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JAnon posted:you really have to look at Silk Road and think about why Ross is even in prison. and tried to have several people killed
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haveblue posted:and tried to have several people killed Attempted science
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shackleford posted:lmao'ing at remembering that ross ulbricht's ubuntu username was frosty It's short for "Free Ross, Thank You" he knew he would be jailed for innocently paying to have competing drug dealers killled
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if I remember correctly, the attempted hits Ross put on people for bitcoin wasn't even part of his sentence/trial (which was already going to be long as hell so I don't think they even bothered)
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Oct 20, 2023 16:47
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I think those parts were Carl Mark Forced out of the trial.
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drk posted:lol, the details on J.Zhong's crimes are right out of a bad sci fi novel oh my god lmao this isn’t out of a bad sci fi novel, this is a great anecdote for a systems programming textbook
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Mercury_Storm posted:if I remember correctly, the attempted hits Ross put on people for bitcoin wasn't even part of his sentence/trial (which was already going to be long as hell so I don't think they even bothered)
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Mercury_Storm posted:if I remember correctly, the attempted hits Ross put on people for bitcoin wasn't even part of his sentence/trial (which was already going to be long as hell so I don't think they even bothered) i'm not 100% sure but I believe the hit also included relatives or potentials bystanders
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Oct 20, 2023 18:13
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rowkey bilbao posted:i'm not 100% sure but I believe the hit also included relatives or potentials bystanders yeah at least one of the targets didn't live alone so everyone else in the house was to be eliminated if they were in at the time what a swell guy that ross was
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rjmccall posted:oh my god lmao according to a post on the orange site: hn posted:The original hack was caused by the fact that Silk Road was running PHP on MySQL without transaction isolation. Many early crypto exchanges had similar withdrawal bugs as they were running on LAMP stacks - MySQL has been notoriosly famous for having lax transaction isolation. Sometimes you could overwithdraw just by hitting refresh fast enough in a web browser.
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Oct 20, 2023 19:41
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running an exchange out of money by depositing negative sums is still the king of bitcoin hacks
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FMguru posted:running an exchange out of money by depositing negative sums is still the king of bitcoin hacks the funniest is still the guy who hosted an exchange on AWS but didn't pay extra for persistence
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Oct 20, 2023 20:09
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my favourite is the store front where someone made a listing for a book with a negative value
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Oct 20, 2023 20:19
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stolen, unlinked, from Reddit. don’t even feel bad quote:
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it zsabat place to store your bitcoins
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Boxturret posted:yeah at least one of the targets didn't live alone so everyone else in the house was to be eliminated if they were in at the time he was a hero, as previously discussed. possibly the greatest hero in american history. he made a website
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I have established that data was lost because settings of the virtual mashine were changed
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Powershift posted:It's short for "Free Ross, Thank You" 
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haveblue posted:the funniest is still the guy who hosted an exchange on AWS but didn't pay extra for persistence and then reset the instance himself
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NoneMoreNegative posted:lol all the cash in the world won't buy you cool  don't hire the squeaky voiced teen to intimidate people
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hey now be fair that guy had a full backup of the exchange and all of the files and databases ...which was stored on (and deleted along with) the same aws instance as the main
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dear amazon web services, please send me wallet.dat from /srv/backup/donotdelete, it was important
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Improbable Lobster posted:
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I've got a buttcoin question. There was some kind of website with a countdown or just a reddit post with calculations of when the difficulty of mining will become so high, it would be easier and more profitable to brute force passwords for random wallets than to mine. Does anyone else remember that?
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Paladinus posted:I've got a buttcoin question. There was some kind of website with a countdown or just a reddit post with calculations of when the difficulty of mining will become so high, it would be easier and more profitable to brute force passwords for random wallets than to mine. Does anyone else remember that? no. it would be a lot harder. if you could break the encryption on wallets you could essentially break the entire internet, including banks and the US government/military
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...! posted:no. it would be a lot harder. if you could break the encryption on wallets you could essentially break the entire internet, including banks and the US government/military I get that, but the point, I think, was that mining would inevitably become just too difficult in 25 years or something.
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would it get to the inflection point before all the coins are mined though
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more falafel please posted:would it get to the inflection point before all the coins are mined though it halves each time so like 99.99% of the coins get mined over a a somewhat reasonable time frame then they have to spend hundreds of years for the last few scraps lol
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im pretty sure the entire bitcoin network could run on a 90s pentium shitbox, there's nothing inherently too difficult about the math and the maximum transaction rate is like 3kB/s
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drk posted:im pretty sure the entire bitcoin network could run on a 90s pentium shitbox, there's nothing inherently too difficult about the math and the maximum transaction rate is like 3kB/s https://vimeo.com/62560281 it can be run on an NES
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well, a NES with a raspberry pi attached, sure the actual blockchain part of bitcoin isnt that complex by modern computing standards but its definitely not running on an 8 bit computer with 2KB of RAM
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ellie the beep posted:https://vimeo.com/62560281 it can also be run on a PS2 running Linux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh9rcrofB0I
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also it was the wrong house and the person they were trying to target lived next door lol
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Jonny Nox posted:stolen, unlinked, from Reddit. for a glorious moment I thought it had happened again
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the bitcoin network artificially slows itself down based on how many nodes are hashing. so the underlying math is not hard but the quantity of it is why so much electricity gets wasted mining if the sun hits earth with a massive EMP and wipes out all but like 3 computers, you really could mine bitcoins on an NES and expect to get some return from it. at least until the roving hordes found you
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haveblue posted:the bitcoin network artificially slows itself down based on how many nodes are hashing. so the underlying math is not hard but the quantity of it is why so much electricity gets wasted mining It only adjusts every 2016 blocks, and with the current difficulty, with something like a 3090 it would take around 113 million years to hit the first difficulty adjustment.
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Powershift posted:with something like a 3090 it would take around 113 million years to hit the first difficulty adjustment. now do the nes
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drk posted:now do the nes At least 30 more years. At least.
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i have bad news, it would take the length of sam bankman-fried's prison sentence after he's done confessing his crimes for the nes to do that.
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ah but what of people doing the hashes by hand and transmitting the results via smoke signals!
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