What did you learn about Bitcoin today...?

[dothebeats]

i learned more about trading , how encryption really work(i didint' know that you couldn't brute force 128 for example)

and about mining in general(mining brought me on learning some coding, software like ccminer, were i contributed in adding some algo, nothing special but it was fun)

Amazing how many people get turned on to coding and encryption through Bitcoin.  I've spent much time studying elliptic curve cryptography solely because of Bitcoin!

Cracking ECC means cracking all the possible privkeys for bitcoin address, right? I've read a thread on the Services section about ECC and trying to (I don't know if this is the correct term) "solve" something out of it. I'm not a math geek nor I know anything about those jargon so I simply read those thread and didn't reply anything to it. As the thread progresses, someone pointed out that cracking ECC means cracking the privkey of any bitcoin address available, though it requires a huge amount of computing power to achieve. Iirc, the name of the user who posted that topic is Evil-Knievel, and his threads are always related to maths. If there is a subscribe option here in bitcointalk, I would definitely be his number 1 subscriber.

[jonald_fyookball]

Cracking ECC means cracking all the possible privkeys for bitcoin address, right?

Sort of...But it would only apply the addresses that have their public keys known (the ones that sent funds before)

[GreenStox]

Today I learned that less is more.

And that you can only gain bitcoins if you work very very hard, anything less will not get you very far in the bitcoin world. Its very compatitive.

[EternalWingsofGod]

Cracking ECC means cracking all the possible privkeys for bitcoin address, right?

Sort of...But it would only apply the addresses that have their public keys known (the ones that sent funds before)

Yep well to to my memory its when you can use previous transactions to break the private key
It happened a while back when blockchain did something stupid and made a weak R signature luckily someone was scanning the blockchain for such a weakness and saved most of those coins.

[memai]

Hi everyone,

I really apologize if my question is not right here ! Because I am newbie about Crypto
What is the difference between SHA-256 and X13, X15,...?
And and I also have some questions . I see too many coin today . It's easy to create an coin ?
if so, Nakamoto really is brilliant because anyone can do as he

Thank you very much !

[ducatitalia]

Today I learned that Bitcoin can corrupt just about anyone:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/03/30/federal-agents-charged-with-stealing-bitcoin-from-silk-road-case/70672058/

[notalin]

I want to learn about how to earn Bitcoin quickly by my efforts  without gamebling or ponzi,...

[planetroving]

I learned that Lamborghini was the first ever car company to accept Bitcoin in exchange for cars. And also, the largest (I believe) Bitcoin transaction, which saw 194,993.50000004 BTC move. Link to that transaction is here: https://blockchain.info/tx/1c12443203a48f42cdf7b1acee5b4b1c1fedc144cb909a3bf5edbffafb0cd204

Just something I'd thought would be interesting.

[notalin]

I learned how to earn Bitcoin and how to keep safe for bitcoin wallet

[vankoovo]

Everything I can learn. How to set up Bitcoin mining and how to earn from it

[Kprawn]

I learned to swim with the big fish in https://1broker.com/?c=faq

I learned what CFD's are and how you can go long and short on these derivatives, with very small investments.

It's something to consider, if you do not have a lot of BTC and you want to trade. 

[QuestionAuthority]

I learned that you can get 5 years in prison for trading on localbitcoins.

[p.nusia]

I` ve learned how to keep your wallet safe and a few more things about mining

[GreenStox]

I learned that the economy is is worse and worse shape every day goes by, so I`ll buy bitcoins very soon because it might go to the moon very soon