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ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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Gobbeldygook posted:

the bitcoiner that went to north korea to help them evade sanctions is being released on bail even though he's discussed renouncing his citizenship and fleeing overseas and has unknown amounts of crypto assets.

so basically he has no real money at all, should reduce his flight risk

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ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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oh so the "trafficked" person was himself

hard to know with bitcoiners, could have been someone trying to build a pimp-erium with cryptocoins

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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LanceHunter posted:

Hyperledger Fabric is at 2.0. For when your boss absolutely insists that you start a project with “blockchain technology” and you want it to do as little damage as possible.

ive read this link and im still not sure if this is real software or if someone just forked postgres or something and gave it a stupid name

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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thats not the next level, that's warping outside the actual level data

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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usually, recipient B creates a new unique unused address that they only give out to sender A, so the first transaction to that address will be assumed to come from A

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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I assume true believers are somewhat knowledgeable and store their coins under bird baths, these folks mostly seem to take advantage of old people who know even less than true believers

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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i wonder if any of those scams have started using deepfakes to have gates or musk shill for their company, is that what’s on that site or is it just real but out of context quotes

ymgve
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someone on tiktok apparently found satoshi, it is actually one of the cofounders of zynga

the proof of this is...an anonymous edit on wikipedia

ymgve
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Boxturret posted:

yeah from what i recall there was some dumb thing where you could change what a transaction was doing but keep the same id so you could pretend to send them money and they would act like you did because the transaction id went through the blockchain or something like that. then things started falling apart as they had less money than they thought

nah, it was the other way around, you could create two transactions that did the exact same thing, but with different transaction IDs

so someone would initiate a withdrawal from mtgox, it would create transaction A, and then once you see it you create transaction B and blast it everywhere, eventually hoping your B would be accepted

then you go to mtgox and compain that transaction A never went through and customer support re-credited your mtgox account



as far as I know this didn't really happen at scale since it would be detectable (transaction B would have a signature that was clearly nonstandard but still valid) and was just a theory/excuse for why mtgox lost all their money

ymgve
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unpacked robinhood posted:

Someone must have found the transaction that occured when that wallet was inevitably drained, please

some of the words arent the standard bitcoin words so they dont know how to decode it

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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how did that work? «heres an id that says youre 18, now lets gently caress»?

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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elon musk, he publishes his bitcoin address all the time

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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Paladinus posted:

I've bought my place with my workcoin profits. And it's still going up!

is workcoin the 2020 variant of company scrip?

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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buttcoiin2gen, thank you

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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https://www.home.saxo/content/articles/outrageous-predictions/blockchain-tech-kills-fake-news-08122020

quote:

The fake news industry is booming more than ever, polluting reliable news sources we have trusted for decades. The spread of disinformation is accelerated by algorithms that favour engagement, funnelling readers to extreme, attention-grabbing positions on blogs and biased new media outfits. Even worse, new developments in deep learning research have enabled the creation of realistic deep-fake images and videos, able to show politicians and other people in power saying things which they simply never said. This falsified and manipulated content is conquering the internet at a rapid pace, blurring the lines between what seems real and what is not. Working against this development, companies like Verizon and IBM are working on technologies to counter fake news with verification using a blockchain network.

In 2021, the mounting threat of disinformation and the erosion of trust in even well-established news providers reaches a critical level, demanding an industry response. Major media companies and social platforms are forced to impose new countermeasures against fabricated and misleading news. The enabling technology is a massive shared blockchain network for news content, which allows distribution of news in an immutable way with a validity check of both the content and the source. With a shared ledger structure, any content alterations would immediately be visible to everyone, and every news item is always traceable to its original source, suppressing misinformation that other sources can’t verify.

Companies like Twitter and Facebook invest heavily in this blockchain tech, motivated first and foremost by self-preservation as the threats of regulatory oversight we’ve seen in recent years become white hot. Alternative news sites peddling conspiracy theories like QAnon, disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, falsified evidence of election fraud and more will suddenly become unavailable on major platforms. Reality wins, and echo chambers lose.

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ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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divabot posted:

I wrote a thing about the state of the Tether that has proven weirdly popular.

Elaborating on this blog post, which theorises that the crypto industry will do anything to keep Tether afloat, as it's utterly dependent on it.

I think you're wrong saying "I suspect the other stablecoins are just a bit too regulated for the gamblers. Tether is functionally unregulated." - it is the opposite - Tether has got the (undeserved) trust of the markets because it's big, all other stablecoins are also unregulated and are just altcoins made for pump and dump schemes too.

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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SYSV Fanfic posted:

Tuscon has a sex offender treatment facility, so Ross is probably doing time with at least one silk road customer.

I saw this play out in Ky. Governor pardoned someone on his way out the door. The FBI and US attorney brought charges that were related to the case but not the actually offense. End result was the guy walked out of prison in Ky and straight into federal pre-trial detention before he was convicted and put back in prison.

The DOJ will re-instate the murder for hire charges when Biden is sworn in unless trump gives a pardon for them. They were separate cases so I don't think double jeoardy applies but IANAL.

pretty sure silk road never traded in CP (I seem to recall a blanket ban on all porn there), he would be more likely to do time with a silk road customer in a genpop prison

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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fross literally paid to have people killed

if thats not worth going to prison over, I doubt your sense of justice

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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congrats youve invented recaptcha

ymgve
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Ad by Khad posted:

if ross gets pardoned and actually gets out of supermax free and clear, the 144336 bits coin the govt took from him (and auctioned off for cheap) is still gone and he will Henry Hill himself back into deep criminal charges in no more than 2 years

that raises a question, should you be allowed to keep the gains from an illegal activity you got a pardon from? and in that case, should they compensate you for any seized property?

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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Shame Boy posted:

oh that's the benefit i guess, if it's on a smart contract and there's a bug you can't fix it, okay

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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Paladinus posted:

Oh, you're a big fan of state, huh? Name all the countries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pOFKmk7ytU

done, next

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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I think those ideas moved onto «smart» contract coins like ethereum

ymgve
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divabot posted:

And we know this because precisely this thing happened in September 2017 during the bcAsh wars. BTC block times went over an hour. Nobody cared because all the action was on exchanges.

I think you remember it wrong, or confuse BTC with BCH - I don't see anything apart from a few short spikes at https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-confirmationtime.html#log where the average confirmation time was like 18 minutes instead of 10. In contrast, BCH had some periods where the average block time was wayy above one hour.

You might also conflate it with the dec 2017/jan 2018 mempool flood, where you had to pay like dozens of dollars to get your transaction into a block in a reasonable timeframe, and people started using BCH to move money across exchanges instead. But even then, blocks were generated at a statistically steady rate

ymgve
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Boxturret posted:

there was definitely a time where a block or two took over an hour to confirm

yes, that happens semi-regularly as it’s all a random distribution. so you might risk standing around for an hour now and then to pay for the bitcoin tacos

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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for that amount of coins I would hire someone to find a hardware exploit for the ironkey

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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the problem then is that they would have to take your word that it contains those coins, with no way to verify

...you know what, it would probably be bought anyway

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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how much you wanna bet it's the 8chan dude that sent it

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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also bitcoin doesnt use blind signatures at all and i don’t know why coiners are so horny for merkle trees, bitcoin would work exactly the same if it just used a single hash over all transactions in each block

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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I found an old hard drive that was password protected and was a bit puzzled because I didn't remember protecting one, and also worried because it said there were five tries left, and I spent three of them on empty, "test", and my old everywhere-password that I used when I was young and stupid



turns out ATA protection resets to five new tries every reboot so was worried for nothing, and also it was an OG xbox drive so the actual key is derived from some flash data which I thankfully still had a backup of



it will not surprise you to hear that there were no bitcoins on that drive

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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I think I modded the console and installed a bigger drive the same day I got it so there's probably not even any save game data on there

ymgve
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again, merkle trees are not some miracle tech that makes bitcoin work, it is not the secret sauce of bitcoin

it would work just the same without them

ymgve
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SYSV Fanfic posted:

The mining side/proof of work side would function the same. Verifying transactions would require (at some point) doing all the work that generates the root of the tree in the block header. Right now you just need ~50 megabytes of data, which is a far smaller number than 380GB.

There might have been other algorithms that could have been used. But compressing the work needed to verify a transaction solved was critical for the white paper being taken seriously as a proof of concept.

the merkle tree is only used to compress all the transaction IDs into the root hash of the block header, you could do the exact same thing by just concatenating all transaction IDs and hashing over that

the merkle structure can be used for pruning off transaction data, but basically no nodes use pruning anyway

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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killhamster posted:

who are you and why are you in yospos

why does it matter

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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Do they claim to have guaranteed returns beyond something like 1%? Then it's a scam.

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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i got hacked and now grandmas house belongs to some russian hackers, grandma is all scrambled by ransomware and looks like a broken jpeg help me please

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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it would be funny if roko's basilisk was real and every miner will get tortured for eternity because they wasted resources on mining instead of progressing AI

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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also as far as I can tell the items arent actually stored in the ethereum chain at all (because lol storing megabytes of data there would cost the GDP of a small nation) but some distributed file thing called IPFS

ymgve
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Ok, I might have been exaggerated a bit. Seems like it "only" costs $100000 per megabyte to store data on Ethereum, and for Bitcoin it "only" costs $50000 per MB!

edit: fixed an off by ten error

ymgve fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Mar 1, 2021

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ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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I really hope whoever buys jack's tweet is some early coiner wich more coins than god, who forces jack to either delete it, or sue for breach of contract

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