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Making Satoshis Don't Exist Movie.
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raw_avocado 1 month ago
Did you know the NSA published a Cryptocurrency Paper 12 Years Before Bitcoin? image
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raw_avocado 9 months ago
I think I solved the mistery of why Satoshi used different endianess in various places. :D
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raw_avocado 10 months ago
It’s not clear if bitcoin is legal, but there is no company in control and no one to arrest. Newyorker Article - October 2011 image
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raw_avocado 10 months ago
Getting books signed by Andreas 12 June 2019
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raw_avocado 10 months ago
Someone poster about Bitcoin in 2002. On a UK Google Group for finance. It may have been Satoshi. image
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raw_avocado 11 months ago
I want to post a long form article with a lot of pictures, what is the best way to do that here on nostr?
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raw_avocado 11 months ago
Is there really no way to post a video here that is bigger than 100mb?
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raw_avocado 1 year ago
Did you know Bitcoin was the 1st project to use the secp256k1 eliptic curve? At the time NIST & ANSI recommended secp256R1. Some speculate this was what in fact made Satoshi make the odd choice + some only theoretical optimisations at the time. image
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raw_avocado 1 year ago
Did you know Bitcoin Core got it's 1st fee estimator in February 2015 with Bitcoin Core 0.10.0 Before this fees were hardcoded, and changed with new versions to reflect market conditions. image Here we can see people in 2010 being very surprised by the fact that fees are even a thing on Bitcoin. They did not knew the extra BTC they got when mining were transactions fees. image
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raw_avocado 1 year ago
Make a habit of: - posting sources - archiving things that you visit(archive.org + archive.ph) 10 years from now, someone will find the mundane things we talk about today very interesting.
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raw_avocado 1 year ago
Most people know the 1st Bitcoin TX from Satoshi to Hal, in block 170. But did you know the 2nd TXs we know Satoshi made to someone was to Dustin Trammell in block 524 for 25 BTC. Cryptographically proven by Dustin. image However between the TX in Block 170 to Hal until the one shown above, we can see there were 7 other transactions made. Looking at how the funds flowed, it seems Satoshi was making test payments to hiself. image
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raw_avocado 1 year ago
Here are 7 interesting comments Satoshi left in the original Bitcoin client(2009) Yes, he actually wrote this one. "This is why people hate C++" image Satoshi explaining what is a Blockchain image Bitcoin use the bas58 format for addresses(non-segwit) image Satoshi makes a point that script does NOT have loops Simpler = better security! This decision is what sets Bitcoin apart today from other blockchains. image Satoshi copied the implementation of SHA256 from the Crypto++ Library maintained by Wei Dai. This makes a lot of sense, since it's always good to NOT implement your own cryptography. image Seems Satoshi considered using other Eliptic Curves for Bitcoin. One strange thing here is the 279 value for secp265k1 in this comment. Typo? Bitcoin uses secp256k1 with the standard 256 bits length. image Satoshi showing a bit of humours. Since this is the last process that will run, it will close the app, hence closing the lights :) image
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raw_avocado 1 year ago
Did you know Satoshi wanted to remove the beta-status of the Bitcoin client in 2010? Jumping from version 0.3 to 1.3. But people objected. This stuck up to September 2021, when we switched from Bitcoin Core version 0.21.0 to Bitcoin Core 22.0 image
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raw_avocado 1 year ago
When I was 5 years old, I was with my Grandma in the kitchen. She was cooking and I was running around and kept bumping into her. And since this was happening quite a lot and interrupted my chaotic playing I called her stupid, *under my breath*. Very calmly she stopped what she was doing at the sink, turned off the tap, and wiped her hands on her apron. I knew shit was serious. She looks me straighten the eye, and 5 years old she asked me: Are you a man or a bitch? Some how I knew at 5 years old, in this moment I have to decide for the rest of my life, am I man or a bitch. Very proudly I said: I am a man! Very softly and calmly she says: Well a man always speaks up his mind! Equally proudly I replied. I said that you are stupid! Then she immediately slaps me over the head, not hard enough to make me cry, but hard enough to make a point and then she said: The other part of being a man is then you do speak your mind you will get hit in the face. Ever since then I have ALWAYS spoke my mind no matter of consequences or circumstances.