My opinion, bring on the negativity, is they should have donated ALL the SilkRoad
coins to a fund to be spread out proportionally to pay back all the MTGOX
victims.
Were his funds not in cold storage?
No. He even said his security wasn't all that great. Passwords in a plain text file that was in a dropbox, which the password to that dropbox was not changed after heartbleed.
wow.. thats rediculous. plaintext file on dropbox? he seems smarter than that. I have heard people getting their coins stolen on dropbox, people suspect it is dropbox workers who have access to those files.
One would think his personal security tactics would be very strong to guard his fortune. but wow
I honestly think people with access to the dropbox cloud working there are "mining" through the data looking for BTC
related files. I changed my password to a 30 char COMPLEX password after heartbleed and one day one of my wallets
was suddenly drained. I completely forgot that I had an original backup of the wallet from long back saved in there
from like super early days of starting BTC and I hadnt encrypted the wallet file. No one in the world had access to the
files or wallet password besides that file I had totally forgot about, except dropbox. It was one of the few things I hadnt
put into the truecrypt container unfortunatley.
So yes, I have a feeling people working for dropbox are searching for .dat wallet files and text files with BTC related text.
Were his funds not in cold storage?
No. He even said his security wasn't all that great. Passwords in a plain text file that was in a dropbox, which the password to that dropbox was not changed after heartbleed.
wow.. thats rediculous. plaintext file on dropbox? he seems smarter than that. I have heard people getting their coins stolen on dropbox, people suspect it is dropbox workers who have access to those files.
One would think his personal security tactics would be very strong to guard his fortune. but wow
I honestly think people with access to the dropbox cloud working there are "mining" through the data looking for BTC
related files. I changed my password to a 30 char COMPLEX password after heartbleed and one day one of my wallets
was suddenly drained. I completely forgot that I had an original backup of the wallet from long back saved in there
from like super early days of starting BTC and I hadnt encrypted the wallet file. No one in the world had access to the
files or wallet password besides that file I had totally forgot about, except dropbox. It was one of the few things I hadnt
put into the truecrypt container unfortunatley.
So yes, I have a feeling people working for dropbox are searching for .dat wallet files and text files with BTC related text.
how much did you lose? hope it wasn't alot, considering it was from early days
Luckily only 0.8BTC. It really peeved me though because it was just another BTC scam to add to the never ending pile.
Its tiresome trying to hide stuff in a way that isnt touchable by anything, then when I do connect the laptop to the internet
for a transaction, I always worry someone MAY have access at that split second. To paranoid now.
Ive moved to Armory wallet now and have my wallet on a laptop never connected to the internet and the wallet backups
are on USB drives in my safe. Im still worried one day Ill see the wallet drained. It seems like there is never enough you can
do now to keep you BTC safe. There is always another scam around the corner now.
So this week.....
AlienWare accepts bitcoin.
Baltic Air accepts bitcoin.
Dell accepts bitcoin.
Bitcoin drops around $30 for NO FUCKING REASON WHAT SO EVER.
Maybe everyone dumped their BTC and bought Ether for some stupid reason.
It just makes no damn sense what so ever.
Oh yah, there is a reason, all the idiot sheep lemming traders who trade BTC for no other
reason than its trendy.
I keep seeing articles about the biggest threat to bitcoin...
The biggest threat to bitcoin are this idiot sheep lemming traders who run down the price
on their own panics.
The general public is NEVER going to put large amounts of money into bitcoin
when they see articles about bitcoin dropping 10% overnight for no reason other
than the idiot sheep lemming traders panic or some moron hits the wrong button
and sells 2 million in bitcoin by mistake.
The idiots trading just to trade are going to run bitcoin into the ground and drive away
the general public who we need accepting it when they manage to drop the price 10%
overnight and cause panics.
Im just tired of where I see BTC going.
Im selling all my ASICs and exchanging all my BTC locally.
Im calling it a day with BTC, its just not at all what I thought it would be.
Im tired of wasting all day on forums trying to not loose a ton of money being involved with bitcoin.
Too many scams.
Too many pointless panics.
Too many day traders dropping the price for the general public.
I bid this site adios.
Traders are Bitcoin's cancer.
Yes, Yes and Yes.
A million times yes.
This is what is killing BTC.
