Yooo I just won the Grand Prize for @Stacker News Bitcoin History Month.
Thanks to the judges :*
Alex Waltz
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Bitcoin Researcher & Filmmaker. | My latest discoveries: https://1stbitcoinminer.com/
I said I had problems with nostr. I could see the feed but could not post anything.
I was using primal in web login with nsec.
Switched to nostr.com now this works with no problems.
I don't get why is this hard to do?
Not asking passive aggressively, genuinely curious.
Yooo I made a forensic investigation into Bitcoin’s launch and I made 3 discoveries.
I think I solved the mistery of why Satoshi used different endianess in various places. :D
It’s not clear if bitcoin is legal, but there is no company in control and no one to arrest.
Newyorker Article - October 2011 
Street photography.
Getting books signed by Andreas
12 June 2019
Someone poster about Bitcoin in 2002.
On a UK Google Group for finance.
It may have been Satoshi. 
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.
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.
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.
No one needs a discovery algorithm!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 
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.
You can't really filter without losing permisionless.
And since "they" will add data anyway, then eliminatet it from the UTXO set.
It really is that simple.
Did you know OP_RETURN had a bug that allowed anyone to spend anyone's Bitcoins?
The bug would skip over the instructions and return 1, interpreted that spending conditions are meet.
But was found and reported by Artforz in 20 July 2010.
A fix was quickly issue by Satoshi and downplayed, probably in the hope of not triggering an exploit.
He also included some improvements in the upgrade.
The fix made the OP CODE return false, meaning outputs are now provably unspendable. - i.e. can never be spent = burned!
3/4
in 2013 people were doing odd hacks to insert in the blockchain:
- random data
- use it as a timestamp
But these hacks would forever stay in the the UTXO set!
A decision to set OP_RETURN as a parameter that allowed 40 bytes of data to be added.
This data can be pruned!
And ever since it was introduced, OP_RETURN always caused controversy and was changed quite a few times.
And the conversation was always about HOW MUCH data it should allow?
And now we are having this conversation yet again.
What do you think? 
A fix was quickly issue by Satoshi and downplayed, probably in the hope of not triggering an exploit.
He also included some improvements in the upgrade.
The fix made the OP CODE return false, meaning outputs are now provably unspendable. - i.e. can never be spent = burned!
3/4
in 2013 people were doing odd hacks to insert in the blockchain:
- random data
- use it as a timestamp
But these hacks would forever stay in the the UTXO set!
A decision to set OP_RETURN as a parameter that allowed 40 bytes of data to be added.
This data can be pruned!
And ever since it was introduced, OP_RETURN always caused controversy and was changed quite a few times.
And the conversation was always about HOW MUCH data it should allow?
And now we are having this conversation yet again.
What do you think?
Did you know Hal Finney joined the Bitcoin Network at block 49.
We know this since he reported a crash 1st time he ran the client on Sourceforge.
In the debug file last block see by node was 49. 
Did you know Satoshi had alternative names for Bitcoin?
Netcoin, e-cash & supercoin!
1 day before registering 
Satoshi registered http://netcoin.org
Before launching the White Paper on 31 October 2008, Satoshi contacted Adam Back to verify the Hashcash citation.
in the email a draft of the White Paper is present.
Filename: e-cash.pdf
The Title is pasted in the email
"Electronic Cash Without a Trusted Third Party."
Adam mention's Wei Dai's b-money.
22 August 2008 Satoshi contacts Wei Dai, same draft is shared in the same format.
Link to a e-cash.pdf
The Title pasted:
"Electronic Cash Without a Trusted Third Party."
I was also curious if he registered http://e-cash.org around then.
Looks like someone did on the 20 July 2008.
Sameish period.
But different IP, and different registar.
Very possible these were owned by domain investors(from parking behaviour)
5/5
And the last name come from the preBitcoin v0.1 code that Satoshi shared in private to a few testers.
In one instance when testing if the mining functions work he calls it SUPERCOIN.
This code was later share by one of the testers.
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Before launching the White Paper on 31 October 2008, Satoshi contacted Adam Back to verify the Hashcash citation.
in the email a draft of the White Paper is present.
Filename: e-cash.pdf
The Title is pasted in the email
"Electronic Cash Without a Trusted Third Party."
Adam mention's Wei Dai's b-money.
22 August 2008 Satoshi contacts Wei Dai, same draft is shared in the same format.
Link to a e-cash.pdf
The Title pasted:
"Electronic Cash Without a Trusted Third Party."
I was also curious if he registered http://e-cash.org around then.
Looks like someone did on the 20 July 2008.
Sameish period.
But different IP, and different registar.
Very possible these were owned by domain investors(from parking behaviour)
5/5
And the last name come from the preBitcoin v0.1 code that Satoshi shared in private to a few testers.
In one instance when testing if the mining functions work he calls it SUPERCOIN.
This code was later share by one of the testers.