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surebet posted:someone (andreas?) had been collecting funds for a couple years prior to try and bait wikipedia into taking bitcoin, so that initial influx is probably that + the usual 24 hour burst of penny shavings from r/bitcoin Yeah, Bitpay abusing the trademark. The legal dept went after this. Some other Bitcoiners sent Jimmy Wales bitcoins directly, which he passed to Wikimedia. This Wikimedia mailing list thread from December 2013 is le gold a là comédie, as they say in Paris.
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But if you take that $220k and buy bitcoins then you can get something like 900btc, and back before this temporary slump the real price for bitcoin was proven to be over 1200, so that means that the 900btc is actually worth over a million bucks of donations!
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divabot posted:The Wikimedia Foundation got $220k from Bitcoin in the past year, $140k in the first week and $80k in the remainder of the year. Now to see if the Bitcoin press will use /r/buttcoin as a source. so next year they will go from 220k/y to less than 80k/y since they won't have the initial pump bump that'll pay for almost one whole developer! 
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tbf 220k is like 219k more than I expected
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it just occured to me french dude didn't draw is katana when the cops came to get him. wtf man where's the epic last stand ??
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LethalGeek posted:it just occured to me french dude didn't draw is katana when the cops came to get him. wtf man where's the epic last stand ?? "qui va s'occupe de mon chat?"
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LethalGeek posted:it just occured to me french dude didn't draw is katana when the cops came to get him. wtf man where's the epic last stand ?? he did but the nippon police officer caught his first downward strike with only two fingers and bent the steel back like it was a paperclip
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Mido posted:he did but the nippon police officer caught his first downward strike with only two fingers and bent the steel back like it was a paperclip pfft. spends all his money on castles and never thought to shell out the cash for authentic hattori hanzo steel.
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Hanzo steel can split a man in half along the spine. It's true! I've seen it.
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surebet posted:yeah that's got to hurt adelstein unfortunately knows what it's like to have a spouse bail when poo poo gets real at your day job
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there was a defcon talk about brainwallets to which brainwallet.org responded to by closing immediately & forever https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3g7bpa/brainwallet_shut_down_permanently_due_to/ defcon slides: https://rya.nc/cracking_cryptocurrency_brainwallets.pdf if i'm reading this right someone lost $14k because they sent bitcoin to a brainwallet address with an empty password e: and he found $20k under the password "how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood", tried to warn them and accidentally stole it all (then gave it back) Malloc Voidstar fucked around with this message at 06:29 on Aug 8, 2015 |
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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:if i'm reading this right someone lost $14k because they sent bitcoin to a brainwallet address with an empty password yeah it got posted earlier
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lmao why did they close THIS time, after keeping open during every other fuckup
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 i'm not a huge infosec nerd but  kaminsky
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theflyingexecutive posted:tbf 220k is like 219k more than I expected
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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:there was a defcon talk about brainwallets to which brainwallet.org responded to by closing immediately & forever somebody used "who is john galt" apparently
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Heresiarch posted:somebody used "who is john galt" apparently I was just thinking about (maybe remembering) a bot that scans brainwallets for rand quotes
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theflyingexecutive posted:I was just thinking about (maybe remembering) a bot that scans brainwallets for rand quotes
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in regulatory news, bitfinex just gtfo of new york https://www.bitfinex.com/pages/announcements
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surebet posted:in regulatory news, bitfinex just gtfo of new york quote:Bitfinex is not applying for a BitLicense at this time. i can't imagine why
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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:there was a defcon talk about brainwallets to which brainwallet.org responded to by closing immediately & forever lol there's not as much buttcoin poo poo floating around at defcon this year so far
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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:e: and he found $20k under the password "how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood", tried to warn them and accidentally stole it all (then gave it back) quote:What actually happened quote:Smart people pick can bad passphrases too
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Bitcoin: WHERE DID THE MONEY GO !? WHAT IS THIS ADDRESS!?
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poik007 posted:Bitcoin: WHERE DID THE MONEY GO !? WHAT IS THIS ADDRESS!?
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it'd been even funnier if he had accidentally sent those 250 butts to the miners
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alsoquote:Serious: brainwallet.org shutdown and now I am wondering how to get keys back from the phrase? (self.Bitcoin)
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every drat time.
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Herman Merman posted:it'd been even funnier if he had accidentally tipped those 250 butts to MagicalTux
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Ethereum: ignore all the "smart contracts" babble, that's cover for it being a completely standard premined altcoin scam.
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10 REALLY WEIRD THINGS YOU CAN BUY FOR BITCOINquote:7. "Enema of the State" - Bitcoiners could use an enema every now and then . 
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i always thought of brain wallets the same way as people who decided to start a career in painting or other conventional art mediums are you sure you're original enough to survive this? are you sure you won't end up pissing years of efforts and wind up living on your parents couch in the end?
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some wikipedian posted:Fundraising staff have previously noted that a new funding channel isn't worth setting up unless it attracts on the order of $500k/year. But as of right now we still take Bitcoin, so if you don't want the shame of still hodling, send 'em our way and we'll keep giving you the BEST ENCYCLOPEDIA EVER!! did he just imply if you pay them enough butts they'll ban luke jr?
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Political Whores posted:
Ross Ulbricht, becoming progressively more and more depressed by what was happening to everybody he knew, decided finally to incriminate himself. There was no problem, in the circles where he hung out, in posting darknet activity on stack overflow; you just bought into a large quantity of butts and took them with some cheap research chems. The planning part had to do with the artifacts you wanted found on you by later archeologists. So they'd know from which stratum you came. And also could piece together where your head had been at the time you did it. He spent several days deciding on the artifacts. Much longer than he had spent deciding to incriminate himself, and approximately the same time required to get that many buttcoins. He would be found lying on his back, on his bed, with a copy of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead (which would prove he had been a misunderstood superman rejected by the masses and so, in a sense, murdered by their scorn) and an unfinished letter to Exxon protesting the cancellation of his gas credit card. That way he would indict the system and achieve something by his imprisonment, over and above what the encagement itself achieved. Actually, he was not as sure in his mind what the being put in a cage achieved as what the two artifacts achieved; but anyhow it all added up, and he began to make ready, like an animal sensing its time has come and acting out its instinctive programming, laid down by nature, when its inevitable end was near. At the last moment (as end-time closed in on him) he changed his mind on a decisive issue and decided to hodl the butts with a connoisseur wine instead of bath salts or McAffee Butt Drugs Suite 2015, so he set off on one last drive, over to Trader Joe's, which specialized in fine wines, and bought a bottle of Mondavi Cabernet Sauvignon, which set him back almost thirty dollars--all he had. Back home again, he uncorked the wine, let it breathe, drank a few glasses of it, spent a few minutes contemplating his favorite page of The Illustrated Picture Book of Sex, which showed the girl on top, then placed the plastic bag of brainwallet keys beside his bed, lay down with the Ayn Rand book and unfinished protest letter to Exxon, tried to think of something meaningful but could not, although he kept remembering the girl being on top, and then, with a glass of the Cabernet Sauvignon, gulped down all the keys at once. After that, the deed being done, he lay back, the Ayn Rand book and letter on his chest, and waited. However, he had been burned. The capsules were not private keys, as represented. They were some kind of poison oak, of a type he had never dropped before, probably a mixture, and new on the market. Instead of quietly suffocating, Ross Ulbricht began to hallucinate. Well, he thought philosophically, this is the story of my life. Always ripped off. He had to face the fact--considering how many of the capsules he had swallowed--that he was in for some trip. The next thing he knew, a creature from between dimensions was standing beside his bed looking down at him disapprovingly. The creature had many eyes, all over it, ultra-modern expensive-looking clothing, and rose up eight feet high. Also, it carried an enormous coffee milkshake that could have been a dessert (plus a scroll)! "You're going to read me my sins," Ross Ulbricht said. The creature nodded and unsealed the scroll. Ulbricht said, lying helpless on his bed, "and it's going to take a hundred thousand hours." Fixing its many compound eyes on him, the creature from between dimensions said, "We are no longer in the mundane universe. Lower-plane categories of material existence such as 'fees' and 'anonymity' no longer apply to you. You have been elevated to the decentralized realm. Your sins will be read to you ceaselessly, in shifts, throughout eternity. The list will require 30 confirmations on tops of the usual six, so it probably won't end." Know your dealer, Ross Ulbricht thought, and wished he could take back the last half-hour of his life. A thousand years later he was still lying there on his bed with the Ayn Rand book and the letter to Exxon on his chest, listening to them read his sins to him. They had gotten up to the first grade, when he was six years old. Ten thousand years later they had reached the sixth grade. The year he had discovered masturbation. He shut his eyes, but he could still see the multi-eyed, eight-foot-high being with its endless scroll reading on and on. "And next--" it was saying. Ross Ulbricht thought, At least I got a good wine.
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TVarmy posted:Ross Ulbricht, becoming progressively more and more depressed by what was happening to everybody he knew, decided finally to incriminate himself. There was no problem, in the circles where he hung out, in posting darknet activity on stack overflow; you just bought into a large quantity of butts and took them with some cheap research chems. a butter dorkly
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lol i heard the term brainwallet but until now i assumed there must be something more to it than just "make up a random phrase and hash it", i mean most bitcoiners are all-around idiots but at least a few are versed in basic crypto principles also it seems keanu reeves movies are all secretly about bitcoin quote:“The year is 2021. It is no longer safe to transmit information. Phones, computers and satellites are all vulnerable. But there is a solution. Input the data into the brain of a human courier like Johnny Mnemonic!”
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since bitcoins are "owned" by anyone having the private key to a given wallet, guessing brain wallet phrases is not stealing. unlike obtaining their private key by hacking their computer, this is an original derivation that involves no copying and is just as legitimately yours as anyone else's.
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how secure would it be to use a really, really long rear end string to generate the key? like you decide that the base text is the kj version of genesis, and you use yours and your spouses birthday as the delineating values for begin/end chapter/verses. or an entire brazil.txt paste with "maria-theresa" replaced with "andreas"? surebet fucked around with this message at 18:42 on Aug 8, 2015 |
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