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Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Reused R values again
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on: December 16, 2014, 03:04:57 AM
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I know this pattern and I know how it was "programmed in". It was a bug: one variable was not initialized.
It's bad that this was not caught before it went into production. Testing a random number generator is of course hard. How can you see whether a random number is really random.
It is incompetence to have a software updating protocol that lets such a bug go through. The random number generator is one of the absolutely critical parts of the bitcoin protocol and (as you notice) very hard to debug by testing. A change in that code (or in any part of the code, actually) should have been reviewed with extreme care by many competent eyes before being put in production. You can also ask, who profits? This incident has given bc.i bad publicity, a lot of work to handle support request, and some bitcoins have been stolen.
There may not have been malice by the Blockchain.info management, but maybe there was malice by some programmer who had access to the code and intended to sweep the affected addresses once they had enough bitcoins in them . While the bug looks just like an accidental omission, that appearance may be intentional too. |
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Other / Off-topic / Re: Answer the question above with a question.
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on: December 16, 2014, 02:52:24 AM
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See what I mean?
Just answer the ques. By whom? have you figured out the you cant use periods yet?  I can half Understand but i haven't broken any rule  Have you? Haven't you? Haven't me? How could we explain it with questions? |
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Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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on: December 15, 2014, 07:28:43 AM
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The fact that we are no longer seeing miners dump, even though they could book those losses at the end of the year for tax purposes, is very telling.
Many mining farms seem to be based outside the US, to profit from cheaper electricity and/or cold air. Presumably, even those that are owned by Americans have found ways to avoid US taxes. If so, they would not have that pressure. |
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Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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on: December 15, 2014, 02:55:13 AM
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bitcoin is dying yada, yada, yada ... go on just come out and say it once, you know you want to. The article is certainly more uninformed spin than substance. For any of us who have been around long enough, we're getting pretty used to it from the media by now. The situation has actually dramatically improved more recently. Well, it quotes bitcoiners for the stalling adoption thing, and gives some new relevant information. Like the fact that most of those new wallets created at blockchain.info are empty. |
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on: December 15, 2014, 02:25:36 AM
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Start- Best Serial killer(Psychopath) Movie? on tv or at the cinema? Any. Of your choice. Why didn't you answer my question? I did! Did you know you it doesn't count if its not a question? Anyone remembers what was the punishment for those who do not follow the Rule of thie thread? Anyone remembers what the punishement for... wait what I was saying? Were you saying it here? Saying what here? Well, wasn't he asking about saying something somewhere? Where??? How should I know? On tv or at the cinema? Can I repeat questions? Or post immediately after myself? Was that you that caused the hard fork? Wasn't it @Shrishti who hard-forked himself? I see now, could that be fixed? You fixed it, right? Who? Me? Oops, it was @mm5aes, wasn't it? Is this what you guys mean by a "hard fork"?  Is that a fork or a spoon? |
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on: December 15, 2014, 02:12:07 AM
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Start- Best Serial killer(Psychopath) Movie? on tv or at the cinema? Any. Of your choice. Why didn't you answer my question? I did! Did you know you it doesn't count if its not a question? Anyone remembers what was the punishment for those who do not follow the Rule of thie thread? Anyone remembers what the punishement for... wait what I was saying? Were you saying it here? Saying what here? Well, wasn't he asking about saying something somewhere? Where??? How should I know? On tv or at the cinema? Can I repeat questions? Or post immediately after myself? Was that you that caused the hard fork? Wasn't it @Shrishti who hard-forked himself? I see now, could that be fixed? You fixed it, right? Who? Me? Oops, it was @mm5aes, wasn't it? |
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on: December 15, 2014, 01:07:36 AM
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Start- Best Serial killer(Psychopath) Movie? on tv or at the cinema? Any. Of your choice. Why didn't you answer my question? I did! Did you know you it doesn't count if its not a question? Anyone remembers what was the punishment for those who do not follow the Rule of thie thread? Anyone remembers what the punishement for... wait what I was saying? Were you saying it here? Saying what here? Well, wasn't he asking about saying something somewhere? Where??? How should I know? On tv or at the cinema? Can I repeat questions? Or post immediately after myself? Was that you that caused the hard fork? Wasn't it @Shrishti who hard-forked himself? I see now, could that be fixed? You fixed it, right? |
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on: December 15, 2014, 01:05:04 AM
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Start- Best Serial killer(Psychopath) Movie? on tv or at the cinema? Any. Of your choice. Why didn't you answer my question? I did! Did you know you it doesn't count if its not a question? Anyone remembers what was the punishment for those who do not follow the Rule of thie thread? Anyone remembers what the punishement for... wait what I was saying? Were you saying it here? Saying what here? Well, wasn't he asking about saying something somewhere? Where??? How should I know? On tv or at the cinema? Can I repeat questions? Or post immediately after myself? Was that you that caused the hard fork? Wasn't it @Shrishti who hard-forked himself? I see now, could that be fixed? |
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on: December 15, 2014, 01:03:24 AM
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Start- Best Serial killer(Psychopath) Movie? on tv or at the cinema? Any. Of your choice. Why didn't you answer my question? I did! Did you know you it doesn't count if its not a question? Anyone remembers what was the punishment for those who do not follow the Rule of thie thread? Anyone remembers what the punishement for... wait what I was saying? Were you saying it here? Saying what here? Well, wasn't he asking about saying something somewhere? Where??? How should I know? On tv or at the cinema? Can I repeat questions? Or post immediately after myself? Was that you that caused the hard fork? Wasn't it @Shrishti who hard-forked himself? |
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on: December 15, 2014, 12:41:06 AM
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Start- Best Serial killer(Psychopath) Movie? on tv or at the cinema? Any. Of your choice. Why didn't you answer my question? I did! Did you know you it doesn't count if its not a question? Anyone remembers what was the punishment for those who do not follow the Rule of thie thread? Anyone remembers what the punishement for... wait what I was saying? Were you saying it here? Saying what here? Well, wasn't he asking about saying something somewhere? Where??? How should I know? On tv or at the cinema? Will I find the answer there? |
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on: December 15, 2014, 12:38:18 AM
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Start- Best Serial killer(Psychopath) Movie? on tv or at the cinema? Any. Of your choice. Why didn't you answer my question? I did! Did you know you it doesn't count if its not a question? Anyone remembers what was the punishment for those who do not follow the Rule of thie thread? Anyone remembers what the punishement for... wait what I was saying? Were you saying it here? Saying what here? Well, wasn't he asking about saying something somewhere? Where??? How should I know? |
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on: December 15, 2014, 12:32:36 AM
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Start- Best Serial killer(Psychopath) Movie? on tv or at the cinema? Any. Of your choice. Why didn't you answer my question? I did! Did you know you it doesn't count if its not a question? Anyone remembers what was the punishment for those who do not follow the Rule of thie thread? Anyone remembers what the punishement for... wait what I was saying? Were you saying it here? Saying what here? Well, wasn't he asking about saying something somewhere? |
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Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Reused R values again
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on: December 14, 2014, 11:49:11 PM
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I feel like Sisyphos. You think you swiped everything but in the mean time someone else sends you new money...
You need Bitcoin forwarder service, upload private keys and it forwards funds the moment it sees them on the blockchain. Since it doesn't exist, you'll have to write your own  If there was a forwarding option in the protocol, the first thing a black hat hacker would do is to sweep the coins, the second thing would be to set up forwarding to his address (and set it again every time the original owner tries to reset it). |
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Other / Off-topic / Re: Answer the question above with a question.
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on: December 14, 2014, 08:57:46 PM
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Start- Best Serial killer(Psychopath) Movie? on tv or at the cinema? Any. Of your choice. Why didn't you answer my question? I did! Did you know you it doesn't count if its not a question? Anyone remembers what was the punishment for those who do not follow the Rule of thie thread? Anyone remembers what the punishement for... wait what I was saying? Were you saying it here? |
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on: December 14, 2014, 06:34:44 PM
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Start- Best Serial killer(Psychopath) Movie? on tv or at the cinema? Any. Of your choice. Why didn't you answer my question? I did! Did you know you it doesn't count if its not a question? Anyone remembers what was the punishment for those who do not follow the Rule of thie thread? |
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