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Re: Ripple Giveaway!
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floeti
on 27/02/2013, 21:05:45 UTC
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Re: [GLBSE] NASTY - Free Electricity, GPUMAX.com, Free ASIC Upgrade!
by
floeti
on 20/07/2012, 18:20:13 UTC
As backup-pool I would like to recommend eclipsemc. They seem to have nearly equal conditions as ozcoin.

Do you run the BFL-Software? Did you consider using cgminer instead?
I don't know how well the BFL-Software works, but cgminer seems to distribute shares among pools very efficiently, so only few shares are lost, if the main pool is lagging or down.
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Re: Where else can the price go (in the long term) but up?
by
floeti
on 18/07/2012, 21:12:34 UTC
Nevertheless, I think this problem can be solved by using something like smartcards, which store the private keys and are able to sign transactions (with prior decryption through a passphrase). So the private keys never leave the smart card. Combine this with some kind of dedicated smart card interface-device, that displays the to-be-signed transaction and one should be reasonably safe. This concept is not new at all, but unfortunately not availiable for bitcoin, yet. Expect huge price jumps, if it is announced!  Grin
http://bitcoincard.org/
forum threads about it:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=78171.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=85832.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88645.0
I know about this, but it's not quite what I meant. As far as I can see, there is no possibility to password protect the keys, nor is there a possibility to make a physical backup of the keys. So if the hardware breaks, your coins are lost. So it's not secure enough to store many coins over a longer term. Nevertheless Bitcoincard will be great for everyday use.

you can store the keys on paper in safe or safe deposit box, you can also make a brain wallet with a passphrase that only you know and not have private keys anywhere else until you have to restore them to access coins from your brainwallet
As far as I understood the Bitcoincard generates the private keys and they can never leave the device. So a paper wallet or brainwallet would not work.
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Re: Where else can the price go (in the long term) but up?
by
floeti
on 18/07/2012, 19:24:31 UTC
Nevertheless, I think this problem can be solved by using something like smartcards, which store the private keys and are able to sign transactions (with prior decryption through a passphrase). So the private keys never leave the smart card. Combine this with some kind of dedicated smart card interface-device, that displays the to-be-signed transaction and one should be reasonably safe. This concept is not new at all, but unfortunately not availiable for bitcoin, yet. Expect huge price jumps, if it is announced!  Grin
http://bitcoincard.org/
forum threads about it:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=78171.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=85832.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88645.0
I know about this, but it's not quite what I meant. As far as I can see, there is no possibility to password protect the keys, nor is there a possibility to make a physical backup of the keys. So if the hardware breaks, your coins are lost. So it's not secure enough to store many coins over a longer term. Nevertheless Bitcoincard will be great for everyday use.
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Re: Where else can the price go (in the long term) but up?
by
floeti
on 18/07/2012, 14:38:24 UTC
Nevertheless, I think this problem can be solved by using something like smartcards, which store the private keys and are able to sign transactions (with prior decryption through a passphrase). So the private keys never leave the smart card. Combine this with some kind of dedicated smart card interface-device, that displays the to-be-signed transaction and one should be reasonably safe. This concept is not new at all, but unfortunately not availiable for bitcoin, yet. Expect huge price jumps, if it is announced!  Grin
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Re: Where else can the price go (in the long term) but up?
by
floeti
on 18/07/2012, 10:38:22 UTC

    - people finally discover how hard it is to hold on to their coins in face of determined hackers
      (i.e. not the script kiddie level hacks we've seen so far), but stuff at the level of stuxnet


this is the only real threat

how hard is it to print out this page https://www.bitaddress.org/ and send the coins their to the paper wallet?

how hard is it to get a screen-capture of this page during printing it, if there's a rootkit already on your machine?
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Re: Can someone explain to me the various flavors of Libertarianism?
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floeti
on 15/07/2012, 14:47:42 UTC
Lately they have even been challenged, and lost, by another competitor in the political arena: The Pirates, that stand for civil liberties even more then the FDP does.

I would not call the german pirate party a "libertarian" party. Many of them support the idea of an unconditional basic income, which in my opinion is rather socialist.
I don't think that real "libertarian" parties do exist in germany, at least not to the extent described in this thread.
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Re: Perfect government by protocol
by
floeti
on 14/07/2012, 17:42:14 UTC
Did you consider including some form of "Liquid Democracy" (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_voting#Delegated_voting, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delegative_Democracy) in your software? Some of the pirate parties in the world do favor such a model. I think this is a good compromise between effort to be done by every participant (effort in the sense of getting informed on a specific topic to make the right decision in the vote) and self-determination.

The other possibility of being everything regulated by free market, IMHO does not work, because of "informational friction". Customers will need to be (timely) informed to decide, when to buy a service and give their vote to a specific company and when not. Nowadays with web and mobile networks this is much less of an issue, but the problem remains, that these services are provided by companies, who then would have very much power. Also how do you prevent companies teaming up behind the scenes instead of being competitors? There will be needed a third party, which has the power to regulate these issues.
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Re: Wall Observer - MtGoxUSD wall movement tracker
by
floeti
on 12/07/2012, 23:58:45 UTC
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Hey, I just met you,
And this is crazy,
But eight's the number,
So buy me, maybe?

And all the other buyers,
Try to chase me,
But eight's the number,
So buy me, maybe?
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Re: Weird trading pattern
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floeti
on 07/07/2012, 21:56:06 UTC
A last desperate try to stop the rally by DoSing mtGox?
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Re: Guns
by
floeti
on 29/06/2012, 15:51:13 UTC
Why would nations who have nukes decrease their number then? Even on mutual agreement?
Because maintenance is pretty expensive.
Grin Exactly! Now let's transfer this back to people and gun-space: I just don't want to maintain a gun! So let's agree on a mutual agreement, that we don't own guns.
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Re: Guns
by
floeti
on 29/06/2012, 14:52:33 UTC
I think the argument of seeing equal powers as peacekeeper does not hold: If both sides pile up more and more power the whole system on an absolute scale will become more and more unstable. Finally the tiniest event is enough for the system to go out of control. If both sides abandoned more and more power, the system becomes more and more stable on the absolute scale.

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I'm pretty sure that all governments who don't yet have nukes, don't lack them because they "follow the anti-gun-arguments", but more likely because either they aren't capable of building them, or they are afraid of international retaliation
Why would nations who have nukes decrease their number then? Even on mutual agreement?

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It's naive to believe that gun control laws will take the guns out of the hands of those who don't care about the laws. I'm sure they won't. They'll just take the guns out of those who care about following the law.
I didn't say that. But I think the overall probability encountering some criminal with a gun will go down.
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Re: Guns
by
floeti
on 29/06/2012, 13:54:05 UTC
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Yeah right.  Until you encounter someone who has a large knife despite law, and who is willing to use it.

Even then, it might be, that this person is stronger than me (either mentally or physically) and he will take my gun and use it against me. If I had no gun in the first place, it can't be used against me.

Additionally, the more weapons are in people's hands, the more it takes people to care for their own security. It's not just that you have to buy and maintain your weapons (a gun has to be cleaned, oiled, ?!, a knife has to be sharpened...), you also may not sleep, drink no alcohol, take no drugs, because if you did, it might pose you into a situation, where your attacker is smarter, faster or simply awake while you're not.

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Yeah and I want to live in a society where the weather is great everyday, beer is free and male-female ratio is one to ten.
I think it's all peoples duty to make the world a better place.

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Weapons are things that can be produced by human beings.  As long as they will be humans, you can not prevent those things to exist.
No, but with weapon control laws the probability of being attacked by a person with a weapon is far lower. The problem is, that these laws have to be implemented and enforced all around the world, to maximize their effect. It's the same thing with nuke bombs on a nation wide scale: If nations followed the pro-gun-arguments, all of them would need nuke bombs until one nation has more/better nuke bombs. Then all other nations do also need more/better nuke bombs. See where this leads?

Even without guns, people can hurt each other. The problem with weapons is, that they can lead to death or serious injury much faster. And death/some injuries are final. Even more final than a bitcoin-transaction, I think...
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Re: Guns
by
floeti
on 29/06/2012, 12:58:21 UTC
TL;DR

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If you permit guns for citizens, why don't you also give them the options to buy grenades, bazooka or nuclear bombs? I mean, they need to defend themselves right? What are they going to do with their 9mm if a criminal with a tank want to attack their house? You can't buy nuclear bombs at wal-mart because your society decided for a limit in weaponry. The difference between your society and mine is that my society used a more severe limit on weapons. No rights have been violated, we simply made stricter rules about that, that's all.

+10000

I live in europe, in a country where even possession of some larger knifes is prohibited by law. And you know what? It's one of the few things, I like about my country!
Most bitcoin-supporters make their minds up about some big companies paying corrupt politicans to make them turn laws in their favor. Has it ever come to your mind, that the gun and rifle producing industry might be doing just this? Think about, where is more money to be made, if you're selling guns (and ammuniton!) to all the people in the country, or if you're selling guns to just a few (like police, security, military)?

I want to live in a peaceful world, without guns, bazookas or even nuke bombs. I don't want to possess them and I even more do not want to use them, because if I did, people will get hurt or die and I think no single person should be entitled to judge about life or death of another person.

Often I read the argument, that people must possess guns to defend against the government. So you want to fight with your small guns against people with high end arms or even nuke bombs? Not very clever... If you want to change something about your government, change the people that give the power to the government.
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Re: Wall Observer - MtGoxUSD wall movement tracker
by
floeti
on 17/06/2012, 14:45:07 UTC
Does that mean someone with alot of USD just removed his/her orders which were split in many little ones to make it look like they were organic?

Yeah, most likely. I saw the same thing happening. Depth chart looks a lot less sexy right now.

Question is, when will he use it to actually buy?  Undecided
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Re: [Daily Speculation Poll] :: Is bitcoin a risky invesment ?
by
floeti
on 06/06/2012, 12:22:40 UTC
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Does outlawing Bitcoin still sound easy?

What about surveillance with the help of ISPs? What about banning tunneling-techniques for private end-users?
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Re: Sammelbestellung für Ztex FPGA's: Come in and get one more :-)
by
floeti
on 20/04/2012, 17:42:06 UTC
Ist es noch möglich 1 Single mitzubestellen? Quads sind mir derzeit noch etwas riskant. Lieferzeit wäre auch nicht so wichtig.
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Re: Best router / router firmware to use with cgminer
by
floeti
on 01/02/2012, 16:37:58 UTC
If you want to be future proof, take this one: Buffalo WZR-HP-AG300H. Has plenty of RAM and fast CPU (680MHz). Comes preinstalled with DD-WRT and is supported by OpenWRT, too.

The WRT54's CPU (200MHz) is not even able to route more than 30Mbit/s.
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Re: GEMEINSAM die bitcoin akzeptanz erhöhen.
by
floeti
on 11/10/2011, 14:04:30 UTC
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- Er ist hort- und damit der Realwirtschaft entziehbar
- Man kann ihn beliebig vermehren
- Er löst keine wesentlichen Probleme auf dieser Welt

Das hört sich ja fast so an, als sollte man eher versuchen Bitcoins möglichs geheim zu halten und alle zu verklagen die Bitcoins benutzen?  Undecided
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Re: GEMEINSAM die bitcoin akzeptanz erhöhen.
by
floeti
on 07/10/2011, 21:57:26 UTC
Also ich find den Vorschlag mit der gemeinsam finanzierten Werbekampagne garnicht so dumm.
Ich denke mal, das würde schon einiges an Öffentlichkeitsinteresse wecken, wenn plötzlich in der
Werbepause von "Wer wird Millionär" ein Bitcoin-Spot läuft. Oder in der BamS eine großflächige
Anzeige tausenden von Leuten entgegen strahlt. Auch Radiowerbespots könnten durchaus eine
große Wirkung haben.

Also ich wäre sofort bereit für ein solches Projekt ein paar Coins zu spenden. Das schwierigste
dabei dürfte aber wohl die Organisation werden.