what kind of address is this?

[BurtW]

I have just joined the DannyHamilton revolution with respect to signatures and signature campaigns.

viva la revolution (against all signature campaigns).

[CIYAM]

viva la revolution (against all signature campaigns).

The CIYAM team is in the process of developing a decentralised forum that won't allow signatures.

There is still quite a bit of development needed but expect some announcements in the next few months.

[BurtW]

Danny,

I am still seeing some posts with signature campaigns.

Do you have an updated ignore list for me?

I took the one from your thread here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=973843.0

[CIYAM]

@BurtW

Although Danny is doing a fine job in continuing to extend his list the problem is that new ad siggers are joining the forum every day so I somehow doubt he can actually keep up with them all.

Also note that at least some of the mods are ad sig posters also - so basically this forum is now "ad sig friendly" and has been for around a year (I started several topics in opposition to this and got attacked for my opposition).

[lorylore]

@BurtW thank you for explaining us, really it is my first time that i hear for these kind of addresses
I don't understand why people want to loose forever their bitcoin in these kind of addresses or maybe just for fun
I quoted your post as it is very useful for people like me that haven't heard before

Again, they are not generated by vanitygen - that would be impossible.

The way they are created it to select a string you want to have, for example:

11ALwaysPLayTheGratefuLDead

Then calculate the 160 bits that will encode to that string by reversing the following calculation:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Base58Check_encoding

Then calculate the correct checksum and properly add it to the end.

It is not quite that simple but you can figure it out.

In my example the number 0007ccc123012ca1eefc2a65126de365965bfa6d encodes to 11ALwaysPLayTheGratefuLDeadWdq4Xo

Finally to record it in the block chain you simple send some Bitcoin that will be forever lost to the address.

[DannyHamilton]

Danny,

I am still seeing some posts with signature campaigns.

Do you have an updated ignore list for me?

I took the one from your thread here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=973843.0

I intend to put out an updated September list within the next day or two.

Note that even with my list you will still see some posts with signature campaigns. As the month progresses, there will be users that join campaigns and you won't get them on the updated list until the end of the month.

Additionally...

if I happen to see that some other user quotes something an ignored user says AND the quote indicates that the ignored user is creating thoughtful and useful posts, I click "unignore".

Meaning that my list does not "ignore" users that have consistently proven themselves to be able to avoid the temptation to spam the forum with nonsense.

Some examples of signature campaign participants that I do not currently ignore are:

Code:

jonald_fyookball
LaudaM
Quickseller

You may feel differently about some of these users than I do, and as such you may want to maintain your own list (or at least keep track of which names you want to add to, or remove from, my list).

[BurtW]

Thanks.