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Re: [Back to not solved] Block notify refusing to execute script
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Automatic
on 18/11/2014, 13:47:53 UTC
and do use an absolute path.

Do not use an absolute path?

Reread, he said do use Wink.

Whoops, well, I've also tried (Which was working till it randomly stopped, includes hashbang to /bin/sh):-
Code:
/home/bitcoin/block.sh %s

I'm unsure how how to use an absolute path of sh or something of the like without quotes, as, the space for the argument would break it:-
Code:
/bin/sh -c /home/bitcoin/block.sh%s

I'd need:-
Code:
/bin/sh -c "/home/bitcoin/block.sh %s"

EDIT:- This was the .conf that worked just fine, until, well, it randomly stopped working without me updating anything (System, .conf, bitcoin, .sh, anything!):-
Code:
rpcuser=no.
rpcpassword=no.
maxconnections=1000
checklevel=4
keypool=10000
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
server=1
blocknotify=/home/bitcoin/block.sh %s
walletnotify=/home/bitcoin/wallet.sh %s
alertnotify=/home/bitcoin/alert.sh %s


I have the exact same problem. Did you solve it?

I did, but, I had absolutely nothing to do with it, one day it just started working. Sorry.
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Paper backups, how do YOU do it?
by
Automatic
on 20/08/2014, 14:14:00 UTC
It's something I've been wanting to do over the last few days, I've currently got a single 1-of-1 recovery sheet of paper taped together (I.E. Tamper evident) sitting under my monitor. Not all that secure. I'm just wondering what you people do as I need some ideas.

1. What format of paper wallets do you have (I.E. Single sheet? Fragmented? If fragmented, what parameters?)
2. Where do you store the sheet(s)?

That's really it, thanks.
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Re: My Wallet Is Empty. Where is my BTC?
by
Automatic
on 20/08/2014, 14:07:52 UTC
I am still having no Fing luck.


It is only showing 1 more address each time I open it.

And 0 balances.

Im so fucking pissed off I cant even think straight.

Then go away and come back when you can, all you'll end up doing is breaking stuff more.

Now, are you sure you're using the same wallet (I.E. By ID)? How many addresses did you generate before you lost your coins? Do you have an address of one of your addresses that contained coins? Do you have a paper backup? Do you have another computer you can test on? Do you use the offline functionality of Armory or not?

I am positive it is the same wallet(by ID). There was about 10 addresses that I had generated. I see all the addresses in Armory. I Do know the addresses also that contained coins. I do not have a paper backup but I have several encrypted Digital Backups. Overnight, I have received payment from Westhash to 1 of those addresses and I also received another payment from Slush's Pool to another address I was using. Now my wallet is showing those 2 payout transactions in my wallet under the 2 different addresses(the same addresses that I had those 2 pools set to pay out to). But none of the previous transactions or balances are showing up.

I am sorry but I am a total newbie and am still learning as I go. I kept making Digital Copies in various locations though as a just in case anything happened.

Heading away to work. Tonight when I get home I'll try to set up a different fresh PC to get Armory Installed on.

Thanx for the attempt to help.

Go to Westhash, Slush's pool, or any other site that'll tell you the address you cashed out too, grab the address, create a new transaction and add that address to the "To" section, do you see the wallet name appear under it?


EDIT:- Do what Goatpig said first, didn't see that, yeah, if you're not synced you're not going to be able to check anything.
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Re: My Wallet Is Empty. Where is my BTC?
by
Automatic
on 20/08/2014, 08:15:14 UTC
I am still having no Fing luck.


It is only showing 1 more address each time I open it.

And 0 balances.

Im so fucking pissed off I cant even think straight.

Then go away and come back when you can, all you'll end up doing is breaking stuff more.

Now, are you sure you're using the same wallet (I.E. By ID)? How many addresses did you generate before you lost your coins? Do you have an address of one of your addresses that contained coins? Do you have a paper backup? Do you have another computer you can test on? Do you use the offline functionality of Armory or not?
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Re: New to Army, one question.
by
Automatic
on 19/08/2014, 08:24:00 UTC

Is it good now? I have a watch only copy on my online computer.

2 copies of my paper wallet
2 encrypted copies on 2 USB's

You seem to be taking extra steps to ensure that you have redundant backups in case something happens to one of them.

The best way to achieve this goal is to have a fragmented backup, say a 3-of-6.

This will give you 6 pieces of paper, such that any 3 will recover your wallet.

Any other attempts to duplicate your backups increases the ways your bitcoins could be exposed to an attacker.

I recommend that you throw out your current wallet, and start over with the following steps:

1. Create a new wallet on the offline computer.
2. Print a 3-of-6 backup with secure print, remember to write your secure print code on each page with extra careful penmanship.
3. Delete your wallet, and attempt recreate it from the backup on your offline computer with different combinations of 3 fragments. Repeat until you are certain that you will be able to repeat this process if needed.
4. Distribute your 6 pages to secure places and trusted people.
5. Then test your offline wallet with a couple small transactions.



My issue with the paper wallets is... where do I store them? Seriously, where?

Storing them in a bank is expensive where I live, giving them to friends means friends can get together to steal your money, keeping them yourself is pointless, etc...
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Re: Broadcast transactions via tor, do everything else normally?
by
Automatic
on 18/08/2014, 06:36:24 UTC
Why Tor?  Why not rent a cheap VPS and run bitcoind (without the wallet)?

Use a VPN to send transactions from your place. Use the bitcoind RPC as the public interface.

If the transaction is signed then there is no reason to encrypt... it will be public anyway.

If you insist on Tor, rent a cheap VPS. Install the Tor hidden service software and configure the ssh (port 22) interface. Use iptables to close all inbound ports. At your end, get a copy of Tails, connect to the .onion address using ssh, and run bitcoind. Use the bitcoind CLI to send commands.



Transaction will be public, sure, but, routing the broadcast over tor prevents anyone listening to your traffic realizing you sent it, just that someone, somewhere in the world sent it. I can already (And have already) done things like you recommend (Albeit, without the VPS, just two copies of bitcoind, one configured for tor, one not), it's just a huge pain to constantly jump between the two clients, one for creating/managing funds/transactions, one for actually broadcasting.

1. Download and run Tor Browser
2. Go to https://blockchain.info/pushtx
3. ???
4. Profit! Er..Anonymity!

'Tis be a huge pain for every single transaction.
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Re: Hard drive uptions
by
Automatic
on 18/08/2014, 06:15:18 UTC
There's little reason to put Armory's (or bitcoin-qt's) blockchain on SSD or have it encrypted from a cost-benefit point of view.
There's little reason to have unencrypted drives at all, for any application.


My laptop is unencrypted because the CPU doesn't support Intel's AES instruction set so I can only pull about 100MB/s encrypt and decrypt, however, I can easily pull 500MB/s throughput without it.
My desktop is unencrypted because I see legitimately no need for it, and, although I would do it if it were easy, configuring dm-crypt over mdadm would take about an extra hour and I'm way to lazy for that.

There you go, there's two reasons. I do own some computers that do have full disk encryption on data drives, but, absolutely none with full disk encryption on the boot drive, way too much hassle and slows disk access down too much, even with perfect configurations.
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Re: Hard drive uptions
by
Automatic
on 17/08/2014, 16:38:38 UTC
There's little reason to put Armory's (or bitcoin-qt's) blockchain on SSD or have it encrypted from a cost-benefit point of view.

This. Honestly, I think if you just left an old PC on in suspend(2ram/S3) mode it'd probably be quicker (Than booting) and cheaper (Power for powering RAM vs for full boot & SSD).
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Re: Different versions online vs offline ok? Old "offline bundle" still usable?
by
Automatic
on 17/08/2014, 16:35:55 UTC
I recently updated my online (watch only) to 0.92. When I attempted to create a transaction and sign it with my offline armory (0.90), it told me it must be updated  (incompatible).

I updated it to 0.92 using "armory_0.92.1_ubuntu-64bit.deb", downloaded through the online client. No offline package was needed so I guess the dependencies were ok.

I'm still rocking 0.8 on my offline computer, I've yet to need to sign any transactions yet, although, I have generated a few wallets on the offline PC and brought them online (Watch only). That sounds like I'm going to have a huge pain updating. Gahhh.

I'll probably just dd the HDD and use the paper wallets to recover the wallets, transferring files is a pain.
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Multisig wallet?
by
Automatic
on 17/08/2014, 16:34:11 UTC
Is there anyway I can point armory at some brand new wallets (Some watch only, one local) and have it generate a multisig wallet on top of it? So I can just use it like a normal wallet and when I create a new address, it automatically generates one new wallet for the normal wallets and makes a multisig address out of that?

I really like the wallet mechanics in Armory, the lockbox feature seems to be made purely for holding funds you rarely touch, there's no real quick way (That I can see) to keep generating new addresses easily for day-to-day transactions.
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Broadcast transactions via tor, do everything else normally?
by
Automatic
on 17/08/2014, 14:28:03 UTC
Is this possible? I don't want to use tor for everything else as there's no real private data being transferred 99.99% of the time (Just everyone else's data), what I want is for bitcoind to act as two different clients, one on tor (That literally only sends transactions) and one on the clearnet that does all the generic stuff like forwarding blocks and transactions, saving blocks, etc...

For reference, this does mean I want this to occur when I send a transaction:-
1. Send transaction via Tor
2. Wait for transaction to reach you via clearnet (Due to the fact it's propagated to everyone)
3. Forward the transaction anyway via clearnet as if you don't (And instead say "I already knew of this"), someone looking at your traffic would be able to determine that you could be the one that sent it.

I'd prefer not to run two copies of bitcoind, I know it's probably possible doing that, but, that's a large overhead.
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Re: [WTS] CS:GO, $7.50/per
by
Automatic
on 12/06/2014, 12:49:10 UTC
Bump.
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Re: [WTS] CS:GO, $7.50/per
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Automatic
on 10/06/2014, 23:12:35 UTC
Bump.
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Re: Get balance of address which is not from my bitcoind wallet
by
Automatic
on 09/06/2014, 23:23:01 UTC
Unless bitcoind has updated recently, you cant do this. You'll have to create your own database by crawling through the blockchain.
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Re: [WTS] CS:GO, $7.50/per
by
Automatic
on 09/06/2014, 11:31:12 UTC
Hi , add nachesmaches on steam

Thank you for your business, sent a copy to you. It should be in your Steam trade offers when you get back online. Sorry, I had to wait for one confirmation before sending and you were in a rush.
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Re: [WTS] CS:GO, $7.50/per
by
Automatic
on 08/06/2014, 21:48:14 UTC
Hi , add nachesmaches on steam

Added, PM'd you my Steam Nickname and a random string to verify it's me, request I send you the exact same random string via Steam to match my Steam profile and Bitcointalk profile.
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Re: [WTS] CS:GO, $7.50/per
by
Automatic
on 08/06/2014, 10:24:49 UTC
What is this exactly?

Oh, sorry, I somewhat forgot that other people don't share the same knowledge of acronyms as me, sorry, little tired.

CS:GO stands for 'Counter-Strike: Global Offensive', a game published and released by Valve, you can find more info here (click me!). I'm selling a giftable copy (Activates on any Steam account, you can also trade it, as, it's an inventory copy), you can play on either Windows, or, Mac, and, hopefully soon Linux (Although, no ETA). It's the successor to Counter-Strike: Source, and, a relatively fun game.

Hm, what are the requirements for this game?  Don't want to stress my PC too much Wink
Interested in getting it, but could you post some stats of the game itself?  Regarding player activity and stuff.

Requirements are at the bottom of the steam page, for Windows:-
Quote from: Windows requirements
OS: Windows® 7/Vista/XP
Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6600 or AMD Phenom™ X3 8750 processor or better
Memory: 1GB XP / 2GB Vista
Hard Disk Space: At least 7.6GB of Space
Video Card: Video card must be 256 MB or more and should be a DirectX 9-compatible with support for Pixel Shader 3.0

For MacOSX:-
Quote from: Macintosh requirements
OS: MacOS X 10.6.6 or higher
Processor: Intel Core Duo Processor (2GHz or better)
Memory: 2GB RAM
Hard Disk Space: At least 7.6GB of Space
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 2400 or better / NVidia 8600M or better

currently there are 68,424 people playing the game, 122,155 peak in the last 24 hours, it is also the second most played game on all of steam as-of now (And it's been released for coming up to two years.)

Reviews/languages/more info can also be found on the above page, or, the same link here:-
http://store.steampowered.com/app/730/

EDIT:- I also sell the "Counter-Strike: Complete" pack, which, includes the three predecessors to CS:GO, and, CS:GO itself. Package info can be found here (Click me!), and, I charge $12.50 for that. I only have two copies of this, unfortunately, so, this isn't the main thing I'm selling. The original Counter-Strike works on literally any computer (Works on Win, Mac, and, Linux, and, it's minimum requirements are basically a potato). Counter-Strike: Condition Zero and Counter-Strike: Source are also relatively easy to run, being released in 2004 and earlier.
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Re: [WTS] CS:GO, $7.50/per
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Automatic
on 08/06/2014, 00:04:46 UTC
What is this exactly?

Oh, sorry, I somewhat forgot that other people don't share the same knowledge of acronyms as me, sorry, little tired.

CS:GO stands for 'Counter-Strike: Global Offensive', a game published and released by Valve, you can find more info here (click me!). I'm selling a giftable copy (Activates on any Steam account, you can also trade it, as, it's an inventory copy), you can play on either Windows, or, Mac, and, hopefully soon Linux (Although, no ETA). It's the successor to Counter-Strike: Source, and, a relatively fun game.
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[WTS] CS:GO, $7.50/per
by
Automatic
on 07/06/2014, 23:31:38 UTC
Post below, or, send me a PM. Got quite a few copies available, not posting a specific number because I'll forget to update it. BTC-E prices.

EDIT:- Selling this (click me!) for $7.50, fully giftable inventory copy.
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Re: If I backup the wallet, how many future addresses are backed up?
by
Automatic
on 02/06/2014, 02:43:16 UTC
Currently, it only backs up the addresses you have already created.

In future, it will have BIP32 deterministic wallets. You only need to backup the once, immediately after starting the app for the first time.


That's a shame. I don't like reusing addresses (I.E. change back to the same address, or, multiple payments) for the sake of it being hard for me to manage what payments are what (One address/payment is a lot easier), so, this wallet is unusable for me at it's current state. Hopefully when you come out with this feature it'll be usable. Is there at ETA (Time/version)? Or, is it just in limbo currently?

The project is open source and free software. You could have coded the feature already 3 years ago. Heck, you could even have submitted a patch by now! Why didn't you do?


I... I... I don't know. Why didn't I? Hold up just one second, this is your project, stop making me feel guilty!

Probably because by the time I got a Java IDE up and running, got familiar with your code, researched how BIP32 works, implemented into the code that's not a complete hack, and, had everything running nicely, someone else would have beaten me to the punch... and I'm relatively lazy. I'm sorry :'(