Introducing Toxcoin, a new cryptocurrency to fix @ProjectTox. Investing in this con will truly increase your money. https://t.co/eUa1ofxCnw
@CathyReisenwitz Admit it - you’re only interested in @CharlieShrem for his mackerel.
@el33th4xor Unlicensed mackerel transmission is a serious crime!
The more we learn about the Silk Road, the clearer it becomes that the only victim was Ross Ulbricht. @Free_Ross
“Your password change request has been rejected because the password (W4d2CyrVndBD9X4TdXQSpwFNmdUHyx) is too weak.” ಠ_#complexityFAILFAIL
jgarzik #Bitcoin is engineered to be upgradable. All data structures and messages are versioned. A process exists to create new script operations.
Wow. According to the DOJ’s criminal complaint, the govt agents were extorting Ross Ulbricht. http://t.co/kDY3ErylWi http://t.co/oqB1RIPIeG
Interesting that the govt knew in May 2014 that their SR agents were probably corrupt, kept info buried until after Ulbricht was convicted.
RT @aantonop: Two federal agents stole bitcoins from Silk Road during investigation, now face charges:
http://t.co/3BYNk2bImj
@ryanxcharles You posted this 3 days too early :-)
Great writeup by @eordano on blockchain privacy: “We Need More CoinJoin” https://t.co/zCBhWgruw5
Drop Zone: An Anonymous Peer-To-Peer Local Contraband Marketplace https://t.co/sc64jY93oR
RT @ofnumbers: Step 1: steal funds from a Darknet Market
Step 2: buy your grandpa a luxury house w/ said funds
Step 3: get rekted https://t…
motherboard The FAA is now investigating the drone pilot it told to stop posting on YouTube: bit.ly/1CSt7Ka pic.twitter.com/9dOeOZvXxy
@mikestable At this rate you’re going to start hoping for bad weather :-)
Underneath the waning number of individuals running Bitcoin nodes altruistically is a foundation of companies running them out of necessity.
@covati Obviously you should send youtube a cease and desist for mangling your IP.
RT @covati: I recorded a screencast while at starbucks and now youtube is muting the audio because of the background music. Dangit.
I was happy my @MyceliumCom Entropy arrived with the seal intact, until I realized it wasn’t quite tamper-proof… pic.twitter.com/JL4ALV9xOK
@JSDiedrich Oh noes, the statists are gonna sic their thugs on you! archive.today/bC77s
There’s no good reason it should take more than a few secs to process an unsub request. Govt legislation makes subpar performance acceptable
The reason why email unsub pages say they’ll process your request in 10 biz days is b/c the govt (CAN-SPAM) said they can take that long.
@alansilbert @aantonop @ErikVoorhees Though you’ll need to do some config at your router if it doesn’t have UPnP enabled.
@alansilbert @aantonop @ErikVoorhees They ought to have configured it to start bitcoind on boot, meaning all you need to do is plug it in.
Hm… in the past 24 hours, 600+ new nodes came online with the user agent “/Satoshi:0.10.99/Gangnam Style:v4.01” getaddr.bitnodes.io/dashboard/
@ErikVoorhees I have one on the way as well - looking forward to comparing it to the @port8333 node hardware that should come out mid-2015.
@flyosity This guy just might be on to something… theuserisdrunk.com
long gone is the cash in the mattress
now it’s all tied up in hashes
wrapped up in encrypted batches
- @realytcracker pic.twitter.com/lL9QqRKP73
@flyosity LMK if you end up needing an AK.
@jfeldis @kristovatlas @lightcoin So, um, how can I buy one with BTC?
@jfeldis @lightcoin @kristovatlas Cool, though I was referring to getaddr.bitnodes.io/hardware/
@lightcoin @kristovatlas Interesting, so this is unrelated to the Bitnodes hardware node project?
RT @lightcoin: Who wants a plug-and-play #bitcoin full node? http://t.co/pDAuqpTFXb #crypto #p2p #hardware http://t.co/ULeXjyPWzG
If only the rest of life was as easy as @PiperWallet makes it… pic.twitter.com/KFjZ8GTAJZ
@ameir We’ve all been there.
@pig_poetry Enterprise redundancy at rock bottom prices!
.@port8333 will be releasing plug & play Bitcoin node hardware mid-2015! getaddr.bitnodes.io/hardware/
The mantra of anarchists has long been “death to the state.” I suggest we update to the less violent & more realistic “deprecate the state.”
@yrashk If they can deploy satellites AND hardware in mobile devices that can receive blockchain data, that would be killer.
@pig_poetry That code is so enterprise, yo.
pig_poetry Benefits of constants: 1) improved code readability. pic.twitter.com/P5oxppoM0g
@jony_levin @twobitidiot Interesting perspective, I read it as “security is a scarce resource.”
dwr Another well-designed proof-of-existence service: stampery.co
@jony_levin All bets are off in the market of middles.
RT @Ethan_Heilman: Our new paper on ‘Eclipse Attacks on #Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer Network’ can be found here: http://t.co/gWgxOFQY8w @goldbe
@newmediaclay @JoelSutherland Well, that’s a roundabout way of realizing that democracy is terrible :-)
Just found my favorite node: someone who goes by “Hash Master” runs a node at the address “gpus.cry.because.i.am.the.asic.ninja” pic.twitter.com/U2h1cBzJ0w
Number of reachable Bitcoin nodes hosted on:
@awscloud: 148
@digitalocean: 112
@linode: 94
@Rackspace: 33
@f886e06d7b95422 Interesting idea; the question would be how does the contract get redeemed - how do you prove abolition of the tax?
Interesting - @Pay_Bit appears to be working on a file locker site where you can sell your files for BTC. pay-b.it/index-en
@mikestable Signs that Spring is here!
@jefft It’s behind one of the screens
@ollekullberg I sure am; I’ve done the SS1000 and the BB1500. Though my longest trip wasn’t an Iron Butt ride: 10,000 miles around the US.
@BitcoinBelle @Rothbardian1627 Awards from my former employer, @Bronto, but also a reminder of the goal to make legacy fintech extinct.
This is how I rock block chains. pic.twitter.com/jpOwSPVFQy
@covati Yeah, the one by my house has had one going for 6 months. Times must be tough.
@WorldBitcoinNet I participated in the smart contracts Reddit thread and wrote up my thoughts here: https://t.co/wqKe5wWC7K
7) Contract law experts will focus their efforts on innovative and complex cases, while common boring contracts will be easily generated.
6) But if smart contracts become reality, the barrier to entry to forge a useful contract will be lowered substantially.
5) If contracts become computer code, lawyers will still build contracts based off templates. They will still QA them against edge cases.
4) If smart contracts become reality, it won’t eliminate lawyers, it will change the tools that they use to craft contracts.
3) Some claim lawyers are necessary to anticipate potential problems and negotiate terms. Sure; complex contracts may require expert advice.
2) Some claim smart contracts can’t work due to inevitable disputes. A well written contract should define arbiters for dispute mediation.
1) There appears to be a great deal of skepticism with regard to the feasibility of smart contracts, even within the Bitcoin community.
RT @alansilbert: @lopp here is one. fave quote: “breeding niche for criminals” http://t.co/IH0G6pWev6
Does anyone have links to articles written in the 90s about the Internet that portray it as a sketchy technology used by criminals?
@jefft Tor or vidalia?
RT @ErikVoorhees: “The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin” now available for free to Amazon Prime Instant Video users http://t.co/JrwhvVNYF2 #documen…
Oh, the irony… http://t.co/NoKtewPur7
@ZapChain @danielcawrey The good news is that the network would still function even with < 1,000 nodes. But we want more for robustness.
RT @ZapChain: Why Don’t People Run Bitcoin Nodes Anymore? http://t.co/q9miQJsQIT http://t.co/4cj5MoCB2A
RT @e3i5: Astonishing. Cisco will begin shipping to fake addresses to help customers avoid NSA interdiction. http://t.co/2AmWIb8z9V
RT @bendavenport: Just published “Multi-Sig Models That Work†which dives into more depth on the topics I covered at @boostvc #bitcoin http…
@coolbearcjs Box might be rooted? Only one logical course of action! burnitwithfire.jpg.to/gif
@coolbearcjs The only good news is that they didn’t root my box :-)
Looks like Chinese hackers used an elasticsearch exploit to turn statoshi.info into a relay, costing me $100s in bandwidth overages
@WillPao @TProphet Is that supposed to be an argument? http://t.co/SHVetuoYJM
@_Molon_Labe_ Definitely don’t buy bitcoins until you understand the system. Check out bitcoinsig.com for educational resources.
A “proof of local blockchain storage” mechanism would be a big step toward eliminating the issue of pseudo nodes. https://t.co/IRkfx6R5Zj
@Magnus919 Sooooo you’re saying we SHOULDN’T do that?
BitGo We’re excited to announce a major redesign of our web wallet, & our enterprise features are now free for individuals! bit.ly/1GLwpxV
When someone says “a stateless society will never work” I hear “states will always provide services superior to private enterprises.”
@iAmWilliAmKing Certainly; we like to say that Bitcoin is “antifragile” - it grows stronger as a result of adversity.
3) Now we’re seeing entities trying to use block chains as databases for applications that don’t make much sense. That is, centralized DBs.
2) In the late 2000s I saw this happen a lot with nonrelational databases. Not every application should use a nonrelational database.
1) With the development of any new technology there will inevitably be misapplications of it as entities experiment with its potential.
@iAmWilliAmKing I suspect their endeavor won’t end well - using a block chain for a centralized system is pointless and inefficient.
@iAmWilliAmKing The utility and value of any block chain system is dependent upon the resources securing the system. http://t.co/RafKjSpfbx
@iAmWilliAmKing Possibly, but more importantly I see Bitcoin’s use as a currency as only one of many applications. https://t.co/kW1fbgLe3r
@iAmWilliAmKing Ripple is a value transfer system, not a standalone currency like Bitcoin. It’s not as open a system as Bitcoin.
“In God We Trust” is either an incredibly ignorant national motto or an incredibly clever motto, depending upon your perspective.
@iAmWilliAmKing @Ripple is an interesting payments technology, though it’s a fundamentally different beast than Bitcoin.
@Magnus919 @knucklesandwich Bro, do you even Kanban Disney?
cdixon 4/ of course the best platforms that developers can always trust are open platforms that no one controls (web, smtp, btc).
@pmccall777 @Magnus919 puh-puh-puh-put it on the pizza! https://t.co/rq9sxQz3y7 /cc @mikestable
@Magnus919 @pmccall777 C’mon guys, use your creative glands. This will open up a whole new class of alcoholic food.
@ziggamon I’m watching the recent MIT Bitcoin Expo https://t.co/QrS7VYRTbK
“Bitcoin mining is now driving chip fabrication faster than desktop CPUs and may be the first tech to go sub 14 nanometers.” - @aantonop
This. “I think it’s a mistake to convince people to use Bitcoin. We should work harder to make it more useful to more people.” - @aantonop
@kristovatlas Let them try; they can only make us stronger.
Congratulations to Chainalysis for becoming the first entity I’ve bothered to ban from my nodes. http://t.co/CLDrXDb6RU
@Magnus919 @RaleighGov Access to resources is not a right.
@pmarca I just know Big Brother’s going to do his damnedest to prevent me from getting a blaster pistol.
That moment when you finally run all the tests on your new feature branch and most of them fail.
@mikestable @CivilEats @reveal If you wants the Q, you gots to handle poo!
@Magnus919 I’mma just leave this here twofactorauth.org/#banking
kristovatlas This real-time Bitcoin transaction visualization shows how many Bitcoin transactions are being relayed by @blockchain bitcointicker.co/transactions/
If you want to understand how Silicon Valley will transform society, watch @balajis “Silicon Valley’s Ultimate Exit” https://t.co/ipfA5T0IHg
@Magnus919 @WaltDisneyWorld Sounds like a great opportunity for @Bronto! IIRC we had a small Disney account a few years back.
@mikestable I think you mean sex :-)
mikestable how long til facebook can auto-identify gender from the vast trove of ultrasounds posted on there?
BIP for Deterministic P2SH multisignature addresses via public key sorting: https://t.co/EqxG5XZCGV
There appears to be an obscure bug in Bitcoin Core 0.10 that can corrupt block files on AWS nodes using EBS volumes: https://t.co/GoFTHq9b2q
@NTmoney I honestly liked 21e16 more
BTCFoundation #Bitnodes Project 2015 Q1 Report: Peer Index & Incentivized Full Nodes by Addy Yeow (@port8333) ow.ly/K8RQ9 #Bitcoin
@ollekullberg Yep, the original name was 21e16
ryanxcharles So far this year, Coinbase and 21 have together raised about half as much as all bitcoin companies put together last year.
Wow; congrats to @balajis on 21 Inc’s $116M raise! http://t.co/KyHL2Ip9iB
RT @WorldBitcoinNet: Just launched my new video (Million Killer Apps Part 2) looking at Bitcoin’s phenomenal ability to manage history http…
@mikestable you’re welcome: @HoldMyBeerGif
@oleganza Even better: subdermal implants!
RT @dan_pantera: 1. Multi-signature security likely major change for 2015. Only 6% of #bitcoins are currently multi-sig protected. http://…
@ddahlke Rallycross is a bit more dangerous than autocross i.imgur.com/9xbgzbk.gifv
“The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz” is out on DVD; I recommend giving it a watch. http://t.co/A8oqzUTGvk
petertoddbtc Zerocash will soon have a MPC protocol to make the trusted setup a distributed calc where just one participant needs to be honest. #MITBTC15
@ddahlke ROAD TRIP
@adamrawlings @pmccall777 With a FizzBuzzSolutionStrategyFactory in your tool belt, success is guaranteed.
kristovatlas United we stand, decentralized we thrive.
This sounds interesting: “God’s Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican” http://t.co/ZEmYRgsjrr
@pmccall777 Bonus points for writing it in Chef http://t.co/EamXIMPyhG
I just backed @TamasBlummer’s Lighthouse project to build Java bindings for Bitcoin Core’s consensus library. https://t.co/P6c8vzBPg9
@_CFour_ Is your #lighthouse project still active? I’m getting a 400 Bad Request error when I try to pledge.
TechCrunch This Week On The TechCrunch Bitcoin Podcast: Do You Even Invest? tcrn.ch/1w8r8Qu by @alex @johnbiggs
RT @bencxr: You can build an #opensource #Multisig #Bitcoin exchange too! http://t.co/7yvvGD1tFr Comments on @RedditBTC welcome! @BitGo #pe…
@Jim_Harper @DailyDashboard Bitcoin network adjusts the difficulty automatically to target blocks being solved every ~ten minutes.
@David_Boaz @binarybits Boasts from his point of view, admits from mine :-)
@binarybits @David_Boaz “I’m not a libertarian.” http://t.co/Q2C5mAwGtx
@binarybits @David_Boaz Rand Paul openly admits that he’s not a libertarian.
Blockstream Have you seen the crypto hex puzzle that gmaxwell posted? blockstream.com/half-a-puzzle/
“Organizations that have custodial access [to bitcoins] have all of the problems of traditional centralized financial networks.” - @aantonop
“Algorithmic regulation provides certainty without nationalist or geopolitical influence.” - @aantonop
@aantonop Check your video title; you’ve got a typo.
TheTorontoSun Bank of Canada urges Star Trek fans to stop ‘Spocking’ their fivers. bit.ly/1CpNK19 pic.twitter.com/oZzG1jwf6z
@bitonbit Nah, just look at July - it’s just the head fake bull trap for the next 6 months of dumping amirite :-P
@sbyrnes @pmarca Perhaps sentience has already evolved on the Internet and decided to call itself Satoshi Nakamoto…
RT @maraoz: wow, https://t.co/0wR2xQssU0 looks AMAZING! congrats @LouisonDumont for the great work! :)
It’s 2015 & high perf software engineering still requires us to write logic to manipulate data at the byte level. CS degrees are valuable.
Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies http://t.co/7VWuX3nDmS
Fact: Chuck Norris can mine bitcoins in his head - he doesn’t even need to brute force the solution to a block because he already knows it.
@ofnumbers @FoundersGrid Are you saying that being an expert in a field is not equivalent to being Nostradamus? :-P
Kudos to @camharvey for his well-reasoned debate in @WSJ: “Do Cryptocurrencies Such as Bitcoin Have a Future?” http://t.co/HDqCyxsq2e
@ryanxcharles Oh I do, I just don’t trust my organic data store not to get corrupted.
@ryanxcharles I’m not willing to risk it; my brain doesn’t have ECC memory.