Category Archives: Security

Miners Signal Segwit Via BIP 91 "Lock In" Avoiding "User Activated" Fork

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Miners on the Bitcoin network signaled that they would begin enforcing a new set of block acceptance rules concerning the handling of "anyone can spend" transactions, commonly referred to as "Segregated Witness". For users of the actual Bitcoin system and actual Bitcoin software, this news comes with the usual "soft fork" related increase in the risk of chainsplits and orphaned blocks. For users engaging in fringe behavior on the Bitcoin network and seeking to abuse the new "rules" surrounding the "anyone can spend" edge case, there exists incredible potential1 for "your loss".

This move by Bitcoin miners circumvents an effort advanced by assorted social engineers to attempt enforcing this new "anyone can spend" ruleset through a loud tantrum. It remains to be seen how large a pile of coins the brave and the duped are willing to amass under "anyone can spend" conditions in order to tempt miners to abandon this new "soft forked" ruleset.

  1. From Qntra, December 28th, 2015

    The chief idiocy in the Blockstream camp is that if miners decide to stop enforcing the "soft" forks that Blockstream needs, the miners are somehow on "invalid" chains. Soft fork enforcement is nothing more than a courtesy extended by miners. Should miners trigger activation of segregated witness, and a super majority of miners later decide to stop enforcing its rule set, Blockstream is out of luck. Luke-Jr's protests about the "valid" blockchain would be as impotent as his protests about the valid Pope. So long as the longest chain that wins verifies on the actual reference Bitcoin client, life goes on.

    There are hazards to artificially trying to introduce new levels of trust to a system that doesn't require it. Softforks that explicitly create an incentive for their own revocation create an extraordinary moral hazard

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Trump Issues Ultimatum To GOP Senators: Start Selling!

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This week, following yet another failure by legacy legislative members of the GOP to end Obamacare, United States President Donald Trump summoned GOP members of the Senate1 to a luncheon where he issued them an ultimatum. They must begin selling! President Trump even singled out a Nevada Senator, Doubting Dean Heller, and challenged Heller on his presumed desire to remain a Senator (archived). Only eight of the thirty three US Senate seats being contested in the 2018 mid term election are currently held by the GOP. This places non-compliant, legacy, GOP Senators like Doubting Dean vulnerable to challengers during this coming spring's primary season as Trump's GOP moves towards greater purity and ability.

The luncheon's lesson is that in Trump's GOP, faith without works is now dead. Private professions of faith and muted announcements supporting the cause are no longer enough. GOP legislators must begin the work of selling the Trumpreich's agenda or they will be purged as the party resolves its schisms. Eight years of Hussein Bahamas, where the GOP existed as a hollow and lazy opposition party doing little other than serving to legitimize pantsuit's pretensions of purpose, allowed Trump to capture the party. Now that Trump has the GOP, he will have his way with the GOP.

  1. Minus the lich John McCain who has been revealed to have aggressive brain cancer. Presumably McCain has failed to maintain personal possession of his phylactery.  ↩

Coinbase To Go On Trading Vacation With "Your" Coins Over Altcoin Fork Hysteria

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Earlier today fiat/Bitcoin interface Coinbase emailed their users warning them that their accounts will be suspended for an indefinite period of time beginning four hours prior to reddit's scheduled temper tantrum.

To ensure the safety of customers’ funds, we will temporarily suspend bitcoin [sic] deposits, withdrawals, and buy/sell starting approximately 4 hours before activation of either fork.

Back at power ranger hindquarters a graph theory revelation has occurred.

Surveillance Videos Of Mass Attack On BART Train Withheld In The Name Of Bias Prevention

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Following the April 22nd raid where approximately fifty "kids" rushed a BART train resulting in seven robberies and two assaults, bipedal game wardens of the San Francisco predation zone have decided to not release their surveillance video of the incident for fear, "it would create a racial bias" between the varieties of bipedal quarry stocked on the reservation. (archived) Absent the video, Qntra is unable to make any inferences as to whom the perpetrators may be or how the video's release could create racial bias.

Darknet Market Alphabay Shut Down: Alleged Operator Dies In Jail Cell

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The darknet market Alphabay has been shuttered. One alleged operator, Alexandre Cazes, died in a Thai jail cell following his arrest. His captors insist Cazes was found hung, implying his death was a suicide. Given the recently departed's alleged position in relation to a sum of value in Bitcoin, more sinister explanations for Cazes' demise are possible and likely.1

This is yet another episode highlighting the dangers of attempting to use USG honeypots like the Tor network as tools. The timing suggests increasing desperation by fiat aligned interests in concordance with other recent acts of desperation.

  1. The "coke machine" referenced in the comment refers to a kleptographic attack where a captive is systematically tortured to extract private key material.  ↩

USG Domain Squatters Hype Soon To Fail Luke-jrXT Fork

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The USG, fiat aligned, domain squatters at Bitcoin.org are hyping a supposed "network disruption" which they hope will follow their latest effort to fork away from actual Bitcoin. The effort fronted by known sleeze Luke-jr (WOT:luke-jr) has been dubbed by the social engineers  a "User Activated Soft Fork", and in this scheme the vermin attacking Bitcoin are attempting to dupe would be Bitcoin users into running their software instead of an actual Bitcoin node. The idea is that by creating the impression of easily faked support, the social engineers may bully miners into accepting a forking away from Bitcoin and into something lesser.

This effort, supported almost entirely by assorted USG stoolies and assorted single language anglophone social engineering victims, is the most transparently desperate effort so far to undermine Bitcoin by imposing governance outside of The Most Serene Republic. It remains to be seen how many persons supposing themselves involved in Bitcoin will be victimized by Luke-jr and his co-conspirators when this latest fork's "flag day"1 passes.

  1. Yes, a flag day. Because desperation has lowered these pests into "throw a coordinated tantrum" as a strategic maneuver. ↩

Drama Heats Up As fiat/Bitcoin Interfaces Prepare For Next Round Of Fork Failures

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Reports are emerging that minor fiat/Bitcoin interfaces may suspend crediting deposits and allowing withdrawals in advance of the latest round of drama surrounding fake Bitcoin network forks. Readers are reminded that interacting with fiat tied institutions is a pursuit fraught with peril. All signs point to impending "your loss", we are very sorry.

Entertainment Today: Pantsuit Legislators Propose Attacking Idea Of Presidency

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US legislators associated with the pantsuit party "proposed" a bill that would establish an "Oversight Commission on Presidential Capacity" which would establish a committee to offer non-binding determinations that the President is insufficiently pantsuit to hold the office. This proposal is a compliment to the ongoing 25th amendment  fanfic where pantsuit acolytes suppose a constitutional rule historically used only with the president's consent when the president is anaesthetized for surgery or otherwise in mortal peril, begin to be invoked because a committee of pantsuit says so.

The bill allow for the committee to make its recommendations based of vague criteria of physical or mental illness,1 substance abuse, or other concerns.

Given pantsuit's ongoing malaise and failure to win congressional elections, the chances of this proposal passing before the next mid term election, is zero and even a reversal of pantsuit's electoral fortunes is unlikely to be substantial to the point that pantsuit could capture the supermajority of both legislative houses still necessary, even with this proposed lawl, to remove a President before the 8 year Trumpreich ends. The plausibility of this fanfic is near zero.

  1. Mental illness being a category of things that includes numerous amorphous pseudo-scientifically determined labels which may be attached to enemies of pantsuit alongside actual disabling conditions with clear diagnostic criteria like schizophrenia.  ↩

Dead alt-Soros No Longer Effective In Protecting Daughter From Truth

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Fear of the late alt-Soros Zbigniew Brzezinski has now faded to the point that it can no longer protect his daughter from the fact that she is not very smart and has now become old. In a tweet United States President Donald Trump told the story about how Brzezinski's daughter and her pet, the failed congressman Joe Scarborough, attempted to abusively parlay their early appearance of Trump support into a quid pro quo favor trading relationship in spite of the President's ethical reservations. Since the incident the late alt-Soros' daughter and her pet have dedicated their talkshow to spewing an unending stream of animus and resentment at the president elect.

Legions of old women, pantsuit loyalists all of them, proceeded to wail about how wrong it was for Trump to shame the old hag for bleeding all over his resort while she recovered from cosmetic surgery intended to conceal her advanced age. Brzezinski's daughter entered an engagement to marry with her talk show co-host Scarborough once the elder Brzezinski's failing health satisfied Scarborough's concerns that the alt-Soros was in fact a mortal homo sapien and not a lich or other undead eldritch horror.