Re: [Full-disclosure] OT What is happening with bitcoins?

2014-03-13 Thread Mark M. Jaycox (EFF)
Be careful about those zip files. I haven't looked, but they may contain the tibannebackoffice.exe wallet stealing malware. It has appeared in other MtGox2014Leak.zip files. http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/200k30/the_tibannebackofficeexe_executable_is_wallet/ Mark M. Jaycox

Re: [Full-disclosure] OT What is happening with bitcoins?

2014-03-11 Thread Julius Kivimäki
*Subject:* Re: [Full-disclosure] OT What is happening with bitcoins? Bitcoins are doing great actually. =) Used to be worth 0 a few years back, useless, and now you can use them to buy some stuff. 2014-03-07 4:06 GMT+13:00 Georgi Guninski gunin...@guninski.com: Read on theregister

Re: [Full-disclosure] OT What is happening with bitcoins?

2014-03-11 Thread Ron Scott-Adams
] On Behalf Of Pedro Worcel Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 6:09 PM To: Georgi Guninski Cc: full-disclosure Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] OT What is happening with bitcoins? Bitcoins are doing great actually. =) Used to be worth 0 a few years back, useless, and now you can use them

Re: [Full-disclosure] OT What is happening with bitcoins?

2014-03-10 Thread coderman
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Pedro Worcel pe...@worcel.com wrote: Bitcoins are doing great actually. =) Used to be worth 0 a few years back, useless, and now you can use them to buy some stuff. also providing some awesome information for future uses, c.f.:

Re: [Full-disclosure] OT What is happening with bitcoins?

2014-03-10 Thread Meaux, Kirk
Of Pedro Worcel Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 6:09 PM To: Georgi Guninski Cc: full-disclosure Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] OT What is happening with bitcoins? Bitcoins are doing great actually. =) Used to be worth 0 a few years back, useless, and now you can use them to buy some stuff. 2014-03

Re: [Full-disclosure] OT What is happening with bitcoins?

2014-03-10 Thread chedder
Well, from my understanding. the transaction malleability issue, isn't a problem with the protocol itself. but the specific exchanges implementation of it. not all exchanges where even effected by it to begin with. and with japans decision to keep bitcoins completely unregulated. it's unclear if

Re: [Full-disclosure] OT What is happening with bitcoins?

2014-03-07 Thread Pedro Worcel
Bitcoins are doing great actually. =) Used to be worth 0 a few years back, useless, and now you can use them to buy some stuff. 2014-03-07 4:06 GMT+13:00 Georgi Guninski gunin...@guninski.com: Read on theregister that bitcoins are in trouble. Allegedly mtgox lost $400M maybe related to

[Full-disclosure] OT What is happening with bitcoins?

2014-03-06 Thread Georgi Guninski
Read on theregister that bitcoins are in trouble. Allegedly mtgox lost $400M maybe related to transactions. Are the bugs in bitcoin or just sufficiently many ones got rooted? Is bitcoin still alive? ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter:

Re: [Full-disclosure] OT What is happening with bitcoins?

2014-03-06 Thread Brandon Perry
1. The people losing their bitcoins from hacks were amateurs at software engineering. 2. One of bitcoins greatest purported strengths (anonymity) is becoming a severe weakness because you cant easily track down who stole the bits. 3. I dont think any of this is a result of bugs in bitcoin.