AFAIK, the Nato has a principle called Consensus Decision. When a member wants to join the bloc, it must have the consent of all the countries in the bloc, and when a country is revoked its membership of Nato, it must also have the consent of the whole Nato bloc. Which means that Turkey can only leave NATO if and only if it votes for itself to leave the bloc, the US cannot unilaterally revoke Ankara's membership.
Technically there is no details defined in NATO treaty about reasons and procedures for expulsion of a member state. They have left it wide open and can interpret it anyway they want. Basically they say in case of "material breach of the treaty" the membership can be revoked. And "material breach of the treaty" can mean anything like war crimes committed by Turkey in Syria. P.S. At least 16 countries in Europe surpassed double digits inflation so far.
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Can I ask you to elaborate on the risk of using the same private key for both P2TR and other type of a transactions (P2PKH, P2WPKH), please? Is there an exploit that I could examine and experiment with, perhaps?
The TL;DR is basically "nobody constructed a proof that demonstrates that ECDSA signatures cannot be correlated to Schnorr signatures (with different nonces), but also, nobody has been able to show that this is possible".
We also have the problem where same deterministic algorithm used for nonce generation could generate the same k which would leak the private key (eg. signing a message from both P2PKH and P2TR addresses using RFC6979 for nonce generation). ECDSA: R = k.G s = k −1(e + rd) (mod n) ECSDSA: R = k.G s = k + e*d (mod n) If private key (d) is the same and the nonce (k) is also the same, we already have values for signature (r and s) and the message digest (e) ergo we have two equations with 2 variables (k and d). It is trivial to solve it and find the two values.
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@pooya87 When funds are held hostage, that could be the only resort for many. These casinos accept anon deposits happily, and then trigger all these requests upon withdrawal.
But wouldn't that harm their business model? I mean at some point the number of negative feedback about their casino (how they took users' funds hostage) has to grow so much that new customers won't go there anymore and they would have to shut down.
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Just imagine for one moment that this is Satoshi Nakamoto and that we will see those coins being donated to the trust that are defending the developers against FakeToshi (CW).... it will be the best evidence that CW is not Satoshi Nakamoto.
That would be interesting but considering this was the reward for block #65,974 mined in July 2010, it is more likely this block was mined by anybody other than Satoshi Nakamoto. Besides if Satoshi wanted to show any support he would do what all those miners did last year and signed a message announcing that CSW is a scumbag scammer. https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2020/05/25/craig-wright-called-fraud-in-message-signed-with-bitcoin-addresses-he-claims-to-own/P.S. I wonder if the owner is going to claim the shitcoin airdrops, there's more than $8k worth of shitcoins in that address ($6k bcash + $2.7k bcashsv + some smaller shitcoins).
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The EU Parliament had proposed moving the protocol from a proof of work to a proof of quota. The reasons explained are the large amount consumed by mining farms with the inability of green energies to meet all the mining needs of energy.
EU parliament or any other government entity doesn't have a say about Bitcoin protocol, if they are making statements they are just making noise for themselves. Their reasons also had nothing to do with "green" crap at all, otherwise they wouldn't be moving towards using coal again very quickly! They've just been facing an energy crisis which they are trying to avoid while at the same time they have no idea what they are doing. There are countries that ban mining for the same reasons.
Any examples? I know China banned bitcoin mining because they wanted control over their citizens and their finances while introducing their own centralized govcoin.
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If there was quirk in Genesis block then block # 1 to 9 did not have quirk or any problems.
The thing with Genesis block reward is not a quirk or a problem, it is by design considering that block #0 was mined before the software was released and it is hard coded into each node's source code. But you are right from block #1 onward they are all the same considering spendability. Now what about block #11 and # 12 and all other Block Satoshi Mined from his one single computer ?
We don't know who mined block #11, 12 or any other block or how many computers Satoshi was controlling. In fact some people speculate that Satoshi had access to more than one computer to provide enough hashrate to mine bitcoin in early days. BTW we only know for sure that Satoshi mined block #0 (Genesis block) and block #9 (the reward he publicly announced to have spent).
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Bitcoin private keys are 256-bit numbers which is why they are long and they should be long otherwise they won't have the required security level to make them secure. Encoding a 256-bit integer would obviously result in a rather long string in small encoding bases like 16 or 58. You could try changing the encoding scheme to compress it a little but it still going to be long.
The reason why mini private keys are shorter is because they aren't keys, they are an entropy used to derive the key from and that entropy is smaller than the actual key in bits.
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I think that other countries won't ban Bitcoin directly yet, at least not until they release their own CBDC projects, but they can slowly start to increase pressure on exchanges, wallets, developers, miners, etc. It's obvious they want to have full surveillance and tracking in near future, so anything related with privacy is now under attack.
The only problem is that CBDC can not replace what bitcoin offers people and we and governments both know this so I really don't think they are going to start banning bitcoin after they released their govcoin. At least not all of them (maybe only the modern dictatorships aka democracies). They already know they can't prevent people from using bitcoin but they still want to surveil. The solution was to force centralized services to implement KYC and report back. CBDCs fall under the same thing, they fill gap in the market that would help the government surveil. Right now what we have are stable shitcoins that are too shady and risky.
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After several weeks of the exchange rate of EUR/USD trending at $1.02, today it crashed even further and practically achieved 1:1 parity. It's currently at $1.0037/€ and wouldn't be surprised if it went even further below. A few weeks ago, some users mentioned that we could also see Euro falling below $1 but many of us thought that it was too extreme. I hope we're not proved wrong.
The more countries that dump US dollar as trade/reserve currency the more Euro is going to dump! It's based on the fact that dumping US dollar sends back trillions of dollars that were printed without anything backing them that will cause high inflation and weaken US dollar. But they were sneaky enough to find ways to export that inflation, where is better than Europe to export it hence the dumping Euro. On top of that we have Europe's economy that depends on energy prices being low and their services being bought. Energy prices are rising and they are losing customers for their service-based economy. Obviously Euro loses value. 1 more month and the temperature will start dropping too while energy crisis worsens in Europe. We can easily expect a much lower exchange rate.
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Dude that's an almost 2 and a half hour long video where you slowly type your thoughts! I could only tolerate about 2 minutes of it and it seems like what you think is a "coin distribution problem" is something related to mining pools and hashrate and has nothing to do with coin distribution at all! It also is not exactly a "flaw" as you think it is.
Your shout-y all caps text here is also not very helpful. But something based on IP addresses that are very limited and can be faked very easily doesn't sound very reliable to me.
I suggest gathering your thoughts next time and try to keep things short, under 5 minutes maybe.
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Is Turkey going to be kicked out of NATO?
Apparently US is the only country that can decide who remains in NATO and recently they have been talking about how Turkey has committed war crimes in Syria (as if they didn't know it already in the past couple of years lol). Meanwhile they are shifting to Greece to replace Turkey's geostrategic position which may even lead to a conflict (between two NATO members no less!).
Considering Turkey is a small lifeline for Europe considering energy this could put an extra pressure on the already weak European economy and worsen the energy crisis specially since Turkey will have no other choice but turn to Russia and play in their game.
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It is one thing to see a centralized exchange that works with fiat currencies to request KYC, it is another to see an altcoin exchange that has no fiat currencies to ask for KYC and it is an entirely more ridiculous thing to see a crypto casino to ask for KYC and to ask you to also jump through hoops has to be that last straw! I mean who in their right minds gives their personal information to an online casino in first place let alone jump through so many hoops... it looks like there are many who do ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
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Where is Satoshi's Bitcoin Stash ?
Just like Satoshi's identity, the amount of coins and where they are and whether Satoshi has access are all unknown to us. Is in Bitcoin Blockchain ?
All bitcoins are in "bitcoin blockchain"! Did Bitcoin Foundation played a role to change the Original Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin QT has been branded as Bitcoin Core to stop Satoshi Nakamoto from get access to his Bitcoin Stash ?
Changing the reference implementation's name is not going to change whether someone has access to their "keys" or not. Can Satoshi actually get access to his Genesis Block ?
No, because as part of consensus rules the 50 BTC reward of the Genesis block is not spendable. If Satoshi has the private key, he can spend any other coins that were sent to it though. Will the Bitcoin Community leaders agree with Satoshi ? On the maters of Who should be the Lead Maintainer of Bitcoin Core ?
They did when it was handed over to Gavin Andresen. The rules are Merit according to the Bitcoin Protocol instead of Bunch of illegitimate miners who .are the majority hash to get power by deception based on false consensus ?
According to Bitcoin protocol the network decides consensus rules not merit or individuals or ...
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Ironically, religion is based on "Don't verify, but trust", which is the exact opposite of bitcoin, transparency, science in general.
Religions are different but usually the principles must be verified then trusted. In fact in Islam for example it is not even allowed to accept the five principles blindly. I still wouldn't call bitcoin a religion though, that's just silly. ![Tongue](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/tongue.gif) The commandments in OP aren't correct either like "Thou shall not Fork Bitcoin" since bitcoin is open source under MIT license it allows others to fork it freely.
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Will there be a 60%-80% decline in the price? No, at least not unless there are other factors unrelated to the Gox coin being released to Gox account holders that cause the price to decline. But there will be selling pressure resulting from these coins being released
Unfortunately things like this always have a negative indirect effect on the price. Most of the times it is not even those coins that affect the price but everyone else's coins who panic sell that affect the price. This is why I always say in order to speculate about such news we should focus on how many weak hands remaining instead of how much coins are being sold. I'd say right now we don't have enough weak hands left to have a significant impact on the price, which is clear from market behavior too.
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Even if you use a centralized service like an exchange, it is still impossible to link a bitcoin address with any other information unless you voluntarily leave such information on that service.
All centralized services want minimum email address and almost all centralized exchanges have some sort of KYC and have a link between your coins in their service and the information you give them.
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where you would say "it's really important for Bitcoin and people should know it".
* Bitcoin works, it has been working fine for the past 13 years (all its life) and safely too. * You don't need any third party (middle man like banks) to send, receive or store your money when you use bitcoin. * Nobody can restrict who sends you money or to whom you send your money * You can reach anybody, anywhere at any time in the world. * The payments can not be reversed like other payment networks which provides a lot of security for merchants Important would also mean for Bitcoin from a hacking-resistant point
It is nearly impossible to explain about bitcoin security without getting into technical details. and what is making Bitcoin superior against competing Altcoins?
Bitcoin is innovative and it actually solves a real problem. In comparison almost all the altcoins are copying bitcoin and usually they first create a fake problem and then try to solve that problem. For example they claim "bitcoin is slow" then they claim to "solve" that problem. In reality they are just creating a pump and dump scheme.
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Can I create a private key out of a custombult Bitcoin address ?
How generate private key out of public key ?
You can not do that since both operations are one way operations. Meaning you can compute public key from private key but not the other way around. private key -> public key -> hash <-> address (human readable encoding)
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