Craig Wright (aka Faketoshi) is once again making legal threats that can only be described as absurd. In this round, his law firm sent letters to developers and organizations involved with BTC, BCH, BCHABC, and BSV, claiming that the developers must give him access to the coins at two addresses or face legal action. According to the letter, hackers managed to obtain the private keys to these two addresses on February 5, 2020 and then erase the originals. 1. One of the addresses appears to hold bitcoins stolen from Mt. Gox. Why would Faketoshi implicate himself in the theft of bitcoins from Mt. Gox? 2. Apparently, Faketoshi couldn't be bothered to back up private keys containing millions of dollars worth of bitcoins. That fact damages the credibility of his claim. 3. The demand is impossible to fulfill, at least for the BTC and BCH chains. 4. A letter was sent to his own BSV developers. Here are the letters: https://www.ontier.net/ia/a1letter-before-action-from-ttl.pdfObviously, there must be some rational motive behind this. I can think of two possible motives: 1. The purpose is to establish the claim that Faketoshi once had a lot of bitcoins, but now he no longer has any. Perhaps this is preparation for the classic "I lost my keys in a boating accident" defense. It looks like he has lost the lawsuit by Ira Kleiman, so he will be on the hook for a lot of bitcoins, and he might be trying to plead poverty in order to avoid having to pay. 2. There are about 110,000 coins at those two addresses, and the BSV is worth about $20 million. He might be laying the legal (and moral) groundwork to justify confiscation of the BSV from those two addresses. That is something that he probably could pull off. |
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Block explorer REST API. For example: curl https://blockstream.info/api/address/bc1qlmu82uqt78ku696mffn8k8hrsurvh96us7f0tl/txs[
{
"txid": "3f306e520868d7f1e4436b607289bf4ac3a21351250a7adcdbf4fbd327eb6686",
"version": 2,
"locktime": 672245,
"vin": [
{
"txid": "8199496717d29b83f95523ac5bb0715c56d422375e4e25e1f8627a9bef2273c4",
"vout": 163,
"prevout": {
"scriptpubkey": "76a91465abe3122cef94bf1cda0833ba08ce2fb9188d7a88ac",
"scriptpubkey_asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 OP_PUSHBYTES_20 65abe3122cef94bf1cda0833ba08ce2fb9188d7a OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
"scriptpubkey_type": "p2pkh",
"scriptpubkey_address": "1AGbAHyktwXTTWjRdqyYL8zeaWP1tAA4Fz",
"value": 314886
},
"scriptsig": "47304402205f34d40c03f48639c7dedcd6f043920b086211e564509cdc828d9e42a12461bb02205747b4ca425d09dc8b947ff2332c6c5998545b30a88b7865065591ac2d2636a0012102ee265af3f30b0113336aaad48b658cce34a2e4f8e29fae2637bef9df28cdcb0f",
"scriptsig_asm": "OP_PUSHBYTES_71 304402205f34d40c03f48639c7dedcd6f043920b086211e564509cdc828d9e42a12461bb02205747b4ca425d09dc8b947ff2332c6c5998545b30a88b7865065591ac2d2636a001 OP_PUSHBYTES_33 02ee265af3f30b0113336aaad48b658cce34a2e4f8e29fae2637bef9df28cdcb0f",
"is_coinbase": false,
"sequence": 4294967294
},
{
"txid": "8199496717d29b83f95523ac5bb0715c56d422375e4e25e1f8627a9bef2273c4",
"vout": 120,
"prevout": {
"scriptpubkey": "76a914211c0c14767861fdfee3c469711bbf94a3635e0488ac",
"scriptpubkey_asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 OP_PUSHBYTES_20 211c0c14767861fdfee3c469711bbf94a3635e04 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
"scriptpubkey_type": "p2pkh",
"scriptpubkey_address": "1424u5pg2iAT5dDuzwd6w4wGqSTFwP2aYJ",
"value": 188932
},
"scriptsig": "473044022051e5780f466c827321caa8cf7b455a42c8fc5e454dbad49939158753410f34f90220325b7eed934c44e83f658d5f9c0b5f17eea815bec77f9f317c2885de0c0070e6012103f8405edb473c1ac07231629fdb4c10d9bcff02d958a32f33aef9757ac5194ccd",
"scriptsig_asm": "OP_PUSHBYTES_71 3044022051e5780f466c827321caa8cf7b455a42c8fc5e454dbad49939158753410f34f90220325b7eed934c44e83f658d5f9c0b5f17eea815bec77f9f317c2885de0c0070e601 OP_PUSHBYTES_33 03f8405edb473c1ac07231629fdb4c10d9bcff02d958a32f33aef9757ac5194ccd",
"is_coinbase": false,
"sequence": 4294967294
},
{
"txid": "8199496717d29b83f95523ac5bb0715c56d422375e4e25e1f8627a9bef2273c4",
"vout": 57,
"prevout": {
"scriptpubkey": "a914037e8f244994d6704f98502aa0f874cc06421fd687",
"scriptpubkey_asm": "OP_HASH160 OP_PUSHBYTES_20 037e8f244994d6704f98502aa0f874cc06421fd6 OP_EQUAL",
"scriptpubkey_type": "p2sh",
"scriptpubkey_address": "321VZbveNduqDsNjnjM3oYDude7S2zrBjH",
"value": 129969
},
"scriptsig": "1600148756e010ed05ecdbc37e2881d7897930fab58889",
"scriptsig_asm": "OP_PUSHBYTES_22 00148756e010ed05ecdbc37e2881d7897930fab58889",
"witness": [
"3044022011ccd8dd8f4da373f676870c423f186123fcd20cd8736dad9a7dca67788f8bca02202051e811efb7b0cd441791e17221d02640e7b7d1bc8d3bb460e1df879655b0df01",
"02016f41a318979cda2674db66d1440cf8cbbdbd8a311dd0ea2a6b1e35babc1fbd"
],
"is_coinbase": false,
"sequence": 4294967294,
"inner_redeemscript_asm": "OP_0 OP_PUSHBYTES_20 8756e010ed05ecdbc37e2881d7897930fab58889"
},
{
"txid": "140120f2317f8cf68ea7d1437bc3617f8de79d8426e16d6a51387e0e9b2a7e9a",
"vout": 0,
"prevout": {
"scriptpubkey": "76a9147f18157693647af50effe6aea217ed59c1485e7088ac",
"scriptpubkey_asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 OP_PUSHBYTES_20 7f18157693647af50effe6aea217ed59c1485e70 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
"scriptpubkey_type": "p2pkh",
"scriptpubkey_address": "1Cb1fjkQqPjsuvSkoVZcwgqDnhJHcQBS1G",
"value": 630000
},
"scriptsig": "47304402205303923348669b403486968081585b91b208eeafde6e4ca4c1c53bb9a47a4da6022028e46e93c905081f1929a765ecb3400cda87fef906f8b667d816a96884c339f201210340666461250a4f293f3666759aefa65d26c818eb54ca5eae59b6f6219b5df358",
"scriptsig_asm": "OP_PUSHBYTES_71 304402205303923348669b403486968081585b91b208eeafde6e4ca4c1c53bb9a47a4da6022028e46e93c905081f1929a765ecb3400cda87fef906f8b667d816a96884c339f201 OP_PUSHBYTES_33 0340666461250a4f293f3666759aefa65d26c818eb54ca5eae59b6f6219b5df358",
"is_coinbase": false,
"sequence": 4294967294
}
],
"vout": [
{
"scriptpubkey": "0014fef875700bf1edcd175b4a667b1ee38706cb975c",
"scriptpubkey_asm": "OP_0 OP_PUSHBYTES_20 fef875700bf1edcd175b4a667b1ee38706cb975c",
"scriptpubkey_type": "v0_p2wpkh",
"scriptpubkey_address": "bc1qlmu82uqt78ku696mffn8k8hrsurvh96us7f0tl",
"value": 1090000
}
],
"size": 658,
"weight": 2296,
"fee": 173787,
"status": {
"confirmed": true,
"block_height": 672247,
"block_hash": "000000000000000000093911a011940c37443f7f31a69b42da24b0273458bdf7",
"block_time": 1614330424
}
}
]
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Are you saying that private keys are purposely hidden somewhere in the data, and them you paid for them knowing that you might not be able to find them or that they might not exist at all?
That makes little sense to me.
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Need accounts with 5-10 trade volume giving upto 50% back but need localbitcoin accounts with minimum 5-10 trade volume. Serious people good money to be made . Hit me up on telegram @eskimo5 if I’m not always online on this
I would avoid this offer. When Elchapo3455 scams somebody, it is you that will get the blame. |
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It is not clear what you want to do. This pages explains all the types of orders: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/order.aspIn a stop loss order, you instruct the exchange create a market order to exit your position if the price reaches the value you specify. In a stop limit order, you instruct the exchange create a limit order to exit your position if the price reaches the value you specify. The limit order is executed at the limit or better, or not at all. |
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- what do you think about this configuration on chainparams?
consensus.nPowTargetTimespan = 21 * 24 * 60 * 60; // three weeks
consensus.nPowTargetSpacing = 9 * 60;
Why change them? Why do you want to change them to those values? |
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A private key beginning with "nV" is not a valid Bitcoin private key (at least not in any standard format).
Bitcoin private keys in the WIF format begin with "5", "L", or "K". BIP-38 private keys begin with a "6". A private key in hex format will only use the characters "0"-"9" and "a"-"f" or "A"- "F", and might begin with a "0x" that is not actually part of the key.
It may be base-64. Does it end with "=" or use the symbols "+" or "/"? Try using a base-64 decoder.
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It is up to the miner to choose which transactions go into the block. No miner will pick a 0-fee transaction, regardless of its age, if there are paying transactions to include. There is no way to enforce your policy.
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You should add Dave Kleiman to your list.
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The article just repeats what other people have written elsewhere. It does not add anything new. Most of the article is fluff. The meat of the article justifying the $10 million price is based on flawed assumptions, misconceptions, and ignorance of basic economics. Each halving is followed by a ‘supply shock’ as the supply fails to meet demand and buyers bid up the price of each Bitcoin until it reaches multiples of its pre-halving price.
The halving does not cause a "supply shock". The production is cut in half but the supply continues to increase every 10 minutes. What follows is a bull run that lasts for about a year or so, followed by a bear market. These four-year-cycles draw in more Bitcoin users and holders with each iteration.
Contrary to popular belief there is no four-year cycle and there is no correlation between halvings and price increases. Those that make these claims are cherry-picking the data. They ignore the bull runs in 2011 and 2019, and the fact that there were two bull runs in 2013. Hal Finney, one of the earliest contributors to Bitcoin, wrote in 2009 that “current estimates of total worldwide household wealth that I have found range from $100 trillion to
$300 trillion. With 20 million coins, that gives each coin a value of about $10 million.”
Hal Finney was mistaken. There is no reason to compare total worldwide household wealth to the market cap of bitcoin. Doing that would imply that everything we own is replaced by bitcoins. |
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Shockwave is an animation system that can be used to make simple interactive 2D games. A SWF contains the program. There is nothing in either of those two folders that look like they might even be remotely related to bitcoin. A bitcoin wallet is usually stored in a file called wallet.dat in a folder that typically contains the following files and folders: anchors.dat banlist.dat bitcoin.conf blocks chainstate db.log debug.log fee_estimates.dat mempool.dat peers.dat settings.json wallet.dat It looks like your folder has those along with other unrelated stuff. |
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I'm not an expert in Algorithmic Information Theory, but I understand the premise.
First I want to point out a misconception. The term "random" describes a process and not the individual values generated by that process. The fact that the first million digits of pi can be compressed does not make the digits of pi not random. The value 2256-1 might not seem random, but if it is generated by SHA-256, then it is because SHA-256 is random.
Anyway, ...
1. I wouldn't pick a general purpose programming language. These languages would come with a lot of baggage making actual measurement infeasible if not impossible.
2. What do you mean by the complexity of a block chain protocol? I would measure the validation rules, since those are what ultimately determine the output.
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Hodling an asset with a fixed supply increases volatility, it doesn't decrease it.
Yes, I believe that is true. It tends to increase volatility because it reduces liquidity. |
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There is no machine that has been proven to not have a maker. There are countless numbers of machines that have makers. In science, when the statistics are as high as they are for makers of machines, with zero statistics to oppose this, such is accepted as proof, scientifically.
I'll just focus on this one to save everyone a lot of unnecessary reading. There is no machine that has been proven to not have a maker.
You claim that " every machine has a maker". In order to disprove that, I just need to provide a single example of a machine that doesn't support your claim. I don't need to prove the opposite. The water cycle is such a machine. If you can't demonstrate the maker of the water cycle, then you can't say that every machine has a maker. You might be able to get away with saying that most machines have makers, so a god might exist. But, you can't say that every machine has a maker, therefore a god exists. There are countless numbers of machines that have makers. In science, when the statistics are as high as they are for makers of machines, with zero statistics to oppose this, such is accepted as proof, scientifically.
And there may be countless number of machines that can't be shown to have makers, but you just haven't bothered to consider them. So, your attempted use of statistics here is flawed. It's like claiming that all M&Ms are green because you simply ignore the other colors. |
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Why? The suffix -aire doesn't mean "someone who has a million something". Would you say a legionnaire is someone who owns a million legions? I'll answer for you, no you wouldn't.
And a billionaire would own a million billions, whatever that means. A million billion is a quadrillion, so a billionaire would be a quadrillionaire, and a million million is a trillion, so a millionaire would be a trillionaire. Hmmm, that's not working out very well ... |
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There is no benefit to having more money than you will spend. I think that having enough money to fund a better lifestyle than what you currently have for the rest of your life is enough. Of course, that will be a different amount for each person.
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At some point, a "bitcoinaire" may mean a wealthy person who owns just a single bitcoin.
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Good luck. People have been saying this for a decade. Max Keiser had a "Crash JP Morgan" campaign 10 years ago, claiming that JP Morgan was short silver and suppressing its price. Silver even went up to $40 and nothing happened.
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Bit coin has no intrinsic value. It's only valuable right now because people are willing to pay fiat for it. If fiat goes to 0, so will bit coin.
So, if fiat collapses, then what will be used to pay for a gun? According to you, it couldn't be precious metals because they are also only valuable right now because people are willing to pay fiat for them. Also, the Venezuelan bolívar has basically gone to 0, but the value of a bitcoin in Venezuela has not gone to 0. So, how do you know that if fiat goes to 0, so will bitcoin? |
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I'm not an expert, but I think that a bitcoin mining company is much like any other commodity producer and probably should be structured similarly. A big difference might be that the cost of capital vs. revenue works differently.
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