especially given nobody can just go on the frozenbit site and register, it does not work, nor you can find any code on github
Topic: Greenaddress uses deceptive buissness practices, could cost users millions. - page 3. (Read 5540 times)
June 30, 2014, 12:20:26 PM
well, if you don't mind I'll wait for someone with no frozenbit history to tell me to not look into this
especially given nobody can just go on the frozenbit site and register, it does not work, nor you can find any code on github
especially given nobody can just go on the frozenbit site and register, it does not work, nor you can find any code on github
June 30, 2014, 12:13:50 PM
Random? Who said random? not random.
Either malice or incompetence but I really don't care, if you spread FUD you are a troll.
Perhaps the post and the user are only related in that they both spread FUD but otherwise they do look very correlated and hence the guess, feel free to ignore it but I would not be surprised in the least if someone that happily and knowingly does false advertising and spreading FUD on bitcointalk is also capable of doing so on reddit!
Either malice or incompetence but I really don't care, if you spread FUD you are a troll.
Perhaps the post and the user are only related in that they both spread FUD but otherwise they do look very correlated and hence the guess, feel free to ignore it but I would not be surprised in the least if someone that happily and knowingly does false advertising and spreading FUD on bitcointalk is also capable of doing so on reddit!
Well it looks like he is just a fan of another wallet. Of course he would agree with someone who agrees with him. I wouldn't look too much into it. Not everyone uses or likes the same wallet.
June 30, 2014, 12:11:06 PM
Random? Who said random? not random.
Either malice or incompetence but I really don't care, if you spread FUD you are a troll.
Perhaps the post and the user are only related in that they both spread FUD but otherwise they do look very correlated and hence the guess, feel free to ignore it but I would not be surprised in the least if someone that happily and knowingly does false advertising and spreading FUD on bitcointalk is also capable of doing so on reddit!
Edit: Sorry everyone, i've been feeding the troll sockpuppet
Either malice or incompetence but I really don't care, if you spread FUD you are a troll.
Perhaps the post and the user are only related in that they both spread FUD but otherwise they do look very correlated and hence the guess, feel free to ignore it but I would not be surprised in the least if someone that happily and knowingly does false advertising and spreading FUD on bitcointalk is also capable of doing so on reddit!
Edit: Sorry everyone, i've been feeding the troll sockpuppet
June 30, 2014, 11:55:28 AM
I don't think this has anything to do with the coinkite guys, simply OP is trying to make it appear as if the Coinkite guys are doing this but I'm pretty sure it is not them.
If I had to guess, I'd say there is someone else behind this trolling.
In case the account gets deleted.
If I had to guess, I'd say there is someone else behind this trolling.
In case the account gets deleted.
Why point fingers at a random reddit user? There is no proof other than that he agrees with the troll.
June 30, 2014, 09:04:58 AM
Rodolfo from Coinkite here, I've seen this posts on reddit a few times. And chat with Lawrence from GreenAddress before, as much as I appreciate the vote of confidence on our product, this posts look like FUD to me.
Don't feed the troll.
Don't feed the troll.
June 30, 2014, 08:56:41 AM
June 30, 2014, 08:44:12 AM
2 days old user that advertises coinkite.com at his first post? 
June 30, 2014, 08:27:30 AM
I've met the guy from Greenaddress.it personally, and he doesn't strike me as trying to use deceptive business practices. Indeed he seems pretty focused on making a solid product and pretty firm about not wanting to actually be able to hold IE: steal people's money.
So I'm skeptical about OP's claims at best.
So I'm skeptical about OP's claims at best.
June 30, 2014, 08:08:32 AM
I'm glad someone covered this! finally! 
oh wait, you are full of it! how's your trolling working out on reddit?
Did you find the code you suggested being malicious? No ?
You know, it's all on github!
https://github.com/greenaddress/WalletCordova
and
https://github.com/greenaddress/WalletCrx
Looking forward to get free code reviews!
p.s. Someone did mention my username but I didn't get the message (probably username case sensitive vs insensitive), so I only found out about it 12 hours later .. sounds like you are wasting your time anyway.
oh wait, you are full of it! how's your trolling working out on reddit?
Did you find the code you suggested being malicious? No ?
You know, it's all on github!
https://github.com/greenaddress/WalletCordova
and
https://github.com/greenaddress/WalletCrx
Looking forward to get free code reviews!
p.s. Someone did mention my username but I didn't get the message (probably username case sensitive vs insensitive), so I only found out about it 12 hours later .. sounds like you are wasting your time anyway.
June 29, 2014, 06:47:13 PM
im more surprised that people are just throwing money at services they do not know..
maybe i should rent a shop in my town, put the word bank on the entrance and see if the person quoted in the OP would throw $1700(3btc) at me without thinking or checking
rule one of bitcoin. if your not happy throwing X amount at a stranger on the street simply because he said he will look after your money. dont do it online. atleast on the street you can punch him in the face if he runs off
maybe i should rent a shop in my town, put the word bank on the entrance and see if the person quoted in the OP would throw $1700(3btc) at me without thinking or checking
rule one of bitcoin. if your not happy throwing X amount at a stranger on the street simply because he said he will look after your money. dont do it online. atleast on the street you can punch him in the face if he runs off
I couldn't agree more, stick with opensource clients.
And always
always
always
stay in control of your keys.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/29fdhu/greenaddress_is_using_peddlers_to_hide_bad/
It appears reddit has censored the last post, someone saw what was happening and is calling greenaddress out about their botting and spamming tactics.
June 29, 2014, 06:38:45 PM
im more surprised that people are just throwing money at services they do not know..
maybe i should rent a shop in my town, put the word bank on the entrance and see if the person quoted in the OP would throw $1700(3btc) at me without thinking or checking
rule one of bitcoin. if your not happy throwing X amount at a stranger on the street simply because he said he will look after your money. dont do it online. atleast on the street you can punch him in the face if he runs off
maybe i should rent a shop in my town, put the word bank on the entrance and see if the person quoted in the OP would throw $1700(3btc) at me without thinking or checking
rule one of bitcoin. if your not happy throwing X amount at a stranger on the street simply because he said he will look after your money. dont do it online. atleast on the street you can punch him in the face if he runs off
I couldn't agree more, stick with opensource clients.
And always
always
always
stay in control of your keys.
June 29, 2014, 06:18:59 PM
im more surprised that people are just throwing money at services they do not know..
maybe i should rent a shop in my town, put the word bank on the entrance and see if the person quoted in the OP would throw $1700(3btc) at me without thinking or checking
rule one of bitcoin. if your not happy throwing X amount at a stranger on the street simply because he said he will look after your money. dont do it online. atleast on the street you can punch him in the face if he runs off
maybe i should rent a shop in my town, put the word bank on the entrance and see if the person quoted in the OP would throw $1700(3btc) at me without thinking or checking
rule one of bitcoin. if your not happy throwing X amount at a stranger on the street simply because he said he will look after your money. dont do it online. atleast on the street you can punch him in the face if he runs off
June 29, 2014, 06:12:02 PM
Saw this on reddit and it was removed. Did greenaddress get them to remove it cuz this isn't uplifting to them? I'm wondering what they have to say about this.
June 29, 2014, 06:04:06 PM
They're also back peddling on it aswell:
Look here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/29fdhu/greenaddress_is_using_peddlers_to_hide_bad/
Look here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/29fdhu/greenaddress_is_using_peddlers_to_hide_bad/
June 29, 2014, 05:26:32 PM
Yeah what that guy said in comments. It looks like they're running a large peddling campaign.
Thanks for bringing this up OP
+1
EDIT: WOW, Green address is peddling like crazy over that post hahah
Thanks for bringing this up OP
+1
EDIT: WOW, Green address is peddling like crazy over that post hahah
June 29, 2014, 04:50:42 PM
Hello everyone, something bothered me today as I was reading through some new services. I noticed a service called greenaddress, which boasts 2 of 2 "multisig" wallets. I assumed this was something that could benefit me as I'm quite protective of my bitcoin. I've always wanted to try multisig and this "looked" like an easy adoption tool, then I noticed they had a mobile app.
Boy was I wrong about all of that. First off I tried their mobile app, it didn't work I was running IOS 7.1 and all that happened upon logging in was an error message. It wasn't possible to get pass the pin login. This was offsetting but didn't deter me from trying the site out. The site was alright in general except it didn't run off of HSTS which just screams hackable, not to mention a quick review of their service points towards a central server. So we already have 2 things against them, they use central servers and they released an app without testing it to see if it was working.
Pointing towards that central server is the fact both keys are appointed on their service. No generation appears to be done by the user, us. A quick review of the source code PROVES this. Lets for a second assume these guys are running an honest service. I guess I'm fine with that fact they generate keys, however, I decided to do a little more research on these guys. Their location checked out and their VAT number was alright. So we can assume their a real business and the people behind the service is real or just well hidden. Affirming this I appointed my attention to site, features, and their white paper.
For starters you can look at their name, green address, which is simply an address you can trust without any confirmations because it's orgin from a reputable place. The name is decietful, really it's false security to users. Continuing on I noticed they had an instant confirmation feature, which comes from the idea of a "Green address" (see above). So I tried it out, It didn't work. I did some research on it and found out that for others it didn't work. So really it's just a box on their spend bitcoins page:http://prntscr.com/3wjezk (*They deleted the picture!!!) . More issues soon surfaced, not being exclusive to their ios app their android app was plagued with bugs and reports of coins going missing. This was alarming to me, almost as if they released green address without any kind of security review or code audit?
Let's focus on what they call a life line for users in their white paper. It stems from a protocol called n-locktime. To make it easy to understand it just means that after a certain amount of time their key "Expires" and is no longer needed to spend funds. A wallet provider is by default not to be trusted, but greenaddress doesn't want you to be cautious they make it cumbersome to be able to secure your funds. If you focus your attention on what's above about their central server it appears this may not be true. Now I wouldn't claim this without trying. I can attest this feature is cumbersome and requires you to constantly redopsit if you don't want to lost access to your funds forever. Doing this with their buggy interface was like trying to find the needle in the haystack, first I had to 2fa which didn't bother me that much since it's "security" but oh-well. Then it required me to pay another tx fee, I had around 3 bitcoin on the site so that was kinda costly. Finally after losing time and bitcoin I have another day until the whole nlocktime debacle happens again.
These lies and deceit should NOT be ignored. Their site is pretty but there are way too many red flags. I'm warning you some things are not right, an easy google search brings up more problems than positives. Upon my own personal experience I would NOT recommend greenaddress to anyone. Instead I would use https://www.coinkite.com , they're a leading innovator in bitcoins terminals, wallets and are supporting multisignature p2sh wallets which I feel are the easiest and most user friendly wallets you could use.
EDIT: I am not part of coinkite, I just recommend their service.
Boy was I wrong about all of that. First off I tried their mobile app, it didn't work I was running IOS 7.1 and all that happened upon logging in was an error message. It wasn't possible to get pass the pin login. This was offsetting but didn't deter me from trying the site out. The site was alright in general except it didn't run off of HSTS which just screams hackable, not to mention a quick review of their service points towards a central server. So we already have 2 things against them, they use central servers and they released an app without testing it to see if it was working.
Pointing towards that central server is the fact both keys are appointed on their service. No generation appears to be done by the user, us. A quick review of the source code PROVES this. Lets for a second assume these guys are running an honest service. I guess I'm fine with that fact they generate keys, however, I decided to do a little more research on these guys. Their location checked out and their VAT number was alright. So we can assume their a real business and the people behind the service is real or just well hidden. Affirming this I appointed my attention to site, features, and their white paper.
For starters you can look at their name, green address, which is simply an address you can trust without any confirmations because it's orgin from a reputable place. The name is decietful, really it's false security to users. Continuing on I noticed they had an instant confirmation feature, which comes from the idea of a "Green address" (see above). So I tried it out, It didn't work. I did some research on it and found out that for others it didn't work. So really it's just a box on their spend bitcoins page:
Let's focus on what they call a life line for users in their white paper. It stems from a protocol called n-locktime. To make it easy to understand it just means that after a certain amount of time their key "Expires" and is no longer needed to spend funds. A wallet provider is by default not to be trusted, but greenaddress doesn't want you to be cautious they make it cumbersome to be able to secure your funds. If you focus your attention on what's above about their central server it appears this may not be true. Now I wouldn't claim this without trying. I can attest this feature is cumbersome and requires you to constantly redopsit if you don't want to lost access to your funds forever. Doing this with their buggy interface was like trying to find the needle in the haystack, first I had to 2fa which didn't bother me that much since it's "security" but oh-well. Then it required me to pay another tx fee, I had around 3 bitcoin on the site so that was kinda costly. Finally after losing time and bitcoin I have another day until the whole nlocktime debacle happens again.
These lies and deceit should NOT be ignored. Their site is pretty but there are way too many red flags. I'm warning you some things are not right, an easy google search brings up more problems than positives. Upon my own personal experience I would NOT recommend greenaddress to anyone. Instead I would use https://www.coinkite.com , they're a leading innovator in bitcoins terminals, wallets and are supporting multisignature p2sh wallets which I feel are the easiest and most user friendly wallets you could use.
EDIT: I am not part of coinkite, I just recommend their service.
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