Latest posts of: irukandji

What tools are available to analyze the bitcoin blockchain?
I know Chainanalysis.com runs a service, but I'm not sure they would even want to help.
Are there any open source tools? Or any tools?

When was the bitcoin white paper first published on bitcoin dot org ?
Was it published elsewhere also?

If I generate a sha256 digest from some text I get one string of letters and numbers, but if I generate a key pair using bitaddress, using the same text I get a private key.
What is the relationship between the digest and the private key?

Also I thought (and I'm probably wrong) that putting some text through the Sha256 algorithm produced a 256 character string of ones and zeroes. If that correct. If so how do we them get the digest?

Thanks for your help in understanding this

To cut a long story short my friend lost a passphrase for a ledger wallet.
So following the advice of some helpful people here I asked them to use iancoleman.io to try the 24 word see combined with some possible passphrases and compare the addresses.
However her address begins with a "b", and Iancolman.io doesn't seem to give addresses in that format.
Can anyone suggest a solution?
Thanks

What would be the easiest or best way to search the block chain for in formation about the earliest transactions?

So I have friend who had some bitcoin stored with a ledger wallet. They used the function where you have a dummy wallet in case someone gets access. They still have their 24 words but the real wallet copntaing the bitcoin was also behind a pin number and a password , I think.
So when they tried to access the bitcoin they only were able to access the dummy wallet. They cannot remember the password.

Will they still be able to use the seed words in another wallet with the same derivation path, even if they also used a password?
Or will they need to remember the password too?

Thanks

Is there any tools to try to find it?
I am pretty sure I know the words I would have used but can't remember the combination of those words. There are probably not too many possible combinations.

So, with the SHA256 process (?) we can take any string of words and numbers and *do something* to it and we get a 256 string of ones and zeroes .Small changes to the input give an unrelated new string/key.

This can also be converted to other forms/keys (?)

Hopefully I got that right.
My questions is....What do we do to the original set of words and numbers? What is the process?

If t is difficult to explain, then, is there a good analogy or way to explain it?

Thanks

Hi all, I am ding some research and and trying to work out the possible raw cost of a transaction on Bitcoin. I guess I would assume blocks were full. I am interested in the raw cost.
Does anyone know of any resources that could help?
Thank you

Is there an app or service that can send an alert when coins move from a specific address?

Which crypto scales the best? Please give details. Thank you.

What can we do about the Craig Wright who is again threatening to sell 821,050 bitcoin next year? This is just ridiculous as he is probably causing the bitcoin price to be weak as he spreads this story.

https://ibb.co/3zSB2rw

Not sure how to post the image.

How many people could lightning network support at the moment?
Assuming enough bitcoin went into the system, could it support 100M, or 1B or 5B users?

Or would we need to tweak the routing algorithms more for such numbers?

Hi all, some time ago I had some trouble with an electrum wallet, where I tried at add an extra word to the seed.
Are there any services that might be able to help me. Reputable ones?

I am happy to pay if someone can help. There will be enough in there to make it worth while.

Not sure i understand this but would be grateful if someone could help.

This is what I understand.

1.Finding a block means guessing a number.
2.That number involves showing that the transaction involves the right keys and then ..putting it through some meth equation? Is that right?

What I wonder is ...is the miner constantly guessing numbers based on whatever transaction he intends to add to his block?

And so the transaction variable of the guessing is constantly changing?

So the miner is moment by moment is solving for a different pool of transactions?

Was Charlie Lee promoting Litecoin before he sold his Litecoin?

was he encouraging others to buy or even saying positive things about it? Expressing a positive opinion even?

Mt Gox trustee has been moving coins and very possibly selling, but on behalf of whom?

As i understand it creditors were owed $400M and this debt was paid off already.

Is he now selling for shareholders, including Karpeles?

Which coins wont be regarded as securities?

Presumably BTC, BCH, XMR......DCR? .....anything that didn't raise money?

Any platforms that didn't raise money?

Is there a library of words which can be included in a 12 word seed password for a bitcoin wallet?

Would the library of words be the same for an exodus wallet? (which is a multicoin wallet)

Thanks