Stop posting about things you don't understand.

That would be a good start. It's not helpful, and can give people the wrong idea. Comparing Tor to DNS is like comparing your car engine to a street sign.

I think that is larger than even the bitcoin mainnet's chainstate, right? It was at 6GB or so the last time I checked its size.

But the fact that there is a ballooning UTXO set on testnet does not surprise me at all, as people rarely spend their coins after they are finish testing something. At best, they just return it to the faucet they got it from.

Thank you for your opinion and clarification of my point. Your statement that Bitcoin uses a decentralized network is fully correct, and I was mistaken here. Also, I realize that TOR provides a high level of anonymity but isn’t always secure. My goal was to show the advantages of TOR against other DNS in terms of privacy and network access, but I see my misunderstanding of professional terms as troubling. Once again, thank you for the comment!

I want to clarify. Although other Bitcoin wallets exist, including Bitcoin Core and hardware wallets, my goal was to mention additional alternatives just for Bitcoin since that was a proper answer to the question context. Concerning this, I should’ve explicitly stated that different wallets could be used, and I am sorry if I sounded unclear. Thank you for your comment.

I appreciate your clarification. According to my very best knowledge, the Genesis block for this particular fork of Bitcoin (Bitcoin-Qt 0.6.2) is hard coded in and therefore can never be mined. I'm grateful for your pointing that out. Also, you're right an altcoin would involve running your very own block explorer which can monitor transactions and blocks. I apologize if my earlier remarks left any ambiguity, and am grateful for the chance to make myself clearer.

Kindly check the Bitcoin core source code https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin to know the details about Bitcoin protocol version 70016 and explore Bitcoin Improvement Proposals so that you can understand how it works and understand broadcast transactions using Python's socket library.

The level of privacy attached to CoinJoin in the Wasabi wallet is not concrete but depends on the number of people participating and the quantity of the mixed amount. It drives privacy to 100; however, not every time it is left running leads it, it always improves it. As such, after one is contented with the privacy, it is ideal to move the coins to another wallet.

Why does the privacy progress change if I select a different coinjoin strategy?

The privacy progress is influenced by the anonymity score target. If the coinjoin strategy is changed to one with a different anonnymity score target, this will cause the privacy progress to increase or decrease.

I'm taking advantage of an ordinal block explorer to by giving the envelope the ordinal identifier "ord" so the SHA256 hash is picked up on the ordinal block explorer where my app can read the hash.

Even though I am using the ordinal envelope and using an ordinal block explorer to read the data, this is not an ordinal in a traditional sense. Every user on my app will write 1 ordinal as a registering function for my app. It will not clog up the bitcoin blockchain and will not spam the bitcoin network. Gas fees will not go up because of my app, don't worry. 

$ du -d 2 -h
594M    ./indexes/blockfilter
361M    ./indexes/coinstats
6.0G    ./indexes/txindex
6.9G    ./indexes
450M    ./blocks/index
56G     ./blocks
7.8G    ./chainstate
71G     .

{
  "height": 2810692,
  "bestblock": "000000000000009910d22b6f04ef25d718350863560ea24a85da54e666127e4f",
  "txouts": 116842453,
  "bogosize": 9425932147,
  "hash_serialized_3": "ba355559e0d1c5de59ec7e512a7ef374e0df01be653d60424db397cd84dae801",
  "total_amount": 20997039.32915585,
  "transactions": 64934575,
  "disk_size": 8364679205
}

There has always been faucets giving coins and the only complains I've seen so far have been from people who want large amounts and the worst part is that I have not seen any reasonable arguments for needing such amounts as opposed to using something like regtest.
So I wouldn't say "it is not easy to obtain testnet coins".

I typically don't like bitcoin software that's too big or too complex or too capable of handling too many things. I like it as simple as it can possibly be.
And I don't like JAVA shit.

Thank you but no. I am a die hard electrum fan.

Btw, I know that creating Bitcoin inscriptions or anything that could be considered similar to an ordinal or BRC-20 is somewhat controversial but that's not the goal here. I want to create an inscription to build an app that requires a TINY AMOUNT of "hard" storage stored in the form of an inscription. It's SUPER TINY (literally the size of a sha-256 hash) and not going to clog up Bitcoin but I just can't find anyone that can help me fix the bug in my script. Does anyone know how to make by C# script work like my Javascript script does?

By configuring your Raspberry Pi 5 to adopt both an IPv4 and IPv6, Core Bitcoin will use an IPv6 addressing whenever it is available. Certainly, TOR can be the best way to solve the issue of inbound connections in order not to freak out the central server. The TOR bridges in place ensure complete anonymity provided in TOR. Responding to any possible problem of CGNAT or unstable IPv4 to make your full node approachable and anonymous.

Your Bitcoins in Lobster Wallet are actually real. Lobster is a wallet for Stellar Network, not Bitcoin. Your transaction is not related to Bitcoin. It is related to Stellar Lumens (XLM). It is not possible to trade bitcoins in your Lobster Wallet because Lobster Wallet is designed for Stellar. For Bitcoin transactions, you need to use a Bitcoin Core wallet or a hardware wallet like Ledger or Treasure.

The blockchain client must be configured to mine the Genesis block. Your blockchain client's configuration file for mining should include the algorithm, Coinbase address, difficulty target, and more ancillary settings. After configuring now start mining using the 'start mining' command or you can give the mining command through the user interface. After starting mining you need to monitor whether the correct blocks are being mined successfully. You can verify with Blockchain Explorer whether the Genesis block has been successfully added to the blockchain after it has been mined.

Thanks for the links, I'm trying to put together something about the security of the chain for a week but it's really far more complicated than I thought, sounded like a fun essay in my mind but it way over my head.

I read conflicting statements about that, hard for me to grasp but some guys talked about stopping mining when at a loss being even more of a loss, I understand that this would have been the case for companies not home miners but at the same time I don't think one could get their hands on the accounting sheets of a large company.

leave "memos" (aka OP_RETURN) to yellow sticky notes on your refrigerator. i wouldn't have it my crypto system.
Yes SegWit did solve the transaction malleability issue and improved signature verification time but i don't have an issue with those bug fixes. i don't think an entirely new address type was needed though. we need to keep things SIMPLE.
I don't find Taproot to be a compelling argument. or necessity.
but thanks for your insights.

This is interesting and I have thought also about a related idea, but can it be proven that a private key exists for a given public key?

My related idea was a kind of "invitation-only" coin: that you have to derive a key always from another key and announce this derivation with a mathematic proof that it is spendable before you can transact value to them (i.e. create a challenge based on that PK). This would allow that only "spendable" keys could be created. But first, I'm unsure about the math, and second, that would not be really an "open", "free" cryptocurrency.

Perhaps also a proof that a public key is spendable is possible without deriving the key from an existing one?

However I believe even that can be used for data storage, but it would already make it more difficult (not necessarily more expensive though).

Is there really 1929868153955269923726183083478131797547292737984581739710086052358636024906 pages? Each page have 60 keys. I can not calculate the total number. Is it really possible?

You had quite a long post there and i can't respond to every single question but i think you understand the issues involved.

Satoshi did a better job. If they would have just left it that way. But instead they had to introduce things like OP_RETURN, segwit and taproot. What do you think the end result of all that is going to be? that's right. a huge mess.

I don't hold satoshi responsible for all this mess though. If people want to store data on the blockchain, they should have to pay through the nose but then they would never do it in the first place most likely. Just like it never caught on before all these upgrades took place. "upgrades".

Satoshi showed us how it's done.

Surprisingly, the plan would be similar to the original bitcoin. Only a few transaction types. No OP RETURN no nothing like that.
Only have one transaction type. Pay to public key hash. That really is all I would have. The simpler the better and less exploitable it is. No upgrades for higher level functionality, nothing like that. Only bug fixes if necessary. But no new "features". Doing one thing and doing it well is all that really is necessary. Bitcoin has kind of lost that with all these ugrades and things. And we see the end result.

Thank you for the question.

How long does it take to make my wallet 100% private?

Depending on many factors, like the Anonymity score target, the coinjoin strategy, and the amount of bitcoin, it can take from a couple hours to multiple days.

What does the privacy progress mean?

The privacy progress tile represents the percentage of how private the wallet is. It considers the anonymity score weighted amounts instead of just amounts that reached the anonymity score threshold. The private value is the total amount that reached the anonscore threshold.

Certainly! Coinbase rewards, also known as block rewards, are the mechanism by which new bitcoins are created and distributed to miners for validating transactions and securing the blockchain. Here's how it works:

Mining Process: Miners use powerful computers to solve complex mathematical problems that confirm and add transactions to the blockchain, a decentralized ledger of all transactions in the Bitcoin network.

Validating Transactions: When a miner successfully solves a block, they compile a list of transactions and create a new block. This block includes a special transaction called the "coinbase transaction" which contains the newly generated bitcoins as well as any transaction fees collected from the included transactions.

Creating New Bitcoins: The coinbase transaction is the first transaction in each block, and it's how new bitcoins are introduced into circulation. These newly created bitcoins are the miner's reward for successfully mining the block.

Halving: The number of bitcoins generated per block is halved approximately every four years, in an event called the "halving." This reduction is programmed into the Bitcoin protocol and is designed to control inflation and limit the total supply of bitcoins to 21 million.

Satoshi's Preprogramming: When Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin, they preprogrammed the software to include the rules for generating new bitcoins. This includes the initial block reward of 50 bitcoins per block, which was halved to 25 bitcoins in November 2012, then halved again to 12.5 bitcoins in July 2016, and so on.

So, in summary, miners receive their bitcoins as a reward for successfully mining a new block, and this reward is embedded in the coinbase transaction within that block. Satoshi Nakamoto designed the protocol to gradually release new bitcoins into circulation while also controlling the rate of issuance through the halving mechanism.

I'm not a newbie by any means more of a lurker but reading lately a few topics about mining and the speculation on price I've started to think about another kind of relation between the piece and the hashrate as well as the chain security, it's a bit fuzzy in my mind and I don't have a clear path to it, I'm too much focused on the result than how to arrive the there that I would need a bit of help with some information

- What were the key moments in ASIC releases, or what models did have a huge impact on the hashrate?
I should choose the S3,S9,S17,S19 for this considering them a game changer?

- What would be a realistic time frame since launch of a new generation ASIC to consider it dominant in making the overall hashrate?

- What would be the lifetime of an ASIC on average?

- Is it safe to consider a miner with extremely cheap energy keeping on mining with an old but still profitable gear till the gears fails?

Kalau pada thread yang agan tautkan, itu kan Apollo versi pertama, sedangkan katanya yang versi kedua ini sudah menggunakan teknologi 5nm terbaru. Yang versi dua, ini linknya guys: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5492150.0 cuma ini adalah founder edition buat Sultan.

Hello,

I saw that the founders of Samourai Wallets were arrested and that the website to download the wallet was frozen. I guess this has made users of this wallet unsecured.
Do you think this can happen to other software wallets ? Especially Electrum ?

But Joinstr is not bundled with Electrum or even mentioned once on its website. What are you on about?