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theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

:smith:

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The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
I'll have you know that I'm a gifted high achiever and have the certificate to prove it.

crusader_complex
Jun 4, 2012
what is the likelihood that the thieves read the same foru... oh heh bitcoin

crusader_complex
Jun 4, 2012
pimply faced kid from the simpsons:
dear craigslist, whoever took a green mountain bike please return it that is not cool

Hammerite
Mar 9, 2007

And you don't remember what I said here, either, but it was pompous and stupid.
Jade Ear Joe

fermun posted:

[–]ohminuk 25 points 11 hours ago

lol, did you just accidentally one dollar via /u/changetip ?

[–]changetip 9 points 11 hours ago

The Bitcoin tip for one dollar (2,633 bits/$1.00) has been collected by Bipolarruledout.

ChangeTip info | ChangeTip video | /r/Bitcoin

lol

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

crusader_complex posted:

pimply faced kid from the simpsons:
dear craigslist, whoever took a green mountain bike please return it that is not cool

I prefer Hans Moleman's voice because he has far less dignity

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
So what would happen if someone registered, say, the word "have" with the changetip bot as meaning $20?

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
This thread's pretty good
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2mstow/vault_of_satoshi_shows_all_your_identity/

quote:

Vault of Satoshi shows all your identity verification information in your account - Drivers License Number, Secondary ID, Date of Birth, Banking Details, all of it!

quote:

[–]abdullahadam[S] 68 points 13 hours ago*

I have contacted support requesting them to look into this, and this is the response I got

Stacy P***** (Vault of Satoshi) Nov 19 14:25

No one has access to your account, other than you. This is not something that we are going to change as it is not an issue and our site is secure.

edit: removed full name, not necessary to post that here

[–]eleuthria 77 points 12 hours ago

Wow...that is outright stupidity. "our site is secure" is the lamest excuse I've ever heard.

If you are keeping sensitive information, that can be used for identity theft, on a WEB ACCESSIBLE SERVER, you are not secure. You're incompetent. There is no reason that type of information should reside on an internet facing server. It shouldn't even be accessible from a networked system if that system has internet access.

[–]abdullahadam[S] 17 points 12 hours ago

Thanks for your comment Eleuthria. It's always nice to hear from a legend in our industry.

quote:

[–]Dogeholio 52 points 11 hours ago

Something to note:

That blurring tool you used to obscure your information can be reversed pretty easily.

fermun
Nov 4, 2009

Jabor posted:

So what would happen if someone registered, say, the word "have" with the changetip bot as meaning $20?

when changetip has conflicting amounts, it goes with the smaller number

Sentient Data posted:

Pleasepleaseplease lead to some fun....





looks like sentient data is making sure that some common words will give a very small amount.

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

fermun posted:

when changetip has conflicting amounts, it goes with the smaller number

looks like sentient data is making sure that some common words will give a very small amount.

then someone should register have to be the smallest amount change tip supports

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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I got a merchant to start accepting bitcoin. Tried to tell them about some of the "in jokes" for when bitcoiners come in. Now I saw this on their Facebook. (imgur.com)
submitted 12 hours ago by michaeldunworthsydne

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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[–]xbtdev 6 points 8 hours ago
I picture the clerk saying "How would you like to pay for that?" and you holding up your smartphone and saying "This is gentlemen".

:suicide:

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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Please god - someone design a decentralized bitcoin powerball to destroy predatory lottery practices (rywalk.wordpress.com)
submitted 8 hours ago by RSky215

[–]joae1975[🍰] 16 points 4 hours ago
Seriously, just solo mine with 3gh. That's like playing the lottery for 25 blocks every 10 minutes. Already invented.

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.
a fair decentralized lottery where everybody wins

things Bitcoiners don't understand n...: lotteries

Exinos
Mar 1, 2009

OSHA approved squiq

FrozenVent posted:

then someone should register have to be the smallest amount change tip supports

Can you mess with dollar amounts or just the goofy poo poo bitcoiners have come up with like 1 lawksy?

Like, if someone does the whole "changetip this person $1.00" it instead sends a tip for $0.02?

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬



changetip college tuition sends 50 cents and a message to just wait 20 years.

trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

Exinos posted:

Can you mess with dollar amounts or just the goofy poo poo bitcoiners have come up with like 1 lawksy?

Like, if someone does the whole "changetip this person $1.00" it instead sends a tip for $0.02?

You can override "dollar" so that it becomes a cent or whatever. Dunno about "$"

What I have seen is people overriding common stuff like coffee from the default $1.50 to $0.10 or so, or croissant from $2.50 to $0.10 (it is always ten cents) and then using an alt-account and inadvertently tipping the default amounts and crying about it. My dollar!

Hammerite
Mar 9, 2007

And you don't remember what I said here, either, but it was pompous and stupid.
Jade Ear Joe

trucutru posted:

You can override "dollar" so that it becomes a cent or whatever. Dunno about "$"

What I have seen is people overriding common stuff like coffee from the default $1.50 to $0.10 or so, or croissant from $2.50 to $0.10 (it is always ten cents) and then using an alt-account and inadvertently tipping the default amounts and crying about it. My dollar!

that is hilarious. bitcoiners are children

Herman Merman
Jul 6, 2008

Hammerite posted:

bitcoiners are children
often literally true and not particularly funny

then again, this way they can lose their life savings in butts and still not completely gently caress up their lives so there's that

Herman Merman
Jul 6, 2008
i mean i like laughing at /r/bitcoin as much as the next guy but a lot of their posting is explained by the fact that they are not only mentally but also physically 15 years old

Ron Paul Atreides
Apr 19, 2012

Uyghurs situation in Xinjiang? Just a police action, do not fret. Not ongoing genocide like in EVIL Canada.

I am definitely not a tankie.
That's why people like the winkletwits are way funnier

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

turns 16, gets first job, scrubs dishes for 4 hours on friday and saturday afternoons, gets first pay slip

WHATS THIS TAX BULLSHIT THATS SO UNFAIR WHY ARE THEY STEALING MY MONEY BUY BITCOINS SMASH THE SYSTEM gently caress YOU DAD!

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
heh, okay hacker dad you've made your point. Next time I won't store it so carelessly. You can give me back my bits now. Seriously I need those bits hacker dad I've learned my lesson cut it out

Programmer Humor
Nov 27, 2008

Lipstick Apathy
Nice hack. But seriously, don't do it again.

theflyingorc
Jun 28, 2008

ANY GOOD OPINIONS THIS POSTER CLAIMS TO HAVE ARE JUST PROOF THAT BULLYING WORKS
Young Orc
a bitcoiner's message to the guy who took his bike wheel

Greed is eternal
Jun 8, 2008
lol wtf is side chains? and what problem are the supposed to solve?

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

Greed is eternal posted:

lol wtf is side chains? and what problem are the supposed to solve?

they squash the bass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDLTpe9p334

newreply.php
Dec 24, 2009

Pillbug

Greed is eternal posted:

lol wtf is side chains? and what problem are the supposed to solve?

side chains are attached to a belt loop at one end and to your wallet at the other

fermun
Nov 4, 2009
sidechains don't exist yet but:

you know how bitcoin is limited to 7 transactions per second? well that's the math based on dividing the maximum block size out over 10 minutes and seeing how many transactions would fit. the math has changed a bit though, bitcoin transactions are variable in size because they can come from multiple addresses and be sent to multiple addresses, and transactions have generally become larger as time has gone on. the math works out to about 5 transactions per second these days, and that makes bitcoin kind of useless. the idea then is to create a system which pegs an altcoin to the value of a set of bitcoins, so people can send bitcoins to a specific address and those bitcoins become the basis of an altcoin, which would be used for a more limited set of transactions. then they would want some way to automatically set it up so that people could add more bitcoins and it would create more of the altcoin or they could send some of the altcoin somewhere and it'd automatically cash out and send the appropriate number of bitcoins from the sidechain reserve to your bitcoin address.

i think this is right, someone will probably correct me if i've hosed it up.

Muscle Tracer
Feb 23, 2007

Medals only weigh one down.

fermun posted:

the math works out to about 5 transactions per second these days,

holy poo poo. so at this rate, bitcoin will be not only practically but literally unusable before 2020?

Pardot
Jul 25, 2001




fermun posted:

and transactions have generally become larger as time has gone on.

What is the cause for this?

newreply.php
Dec 24, 2009

Pillbug

Pardot posted:

What is the cause for this?

lack of exercise or ill-chosen nutrition most of the time

Dren
Jan 5, 2001

Pillbug

fermun posted:

sidechains don't exist yet but:

you know how bitcoin is limited to 7 transactions per second? well that's the math based on dividing the maximum block size out over 10 minutes and seeing how many transactions would fit. the math has changed a bit though, bitcoin transactions are variable in size because they can come from multiple addresses and be sent to multiple addresses, and transactions have generally become larger as time has gone on. the math works out to about 5 transactions per second these days, and that makes bitcoin kind of useless. the idea then is to create a system which pegs an altcoin to the value of a set of bitcoins, so people can send bitcoins to a specific address and those bitcoins become the basis of an altcoin, which would be used for a more limited set of transactions. then they would want some way to automatically set it up so that people could add more bitcoins and it would create more of the altcoin or they could send some of the altcoin somewhere and it'd automatically cash out and send the appropriate number of bitcoins from the sidechain reserve to your bitcoin address.

i think this is right, someone will probably correct me if i've hosed it up.

so aside from being dumb why don't these exist

they don't sound that hard to make

edit: nevermind i guess the mining would be weird

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

Pardot posted:

What is the cause for this?

I'm guessing the more you use bitcoins, the more addresses you accumulate, so a two bitcoin transaction would come from two dozen addresses instead of just two.

fermun
Nov 4, 2009

Pardot posted:

What is the cause for this?

the estimate for the 7 transactions per second thing used a weird estimate of transaction size based on it sending from one address to one address. that's not the normal situation, most of them usually send from at least one address to a destination address as well as a second address that all the change from the transaction goes to. 7 transactions per second is 4200 transactions every 10 minutes, and a block must be under 1MB, which is 1048576 bytes, so about 250 bytes per transaction. that works for one source address and one destination address. that does not work for:

https://blockchain.info/tx/905d3a26bf2221940fa4c98c48a9717df9e6940a85761e9861f61f0b47378650

looks like the average from the last 6 blocks puts the average transaction size about 550 bytes, which would only allow 1906 transactions in a block, which would only be 3.18 transactions per second. :lol:

Tanith
Jul 17, 2005


Alpha, Beta, Gamma cores
Use them, lose them, salvage more
Kick off the next AI war
In the Persean Sector

surebet posted:

I got a merchant to start accepting bitcoin. Tried to tell them about some of the "in jokes" for when bitcoiners come in. Now I saw this on their Facebook. (imgur.com)
submitted 12 hours ago by michaeldunworthsydne



does snapcard mean they accept supplementary nutritional assistance program dollars as well as bitcoin?

theflyingorc
Jun 28, 2008

ANY GOOD OPINIONS THIS POSTER CLAIMS TO HAVE ARE JUST PROOF THAT BULLYING WORKS
Young Orc

Tanith posted:

does snapcard mean they accept supplementary nutritional assistance program dollars as well as bitcoin?

i support mandatory bitcoin testing for all recipients of SNAP or WIC benefits

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

Tanith posted:

does snapcard mean they accept supplementary nutritional assistance program dollars as well as bitcoin?

snapcard is the middleman that lets them never have to touch bitcoins

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

Dren posted:

so aside from being dumb why don't these exist

they don't sound that hard to make

edit: nevermind i guess the mining would be weird

its already in the wiki what more do you people want

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fermun
Nov 4, 2009

fermun posted:

looks like the average from the last 6 blocks puts the average transaction size about 550 bytes, which would only allow 1906 transactions in a block, which would only be 3.18 transactions per second. :lol:

checked this for a larger number of blocks. last 33 blocks, block numbers 330862 through 330894 had 25,134 transactions and a total size of 12771.2kB, working out to an average transaction size of 520.3 bytes per transaction. That average allows an average of 2015.3 transactions per block, and that works out to a real network transaction volume rate maximum of 3.36 transactions per second.

i also discovered that the mining pool polmine is doing that thing where they only include a number of transactions that is a power of 2.
https://blockchain.info/blocks/Polmine

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