I have received lots of people asking for this video, also there are a lot of people that are posting about this problem.
Sooo, I finally made the video.
Enjoy:
Best posts made by AngryChicken
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New Burstcoin Video On Fixing Local Walletposted in General Discussion
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Poloniex Security Alert (Updated)posted in General Discussion
Hey everyone I was just going through the source code of the Poloniex website, and with some experimenting I found a way to allow a crawler to brute force or use any of multiple password cracking techniques to access your account.
BEWARE and STRENGTHEN your Passwords, I am in the middle of a support ticket to alert them of this bug, but due to their long response times it might take a few days before they get people working on it. -
RE: Regarding the recent theft of Burst accountsposted in General Discussion
@rds So to put in perspective how many passwords can be generated by a list of 1626 words in a 12 word combination, the number would be
341,543,870,028,173,427,817,970,975,906,355,941,376
or
341 undecillion
which can be broken down into
341 billion billion billion billionNow for a look at the account address:
with a combination of 16 of 36 chars (numbers and alpha) the equation would look like this 36^16
which looks like this in integer from
7,958,661,109,946,400,884,391,936
or
7 septillion
which can be broken down into
7 million billion billionAt first glance you may notice the first equation has much higher output which also may lead you to believe that their must be an over lap somewhere or not enough addresses for passphrases, but you'd be wrong.
You see there are only 7,483,400,959 people in the world. http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/This means that each person on the planet today gets ~1,063,565,563,269,597 Accounts to them selves.
or
This means that each person on the planet today gets ~45,642,639,319,547,431,219,827,739,664 Passphrases to them selves.This also showcases that the chance for replication is less than the chance of a new generated key by a factor of billions. This doesn't mean that it's impossible but more likely than not a simple check to make sure the account isn't in use is made.
Big Thanks to http://www.wolframalpha.com/ for crunching this numbers as normal computer programs can't handle the task due to insufficient numeric memory allocation
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RE: Poloniex Security Alert (Updated)posted in General Discussion
Just updating this issue.
I have finally received a response from the dev's at Poloniex responding to my comments about many factors in the login system.
They have put extra security measures in place and corrected the issues with cloudfire, and authentication system.
They also will be taking my advice in the future by adding a email response when people try to access your account with 3 or more failed logins. -
RE: Burstcoin at low lows 11/16/2016posted in Price & Trading Discussion
@mcchurchmouse Alright so first of all you shouldn't measure Burstcoin in Bitcoin when referencing a dollar amount go to this website http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/burst/ and click the USD label as Shown:
This is how Burstcoin should be measured, if you measure in Bitcoin it gets to complicated as Bitcoin it self fluctuates independently of the US Dollar. The next technical support is 0.000333 USD which is 50 -60 sat's. As for Burstcoin going to 0 I say no, not likely there's too much structure backing this crypto for that to happen (Unless something BIG happens).
One of the reasons the price is dropping is partly due to supply and demand. EX. Currently on poloniex the supply (People that are selling Burst) has a collective value of 236 BTC and the demand side is 23.6 BTC (Mostly orders are under 50 sat's).
Another one is the 24hour trade volume is grinding to a near halt lately.
Lastly, Most cryptoCoin's are going down right now just take a look ;)
These aren't the only things bring Burstcoin down, but it's a market right?
Things go up, things go down, hopefully more up than down.
Personally, I'm buying a few hundred thousand Burst while they are cheap so I can reap the rewards when we get back to normalized levels. -
Developing New Local Burstcoin Walletposted in General Discussion
@administrators @daWallet @Blago Hey this is a post for the developers in the community. I am really interested in designing a new Local Wallet for the community , I was wondering if someone could send me some documentation regarding this.
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RE: I've Returnedposted in General Discussion
@qibucks Yeah I prefer this forum as it's where I started and I know my way around, but burst nation has it's upsides, like that downloads page(Awesome). I'll be on both but this one is my true active account, although it's good that burstcoin is becoming more diverse, decentralized, and adopted.
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RE: Burstcoin Valueposted in Price & Trading Discussion
@George.L A very understated point is that Burstcoin is stored on the block chain not on your computer as Bitcoin. If you lose your hard drive or it fails without a backup of that hard drive then you lose all your Bitcoins, where as Burst you use your hard drive to mine not store your coins. The only way you can obtain a copy of your accounts balance is to download the block chain, but by no means is it as sensitive as bitcoin. In turn this adds more confidence in the end user to have their Burst on their phone even if there is a chance you may lose it. @daWallet Maybe the next step to increase security in the Burstcoin wallet is have the passphrases, Password protected this will decrease the chance that someone could empty your account by clicking "load passphrase".
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RE: Free Windows 10?posted in Off Topic
@Propagandalf Yes my miner has windows 10 installed and inactivated the only thing is it has a watermark in the bottom right hand corner and some of the settings are disabled. Not really if you know how to edit the registry like myself, lol's microsoft can't hold me down.
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RE: Why are people still investing thousands of dollars?posted in International
@luxe ah, yes my bad it's negative compounded got it yup I understand
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RE: Copying plot?posted in Mining & Plotting
@Tate-A You can copy plots to a different drive but the copy will be useless if you try to use both at the same time. This is something Burstcoin calls overlapping plots. When you plot a hard drive it will write nonce's to the drive if these overlap you'll in theory submit the same deadline twice. This now limits your mining capacity to the original plot size that you copied but takes up more space (Which is bad).
Think of plots as lottery tickets, does photocopying the ticket increase your odds of winning, short answer No. This will only make you check more tickets when the draw comes (Knows as a block). (More work for same results)
The goal with Burstcoin is to have the largest amount of plots assigned to your burst address without duplicates, because of what I have stated above.
This in turn will increase your odds of winning the block.
If you could just copy plots they would probably just get you to download them instead of generate them.Feel free to contact me with any questions or just add the @AngryChicken to any of your posts I'll be happy to assit you in understanding.
AngryChicken
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RE: Burstcoin at low lows 11/16/2016posted in Price & Trading Discussion
@mcchurchmouse Yup no worries I've been in the game since it was @ 38 Sat's and I think this coin is just starting to mature. I'm also in the works of developing some stuff for BurstCoin to make the barrier to entry less.
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RE: Android Mining - Hype or Viable?posted in General Discussion
@goodplanets @daWallet @nox @rapidfireman For you yes maybe it's not worth it but remember their are phone with two slots for micro sd's, not to mention that micro sd's go up to 256GB currently. I think that the real market for this is over seas where $0.10 USD is a lot of money and doesn't cost anything to get it. That might put food in a family's mouths or provide luxury where they couldn't afford it before. Remember their are no poor people in third world countries mining Bitcoin, if Burst can tap this market and the main consumer market who says it won't surpass bitcoin.
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RE: Security question - how safe is our password/account?posted in General Discussion
So to put in perspective how many passwords can be generated by a list of 1626 words in a 12 word combination, the number would be
341,543,870,028,173,427,817,970,975,906,355,941,376
or
341 undecillion
which can be broken down into
341 billion billion billion billionNow for a look at the account address:
with a combination of 16 of 36 chars (numbers and alpha) the equation would look like this 36^16
which looks like this in integer from
7,958,661,109,946,400,884,391,936
or
7 septillion
which can be broken down into
7 million billion billionAt first glance you may notice the first equation has much higher output which also may lead you to believe that their must be an over lap somewhere or not enough addresses for passphrases, but you'd be wrong.
You see there are only 7,483,400,959 people in the world. http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/This means that each person on the planet today gets ~1,063,565,563,269,597 Accounts to them selves.
or
This means that each person on the planet today gets ~45,642,639,319,547,431,219,827,739,664 Passphrases to them selves.This also showcases that the chance for replication is less than the chance of a new generated key by a factor of billions. This doesn't mean that it's impossible but more likely than not a simple check to make sure the account isn't in use is made.
As for what @jumper has said above. I have took it upon myself to make an application that will brute force the local db. It only took 2 hours and I made it in C#.
I'm not sure of the sharing policy on the forums about releasing bruteforce apps to knock on the gates of the Burstcoins security, but the program will be posted on my github page.
Big Thanks to http://www.wolframalpha.com/ for crunching this numbers as normal computer programs can't handle the task due to insufficient numeric memory allocation
@Miky GoTo: https://forums.burst-team.us/topic/3838/regarding-the-recent-theft-of-burst-accounts/11
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RE: External Storage of Coinsposted in General Discussion
@gumbogumbo You can never have offline storage with Burstcoin. You are thinking of Bitcoin when you say storage, Burstcoin differs from Bitcoin as it's not stored in a single place. You see Bitcoin has a ledger on every transaction that occurs but the coin's them selves are stored on your hard drive or some offline storage as you mentioned. Burstcoin is a giant ledger of payments, the balance from each account is derived by following the path of each fraction of a coin going in and out of accounts. So overall Burst is literally stored on the blockchain itself rather than a hard drive you need to backup or put in safekeeping. The only thing you need to use your coins is the database (db) downloaded and the password to the account you own.
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RE: QORA asset - NOT ME - I don't know what kind of game this is, but don't purchase this assetposted in Asset Scams
This is very odd I got 38+ k in this asset in one transaction, and then 2 hours later got 1.28Burst then an hour later 9.06Burst? What is this for? If it's just a troll I better open more accounts to get more stuff sent to lol.
EDIT: I have 6 accounts right now just checked all of them, the only ones that have Quora sent to them are interacting with the exchange. So I'm guessing that this person is taking addresses that are trading.
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RE: Shingled magnetic recording (SMR)posted in General Discussion
@Propagandalf @sevencardz Yup this is the case on my end. Never had a problem, also when others pull the drives out of the case and install directly they have better experiences. Maybe it is a system default, but good to know itès just a setting.
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RE: How long can buy orders stay pending?posted in General Discussion
I have been privately contacting haitch about this the wallets got forked. All pending transactions will either reverse or go through. Just needs a while, I have ~40,000 pending for my asset purchase.
