Does anybody else find it disturbing that somebody who runs a Bitcoin exchange would run DoS tests on the main bitcoin network?

That seems like behavior that could be reported to his upstream ISP(s). If he was "testing" some little email service provider by trying to fill up all and keep busy of their SMTP server with bogus connections (here I'm talking out my ass, I have no idea if there is any DoS protection with SMTP) I think that'd be against any reasonable ISP's terms of service.

And if he's using a botnet... then what the hell is somebody who runs an exchange doing with a botnet?

Saw this on #bitcoin-dev IRC chat today:


If I found a DoS vulnerability I wouldn't brag about it in public-- I'd tell the developers privately.

And isn't testing a DoS on a production network immoral/illegal ?

Wait...

... so if you get lucky and generate a POS block you lose control over those coins for 520 blocks?

What if I need those coins to pay somebody in the meantime? How fast are PPCoin blocks-- how long would I have to possibly wait?

I asked this when I was in Newbie jail and didn't get an answer:

Is Litecoin dying?  I looked at coblee's github (he is still the main ltc dev I think) and no commits in a few months.

Maybe ltc needs a foundation!

You started with curly-brace then square-brace.  Try [{...}]

That wiki page needs updating, the new 'raw transactions' api lets you create transactions from specific previous transactions.

See:  https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Raw_Transactions

You can use the 'sendfrom' RPC command to send from an account other than ""
This wiki page explains it:  https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Accounts_explained

volavak : you should start a bet at http://betsofbitco.in/ , you could make some coin if you are right.

I would pay more to put my dollars into an insured account. I don't really like or trust the FDIC though so would prefer a privately created insurance. But FDIC (or whatever national equivalent, if the exchange is overseas) insurance for my dollar balance would be better than nothing.

I would pay more if my bitcoin deposits were insured against hack/theft, too.

It doesn't have to be insurance, a surety bond deposited with some mainstream institution that I trust would be sufficient. ANYTHING, so I had some idea that I would get at least some of my money back if the exchange got hacked in the time between depositing cash or bitcoins and withdrawing bitcoins or cash.

Is litecoin still being developed?  I see the last commit was a few months ago:
https://github.com/coblee/litecoin/commits/master

Did somebody else take over development?

Hello, my name is Alex. I guess I should change my nickname to "BoringMcBoring".

Python coder, thinking about playing around with bitcoin...

Do any of the exchanges insure deposits?