Quote from: TheFascistMind on October 02, 2014, 12:31:05 AM

Have the developers been able to account for the increased hashrate to be sure the increase isn't controlled by BCX?

Afaics conceptually, the decentralized checkpoints would not prevent BCX from stealing wallets if he had an attack on the private keys of the genre I was exploring upthread. If he can take over the chain from a checkpoint forward, the he can see transactions before they are added to the chain, thus if the private key could be cracked, he could double spend the transaction, discarding the original transaction and putting one on the block which pays to himself.

Upthread we never showed a way to crack the private keys. All I showed was an idea of how to potentially identify which public key in the ring is the sender in some cases. And from that, I noted it makes some more simultaneous equations available for the private key. Whether those simultaneous equations can be solved faster than factoring a public key is not known to me. If someone knows, afaics they haven't told us in this thread.

If it is difficult to speculate about BCX's motivations. It seems he is either bluffing to save his reputation, or perhaps he is attempting to instill some humility in the altcoin space. I dunno.

P.S. If I don't reply, it doesn't mean I am ignoring. I may have not come back to read yet.

Quote from: rangedriver on October 02, 2014, 12:10:26 AM

I'm just sick to death of cunts like you who seemingly have no problem with fucking around with the investments of innocents.

So I'm washing my hands with it and leaving it up to the law. As far as I know the police are also in contact with Poloniex and exchanging data.

So goodbye and a big fuck you.

Hey take your fully insured fiat with training wheels and shove it up your bankrupted a$$.

Technological attacks are fair play and it is the only way we can be sure crypto-currency is robust and resilient.

There was no prospectus guaranteeing your investments. If the technology allows your digital units to be transferred, it is your responsibility to know that and not invest if you don't like the risk.

Once you ask the government to regulate crypto-currency, then the entire point of crypto-currency is lost. So this space is not for you. Go back to fiat.

What a load of pretentious bullcrap.

BCX has declared he is intending to destroy an economic system which commands a market cap of almost $5 million. That's not trivial.

He has also made it his intention to steal crypto-currencies out of people's private addresses. That's theft.

What have I ever done to BCX? This isn't some "risk" associated with crypto - it's just some egomaniac cunt who's trying to fuck innocent people over.

In any event he's launched a DDoS attack on Poloniex which is a crime.

It's really easy for you to sit behind your computer and talk absolute indefensible crap about how government intervention spells the death of cryptocurrency - anyone with half a brain can see what is going on here is just plain darn cuntishness. Yeh so, conveniently you wrap it up as some kind of gift that BCX is doing in order to test the system. Except he's not actually doing that is he? He's just being a cunt and trying to fuck over a lot of people. Apples and oranges. So please save me the fucking lecture.