Bitcoin Dev

12 November 2024 19:42

Like I just wanna test out sending and receiving payments but I gotta download the entire black chain at least with xmr I can run the wallet and connect to a remote node

Bitcoin Dev

12 November 2024 17:25

yes, the united states naval research laboratory came up with encrypted onion routing in the 1990s, because it's useful for them, to enable intelligence in foreign territory to safely "phone home". it's a public fact and not a secret. the technique was implemented as the open source tor project only later because it might be useful for other actors like activists too, and received funding from multiple entities, state and non-state. it's known that tor is not "perfect" for anonymity when powerful actors control a majority of nodes, hence there are other developments like mixnets. it's a technical fact that anonymity and privacy on the internet are not trivial things to achieve, there are always tradeoffs involved that have to be understood.

Bitcoin Dev

12 November 2024 16:48

He did identify as a man, tho

Bitcoin Dev

12 November 2024 15:36

Hey Jameson, very interesting theory.
BTW, is there a reason you refer to Satoshi as “they” or “them” every time? Just curious…

Bitcoin Dev

12 November 2024 12:12

The behavior of what Oriol calls a "statistical anomaly" does not make sense for someone to do in a game theoretical sense unless they are just trying to protect their baby.

Bitcoin Dev

12 November 2024 12:11

My theory is Satoshi wrote a highly optimized multithreaded mining client that they used in order to keep block time volatility low. They monitored the total network hashrate and as other miners joined, throttled down their own hashrate accordingly.

Bitcoin Dev

12 November 2024 12:08

how do we know this for certain ?

Bitcoin Dev

11 November 2024 16:59

There's no "1M bitcoins", that's likely just a myth.

The fact is that there are many blocks mined with some statistical anomaly during the first half of 2009. However, it's a logic leap to imply that all anomalous blocks would have come from a same entity, or that that entity would be Satoshi.

IMHO if anything, it's more likely that Satoshi would have used his version of the code, and that those running modified code (leading to the anomalous "patoshi" blocks) were other people.

Bitcoin Dev

10 November 2024 20:39

1m i would not say is not a control

Bitcoin Dev

09 November 2024 17:21

this "rumor" is around because of this paper from 1996. https://archive.org/details/HowToMakeAMintCryptographyElectronicCash/page/n1/mode/1up

however, it is just a iteration on david chaum's ecash from the 1980s.

so it was nothing new back then.

this approach here is *centralized* (but more private) and hence has nothing to do with bitcoin.

bitcoin's whole point is that it solved double-spending without a centralized minting authority.

keep in mind that cryptography was long a domain of the military. research opened up in the 1970s, but some algorithms were classified as ammunition and their export forbidden. hence adam back printed them on t-shirts in the 90s. for many, bitcoin seems to have come mysteriously out of nothing, but there is a long pre-history of cypherpunk anti-establishment counter-culture in the 1990s.

finally, even if satoshi had an nsa background, it doesn't matter. he doesn't control bitcoin, and it's a system designed and implemented in the most open and transparent way possible. feel free to come up with any idea how it could have been done better in that regard.

Bitcoin Dev

02 November 2024 12:38

I downloaded the archive from the site, checked the hash sums and unpacked it. Then I open the terminal and write the path to the bin folder (it is in the unpacked archive). Press “Enter”. Then write ./bitcoin-qt and press “Enter” again.

Bitcoin Dev

31 October 2024 08:04

It's so sad. People should learn about wumao and about the geopol stakes here.

Propaganda works so well because of the useful idiots who will acritically keep spreading it out of its source circle.

The cryptosphere has traditionally been fertile grounds for fringe and conspiracy, and so it gets sadly abused for spreading propaganda and influence.

Bitcoin Dev

29 October 2024 23:18

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Bitcoin Dev

25 October 2024 03:38

Could anybody let me know if it is possible to spend sats from a Nested Segwit address which is hashed from uncompressed public key ?
I of course know that P2WPKH allows compressed public keys only. But there are funds on this address and it has been hashed from uncompressed public key.

Bitcoin Dev

19 October 2024 15:32

How do you explain tor then ?
Also their technology algo and their research projects ?

Bitcoin Dev

12 November 2024 19:42

Does anybody know why you can't run Bitcoin core wallet without having to download the entire block chain

Bitcoin Dev

12 November 2024 16:49

That's just what she wants you to think.

Bitcoin Dev

12 November 2024 16:46

We don't know if Satoshi was male / female / a group / an AI from the future. Just covering the bases.

Bitcoin Dev

12 November 2024 12:13

And it's not just one weird anomaly but rather a variety of unique behaviors from this entity that fingerprint it.

Bitcoin Dev

12 November 2024 12:11

https://blog.lopp.net/was-satoshi-a-greedy-miner/

Bitcoin Dev

12 November 2024 12:09

what is your theory then ?

Bitcoin Dev

12 November 2024 01:01

Nobody had a custom mining client built on day 1. The only way your theory works is if Patoshi was a pre-genesis block Satoshi collaborator.

Bitcoin Dev

10 November 2024 20:40

It can shake the market at wish but yes its not complete control

Bitcoin Dev

10 November 2024 20:38

Tor is also open source and yet nsa is behind it

Bitcoin Dev

02 November 2024 12:40

I'm also trying to synchronize now, periodically the laptop reboots, I restart it, synchronization continues :)

Bitcoin Dev

01 November 2024 21:52

Good afternoon I am having problems installing bitcoincore 28.0 on Ubuntu. Please could someone send me a list of commands to run it. Thanks

Bitcoin Dev

30 October 2024 23:26

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/10/the-sad-bizarre-tale-of-hype-fueling-fears-that-modern-cryptography-is-dead/

Bitcoin Dev

25 October 2024 12:28

bitcoinjs-lib or btc core * reedem script -> raw transaction(utxo) -> signrawtransaction -> sendrawtransaction.. I hope this helps..

Bitcoin Dev

23 October 2024 14:53

Tatsuaki okamoto is working for NSA and NTT. Maybe here are many clues. İf we search a bit deep

Bitcoin Dev

19 October 2024 15:24

NSA is like a big company they can't innovate. also doing something public, non-secretive that's not their process