Topic: ☆ DE Altcoin Chat ☆ (Read 5553 times)

Vorbildliche Projekte/Netzwerke
https://riat.at/cryptoeconomics/laboratory-for-future-cryptoeconomics/
https://www.paralelnipolis.cz/koncepty/cryptoanarchy-institute/
http://nakamotoinstitute.org/
https://ifca.ai/  

Lesenswert
https://github.com/tombusby/cypherpunk-research
https://anarplex.net/ [Dort gibt es neuen, uniquen, relevanten Content, wie https://anarplex.net/hosted/files/secondrealm/secondrealm.pdf , für Leute die sich (heute noch) ernsthaft für die originalen Beweggründe & Ideale hinter Bitcoin & einbringen möchten.]
https://monoskop.org [ Bspw.: https://monoskop.org/images/4/42/Ludlow_Peter_Crypto_Anarchy_Cyberstates_and_Pirate_Utopias.pdf , siehe zuvor]
http://hackingdistributed.com/ [Mit Ausnahmen]
http://ledgerjournal.org/ojs/index.php/ledger

http://tuckfheman.com/post/119218150749/worlds-first-atomic-cross-chain-transfer

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CAVIRTEX News
Feb. 19, 2015, 4:46 p.m. - Update on withdrawals

Since announcing our intention to shut down we have received an incredible amount of positive feedback from our users, partners, and community members, and we would like to say thank you for your kind feedback and years of patronage.

For clients looking to withdraw CAD we are experiencing delays due to the volume of withdrawals. Due to payment provider limitations, we currently cannot process direct deposits in excess of $150,000 per day. Given the current withdrawal requests we expect withdrawals to take at least 5 days longer than usual. We appreciate your patience.

Bitcoin and Litecoin withdrawals will begin soon. Again, we are concerned over the safety of your funds, so we want to be extremely careful confirming that the user withdrawing is actually the owner of the account. We assure you that we want to return funds as much as you want to withdraw them.

Please inform us immediately if you get a browser confirmation email from us that you did not initiate. For those of you who have not changed your passwords, please do so. Please fill out your return addresses under settings > user preferences.

Feb. 17, 2015, 12:12 p.m. - CAVIRTEX shutting down

Effective immediately, CAVIRTEX intends to cease carrying on an active Bitcoin business and will be winding down its operations in an orderly manner. As a result, effective immediately, no new deposits will be accepted by CAVIRTEX. Trading on CAVIRTEX will be halted effective March 20, 2015. Effective March 25th, 2015, no withdrawals will be processed. CAVIRTEX will communicate with any account holders that continue to hold balances after March 25, 2015.

We have maintained 100% reserves. CAVIRTEX is solvent and remains in a position to accommodate all customer withdrawal requests received prior to March 25, 2015. However, On February 15, 2015 we found reason to believe that an older version of our database, including 2FA secrets and hashed passwords, may have been compromised. This database did not include identification documents.

Because security and the safety of customer funds are paramount to our mission and the success of Bitcoin in general, CAVIRTEX has determined to cease active operations in the Bitcoin business and to return all customer funds. We believe that the damage to the company's reputation caused by the potential compromise will significantly harm our ability to continue to operate successfully.

As a result of the potential compromise of our database we cannot be certain of the confidentiality of account credentials. Please log into your account and change your password immediately. Please also clear your CAVIRTEX browser cookies. BTC and LTC withdrawal will remain temporarily disabled.

We ask that customers please fill in their Bitcoin and Litecoin return addresses on their user preferences. These fields have been cleared for all users and will need to be filled in once again. This page is accessible under Settings then User Preferences. Your BTC and LTC will be sent to that address. CAD withdrawals remain enabled.

CAVIRTEX continues to believe, as we have over the last three and a half years of operation, that cryptocurrency is here to stay. We appreciate all the support from our amazing customers who have been on this journey with us. You are the true Bitcoin pioneers and with your help we have imprinted Bitcoin in the Canadian conscience.

Even with this latest development, we are proud to say that we have never lost customer funds. To our knowledge, our production environment has never been breached.

CAVIRTEX intends to communicate with its loyal shareholders regarding this announcement in the near future.

Thank you to our loyal customers and all of our supporters who believed in us but more importantly trusted us.

Sincerely,

The CAVIRTEX Team

Feb. 15, 2015, 5:57 p.m. - Deposits and withdrawals disabled

BTC and LTC wallets have been disabled due to a known issue. All customer funds are safe. Please be patient while we address the issue.
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Quelle: https://www.cavirtex.com/news

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BITCOMSEC and the Tracking of a Hacker

This is the story about how one hacker was able to infiltrate an up-and-coming exchange, steal its coins, and essentially leave it in ruins.

No, it’s not Mt. Gox, unfortunately.

This is the story of the demise of CyrptoRush.in as told by BITCOMSEC (Bitcoin Community Security Project), a group of developers who seek to improve the reputation of Bitcoin by improving security across the community. During the spring of 2014, CryptoRush was thrown into disarray as the result of a hack (actually two) and the good people at BITCOMSEC decided to do what they could to figure out what happened and expose the perpetrator. We thought it would be helpful to give what BITCOMSEC found out to show that there are people out there working for better security in Bitcoin and to publicize the lessons of what they discovered.

The Founding of CryptoRush.in

In 2013 there was a rush to create altcoins to mimic the success that Bitcoin was experiencing. Some of these were serious attempts to find better ways to do things that Bitcoin was attempting, some were frankly pump-and-dump operations that crypto-enthusiasts still need to be aware of and avoid, and some were tongue-in-cheek attempts to have a bit of fun and which gained some measure of success due to the fun-loving nature of the communities that grew up around them. One of these was CoinyeCoin, named after the noted rapper Kanye West.

Kanye, unfortunately, didn’t see the humor in having his face used as the emblem for the coin. Admittedly, the image, his head merged with a fish tail, was not very attractive. Kanye issued a cease-and-desist order and, after a short time, the creators of the coin abandoned it rather than face legal action. The creators might have abandoned it, but the community didn’t, and a number of members of the community tried to keep it alive. Finding no place to exchange the coin, CoinyeCoin enthusiast LinkandZelda decided to create an exchange to handle the sale of this and a slew of other less-than-prime altcoins in addition to Bitcoin and Litecoin. At first, the new exchange gained some popularity and trading volumes began to rise.

The Hacker Begins

The hacker didn’t start by targeting CryptoRush, but about the same time as LinkandZelda were mining CoinyeCoin and starting to plan their new exchange, the hacker was setting up an altcoin mining pool called extrapool.com. In the altcoin mania of the time, this site, like many others, got a number of users wanting to maximize their mining returns. Unfortunately, the owner of the site was a Pilipino from Cebu island named Jimmy Bluey Amatong. The site soon amassed a score of accusations of being a scam for non-payment. When the accusations hit critical mass, the site went off line, taking all the coins mined by its customers with it.

It would have been bad enough if this had been the end of the story, but unfortunately Amatong was not finished. All the time that his mining site was running, a script he had installed was collecting the login credentials of all his customers. After the demise of his site, Amatong set scouring exchanges, email accounts, Dropbox accounts, etc. for anyone who was lax enough to use the same password across their accounts. One would think that people savvy enough to be using Bitcoin in 2013, or technically skilled enough to start an altcoin exchange, would know enough to use good password hygiene, Amatong apparently found a lot of good coins just lying around to be picked up.

The Hacker Strikes

One of people whose password was exposed on extrapool.com was LinkandZelda and Amatong soon found himself with access to CryptoRush’s backup servers. Amatong began a very crafty slow-leech of coins from the CryptoRush wallets. He probably would have been able to get away with this for much longer than he did, but only a month or two after his initial breech, another hacker cracked into CryptoRush and swept more than 800 BTC from their wallets. Amatong, panicked that his golden goose was about to expire began a mass sweep of all the altcoin wallets on the CryptoRush servers.

According to BITCOMSEC, Amatong was able to use his ill-gotten gains to move his family out of an apartment that had been threatening his family with eviction into a much nicer place on Cebu and posts a very nice white Ford truck Amatong bought. I won’t go into the specifics of how BITCOMSEC discovered all this here, but if you are interested, and especially if you want to see the logs that BITCOMSEC was able to follow, you can read their original post here.

The Aftermath at CryptoRush

This part of the story is documented on BitcoinTalk.org and Reddit. After the loss of the exchange’s coins, the management decided that they would try to issue CryptoRush shares which would pay out a percentage of fees to holders. Their story was that one of the CryptoRush staff, a person who went by the name Fyrstikken, would hold 60$ of the shares, building trust in their value because of his significant stake. In reality, he would hold only 10%, meaning that the exchange would be trying to recapitalize with this sale and would (initially, they probably though) make payouts with sales.

I’ve heard it said that most Ponzi schemes do not start as Ponzis, but rather are legitimate businesses that find themselves in trouble for one reason or another, try to make good on the back of increased investment, and them find themselves in a vicious cycle wherein they pay off old investors on the proceeds of new. Before this nascent Ponzi really got its chance to get off the ground, infighting within Cryptocoin and a very public battle between the developers of Darkcoin and Fyrstikken brought the exchange down.

CryptoRush Reborn

If you go looking for any of the sites associated with Jimmy Amatong, you’ll find them down – probably due to the negative exposure given them by BITCOMSEC. If you go looking for CryptoRush, you’ll find that it’s still up and running, now under the management of King Dragon. They have been posting on their blog since December of last year, and as of January 12 were posting the addition of 2FA for withdrawals. From what we can tell, volumes are low, but given that we are still at the early stages of the cryptocurrency revolution, there’s nothing to say that it couldn’t build a reputation for honesty and security despite (and perhaps even because of) its troubled start.

The Takeaway

As BITCOMSEC note in the conclusion of their own posting on this, people need to take responsibility for their own security:

Do not use the same password for multiple sites, especially login credentials to servers.
Pay attention to your account on third party services, and never leave extra funds in online accounts.
Even if the SSL certificate looks and seems legit – click on the Lock icon next to the domain and confirm the domain, name and contact information of your destined company.
To this we’ll add a couple more:

Never trust a site that is run with a pseudonym. Bitcoin Warrior learned this lesson the hard way when we trusted TradeFortress at CoinLenders. CoinLenders used lent depositors coins to exchanges or other businesses that needed Bitcoin liquidity and paid handsome interest rates. This site is another one that was probably honest at the start and that would have likely turned Ponzi had it not been for a hack. Due to the rising price of Bitcoin (November 2013) and the reduced value of the ‘mining shares’ that TradeFortress used as collateral, the economics had turned against the business model. It may be that TradeFortress, seeing the trend, decided to hack himself, or it may be that he legitimately got hacked. In either case, after the hack, there was no holding TradeFortress accountable, or even getting reliable information from him. Eventually he ran away to China.
Never invest in businesses that offer returns that seem too good to be true. Again, CoinLenders falls in this category, but we are also seeing various crypto-investment opportunities advertised – arbitrage, cloud mining, etc. What really strikes us about many of these opportunities is that even casual research will turn up many people calling out these opportunities as scams. This research will often also turn up people who invest knowing that these business are scams. The rationale is that if you get in early, you can get big returns that the sites pay as ‘proof’ of their legitimacy to pull in even more suckers. The trick is simply getting out before the site disappears. There are several problems with this rationale: First, you are feeding the beast and allowing it to grow instead of starving it as should be done. Second, you are an accessory to the crime since you are knowingly accepting profits you know are intended to be stolen from the bag holders when the site disappears. And finally, these sites disappear quickly, so you may very well be the one holding the bag.
Our thanks to the good people of BITCOMSEC for their good work.
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Quelle: http://bitcoinwarrior.net/2015/01/bitcomsec-tracking-hacker/

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Bump.

Kleiner Tipp für die Zukunft: DCM (oder andere Abkürzung für einen Coin) + bitcointalk in Google. So kommst eigentlich immer zu dem gesuchten "Main"-Thread -> Forensuche ist viel zu langsam und schlecht 

Hier ist der Tread mit allen Infos.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=636470.480

Hallo.
Kannst du mal den Link zu DCM posten? Ich suche und suche, finde aber nicht den passenden Thread.

Ich denke und hoffe der (DCM) Digital Commerce sollte bald massiv steigen.

1.35 Mio Coins Max und die IPO Phase auf Bittex ist gerade vorüber. Gutes und vor allem transparentes Dev Team. Guter Launch und und Konzept.
Ich denke auf dem Coin sollte man ein Auge haben.

Hey Leute!

Ich persönlich gehe im Moment mit Feathercoin, kurze Erklärung hierzu, weil die meisten denken es wäre ein LitecoinClone, was aber nicht stimmt

Feathercoin hat in über 1nem Jahr existenz jetzt so einiges geändert, war es zu Anfang ein LitecoinClon, ist jetzt kaum noch was davon zu sehen.

Blocktime: 60 Sekunden (Zuvor 150 Sekunden - /2.5)
Blockreward: 80 Coins   (Zuvor 200 - /2.5)
Total Supply 336m
Eigener Schwierigkeitsanpassungs Algorithmus

-Magic-Numbers wurden neu entwickelt. (Noch nicht implementiert)

-Neuer Hashingalgorithmus ist im Development, sollte diesen Monat fertiggestellt werden (NeoScrypt)

-Viele Händler sind vorhanden, die bereits Feathercoins akzeptieren.

-Monatliche Meetups in Oxford mit Developern und CommunityMitgliedern.

Der Preis ist im Moment trotzdem ziemlich niedrig, was aus der unterdrückung von Litecoinwhales resultiert, welches Problem aber mit dem neuen HashingAlgorithmus behoben werden sollte.

Mein GeheimTipp ist im Moment Orbitcoin:

- ScryptAlgo
- LowDiff
- Neues Development unter Ghostlander, führender PoS Developer in der CryptoSzene.

Grüße,
ChekaZ

Achso, ok. mir war mit deinem letzten Post nicht ganz klar, was du damit gemeint hast.

Weil die Bewertungen lächerlich sind. Typische pump coins in den top ten.

Musst mal etwas genauer begründen warum du das so siehst.. ich habe mir die Seite auch angeschaut; aber das wie du das siehst, verstehe ich nicht.

Seite aufmachen, Liste anschauen, Seite zumachen weil komplett lächerlich.

CoinGecko.com

Ist eine Seite die Altcoins ranked nach erzielten Scores in drei Wertungskategorien (Developer, Community, Liquidity). Siehe: http://www.coingecko.com/methodology

Ist eine gute Seite und der richtige Ansatz um mittelfristig Altcoins zu zuverlässig vergleichen, bewerten und ranken zu können. Die Methodologie muss und wird sich mit der Zeit weiter entwickeln, so bald weitere Erfahrungswerte vorliegen sowie sich in der Szene weitere Konsenspositionen zur relevanten Altcoin-Themenstellungen gebildet haben, deren Erfüllungsgrad man dann scoren kann.


---> http://www.coingecko.com/

Öffne mal den Link von Twinwinnerd; dann weißt du es 

Ist aber eigentlich nicht weiter erwähnenswert. Purer Pump and Dump Coin, der schon seine Hochs hatte und nun in der Klon-Nische verschwindet, aus der er hergekommen ist.

WTF is NAS?

Ich verfolge NAS schon ein bisschen länger.
Respekt!
Kennst du vielleicht auch EXOCOIN?

Auf NAS bitte nur spekulieren, wenn man Geld verlieren möchte. Der Trend ist bereits nach den ersten Pump& Dumps nach unten gerichtet.
Heißt also Ausverkauf an dumme Newbies, die glauben mit dem Coin durchstarten zu können, wobei andere bereits das große Geld abgesahnt haben.
Pump&Dump in seiner klassischsten Form also.

Wenn ihrs wie die großen Absahner machen wollt, dann müsst ihr einen Coin kaufen, der taufrisch ist!
Nebenbei gibt es noch Coins bei denen ein Langzeitinvestment möglich ist.

Mein heißer Tip für ein Langzeitinvestment ist NEM.

Einfach meinen letzten Beitrag dazu durchlesen.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.6282011