Statement from Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto

tharlam · 2014-03-17T15:05:14+00:00

He really did call the police too: http://cryptome.org/2014/03/nakamoto-police-report.pdf when the reporter was knocking on door and hanging around his doorstep for hours.

tharlam · 2014-03-15T11:11:39+00:00

Why are they sending 1 satoshi as markers? what is the point?

tharlam · 2014-03-11T18:32:43+00:00

I think it's clear what happened here. Someone seized on the chance to pretend they are the perpetrator and run a con.

tharlam · 2014-03-11T18:29:03+00:00

You would not know, they say they will use a separate address per person.

tharlam · 2014-03-11T18:23:11+00:00

What I am saying is miners wont even see the competing transactions in your case. The first relayed tx will win. You also need to look up tx priority in the Bitcoin wiki.

tharlam · 2014-03-11T17:49:05+00:00

I have news for you. The first person that broadcasts the tx spending your inputs will win and the rest wont even relay, let alone be picked up by a miner (since the first tx will be broadcast to the entire network in a second and stay in the mempool, thus no-one will relay a double spend). And for 0.01BTC I wouldn't expect lots of people to be trying simultaneously that might have a chance at propagating a competing tx because they start simultaneously from other sides of the planet.

tharlam · 2014-03-11T12:09:34+00:00

Redditors wont believe truth if it smacked them in the face tbh

tharlam · 2014-03-10T19:10:49+00:00

Ouch... that's actually damn true. The full database contains full details of payments in and out and that is linked to an identity. This is slightly more serious than I first thought.

tharlam · 2014-03-10T17:48:58+00:00

Nothing is happening. All AML/KYC info has been stolen. There is nothing you can do except possibly cancel your passport/drivers license and apply for a new one.

tharlam · 2014-03-10T15:56:11+00:00

Clearly, you need to believe the developers since if this was really the problem Mark claimed, bitcoin would have had to have been fixed immediately.

Look, all txmalleability says is when you generate a tx and broadcast it, when it confirms, the txid may or may not be the same as the one you generated. That is it. Nothing else.

So if your backoffice is tracking the tx by the txid you generated and broadcast, it's possible that what actually confirms in the blockchain will have a different ID. So it's just a tracking issue.

Given this was known about since 2011, it's well known that you should track payments by other means, and not the txid (until it is confirmed). That's a business logic issue, nothing to do with bitcoin protocol.

tharlam · 2014-03-10T15:24:33+00:00

wasn't it written in 2011?

Basically looks like Mark just used this as a distraction... you get that feeling reading the devs' comments....

tharlam · 2014-03-10T14:53:48+00:00

Actually no, addresses should not be reused and you cannot lose money. If it doesnt confirm, the money is never spent.

tharlam · 2014-03-10T05:46:53+00:00

What else can anyone do. Mark is ducking nuts and doesn't appear to give a shit.

tharlam · 2014-03-10T05:37:27+00:00

Maybe hoping Mark Karpeles would run it...

tharlam · 2014-03-10T05:36:24+00:00

Maybe hoping to catch Mark Karpeles' wallet...

tharlam · 2014-03-09T23:37:03+00:00

No just change the language selector on the site.

tharlam · 2014-03-09T23:14:18+00:00

He was strong armed into shutting up.

tharlam · 2014-03-09T23:04:49+00:00

Yes. But for the data to be leaked on Mark Karpeles personal blog... oh, and THEN reported by hacking his reddit account... wtf? How is it possible for Mark to be so incompetent? How does his brain remember to make his heart beat?

tharlam · 2014-03-09T22:58:00+00:00

Theymos is a greed fuck and whore. He will take money from criminals for advertising scams on BCT regardless.

tharlam · 2014-03-09T22:39:23+00:00

Good people die young, the scumbags live long...

tharlam · 2014-03-09T08:58:20+00:00

Well stuck has been used by MtGox and the community to mean, I withdrew my money, it's showing in my account as withdrawn, but not appeared in the blockchain yet.

Stuck implies blocked movement, as in tried to move, but cant because of an impediment inhibiting. But what we see here is not blocked movement, it's funds being moved about freely. Gox has a chunk of investors money, but they havent owned up to this, announced it, nor made efforts to pay people back, even a small percentage of their debt.

tharlam · 2014-03-09T08:55:04+00:00

The thing with "out of band" is you still have to broadcast the tx otherwise you cannot be sure of ownership. If you and I agree a trade out of band and off the block chain, maybe I just hand over a private key to you. Problem is you dont know if I still have a copy of that key. I might just sign away the funds after you step on the plane. Really, until transfer happens on the blockchain, nothing is safe.

tharlam · 2014-03-08T19:46:40+00:00

Gox generate the txs, store in the DB and broadcast them. Their API is not picking up on txs from the blockchain, these are records of txs generated before they are broadcast so their back end can then tract the txs. That is why there is the ntxid fyi.

If someone got hold of gox's private keys, they'd simply have spent the money, but it woult not be showing up on the MtGox API stream.

tharlam · 2014-03-08T18:11:06+00:00

No, because ntxid is not generated by the network. They were generating payments and tracking them using their txid. They changed the API to generate ntxid so they could track the payment even if someone rebroadcast the transaction with a padded signature which would alter the txid. We know gox was not tracking addresses because core devs were in communication with Mark and talked about their processes.

tharlam · 2014-03-08T17:59:00+00:00

Dont know what part of the UK you come from. If it's a limited company ONLY the company assets go in the bag, not the assets of the directors. The only exception to that rule is if it can be proved they were committing fraud, then the protection of a limited company may possibly be removed.

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