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BITSTAMP SERVICE TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED
We have reason to believe that one of Bitstamps operational wallets was compromised on January 4th, 2015.
As a security precaution against compromises Bitstamp only maintains a small fraction of customer bitcoins in online systems. Bitstamp maintains more than enough offline reserves to cover the compromised bitcoins.
IN THE MEANTIME, PLEASE DO NOT MAKE DEPOSITS TO PREVIOUSLY ISSUED BITCOIN DEPOSIT ADDRESSES. THEY CANNOT BE HONORED!
Customer deposits made prior to January 5th, 2015 9:00 UTC are fully covered by Bitstamps reserves. Deposits made to newly issued addresses provided after January 5th, 2015 9:00 UTC can be honored.
Bitstamp takes our security and soundness very seriously. In an excess of caution, we are suspending service as we continue to investigate. We will return to service and amend our security measures as appropriate.
Bitstamp Team
We have reason to believe that one of Bitstamps operational wallets was compromised on January 4th, 2015.
As a security precaution against compromises Bitstamp only maintains a small fraction of customer bitcoins in online systems. Bitstamp maintains more than enough offline reserves to cover the compromised bitcoins.
IN THE MEANTIME, PLEASE DO NOT MAKE DEPOSITS TO PREVIOUSLY ISSUED BITCOIN DEPOSIT ADDRESSES. THEY CANNOT BE HONORED!
Customer deposits made prior to January 5th, 2015 9:00 UTC are fully covered by Bitstamps reserves. Deposits made to newly issued addresses provided after January 5th, 2015 9:00 UTC can be honored.
Bitstamp takes our security and soundness very seriously. In an excess of caution, we are suspending service as we continue to investigate. We will return to service and amend our security measures as appropriate.
Bitstamp Team
Obviously you are being MITM attacked by the government for participating in a subversive p2p network currency.
You should sound the alarm, because if indeed that were the case, this would not be too late anyway. /sarcasm
SSL key changes are routine. If you trust the PKI, then it's fine. If you don't trust the PKI, it wasn't fine before anyway.
You should sound the alarm, because if indeed that were the case, this would not be too late anyway. /sarcasm
SSL key changes are routine. If you trust the PKI, then it's fine. If you don't trust the PKI, it wasn't fine before anyway.
Re: The Kindle, Bitcoin and client side address generation. (StrongCoin)
Anyone who thinks that doing client side crypto (here's looking at you, StrongCoin developers) adds any safety or security doesn't know how JavaScript works.
I direct you to the excellent write-up on matasano.com, explaining clearly why doing crypto on the clientside is a waste of time:
http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/
It's also worth noting that StrongCoin sources javascript from both Google -and- Twitter, enabling either of those organizations (or anyone who obtains a certificate for either of those organizations, or anyone if SSL is not used) to completely subvert this "secure" clientside crypto.
I direct you to the excellent write-up on matasano.com, explaining clearly why doing crypto on the clientside is a waste of time:
http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/
It's also worth noting that StrongCoin sources javascript from both Google -and- Twitter, enabling either of those organizations (or anyone who obtains a certificate for either of those organizations, or anyone if SSL is not used) to completely subvert this "secure" clientside crypto.
Re: [G+] The really dark pools of Bitcoins, where not even block explorer can track
Note: I am not a lawyer.
The best part is that producing fake bitbills in and of itself is probably not illegal. Of course, using them to obtain goods and services is probably fraud, but making a bunch of fake bitbills with no keys inside and selling them to someone as a batch of fake bitbills (for that second party to do with as they please) is not against the law (save whatever copyrighted image is on them, which is a civil matter).
The problem with the OP's solution here is one of trust. It's the same reason why bitbills are doomed to failure. There's no way for the recipient of a payment to be assured that nobody else has the keys that can be used to transfer the coins.
When you generate your own key and the sender makes a public transaction transferring those coins to you, you can be assured that nobody but you can transfer them. When someone emails you a wallet.dat or hands you a bitbill, there is no assurance that someone else can't one day spend those coins. If you want them to be permanently safe, you have to transfer the ownership to a new key, and that involves the blockchain.
I'm not really clear on why everyone's trying to invent coin transfers that avoid the blockchain. They all involve some sort of trust scheme, and with smartphones approaching free (along with mobile internet connectivity) shortly we will all be speculating idly.
The best part is that producing fake bitbills in and of itself is probably not illegal. Of course, using them to obtain goods and services is probably fraud, but making a bunch of fake bitbills with no keys inside and selling them to someone as a batch of fake bitbills (for that second party to do with as they please) is not against the law (save whatever copyrighted image is on them, which is a civil matter).
The problem with the OP's solution here is one of trust. It's the same reason why bitbills are doomed to failure. There's no way for the recipient of a payment to be assured that nobody else has the keys that can be used to transfer the coins.
When you generate your own key and the sender makes a public transaction transferring those coins to you, you can be assured that nobody but you can transfer them. When someone emails you a wallet.dat or hands you a bitbill, there is no assurance that someone else can't one day spend those coins. If you want them to be permanently safe, you have to transfer the ownership to a new key, and that involves the blockchain.
I'm not really clear on why everyone's trying to invent coin transfers that avoid the blockchain. They all involve some sort of trust scheme, and with smartphones approaching free (along with mobile internet connectivity) shortly we will all be speculating idly.
The only reason you'd need an ATM is to provide physical bills - this is why ATMs exist today. With the advent of extremely cheap smartphones and near-ubiquitous 3G/EDGE connectivity, there is really zero market for such a thing.
By the time you'd built them, got the contracts in place, and put them in the market, they'd be obsolete money-sinks.
By the time you'd built them, got the contracts in place, and put them in the market, they'd be obsolete money-sinks.
Hehe. For some early adopters, "very little" might still be in the thousands, though.
I can understand some of them cashed in too early, though. Imagine you're a little short on cash and the bitcoin value just shot up 400% to USD 0.80!! I'd be tempted to sell, myself. I've been having a hard time holding on to my little stash myself at times.
I can understand some of them cashed in too early, though. Imagine you're a little short on cash and the bitcoin value just shot up 400% to USD 0.80!! I'd be tempted to sell, myself. I've been having a hard time holding on to my little stash myself at times.
The investor that thinks that cashing out after a 400% increase is "too early", well, isn't.
If you want to whine about it, think about the story told to me last weekend - a dude who bought a pizza for 10,000 bitcoins. Then go try to make traditional investments that yield triple-digit APYs. Then come back and complain.
I'll be honest I have mixed feelings about this. Bitcoin is an open source project. I like TradeHill, but I'm no more happy about trade hill controlling bitcoin.com then I would be if RedHad got Linux.com or Apple got w3c.org.
Those are pretty crap examples. Bitcoin already uses bitcoin.org. Though not unilateral these days, the .com TLD was clearly meant for commercial enterprise, and is overwhelmingly used to that end.
I don't think there will be much confusion over it. I don't hear anyone complaining about the domain squatter that has bitcointalk.com, after all...
-jp
Re: Financing the Revolution, video by Chaos Computer Club about bitcoin
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If you liked the talk and would like to send a bitcoin donation in support, please use the following address:
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Best,
Jeffrey Paul <sneak@datavibe.net>
http://twitter.com/sneakatdatavibe
http://sneak.datavibe.net
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If you liked the talk and would like to send a bitcoin donation in support, please use the following address:
1GLRQGVoF5U2iuN1RWQxNP1UBGD1vtYEfA
Best,
Jeffrey Paul <sneak@datavibe.net>
http://twitter.com/sneakatdatavibe
http://sneak.datavibe.net
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Re: Financing the Revolution, video by Chaos Computer Club about bitcoin
Thanks for all the positive response to the talk, guys!
I recorded the talk myself from the soundboard and with a second HD camera. If we don't end up getting the CCC-streamed one to work right on the video sites I can sync and mux them myself and get a different recording up.
Best,
Jeffrey Paul <sneak@datavibe.net>
http://sneak.datavibe.net
http://twitter.com/sneakatdatavibe
5539 AD00 DE4C 42F3 AFE1 1575 0524 43F4 DF2A 55C2
I recorded the talk myself from the soundboard and with a second HD camera. If we don't end up getting the CCC-streamed one to work right on the video sites I can sync and mux them myself and get a different recording up.
Best,
Jeffrey Paul <sneak@datavibe.net>
http://sneak.datavibe.net
http://twitter.com/sneakatdatavibe
5539 AD00 DE4C 42F3 AFE1 1575 0524 43F4 DF2A 55C2
RBB (Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg) is covering the Chaos Communication Camp, and in it they mention that Bitcoin will be discussed:
http://www.rbb-online.de/nachrichten/vermischtes/2011_08/computerclub_zeltcamp.html
http://www.rbb-online.de/nachrichten/vermischtes/2011_08/computerclub_zeltcamp.html
Presentation on digital cash and Bitcoin @ CCCamp 2011 (12 August 2011)
I'm giving a presentation entitled "Financing The Revolution" at the Chaos Communications Camp 2011 in Berlin, Germany on Friday the 12th of August (2011) at 22:30.
http://events.ccc.de/camp/2011/
I cover existing digital cash systems, Bitcoin, and how and why anonymous decentralized payments systems are essential to the functioning of a free society.
Some of you may have already seen this at BSides Berlin (in December 2010, when MtGox was trading at ~$0.20) or at the Technical University Berlin last month. I've updated the deck to cover all of the latest developments in the world of Bitcoin and I hope to see some of you there.
Best,
Jeffrey Paul (sneak)
sneak@datavibe.net
5539 AD00 DE4C 42F3 AFE1 1575 0524 43F4 DF2A 55C2
http://events.ccc.de/camp/2011/
I cover existing digital cash systems, Bitcoin, and how and why anonymous decentralized payments systems are essential to the functioning of a free society.
Some of you may have already seen this at BSides Berlin (in December 2010, when MtGox was trading at ~$0.20) or at the Technical University Berlin last month. I've updated the deck to cover all of the latest developments in the world of Bitcoin and I hope to see some of you there.
Best,
Jeffrey Paul (sneak)
sneak@datavibe.net
5539 AD00 DE4C 42F3 AFE1 1575 0524 43F4 DF2A 55C2
MtGoxWatcher, a real-time MtGox trade monitor for the Mac (10.6+, Intel 32/64)
I have created an app for Mac OS X that displays trades from MtGox in realtime.
It doesn't poll but instead opens a socket (to my realtime messaging server) that is fed with updates as they happen from the MtGox websocket service, so you see trades and prices with sub-second latency.
MtGoxWatcher, OS 10.6+, Intel-only (32 and 64 bit)
Download and info: http://sneak.datavibe.net/projects/mtgoxwatcher/
Source code is up on GitHub for the hacking (linked to from the project page above).
Feature requests and suggestions are welcome!
Best,
Jeffrey Paul <sneak@datavibe.net> (@sneakatdatavibe)
pub 4096R/DF2A55C2 2010-10-21
Key fingerprint = 5539 AD00 DE4C 42F3 AFE1 1575 0524 43F4 DF2A 55C2
It doesn't poll but instead opens a socket (to my realtime messaging server) that is fed with updates as they happen from the MtGox websocket service, so you see trades and prices with sub-second latency.
MtGoxWatcher, OS 10.6+, Intel-only (32 and 64 bit)
Download and info: http://sneak.datavibe.net/projects/mtgoxwatcher/
Source code is up on GitHub for the hacking (linked to from the project page above).
Feature requests and suggestions are welcome!
Best,
Jeffrey Paul <sneak@datavibe.net> (@sneakatdatavibe)
pub 4096R/DF2A55C2 2010-10-21
Key fingerprint = 5539 AD00 DE4C 42F3 AFE1 1575 0524 43F4 DF2A 55C2