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Re: [ANN][MID]MidasCoin|New Scrypt PoM|Backed Value|ATM card|Referral|NO IPO|UNIQUE
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xrobau
on 09/09/2014, 23:45:53 UTC
Unfortunately we cannot offer a bounty for this, since we have no premine, but we really appreciate your dedication at making #midascoin thread appear on top.

Wait. So now you're saying you CAN'T pay the bounty that you offered? Isn't that LYING? You wouldn't be admitting that you lied, are you?
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Re: [ANN][MID]MidasCoin|New Scrypt PoM|Backed Value|ATM card|Referral|NO IPO|UNIQUE
by
xrobau
on 09/09/2014, 23:44:05 UTC
Even faking the first post, you can't do better?



You know, I had a run-in with another scamcoin developer. Your lack of comprehension, and inability to actually answer questions, makes me think that you're one and the same.

I can not mine coins without mining through that pool. There is only one central pool. It is centralized. There is only one central place to mine coins.  Can I phrase this in any other way?

They're dead, Dave. Dave, they're dead. Dead they are, Dave.

OK, here's the simple way to figure out who's right:

How do I mine coins WITHOUT going through the 'main pool'?
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Re: [ANN][MID]MidasCoin|New Scrypt PoM|Backed Value|ATM card|Referral|NO IPO|UNIQUE
by
xrobau
on 09/09/2014, 22:55:48 UTC
In #midascoin any node can hash blocks/confirm tx, prove  that is not possible to setup a node and confirm/hash blocks, like that "uber informed" person declare, and i will issue you a 10 BTC bounty, right now! 

Your first post says this:

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Minable only through the PoM official pool Midaspool.com.

I'd like to claim that 10BTC bounty. Please send it to 1xrobauEmhLwVnTmLbs6M92n1xGFAFbgq

Wow, that was easy.
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Re: ASICMiner Tube Sales Information Thread [Round2]
by
xrobau
on 27/08/2014, 17:56:59 UTC
There's a REASONABLY good chance that filtering them through LeaseRig's LR3 proxy will sanitize and fix this issue, too.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=544732.0
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Re: Proof of dishonesty and lies from Gawminers.com Hashlet Ponzi Scheme Scam
by
xrobau
on 21/08/2014, 20:44:41 UTC
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Have you ever wondered why GAW don't allow us to choose our own worker ID?
How come different pools generate exactly the same return curves?

That's kind of a smoking gun right there. You mean to say that they host miners, but don't let you mine where you want to mine?

(I don't have any link to GAW at all. I was just keeping abreast of the latest in scam when I came across this thread)

Hrm. I just had a PM from 'GAW Miners_CEO'.  It said: "The reason we dont allow folks to put in their own pool is to follow our uptime commitment. The number one issue that we deal with on our hosting platform, that does allow for their own pools, is folks putting in the wrong pool info. This then creates down time, that the customer (often) blames us for"

Screenshot, with mouseover the User ID


This makes me even MORE suspicious.  Because, according to the OP, their hosting platform does NOT allow people to enter their own pools, or change the account.   Either way, I can't see why, even if they DID have a whitelist of known good pools, they wouldn't allow people to mine to their own accounts on the known good pools.

Which is it OP?
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Re: Proof of dishonesty and lies from Gawminers.com Hashlet Ponzi Scheme Scam
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xrobau
on 21/08/2014, 19:50:56 UTC
There is no proof of anything you've said, multiple, multiple times. 

Uh, actually, I think the important thing is here:

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Have you ever wondered why GAW don't allow us to choose our own worker ID?
How come different pools generate exactly the same return curves?

That's kind of a smoking gun right there. You mean to say that they host miners, but don't let you mine where you want to mine?

(I don't have any link to GAW at all. I was just keeping abreast of the latest in scam when I came across this thread)
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Re: who is currently manufacturing miners?
by
xrobau
on 14/08/2014, 23:41:57 UTC
Agreed, Asicminer's BE200 is a pretty good chip. We've incorporated their boards into 2U casing, we'll release them next week.

Before you start selling stuff, you may wish to check your trust -- lots and LOTS of people have left bad feedback about you.   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=152891 and click on 'show ratings'.
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Re: [SSD] SonicScrewdriver [PoW/PoS] Sha256.[Tor Included]BITTREX CCEX and Bleutrade
by
xrobau
on 13/08/2014, 22:44:20 UTC
If my coins are still on Bittrex (haven't moved them yet) will it show up as it's own address or be lumped in with exchange addresses...because I don't see my amount number on there...

If they're at bittrex, they are not on your own account. Also, as another downside for keeping them in an exchange, is the exchange will be earning PoS blocks, and not you.

Buy, move to local wallet, repeat.

Also, if your local wallet isn't running, you will not earn PoS shares, either.
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Re: [SSD] SonicScrewdriver [PoW/PoS] Sha256.[Tor Included]CCEX and Bleutrade
by
xrobau
on 11/08/2014, 23:13:11 UTC
Less than 200 blocks to go before the next halving, woot!
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Re: [SSD] SonicScrewdriver [PoW/PoS] Sha256.[Tor Included]CCEX and Bleutrade
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xrobau
on 11/08/2014, 21:17:26 UTC
I have my own block explorer almost ready to go just cant get the source to compile.

Or just jump on IRC and ask for help there.
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Re: [SSD] SonicScrewdriver [PoW/PoS] Sha256.[Tor Included]CCEX and Bleutrade
by
xrobau
on 11/08/2014, 20:44:30 UTC
A current richlist, before the next block halving in about 6 hours.
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(snipped)

(Code is on my github if anyone else wants to run it)

Im in 23rd place!! Nice! Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy

I pointed argakiig at the parser, so hopefully he may stick that up on the block explorer page, too.

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Re: [SSD] SonicScrewdriver [PoW/PoS] Sha256.[Tor Included]CCEX and Bleutrade
by
xrobau
on 11/08/2014, 20:30:02 UTC
A current richlist, before the next block halving in about 6 hours.
Code:
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(Code is on my github if anyone else wants to run it)
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Re: [SSD] SonicScrewdriver [PoW/PoS] Sha256. Ninja Launch[Tor Included]
by
xrobau
on 10/08/2014, 22:02:08 UTC
Almost at the second block halving now.  Current block number is 2677.
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Re: Unattainium, and why dev bans me and deletes my posts...
by
xrobau
on 10/08/2014, 20:52:44 UTC
And, just as a reminder, the coin has been proven to be broken and insecure.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d8dwuGznri35uNHDxhUcRDXD0I8afKN9R3G3oPNhBbo
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Re: [SSD] SonicScrewdriver [15 day PoW 20% POS annually] Sha256. Ninja Launch
by
xrobau
on 10/08/2014, 00:08:29 UTC
I notice that we've just clicked over block 1400, and the reward is still 8000 SSD?

Edit: Looking at the code, the original post is in error. The post currently says 'Rewards halving every 1400 blocks', when it's actually every 1440.

Code:
   if (nHeight == 0)
        nSubsidy = 16 * COIN; // genesis block coinbase is unspendable
    else if (nHeight <= 1440)
        nSubsidy = 8000 * COIN;
    else if (nHeight <= 2880)

(etc).
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Re: Unattanium: Broken by design.
by
xrobau
on 04/08/2014, 23:33:12 UTC
The number of confirmations you have to wait for is not relevant.  As I pointed out above, by having a block time that is so short, it's amazingly easy to do a 51% attack, without actually having 51% of the coin's hashrate.

I did explain this to the dev, but he said that he knew better, and he was right, and I was wrong.

Here's how it works.

There is the public 'good' chain. It is mining along at.. let's say (for ease of counting) 12TH.  It's split up amongst 3 pools, and each of them have 4TH each (That means that the coin will be asking for difficulty 30000-ish blocks, btw)

We live in a universe where there is a finite speed of light. There is an amount of time it takes for Pool A (that mined the coin) to send it to the other pools, and other coinds.  This is the network latency time. In bitcoind it takes, on average, 4 seconds (and that's an average, not a mean. Mean is much higher) for a block to propogate to 90% of the nodes.  (These numbers are from memory. They're roughly accurate, but not exact. They won't be an order of magnitude out). Whatever the time in una is, it's an amount.. I'm going to keep on at 4 seconds, because the exact number doesn't actually matter.

If we work on 4 seconds, then roughly -half- of the blocks that are mined, will be mined within the same window. There will be two valid blocks, and only one of them will be accepted by the blockchain. 

So that brings the -effective- hashing rate of the coin down to 6TH. Everyone's hashes who mined the rejected coins were wasted.

Along comes Mr 'I actually HAVE a clue' who understands this.  He goes and rents 4TH of SHA mining, and sets up his own coind.  He's going to solomine, to his own pool. His own pool isn't GOING to have any orphans, because he's always going to mine to his chain. He'll never accept a block mined by someone else.

He is, however, going to spam his blocks out, so that everyone else must discard what they're doing (on the non-evil chain), and start working on the new (evil) block.

Now, we have 4TH of 100% guaranteed never-gunna-orphan, and 6TH of 25% chance of orphaning (we still have network latency, but now it's only half as likely).

So there's your first 51% attack. It's pretty visible though, as people watching the blockchain will notice.

The second one is much sneakier, and kinda awesome. Basically, the second one runs his own parallel blockchain. Same deal, it'll never orphan (so you only need 25%-ish), BUT, he doesn't send his blockchain out until AFTER his double spend is completed.   

This one is much easier to manage, as you can control the hashrate exactly to encourage more blocks to be mined than the public chain.

I am, admittedly, glossing over the hard-er bits. I encourage anyone who's actually interested in this to watch the upcoming Dogecoin double spend attack, which is going to be using option 1 I believe, from what I've read.



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Re: Unattanium: Broken by design.
by
xrobau
on 04/08/2014, 20:04:38 UTC
U better pay me back my btc scammer... (bitspender) Angry Instead of posting here on bctalk, w8tch out people.. this guy is bad news...

You know, I'm kind of unsurprised that he's being accused of being a scammer.  Their behaviour in IRC is .. odd, to put it mildly.

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<•Unattainium> If you had any idea who you were talking to, you would know I definitely know what I'm doing

And yet, he/she is not saying who he/she is? 

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There is a bug. I see and understand the bug. You don't, or claim not to understand the bug.  That's.. pretty much it. You're the one with access to the code, so, i fyou want to leave it broken, there's not much I can do about it, apart from warn other people.
<•Unattainium> Ok, give me the bug
<•Unattainium> "I don't like fast block times"
I have. Several times.
No, that's not the bug
<•Unattainium> Not a bug
<•Unattainium> Ok
<•Unattainium> I'm like
← You were kicked by Unattainium (175c3d62@gateway/web/freenode/ip.23.92.61.98): wibble
→ X-Rob joined (X-Rob@gateway/web/irccloud.com/x-boeazzlbzlokrgfu)
Channel mode is +cnt
Heh
So
here's the bug
'8 second block times are insecure'
<•Unattainium> Meant to ignore not kick
<•Unattainium> That was my bad
now, you can either claim it's not a bug, which is factually false
or, you can say that you're aware of the issue, and it's fixed because of xyz.
or, you can say something else.
<•Unattainium> For the record, I can't see what you're typing anymore. I'll just wait until you crawl to the forums to try and get someone as equally ill informed to agree with you
I have an 8 year old son who does that. Puts his hands over his ears and goes 'LALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU' when you're saying something he doesn't want to hear.
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And.. he -still- hasn't adressed the latency issue.

This is amazingly hilarious.
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Re: Unattanium: Broken by design.
by
xrobau
on 04/08/2014, 02:47:51 UTC
Yes, it was made not to work. The whole idea make it so no one wanted to go though the trouble to "obtain" it.

There's a difference between 'making it hard to obtain' and 'making it amazingly easy to perform a 51% attack and all the bad that that entails'.

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Unattanium: Broken by design. (Status: Proven broken)
by
xrobau
on 04/08/2014, 02:31:37 UTC
Edit: Attack occurred, and the coin is, indeed, vulnerable. I wrote a small paper on it, that's available here:
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d8dwuGznri35uNHDxhUcRDXD0I8afKN9R3G3oPNhBbo

It's only three pages, and contains far too much maths and hypotheticals. However, instructions for taking over the coin yourself are in the last section.

For those that are unaware, Unattanium is a newish limited-number-of-coins SHA coin.

They've recently had to fork the chain, because the difficulty calculations were broken, and it went far too high.  Sadly, they've now broken it in the other direction, and the dev seems intent on ignoring this, and abusing or hand-waving the problems away.

It's now running at an 8 second block time.

Now, for everyone who is NOT facepalming right now, this is faster than blockchain propagation. Basically, it will be amazingly difficulty for the coin to agree on a valid chain, because there will be any number of chains that are almost the same length.

So, After being asked to help out to fix the stuck difficulty, I jumped on their IRC channel and had a discussion with someone called 'Unattanium' who was opped in the channel mentioned on their website.

I phrase that carefully, because I'd hate to slander someone who actually knows what he or she is doing. Because this person didn't.

Anyway, rather than addressing the issue, he (I'm assuming this person is a male. I apologise if you're not) said things like...
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<•Unattainium> and who cares about orphans
<•Unattainium> it doesnt break a chain or anything
<•Unattainium> i dont care if it fucks up miner ui or stats
Well. Everyone who's mining cares about orphan shares.
uh orphan blocks
<•Unattainium> Everyone will be on the same playing field
Well no
<•Unattainium> I'll get the same amount of orphans are you
<•Unattainium> as you*

Which is obviously wrong. All I, as a bad guy, need to do is to have more hash rate than you, the innocent miner. At 8 seconds, it's highly unlikely that your block will even have reached me before I mine my next one, leaving me to perform a 51% attack with much less than 51% - it would be (coin hashrate * 0.51)/(average block latency time / coin block time)

Average block latency from bitcoind is around 4 seconds.  Or, basically, I can now perform a 51% attack with only 25% of the coin.

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if your'e going to claim I'm wrong, you'll need to actually back that up.
<•Unattainium> You're spewing nonsense\
Yet, here I am, saying I'm not.
<•Unattainium> I'm just gonna stop responding
And you're yet to provide proof that I am
<•Unattainium> Beacuse I think you are either a) ignorant as fuck, or b) trolling hard
I'm neither
<•Unattainium> there is no option c
I'm trying to fix a problem that you seem to be deliberately ignoring
problem is: 8 seconds is far too short.
<•Unattainium> I'm done
<•Unattainium> Not worth my time

So there you go, people.  Fixing a design flaw in the change, that was to FIX a design flaw, is not worth his or her time.

Of course the next design flaw, which will be implemented to fix this design flaw, will be be something awesomely terrible, and I can't wait to see what it is.

Edit: The next design flaw, which was implemented ... for no real reason that I could see, was to randomise the reward, leaving the block times the same, but not giving anyone any notice. So yes. It was awesomely terrible.

Have fun now.
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Re: Announcement: A1 28NM 2TH/S Asic miner 1.15$/G delivery time in 2 days
by
xrobau
on 03/08/2014, 22:57:50 UTC
Hi everyone!

IS ANYBODY from REAL Members of this FORUM bought this miners?
Is it scam or this company are real? Is it can be trusted?


I have bought a 2TH miner from this guys. I was massively unimpressed with the hardware, which was damaged in transit, underspecced, and used much more power than originally stated.

So yes, they exist. They do actually send hardware out.  Check my profile history for photos of what arrived.