| In cryptoland, cypherpunks get clever | |
| Belief in freedom switches off never | |
| So long as nodes are run, bitcoin stays untorn | |
| Six an hour, new blocks are born | |
| To honest miners, new coins are bestow | |
| Going above 21 million is a no | |
| [chorus x2] |
list of links for quick copypasting when debating on forums, also useful as a reading list
this was posted on reddit, link is https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7mh8c2/long_live_decentralized_bitcoin_a_reading_list/
some of these links may be subject to linkrot, try looking on archive.org or archive.is
a trip to the moon requires a rocket with multiple stages by gmaxwell https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/438hx0/a_trip_to_the_moon_requires_a_rocket_with/
| JoinMarket yield generators earn money on an unpredictable basis. It's worth calculating | |
| the equivalent interest rate as if joinmarket was a savings account. | |
| We can make a model of a bank account that takes deposits and withdrawals at any time and | |
| where the balance accumulates interest, then the parameters from a JoinMarket yield-generator | |
| wallet can be inputted to obtain the equivalent interest rate. | |
| We know that the present value of a bank account (P) grows to the future value (F) determined | |
| by the interest rate per unit time (r) and time (t) | |
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_interest#Mathematics_of_interest_rates |
| import matplotlib | |
| import numpy.random | |
| import matplotlib.pyplot as plt | |
| from matplotlib.ticker import FuncFormatter | |
| #https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4gp28d/how_to_avoid_getting_ripped_off_in_large_btc/ | |
| #https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Confirmation | |
| cumulative = True |
| hey cypherpunks, it's the end of the old regime | |
| cryptographic currency, no longer a dream | |
| oh believers in liberty, feel the new sunrise | |
| trustworthy coinage is right before our eyes | |
| it's time to remember the early pioneers | |
| ten thousand coins for a pizza, they look back in tears |
JoinMarket release 0.2.0 ameliorates this snooping attack. It is a protocol-breaking change so everyone must update which we anticipate may take some time.
https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket/blob/master/doc/release-notes-0.2.0.md
Looks like enough people have updated and there's plenty of liquidity now.
r/btc markets itself as a "censorship-free" sub. In reality it attempts to silence the voices of people it disagrees with.
A few screenshot examples of censorship https://imgur.com/a/rHrtC
this article was deleted when posted, which describes how the mods of r/btc are roger ver's employees at bitcoin.com https://medium.com/@WhalePanda/the-curious-relation-between-bitcoin-com-anti-segwit-propaganda-26c877249976#.4mfo9qn3e
"Exploit code for the recent BTU attack - apparently this was posted to /r/btc, and of course, got censored. :)"
| #irc script which sends its own pings without creating any other threads | |
| import socket, random | |
| from datetime import datetime | |
| nick = 'testbot-' + hex(random.randint(0, 0xffffff))[2:] | |
| hostport = ('irc.snoonet.org', 6667) | |
| ping_interval_seconds = 30 | |
| ping_timeout_seconds = 60 |
| #run with | |
| #/path/to/bitcoin/bin/bitcoin-cli getpeerinfo | python getpeerinfo-parse.py | |
| #output looks like | |
| #zlato@zlato:~/bitcoin-0.17.1/bin$ ./bitcoin-cli getpeerinfo | python getpeerinfo-parse.py | |
| #services L=NODE_NETWORK_LIMITED N=NODE_NETWORK G=NODE_GETUTXO B=NODE_BLOOM R=NODE_REPLACE_BY_FEE W=NODE_WITNESS X=NODE_XTHIN U=UNKNOWN | |
| # id addr user-agent iB se re conn'd ping serv lastr | |
| # # host oO nt cv MMDD-HHMM msec ices HHMMSS | |
| # 414 27.102.130.92 /Satoshi:0.17.1/ oF 20M 28M 0411-2005 358 LNBW 121021 | |
| # 417 139.59.34.217 /Satoshi:0.15.1/ oF 17M 46M 0411-2006 163 NBW 121019 |
JoinMarket has a problem where it assumes different nicknames have different bitcoin wallets. This can be exploited by people running multiple yield generator bots from the same wallet, so they get a higher rate of profit at the expense of de-legitimizing the system for privacy.
A merkle tree is a way of producing a commitment to a set, which can later can prove that elements are contained within the set using only O(logN) data, and only revealing one other element in the set.
For example here is a merkle tree commiting to a set of numbers {6, 3, 9, 0, 8, 4, 7, 2}