Jameson Lopp @lopp@lopp.social
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Is Bitcoin dead yet?
Jameson Lopp
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#Bitcoin companies like @CasaHODL are expanding by raising funds and offering new features.
#BTC
https://www.btctimes.com/news/casa-raises-series-a-funding-and-releases-new-api
I guess, though it annoys me that most of the "active" accounts I follow on mastodon are merely mirroring their tweets...
lopp.social is 1 of the now 9,000 nodes in the Fediverse
Word on the street is the Ethereum PoS migration is delayed for the 27th time...
As I see it there are at least 3 forms of the Bitcoin protocol:
1. What we THINK the spec is
2. What the reference implementation actually does
3. The design space of how it can evolve in a forwards-compatible manner
@drgo
Seed password is only useful with regard to securing backups, so you can have seed phrase and password stored in separate locations. It's like a 25th word passphrase.
Jameson Lopp
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Great writeup by @lopp who picked up where I left off in 2017: https://blog.lopp.net/running-bitcoin-core-v0-7-and-earlier/
I've been running some BSV node tests because I noticed the blockchain size is approaching 3 TB. The early results are predictably laughable.
Writing bitcoin p2p message sending / receiving functions from scratch is less fun than I had hoped.
Jameson Lopp
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Probably the greatest academic 'mic drop' in history: In 1903, Frank Nelson Cole of the Columbia University delivered a "talk" with the title 'On the Factorization of Large Numbers'.
Apparently he, silently, wrote the following on the blackboard:
2^67 - 1 = 147,573,952,589,676,412,927 = 7,618,383,257,287 x 193,707,721
and then walked out (or something).
p. 183 of Singh "Number Theory step by step".
(2^n -1 was one of a list of numbers Mersenne had claimed to be prime).
Can't help but notice there's no web3 debate happening via Mastodon...
@orionwl
Oh dear. Have you considered escaping to a different country?
@orionwl
You have my jealousy, sir.
@breedlove22
Did Jeffrey ever figure out why bcash is dumb?
@kalle
AFAIK there's only FROST and it's fairly interactive. Not even sure if there's an open source implementation.
@excellion
Hurry up I need to go Christmas shopping.
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