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Dixie Cretin Seaman: Jan 22, 2008; all hat and one catte; Hot Rope Guy

i couldn't hack it as bitcoin major so now i'm studying doge

# ? Aug 25, 2015 19:06

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# ? Jun 8, 2024 13:40

Boxturret: Oct 3, 2013; Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

maniacdevnull posted:

Bitcoinonomy and Bitcoinology

# ? Aug 25, 2015 19:20

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

bitcoinogeny recapitulates bitcoinology

# ? Aug 25, 2015 19:23

Segmentation Fault: Jun 7, 2012

surebet posted:

buck fifty per, shipped

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-x-Gold-Plated-Bitcoin-Coin-Collectible-Gift-BTC-Coin-Art-Collection-Physical-/271953420353?hash=item3f51afe041

Bought ten to give away as dumb gifts to friends, they're due to show up sometime next month so I'll get a package in 4 weeks I completely forgot about.

# ? Aug 25, 2015 20:21

Dren: Jan 5, 2001; Pillbug

karpeles majored in bitcoinotomy

# ? Aug 25, 2015 20:38

Muscle Tracer: Feb 23, 2007; Medals only weigh one down.

joinder and consent for non-majors

# ? Aug 25, 2015 20:39

Robawesome: Jul 22, 2005

# ? Aug 25, 2015 20:45

unpacked robinhood: Feb 18, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

mongodb shat itself sorry for the incontinence

# ? Aug 25, 2015 20:47

neutral milf hotel: Oct 9, 2001; by Fluffdaddy

Robawesome posted:

# ? Aug 25, 2015 21:11

Chocobo: Oct 15, 2012; Here comes a new challenger!; Oven Wrangler

coins about to go missing

# ? Aug 25, 2015 21:13

univbee: Jun 3, 2004

Robawesome posted:

"we haven't sufficiently corrupted the database to cover our tracks"

# ? Aug 25, 2015 21:19

surebet: Jan 10, 2013; ａｖａｔａｒ
ｓｐｅｃｉａｌｉｓｔ

I made a deposit to Bitfinex 13 hours ago and the funds are still not available. (self.Bitcoin)
submitted 2 hours ago * by phedreshahrizai

Thankfully the deposit is rather small (just under .05 BTC), I noticed the deposit never posted after 3-4 confirmations like usual. So, I contacted support and their response was this:
"The BTC will be credited as soon as possible.
Kind regards,
Bjorn Bitfinex Suppport Team support@bitfinex.com "

Now, fast-forward 5 going on 6 hours later and my deposit is still not available, and I've also seen the coins move to another wallet on the Blockchain. What is going on!? Hardly acceptable, is there anyone else out there having the same problem?

EDIT: 2 Hours after this post I have still not seen my funds post to my Bitfinex account, nor have they responded to further inquiries via support. I hadn't used my Bitfinex account in a while, and I guess this reminds me of why.

# ? Aug 25, 2015 21:22

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

yesssssssssss

# ? Aug 25, 2015 21:25

Cold on a Cob: Feb 6, 2006; i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually; College Slice

surebet posted:

I made a deposit to Bitfinex 13 hours ago and the funds are still not available. (self.Bitcoin)
submitted 2 hours ago * by phedreshahrizai

Thankfully the deposit is rather small (just under .05 BTC), I noticed the deposit never posted after 3-4 confirmations like usual. So, I contacted support and their response was this:
"The BTC will be credited as soon as possible.
Kind regards,
Bjorn Bitfinex Suppport Team support@bitfinex.com "

Now, fast-forward 5 going on 6 hours later and my deposit is still not available, and I've also seen the coins move to another wallet on the Blockchain. What is going on!? Hardly acceptable, is there anyone else out there having the same problem?

EDIT: 2 Hours after this post I have still not seen my funds post to my Bitfinex account, nor have they responded to further inquiries via support. I hadn't used my Bitfinex account in a while, and I guess this reminds me of why.

# ? Aug 25, 2015 21:25

Happy Noodle Boy: Jul 3, 2002

hmm i don't think this bitcoin thing is a good idea

# ? Aug 25, 2015 21:27

neonbregna: Aug 20, 2007

surebet posted:

I made a deposit to Bitfinex 13 hours ago and the funds are still not available. (self.Bitcoin)
submitted 2 hours ago * by phedreshahrizai

Thankfully the deposit is rather small (just under .05 BTC), I noticed the deposit never posted after 3-4 confirmations like usual. So, I contacted support and their response was this:
"The BTC will be credited as soon as possible.
Kind regards,
Bjorn Bitfinex Suppport Team support@bitfinex.com "

Now, fast-forward 5 going on 6 hours later and my deposit is still not available, and I've also seen the coins move to another wallet on the Blockchain. What is going on!? Hardly acceptable, is there anyone else out there having the same problem?

EDIT: 2 Hours after this post I have still not seen my funds post to my Bitfinex account, nor have they responded to further inquiries via support. I hadn't used my Bitfinex account in a while, and I guess this reminds me of why.

please be real

# ? Aug 25, 2015 21:28

Just-In-Timeberlake: Aug 18, 2003

surebet posted:

I made a deposit to Bitfinex 13 hours ago and the funds are still not available. (self.Bitcoin)
submitted 2 hours ago * by phedreshahrizai

Thankfully the deposit is rather small (just under .05 BTC), I noticed the deposit never posted after 3-4 confirmations like usual. So, I contacted support and their response was this:
"The BTC will be credited as soon as possible.
Kind regards,
Bjorn Bitfinex Suppport Team support@bitfinex.com "

Now, fast-forward 5 going on 6 hours later and my deposit is still not available, and I've also seen the coins move to another wallet on the Blockchain. What is going on!? Hardly acceptable, is there anyone else out there having the same problem?

EDIT: 2 Hours after this post I have still not seen my funds post to my Bitfinex account, nor have they responded to further inquiries via support. I hadn't used my Bitfinex account in a while, and I guess this reminds me of why.

# ? Aug 25, 2015 21:30

poty: Jun 21, 2008; 虹はどこで終わるのですか？あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

hmm i don't think this bitcoin thing is a good idea

lets not jump to conclusions

# ? Aug 25, 2015 21:32

Gobbeldygook: May 13, 2009; Hates Native American people and tries to justify their genocides.

Put this racist on ignore immediately!

The largest dark net market, Agora, is shutting down.

quote:

Recently research had come that shed some light on vulnerabilities in Tor Hidden Services protocol which could help to deanonymize server locations. Most of the new and previously known methods do require substantial resources to be executed, but the new research shows that the amount of resources could be much lower than expected, and in our case we do believe we have interested parties who possess such resources.

We have a solution in the works which will require big changes into our software stack which we believe will mitigate such problems, but unfortunately it will take time to implement. Additionally, we have recently been discovering suspicious activity around our servers which led us to believe that some of the attacks described in the research could be going on and we decided to move servers once again, however this is only a temporary solution.

At this point, while we don't have a solution ready it would be unsafe to keep our users using the service, since they would be in jeopardy. Thus, and to our great sadness we have to take the market offline for a while, until we can develop a better solution. This is the best course of action for everyone involved.

In the mean time we shall do our best to clear all outstanding orders and we ask all of you users who have money on their accounts, withdraw them as soon as possible, because we don't want to be responsible for it during the time when the market will be offline.

During this time, there might be some delays in payouts, since many people are expected to withdraw money at the same time, but we intend to resolve any such issues in the end. But we advice you to use only destination bitcoin addresses that do not expire when you send money out from Agora, as the payments to them might get delayed.

While the market is offline, do not send any bitcoin to any of your deposit addresses on Agora. We do not gurantee the safety of any funds sent there.

Vendors, we strongly advice you to abort any orders that haven't been sent out or processed yet, as we cannot gurantee what will happen with the orders in resolution. We shall try to resolve it on a case-by-case basis, but there might not be time to wait for orders that require long shipping times.

We are going to handle the situation with the vendor bonds soon, we need some time to make sure that noone uses this as an opportunity to start scamming wildly.

All of the market data will be kept intact and be available upon return, including all of the user history and profile data.

Since our PGP key is nearing expiration date, here is a new PGP key which could be used to check authenticity of our messages in the future.

# ? Aug 25, 2015 21:38

haveblue: Aug 15, 2005; Toilet Rascal

# ? Aug 25, 2015 21:40

Heresiarch: Oct 6, 2005; Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that no single book is. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

Gobbeldygook posted:

The largest dark net market, Agora, is shutting down.

maybe i'm not cynical enough anymore but this sounds like legitimate fear of those newer tor exploits and not an attempt to take the money and run. wouldn't it have been more effective to just vanish without warning if they wanted to steal everything?

maybe it's a long con, i don't know

# ? Aug 25, 2015 21:47

neonbregna: Aug 20, 2007

Gobbeldygook posted:

The largest dark net market, Agora, is shutting down.

from the same reddit
https://pay.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/3iayq0/just_got_the_fucking_living_shit_scared_out_of_me/

quote:

Maybe this is in the wrong sub but I really need to share this and there is probably a lesson to be had here that no amount of opsec will protect you if your irl opsec sucks, but anyway, hoooooly poo poo...
I was just sitting in my apartment, and the front door happened to be unlocked at that moment, when some motherfucker in a mask walked in and told me at knifepoint to stop selling in his building or he was going to come back and "stab [me] 37 times".
I've been robbed at gunpoint before and I must say I wasn't half as scared then as I am now. This guy clearly knew what he was doing. I can recover from this monetarily but I really see no other option than to move out, which is a pity because I just recently moved in and the apartment is actually fairly nice... unless one of you has a million dollar idea? No? okay :[
edit: whoops forgot to mention that he robbed me too

# ? Aug 25, 2015 21:48

a cyberpunk goose: May 21, 2007

Heresiarch posted:

maybe i'm not cynical enough anymore but this sounds like legitimate fear of those newer tor exploits and not an attempt to take the money and run. wouldn't it have been more effective to just vanish without warning if they wanted to steal everything?

maybe it's a long con, i don't know

it reads like a legitimate shut down to me

it's not in anyone's interest to "wind down", cutting an operation out of the blue in one fell swoop inspires the most confusion and most chance for escaping cleanly i feel.

# ? Aug 25, 2015 21:48

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

/r/darknetmarkets is full of people screaming "EXIT SCAM"

# ? Aug 25, 2015 21:49

stinch: Nov 21, 2013

place your Bitfinex bets.

someone rebooted a vm and it didn't have persistent storage.

what is acid and what on earth does it have to do with nosql.

loving floats again.

you wrote what in node.js?

a transaction id was used to identify a transaction.

stinch fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Aug 25, 2015

# ? Aug 25, 2015 21:50

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

neonbregna posted:

from the same reddit
https://pay.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/3iayq0/just_got_the_fucking_living_shit_scared_out_of_me/

Also

quote:

estionBuilding your credit through DNMs?
submitted 6 hours ago by hidyhocaptain
This probably would have been better for moronic mondays but I noticed on coinbase they have a a credit card option for instant bitcoin purchases. I would assume using a credit card in any fashion, as long as you pay it off on time, would help build your credit. Yes there's a small fee for using the credit card but If you have not so good credit, that could be a good way help boost it a bit? I figure it couldn't hurt because if anything, a credit company would care less than a bank where that money was going, which either way, wouldn't matter all that much as it's just going for bit coins which by itself doesn't mean anything. I'll still have my bank linked to my coin base account but I just don't see realistically how this could be any worse than just buying coins normally.

# ? Aug 25, 2015 21:54

Heresiarch: Oct 6, 2005; Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that no single book is. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

stinch posted:

place your Bitfinex bets.

you forgot:

there is no technical problem, it's closed down because the market is crashing and for no other reason

# ? Aug 25, 2015 21:56

Carthag Tuek: Oct 15, 2005; Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
sl�gt skal f�lge sl�gters gang

Dren posted:

karpeles majored in bitcoinostomy

fixed hth hand

# ? Aug 25, 2015 21:59

jre: Sep 2, 2011; To the cloud ?

stinch posted:

place your Bitfinex bets.

I'll put 5 butts on
* what is acid and what on earth does it have to do with nosql.*

# ? Aug 25, 2015 22:20

Boxturret: Oct 3, 2013; Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

if all the exchanges go away people won't be able to sell and crash the market and bitcoin will finally be stable!

# ? Aug 25, 2015 22:20

Mr. Nice!: Oct 13, 2005; bone shaking.
soul baking.

time to reset the bitcoin exchange crashing before a bank counter.

# ? Aug 25, 2015 22:21

stinch: Nov 21, 2013

Heresiarch posted:

you forgot:

there is no technical problem, it's closed down because the market is crashing and for no other reason

yeah, and you want 20 to 1 on the sun rising tomorrow :frogout:

i'm a bookie not a charity

stinch fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Aug 25, 2015

# ? Aug 25, 2015 22:22

big scary monsters: Sep 2, 2011; -~Ｓｋｕｌｌｗａｖｅ~-

pretty great that a black market for selling drugs is shutting down more cleanly and with better customer service than a company claiming to be a legit currency exchange

# ? Aug 25, 2015 22:30

AnoHito: May 8, 2014

Heresiarch posted:

you forgot:

there is no technical problem, it's closed down because the market is crashing and for no other reason

why would they care about the price? don't they make their money off of no fees?

# ? Aug 25, 2015 22:32

qirex: Feb 15, 2001

a crash is a great time to run an exchange because volume goes through the roof

# ? Aug 25, 2015 22:35

Boxturret: Oct 3, 2013; Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

# ? Aug 25, 2015 22:41

Heresiarch: Oct 6, 2005; Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that no single book is. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

qirex posted:

a crash is a great time to run an exchange because volume goes through the roof

you'd think so but this happens every time there's a crash, exchanges suddenly started having "technical problems"

i think it's either an ideological choice because they can't stand to see the price crater even if it would make them more money in the process, or they're concerned that if the exchange rate is too low that they won't be able to pay the expenses they have to use real money to cover or make enough money to make their vcs happy

# ? Aug 25, 2015 22:49

QuarkJets: Sep 8, 2008

AnoHito posted:

why would they care about the price? don't they make their money off of no fees?

If you're a true believer then the high price might be more important to your beliefs (notacult)

Also if you've gambled away most of your exchange's bitcoin holdings on satoshidice then you might stop trading in order to prevent a run

# ? Aug 25, 2015 22:57

suffix: Jul 27, 2013; Wheeee!

AnoHito posted:

why would they care about the price? don't they make their money off of no fees?

in the case of the m:tgox they probably needed more money coming in than being withdrawn to cover their missing funds

or it could be true believers giving the invisible hand a little help to get the price to where the free market would have wanted it if it weren't for all these loving sellers man

# ? Aug 25, 2015 22:59

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aardvaard: Mar 4, 2013; you belong in the bog of eternal stench

Mircea Popescu said he owned slaves once, right? Is there a link to where he said that anywhere?

# ? Aug 25, 2015 23:07

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