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The latest discovery is merely one symptom of a “spamming war started at the heart of science” in which researchers feel pressured to rush out papers to publish as much as possible.

~Sounds about right
I think only a select few people in a select few first world countries have any investment at all in MtGox.
I suggest spending more than 10 minutes of research on it. Standard Oil is quite literally the textbook example of a natural monopoly.
Except when the rules result in say, Weimar.
Just nothing. Their favicon seems to load, but nothing else. Eerie.
Mt.Gox Live Chart & API Is Still Up
http://data.mtgox.com/api/1/BTCUSD/ticker

One can only hope this suggests they are just temporarily freezing while they figure things out.
Hold on... which exchanges were using customer funds for margin loans?!? Was Mt. Gox doing this?
Its too early to say how this will go down in the end for Bitcoin (lawsuits, public policy, pricing, etc), but it certainly is a dark mark. Somewhere between management woes, terrible communication and technical ineptitude will make this a case study for the future for what not to do on all fronts.

All businesses have risk, but it would appear they took an amazing opportunity and squandered it entirely. To be at the forefront of an opportunity like this, and then to screw it up royally for yourself, your users and the community at large is simply tragic.

Much failure. Very wow.
So...now that mt.gox is dead, does this mean mt gox employees are free from any non-disclosure agreements and can talk freely about what the hell happened?

Insider info would be greatly appreciated.
Spear Phishing In Hacking Lab,Students Learn
Hackers can use a lot of different techniques to commit crimes in the digital age. At Dakota State University, students are learning about spear phishing and how hackers employ it to cause problems for their targets.
While many of us may be familiar with scam emails from someone overseas asking for money, spear phishing is a much more targeted version.
$ curl -I https://www.mtgox.com
HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable
Server: AkamaiGHost
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 176
Expires: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 03:38:10 GMT
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 03:38:10 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Happily (?) high school and college essays (and probably potential scientific publications) will also be read chiefly by software in the near future, just as GRE essays are graded in part by software today. Whichever side has the best algorithm wins.
US Judge Mulls Sending Phone Hacking Case to UK
A federal judge in Los Angeles suggested Monday that Great Britain would be the proper place for a Hollywood stuntwoman to pursue a lawsuit against News Corp. and related companies over alleged phone hacking.
But after hearing legal arguments, U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald said he would consider it further.
I don't believe the Wall Street bankers of the ' Greatest Generation' would have displayed such crass, even in private. This new breed far less class, far less men, far less respect for the countries citizens.
Bitcoin: trading one Ponzi scheme for another. Sort of like Dot-Com Boom 3.0, come to think of it.
Remember when AOL was worth $100 billion? And one of the buyers was the inventor of satellite TV?

Zuck may well be right, but it's not ipso fscto. He just made an acquisition bigger than anything ever done by Steve Jobs, Bill Gates etc. Or Warren Buffet for that matter.
> The post was put on hold because the OP failed to provide the information the community would need to reproduce the issue.

Why close other's question because of your own incompetence? Why the fuck prevent a question from been answered because only five retards can't get it?

Isn't the solemn purpose of the site is to wait until someone who is capable of reproducing it and solve it?
The difference is that this would be industry-led and new bitcoin can't simply be printed.

There's actually some precedent for this in the March 2013 blockchain fork, when miners on the abandoned fork were reimbursed for lost block rewards from Bitcoin Faucet funds.

Also Save Dogemas was a community effort just a few months ago. It's goal was to reimburse Dogecoin users who lost their funds on a hacked/scammed web wallet (although Save Dogemas may have itself been a scam-- I don't know and didn't follow up on it).

But if it's 700k+ Bitcoins, no way it's happening.
I've been staring at too much code today... what the hell does that likely do?
I'm pretty sure ownership reverted back to Moxie when he left Twitter.
> The U.S. doesn't allow contributions (monetary, in-kind, etc.) by foreign nationals to election campaigns.

In theory. There's no actual policing, so it's more of a guideline than a rule. Also, smaller contributions receive less scrutiny than ordering toothpaste from Amazon—exactly the kind of contributions you'd expect from foreigners who don't have much at stake in US elections.
Because it's Bitcoin-friendly and a great place to run a company?

http://gyrovague.com/2013/10/30/half-the-donut-why-an-entrep...
Synchronised title changes? Or are they all serving the content from some static server?

Probably a heated discussion between this group on some deep web IRC somewhere...
Mt Gox were pretty pathetic, I can't really blame them. But then again, they are worried about how it will affect bitcoin as a whole.
Mt. Gox might have held 6% of the total BTC supply.

According to a quick search, the total M2 money supply of USD is $11,011.5 Billion and the largest US bank is Chase with $2.3 Trillion in assets (4%).

So this is as newsworthy to those interested in Bitcoin as the failure of a bank 50% larger than the largest US bank would be to those interested in USD.
That JS sets this cookie:

GngixolC=03d32ddfd0b8ef290fd1237b2fb650c4

Almost certainly an md5 hash given the length. No idea what the significance is, though.
Am I reading this comment correctly? Is this a comment that argues that Lavabit, which "encrypted" mails serverside and didn't even have forward secrecy enabled in its TLS configuration, was more secure than Google Mail?
With credit to /r/bitcoin, I got a chuckle out of this one:

Sorry, due to a major bug in the WWW protocol, our
website is temporarily unavailable. Thank you for
your patience while we await Al Gore's instruction!
So, who the other day said they would be buying if BTC felt bellow 500$?

Now seems to be the time if they still believe that arbitrary value still makes sense.
Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox goes offline as insolvency rumors swirl
Well, sure. It would be pretty idiotic to suggest that every rule ever thought up was a good idea.
744,408 BTC is 367,704,753 USD... (at $493 per BTC).

This is bullshit. No way it went unnoticed for years. They're trying to pull what SR2.0 pulled, stole the money and are now trying to run.
For people with money on MtGox this is an unfortunate situation. There is no way other exchanges would take money from customers and give it back into MtGox users. That would be absolutely unethical. The other option is for exchanges to collectively absorb the financial cost of Gox stupidity. At $350m, I'd say no chance of that happening.
This is very interesting.

I'm curious though, are you in SF still (you mentioned SFSU). I ask because, at least outside of SF, or at least in some parts of the country there are apartments built for roommates. They usually have 2 master bedrooms each with their own bathroom accessible only from that bedroom. They share the living room, dining room, and kitchen. SF seems to have none of that, mostly because there's so little new construction. It's mostly 2 or 3 bedroom places with 1 bathroom left over from 60-120 years ago.

I only really know LA, OC and SF but there's plenty of places built for roommates in LA and OC.

Not quite the same as boarding houses but still also not built for nuclear families.
The big questions now, what does this mean for BTC prices and which exchanges can still be trusted? Perhaps a good time to invest after the inevitable collapse tomorrow.
Saw a "?=dead", on the url, but when I refresh it's gone...
If i was a Mt Gox employee,I would go into hiding and keep quiet instead of going public, all sort of people have invested into Gox including the kind of people you dont want to mess with.
Its from prolexic, their anti-ddos service. Its checking to make sure you are a legit user.
> who on earth would have thought of

Everyone with >5 years of printf() debugging experience.
The "lazy route" when dealing with obfuscated Javascript is to replace final calls with `console.log`. Often it'll be `eval` you want to replace, but here you just remove the document.cookie assignment and log the rvalue.
Hmm... It seems I was wrong.

Well, damn. Oh well.
Reminds me of Albert Edgar and Samuel Lee's paper in CACM in 1979, "FOCUS Microcomputer Number System".
I think it's mainly a matter of pin count - SATA SSDs want to be able to access the NAND devices independently in order to stripe accesses. That's how they're able to offer such high sequential speeds. So a typical SSD will include 4-8 packages containing only a few NAND dies each, rather than one or two with 8 dies each.
In 96 I upgraded my 200mb internal to 2G. I felt like the Queen of England for a good couple of years with that.

What's great about these microSDs is that you can put them anywhere - cameras, sensor devices whathaveyou. Maybe one day we really will have enough data to understand the world.
> How on earth did they guess that?

By acting quickly before 5 other power user close the question, of course.
> and it contained a lot f-bombs and n-words.

Yeah, calling that "Ebonics" is being too charitable.
link please. Freenode?
How can rich people live in London cheaply?
Slight drop over the last few hours
http://bitcoinwisdom.com/

I'm curious if this will create a run on bitcoin or not? All of the funds from MtGox have in theory already been lost. There may be some fear that other networks will follow, but it may be rational that the price would remain level as one failed bank does not equal a failed currency.
First words from MT Gox ex-employees
Looks like the same technology as spreeder (http://www.spreeder.com/app.php)... what's the difference between the two?

As someone who tried using spreeder for a while, I can say that your retention is quite a bit lower than normal reading, especially when reading complicated texts, since you loose contextual clues (your brain is really good at doing look-aheads for clues).
irc.freenode.net ##mtgox-chat
They will go down. None of them.
Yep -- a person in the 50s may not have even had enough context to be as blown away by this as someone who knew about hard drives.

My earliest memory of a hard drive capacity -- about 21 years ago -- is 130 MB (although that most certainly wasn't the upper limit). So you could have told me "This card is 1/2000th the size and has 1000 times the capacity."

2,000,000 times the data density! That's doubled almost 21 times!
Brings back memories of banking scams in EVE Online
That really does illuminate an angle of the U.S. bank bailouts before...

..that "too big to fail" really is not about jobs or anything like that, but about maintaining faith in the currency.
that would be me, maybe?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6867999

Note the date on this... 79 days ago the price of BTC was in the 1.0k range.
Gox.com Domain Name Acquired by Mt. Gox Parent Company
Appending a random query argument is just a technique to skirt HN's duplicate-post prevention.
Bitcoin price is dropping $5 per minute
People will be people.
Google's Schmidt: We don't (yet) have a connection inside your brain
That's not how NDAs work.
Why would they pull the site down?
Excel Spreadsheet.
I agree it would be cool, and occasionally useful, but I think overall such a tool would be a negative. The goal of boiling down code to the smallest, most portable example which demonstrates the problem isn't just to get more effective help. It's a vital step in isolating the issue, and when duly used, often results in the problem being found without help. Furthermore, it gives answers the quality of being more useful to those who find the question later. That's because while two actual pieces of code that have the same bug will appear almost unrelated, their simplest reductions will bear similarity to each other.

I think adoption of a tool that just lets one share their dev environment would discourage this sort of due diligence, and encourage the useless "here's a dump of my code please fix it"-type questions.
Gross negligence
Needs some info when runtime errors happen.
Congrats team Cloudant!
Almost certainly we will get a short term drop, but I'm optimistic that cheap coins combined with lots of media attention will lead us to the great Bitcoin bubble of 2014.
For historical perspective, consider the last great panic to sweep the USA before the Federal Reserve was established:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907

What is (so far) missing in the world of Bitcoin is a single actor powerful enough to play the organizing role that Morgan played during that previous crash:

"Morgan summoned the presidents of the city's banks to his office. They started to arrive at 2 p.m.; Morgan informed them that as many as 50 stock exchange houses would fail unless $25 million was raised in 10 minutes. By 2:16 p.m., 14 bank presidents had pledged $23.6 million to keep the stock exchange afloat. The money reached the market at 2:30 p.m., in time to finish the day's trading, and by the 3 o'clock market close, $19 million had been loaned out. Disaster was averted. Morgan usually eschewed the press, but as he left his offices that night he made a statement to reporters: "If people will keep their money in the banks, everything will be all right""
200 million dollars in net liabilities.
Restructuring is not going to happen.
and stopping riots
Not legally... but who would sue?
So do you still have all your savings in BTC?
How much of a drop do you think we will see in the BTC to USD exchanges?
Pretty good Ponzi. Not as impressive as Bernie Maddof's, but extra points for the tech angle.
For these guys the 'hard stuff' that really impresses me is interfacing with hardware. Scientific instrument controllers are notoriously proprietary and annoying to deal with. Though truth be told, in a small scientific environment not having user permissions is a 'feature not bug', especially if it's not siloed against other departments in, say a bigger facility.

Aside from personally knowing the CEO from grad school, a former co-worker of mine got hired into Emerald and basically transformed from a bioinformatician to a programming lackey... He may have hated every minute of it and quit.
Businesses fail all the time. Most startups fail. Should we have more startup regulation?

Failure is a normal part of the market. What's really scary are the businesses that are never allowed to fail.
> Never believe again. Demand evidence, oversight, & review processes. Demand transparency.

We've found a reason to demand this stuff every single year for the past 200 years. At some point, you need to go beyond demanding it and actually get it.

> Commit to fixing what's broken. Fix the drug wars, fix the election system, fix the income inequalities, fix the racial divide. etc.

And I think this is the closest thing to the correct answer. I think privacy advocates would be absolutely shocked to discover that fixing things like this would naturally help fix NSA abuses. And TSA abuses. And police brutality.
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Precisely the analogy I was thinking.

Even at the very end, epic Ponzi scammer Marc Dreier was convinced he could dig himself out with more "investments".
Hide as much information as possible to avoid class action lawsuits?
But on the plus side, many of those people no longer have the Silk Road and large supplies of Bitcoin available for "services."
For those curious to see CloudFlare's CNAME flattening in action (it's seamless, so it's not sexy to look at though): https://gist.github.com/xxdesmus/9202356

root and WWW for shiftyplatypus.com are both CNAMEs (pointing at Heroku).
Yeah, I should have added that by bailout I meant financed by other industry participants rather than via some notional hit on everyone's BTC holdings - but ultimately the cost would have to be passed back to the users in the form of increased transaction costs.
Questions I have now:

1) How likely is a cascade of bank runs on other exchanges?

2) Do other exchanges have security issues or insolvency that make them particularly vulnerable?

3) Will one of the other cryptocurrencies wax as confidence in BTC wanes?
Life in a stream
https://support.mtgox.com/home

Quick guys, better get those support tickets in!
At first I thought "Oh dear, another gimmick." but the demo is very compelling. I wish it didn't make the syllables in my head sound like such a metronome, but it definitely works. This could really change how we "ingest" knowledge.

Also, I wonder how tired I'd get after reading like that for thirty minutes or a few hours.
Jokes like this make me crazy. Seriously HTTP is layer 7. Why would you bother the former senator with anything above 4? tcp/ip is just fine. your buggy code is what's broken, thank you very much.
Where we're going, the rules will be written in software
"He's a Windows guy" simply does not sit well with me in that scenario. What does it say that he can't be either inconvenienced or convinced by Greenwald or convinced by the very documents he's examining or recognize in the process of writing his post to take more precaution.

It's like he's trying to air-gap in the way that I try a tomato every 7 years to see if my taste buds have changed. They haven't, so I'll stick to what tastes good. But if a famine overtakes the world and tomatoes are somehow part of a new staple diet, I'll allow myself to be inconvenienced if it means that much to my survival.
Good luck finding Satoshi Nakamoto. Also this wasn't a bitcoin issue, it was an exchange issue.
Startups tend not to hold vast sums of money on behalf of their customers.
I remember buying, with my father, a 5mb Corvus hard drive. It was amazingly huge compared to the ~70kbyte floppy drive. I was in awe of how many documents it could hold.

Seeing this is just amazing.
It's been awhile since I've really looked into anything speed-reading related, but as far as I recall, there aren't that many good techniques for speed-reading something like Godel Escher Bach, because the bottleneck for comprehension for really dense or deep texts is usually time taken to think about it. When I'm reading some like GEB, I usually end up reading it slowly, then stopping and thinking about it even after I've pretty carefully read it. Then I reread it again :)

Conversely, a lot of fiction, especially fiction on the lighter side, tends to repeat itself, or provide more narrative clues as to what's going on, so you can usually pick up what you missed in the context.

Of course, that's a really high level recollection of something I'm not an expert in :P

I also might just be trying to convince myself that I'm not a slow reader, heh

If anyone has any research or info to the contrary, I'd love to hear about it, because I'd definitely like to be able to absorb meaningful/dense information more quickly, even if it were just a small percent increase.

I'd also really like to see some third party research/tests with stuff like this and spreeder
Ah, this is off topic and let me close it to show off my power... hmm, are we on SO?
I'm also seeing a Polish version of the Facebook like button for some reason.
http://data.mtgox.com/api/1/BTCUSD/ticker

One can only hope this suggests they are just temporarily freezing while they figure things out.
Well nobody is going to sign up for you using anything that can chargeback, because they can't get their money back if they give it to you.

And a lot of the intermediary payment services like Dwolla stopped working with btc. So if you want doge, either mine it, get sent it from random strangers, or trade it for btc (which is more readily available through services like coinbase).
Planet Money had an interesting show about this:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/12/20/255839292/episode-...
> Should we have more startup regulation?

Have you never heard of the SEC? There are all sorts of rules about what kinds of investors are allowed in a startup.
This lends even more credence to the document:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/209050732/MtGox-Situation-Crisis-S...
I'd assume not since your reply misses the point.

The government's wiretap order and the subsequent contempt proceedings suggests that despite the technical problems of Lavabit, the government did not get the data they sought. Had Snowden used GMail, do you believe the government would have received the information they sought?

This isn't security in the sense you'd use it in an audit. It's just a design decision. In the vernacular, designs that permit the release of private information are sometimes called insecure.
The website and the company are not the same thing.
The problem doesn't have much to do with particular mail servers, but rather with the order in which queries may be made. Let's say the following two records are allowed to co-exist:

example.com 60 IN MX mail.example.com
example.com 60 IN CNAME foo.example.org

and that the MX record takes precedence over the CNAME when queried. Imagine a client, C, behind resolver R, and it makes the following queries;

1. C looks up qname=example.com qtype=MX, R returns the MX record
2. C Looks up qname=example.com qtype=A, R follows the CNAME
3. C looks up qname=example.com qtype=MX, R follows the CNAME

The resolver will first resolve the MX record, and cache that correctly, passing the result back to the client. The second query though will result in a CNAME, which will likely invalidate the cached MX record, and the resolver will then follow the CNAME and chase that. The third query may now also follow the CNAME, even though there may not be an MX record at the CNAME target (foo.example.org).

Any non-MX query behind resolver R effectively poisons R's cache, and the MX becomes unreachable. If R gets no queries other than MX queries, or if the MX and CNAME target answers are cacheable for identical periods of time, then it can sometimes work - but it's a tenuous and non-deterministic stroke of luck. If there's even one lookup behind R - from any of its clients for a non-MX, things break again. Some mail servers do perform an A lookup before an MX lookup (which is valid RFC822) and so things never work for those mail servers, as they always poison the cache, but that correlation isn't really the cause of the problem. The configuration is unreliable even in the best of circumstances.

Full disclosure: I work on Route 53.
Did I just loose all my coins I had with them?
I know in this case it is true (I read it while it still had "insolvency" in the title) but for future reference, the only part that matters is the id in the URL, the second part can be made up like so http://blog.coinbase.com/post/77766809700/i-just-made-this-u...