They think we're all sheep and don't even try to hide it when they name their fucking mass surveillance company Flock.

Winning this is the only way I'll own one because you don't accept Bitcoin in your store. View quoted note →

Here's a simulator that shows what happens to blocks at different levels of split hash rate:

BIP110 Situation Monitor

Learn BIP110 activation and simplified forking.

Even at 30% of the hashrate BIP110 had a chance to invalidate some standard blocks, and the miners that won those blocks would have been shit out of luck because the standard blocks will build on BIP110 blocks, but not vice versa. At 45% BIP110 hashrate they had a chance to orphan dozens of standard blocks. Meanwhile when BIP110 falls behind temporarily, even though the simulator shows them as orphaned they will be reinstated if they retake the lead. When a standard block gets invalidate they are just shit out of luck no matter what. They tried to exploit this asymmetry by threatening miners that their hard earned standard blocks could be invalidated if they didn't adopt BIP110. They never needed 55% consensus, they just needed enough to make miners afraid they could lose their rewards. Whether BIP110 was good or not, the way they went about it was completely fucked up.

As I understand it, everyone mining for bip110 is now pointing hashrate at a dead chain or a hard fork. Unless they pull a zetahash out of their ass and overtake the standard chain it's over. Is that correct?

This is really weird specific advice, but if you're ever converting seed words to 11-digit binary using the official BIP-39 word list, you need to subtract 1 from the line number the word is on or you'll be off on every word.

GitHub

bips/bip-0039/english.txt at master · bitcoin/bips

Bitcoin Improvement Proposals. Contribute to bitcoin/bips development by creating an account on GitHub.

Came across this table for rolling your own seed with dice. It's the most straightforward method I've seen and you can easily see how each roll of the 4 dice set has an equal chance of selecting one of 2048 words. You just need a device that can calculate the final word checksum, preferably that gives you all 8 of the possible options so you can roll again to pick it.

GitHub

DiceTables/dice_tables.pdf at master · scottmsul/DiceTables

A simple way to generate bip 39 seed words from dice rolls - scottmsul/DiceTables

How can they be sure? Did they check all 115,792,089,237,316,195,423,570,985,008,687,907,853,269,984,665,640,564,039,457,584,007,913,129,639,936 seeds to make sure they are different? View quoted note →

Just popped in to say: I bought Bitcoin at fifty eight kay.

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