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Re: 4 Bitcoin loan to be repaid by 11/22/2012 as current bitcoin rate +12% per coin.
by
lile
on 18/11/2012, 10:37:05 UTC
You have to be fucking kidding me. These scammers are getting more retarded by the minute.
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Re: Need to settle my PayPal account. BTCjam loan pending..
by
lile
on 18/11/2012, 09:39:14 UTC
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Hash: SHA1

I have a loan listed on BTCjam and am making the announcement here.

https://btcjam.com/listings/523

Any questions you have can be discussed here. It's a 22.2% annual yield
investment.

I'll be able to settle my PayPal account with 70% funding and can answer
any questions here. The loan is currently 23% funded and has 6 days left.

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Thanks. I missed the bit about it being signed by bitcoin-otc public key, so it wasn't even necessary, sorry Smiley
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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: WordPress.com accepts Bitcoins
by
lile
on 17/11/2012, 21:23:57 UTC
Just read their press announcement. The bitcoin option isn't meant for users like you. This is for people who have trouble using CC and paypal.
Yep. I do not have a credit card, so I also can't have a paypal account. If I want to buy something online, I can either wire the money, or beg one of my friends to order it for me (or go to the bank and get a credit card, but I am way too lazy for that). Using bitcoin for me is a total no-brainer, and I'm sure I'm not the only having this problem.
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Re: Estimating Transaction Size (in bytes)
by
lile
on 15/11/2012, 07:04:08 UTC
According to the transaction fee rules, the size of the transaction is used to calculate fees (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fees).  From what I've read elsewhere, the size of the tx will be: 180 bytes per input + 34 bytes per output + 10 bytes.

However, while I've found that calculation to hold up most of the time, it doesn't seem to be accurate all of the time.  Is there a more reliable way to know how large a transaction will be so that appropriate fees can be assigned when creating a raw transaction?
There is no way of knowing in advance how big the signatures are going to be. You can try making several transactions and based on the size of those figure out how large the fee must be.

You could also use a conservative estimate for the size and have users in some cases pay a little bit more.
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Re: Find Trendon Shavers in person thread... [BTCST, BTS&T, pirateat40]
by
lile
on 14/11/2012, 21:32:07 UTC
Someone in his home town reported that he bought his "wife" and a few of his family members brand new vehicles recently and evidently paid cash for them
What a waste of money...
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Re: Find Trendon Shavers in person thread... [BTCST, BTS&T, pirateat40]
by
lile
on 13/11/2012, 00:28:40 UTC
Since it seems to have been a ponzi scheme, pirate likely has no money, paid it all out in interest to keep the scam going.
I doubt he paid out much since pretty much everyone has been "reinvesting" as far as I know.
And your opinion is based on the fact you were a PPT operator, right?
My opinion is based on what I have read on the forum. I have been a part of this forum for quite some time.
From actual experience I would say that less than half the customers reinvested and more than half of them took their interest every three days in the early days, then weekly when the system was changed.

I describe a method by which this "reinvestment rate" can be estimated from the information we have on Bitcoinmax here:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=120119.msg1331862#msg1331862

From here:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=83904.msg1302303#msg1302303

We can see that the amount on deposit at Bitcoinmax at the time of closure was: 167728.74239044 + 110.74501165, this includes all interest to that date.

Now someone can dig up their deposit and withdrawal addresses and we can calculate exactly how much was actually on depost.

I see, I got the wrong impression then, thanks.
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Re: Find Trendon Shavers in person thread... [BTCST, BTS&T, pirateat40]
by
lile
on 13/11/2012, 00:13:17 UTC
Since it seems to have been a ponzi scheme, pirate likely has no money, paid it all out in interest to keep the scam going.
I doubt he paid out much since pretty much everyone has been "reinvesting" as far as I know.
And your opinion is based on the fact you were a PPT operator, right?
My opinion is based on what I have read on the forum. I have been a part of this forum for quite some time.
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Re: Find Trendon Shavers in person thread... [BTCST, BTS&T, pirateat40]
by
lile
on 12/11/2012, 23:28:46 UTC
Since it seems to have been a ponzi scheme, pirate likely has no money, paid it all out in interest to keep the scam going.
I doubt he paid out much since pretty much everyone has been "reinvesting" as far as I know.
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Re: How to check any balance and send from any private key?
by
lile
on 07/11/2012, 00:07:49 UTC
I am thinking that perhaps the server that the electrum client uses could be used for something like this?

Certainly, electrum servers are easy to use, but unfortunately not (yet) very stable. You would also need to code the actual creation of a transaction (although electrum code is easy to read so that shouldn't be a big problem).
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Re: [BitcoinMax.com] Closed
by
lile
on 01/11/2012, 15:49:18 UTC
I wouldn't really call Pirate a victim.
Exactly. That's why it doesn't matter.
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Re: pirate payments list -- accounts paid: 23/459
by
lile
on 28/10/2012, 18:15:29 UTC
Since there is no transparency, we can assume his inner circle received their loans back, leaving everyone else empty handed.
His inner circle? Who would that be?
Like in every ponzi those who invested early had the chance to make a profit, but probably didn't since pretty much everyone "reinvested", as far as I can see.
Re: pirate payments list -- accounts paid: 23/459

I have no idea who they are.
Since there were no confirmations of those payouts I'd say it's entirely likely that there actually were no payouts whatsoever. And in case they were, as far as I can see those were (supposedly) all very small accounts, most likely paid out as a stalling tactic. I wouldn't call those people "his inner circle".
Sure, you may be right.  But if you think that he lied about paying anybody, why do you believe that the paid out accounts were very small accounts?
Because it makes the most sense at this point. Grab the money, pay a few small accounts to keep people off your back for a while longer, disappear.
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Re: pirate payments list -- accounts paid: 23/459
by
lile
on 28/10/2012, 16:32:15 UTC
Since there is no transparency, we can assume his inner circle received their loans back, leaving everyone else empty handed.
His inner circle? Who would that be?
Like in every ponzi those who invested early had the chance to make a profit, but probably didn't since pretty much everyone "reinvested", as far as I can see.
Re: pirate payments list -- accounts paid: 23/459

I have no idea who they are.

Since there were no confirmations of those payouts I'd say it's entirely likely that there actually were no payouts whatsoever. And in case they were, as far as I can see those were (supposedly) all very small accounts, most likely paid out as a stalling tactic. I wouldn't call those people "his inner circle".
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Re: pirate payments list -- accounts paid: 23/459
by
lile
on 28/10/2012, 09:13:15 UTC
Since there is no transparency, we can assume his inner circle received their loans back, leaving everyone else empty handed.

His inner circle? Who would that be?
Like in every ponzi those who invested early had the chance to make a profit, but probably didn't since pretty much everyone "reinvested", as far as I can see.
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Re: Do I need to be online to receive bitcoins
by
lile
on 27/10/2012, 09:25:26 UTC
Yes, of course. It wouldn't be very convenient otherwise. You can even go one step further, print the private key to paper and delete it from your computer, and you would still be able to get to all bitcoins that would eventually appear on the address.

To clarify a bit, there is no such thing as "bitcoins being sent to an address", per se. Bitcoins are there for the taking by everyone who has the appropriate private key.
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Re: Buteforced attacked Instawallet
by
lile
on 24/10/2012, 20:38:23 UTC
None of those instawallet "accounts" (as far as I can see) has or ever had any bitcoins on them. Instawallet account identifiers have too high entropy for brute forcing them being profitable.

Instawallet is as safe as any other "shared wallet" out there.
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Re: SatoshiDice - rolled back transactions
by
lile
on 24/10/2012, 19:16:09 UTC
You know you're going to be losing money in the long run with satoshidice, right?
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Re: [HELP]: mt.gox: "There are not enough bitcoins on this address" obwohl...
by
lile
on 24/10/2012, 14:52:33 UTC
If I had to guess I'd say they expect only one transaction, and not two as in your case.

If you read the mtgox screenshot they say he can send the btc "from dozens of different addresses".
Yes, that could be done in a single transaction (actually, very rarely will transaction only contain one input). It also says "upon detection of the transaction", which made me think they could in fact be expecting a single transaction.
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Re: [HELP]: mt.gox: "There are not enough bitcoins on this address" obwohl...
by
lile
on 24/10/2012, 09:46:10 UTC
If I had to guess I'd say they expect only one transaction, and not two as in your case.
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Re: Requesting a 4 BTC Loan
by
lile
on 22/10/2012, 20:53:00 UTC
Any one willing to do this?
Date Registered:   October 19, 2012

Most likely not.
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Re: How horrible is ~300 khash/s?
by
lile
on 19/10/2012, 06:04:28 UTC
I was mining at about 500 MHs/s and wasn't worth it anymore months ago (in fact, it should probably be closer to a year now). This should give you a good perspective.

edit: checked when I stopped mining it was july 2011.