6 ms·

Just don't lookup your private key in there. This would be like giving it to the website

by sirk390 5y ago

imdsm 5y ago
A variant of type your password, <site> will replace it with asterisks mydogisthebestboye44 Damn it!
- thehappypm 5y ago
  Huh? Are you saying MY dog is NOT the best boye?
  - _nhynes 5y ago
    Perhaps not the best of the 44th boyes. I'm sure yours ranks highly elsewhere.
    - thehappypm 5y ago
      I can live with this. He is indeed a good boye.
- sovietmudkipz 5y ago
  As a youngling I fell for this a couple times in my video games. Then I caught on and played along, seeing it as an in joke. Later I realized doing this provides social proof for the scammer. I still play video games and I call it out when I see it.
- Raphaellll 5y ago
  hunter2
  - BoiledCabbage 5y ago
    > **** Did you mean to type something? Or just all stars?
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
Nextgrid 5y ago
If I had some coins on my machine and the fees were low enough I'd be tempted to put a few bucks on a new key and test this theory.
- lordnacho 5y ago
  How will you test the theory? It would be easy to just not sweep small amounts. Then when someone checks a wallet with a large amount, joink!
  - 2-718-281-828 5y ago
    what would be the incentive for trying a second time with another wallet?
    - Ensorceled 5y ago
      I think you are missing how this would work. The scammer wouldn't scoop up the proceeds if it was a small account you were looking up, only if it was a whale. This is to prevent someone from figuring out it was a scam with a small account and only gain a few dollars from the scam.
      - 2-718-281-828 5y ago
        I think you are missing something. If you have a wallet with very little or no money attached to it. And the you check for the correspoinding private key. If you find it - you "know" it works and then _might_ be inclined to try the key for a more serious wallet. But if not, then you know this site doesn't work and would have no inclination to try another key. If you enter important passwords or keys into random websites then this isn't about incentive but mere stupidity.
        Ensorceled 5y ago
        No, I am not. Follow along: I check my $100 dollar wallet. It's there, doesn't get emptied. Cool, I think! Next day I check my $1000000 wallet. It gets immediately emptied. Alternatively: I check my $100 dollar wallet. It gets emptied. SCAMMER I scream on HN and Twitter. Site gets shutdown. Silly person doesn't check their $1000000 wallet.
s5300 5y ago
To my knowledge there’s no way to look it up?
- brabel 5y ago
  If you know the private key already, you just need to know which "page" it falls in, which should be documented somewhere as the pages are procedurally generated.
  - 400thecat 5y ago
    what does procedurally generated mean in this particular context ?
    - krallja 5y ago
      The data on a page are the results of running a function on the inputs of that page, not connecting to a database or anything. view(coins = coins_with_prefix(query.page_num)) so, the site operator doesn’t need to go buy 2^256 bytes of hard drive space to store all the pages.

Just don't lookup your private key in there. This would be like giving it to the website

imdsm 5y ago

A variant of type your password, <site> will replace it with asterisks mydogisthebestboye44 Damn it!

thehappypm 5y ago
Huh? Are you saying MY dog is NOT the best boye?
- _nhynes 5y ago
  Perhaps not the best of the 44th boyes. I'm sure yours ranks highly elsewhere.
  - thehappypm 5y ago
    I can live with this. He is indeed a good boye.
sovietmudkipz 5y ago
As a youngling I fell for this a couple times in my video games. Then I caught on and played along, seeing it as an in joke. Later I realized doing this provides social proof for the scammer. I still play video games and I call it out when I see it.
Raphaellll 5y ago
hunter2
- BoiledCabbage 5y ago
  > **** Did you mean to type something? Or just all stars?
deleted 5y ago
[deleted]

Nextgrid 5y ago

If I had some coins on my machine and the fees were low enough I'd be tempted to put a few bucks on a new key and test this theory.

lordnacho 5y ago
How will you test the theory? It would be easy to just not sweep small amounts. Then when someone checks a wallet with a large amount, joink!
- 2-718-281-828 5y ago
  what would be the incentive for trying a second time with another wallet?
  - Ensorceled 5y ago
    I think you are missing how this would work. The scammer wouldn't scoop up the proceeds if it was a small account you were looking up, only if it was a whale. This is to prevent someone from figuring out it was a scam with a small account and only gain a few dollars from the scam.
    - 2-718-281-828 5y ago
      I think you are missing something. If you have a wallet with very little or no money attached to it. And the you check for the correspoinding private key. If you find it - you "know" it works and then _might_ be inclined to try the key for a more serious wallet. But if not, then you know this site doesn't work and would have no inclination to try another key. If you enter important passwords or keys into random websites then this isn't about incentive but mere stupidity.
      - Ensorceled 5y ago
        No, I am not. Follow along: I check my $100 dollar wallet. It's there, doesn't get emptied. Cool, I think! Next day I check my $1000000 wallet. It gets immediately emptied. Alternatively: I check my $100 dollar wallet. It gets emptied. SCAMMER I scream on HN and Twitter. Site gets shutdown. Silly person doesn't check their $1000000 wallet.

s5300 5y ago

To my knowledge there’s no way to look it up?

brabel 5y ago
If you know the private key already, you just need to know which "page" it falls in, which should be documented somewhere as the pages are procedurally generated.
- 400thecat 5y ago
  what does procedurally generated mean in this particular context ?
  - krallja 5y ago
    The data on a page are the results of running a function on the inputs of that page, not connecting to a database or anything. view(coins = coins_with_prefix(query.page_num)) so, the site operator doesn’t need to go buy 2^256 bytes of hard drive space to store all the pages.