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legendary
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March 27, 2014, 04:41:12 PM
Folks, there is no evidence that market action in AUR or a slow AUR blockchain is the result of direct ~BCX~ action. Even though ~BCX~ demands evidence from AUR devs on the authenticity and feasability of AUR airdrop plans, etc he carefully avoids providing any direct evidence himself that a) AUR is a scam or b) he has done, or is capable of, any of the things he insinuates. He brags, taunts, threatens, trolls and cajoles but he never delivers.

If you examine his track record (the LTC threat fiasco is a good example), his MO is to either move the goalpost as the time approaches for action, or just to delete his posts and sulk away to throw another tantrum another day for another reason.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/deleted-94912   <- LTC debacle

I suggest that you quit giving him the attention he desperately craves and just ignore him/her.


~<^>~


If you are going to quote history, you need to include all of it. Some of us were here, you weren't. BCX saved Litecoin from the Solidcoin crew. At the time there existed a bitter rivalry between the Litecoin developer Coblee and the Solidcoin developer Coinhunter better known as Realsolid. The Solidcoin people where developing a scrypt miner which yet didn't exist for the specific purpose of killing Litecoin as Solidcoin did not use scrypt. LTC was a cpu only coin and the hash rate was very low. Just a few GPU miners could have killed it but they were also pouring it on with the cpu miners in an attempt to 51% ltc at the same time.

Coblee the creator of LTC as well the mod Saltyspitoon from this forum were well aware that the BCX attack was a trick to make the ltc miners ramp up in an effort to stop the BCX attack with his large botnet. No one responded when the call went out to add hashrate to fight the SC 51% assault but they all jumped at the chance to battle with bcx. The trick worked perfectly.

As a result the ltc hash rate increased by a factor of 20 plus buying the early ltc chain time enough for Artforz to finish the first mtrlt crude scrypt miner. With the release of the first scrypt gpu miner, ltc became secure.

There are also a couple of threads some where Coblee himself admits he knew the attack was not for real.

mind = blown.

pay attention newbies this is why you must respect your elders.
full member
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March 27, 2014, 04:40:44 PM
The new client has already been released, as I understand it, with a fork coming in about 17 blocks.
legendary
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CPU Web Mining 🕸️ on webmining.io
March 27, 2014, 04:38:44 PM
I feel like most of you don't even understand what is actually happening and are just jumping on the loudest bandwagon
full member
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March 27, 2014, 04:36:54 PM
Seems to me this is a fixable situation, release new client, hard fork..

if serious about it should do it quickly...
legendary
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ltex.nl
March 27, 2014, 04:31:06 PM
#99
Sorry im late!


Me too!

BCX, (photo taken by his mother) while prepping his KGW attack...

member
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March 27, 2014, 04:11:06 PM
#98
This thread is so entertaining. Just marking it for inexorable future amusement.
hero member
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March 27, 2014, 03:59:07 PM
#97
I think it's generally understood that all crypto networks have some security flaws and can be defeated by hashpower and other attacks.

A hacker killing off one little country scamcoin isn't going to undermine all cryptocurrencies, at least more than they already are.
I'm not worried about the "killing off" of the coin but the publicity it might yield - the world doesn't know shit about cryptocoins, much less about country coins - they only heard of Bitcoin, Litecoin and now Auroracoin.

When asked about Bitcoin they say "oh yeah, I heard that got hacked and is now worthless".

When asked about Aurora soon they'll say "oh yeah, I heard that got hacked and is now worthless".

It doesn't matter whether BTC are truly worthless, or if and when AUR might be able to recover. The only thing that matters is public opinion.

Confidence building doesn't work that way.
So true. BCX is not doing the crypto community any favors with this stunt. Just because you can inflict malice doesn't mean you should.  A dead high profile crypto will damage Bitcoin's reputation in the public eye. The MSM and public are simply not as educated and nuanced as we are here.
 
full member
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March 27, 2014, 03:56:13 PM
#96
However many people have heard of AUR, that many and orders of magnitude more have heard of BTC and LTC. If AUR dies, the vast majority of people will never have heard of it. Cryptos die all the time. They die because of lack of interest because nobody ever heard of them, or nobody wants them.

If AUR is going to die, better sooner than later. If it survives, it will be much stronger for warding off the attack.
newbie
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March 27, 2014, 03:49:12 PM
#95
I think it's generally understood that all crypto networks have some security flaws and can be defeated by hashpower and other attacks.

A hacker killing off one little country scamcoin isn't going to undermine all cryptocurrencies, at least more than they already are.
I'm not worried about the "killing off" of the coin but the publicity it might yield - the world doesn't know shit about cryptocoins, much less about country coins - they only heard of Bitcoin, Litecoin and now Auroracoin.

When asked about Bitcoin they say "oh yeah, I heard that got hacked and is now worthless".

When asked about Aurora soon they'll say "oh yeah, I heard that got hacked and is now worthless".

It doesn't matter whether BTC are truly worthless, or if and when AUR might be able to recover. The only thing that matters is public opinion.

Confidence building doesn't work that way.
legendary
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Monero Evangelist
March 27, 2014, 03:33:00 PM
#94
5383 <3
full member
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March 27, 2014, 03:22:25 PM
#93
full member
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March 27, 2014, 02:45:51 PM
#92
Could someone please help me to understand the technicals of what's occurring here? 

The 'time warp' attack being discussed seems to also require a 51% attack.  Is that correct? 

I get the fundamentals of how the systems involved here work but not the line-by-line source code details.  Is this a simple majority attack?  And if so, are the attackers finding blocks at high difficulty due to their share of the hash rate and just not confirming them on the network?

For those who have done calculations on the time till block 5400, could you please provide some of the analysis you've done?  I would be curious to learn more and to see the formulas involved.  Thanks in advance.
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March 27, 2014, 02:29:44 PM
#91
I think it's generally understood that all crypto networks have some security flaws and can be defeated by hashpower and other attacks.

A hacker killing off one little country scamcoin isn't going to undermine all cryptocurrencies, at least more than they already are.
newbie
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March 27, 2014, 02:14:26 PM
#90
Well shit and I was just going to immigrate to Iceland to get mah coins.

On a slightly more serious note though we better all pray this doesn't make the news, otherwise we'll have a geohot situation with one celebrity emerging from all of this (and/or going to jail) and everyone else getting fucked, no matter which coins they hold.

I agree "strengthening" cryptos is a good thing, even if it victimizes some in the process - but if the currency part of crypto currencies, in the public eye, becomes even more of a joke than it is now that entirely defeats the purpose and makes those actions irrelevant, with a side effect of costing many people a lot of money and reassuring the public that the only way to conduct financial transactions safely is centralized and governed.

Imho, the attacker(s) would stop now that they've proven their point and work with the dev (who, as I understand, wasn't all that cooperative in the past - I bet he is now) if they actually had the good of the community (or cryptos in general) in mind.

But then what do I know.
full member
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March 27, 2014, 01:58:51 PM
#89
Anyone who takes a screencap of HTML text as proof is an idiot. Did we really have to point this out?
full member
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March 27, 2014, 01:55:15 PM
#88
Perhaps it's not extortion in this case.
well shit, that's all you had to say.  

i mean we thought your cartoon argument was air tight and everything.

There's certainly FAR more evidence that this is a case of extortion than there is evidence that Aurora is a scam.

What evidence? http://i.imgur.com/8WsJYam.png
sr. member
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let's make a deal.
March 27, 2014, 01:47:53 PM
#87
There's certainly FAR more evidence that this is a case of extortion....

Perhaps it's not extortion in this case.

CAN YOU PLEASE MAKE UP YOUR MIND  

newbie
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March 27, 2014, 01:35:06 PM
#86
Perhaps it's not extortion in this case.
well shit, that's all you had to say.  

i mean we thought your cartoon argument was air tight and everything.

There's certainly FAR more evidence that this is a case of extortion than there is evidence that Aurora is a scam.
sr. member
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let's make a deal.
March 27, 2014, 01:31:59 PM
#85
Perhaps it's not extortion in this case.
well shit, that's all you had to say.  

i mean we thought your cartoon argument was air tight and everything.
hero member
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March 27, 2014, 01:27:43 PM
#84
It's been crawling.......I love you.


Look at the block explorer, it came to grinding slowdown starting about 5375.

It amazingly looks like a Time Warp exploit.

At this rate you might make block 5400 sometime in August ROFL.



~BCX~

well done  Grin
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