The richest users on the bitcoin forum - page 2.

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Quote from: AbeSkray on June 29, 2011, 12:00:10 PM

Quote from: peach on June 29, 2011, 11:45:55 AM

Really? I thought dozens of people on these forums had 1000s of BTC...Someone please clarify.

A better title might be, "The most tip-worthy users on the bitcoin forum". And even that would be inaccurate, because it assumes that everyone who puts an address in their signature has not re-used the address for other transactions. Kinda interesting to see which forum users are having the most success with their tip jars, though!

Damn straight. The one I list for begging is the one I used to receive my payout from the faucet. Interestingly some even have less than me.

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Quote from: AbeSkray on June 29, 2011, 12:00:10 PM

A better title might be, "The most tip-worthy users on the bitcoin forum".

+1
It does show how a motivated person could sytematicly find concentrations of BTC. Hopefully their motivation is not theft.

myrkul

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Sliiightly creepy, But interesting to see, nonetheless.

Seraphim401

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This is why I hate poor (unemployed) people.They have too much time to screw around Grin

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BitcoinPorn

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Quote from: unemployed on June 29, 2011, 03:54:52 PM

The point - I am using Bitcoin Tool all the time, I find it very useful, so I am wondering why other people are not eager to try it out. I figured out two main reasons:

Don't forget reason 3, trust. Security breaches every day fucks up trust, obviously. Posting this thread exposing a lot of information, not going to help build trust. The selling of the Reddit account with the Bitcoin domain, probably didn't help either. There are many reasons why people aren't using it.

Me, I just want the ability to customize my own skin, I'm not too hard to please lol

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Quote from: hugolp on June 29, 2011, 11:36:59 AM

unemployed whats the point of this?

The point - I am using Bitcoin Tool all the time, I find it very useful, so I am wondering why other people are not eager to try it out. I figured out two main reasons:
1. People don't see benefits. The point of this thread is to show them benefits - that Bitcoin Tool is convenient and saves time. Because what do you do when you want to examine a bitcoin address (see btc received & sent or list of transactions)? Select the address, copy, open blockexplorer.com, paste the address into the search box, submit and wait for the result. Lots of work.
2. The second reason, unrelated to this thread, is that people don't trust browser extensions (see this poll), even pure JavaScript extensions with short code, like Bitcoin Tool. There is no way to access the bitcoin client from HTML/JavaScript on non-local website, but how to explain it to users. That is the real challenge I am thinking on.

AbeSkray

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Quote from: realnowhereman on June 29, 2011, 12:04:23 PM

This list tells us nothing.

I disagree. Your statement is similar to saying, "Polls tell us nothing because everyone who participates could be lying and there's no way to verify their answers on an individual basis."

I agree that the list is not perfectly accurate, but I do think it's a decent indicator of the truth. When large amounts of people willingly volunteer information about themselves (especially if they think there's potential for personal gain) I'd estimate the margin of error to be closer to 0% than 100%.

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If listing their addresses here puts them at risk, then BitCoin wouldn't be good for much.

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This list tells us nothing.

There is no guarantee that the address is the only one owned by each person.

There is no guarantee that the address listed by the forum user isn't an online wallet; in which case they could have been mixed away instantly.

It is a demonstration of why Bitcoin has strong anonymity facilities. Even if you don't use those facilities, there is no way to know that you have or haven't.

AbeSkray

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Quote from: peach on June 29, 2011, 11:45:55 AM

Really? I thought dozens of people on these forums had 1000s of BTC...Someone please clarify.

A better title might be, "The most tip-worthy users on the bitcoin forum". And even that would be inaccurate, because it assumes that everyone who puts an address in their signature has not re-used the address for other transactions. Kinda interesting to see which forum users are having the most success with their tip jars, though!

BitcoinPorn

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Quote from: peach on June 29, 2011, 11:45:55 AM

Really? I thought dozens of people on these forums had 1000s of BTC...Someone please clarify.

They probably do, and they are probably smart enough to have multiple wallets.

Quote from: chuckypalumbo on June 29, 2011, 11:47:25 AM

And we don't want to, but thanks for putting these peoples accounts at risk. WTF is wrong with people?

If their account was in risk after this thread, I assure you those peoples accounts were at risk before.

No matter what though, still a shit thing to do.

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Haha, awesome, I'm part of the social elite. Start imitating my lifestyle.

I have moved a lot of money around, but I don't think I am really one of the richest on the forum. All this shows is how much money has been moved to and from that particular address. I have a lot of money in Bitcoins though.

Quote from: chuckypalumbo on June 29, 2011, 11:47:25 AM

Quote from: unemployed on June 29, 2011, 10:23:06 AM

Quote from: foggyb on June 29, 2011, 10:19:32 AM

What do you want, a medal?

I just want you all to install Bitcoin Tool Grin

And we don't want to, but thanks for putting these peoples accounts at risk. WTF is wrong with people?

I don't think there is a huge risk here. I suppose somebody could attack my forum password, but there is no guarantee that is is the same as my other passwords. There's no guarantee that I store Bitcoins on my harddrive also.

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Quote from: unemployed on June 29, 2011, 10:23:06 AM

Quote from: foggyb on June 29, 2011, 10:19:32 AM

What do you want, a medal?

I just want you all to install Bitcoin Tool Grin

And we don't want to, but thanks for putting these peoples accounts at risk. WTF is wrong with people?

peach

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Really? I thought dozens of people on these forums had 1000s of BTC...Someone please clarify.

BkkCoins

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firstbits:1MinerQ

He just wants to show it can be done.

BitcoinPorn

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Quote from: hugolp on June 29, 2011, 11:36:59 AM

unemployed whats the point of this?

I honestly didn't notice at first. I'm a tard. When you use his extension (which I am not, I just know how it functions), all the numbers in the thread become clickable.

Proof of concept I guess. I know he has a good tool there, but I think saying this thread is a sad use for it is an understatement.

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unemployed whats the point of this?

airdata

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I'm surprised that Slush and Thyco (sp?) are not listed there. Unless it's just because they don't have an address pandering for donations Tongue

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Quote from: unemployed on June 29, 2011, 10:23:06 AM

Quote from: foggyb on June 29, 2011, 10:19:32 AM

What do you want, a medal?

I just want you all to install Bitcoin Tool Grin

Why ?

BitcoinPorn

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Awesome. I think people need checks like this every so often to make sure they know how anonymous their shit is.

I mean, we all know it, but sometimes a reminder like this one, which initially hurts no one, is what we need.

Also, thanks for the link back, I'm sure it is in there for no good reason, but whatever lol

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