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Topic: BREAKING NEWS: Multiple Exchanges Affected - Possible Global Shutdown - page 7. (Read 13943 times)

legendary
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And while I'm on the subject ... sometime in the next few months, the wallet of some major site will be hacked and a bunch of people are going to lose all of there bitcoins. You heard it here first.

Sounds like complete FUD to me.

It is not FUD. It is reality. I am stating the obvious. People that allow others to hold their bitcoins for them are generally newbies that are simply unaware of the risk.

It literally is FUD. You're basing this and the timeframe on absolutly nothing.
member
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What's so difficult about keeping BTC in one's own qt wallet?

Because it is unneeded. To send money you need only soft that can construct transaction sign it and retransmit it to the network. There also many API like this https://blockchain.info/pushtx to achive this. So one can bother to run qt wallet only to support the bitcoin P2P network.
full member
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What's so difficult about keeping BTC in one's own qt wallet?
legendary
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And while I'm on the subject ... sometime in the next few months, the wallet of some major site will be hacked and a bunch of people are going to lose all of there bitcoins. You heard it here first.

Sounds like complete FUD to me.

It is not FUD. It is reality. I am stating the obvious. People that allow others to hold their bitcoins for them are generally newbies that are simply unaware of the risk.
full member
Activity: 231
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What exactly are they actually trying to achieve with this?
Cheap bitcoins. Same as always.

How will that work if all the exchanges are down?

All exchanges are not down.  And if they did all go down, it stands to reason that there would be incredible sell pressure driving the price down when they reopened.


*edited for clarity
hero member
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"Storm" and "teacup" comes to mind:


BTC-E ‏@btcecom  2h
Bitcoin withdrawal works #btce

 BTC-E ‏@btcecom  4h
Update bitcoin wallet. Temporarily withdrawal is not available. #btce


Attackers probably got away with a few hundred or thousands of BTC 40 USD cheaper. Oh well... Community XP +10. Level up?


global moderator
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What exactly are they actually trying to achieve with this?
Cheap bitcoins. Same as always.

How will that work if all the exchanges are down?
legendary
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hey guys, what is up with this adress I got it in my blockchain,

1SochiWwFFySPjQoi2biVftXn8NRPCSQC

WTF is that?

Many people including me got spam payments from that and another address.
full member
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I mean yea sure stay calm, the problem will pass, but this is terrible press for bitcoin at a very crucial time for it when it has just started showing up in mainstream media coverage somewhat regularly
hero member
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hey guys, what is up with this adress I got it in my blockchain,

1SochiWwFFySPjQoi2biVftXn8NRPCSQC

WTF is that?
newbie
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It's funny how the so-called "market price" is going down but actual sellers that are willing to sell for those prices are few and far between.
legendary
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What exactly are they actually trying to achieve with this?
Cheap bitcoins. Same as always.
global moderator
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What exactly are they actually trying to achieve with this?
member
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many are doing all again need to some calm down all will be ok in next few days lets fight against this attack  Wink

So attack is real? How the hell is this possible? Client and miners share the same codebase. Why client retransmit similar transactions and do not check them correctly before retransmission?
sr. member
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IIIIII====II====IIIIII
Bitstamp:

No funds have been lost and no funds are at risk.
hero member
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blockchain.info isn't affected beacuse they aren't an exchange. DUH!!!!!!!
this has to do with internal network verification vs the blockchain.
this is more of an issue for an exchange that mixes up everyones balances internally.

blockchain.info doesn't move balances around internally and since the person controls their own private key this issue has nothing to do with them.
sr. member
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many are doing all again need to some calm down all will be ok in next few days lets fight against this attack  Wink
full member
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check out btc-e...already rebounded big time.

I think BTC means business, can't be stopped now.
legendary
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BREAKING NEWS: Trolls exist who try to get discount bitcoins via FUD and DDoS tactics. You don't have to fall for it.
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