SETI@home shuts down after 21 years • Hacker News Board

Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by wolco » Wed, Mar 04, 2020, 12:40 AM UTC

Rebelgecko wrote: post #13

rolltiide wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Were you able to keep the wallet files well into the next decade? It was fraught with disaster back then, I read about a lot of regret.

I had the opposite problem. Knowing the importance of offsite backups I had the brilliant idea of backing up my wallet.dat on Dropbox without any additional encryption. My bitcoin were only worth a few bucks, who'd bother stealing them, right? Years later, I saw that BTC had gone up in price a few orders of magnitude so I tried to load my wallet.dat and cash out. Except when I opened my wallet file, the balance was z…

So someone internally stole them at dropbox? Did you have it shared with the public?

Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 04, 2020, 12:41 AM UTC

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Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by resters » Wed, Mar 04, 2020, 12:49 AM UTC

cletus wrote: post #80

Not to sound like a broken record (I and others have said this or similar on these kinds of threads) but... I, personally, have become convinced that looking for signals this way is actually pointless. The argument is basically this: 1. Within 1000 years (and maybe a lot less) we will have the engineering capability to build space habitats, powered by solar power. This last part is important because this thought expe…

Fascinating. Thank you for writing this comment.

Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by crtlaltdel » Wed, Mar 04, 2020, 12:49 AM UTC

dpcx wrote: post #18

I remember being a younger pup and building fleets of machines (including overclocking, etc) for the sole purpose of running S@H, and all of the amazing software the spun up around it... SetiSpy, SetiDriver, SetiQ. I often wonder how machines of today would compare in work production to my old Duron 800, but alas.

same

Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by toomuchtodo » Wed, Mar 04, 2020, 12:49 AM UTC

redis_mlc wrote: post #62

I always told people to do mersenne prime search instead of s@h. https://www.mersenne.org/

Prime95 was where it was at.

Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by zouhair » Wed, Mar 04, 2020, 12:49 AM UTC

cptskippy wrote: post #23

dpcx wrote: post #18

I remember being a younger pup and building fleets of machines (including overclocking, etc) for the sole purpose of running S@H, and all of the amazing software the spun up around it... SetiSpy, SetiDriver, SetiQ. I often wonder how machines of today would compare in work production to my old Duron 800, but alas.

> Duron Now there's a name I haven't heard in a while. Duron, the poorerer man's Celeron.

I couldn't afford either.

Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by AdmiralAsshat » Wed, Mar 04, 2020, 12:55 AM UTC

Back when HTC still made cool things, they had an Android app that would let you contribute your phone's idle cycles towards various projects, of which I think SETI was an option.[0] I remember running it my HTC One M7 for awhile.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.htc.ptg&hl...

Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by Rebelgecko » Wed, Mar 04, 2020, 1:00 AM UTC

orf wrote: post #19

Rebelgecko wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had the opposite problem. Knowing the importance of offsite backups I had the brilliant idea of backing up my wallet.dat on Dropbox without any additional encryption. My bitcoin were only worth a few bucks, who'd bother stealing them, right? Years later, I saw that BTC had gone up in price a few orders of magnitude so I tried to load my wallet.dat and cash out. Except when I opened my wallet file, the balance was z…

Did you ever end up tracking where and when the coins went?

I looked at the wallet address, which looked liked it was used to slurp up BTC from a number of different sources. Didn't bother tracing it any further than that because I was so disgusted with myself for losing (potentially) thousands of dollars. Good news is that I signed up for Coinbase when they were giving out 0.1 BTC signup bonuses, so I still got to ride the wave with that. Made me feel better about writing off the BTC I mined the hard way on my Macbook Pro— better to think of it as an expensive way to learn about the importance of good passwords and 2 factor authentication :)

Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by Commodore_64 » Wed, Mar 04, 2020, 1:02 AM UTC

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Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by Rebelgecko » Wed, Mar 04, 2020, 1:02 AM UTC

wolco wrote: post #81

Rebelgecko wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had the opposite problem. Knowing the importance of offsite backups I had the brilliant idea of backing up my wallet.dat on Dropbox without any additional encryption. My bitcoin were only worth a few bucks, who'd bother stealing them, right? Years later, I saw that BTC had gone up in price a few orders of magnitude so I tried to load my wallet.dat and cash out. Except when I opened my wallet file, the balance was z…

So someone internally stole them at dropbox? Did you have it shared with the public?

Nah, my guess is that whoever hacked Dropbox (or someone who bought the info from the person who hacked it) had a script to brute force passwords, then log into accounts and scan for wallet.dat files.