Bitcoin is digital cash. It has a specific number of units in circulation that enter circulation given as rewards to miners.
Blochchain technology is the consensus mechanism and triple-entry ledger system that makes digital assets ownership manageable and that implements a distributed timestamp server on a peer-to-peer basis.
Bitcoin is the what and blockchain is the how. The context is: digital assets ownership...

Yes, along the lines of RSS feeds.
It's not a game. It is a web scrapper that uses OCR and four images to tell the corners of the target area.
You could get the results in JSON, RSS, etc...

The four corners are anchors. You provide the URL and these four images will make delimitation.
Each of the images will correspond to a point. A, B, C and D make a rectangle.
All text inside that area is read using OCR and echoed to your personalized URL. You pay for the service with micro-payments of bitcoin.

It's not a game. It is a web scrapper that uses OCR and four images to tell the corners of the target area.

Here is an idea for a web app that would work great with bitcoin payments.

You would need to tell the web app a URL and upload four corners of free selections.
All the text in the rectangle formed by:
- Bottom-right corner of A
- Bottom-left corner of B
- Up-right corner of C
- Up-left corner of D

would be recognized with OCR and retrieved to:
thewebappURL.com/yourbitcoinadresstosendpayments

every time you called that page, it would echo the text of that dynamic or static part of the page.



Would echo:
"
JOIN TODAY
Open an account, deposit £10* or more and you will be
entitled to a 100% bonus of your qualifying deposit up to a
maximum of £200*. More details ¦ Join Now "

Do you understand my idea?
You would then need to send micropayments from the bitcoin address of that URL provided to have the service being working.

Do you understand the idea? A web app that would use OCR to recognize text in rectangle area constrained by four selection images of that site provided.
Bitcoins would be used to make it more cooll!!!

Direct Democracy 2.0 is needed more than ever.

This could be with anything, tweets, images, videos... the ingenuity here is in how I gave a solution to make the game fair.

In between blocks two tweets (X and Y) would be picked at random using the hash of the latest block as a random generator.

You would have two bitcoin addresses to bet: A and B.
If you think tweet X is likely to be considered more interesting than tweet Y, you send coins to address A.
Otherwise you send coins to address B.

The ones that sent coins to the address that got less coins lose their coins to the ones that sent them to the address
that got more coins. Those that win get a proportion of the coins of the losers correspondent to the proportion of
coins they sent to the address where winners bet.

The catch is how to avoid people bet based on other peoples bets.

Here is a solution.

Users would have to provide the SHA256(LatestHash appended by many random gibberish/nonce ODD digits)
if sending coins to address A means betting on tweet X.

or SHA256(LatestHash appended by many random gibberish/nonce EVEN digits)
if sending coins to address A means betting on tweet Y.

To be eligible to claim the prize you must reveal the digits that appended to the given string make it so that the
SHA256 of it all is the one that was provided to participate in the game.
If you cannot provide a sequence of ODD or of EVEN numbers that will make public what was your choice in advance for
what sending to address A or B meant in terms of your bet, you loose your coins.
Otherwise, you win if according to the address to bet correspondence you did bet in the winner option.

Any delusional clues on why Satoshi used such particular Base58 set?

Here goes mine:

Lol. Li.I c. Lie Algebras
*o*o Re+dit. Li, vi, Rir.
It is so lol + li...
I read it on reddit in Portuguese reads:
"Eu li-o no lido"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJD5rdHsBqU

Dim the lights, relax and let go.
Hope you love this gentle and safe visionary experience,,,

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Does anyone know about a technology that gives you 10 cents of a dollar if you are the first to click a link. I think is a spamming technology. Does anyone know what is it. I just heard about it on bitcoin talk show but they just mention it vaguely...

Minute 45m.00s -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLy7V_JVnao

I think it is good to better understand the bitcoin protocol because it has a very hands-on approach with exercises in Python that will make you understand a lot of the bitcoin internals.
But to understand the bitcoin-Qt client I don't think it is ideal.
For me the ideal book would be one that leveraged your C++ while teaching you to understand a simplified version of a bitcoin client in C++ with a lot of diagrams.
I am a visual learner so I have difficulty understanding things like STL map and multimap containers without diagrams.
My C++ is good enough to understand 95% of a C++ video tutorial like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rub-JsjMhWY

But still I expect a book to help me with C++ for better understanding of the bitcoin clients code.
Because it gets really difficult without diagrams, comments, C++ leverage and visual roadmap to get to grips with the clients' code.

I give Mastering Bitcoin five starts, though. It is very helpful and sheds a lot of help on the subject.
Much more is necessary. But is good achievement, and may help others come up with more good stuff.

I'm trying an app called dashlane that seems pretty cool.
In the app there is a section called "digital wallets" but it doesn't feature bitcoin.
Only Credit/debit card, bank account and paypal.
I wonder if they plan to integrate bitcoin also, any soon...

I'm serious. I think making the blockchain sensitive to any parallel universe bifurcations so that the blockchain is different in as many worlds as possible is interesting.

Even the best random generators have deterministic limitations.
I reckon this would be a better source of randomness if you were trying to get a different result in as many parallel universes as possible.
My intuition tells me that this might also ultimately prove to be useful in terms of things like quantum computing.

As I said, the hash of the blockchain would be different in each parallel universe, and you could use that hash to pick the lottery numbers. If the lottery numbers drawn were the same in every parallel universe you would be having more chances in winning in one of them because the numbers you would pick would be different in every world.
The catch is that the lottery numbers drawn would probably be also different in different worlds.
But we could have a lottery were the numbers are drawn in advance and kept secret so that they will be the same in all worlds as the extraction would be previous to the numbers pick.

The idea of having a RDG that will produce different results in different worlds seems interesting and may prove useful one day in terms of quantum computing.

Assuming that the hash of all hashes was different in parallel universes, you could use it to differentiate between them. That's what I mean by "quantum state".

You would hash all the hashes, so this wouldn't be bloating the blockchain.

I just didn't understand what was meant as inserting a hash of everyones's computers activity periodically doesn't add much at all to the size of the blockchain. Almost zero change to the size.