tinfoilman | 8 years ago | on: Cassini's “Grand Finale” Will Be a Blaze of Glory
tinfoilman | 8 years ago | on: Don't mine Bitcoin, mine Altcoins
https://www.reddit.com/r/BytecoinBCN/comments/6dh2ci/minerga...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1975859.0
https://steemit.com/blockchain/@carlagonz/6xhcnh-minergate-s...
tinfoilman | 8 years ago | on: Easiest Path to Riches on the Web? An Initial Coin Offering
You are right the web is tracked so even if Monero itself has untraceable transactions, buying Xmr generally requires an exchange which in turn kyc.
tinfoilman | 8 years ago | on: Price manipulation in the Bitcoin ecosystem
History
Gox started as a trading platform in 2010 by McCaleb. He sold this to Mark in 2011. It is rumored that Mark was using customers BTC to expand Gox or/and it was already sold to Mark missing 80,000 BTC. When the price started to go up, Gox was forced to create the willy bot to try and buy back (at a higher price) the bitcoins they missing as they were running a technical fractional reserve). The willy bot drove the price up because it was always buying and in turn defeated its own purpose as it ended up bankrupting MxGot by driving the price so high that they could never hope to recover the missing btc. I wonder if they had not created the bot if they could have made GoT solvant again over a longer time frame.
This sort of thing is still happening, Poloneix is rumored to be inside trading, There was a DDOS attack a few days ago which caused price drops and it is rumored the Dossers were shorting the currencys on the exchanges. One of the exchanges had such little liquidity that a whale was able to dump eth yesterday causing a massive price drop on one exchange (which I am prety sure they then used to buy up cheap coins but you never know)
Anyone activity trading in Cryptoland is at the mercy of these whales, they are mainpulating price, daily pump and dumps on alts and no regulartion
That said, I cannot stop watching it all, i just hlod coins I like the technical merit of
Some light reading
History of Gox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox Information on McCaleb selling to Mark talk of missing 80k http://www.thedailybeast.com/behind-the-biggest-bitcoin-heis... Links on Willybot http://www.coindesk.com/bot-named-willy-did-mt-goxs-automate... Poloneix insider https://coinidol.com/suspicion-of-insider-trading-at-polonie...
tinfoilman | 9 years ago | on: Make Bitcoin Great Again (with Monero's Full Privacy)
https://twitter.com/DelRayMan/status/824697015523246080
FBI love the open ledger.
Anyway given this is a tech site, here are some Monero based privacy techs you might be interested in
- RingSignatures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_signature
- Stealth Addresses https://getmonero.org/knowledge-base/moneropedia/stealthaddr...
- RingCT - https://getmonero.org/knowledge-base/moneropedia/ringCT
And some more information from their lab which is always interesting
tinfoilman | 9 years ago | on: Bitcoin Price Chart
To make use of Segwit wallet software must upgrade to support it, that is a lot of work for Wallets Devs that generally are not getting paid for their work.
It is arriving as a soft fork to get round cores instances that hard forks cannot happen (even tho other cryptos have done it. Eth/XMR). The soft fork is not backwards compatible and bits exchanged by segwit will only be protected by segwit enabled nodes but in fairness with a 95% activation threshold that will be 95% of the network.
We have a number of mining pools now stating that they will not run segwit without a hard fork for a block size increase, the est hashrate is 10-15% that will refuse to run it, this will either mean core need to change their 95% requirement OR simply say no block size increase and no segwit.
Personally and sadly if bitcoin cannot grow past its current limits, I do not believe it will keep its first mover position.
Just seems insane that something that was marked as a global payment network is limited in its size. It is like limiting BGP routing tables to a size and saying "only certain people can play", and if you want to play, just pay more.
tinfoilman | 9 years ago | on: UK Security Agencies Unlawfully Collected Data for Decade
https://www.opendemocracy.net/digitaliberties/julian-huppert...
Direct quote “It is difficult to assess the extent to which the public is aware of agencies’ holding and exploiting in-house personal bulk datasets, including data on individuals of no intelligence interest …" They admitted in 2013 that the data collected is of "no intelligence interest". Anyone before snowden was called a nut job saying the government was doing this, it was all true
Encrypt everything. This is going to force me to VPN to a VPS outside of the UK and route my house's http/https traffic via that, not hard but annoying. Sadly that will then put me on another list where all my traffic is recorded for later decryption.
tinfoilman | 10 years ago | on: James Burke: Connections, Episodes 1-10 (1978) [video]
There are 3 seasons, they might be torrent-able, I am not admitting anything :/
tinfoilman | 10 years ago | on: Apple TV is a rethinking of users’ relationship with hardware and games
The Gen2 could be rooted, and XMBC installed with Addons. It offers a great interface, stylish hardware and using XMBC I can link the apple TV directly to my home Nas and stream media from that. Something I never liked about the appleTV was being locked in to only being allowed media in the 'apple approved way' hence the rooting.
I have a few android boxes but they are just not as tidy
Does not really relate to the post just a random overshare
tinfoilman | 10 years ago | on: Prison Architect, a gaming crowdfunding success story
That being said I think I been watching it for 10 years :/
tinfoilman | 10 years ago | on: Prison Architect, a gaming crowdfunding success story
Really interests me. I believe it is the next version of EvE so been keeping my eye on it for ages. However I do think they are going to have massive issues bring it all together. At present they have lots of modules that are pretty standalone. Yes it is very pretty but I not sure if they can make it work as a single Shard MMO
I am rather behind on news but last I heard someone left and the FPS part was delayed.
There are concerns from ExDevs highlighting the game on kickstarter might never be released http://news.softpedia.com/news/star-citizen-development-supp...
I think they will turn it in to a single player game with some light MMO features, or they will have to mass shard it, at which point i lose interest.
The fact that just last week they release another ship worth $300, and the above news pieces indicates they are down to 8mil out of the 82million pleged might show how they are running out of money.
Note above minecraft: Notch used minecraft to learn. The code in it was never great, and you are completely right that it generally ran like shit but it is getting better, and the development are stream lining the code but they cannot re-write it because some of the things that make minecraft good was the odd behavoir that a recode would most likely lose.
tinfoilman | 10 years ago | on: Prison Architect, a gaming crowdfunding success story
I hope we moving in to a time where Dev teams are interacting with their players instead of lunching a game and just moving on. I really want to go back to smaller super star studios
tinfoilman | 10 years ago | on: Dutch report: Buk missile downed MH17 in Ukraine
I think its pretty clear on the world stage that Russia had involvement in this, either it was supplying the weapons or worse case is was Russia's 'Moderate rebels' that did it. Which seem to be how first world powers these days get what they want without putting their name on it
The fact Russia Vetoed a UN investigation and Putin has stated a few times when asked that it would be a waste of time to do an investigation sends a clear and strong message.
The interesting thing to me, is why it has come out now? the US propaganda machine is in over drive lately. US has spent years funneling 'moderate' rebels towards Syria, while using ISIS as the poster kids for more draconian surveillance and not really doing anything about them.
I mean its pretty clear right? US(cia) created the environment that allowed ISIS to grow and then used them to push forward their international agenda (removal of Assad (before that Iraq/Afghanistan destabilization ready for a US friendly government to be installed)) and domestic agenda (removal of rights for the 'greater' good).
Just this week we have the US stating they are stopping training 'moderate' rebels (I quote as I do not believe there are ever moderate rebels) but then proceeds to sell Saudi Arabia missiles that TODAY Saudi Arabia have given to the 'moderate' Rebels.
We see. Luckily we live in interested times, and the internet has made it so we can see more of the world stage without local filtering (newspapers/local new) interesting times indeed.
TL:DR: Russia's moderate rebels most likely shot the plan down, Russia knows this stalls investigation. Then a bit of a rant of, Why this has come out now
tinfoilman | 10 years ago | on: Aboriginal storytelling accurately records sea level rises 7,000 years ago
I don't pretend to be an expert but I had done googling before but cannot locate the information I was looking for. Yes water levels raised ,again I think that was very common information, but I wanted more of an understanding what specific areas of the world went under water (as in land that was submerged). The current body of information that I have read is very generic where I am much more interested in localized water levels aligned with older civilizations and this is the information that I do not believe is easily accessible. I have been on that wiki link a few times but it is very generic.
And I am very aware that photos above would not assist, however I as thinking more ground penetrating radar enabled drones. Mixed with automated cave exploring bots could start to provide information from under ground on their own. Send them off in to a cave and wait for them to map and come back. We are getting to the stage where we can build these automated exploring bots, I am just waiting. No more waiting on cavers, we can build bots to map these things ourselves
tinfoilman | 10 years ago | on: Aboriginal storytelling accurately records sea level rises 7,000 years ago
We have the Mayans, bible, and number of flood 'myths' stories. I also believe that there is rock sediment that also backs up this claim that there was heavy flooding around this time frame.
However this does not appear to be global flooding because the Egyptian who have a good documented history never bring it up and I really feel they would have.
My guess is that this flood was when low level lands got submerged, thinking the med base here (which I think lines up with the bible of things well) and low level South America which would line up with the Mayans creation stories. This would also back up my idea that most of civilizations over time have built near water and this is why I believe most of the impressive civilizations will be underwater now as the water levels have been raising. (personally very excited about some of the stuff we are finding underwater these days)
The issue is there is so little research on water levels, and most of the documented stuff is from the coast of the USA rather than a global effort to document it. Keep hoping that someone will build some drones that can just fly around and measure this stuff
tinfoilman | 10 years ago | on: Nine of the World’s Biggest Banks Form Blockchain Partnership
You are talking about a shared ledger system, then saying that bitcoin has no part of it.
Bitcoin is the token of PoW. So all the miners confirm transactions on the blockchain and in turn are rewarded with bitcoins. This keeps the miners doing their job, and the main reason the bitcoin ledge is immutable.
If you remove the bitcoin from the ecosystem then it will be down to the banks to secure their own blockchain with their own mining pools at which point the banks control all the mining, you lose the trusted status of the ledger. As with the main block chain if a miner gets 51% of the mining then they can do a number of attacks to change the shared ledger.
What I am getting at, I do not see how blockchain technology works without a token to validate it (be it bitcoin/bankcoin/englandcoin/fuckcoin. However if that token is only controlled by the banks are we not back right where we started? with banks having a private ledger between themselves that they can change.
Blockchain/bitcoin work because the people securing the network have an incentive to keep the system going. The only people interested in securing the banks blockchain will be the banks, unless they offer their customers mining equipment, but the day a bank shares its ability to mint value is the day I prove that well something unthinkable.
The banks blockchain will just become another private database that is not secured in the real world in anyway and in turn losses the status of an immutable ledge.
We will see
tinfoilman | 10 years ago | on: US Navy limits 'whale-harming' sonar in Pacific
They have known about this for years; they have either finished the testing OR they have completed their purpose with regards to the weapon. My guess is the later
Sorry for the DMlinks but 2012 - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2142763/U-S-Navys-so... 2014 - http://www.rt.com/usa/204191-navy-whales-dolphins-military-d... 2014 - (about a report from 2000 http://www.wired.com/2014/07/war-of-the-whales/
Given this has been on going for a 15 years we know about, and most likely another 5-10 years before the public noticed it does make me wonder what they were up to 20+ years of Sonar abuse towards animals. Feels more like they had a plan rather than simply testing a weapon.
tinfoilman | 10 years ago | on: New human-like species discovered
tinfoilman | 10 years ago | on: Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10
Never do updates again (which is what I will be doing this evening) and make system perm insecure
Or let MS and the NSA rape me for even more data than they already have
Go [insert abusive word] yourself Microsoft and to think just last week I got a 3rd windows 7 license because I was planning to stay on 7 long term and not upgrade to 10.
Steam hopefully will push linux gaming that i can finally get rid of this crap.
tinfoilman | 10 years ago | on: FASTER cable, a new transpacific network link with a peak capacity of 60 Tbps
