Topic: [CLOSED] S.DICE - SatoshiDICE 100% Dividend-Paying Asset on MPEx - page 53. (Read 316442 times)

Yes! Lets have all our stock exchanges unilaterally extort shareholders to force them to pursue arbitrary political agendas.  Especially in cases where the shareholders have no voting rights, can't compel the corporation to do anything, and the stock price in no way affects the corporation's daily operations.  What could possibly go wrong?

Of course, I understand that this was a long shot but it couldn't hurt to ask. You never know.

I think you are addressing the wrong people here. Asking greedy arrogant people to not be greedy and arrogant just for a moment, is like asking an addicted to pause being addicted.
Maybe you (or those who care about the development of the network) should increase pressure on the miners, since they are the ones, who decide (or "vote with their hash") which course the blockchain will take. If you convince the majority of the network, that it is in their favor to exclude Satoshi-Dust.com addresses ("temporarilly") from the Blockchain, they will block them.
Think of it as the first intervention or shaping of Bitcoinland by its demohashcracy. I know the ultra libertarians will spit in rage now. But take a look at the RealLifeWorld to see what happens, if you allow "total freedom" for a small part of society: a small unproductive and highly egoistic part of it will fuck the rest, ignoring everything else.
It is crazy, that satoshi dust is presenting itself as a gain for bitcoin. Instead they are only taking advantage of a weakness (gambling) of some people and produce NOTHING. Like RealLifeWorld's finance sector

Don't get me wrong. Anyone should have the freedom to gamble. But the fun of freedom is over, when the system that allows that freedom, is in "danger"
 
“Freedom is the power to choose our own chains”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Havelock FTW.

Source.

Most recent information you'll find on here is at the link below:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1598165

Does anyone know where I can find the most recent update on this situation?

Was MPEX.co really hacked (I read somewhere that it was redirecting to whitehouse.gov), or is it just a prolonged DDOS attack?

But then the miners won't get all those juicy SD fees. Think of the miners, they have starving children in need of bread and water. Don't you love children you cold bastard?

Despite our forum clashes, I humbly and with goodwill ask:

Would you mind de-listing S.DICE temporarily to encourage shareholders to put pressure on the site operators to stop taking advantage of the block chain during this critical stage of Bitcoin growth? I know this might go against your short term financial interests but really if you stop to think about it, the "startup capital" of the Bitcoin network (gmaxwell's terminology for the currently unused space in each block) is going to unproductive activity which does not grow the Bitcoin economy.

If nothing is done about SD transaction spam (economically unspendable outputs which can't be pruned), transaction fees will be driven higher and every miner will bear the cost of forever storing these unprunable tx in their copies of the blockchain. In the long run, increased fees are not a problem but at the early stage we are in, it could dampen Bitcoin adoption or possibly kill it.

I dont think mpex is up at all.

Why does the exchange being temporarily offline affect the share price of satoshidice? It does not affect the amount of dividend next month at all. (And I sure hope MPEx will be back up and running before the end of the month!)

You could check the pass-throughs on BTCT and BitFunder, the price seems pretty stable at the moment.

Well looks like MPEX is out for quiet awhile. All proxies are down, CoinBR is down also.

S.DICE will probably go below the IPO price.
 

Please tell me this full-of-win practice is going to be standard operating procedure from now on.

They hit it too, for maybe half a minute. It was just about to turn into a lot more than poetry, but someone somehow had the idea of checking (probably looking to see if it domain answers - and it did). To quote,


I must say this thread's been pretty entertaining so far.


It was dns change. This was a real ddos, it took out routing infrastructure not cpus. Consequently a "redirect" would have never gotten talked to in the first place.


The attack consisted of more bw than the aggregate consumption of all Bitcoin services for a month, except dished out during a day. Notably, it wasn't nearly as large as the January one (which you haven't heard about - also notably) but it was a lot more intelligently deployed. By the time the WH dns change came about the attacker and the techs had been playing cat-and-mouse for hours already. In non-tech terms it was a game of flip the potato here's suddenly a hand grenade.


Roughly speaking five hundred times so far.

*YAWN*

how many times NYSE was DDoS or deface ?

MPEx has stated on several occasions that the entry price is only going to go up. It already went from 20 btc to 30 btc. How much does it cost to get a seat on the NYSE?

30btc makes sense when it was $5

Lawl

I thought he was referring to the price of 30 USD per bitcoin being hit, not that it takes a 30 btc hit to use the exchange, now I am not sure which he was referring to?