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Re: [LIST] You favorite Crypto Projects/ Startups/GitHub repositories
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jeffg
on 21/10/2014, 14:15:21 UTC
Here's mine:

Bitlance.biz

A Bitcoin based freelancing platform. Hire freelancers from all over the world and pay with bitcoins

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Re: rpietila Wall Observer - the Quality TA Thread ;)
by
jeffg
on 22/07/2014, 16:05:32 UTC
Why don't you use a trustless escrow service like one of these:

  • bitrated.com
  • bitescrow.org
  • coinb.in/multisig/

If you like I can act as an arbitrator (it's technically impossible that I run away with your money)

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Re: rpietila Wall Observer - the Quality TA Thread ;)
by
jeffg
on 23/06/2014, 13:12:38 UTC
I'm looking into writing a trading bot, but I don't know how to make one yet, I'm trying to learn it. I don't trust third party bots so I want to make it myself.

Don't. They cannot see what people can see. Trade yourself, even if it's two trades a day. You're so much better on your own than using bots.

I agree, but I'd still recommend everybody who can program to write a bot or to play around with the existing ones. You learn a lot about different strategies, indicators and you can backtest your ideas very quickly. Many people think they can easily beat the market with simple strategies like EMA crossover and don't realize that you can waste a lot of money when you have the wrong parameters. Even if you end up trading manually or even if you come to the conclusion that buy & hold is better for your needs, it pays off to invest some time to implement and backtest a bot.
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Re: List of sites where one can find jobs paying in bitcoin (or post a job)
by
jeffg
on 12/06/2014, 14:58:21 UTC
There's also http://bitlance.biz

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Re: Stolen bitcoins from bitaddress.org generated address
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jeffg
on 06/05/2014, 04:34:01 UTC
I dug into the bitaddress code myself and it's pretty secure. Maybe you have a suspicious chrome/firefox extension which interferes with the site?
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Re: RegEx to match transaction id?
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jeffg
on 08/04/2014, 12:47:06 UTC
Hello all

Please help me make a regular expression for PHP

[a-zA-Z0-9] and 65 characters?

'/^[a-zA-Z0-9]{65}$/' - true ?)))

Should be a-f and only 64 chars (32bytes):

Code:
[a-fA-F0-9]{64}
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Re: multisig wallet
by
jeffg
on 07/04/2014, 13:04:04 UTC
I don't think its that easy. Maybe he meant 1 day to implement the multisig transactions only. But to make it really usable, you'd need much more than that:

- verify scripts (check public keys against the address book)
- decode raw transaction and display the outputs (also comparing to address book entries)
- sending the signed script/transaction to the next user to sign (maybe bitmessage integration)



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Re: Best way to make a multisig address unique?
by
jeffg
on 06/04/2014, 07:16:11 UTC
Thanks for your response. I read the BIP32 specs and this would indeed solve our problem.
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Best way to make a multisig address unique?
by
jeffg
on 05/04/2014, 11:38:59 UTC
Hi

I am currently working on a freelancing platform (http://bitlance.biz) and we're implementing a 2-of-3 multisig escrow functionality.

We're facing the following problem. When the same buyer and freelancer contract multiple projects, they always get the same escrow address (since all 3 public keys are the same). For accounting reasons it would be better if they get a different address for each project. What is the best way to alter the output script to include some sort of project id so the resulting hash and the address becomes different?

This is just a cosmetic issue, but it would be nice if somebody could give me a hint. I know using a different escrow key would solve this, but I want the escrow public key to be the same so it can be verified more easily. Adding OP_NOPs would help, but I think there must be a better way.
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Best way to make a multisig address unique?
by
jeffg
on 05/04/2014, 10:48:05 UTC
Sorry, posted in the wrong forum. Moved to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=558294
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Re: I need some testnet coins for test
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jeffg
on 03/03/2014, 13:07:09 UTC
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Re: What do you really think the bottom of bitcoin price after MTGOX is down?
by
jeffg
on 20/02/2014, 21:49:49 UTC
There are two possible scenarios:

1. MtGox survives and allows btc withdrawals: people will arbitrage their mtgox coins on other exchanges and the prices will aligne somewhere in the middle between all exchages: something like 300-400$

2. MtGox files bakrupcy: people will lose trust in bitcoin and will sell: price will drop something around 400$ (hard to say)

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Re: OMG, Mark is just trying to write his name!
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jeffg
on 20/02/2014, 21:42:26 UTC
LOL, I'm just glad it's not a japanese name.
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Re: Game Over??
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jeffg
on 20/02/2014, 21:36:19 UTC

Nah, don't worry. I have a few friends at the NSA who owe me a favour and I'll ask the to install a backup of the internet (including the blockchain) from November 2013.
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Re: Could this be the true (and legal) scam Mt.Gox is performing?
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jeffg
on 20/02/2014, 21:25:34 UTC
Agreed. I used it too, and never had a problem with it, apart from the astonishingly long time to get money back and very bad support.

But now they could just have thought "hey, let's make some quick money and go away instead of bothering to keep running this show"...

Yes. I've been a long time gox user, but at the moment I think even BTC-e is more trustworthy than Mtgox which is kind of alarming.



Nobody really knows, and their quite-less-than-stellar communication skills surely don't help. Ensuing panic-selling was to be expected. And my guess is just that: they not only were expecting it, they probably created it exactly for this purpose.

Agree. Otherwise they would stop trading on their platform right now under these circumstances.
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Re: Does any Bitcoin Exchange exist that lets the user set the sell price?
by
jeffg
on 20/02/2014, 21:19:19 UTC
Is the answer 'all of them' ?

The answer is correct.
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Re: Bitcoin Web Developer & Designer / Make your ideas realities
by
jeffg
on 17/02/2014, 17:32:51 UTC
Can you implement the casascius escrow scheme in php? I have an open project here: https://bitlance.biz/projects/project/detailproject/4-implementation-of-the-casascius-escrow-scheme-in-php
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Re: I AM HODLING
by
jeffg
on 28/01/2014, 14:02:52 UTC
We need a hotline during these times

You mean A HODLINE?
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Re: [POLL] mBit or mBTC?
by
jeffg
on 23/01/2014, 14:59:57 UTC
mBit sounds like network bandwith to me. The only reasonable option for me is mBTC.
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Re: Lost Bitcoins
by
jeffg
on 23/01/2014, 14:11:01 UTC
Thanks guys. Maybe I didn't express my thoughts clearly enough, but I did not lose any coins, yet. I was just wondering why people lose coins if all can be restored by remembering the private key. BTW I think the safest place to store a private key is in your own brain; of course not in the form of a completely random string of characters, albeit as a quite unique sentence, which you encrypt and hash on a stand alone (offline) computer. The FBI confiscated BTC170,000, now why wouldn't these 'criminals' (or their partners) have moved these coins to another wallet, or were the FBI-agents smart enough to do this themselves already. Hmm, just thinking out loud again ...

It's not that easy. The problem is, most Bitcoin clients generate a new address every time you send money where the change is transferred to (see https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Change). So you'd have to memorize a new private key everytime you spend money. To circumvent this you can use a deterministic wallet like armory. It generates a unique "seed" that you need to memorize and can regenerate every address then.