Vlog 269: Dlive hack was quickly fixed + Blockdeals, rewarding bargain hunting on the STEEM blockchain.

in life •  7 years ago  (edited)


This morning the dlive account was hacked and started to vote on a lot of posts.

It was quickly noticed and fixed and all the votes have been reversed now.

The voting power was sadly drained so it will take some time to get back to 100%.

But besides the voting power drain, no damage was caused by this hack. No funds were transferred. No permanent damage caused.

It just shows the incredible security feature regarding different keys of this blockchain.

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An announcement by Dlive about the hack here

Blockdeals, rewarding bargain hunting on the STEEM blockchain.



A new project on the steem blockchain was announced this morning. It's called Blockdeals

Link to the intro post: here

It already has a minimal functioning website so you can check it out.

It's a website where people can be rewarded for finding deals, bargains and all sorts of discounts on the internet.

What a cool idea!

It seems that every week now we have new initiatives on the 'blockchain of opportunity'.

I talk about it more in my vlog.



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Wow thankful to those who noticed it and notified. It would have been so bad to loose dlive account now that more people are getting much more use of it.

I have a question does the dlive account on steemit vote all post available on the dlive platform?

@exyle there is another project called @steemhunt which has been doing this for a while. Not getting any love though which is a shame because their UI is much better...

Steemhunt needs more love 😃

good to hear that dlive was recovered, i hope it wont happen again, and speaking of blockdeals; this is the first step of making business in blockchain. :)

It would be sweet if you actually replied to some of the comments that your followers leave and not just continuously post and siphon more rewards. As someone trying to become a top witness you'd think some more interaction with the people whose votes you want would be a top priority. Guessing I'm just talking to myself here

Hi buddy, seems you are not in a good mood today :-) voting this comment for you as I agree in a way but also understand not all witness can reply to every comment. Have a wonderful weekend :-).

I apologize. I was a bit harsh yesterday. But I still stand behind the idea that there is too much “me” thinking here and not enough “us”. If we could just put a little More effort into the collective group, we could all thrive.
Cheers

no worries mate - and i totally agree! As long as everyone is engaged a bit on maybe one sub community and help e.g. newbies of a certain genre or language or whatever it should help. I am not saying am the pope but I try to support a bit the #deutsch community and all around #music a bit and other people I think their content is great. I have the feeling you are one of these users here we need more of.

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Hey exyle love your Channel and appreciate all the time and effort you put into it! Thx a lot! Do you know Appics Ico ? This is a project on the Steemblockchain as well! It's going to be working like Instagram. So you will be rewarded for posting photos just like on Instagram. I think this project deserves more interest maybe you can show it to your audience? Please let me know what you think of the project. 😀
I did a review on this ico already if you want to take a look at it.


Happy Gainz

Yes, I know Appics. They will be one of the first to utilize an smt on the steem blockchain.

Thx for.the fast answer! You are the best! 😀 Maybe you can share your thoughts on this project with us ....
Enjoy your day 😀

Blockdeals, indeed is a wonderful concept, which will definitely help in finding the best discount deals online.

Yes, I'm following this project with a lot of interest to see where it will go.

That’s what I love about Steemit platform. If anyone hacks and throws votes around, you can reverse the votes. Obviously the steemit founders thought it through. With only Steem power being damaged, give it a few days and everything is back to normal. This hacker also left his footprints, you can check whom he voted for...However, if Dlive has a huge SP, as they do over 2 mil. they have lost a lot of curation rewards as well as authors of posts whom they would have voted for. Wow...

Thanks for the update. It's good to hear that the dlive hack has been fixed, am not a good fans of dlive, but hope to use it one day on my game review. The blockdeal is a great project to the Steem blockchain.

Mark @exyle it is great to hear about another Feature on STEEMIT called #Blockdeals. It only gets better and better everyday. Also it is good to know that DLive will be able to reward you and @ezzy in the next week when they get their POWER back UP !

Hi.. At first I want to say that I voted @blockbrothers. I have heard about @blockbrothers. I am little bit new about it. But no problem. I will know by your previous attachment. Thanks a lot dear @exyle.

Thanks for your support for @blockbrothers!

This sounds quite crazy, I can't believe Dlive was hacked... How do you hack into a Steemit account, I mean that should be pretty hard in my opinion!

Well, you can never ever make something 100% secure. In the end, there is still the human factor that often leads to systems being compromized :-(

Thanks so much for the shout-out. The community reaction has been extremely positive and we will move onto the next phase of the project. And when we have enough SP saved up we'll launch into the general public.
Until then will continue to develop the platform.
Watch this space :-D

You are welcome! I think it's a great project!

It's sad that we still have account hacks but am glad that Dlive came out of it well and no funds were lost.Thanks for the heads up about blockdeals ...looks like a really cool initiative that I will be looking into- I always like to find great products with good bargains, coupons and discounts :)

Thanks for the heads up on Blockdeals @exyle. Glad you're on the ball for us with all this new stuff.

I'm envious of your twenty degrees. That's a big jump. I'm just enjoying the chance at double figures.

Have fun in the sun! 😁

On the ball and well, I do enjoy seeing and researching all this development. It's really lovely today!

Another cool thing to know today about blockdeals this time interesting it looks to me and dlive working hard once again

great post with a lot of good information aboute dlive, have some good weekend, greetings

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Thanks! You have a good weekend as well!

Wow, you are right. All hail the many different keys! Imagine it completely draining the voting power. whoever did it must have been spreading the votes far and wide so that the accounts they really wanted to reward werent noticed

The different keys are great indeed. And that seems like a good theory. Maybe it would have been smarter to sneak in the occasional self-upvote. But who knows? Glad not much damage was caused.

Everyone just got to be more discrete with their keys. If Dlive can be hacked then individuals have to be more careful. I'm glad that it's been fixed now.

blockdeals seems like a pretty interesting initiative

But come to think of it...instead of reversing the upvotes and letting it to waste, why didn't they just leave the upvotes and patiently wait for their voting power to grow back to 100% . Doesn't make sense to me.

another sweet update @exyle, well I think dlive somehow may experience this, too many accounts have trusted them with their private keys, and I think the best they would be is to certainly be more careful, I haven't used dlive, but Im certain it's a great platform.
Your vlog 269 and counting

oh, great sir... Blockdeals seems to be a great project.always giving alots of good idea of steemit platform.your good advice and experience talking helped me in my steemit work doing properly.. hat hackers hacked dlive account. i am Glad to know that no damaged has done except draining of vot power which is nothing...thanks to sharing for your good information..very good sir. @exyle

its really good idea of Blockdeals,
thanks for share your experiences

Blockdeals is a welcome development. More and more people will now have an opportunity to participate in the STEEM blockchain

I'mglad that the hack was quickly fixed. That is pathognomonic of an efficient initiative

Fisrt of all your idea is really credible and genius. we also want a notification app for steemit on Android mobile. WE eagerly await your application. now i will explore the blockdeals.

Another reminder to be cautious with your main key.
Let's all have a fantastic weather together with fantastic weekend)

It's a good thing that it's fixed already but I'm not sure if knowing some account in Dlive was hacked seems a little alarming. I blockchain security will be tighter in the future to avoid this kinds of incident.

Amazed to read that hackers hacked dlive account. Glad to know that no damaged has done except draining of vot power which is nothing.
Blockdeals seems to be a great project. Thanks for sharing @exyle

Hi Exyle, I really like what you mean to the platform, also like it that you met up with other people from Steemit before. I am posting for nine months now and really like it here, recently I decided to start interview people,
I met up with @juliank over a month ago for the first post in the series and really would like to interview you if you are up for it? the interview is foccused on traveling because that's what my account is about.
have a look if you like;
https://steemit.com/travel/@heyitshaas/1-travel-interview-series-juliank-6800-followers-haas-interviews

I life in Amsterdam and are willing to stop by in Rotterdam to meet, what do you think? you can contact me on Steemchat.
in ieder geval een fijne dag en hoop dat je het een leuk plan vind
Met viendelijke groet, Martijn

Oh That is why Dlive was not working, i thought something has happen with my system or what. Well #Blockdeals seems a wonderful idea and i am gonna share it with my social circle too.

Thanks lot @exyle for the updates Man

Stay Blessed :)

Blockdeals is an amazing concept. The blockchain is just getting better and better every day! I am so happy to be here!

You and me both!

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Great post.

I wonder why some people will not use their talent or gift for good. Sorry about the hack, thanm God the hack was discovered aonnd rectified on time .

Ok great, good to know all is well. ;)

We should know how it was hacked so that it can b avoided. It makes me not want to go on Dlive because I do not know what to do to not get hacked. We all want to know what to do to not be hacked and we need solutions or things can get worse if we are only shown problems absent of solutions. Thanks for sharing, hehe. I'm Oatmeal Joey Arnold. You can call me Joey.

Another cool thing to know today about blockdeals this time interesting it looks to me and dlive working hard once again

thanks for your share your experiences

I am a Venezuelan friend, and I want to ask you for help ... As a Venezuelan what is the bargain I can offer from my country? What do you think? How would you help me? I want to offer something good ... What can be offered here by steemit to be successful?

@exyle very good video

Great

Why would somebody back the dlive account? It is sad to know that there are certain people who are just here to cause trouble. I'm glad that the did has been reversed