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Silk Road discussion / Re: Raising BTC prices
« on: February 04, 2013, 02:36 pm »
Quote from: 20247245 on February 04, 2013, 02:18 pm
This is sort of what i was looking for - Has mining not proved as cost-effective for those engaged in it? Are there less/more btc in circulation?

Miners are making money, if that's what you're asking.

https://blockchain.info/charts/miners-revenue
https://blockchain.info/charts/miners-operating-profit-margin


Quote from: 20247245 on February 04, 2013, 02:18 pm
Im also curious to see what  % of bitcoins are spent on SR, and other websites alike - I mean if you are buying on clearweb, its a hassle to get btc in the first place, why would you bother?

Researcher Nicolas Christin estimates $1.2 million in monthly SR seller revenue, so you just have to figure out how much fiat currency is converted to BTC per month. That's hard to determine because there are so many ways of buying bitcoins, and you don't know from analyzing the block chain which are purchases (or conversions from fiat currency to BTC) and which are just bitcions moving around between addresses. It's trivial to determine the transaction volume (ie, BTC moving between addresses) but lots of that activity is people moving BTC around to mix it, obscure it, etc., and that doesn't represent purchases of BTC.


Quote from: 20247245 on February 04, 2013, 02:18 pm
Methinks for one its speculators that are buying them in hopes of making a profit

Yes, I think it's mostly speculators, various anarchist types who support non-state sponsored currency, and people buying illegal things.

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Silk Road discussion / Re: Raising BTC prices
« on: February 04, 2013, 01:55 pm »
Quote from: 20247245 on February 04, 2013, 01:06 pm
In my opinion i think its because btc are becoming more widely accepted as payment (even on the clearweb) , therefore more people are looking to buy, and the supply of btc has remained somewhat steady (low supply, high demand, as any economist in a free market will tell you increases prices!).

That is probably true. I'll just quote what I wrote before about it.

Quote from: astor on January 31, 2013, 03:13 pm
The exchange rate of bitcoins has nothing to do with mining difficulty. It is based on supply and demand. On trading platforms like MtGox, people post buy and sell orders at various prices. Let's say that BTC are currently trading for 15 USD. If a bunch of buy orders come in, then all the BTC at 15 USD will be bought up, so the next buyers will have to get BTC that are posted for 15.50 USD, then 16 USD and so on.

Conversely, if more people are trying to sell BTC than buy them, then sellers will have to post orders at decreasing prices in USD to get them sold (they are in effect competing to sell their BTC, so naturally the price will go down).

Take a look at http://mtgoxlive.com/orders

The diagonal lines indicate how many BTC will have to be bought or sold to move the exchange rate to that point. You'll notice some vertical jumps around the whole dollar marks. That's human psychology at work in the market. People are more likely to post a sell order at a round number like 20 USD, although plenty of people post sell orders at intermediate prices.

Based on all buy and sell orders, they know exactly how much BTC will have to be bought (or how much USD will have to be "bought" by selling BTC) in order to move the exchange rate to any point.

The rising BTC price means that more people are buying then selling bitcoins. It simply reflects the growing popularity of bitcoins.

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Security / Re: Problems entering an ecrypted address when ordering
« on: February 04, 2013, 01:44 pm »
I think a few months ago some people were having a problem where if they entered a single line of text (with no return character), it wouldn't accept that. There might be an issue with your character encoding using nonstandard return character(s). You could try hitting enter once and pasting the encrypted block starting on the second line.

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Newbie discussion / Re: best web search engines for Dark Web
« on: February 04, 2013, 03:55 am »
patashnik is right, a crawler of onion domains, while technically possible, would be difficult to implement.

However, there are wikis like this  http://3suaolltfj2xjksb.onion/hiddenwiki/index.php/Main_Page

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Drug safety / Re: Driinkin with ambien
« on: February 04, 2013, 03:53 am »
Eating tubs of ice cream and gaining 20 kilos? :)

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Newbie discussion / Re: White Vs Brown Vs Tan MDMA
« on: February 04, 2013, 03:21 am »
Pure MDMA is white, but even a few percent impurities can turn it tan to brown, which doesn't make it weak. I've had strong tan MDMA.

Read the reviews, since they will be more informative than the color.

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Newbie discussion / Re: Newbie PGP Club
« on: February 04, 2013, 03:18 am »
Holy crap, we can post here now. When did this start?

Anyway, way to go ChemCat keeping PGP Club going. :)

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Silk Road discussion / Re: Forum ratings.....?
« on: February 04, 2013, 03:12 am »
0 posts - Newbie - 1 star
50 - Jr Member - 2
100 - Full Member - 3
250 - Sr Member - 4
500 - Hero Member - 5


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Silk Road discussion / Re: AM I THE ONLY ONE???
« on: February 04, 2013, 03:08 am »
That's because it has nothing to do with Windows.

I should write a tutorial on troubleshooting common Tor connection problems. It would go something like this...

First check if your internet connection sucks in general. If you're having trouble connecting to clearnet sites, fix your internet connection.

If your internet connection is good, look at the error messages.

If you see: Closing stream for '[scrubbed].onion': hidden service is unavailable (try again later).

That means the hidden service descriptor isn't published, which means the server is most likely down. When you see this error message, the connection dies very quickly, in 3-5 seconds.

If you see: Tried for [usually 120] seconds to connect to '[scrubbed].onion'. Giving up
or anything about an introduction point, a rendezvous point, or rend desc (the rendezvous descriptor)

That means either you or the hidden service failed in establishing connections to each other.

Read up on how that works: https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en

At this point you can refresh the list of relays and get a new identity (build new circuits).

If you still get an error along those lines (and/or the error includes words like "waiting" or "timed out"), the hidden service is having problems, either because its internet connection sucks, or because it is overloaded from users, or there may be other reasons, but at that point there's nothing you can do about it.

Try again in a few hours.

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Silk Road discussion / Re: AM I THE ONLY ONE???
« on: February 03, 2013, 08:43 pm »
You Windows users have been trained like Pavlov's dogs to respond to every computer problem by rebooting. :)

Rebooting won't solve a connection problem through the Tor network. This is all you can do:

1) Refresh the list of relays
2) Get a new identity (build new circuits)

If that doesn't work, the problem is probably not on your end and there's nothing you can do about it.

Look in the log file (onion icon -> Message Log). Usually the error message will give you a hint as to what's wrong. If the error message ends in "try again later", then the SR server is down or appears to be down. If it says something about waiting too long, then your client has built a circuit to the rendezvous point but the SR server didn't connect (within some time frame), which is most likely because it is overloaded.

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Rumor mill / Re: Any drdeepwood/ ron paul succesfull synths?
« on: February 03, 2013, 07:49 pm »
Quote from: moon unit on February 03, 2013, 05:26 am
also someone who rained death on insects with his invention for decades.

Dirty Bug Killer

Says a privileged Westerner whose local grocery store shelves are never empty because pest epidemics don't wipe out crops anymore.

As if these things happen by magic.

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Security / Re: Can't understand new warning message in Tor
« on: February 03, 2013, 07:30 pm »
Seems to happen with bridges that have zero bandwidth.

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1805

If the bridge works, just ignore the warning.

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Security / Re: browsing at a university
« on: February 03, 2013, 07:18 pm »
Quote from: rmsher on February 03, 2013, 07:07 pm
could you give me a basic breakdown on what a bridge does? sounds useful since i move alot of weight out of my room, i dont want them suspicious in ANY way

Bridges are non-public relays. Go to https://bridges.torproject.org and solve the captcha. You'll be given 2 <ip address>:<port> combos.

Go to onion icon -> Settings -> Network.

Click "My ISP blocks connections to the Tor network". This has the effect of putting UseBridges 1 in your torrc config file.

Then copy the first <ip address>:<port> (without the word "bridge") into the field below Add Bridge. Click the plus sign and it will be added to the list. Copy the second <ip address>:<port> into the field and click plus again.

Congrats, you're using bridges.

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Security / Re: How to Encrypt a USB Stick
« on: February 03, 2013, 05:41 pm »
What have you heard about it being insecure? It is open source, uses standard encryption algorithms, and I'm not aware of any critical bugs.

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Security / Re: How to Encrypt a USB Stick
« on: February 03, 2013, 04:29 pm »
http://www.truecrypt.org/

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