Since a signed bitcoin transaction is not timestamped until broadcasted and entering the blockchain, does it make sense to keep old signed bitcoin transactions that other people did sign so that one day if those origin addresses have funds again you clear it again, broadcasting those signed transactions again and making them show up again in a new block?
Just imagine, someone keeps all his signed transactions in a drive. And you happen to copy and backup all those files. Could one day you be lucky and have some of them enter the blockchain again if he reuses his addresses and happens to have funds again on those addresses?

 

I am looking to find the name of the show and the name of the guy hosting the show that was broadcasting a new episode of that video log bitcoin news podcast every single week or so, back in 2011 or so.
The name of the show was something very plain like: "The Weekly Bitcoin Show" or "Bitcoin Show Week".
He and his family lost all his bitcoin. How much was that and what was his name and show? I am pretty sure that I may find out who were the thieves.

- remotemass

https://bountify.co/bitcoin-heist-of-around-2010-2011

Yeah, right, ASICs are not general-purpose computers but still, you need computer scientists and engineers to push that technology, no? And you will probably end up with skilled people to build the next iterations of computer architectures. Maybe many of them end up building Tesla computer chips and technology... Just sayin'...

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And also... maybe Satoshi did calculate how many blocks would be mined (with an average of 10 minutes a block) in 1 million seconds... and since that is 166,666.666 blocks he may have decided for 210,000 for looking less beastly/evil and rather much more four seasons...
For me, that makes total sense.

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100,310,400 - 99,532,800 = 777,600 seconds = 216 hours = precisely 9 days.
Sometimes these discoveries strike me as being beautiful and fascinating Hehe. Neat!

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28th Feb 2020 + 3 calendar years + 2 calendar months + 1 day = 29th April 2023. That is 1156 days.  
And, so that would be indeed: 99,878,400 sats. (1 sat a second).

Yes, I know it depends on the degree of precision of the calculations.
For instance, if each of the 3 years was a leap year (366 days)
and the 2 months were 31 days (2*31=62 days),
then we would have: 3*366+62+1= 1161 days.

And as the minimum for 3 years, 2 months and 1 day is:
365*3 + (28 * 2) + 1 = 1152, since a month can have 28 days indeed.

So "3 years, 2 months, 1 day" is "equal or greater than 1152"  and equal or "equal or less than 1161",
and so, 1 satoshi a second would be indeed between: "1152 * 86400 = 99532800" and "1161 * 86400 = 100310400" satoshi.
Since the range is that, it seems quite accurate to say that 3 years, 2 months and 1 day would be: ~= 1BTC.

Hehe, cool ;-)

Oops, I meant 1 satoshi a second... Ouch!

If you spend 1 satoshi a second, you will spend 1 BTC is 3 years, 2 months & 1 Day...
How cool is that? 3... Years, 2... Months and... 1 Day... lol.  

Hey,

How good is the argument that bitcoin is actually making the world save energy since it is pushing the limits of computer technology making computers more efficient and powerful and so having an overall positive impact in saving the world?
Is that a convincing argument to those that say that bitcoin is a huge waste of energy?

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Hi,

Will there be any big announcements at the Bitcoin 2022 Miami conference (6th-9th of April)?
Any information would be very welcome. Can we expect any big announcements?

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19 Million BTC in two weeks' time, then by 2027, 95% of the 21 Million bitcoins' limit will be in circulation. Then it will take 113 years to issue the last 5%.

Bitcoin fixed supply makes it certainly very deflationary with ramping purchasing power.

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The average volume of the brain is around 0.001234 m3. That is, 0.1234% of a cube with one meter.
If we consider cubic picometers (10e−12 m) close enough to the Plank scale in order to 100% digitize a human brain and assuming that each cubic picometer would need one bit of memory to be stored in a digital format, we would need 2 to the power of 1.234e+33 bits since we have about 1.234e+33 cubic picometers to digitize with zeros and ones. That is: 154,250,000,000,000,000 Petabytes, or about 150 quadrillions of Petabytes.

Would we need about 150 quadrillions of Petabytes to store a digital brain version of Satoshi's brain? Could one day have a blockchain that could store that amount of data?

Please do check all my calculations and estimations and if you can come up with different ones please kindly show yours.

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This week the BBC show that showcases every week the latest news in tech, is dedicated to the NFTs in the filming industry.
Also talking about DAOs.
It is great news for bitcoin and crypto that these things are becoming so mainstream and talked about.

You may need a VPN to watch BBC content outside of the UK.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0013vj1/click-22012022

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Yep, there will be about 2 cents of a BTC missing to reach the 21 Million limit.
21,000,000 - 20,999,999.9769 = 0.0231 

The scarcity and bitcoins that enter circulation are scheduled and hard-coded. That does not depend on the difficulty of mining.

The difficulty of mining and processing power of the whole network will only affect the security and reliability of the network, not really affecting the number of coins existing at a given time. The amount of mining devoted is regulated by the market price of bitcoin, energy and processing units hardware. But that will never affect the number of coins at a given time because those are scheduled and known in advance with a great degree of certainty (though the exact moment blocks enter the blockchain is unknown, but cannot oscillate too much from an average estimative).

Also, one shall not relate the price of bitcoin in dollars to the whole wealth of the world. Instead, one shall use as a reference the sum of the market value of all currencies in circulation. Unless, of course, you think people will be selling their real estate, businesses, gold, silver, etc., to buy bitcoin. It is more reasonable to assume that people will be selling their savings in money, converting it to bitcoin, not really their whole wealth. But a fraction of it, yes, it is quite reasonable to think.

The reason bitcoin has a market value is because it has many of the qualities of sound money, namely and very importantly "scarcity" and usefulness as a medium of exchange online. But also, divisibility, durability, non-fungibility, etc.
Think of it as digital gold that can be sent over the internet all over the world in a matter of minutes.

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franky1: Nope, didn't sell the account. Same dude, here. You said it with fewer words, Franky1, but with much less details.
Yes, I am implying exactly what you said, but not recently, for a very long time. Since I have this account actually, or even before, as a matter of fact.
It's a pity you don't find that worth of any credibility because it actually is worthy of that.

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Another way, I guess, is that the mentioned ISP from Portugal (clix.pt) stores all emails it receives, even the ones that bounce back because the mailbox account is gone.

I remember that my first encounter with peer-2-peer money was a bit like that of Andreas Antonopoulos, not paying it the attention I should.
I was studying Computer Science and Engineering at London South Bank University (I graduated in the summer of 2012) and I was studying hard but sometimes I would do very weird things like spending a whole day watching youtube videos of all of the hundreds of writers listed in a freebie magazine, called "Shortlist", that was given to me in the morning when I was going to uni.
This time, I was surfing the web in some blogs related to "intentional communities" and alternative styles of life. I remember I found this bizarre apparently very young man that I would certainly recognize if I saw one of his videos again, that was channeling messages from aliens, some very bizarre videos actually. And along with that, I found a blog, that I really don't know how to find out what it was, and in one of the posts I found out there was this experimental software for peer-2-peer money.
And I said to myself, "Wow, peer-2-peer money. How cool!".
And without spending too much time and realizing how important it would become, I just moved on, but still, I remember it well, I sent an email from my university email (since it was not my Gmail, I checked it, and I wouldn't certainly create an email for that specific purpose) to my dear uncle, to whom from time to time I would send emails of stuff I found particularly interesting that he could not know about, which is actually extremely hard, believe me).
The email was sent from my email, namely: alexandd@lsbu.ac.uk and his email address ended in: @cix.pt (which used to be a very popular ISP and online email provider in Portugal). My best guess is that it was by the end of 2009, probably November or December, but could have been in 2010, I am actually not sure, and it is hard for me to figure it out). That was actually the last email I sent to that email address because what happened is that the email bounced back straight away saying that That email box was no longer in use.
The email was just saying something short like: "This is amazing, peer-2-peer money." with a link to that short blog post where it was mentioned.

When I graduated I didn't backup emails. There was not a simple way to export and backup and I didn't realize I would need anything from those emails, so I just looked a bit into it to see if there was really anything that I wanted to save, but quickly moved on and thought, well I will not actually need any of these. So I will move on.

Later I realized I actually would like to have this particular sent email. But it was too late. I contacted the uni but they always say the same, after a few months those emails are discarded and there is really no way to recover them.

My question is, most internet activities in the UK are all particularly scrutinized and logged by GCHQ, which is like the NSA of the UK, so it is extremely unlikely that an email sent from a university in London at that time could be lost. But still, I really don't know. Emails are very specific internet communication, using specific protocols like IMAP and POP3. So, what do you think, is that email really lost?

Any feedback would be very welcome. And of course, I know the email address I sent it to.
And actually most emails I would send him were from my Gmail. But for a bit bizarre reason this last one was sent from: alexandd@lsbu.uk
Then, I was many many years without contacting him. And even by that time, I would only send him emails, because talking with him on the phone was even less often. I talked with him on the phone in December 2006 and more recently, a few years ago and last year. But as you see, not every day.
Mainly because he is very much of a hermit and mysterious man. But his heart is definitely in the right place. And he is a very moral man. Probably the most intelligent, cultured and knowledgeable I ever met. And I have met many, believe me. He is probably the closest thing to the Richard Feynman of our time. And yes, he could be Satoshi Nakamoto. And has an extremely very high profile for that actually. He even studied Maths at Ph.D. level at Harvard at about the same time of Neal Koblitz (creator of the Elliptic Curves math) and by the time that William Feller, last referenced in the bitcoin whitepaper, (that looks a bit like how one would imagine a very wise   Japanese Satoshi), from Princeton University, received his National Medal of Science medal, around the Summer of Love.

Another thing, it is very unlikely Satoshi never searched or read on the web about the "Byzantine Generals Problem" before we had VPNs and Tor Browser. Now we have SyncThing which is even more powerful if you are careful and protect your files, air-gapped from the internet, with a password using 7z (from 7-zip.org), making them for that matter encrypted. So why no one would try to find who did actually look for it on the web before 2008?! Wouldn't that be the first thing to try?

But I only became really interested in Bitcoin, reading the whitepaper and everything I could on the web, by the end of August in 2011 (26/Aug/2011), when Ray Kurzweil posted about it on his email mailing-list that I used to receive. I think there was something else that triggered a bit of my attention before that, but don't know exactly what.
 
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[EDIT: Actually, I just found out it was sent, for sure, after: 08/Oct/2009]

 

There is at least one use case where I would consider using them: to explain to others about bitcoin key-pairs.