AdmiralBeotch

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by AdmiralBeotch 11y ago
I have been doing offline transaction in bitcoin for years now. Private keys on the offline system sign unsigned transactions from an online computer and the interaction is completely over an airgap (webcams and qr codes on/from either
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by AdmiralBeotch 13y ago
All 'yall need to be ashamed of yourselves if you don't own even a US penny's worth of Bitcoin. I'm not even kidding. If you've never witnessed a bitcoin transaction or held a bitcoin on an electronic device this fa
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by AdmiralBeotch 13y ago
I mined in mid 2010 from my CPU. I was not a hardware guy, so I gave up in about 6 months. I have managed to keep every bitcoin key I've ever owned, with the exception of one small mistake that cost me 1 bitcoin. During this mining per
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by AdmiralBeotch 13y ago
Pay taxes and other government debts here: http://www2.egovlink.com/press-release-bitcoin.cfm You can already buy food at a couple places in Vegas where I live.
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by AdmiralBeotch 13y ago
The difference and what a lot of people seem to miss is the scarcity of bitcoin and the fact that its makers and followers are bootstrapping a new global economy. Having only $1B in liquidity is not enough to participate in all global marke
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by AdmiralBeotch 13y ago
Get bitcoins from locals on LocalBitcoins.com
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by AdmiralBeotch 13y ago
Most is probably being used for savings as the potential for it to increase in value over years is ridiculously high. If bitcoin succeeds in taking over fractions of global markets, which is is poised to certainly do because of its efficien
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by AdmiralBeotch 14y ago
I am a TOR exit operator and I strictly follow the guidelines established by the EFF. I never connect to my exit nodes for any purpose other than routine maintenance and when I do, it's well documented: times, purpose, etc. By minimizing my
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by AdmiralBeotch 14y ago
No because you'll eventually have something come up that makes you want to spend those bitcoins, even though you know they'll be worth more in the future. and when you do so, you'll be getting a significant effective discount on your purcha
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by AdmiralBeotch 14y ago
It will halve every 210,000 blocks for about 140 years until the reward is 1 satoshi.
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by AdmiralBeotch 14y ago
Ridiculous argument. I've got old coin (purchased at a lower price) and every time I spend it, it's like getting a discount. It's a built in incentive to spend them.
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by AdmiralBeotch 14y ago
the qt client, while being the baseline of measure, is a dinosaur. I use Electrum because it does not require the maintenance of a local blockchain, start up is immediate after long darkouts. It can be fully run off-line with no network con
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by AdmiralBeotch 14y ago
You should consider a feature for coinbase to allow for btc to be sent (via lookup) to email addresses. For instance, the Electrum client allows this by the recipient hosting a bitcoin url on their domain. julian@tosh.us maps to http://tos
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by AdmiralBeotch 14y ago
Bitcoin, the protocol, has never been hacked - only services built on top of the protocol.
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by AdmiralBeotch 14y ago
You can certainly be fully anonymous with bitcoin but care must be taken... Mainly, you need to isolate your change to an identity wallet - a wallet used for specific purpose under a dedicated pseudonym. Identity of the pseudonym is protect
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by AdmiralBeotch 14y ago
Transaction fees are optional. Currently, if you do not include a transaction fee, your transaction will get confirmed, but the first confirmation could take longer for a miner to pick it up - but it is very likely to still get confirmed. A
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by AdmiralBeotch 14y ago
It will experience an inflation rate for the next 140 years or so. It is currently expanding at 50 BTC per 10 minutes. In december it will cut to 25 BTC per 10 minutes, half each 4 years after that. Bitcoins have already been destroyed to t
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by AdmiralBeotch 15y ago
Better to mount /dev/ram0 and do your encryption there. Then shred; rm -rf; umount for the win.
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by AdmiralBeotch 16y ago
OP: I did the same thing... running a server for anything is the best way to get started in Linux.. I did a little write up on my "crazy ass email setup" here: http://julian.tosh.us/2010/01/my-crazyass-email-setup/ It's evolved a bit sinc
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by AdmiralBeotch 16y ago
Got mine a couple months ago!
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by AdmiralBeotch 16y ago
I completely agree with this... Your excitement will be renewed 10 fold by the excitement you see when tutoring the next generation of nerds. Nothing beats seeing the lightbulb flip on when an 8 year old "gets" binary math or writes their f
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by AdmiralBeotch 16y ago
Is anyone else left scratching their head at how the facebook login overtook OpenID?
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by AdmiralBeotch 17y ago
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by AdmiralBeotch 17y ago
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by AdmiralBeotch 17y ago
I see your objection, an annoying obsession, but, in fact, I mean, the context of possession. =8P
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by AdmiralBeotch 17y ago
agree 100% FireGPG is a firefox plugin that makes it SUPER easy strong encryption and signing with gmail (or anything really).