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They should try putting the BTC address in a format which you can copy and paste.

by cultavix 12y ago

glyphobet 12y ago
It has to be an image, how else would they ensure that it shows up in Comic Sans in all browsers?
- laumars 12y ago
  Not sure if that was a joke or not, but this problem has already been solved in CSS (@font-face). Though the downside to that would be that they'd then have the issue of hosting copyrighted content (ie the typeface).
  - laumars 12y ago
    Why on earth was that voted down? It wasn't rude, spam, nor factually inaccurate. I'm getting quite fed up with people who abuse their negative karma privileges. I mean, at least justify your peer moderation with a follow up comment when the reason for the penalty is as ambiguous as it is in this instance. I excepect I'll just get down voted again though, for daring to have a rant about people who do "hit and run" down voting...
    - Dylan16807 12y ago
      Because it was wrong. It's not a penalty, it's just a downvote. Penalty would be flagging. Honestly sometimes I wish people had to justify upvotes...
      - laumars 12y ago
        > Because it was wrong. ...and once again you've failed to specify why it was wrong. Simply stating something to be wrong is a worthless comment. Provide an reason; or citation if it's necessary. I'm open to correction if you can provide a counter argument. Though on this occasion I can say with certainty that I'm right about Comic Sans being non-free (http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=35 http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=35) and that @font-face allows you to include custom fonts into webpages (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face). > It's not a penalty, it's just a downvote. Penalty would be flagging. It deducts points from my karma; it's a penalty. > Honestly sometimes I wish people had to justify upvotes... I agree with that too. However that's not the issue here.
        Dylan16807 12y ago
        @font-face is not a solution that works 100% of the time. I'm not sure how to back that up, it's a basic fact. Someone was being cheeky about ensuring comic sans. You replied by 'correcting' them with something that wouldn't in fact ensure comic sans. It was wrong and not particularly useful, and it had a good amount of missing-the-joke, so it got downvoted.
        laumars 12y ago
        I didn't say it works 100% of time. (See my other comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8832776 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8832776) and I did say that I wasn't sure if that was a joke or not from the offset (text isn't always easy to judge sarcasm) So basically what you are saying is you down voted me because you misread my post (and frankly, even if I did categorically state what you thought I said, I still think your reason would have been somewhat petty) This is why people shouldn't down vote without leaving a reply first. :)
        Dylan16807 12y ago
        >I didn't say it works 100% of time. (See my other comment When you reply to 'ensures' then by default you are talking about ensuring. There are plenty of ways for hosted fonts to fail, even in supported browsers. And when you talk about fallbacks with 'at least' you have missed the point that an image format is comic sans or bust, never an inferior font. >I did say that I wasn't sure if that was a joke or not Being aware that you missed a joke doesn't make a joke-missing comment better. >This is why people shouldn't down vote without leaving a reply first. :) So you can pedantically argue about being right rather than accept that your comment wasn't as helpful as you thought? Seems like a net negative to me. >somewhat petty I suppose. It depends on whether you think downvotes are necessarily a rebuke. >So basically what you are saying is you down voted me because you misread my post I didn't downvote you. What an unfortunate misreading. ;)
        laumars 12y ago
  - glyphobet 12y ago
    Yep, that was a joke. Should have had <sarcasm> tags around it.
  - clarry 12y ago
    Not all browsers allow or support custom typefaces.
    - laumars 12y ago
      True, but equally not all browsers support images either (lynx, elinks, etc). Which is probably about the same market share as browsers that don't support custom typefaces these days. And at least custom typefaces would still leave you with a readable text on non-supported browsers - which is more than an image would (which also gives them added bonus of being easily programmatically parseable, eg by web crawlers).
gst 12y ago
It's not a BTC address, otherwise it would start with 1 or 3. See: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Address https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Address
- yownie 12y ago
  source is calling it aes.png <div class="key"><p>WeAreTPB</p></div> <img src="/aes.png" class="pipe" />
p3zo 12y ago
looks like a Tor .onion link
meseznik 12y ago
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/12/23/encryption-key-pirate-bay-homepage http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/12/23/encryption-key-pira... -bittorrent sync key?
- TsukasaUjiie 12y ago
  people were claiming (on reddit) that the bittorrent sync account w/ that key was created after tpb published it.
submitter2 12y ago
It is not a BTC address. It is an image, called aes.png. Maybe some kind of key?
deleted 12y ago
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- deleted 12y ago
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TheAcen 12y ago
<img src="/aes.png" class="pipe">
sillysaurus3 12y ago
I wish the myth that people donate to BTC addresses would hurry up and die. There are few examples of projects that receive significant donations, as far as I know. I'd love to be proven wrong about that, but when I looked at a bunch of donation addresses 6-12 months ago, no website or project got more than spare change from it. There have been some high-profile donations made using BTC, but that's not the same thing. Rich people will give large donations regardless of the format. It wasn't because of BTC, but rather because they wanted to donate. Some of the donation addresses received huge amounts of BTC. These obviously weren't from donations. Probably from the account holder shuffling their own money around. I wouldn't be surprised if BTC donations were far less frequent than, say, "likes" on YouTube videos. For the average video with half a million views, ~20,000 likes isn't uncommon. And people only do that because it's free. So if, for any given "thing that half a million people look at," only about 200 of them actually donate, you can see how pitiful the returns are compared to ads. But putting up ads to profit from copyright infringement is blatantly illegal, whereas BTC donations aren't. Yet nobody will take BTC donations seriously for the same reason no one considers panhandling a sustainable living. It probably sounds like I'm bashing Bitcoin, but I'm only trying to point out a surprising phenomenon. BTC donations seemed to have a lot of potential, yet fizzled. The reasons why are important to study.
- morsch 12y ago
  Very few people have actual BTC to donate -- this is the big one. Some of those may be holding BTC as an "investment" and may be unwilling to part with it. Depending on how they hold their BTC, there may be significant friction involved in spending it, ie. in almost all cases I expect it's more difficult than entering PayPal or credit card details. And as you note, it's not like people are super eager to donate using other methods. (And while some might say that a site like TPB, which attracts "freeloaders", is even less likely to get donations, I'm not convinced -- folks might consider TPB both a service worth paying for as well as a cause worth supporting.) Of course, the upsides remain. It costs you nothing to post a BTC address on a site, especially if you're already handling BTC. There is no interaction with payment providers and all that jazz. There are no immediate fees. Payments are "anonymous" for both sides, with the usual and serious caveats involved in BTC transactions[0]. [0] E.g. some dude being able to audit your total donation amount from the public ledger. :) Did you write up anything from that research? It's an interesting idea.
psykovsky 12y ago
You should only talk about things you understand. For the rest, use questions. That's not a Bitcoin address, it's an AES key for bittorrent sync.

They should try putting the BTC address in a format which you can copy and paste.

glyphobet 12y ago

It has to be an image, how else would they ensure that it shows up in Comic Sans in all browsers?

laumars 12y ago
Not sure if that was a joke or not, but this problem has already been solved in CSS (@font-face). Though the downside to that would be that they'd then have the issue of hosting copyrighted content (ie the typeface).
- laumars 12y ago
  Why on earth was that voted down? It wasn't rude, spam, nor factually inaccurate. I'm getting quite fed up with people who abuse their negative karma privileges. I mean, at least justify your peer moderation with a follow up comment when the reason for the penalty is as ambiguous as it is in this instance. I excepect I'll just get down voted again though, for daring to have a rant about people who do "hit and run" down voting...
  - Dylan16807 12y ago
    Because it was wrong. It's not a penalty, it's just a downvote. Penalty would be flagging. Honestly sometimes I wish people had to justify upvotes...
    - laumars 12y ago
      > Because it was wrong. ...and once again you've failed to specify why it was wrong. Simply stating something to be wrong is a worthless comment. Provide an reason; or citation if it's necessary. I'm open to correction if you can provide a counter argument. Though on this occasion I can say with certainty that I'm right about Comic Sans being non-free (http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=35 http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=35) and that @font-face allows you to include custom fonts into webpages (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face). > It's not a penalty, it's just a downvote. Penalty would be flagging. It deducts points from my karma; it's a penalty. > Honestly sometimes I wish people had to justify upvotes... I agree with that too. However that's not the issue here.
      - Dylan16807 12y ago
        @font-face is not a solution that works 100% of the time. I'm not sure how to back that up, it's a basic fact. Someone was being cheeky about ensuring comic sans. You replied by 'correcting' them with something that wouldn't in fact ensure comic sans. It was wrong and not particularly useful, and it had a good amount of missing-the-joke, so it got downvoted.
        laumars 12y ago
        I didn't say it works 100% of time. (See my other comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8832776 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8832776) and I did say that I wasn't sure if that was a joke or not from the offset (text isn't always easy to judge sarcasm) So basically what you are saying is you down voted me because you misread my post (and frankly, even if I did categorically state what you thought I said, I still think your reason would have been somewhat petty) This is why people shouldn't down vote without leaving a reply first. :)
        Dylan16807 12y ago
        >I didn't say it works 100% of time. (See my other comment When you reply to 'ensures' then by default you are talking about ensuring. There are plenty of ways for hosted fonts to fail, even in supported browsers. And when you talk about fallbacks with 'at least' you have missed the point that an image format is comic sans or bust, never an inferior font. >I did say that I wasn't sure if that was a joke or not Being aware that you missed a joke doesn't make a joke-missing comment better. >This is why people shouldn't down vote without leaving a reply first. :) So you can pedantically argue about being right rather than accept that your comment wasn't as helpful as you thought? Seems like a net negative to me. >somewhat petty I suppose. It depends on whether you think downvotes are necessarily a rebuke. >So basically what you are saying is you down voted me because you misread my post I didn't downvote you. What an unfortunate misreading. ;)
        laumars 12y ago
- glyphobet 12y ago
  Yep, that was a joke. Should have had <sarcasm> tags around it.
- clarry 12y ago
  Not all browsers allow or support custom typefaces.
  - laumars 12y ago
    True, but equally not all browsers support images either (lynx, elinks, etc). Which is probably about the same market share as browsers that don't support custom typefaces these days. And at least custom typefaces would still leave you with a readable text on non-supported browsers - which is more than an image would (which also gives them added bonus of being easily programmatically parseable, eg by web crawlers).

gst 12y ago

It's not a BTC address, otherwise it would start with 1 or 3. See: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Address https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Address

yownie 12y ago
source is calling it aes.png <div class="key"><p>WeAreTPB</p></div> <img src="/aes.png" class="pipe" />

p3zo 12y ago

looks like a Tor .onion link

meseznik 12y ago

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/12/23/encryption-key-pirate-bay-homepage http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/12/23/encryption-key-pira... -bittorrent sync key?

TsukasaUjiie 12y ago
people were claiming (on reddit) that the bittorrent sync account w/ that key was created after tpb published it.

submitter2 12y ago

It is not a BTC address. It is an image, called aes.png. Maybe some kind of key?

deleted 12y ago

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deleted 12y ago
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TheAcen 12y ago

sillysaurus3 12y ago

I wish the myth that people donate to BTC addresses would hurry up and die. There are few examples of projects that receive significant donations, as far as I know. I'd love to be proven wrong about that, but when I looked at a bunch of donation addresses 6-12 months ago, no website or project got more than spare change from it. There have been some high-profile donations made using BTC, but that's not the same thing. Rich people will give large donations regardless of the format. It wasn't because of BTC, but rather because they wanted to donate. Some of the donation addresses received huge amounts of BTC. These obviously weren't from donations. Probably from the account holder shuffling their own money around. I wouldn't be surprised if BTC donations were far less frequent than, say, "likes" on YouTube videos. For the average video with half a million views, ~20,000 likes isn't uncommon. And people only do that because it's free. So if, for any given "thing that half a million people look at," only about 200 of them actually donate, you can see how pitiful the returns are compared to ads. But putting up ads to profit from copyright infringement is blatantly illegal, whereas BTC donations aren't. Yet nobody will take BTC donations seriously for the same reason no one considers panhandling a sustainable living. It probably sounds like I'm bashing Bitcoin, but I'm only trying to point out a surprising phenomenon. BTC donations seemed to have a lot of potential, yet fizzled. The reasons why are important to study.

morsch 12y ago
Very few people have actual BTC to donate -- this is the big one. Some of those may be holding BTC as an "investment" and may be unwilling to part with it. Depending on how they hold their BTC, there may be significant friction involved in spending it, ie. in almost all cases I expect it's more difficult than entering PayPal or credit card details. And as you note, it's not like people are super eager to donate using other methods. (And while some might say that a site like TPB, which attracts "freeloaders", is even less likely to get donations, I'm not convinced -- folks might consider TPB both a service worth paying for as well as a cause worth supporting.) Of course, the upsides remain. It costs you nothing to post a BTC address on a site, especially if you're already handling BTC. There is no interaction with payment providers and all that jazz. There are no immediate fees. Payments are "anonymous" for both sides, with the usual and serious caveats involved in BTC transactions[0]. [0] E.g. some dude being able to audit your total donation amount from the public ledger. :) Did you write up anything from that research? It's an interesting idea.

psykovsky 12y ago

You should only talk about things you understand. For the rest, use questions. That's not a Bitcoin address, it's an AES key for bittorrent sync.