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BitShares PTS / Re: Confirmation time, is this normal?
« on: November 18, 2013, 06:17:49 pm »
Quote from: Kyune on November 17, 2013, 07:32:03 pm
The slow confirmation times appear to be the result of one or more miners having adopted a policy of refusing to include more than one transaction per block.  See here:

http://btsblock.com/chain/ProtoShares

Ypool (the largest pool) appears to be one the bad actors.  If you compare block numbers from their stats page to the blockchain explorer, it looks like all of ypool's blocks are only including 1 transaction at most.

Thus, everyone trying to send PTS through the network is having to wait until someone else (such as the beeeeer pool) find a block, at which point a bunch of transactions finally get included in a block.

Wow that really sucks, it makes complete sense now. Funny thing is, maybe if that wasnt happening i wouldnt have gotten hacked. I was freaking out about why my coins werent sending for 4 hours. In those 4 hours i could have probably done other useful things like encrypt my wallet instead of worrying about why the coins cant be used.. thanks for the explanation. :)

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BitShares PTS / Re: PTS Hacked ( and i've never been hacked before ).
« on: November 18, 2013, 12:16:37 pm »
Quote from: cryptrol on November 17, 2013, 01:27:53 pm
Quote from: simplydt on November 17, 2013, 11:58:50 am
Quote from: barwizi on November 17, 2013, 11:17:16 am
wow, i've seen a lot of wallet stealers *cough* bes thing to do is encrypt your wallet.

Well im not only gonna encrypt my wallet now, i am going to encrypt the drive it runs on as well :P
Which is pretty useless if you have a trojan. Only useful if your computer is stolen.

BTW, make sure you are using the latest version of PTS and execute a -salvagewallet on the wallet.

What does -salavagewallet do?

Also, was it safe to add these nodes posted on the node thread, i noticed the member is a jr member.

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Re: Seed Node IPs
« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2013, 01:43:53 PM »
DO nodes:

146.185.170.228
146.185.171.163
146.185.162.112
146.185.171.61
192.241.140.139
192.241.128.52
198.199.120.193

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BitShares PTS / Re: PTS Hacked ( and i've never been hacked before ).
« on: November 17, 2013, 11:58:50 am »
Quote from: barwizi on November 17, 2013, 11:17:16 am
wow, i've seen a lot of wallet stealers *cough* bes thing to do is encrypt your wallet.

Well im not only gonna encrypt my wallet now, i am going to encrypt the drive it runs on as well :P

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BitShares PTS / Re: PTS Hacked ( and i've never been hacked before ).
« on: November 17, 2013, 10:59:42 am »
Quote from: barwizi on November 17, 2013, 10:08:15 am
nothing on a cursory glance, apart from protoshares qt, what else did you install recently?

Windows had nothing aside from virtualbox guest tools. I think therein lies the problem, i didnt update windows to any service packs or anything. Still, even so, it took only a few hours to get hacked. Crazy.

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BitShares PTS / Re: Paperwallet for PTS like bitaddress,org?
« on: November 17, 2013, 09:57:34 am »
Quote from: cassiopaia on November 17, 2013, 09:44:06 am
Hi guys ...

is there a possibility to develop a paper wallet like bitaddress.org!? If somebody of you could develop the code ... i would make the design of site if there a needs to do ....

Cause i wanna store my protoshares and guessing many more dudes want to do this in a more saver way ... think a paperwallet would be very useful.. if its technically possible ... pls correct me when iam wrong ..

Yeah, I wish I could have stored mine in a paper wallet. I mean, I thought of downloading the protoshares client, running it on a live usb of ubuntu, generating a few codes and making my paper wallet that way but that would imply we trust the protoshares client 100%. I think this will be possible after the developer releases a signed version of the software, as they said they would.

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BitShares PTS / Re: PTS Hacked ( and i've never been hacked before ).
« on: November 17, 2013, 09:06:22 am »
Just had an idea actually, i can run it on an ecrypted drive possibly. Will try that.

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BitShares PTS / Re: PTS Hacked ( and i've never been hacked before ).
« on: November 17, 2013, 08:54:24 am »
Quote from: barwizi on November 17, 2013, 05:01:12 am
i can decompile, once i am home i'll run a text comparison with older version and see if there are additional unwanted lines.

Now that's dedication, cool stuff man!

Re what the install had, it was a clean install of xp, only thing installed was virtual box guest tools.

I'm pretty convinced that because the xp had no updates, it had a hole somewhere and that hole was broadcast over the network and some script kiddy could even access it. It was my own fault for under estimating the possibility of being hacked at this stage. Also, as I said, I made the erroneous assumption my virtual box was protected because my ubuntu was.

Is there a way to make the wallet run from an encrypted usb? Eg with truecrypt? Or does it always store the wallet.dat in appdata?

PS. Am i the first reported hacker victim of pts? I could go down on the list of first, yay :P

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BitShares PTS / Re: PTS Hacked ( and i've never been hacked before ).
« on: November 16, 2013, 10:00:26 pm »
Quote from: Lighthouse on November 16, 2013, 09:53:46 pm
Quote from: simplydt on November 16, 2013, 09:48:40 pm
Quote from: Lighthouse on November 16, 2013, 09:36:09 pm
Please post the TX that seem to have resulted from a hack.  How long from the TX to your discovering?  Is your computer acting strangely in any other way, have you run a virus scan, etc?  Did you have a firewall up?

As much detail as you can give will help us figure out if there is anything actually wrong or if you just got unlucky.  Did you tell ANYONE that you had PTS on your computer?

TXID
http://btsblock.com/tx/fcca1a154512823253bc91e6f68a5c76cb65e1b4cb8048afa4f58c27775ee81e#i0
http://btsblock.com/tx/c8574094af94b9c04df42aee85cf594d7643c6fc01241b1ab0974f428b79aa8d#i0

there are some more in there but cant be bothered to filter them out right now, im in a bit of a shock

Someone who reads chinese or is familiar - Is there a chance he's listening to bad nodes and just needs a good connection?  Also whats up with this for the scrip public key

DUP HASH160 20:13d5...81f0 EQUALVERIFY CHECKSIG

Is it possible that by adding extra nodes from ips posted in the forum one of those could be a "malicious" node? Just wondering to educate myself a bit. Right now I highly suspect it was just windows, its always windows.

--Also, im either not the only one he has hacked or he is using his address from other sources too. We can probably figure out who it is eventually if he makes a mistake like send his coins to one of the exchanges from the hacked address. But thats more than wishful thinking. :P

http://btsblock.com/address/PZjeKvpf7xc4e4h3e4Xo1ghXZ3irJVa5aF (he has added quite a few coins in the last 2 days)

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BitShares PTS / Re: PTS Hacked ( and i've never been hacked before ).
« on: November 16, 2013, 09:48:40 pm »
Quote from: Lighthouse on November 16, 2013, 09:36:09 pm
Please post the TX that seem to have resulted from a hack.  How long from the TX to your discovering?  Is your computer acting strangely in any other way, have you run a virus scan, etc?  Did you have a firewall up?

As much detail as you can give will help us figure out if there is anything actually wrong or if you just got unlucky.  Did you tell ANYONE that you had PTS on your computer?

TXID
http://btsblock.com/tx/fcca1a154512823253bc91e6f68a5c76cb65e1b4cb8048afa4f58c27775ee81e#i0
http://btsblock.com/tx/c8574094af94b9c04df42aee85cf594d7643c6fc01241b1ab0974f428b79aa8d#i0

there are some more in there but cant be bothered to filter them out right now, im in a bit of a shock

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BitShares PTS / Re: PTS Hacked ( and i've never been hacked before ).
« on: November 16, 2013, 09:45:26 pm »
Quote from: Lighthouse on November 16, 2013, 09:36:09 pm
Please post the TX that seem to have resulted from a hack.  How long from the TX to your discovering?  Is your computer acting strangely in any other way, have you run a virus scan, etc?  Did you have a firewall up?

As much detail as you can give will help us figure out if there is anything actually wrong or if you just got unlucky.  Did you tell ANYONE that you had PTS on your computer?

My ubuntu is running iptables, firewall is on. Computer is not behaving strangely in any other way, id imagine they would have hacked my 8+ btc otherwise. However, when I ran my virtualbox windows xp there was no firewall in there. I figured (probably erroneously that since ubuntu was firewalled and virtualbox was inside ubuntu, there was no need). Its quite confusing as i am not sure whether it got hacked because i ran it in virtualbox, or because i ran it on ubuntu using wine. Who knows, either way. Pretty impressive by whoever did it so quickly.

The only weird thing I noticed was that my coins were not sending when i was running it on virtualbox; as I reported on my other post where you were helping me. It would just get stuck at 0 confirmations. I only managed to send my coins once i ran it on ubuntu. Also, as soon as i sent my coins then, it was like the hacker woke up and realised im emptying my wallet and emptied it himself instead.

I really think my wallet was compromised way earlier, hence why i could not send transactions perhaps? Maybe they were waiting for me to deposit more pts before they did it.

So all in all, it looks like it was because i ran it on XP inside virtualbox with no firewall. Anyway, this post is not to complain but rather to tell everyone else to take an extra step to protect their PTS.

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BitShares PTS / PTS Stolen ( and i've never been hacked before ).
« on: November 16, 2013, 09:30:40 pm »
I've been trading bitcoins for 8 months and i've never been hacked before.

Third day doing PTS and I've got hacked. I've lost 200 PTS at least.

Just a heads up for people to be careful and take that extra step. You don't want to be out of the PTS game too as I now am.

How it happened:

Either my protoshares-qt.exe on ubuntu or my windows virtual machine was compromised. My wallet was not encrypted ( i wish it was... newb mistake?). Still, not quite sure how it happened, as even if my wallet wasnt encrypted, they had to have my secret or access to my computer. Meh, whatever.

Here is transaction proof of my wallets being emptied:
http://btsblock.com/address/PmCfLvBSXFE4VdLoD4QB7DG2qTMgFqB7AH
http://btsblock.com/address/Psw4cKr9HWXikT6Q2d7WggMEBL87yQ6bVt

If anybody knows the hacker and wants to convince him to be a good guy and give me back my coins, that would be cool. :)

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BitShares PTS / Re: Confirmation time, is this normal?
« on: November 16, 2013, 02:24:37 pm »
Or could it be because

version" : 80500,
"protocolversion" : 70001,
"walletversion" : 60000,
"blocks" : 18936,
"timeoffset" : 0,
"connections" : 8,
"proxy" : "",
"difficulty" : 0.00051405,
"testnet" : false,
"keypoololdest" : 1384426982,
"keypoolsize" : 101,
"paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
"errors" : ""

paytxfee ==0 , is that normal? Maybe because its not paying tx fee its acting super slow?

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BitShares PTS / Re: Confirmation time, is this normal?
« on: November 16, 2013, 02:21:49 pm »
I'm guessing its windows being gay. Is there a guide somewhere to set it up for ubuntu?

Edit: Found the guide, will try it on ubuntu https://github.com/InvictusInnovations/ProtoShares/blob/psforkinit/doc/readme-qt.rst

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BitShares PTS / Re: Confirmation time, is this normal?
« on: November 16, 2013, 02:10:28 pm »
Another test transaction just completed, it was for 1pts to coingrounds. I started it 1 hour after the other ones. Maybe adding your node helped.

Status: 12 confirmations
Date: 11/16/2013 05:51

The other transactions are still unconfirmed and holding up some of my coins, should I somehow delete them or wait?

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BitShares PTS / Re: Confirmation time, is this normal?
« on: November 16, 2013, 02:08:22 pm »
Quote from: favdesu on November 16, 2013, 01:59:56 pm
http://btsblock.com/search?q=c8574094af94b9c04df42aee85cf594d7643c6fc01241b1ab0974f428b79aa8d

mh, there's no tx visible.

did you update your wallet after the fork?

Yeah i know its not; thats why its weird. I got the official wallet from the invictus innovation site 2 days ago. It's running on windows.

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