Block 2817 (Feb 3, 2009) was the first one to contain three transactions, two of which paid a fee of 1 BTC. Generally, though, people didn't have to pay anything back in 2009. Blocks were nearly empty, and I think satoshi had set the size limit to 32MB. The next one is over 10,000 blocks later.

That's a historical thread regarding this matter: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=48

From the link above:

But, are there actually patterns? Is it, indeed, a matter of probabilities?

Or, formulated more properly: Can you prove that it's a matter of probabilities?

Define me technical analysis in the shortest way possible.

There's no point to continue the discussion, we're just repeating ourselves. We've covered that those who'll use Wasabi to gain privacy, won't, because zkSNACKs is now cooperating with those who'll hand over this sensitive info back to the centralized exchanges. If they want to have their activities private, perhaps they should begin by canceling their Coinbase account first?

That's right. As I've already said, it doesn't make much sense to share so much money with strangers. Perhaps because it's not yours either.

For that amount, I suspect the hints aren't proper, for if they did, one would have cracked the password already. OP, are you sure the password is 4-8 characters long with the English letters and/or numbers? Is there a slight chance you've chosen a special character which isn't mentioned?

For those who say it's a scam, what's the benefit of the scammer exactly?

But, there are no funds imported, that's what I'm saying. Moving the wallet across the world doesn't move the funds. It's the key, the authorities have no access to, that is used to transact. Besides, hardware wallets aren't the only bitcoin wallets. Should they check my computer and mobile phone too? It's a nonsense.

If they understand the purpose of the hardware wallet, they should also comprehend that there's no point into doing that. My balance can be faked. I can empty it right before I enter the airport, send it to one of my addresses whose keys aren't contained into the hardware, show them I own no coins, and recover them once I reach my destination.

What's up with their intentions? Do they want to rip me off? If yes, then yeah, it doesn't matter. Still, they need my permission to rip me off. But, I don't think that has to do anything with the discussion.

I don't understand. Where am I incorrect? You've just described in a detailing how a mnemonic works.

No. And I just did a search, nothing came up. It's trivial to write, but no, I can't find any github repository, which seems weird. One should have made this. If you really need it and you can neither find anything in the internet, pay someone to do it for you. You can find people for this very job in this sub-board.

Bitcoin addresses are derived from your randomly generated seed.

The former is possible. Just take a seed phrase and start brute forcing your prefix in derivation paths until you find such address. An extended key can generate up to 2,147,483,648 children. You could just change the seed if you've tried them all and restart. The latter isn't possible because hash functions are irreversible and what you're saying here is to recover the preimage (the seed) of a hash, which is essentially the address.


Or, perhaps, instead of "impossible" that sounds absolute, let's say that no one has managed to find such function f that does it.

No, that's what is contained in blocks publicly anyways. Take a random transaction and search it on a block explorer, such as mempool.space: https://mempool.space/api/tx/da526ae2f1d8b58253dc9e26810a8e76c8eb11a8ebe995e132a4b22740b38773/hex

This is how public key cryptography works. You can verify one owns the private key without knowing it.

Quoted and verified with Electrum.

Tick tock, tick tock.

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Well, you never get full privacy in this world, but you somewhat enhance it by running a full node.

These are only the reachable nodes, which means those that accept incoming connections. Luke.dashjr.org must be showing all of them; they're ~49850 currently.

This is something interesting:
Most of the full nodes run 0.16.1 with bitcoinj.

We are all part of it. Miners, nodes, traders, SPV server runners, centralized exchanges' CEOs, Elon Musk, me, you. There's no specific requirement to be part of the bitcoin community, other than to use bitcoin.

This is a false conclusion. The increasing chain size isn't the only factor that affects this. As a counter argument, I say that this will not be true, because as time goes on, more people will be obsessed by the idea of being financially autonomous and that hard drives will become cheaper.

Despite the fact that there's no effective way to do this, you make it sound as there's no reward, but there is a very significant: You get the ability to verify everything yourself, you don't have to trust anyone's words of what's the correct ledger, you follow Proof-of-work that can't be faked. You gain financially sovereignty and the truth. Also, it's much more private.

These news aren't irritating because Wikipedia stopped accepting bitcoin donations. I honestly couldn't care less about that; it's the way they, along with any other business these days (see Tesla), justify it to their users. We have so many counter arguments about the climate problem, which makes it a poor choice to explain your suspension of bitcoin.

You've gone far. How about suspending fiat donations? Much more environmentally damaging.

Yes, you should first install GPG and then open the file with it.

Using sendmany. Example from the RPC API Reference:

The first address is your person's address, the second is the change.

Choose Finder > Preferences > Advanced. Now you can check "Show all filename extensions." if it isn't already checked. Now go to the directory you've saved your .txt file and rename it to <any_name>.asc.

There's no need to download any software for this. It's as simple as renaming a file.

You copy all the text. Actually, you don't need to copy it at all, just save it as a .asc file.

You can save it as a .txt, if it doesn't allow you directly as .asc, but it should be trivial to change it to .asc later. In the directory you've saved it, doesn't it show you the file extensions? If not, check: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mac+show+file+extension

If it's a pretty easy one, why don't you pay a wallet recovery service to do it for you? The most reputable I know is walletrecoveryservices.com. Dave, who's the administrator, takes only 15% of what's found for amounts greater than $100k.

It's already late, but if it's indeed easy, don't expect someone to send you more than a tenth of it. That's a lot of money.