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Murch

Jun 13, 2024 18:11

It would be cool to add a line for "now" in this chart! burned.money/schedule

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Vojtěch Strnad

Oct 29, 2023 16:05

Congratulations @PieterWuille for the completely arbitrary but still remarkable achievement of 100,000 points! :)

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Raghav Sood

Jun 25, 2024 08:56

Wrote up a post on some bitcoin archeology :)

Raghav Sood

Jun 13, 2024 18:03

Fairly straightforward, no more complex than a typical explorer really - github.com/RaghavSood/btcsupply

My main goal was to have something that can nicely explain the kind of cases we see for 1BitcoinEater, 11111111111111 style burn addresses, as well as provably unspendable coins like op returns and error scripts/invalid cryptographic inputs

For now, I'm limiting lost coins to cases which can be at least somewhat validated - most from public posts declaring they are lost and where addresses are known

V2Blast

Oct 10, 2023 20:43

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/149045/…

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Coinnouncer

Oct 5, 2023 17:38

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Q: 2023 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection

Bitcoin Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, 2023-10-10. In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation. Participation is completely v...

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Murch

Jan 7, 2024 14:22

@PieterWuille: I think you may have pre-emptively answered all of Hurry Walk, LeaBit, and Cosmos’s subsequent questions in one swoop. It would be wonderful if we were to establish this approach as a more time-efficient way of dealing with "please review my understanding" questions generally: Ask a better question and answer that instead.

Hannah Vernon

Jan 4, 2024 22:28

those kind of question and answers are awesome because it's like a one-stop-shop. And it can be referenced in other answers, etc, etc.

Murch

Jan 3, 2024 02:25

@VojtěchStrnad Your passionate advocacy made me undelete them, but in return, I ask you to aid our struggle to get rid of visual clutter by flagging at least 6 obsolete comments 😁

Pieter Wuille

Aug 8, 2022 17:00

TIL, there is a weekly chat here

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chytrik

Jun 14, 2022 04:23

And as they say- good design is often invisible. Bad design is what sticks out.

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Hannah Vernon

Jun 5, 2023 19:45

@AndrewChow , @meshcollider and @Murch In case you don't frequent Meta, there is currently a Stack Exchange network-wide moderation strike happening in response to the recent changes to policy around AI-generated answers, and the company's complete lack of regard for the moderators. See the letter here for more information, and check this.

chytrik

Jun 11, 2022 23:54

Unless I've misunderstood, with that sort of logic, it would become untenable to ever commit to a certain design style, no?

Vojtěch Strnad

Jun 6, 2022 13:27

Hi all, I've found a 4 year old question on the software patterns used in Bitcoin Core source code: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/66160/what-software-patterns-does-the-bitcoin-source-code-use

It has 5 upvotes and only one answer that doesn't go into much detail. Are there any Core devs here who could give a more satisfactory answer? Thanks. (I also bountied the question to give it a little more attention.)

chytrik

May 17, 2022 21:48

Beware the buzzword marketing of altcoins. 99.99% of 'crypto' is just scammery of varying degrees. Bitcoin & the wider crypto market are two fundamentally different things, even though they may not appear to be upon initial investigation.

chytrik

Jul 5, 2020 21:36

@ImLostPleaseHelpThx stackexchange does not have a direct message feature, nor does it have a Turing test feature

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chytrik

Jun 30, 2020 03:38

Only the boy's true mother could show up with this cake, which is in fact just a zero-knowledge proof that this woman knows the recipe which will create said cake! So the boy will be able to tell which cake is his mother's, despite the boy having no knowledge of the ingredients and method (aka the private key) which was required to create the cake (aka the signature). In this story, the boy can be thought of as the protocol rules, which are the judge of whether or not a transaction is valid.

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Pieter Wuille

Jan 16, 2022 17:26

According to (my own) answer linked there, I don't see the problem. Lightning is most definitely a technology applicable to supporting the bitcoin currency.

Murch

May 4, 2018 06:09

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chytrik

Oct 29, 2021 05:45

I suppose it is quite unlikely that Satoshi chose the best schedule possible, in terms of finding the smoothest transition, and in terms of not having the network be 'over-secured' at any point. But 'good enough' is good enough, we needn't make perfect the enemy of good.

Nick ODell

Apr 3, 2013 05:48

If you're selling 50 bitcoins + 2 free bitcoins, YOU'RE JUST SELLING 52 BITCOINS! That gets my goat more than the fact that they're spamming

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Nick ODell

Aug 7, 2017 04:24

A man walks into a bank looking for the bitcoin treasury and can't seem to find it, so he goes to ask a store clerk.
Man: Excuse me, could you help me find the bitcoin treasury?
Clerk: There's no such thing.
Man: You don't understand, I need some bitcoins, could you check in the back for me?
Clerk: I am sure we don't have any, but I will go look.
The clerk goes to the back and comes back.
Clerk: Sorry, there aren't any in the back
Man: But you don't understand, I NEED these
Clerk: You're just not getting it. Let me explain it to you this way. What do you get when you take the "blue" out of …

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Pieter Wuille

Apr 24, 2019 21:24

@Murch @UgamKamat As far as I'm concerned, omni is an altcoin (or a system for creating them), which additionally parasitically spams the bitcoin chain. I don't see how it could be on topic.

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Murch

Mar 4, 2014 16:23

yay, I was just made mod. :)

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chytrik

Mar 5, 2021 06:30

@MaxVernon indeed. Its kind of amazing that he managed to claim ownership of the address which is known to contain a huge number of the hacked Mt Gox coins. Blundering fool

chytrik

May 21, 2018 19:47

A good analysis of tx batching, in case anyone hasn't seen it: coinmetrics.io/batching

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Murch

Nov 17, 2020 18:42

podcast.chaincode.com

chytrik

Nov 14, 2020 21:45

@Prayank I think that question you deleted is interesting, if anything I would just say to focus it on one of the questions, to make it very clear what exactly the question is. You put one question in bold, so I assume that is the main point of interest, but then you also ask several other questions that are related, but could each deserve their own full answer. Cut-and-dry technical questions are most well-received on this site, but I wouldn't have voted to close yours, for what thats worth

chytrik

Nov 5, 2020 20:28

@Murch I do agree, reminds that quote... "Bitcoin is a social revolution, disguised as a get rich quick scheme", its one of my favourites

Max Vernon

Apr 27, 2018 22:17

@RaghavSood it looks legit, but then so does bitcoin.com

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Raghav Sood

Oct 28, 2020 14:46

@Prayank The line between on and off topic can be blurry, but generally communities will try to enforce some form of consistency for a given point in time - you'll find many older questions here that are outright off topic, which were evaluated under a different criteria, or which toe the line but are allowed due to being exceptionally interesting or relevant to the space without being explicitly within the scope

Marek

Jan 26, 2014 13:35

cryptocoinsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/… one of my favourite memes

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Pieter Wuille

Feb 5, 2018 20:02

reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2rrxq7/… <- that's probably what you're looking for

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Pieter Wuille

Nov 27, 2017 19:49

And the most extreme idea is Turing-complete SNARKs - the idea that a constant-size expression could be a proof that a particular arbitrarily-complex statement was true, which can be validated in constant time!

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Pieter Wuille

Nov 27, 2017 19:45

In particular, there is one that we already rely upon, and nobody questions: signatures are a proof of knowledge of the private key. But nobody suggests that Script should be able to compute discrete logarithms!

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Pieter Wuille

Nov 13, 2017 19:10

So our goal should be a good balance between ability to transact and ability to validate, but in case of incertainty, err on the side of cheap validation.

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chytrik

Jun 30, 2020 04:53

This lack of admin is a feature, not a bug. Bitcoin is not without rules or laws, it is just self-defining in this respect: the source code defines the rules, and the user's which run the code opt in to an implicit agreement to follow those rules.

chytrik

Jun 30, 2020 03:29

The boy's actual mother is in the lineup, and she has the winning cake in hand, but she isn't worried that someone else in line will see the cake and copy it. How could they? The cake is made by carefully mixing ingredients in precise quantities and according to a certain method, baked at a certain temperature for a certain time, and finished with home-made icing that again has it's own recipe.

chytrik

Jun 30, 2020 03:27

Here is an analogy:
Lets pretend there is an orphan boy, searching for his mother. The boy does not remember his mother, but he does *exactly* remember what the cake she used to bake would taste like. Now, that orphan boy has just won the lottery, and so mothers from far and wide line up, each with their home-made cake in hand, hoping that a taste of it will convince the boy that he is their son (and thus, they will share in his fortune).

chytrik

Jun 29, 2020 00:21

To be clear: I would NOT run that 'private key finder' software, it is software obviously built by scammers, there is no reason to suppose it does anything useful, but every reason to believe it does something malicious. Often such software is accompanied by faked videos, showing 'functionality' that is not true.

Murch

Jan 15, 2015 15:58

"Bitcoin is Schrödinger's asset. It is simultaneously worth a fortune and close to zero until you spend/sell it." –blackmarble

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Anonymous

Feb 9, 2020 11:46

there's someone asking questions about rpcbind, and they just happily announced that their security solution for it being in plaintext on a world accessible port is to use a "secret" port. yes they're handling other people's money, and this was the best solution they could come up with.

Anonymous

Feb 6, 2020 11:28

"I could live like a king forever if I just download and run this first"

Jestin

Oct 19, 2016 19:21

this is why I stick to SE for my sense of community

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chytrik

Oct 27, 2019 23:41

@dave I've been to meetups, some have been inspiring, where I've had some really great and interesting conversations. But others are.. cringeworthy at best, even outright scammy. Unfortunately for newbies, it can be pretty much impossible to discern between what is legitimate, or not. In many cases, its just FOMO-spin-the-wheel and invest in whatever pops up as the 'blockchain 4.0' project of the week.

Murch

Aug 11, 2016 17:23

@Jannes I'm analyzing Coin Selection in various Wallets, have created a Simulation framework to test long-term wallet behavior, and I'm exploring different approaches on how to improve Coin Selection.

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chytrik

Oct 1, 2019 02:48

@RaghavSood only the ones run by users foolish enough to trust someone else with such a critical piece of their hardware ;)

chytrik

Sep 11, 2019 22:49

It is foolish to trust some unknown business in these ways, just to mix your coins. For all we know they keep logs of everything, and sell them to chain analysis companies (or, they are a chain analysis company themselves). Just because they sent you BTC back doesn't mean they aren't malicious. Outright theft is not the only concern in this area

JBaczuk

Aug 20, 2019 20:14

speaking of block explorers, this command looks interesting: bitcoincore.org/en/doc/0.18.0/rpc/blockchain/scantxoutset haven't seen that before

Jannes

May 5, 2016 14:36

@NickODell You haven't really missed much. Was just 2nd attempt by CSW, but was proven to be fabricated and intentionally obfuscated non-proofs within an hour. Gavin had a face2face meeting with him beforehand and he did believe the story. But turns out that he likely messed up at least the signature checking part: he was likely bamboozled. Craig now posted a goodbye letter blaming the attacks on him causing him to have decided to remain anonymous afterall. (???)

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