Bitcointalk user "Loaded" signs a message from an address with 40,000 BTC asking Roger Ver for a 1:1 trade of up to 130k BTU for BTC.Jump to: navigation, search BitcoinTalk is a message board where people interested in the technical details and the development of Bitcoin software can talk to each other.The forum also has places for people who are interested in bitcoin mining, in trading with bitcoin, and in the economics of Bitcoin.The domain name is owned by Sirius.The forum is administrated by theymos.Contents 1 2 3 4 Before the creation of the current BitcoinTalk Forum, Satoshi used a SourceForge forum, which is lost.Satoshi made several custom modifications to the forum software and theme.Satoshi's first non-test post on the forum was: I left the admin account set to the original SMF theme so if I somehow completely wedge the custom theme I can still get in to fix it.I've got a neat little 12x12 coin image to replace those pip stars with.Also some nice button images to try.

The registration page has "hide your e-mail address" unchecked by default.I must fix that in php before we can open up.The Announcements forum is currently moderator access only. domain name was also transferred from Satoshi to Sirius. in order to make it explicitly unofficial. homepage was made to simply return the Google search results for the search terms "bitcoin forums".This was followed by Bitcoin Community members, very much in bitcoin's spirit of decentralisation, creating a number of alternative forums offering different moderatorial policies and using different software platforms.None of these alternative forums have yet reached the size of Bitcoin Talk.As of April 21, 2012, Bitcoin Talk remains the first search result on Google thanks to its high page rank.On July 22, 2012, Bitcoin Talk reached its one millionth post.Bitcoin Wiki:Community portal Bitcoin Talk ↑ BitcoinTalkBitcoinTalk @bitcointalk BitcoinTalk @bitcointalk Official Twitter account for , the original Bitcoin Forum.

0 Photos and videos Photos and videos Tweets & replies You blocked @bitcointalk Are you sure you want to view these Tweets?bitcoin dripViewing Tweets won't unblock @bitcointalk Loading seems to be taking a while.bitcoin hash calculatorPopular digital currency forum BitcoinTalk has been taken offline following a social engineering attack that resulted in a server compromise.bitcoin withdrawal singaporeThe attack is said to have targeted the site's ISP, a company called NFOrce that is based in the Netherlands.bitcoin bubble will popDuring a social engineering attack, an attacker tries to manipulate the target with the goal of convincing them to divulge passwords or other sensitive information.hub for bitcoin mining

The compromise was announced via the official BitcoinTalk Twitter account.Operator Theymos later took to the bitcoin subreddit to offer a more detailed explanation, writing: "The forum's ISP NFOrce managed to get tricked into giving an attacker access to the server.bitcoin whatsapp group indiaI think that the attacker had access for only about 12 minutes before I noticed it and had the server disconnected, so he probably wasn't able to get a complete dump of the database."Theymos said that BitcoinTalk could remain offline for as many as 60 hours following the incident, and cautioned users to "act as though your password hashes, PMs, emails, etc. were compromised".Future updates about the situation will be posted to the Twitter account, according to Theymos, and a full report will be published once the forum is back online.NFOrce and Theymos did not immediately respond to requests for comment.Previous Article Consensus 2015: Digital Gold and Wences Casares in the... Next Article Payment Processor Unveils Bitcoin Startup at Plug and Play...

Namecoin (Symbol: ℕ or NMC) is a cryptocurrency and the first fork of the bitcoin software.[1][3][2][4]It is based on the code of bitcoin and uses the same proof-of-work algorithm.It is limited to 21 million coins.[6]Unlike bitcoin, Namecoin can store data within its own blockchain transaction database.The original proposal for Namecoin called for Namecoin to insert data into bitcoin's blockchain directly.[7]Anticipating scaling difficulties with this approach,[8] a shared proof-of-work (POW) system was proposed to secure new cryptocurrencies with different use cases.[9] or .net domains but is independent of ICANN, the main governing body for domain names.[10]Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6 A peer-to-peer network similar to bitcoin's handles Namecoin's transactions, balances and issuance through SHA256, proof-of-work scheme (they are issued when a small enough hash value is found, at which point a block is created; the process of finding these hashes and creating blocks is called mining).

The issuing rate forms a geometric series, and the rate halves every 210,000 blocks, roughly every four years, reaching a final total of 21 million NMC.Namecoins are currently traded primarily for USD and other cryptocurrencies, mostly on online exchanges.To avoid the danger of chargebacks, reversible transactions, such as those with credit cards or Paypal, are not advised since Namecoin transactions are irreversible.Payments and records in the Namecoin network are made to addresses, which are Base58-encoded hashes of users' public keys.They are strings of 33 numbers and letters which begin with the letter N or M. Initially addresses beginning with 1 existed but this was changed to avoid confusion with Bitcoin addresses.Each Namecoin record consists of a key and a value which can be up to 520 bytes in size.Each key is actually a path, with the namespace preceding the name of the record.The key d/example signifies a record stored in the DNS namespace d with the name example and corresponds to the record for the example.bit website.

The content of d/example is expected to conform to the DNS namespace specification.[11]The current fee for a record is 0.01 NMC and records expire after 36000 blocks (~200 days) unless updated or renewed.Namecoins used to purchase records are marked as used and destroyed, as giving the fee to miners would enable larger miners to register names at a significant discount.[12]Proposed potential uses for Namecoin besides domain name registration include: In September 2010 a discussion was started in the Bitcointalk forum about a hypothetical system called BitDNS and generalizing bitcoin, based on a talk at IRC at 14 November 2010.Gavin Andresen and Satoshi Nakamoto joined the discussion in the Bitcointalk forum and supported the idea of BitDNS.[22][23][24]A reward for implementing BitDNS was announced at the Bitcointalk forum in December 2010.[25]Soon a developer decided to implement this idea to earn this reward.[25][26]On April 18, 2011 Namecoin was introduced by Vinced (Rumored to be Vincent Durham) as a multipurpose and distributed naming system based on bitcoin.

It was inspired by the BitDNS discussion on the Bitcointalk forum.[27]WikiLeaks mentioned the project via Twitter in June 2011.[28]On block 19200 Namecoin activated the merged mining upgrade to allow mining of bitcoin and namecoin simultaneously, instead of having to choose between one or the other, this fixed the issue of miners jumping from one blockchain to another when the profitability becomes favorable in the former.Two years later, in June 2013, NameID was launched.[29]It is a service to associate profile information with identities on the Namecoin blockchain and an OpenID provider to allow logging into existing websites with Namecoin identities.The main site itself is accompanied by an open protocol for password-less authentication with Namecoin identities, a corresponding free-software implementation and a supporting extension for Firefox.In October 2013, Michael Gronager, main developer of libcoin,[30] found a security issue in the Namecoin protocol, which allowed modifying foreign names.

It was successfully fixed in a short timeframe and was never exploited, except for bitcoin.bit as a proof-of-concept.[31]In February 2014, a plug-in for Firefox compatible with Windows and Linux, FreeSpeechMe, was released, providing automatic resolution of .bit addresses.This is available by downloading the Namecoin blockchain and running it in the background.[32]Namecoin was also mentioned by ICANN in a public draft report as the most well-known example of distributing control and privacy in DNS.[33][34]One month later, in March 2014, OneName was released.It is another identity system built on top of the Namecoin protocol that stores usernames and personal profile data in the Namecoin blockchain.[35]In contrast to NameID, OneName is built purely for profile information and does not support password-less authentication or log-in.OneName later (in September 2015) switched user profiles from Namecoin to the Bitcoin blockchain, citing the higher hashrate of Bitcoin as the reason.[36]In May 2014, Kevin McCoy and Anil Dash introduced Monegraph, a system that links Twitter accounts and digital assets (such as artwork) in the blockchain, allowing proof of ownership of such assets.[37]