?
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by nwh 13y ago
Easy enough with DD-WRT I imagine, on most NICs you can set an arbitrary MAC. Sadly didn't work for the pile of Chinese ones I have that all use the same one.
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by nwh 13y ago
This is one of the most bizarre things I've seen in a long time.
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by nwh 13y ago
Site is 508'ing. Here's a partial mirror. http://archive.is/nZwxl Embedded youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuvFsB4SLhA
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by nwh 13y ago
It's a disaster that affects all of Bitcoin really. The most recent compromise left a bunch of Russians with the passports, home addresses and full names of basically every large player in the Bitcoin community. Anonymity broken and lo
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by nwh 13y ago
He was making millions of dollars from trading fees and would have continued to do so for the foreseeable future. Why would he steal his own funds. It just defies any reasonable explanation.
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by nwh 13y ago
A group of hackers that compromised Gox to find out "what went wrong" and compromised tens of thousands of people's passports and home addresses at the same times. Leaked the personal contacts and names of all the Gox employe
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by nwh 13y ago
For those (like me) who don't know anything about Japanese, referring to yourself as "ore" seems to be inappropriate and likely unintended by Mark. > Frequently used by men. It can be seen as rude depending on the context
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by nwh 13y ago
> If you had a verified account you could ask for any limit you wanted up to 10k BTC, with a trusted account I think there was no maximum— I've talked to people who say they had 50k limits. Wsn't aware of that, I only ever sa
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by nwh 13y ago
Pretty much what mine is too, a pile of spam from various compromises services I should have done better than to trust. Mt Gox, Dropbox, Bitstamp (yeah, they never made a big mention of that one) and a variety of other small services.
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by nwh 13y ago
It's basically impossible. There's 200BTC a day withdraw limits (or rather, was), for this to have worked somebody would have needed to be withdrawing the limit from 5 different accounts, every day for the last 3 years and success
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by nwh 13y ago
I'm still getting almost daily phishing/malware from the Mt Gox leak in 2011, and I never even signed up for anything more than to see what it's interface was like. Can't imagine how that will be with people having cop
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by nwh 13y ago
Gox mentions this on a number of occasions, not the least in 2011 when they detailed how their cold storage system worked with split keys.
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by nwh 13y ago
Eh, I hear that a lot but it's fairly far from the reality. It's a two faced presentation from that community, when the price of dogecoin goes up they get behind "doge to the moon", if the price goes down it's &quot
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by nwh 13y ago
Definitely agree on both points, though I'm not convinced malleability has anything to do with their current troubles. They might have lost a few Bitcoin with that trick but it's nothing against half a billion dollars.
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by nwh 13y ago
> But elliptic curve crypto is not one of these topics. If the code can generate a handful of Bitcoin account numbers and corresponding keys correctly, there is hardly any reason why it cannot do so for all account numbers and correspon
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by nwh 13y ago
Agreed. Short of any break of the obfuscation, there's always going to be exposure of the media in an analogue form where a user can point a damn Polaroid camera at it. DRM just makes it difficult for the legitimate consumer and easier
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by nwh 13y ago
What you're talking about is not DRM, much the opposite. > If you see DRM as simply and securely distributing read access permission, then there's no reason this can't be achieved with OSS. There is. If it's open so
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by nwh 13y ago
> Why do people keep equating DRM with proprietary? DRM must be proprietary. The whole point of DRM is that only the authorized devices get the "special source". DRM is closed source, obfuscated binaries, tricks and traps t
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by nwh 13y ago
> It does, click on the IP and the public key is listed there in a gist, along with the command to use it with dnscrypt-proxy. You're right, github must have hiccuped before. When I looked at that before it was a blank document. I
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by nwh 13y ago
To what end? You could abusively embed data in the Bitcoin blockchain (20GB), or use the Namecoin blockchain, or any multitude of altcoins with useless security that nobody has even heard of before. The end result is always the same; you ca
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by nwh 13y ago
> This does scale, and lite clients are not being proposed here. The first part of this document tells me that a local daemon communicated with Namecoin, ergo the system is dependent on having it running locally for anything approachin
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by nwh 13y ago
Namecoin unfortunately does not scale. You can't have lite clients, just an ever growing multi gigabyte database on every device you wish to use it on. Relying on a remote party to securely store and relay the blockchain to you is fool
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by nwh 13y ago
> IMHO, the type of person who installs adblock isn't the type of person you can sell things to easily. They're decidedly anti-mainstream, anti-corporate, probably not particularly rich, etc. [citation needed] Could
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by nwh 13y ago
Even just sticking a caching CloudFlare instance in front of the thing would do better than it currently is.

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