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Topic: Someone just moved all the bitcoins! (Read 2819 times)

hero member
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September 08, 2012, 10:04:02 AM
#25
Still with 0 confirmations.

Love bitcoin Cheesy
legendary
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Vile Vixen and Miss Bitcointalk 2021-2023
September 08, 2012, 04:33:53 AM
#24
Is it possible to spam the network with invalid txs, with any effect?

You'll waste some of their internet bandwidth and CPU time while invalidity is determined, but that's about it.  Invalid transactions are ignored.
Just to clarify, "they" refers to only those nodes you have an active connection to, not the whole network. Invalid transactions won't be relayed to the rest of the network.
sr. member
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September 07, 2012, 06:59:51 PM
#23
Is it possible to spam the network with invalid txs, with any effect?

You'll waste some of their internet bandwidth and CPU time while invalidity is determined, but that's about it.  Invalid transactions are ignored.

Thanks Mike.
vip
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The Casascius 1oz 10BTC Silver Round (w/ Gold B)
September 07, 2012, 06:52:52 PM
#22
Is it possible to spam the network with invalid txs, with any effect?

You'll waste some of their internet bandwidth and CPU time while invalidity is determined, but that's about it.  Invalid transactions are ignored.
sr. member
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September 07, 2012, 06:02:01 PM
#21
Is it possible to spam the network with invalid txs, with any effect?
hero member
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September 07, 2012, 05:59:25 PM
#20
Dont touch my Bitcoins!
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September 07, 2012, 02:32:43 PM
#19
Does this mean Blockchain.info will present bogus transactions sent to it on its UI?  Presumably the blockchain.info UI should never have seen this transaction since it shouldn't have made it through the front door.  Perhaps the purpose of this transaction is to illustrate a blockchain.info bug?
It appears so. Notice how the inputs to the transaction were much, much smaller than the outputs; Bitcoin doesn't let you create coins out of thin air like this except in coinbase transactions, and those can't created more than 50 BTC.
kjj
legendary
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September 07, 2012, 02:23:42 PM
#18
From the chatter in IRC, it sounds like Piuk already found and fixed the bug.  I'm pretty sure he is running a modified client to feed his website's database and gmaxwell fed it directly to that node (because no other client would relay it).
vip
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The Casascius 1oz 10BTC Silver Round (w/ Gold B)
September 07, 2012, 02:06:41 PM
#17
Does this mean Blockchain.info will present bogus transactions sent to it on its UI?  Presumably the blockchain.info UI should never have seen this transaction since it shouldn't have made it through the front door.  Perhaps the purpose of this transaction is to illustrate a blockchain.info bug?
sr. member
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September 07, 2012, 02:00:20 PM
#16
If you modify the client or create your own, you can transmit transactions sending 535,424,234.35 BTC (or any other arbitrary number you want), however other nodes and miners will not relay or mine the transaction as it contains bogus data and will not properly pass the transaction verification code present in all the other nodes on the bitcoin network. You would need to get a more technical look into the bitcoin source code if you want to know exactly how this works.
legendary
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September 07, 2012, 01:59:24 PM
#15
lol, it was gmaxwell screwing around  Tongue

http://blockchain.info/tx/bb0035f8b02f7e716d14a90505ffdf00e4b71a3e6030c41abebf7129915bd42a  < now that I own all the bitcoin, things will be a little different around here.

For those of you that missed the bogus transaction: http://i45.tinypic.com/vhgqkm.jpg

Also:

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September 07, 2012, 01:56:41 PM
#14
now that I own all the bitcoin, things will be a little different around here.


All Your Bitcoins Are Belong To Us.

LOL
legendary
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Trusted Bitcoiner
September 07, 2012, 01:52:19 PM
#13
can someone explain in detail what happened, and how the network deals with this kind of fake tx
sr. member
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September 07, 2012, 01:51:21 PM
#12
Also look in the 1Dky thread. There's lots of discussion about this thing going on there.
hero member
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September 07, 2012, 01:39:48 PM
#11
lol, it was gmaxwell screwing around  Tongue

http://blockchain.info/tx/bb0035f8b02f7e716d14a90505ffdf00e4b71a3e6030c41abebf7129915bd42a  < now that I own all the bitcoin, things will be a little different around here.

For those of you that missed the bogus transaction: http://i45.tinypic.com/vhgqkm.jpg
donator
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I outlived my lifetime membership:)
September 07, 2012, 01:38:17 PM
#10
Just transformed in 0.011101 BTC  Huh Huh Huh Huh
Must be a form of dev testing...it's going to gmaxwell's address, or so one would be led to believe Smiley

It could also be a really funny joke...Look where it came from...
sr. member
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September 07, 2012, 01:38:11 PM
#9
Just transformed in 0.011101 BTC  Huh Huh Huh Huh

I thought it might change.  I have a screen shot of the original.  I'll post it when I get home from work.  Maybe it's a bug in the Block explorer.
bpd
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September 07, 2012, 01:38:01 PM
#8
Maybe a bug in blockchain.info? Or Ben just changed something with blockchain.info (that would be quick work though).
legendary
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September 07, 2012, 01:36:02 PM
#6
Just transformed in 0.011101 BTC  Huh Huh Huh Huh
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