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Hodlonaut Trial Bitcoin Discussion
Suspended on probation?? This must be a joke! His crime must have had an interr…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 04, 2025, 06:42:28 PM |
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In what ways might a basepoint be compromised? Development & Technical Discussion
Chatgpt is really frequently bad, this is an example of it.Take any field elemen…
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n/a | gmaxwell | December 31, 2024, 03:24:45 AM |
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Can the Bitcoin Core developers make crucial changes? Bitcoin Discussion
to what extent is Bitcoin development decentralization really ensured at the pre…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 23, 2024, 01:18:07 PM |
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"Core works with Michael Saylor" Bitcoin Discussion
The odell tweet reflects my understanding and I am not uncertain about it , well…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 22, 2024, 11:16:37 PM |
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Can the Bitcoin Core developers make crucial changes? Bitcoin Discussion
and also allowed bloated junk data...Well what it is Franky1? Did you want the…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 20, 2024, 03:10:28 PM |
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Can the Bitcoin Core developers make crucial changes? Bitcoin Discussion
Franky1, sometimes people just don't agree with you, that doesn't make there be…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 20, 2024, 01:18:11 AM |
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Can the Bitcoin Core developers make crucial changes? Bitcoin Discussion
there is nothing particularly special about some github repository... if people…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 19, 2024, 01:28:16 AM |
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(Same public key) * (Same public key) = Public key possible or not. Development & Technical Discussion
In Elliptic Curve Cryptography you can't multiply two points. The only thing tha…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 16, 2024, 07:48:02 PM |
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Satoshi Identity Revealed LOL Bitcoin Discussion
The proposal to adopt a fork that makes early unmoved coins inaccessible is a cr…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 13, 2024, 10:02:20 AM |
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Satoshi Identity Revealed LOL Bitcoin Discussion
On HN I left a reply that I thought might be worth repeating here,> Do you suppo…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 12, 2024, 10:01:13 PM |
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What you call Bitcoin is not Bitcoin, The Hijacking story. Bitcoin Discussion
The idea behind this stuff is that Bitcoiners don't gain anything by correcting…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 04, 2024, 09:25:40 AM |
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Multisig VS Shamir Secret Sharing Development & Technical Discussion
SSSS is great. Definitely better and advanced approach than multi-sig. What need…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 29, 2024, 01:20:01 AM |
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Google partial blackholing of Bitcointalk? Meta
Aside, I noticed today that *this* thread is now among the google censored thre…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 22, 2024, 03:33:58 PM |
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Confidential Transactions, Content privacy for Bitcoin transactions Development & Technical Discussion
The proofs are big, so significant tx size increases, and a crypto break results…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 04, 2024, 04:32:09 PM |
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Craig Wright is missing, over charge to face probe for alleged perjury Bitcoin Discussion
Or perhaps that Wright has plenty of blackmail material...But even if he lost ev…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 03, 2024, 07:57:52 PM |
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Confidential Transactions, Content privacy for Bitcoin transactions Development & Technical Discussion
These systems make difficult tradeoffsI get the tradeoff of solutions like ring…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 03, 2024, 07:11:19 PM |
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Craig Wright is missing, over charge to face probe for alleged perjury Bitcoin Discussion
Now the question is, who is dumber, Craig Wright or Calvin Ayre?Well if you look…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 02, 2024, 06:18:13 PM |
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Confidential Transactions, Content privacy for Bitcoin transactions Development & Technical Discussion
I don't really know what liquid's doing, it was released a fair time after I lef…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 02, 2024, 03:29:27 AM |
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Mnemonic phrases are too sucks. I developed an iris hardware wallet! Development & Technical Discussion
As you mentioned, we use a fuzzy extraction method to restore the key.Do you ha…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 01, 2024, 04:31:28 PM |
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Confidential Transactions, Content privacy for Bitcoin transactions Development & Technical Discussion
Indeed, that was a lost linebreak in the post.The recipient needs to know the bl…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 01, 2024, 04:22:25 PM |
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Mnemonic phrases are too sucks. I developed an iris hardware wallet! Development & Technical Discussion
Do you use a fuzzy extractor to use the biometrics to unlock the keys directly..…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 01, 2024, 05:11:29 AM |
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What is exactly Randstorm vulnerability? Development & Technical Discussion
and that Rust is also "in that boat", does that actually mean that all of those…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 31, 2024, 08:06:44 PM |
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Erlay looks flawed to me - a superior Invitation-less bitcoin protocol proposal Development & Technical Discussion
With interest, I read the paper "Bandwidth-Efficient Transaction Relay in Bitcoi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 30, 2024, 04:28:43 PM |
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What is exactly Randstorm vulnerability? Development & Technical Discussion
But I think the specific issue is a distraction. It's simple: DO NOT USE JAVASC…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 30, 2024, 03:44:33 PM |
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Bitcoin segwit Development & Technical Discussion
Backward compatibility is ensured by an additional information specifically for…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 26, 2024, 09:04:49 AM |
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Bitcoin segwit Development & Technical Discussion
Segwit effective eliminates the old size limit and replaces it with a backwards…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 24, 2024, 01:34:52 PM |
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What is exactly Randstorm vulnerability? Development & Technical Discussion
Indeed Math. Random is called when a private key is generated, however, it's cal…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 24, 2024, 11:23:38 AM |
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Blockstream's Bitcoin Satelite Development & Technical Discussion
I thought I'd share some pictures of my receiver setup.I have two dishes, one to…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 03, 2019, 09:13:38 PM |
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What is exactly Randstorm vulnerability? Development & Technical Discussion
Weird post. This isn't a new issue, here is a talk I gave in 2015 describing exa…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 21, 2024, 12:30:15 PM |
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How do miners solve the knapsack problem? Development & Technical Discussion
I understand where you're coming from. But I'm wondering if there are any benefi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 20, 2024, 08:20:09 PM |
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Craig Wright is missing, over charge to face probe for alleged perjury Bitcoin Discussion
it would have been worth COPA requesting to hold onto his passport when they req…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 20, 2024, 08:33:21 PM |
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Craig Wright is missing, over charge to face probe for alleged perjury Bitcoin Discussion
Harder? Nah, more expensive but not harder. Not for anyone with any kind of mone…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 20, 2024, 04:30:07 PM |
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satoshi mining alone Bitcoin Discussion
when Satoshi started the bitcoin (blockchain) and he was mining alone ig, was he…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 20, 2024, 04:02:12 AM |
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Bitcoin Core Security Disclosure Policy and Disclosure of 10 Old Vulnerabilities Development & Technical Discussion
There were a few times in the past where I worried about some new PR potentially…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 20, 2024, 03:50:17 AM |
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Craig Wright is missing, over charge to face probe for alleged perjury Bitcoin Discussion
Without locking him up there is no way to really stop someone from leaving. We c…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 20, 2024, 03:38:21 AM |
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How do miners solve the knapsack problem? Development & Technical Discussion
Lets ignore sigops for a moment, as they're usually irrelevant anyways.Lets also…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 20, 2024, 02:03:15 AM |
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Bitcoin Core: Which version should I use? Bitcoin Technical Support
The most recent version is the version the foremost experts on the software thin…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 16, 2024, 08:52:05 PM |
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Updates from the COPA v Craig Wright trial Bitcoin Discussion
Next events will be on the 7th with the form of order hearing where you'll hear…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 30, 2024, 04:46:46 AM |
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Bitcoin Mining Sustainability Improvements Development & Technical Discussion
There are costs-- beyond the health impact to the network, pools charge a fee, a…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 29, 2024, 10:42:04 PM |
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What does gmaxwell think of OP_CAT and "Great script restoration" in 2024? Development & Technical Discussion
OK, after getting an understanding of gmaxwell's sentiment towards OP_CAT, wtf?…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 27, 2024, 01:20:50 PM |
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(Ordinals) BRC-20 needs to be removed Development & Technical Discussion
so would you consider segwit to be another "tolerated and standardized abuse"? h…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 26, 2024, 11:47:05 PM |
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Twist Attack, Sub-Group Attack & Pollard-Rho Development & Technical Discussion
This is a common post pattern people make to trick people into running malware.…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 22, 2024, 02:31:50 PM |
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What does gmaxwell think of OP_CAT and "Great script restoration" in 2024? Development & Technical Discussion
In any case, the OP's link is highly misleading. In that thread I'm commenting…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 21, 2024, 10:27:23 PM |
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What does gmaxwell think of OP_CAT and "Great script restoration" in 2024? Development & Technical Discussion
OP, care to disclose your identity? (or at least one you're better known by)
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 21, 2024, 06:28:08 AM |
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Edward Snowden Final Warning for Bitcoin Bitcoin Discussion
Curious about BIP324 - In order for this to be effective, doesn't it require non…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 08, 2024, 12:51:40 PM |
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Edward Snowden Final Warning for Bitcoin Bitcoin Discussion
Existing "privacy coins" change the security model pretty substantially-- a DLP…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 08, 2024, 03:29:53 AM |
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Improved Measurement of Proof-of-Work using entropy Development & Technical Discussion
Use of the apparent difficult has been proposed many times before-- it and other…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 06, 2024, 02:04:22 PM |
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'Attack on Bitcoin’ Claims Circulate as Transaction Fees Climb Higher Bitcoin Discussion
When your body gets a virus you get sick as your immune system fights off the in…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 29, 2024, 08:44:27 AM |
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Libsecp256k1 and Hertzbleed Development & Technical Discussion
There is no need to change the message and it's not desirable to do so.Libsecp25…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 29, 2024, 06:06:33 AM |
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Expect the Orginals game to get even bigger - actual games Development & Technical Discussion
Fair enough, I hadn't been considering the ignorant enlisted-- e.g. people spamm…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 10, 2024, 04:04:37 PM |
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Expect the Orginals game to get even bigger - actual games Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteEventually you will figure it out as one by one your nodes are turned off b…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 10, 2024, 01:56:52 PM |
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Expect the Orginals game to get even bigger - actual games Development & Technical Discussion
That is exactly what they are doing, I looked into their roadmap and they talk a…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 10, 2024, 01:21:39 PM |
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Blockchain Backup Project: Torrent for Bitcoin Core! Development & Technical Discussion
Except that it skips the most time consuming validation (signatures) up to a blo…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 07, 2024, 09:03:12 PM |
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Someone just sent 26 BTC to genesis block address Bitcoin Discussion
This could possibly have some connection to my involuntary hobby-horse.Recent le…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 05, 2024, 10:13:24 PM |
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255-Bit BigInteger Arithmetic in Bitcoin Core TapScript Development & Technical Discussion
In fact that's the reason why OP_MUL and similar OPs were disabled/removed from…
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n/a | gmaxwell | December 16, 2023, 07:34:45 PM |
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Ledger seem compromised again Bitcoin Discussion
I wonder if Ledger is regretting their decision to support scamcoins yet? -- sea…
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n/a | gmaxwell | December 16, 2023, 07:12:19 PM |
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[email protected] signed by Craig Wright Off-topic
Greg, that was probably Craig seeing if this was robust enough to publish. You…
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n/a | gmaxwell | December 01, 2023, 08:45:14 PM |
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[email protected] signed by Craig Wright Off-topic
It's yet another fake.Anyone can create a key with any name or email address the…
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n/a | gmaxwell | November 30, 2023, 07:25:29 PM |
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[Warning!]Numerous BitcoinJS -based wallets are still under the threat. Wallet software
https://youtu.be/Gs9lJTRZCDc?t=3072
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n/a | gmaxwell | November 15, 2023, 10:19:25 AM |
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Researcher Claims to Crack RSA-2048 With Quantum Computer Development & Technical Discussion
Shor's algorithm with noiseless qubits and gates works in theory.Shor's algorith…
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n/a | gmaxwell | November 05, 2023, 01:43:27 PM |
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Researcher Claims to Crack RSA-2048 With Quantum Computer Development & Technical Discussion
If you could crack RSA-2048 there are several very well known public challenges…
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n/a | gmaxwell | November 04, 2023, 05:07:10 PM |
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Bitcoin Core RPC Security Concerns Off-topic
Fair enough! Indeed-- it shouldn't be used to make a block explorer (except as…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 30, 2023, 02:19:29 PM |
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Bitcoin Core RPC Security Concerns Off-topic
....Core isn't designed for it, but in past i've seen people have hundred to mil…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 30, 2023, 05:25:29 AM |
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Craig "Faketoshi" Wright saga continues. His team turns against him. Bitcoin Discussion
and then wrote emails to gavin in that satoshi style mentioning things mentione…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 15, 2023, 10:44:44 PM |
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Craig "Faketoshi" Wright saga continues. His team turns against him. Bitcoin Discussion
When Gavin was being deposed during the Kleiman trial back in 2020, and therefor…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 13, 2023, 05:42:48 AM |
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Craig "Faketoshi" Wright saga continues. His team turns against him. Bitcoin Discussion
How high would be the probability that Gavin Andresen was bribed by Craig Wright…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 13, 2023, 03:12:38 AM |
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Craig "Faketoshi" Wright saga continues. His team turns against him. Bitcoin Discussion
Now add that this person had also told everyone that he lost access to his priva…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 13, 2023, 02:23:46 AM |
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Craig "Faketoshi" Wright saga continues. His team turns against him. Bitcoin Discussion
To cut GA some slack, back then, Wright had a lot of positive press and was ofte…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 13, 2023, 02:07:07 AM |
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Bounty offered to crack the seeds for NIST curves! Development & Technical Discussion
Right, that's why I think it's likely that the solution to this 'random curve' …
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 09, 2023, 05:45:46 AM |
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Craig "Faketoshi" Wright saga continues. His team turns against him. Bitcoin Discussion
Plus was the community ignoring him from 2016 to 2018? It was a nocoiner friend…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 09, 2023, 05:37:46 AM |
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Bounty offered to crack the seeds for NIST curves! Development & Technical Discussion
I see in the prior thread people wondering why the mystery point with the small…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 09, 2023, 04:41:19 AM |
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Craig "Faketoshi" Wright saga continues. His team turns against him. Bitcoin Discussion
Thanks for the response. Could you tell me what's his argument concerning the UT…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 07, 2023, 08:53:50 PM |
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Craig "Faketoshi" Wright saga continues. His team turns against him. Bitcoin Discussion
Exactly my point. There is no way, no matter what changes you decide to make, th…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 07, 2023, 12:17:25 PM |
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Craig "Faketoshi" Wright saga continues. His team turns against him. Bitcoin Discussion
I really need to find more information. I don't know if it's my lack of experien…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 07, 2023, 10:51:41 AM |
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Craig "Faketoshi" Wright saga continues. His team turns against him. Bitcoin Discussion
Either way, I think its a symptom of some kind of neurological or psychological…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 07, 2023, 03:21:44 AM |
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Two R values partially matching [first 7 characters] Development & Technical Discussion
There is not much you can do with two transactions that share the first N bits o…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 05, 2023, 12:01:33 AM |
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Are arrogant wannabe script kiddies still a problem for Bitcoin? Beginners & Help
Bitcoin started with a unique advantage that it came about at a time when making…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 04, 2023, 05:10:20 AM |
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Two R values partially matching [first 7 characters] Development & Technical Discussion
7 hex characters is 28 bits... if the program is printing the r points in encode…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 02, 2023, 02:04:52 AM |
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[INFO - DISCUSSION] Compact Block Relay (BIP152) Development & Technical Discussion
Erlay is something different, dealing with the duplication of relaying transacti…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 30, 2023, 04:23:46 AM |
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[INFO - DISCUSSION] Child-Pays-For-Parent (CPFP) Development & Technical Discussion
could be done, but ultimately isn't that the same as it's mapped (that's honestl…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 20, 2023, 04:18:12 PM |
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[INFO - DISCUSSION] Child-Pays-For-Parent (CPFP) Development & Technical Discussion
FWIW, miners don't ignore it--- it's there at the bottom of the ranking, waiting…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 19, 2023, 02:30:23 PM |
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What do you think of this address 1FeexV6bAHb8ybZjqQMjJrcCrHGW9sb6uF? Beginners & Help
In spite of the mistaken claims given earlier in this thread, it is well establi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 16, 2023, 01:16:39 AM |
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Creating a Bitcoin Core seed using base 6 number (Dice roll) Development & Technical Discussion
If you're going through all the trouble to generate a key using dice you should…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 08, 2023, 10:42:09 AM |
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Bitcoin and me (Hal Finney) Bitcoin Discussion
I would like to put this out here about the double whitespace riddle:Most people…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 31, 2023, 09:10:12 PM |
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Are Taproot addresses less secure than native Segwit? Development & Technical Discussion
1. Actually believe people who could break secp256k1 But also believe no one cou…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 30, 2023, 06:03:53 PM |
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Are Taproot addresses less secure than native Segwit? Development & Technical Discussion
You can't use a coin without exposing its pubkey. So in that sense hashed addre…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 30, 2023, 05:54:09 AM |
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[WARNING] Wallets created with Libbitcoin Explorer (bx) are insecure! Wallet software
For most PRNGs it is not too hard to determine the seed just from seeing the out…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 26, 2023, 06:48:21 PM |
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Selecting p-values for secp160k1, secp192k1 and secp224k1 Development & Technical Discussion
When searching you also must impose the constraint that there is a primitive cub…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 25, 2023, 04:46:00 PM |
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If you used "bx seed" you probably already lost your bitcoins, but if... Development & Technical Discussion
it's definitely hard to follow this kind of reasoning: because we should all be…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 15, 2023, 07:54:59 PM |
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If you used "bx seed" you probably already lost your bitcoins, but if... Development & Technical Discussion
I don't use github anymore but someone pinged me there, I loaded it-- only to se…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 15, 2023, 01:13:41 PM |
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[WARNING] Wallets created with Libbitcoin Explorer (bx) are insecure! Wallet software
Thanks for clarifying. My understanding is indeed that MT is a not CSPRNG, as it…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 15, 2023, 08:45:51 AM |
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[WARNING] Wallets created with Libbitcoin Explorer (bx) are insecure! Wallet software
There is nothing random in Marsenne Twister. If you feed it the same seed, you w…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 15, 2023, 08:08:38 AM |
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[WARNING] Wallets created with Libbitcoin Explorer (bx) are insecure! Wallet software
I am wondering, what is an insecure key, what does it look like, and were these…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 14, 2023, 10:11:11 PM |
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If you used "bx seed" you probably already lost your bitcoins, but if... Development & Technical Discussion
It's so much more easy to screw up than the opposite.The fact that the author ha…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 14, 2023, 09:49:09 PM |
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[WARNING] Wallets created with Libbitcoin Explorer (bx) are insecure! Wallet software
I saw this news few days ago, and it's not only the problem with Libbitcoin Expl…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 14, 2023, 12:37:54 PM |
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If you used "bx seed" you probably already lost your bitcoins, but if... Development & Technical Discussion
...but, the pull request doesn't seem to make any changes that should alter thre…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 13, 2023, 12:08:19 PM |
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If you used "bx seed" you probably already lost your bitcoins, but if... Development & Technical Discussion
hmmm, but wasn't the low-entropy seeding limited to the bx-seed codebase, or has…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 13, 2023, 10:52:40 AM |
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If you used "bx seed" you probably already lost your bitcoins, but if... Development & Technical Discussion
opinion is that the original code was also pretty dubious for securely seeding…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 13, 2023, 12:15:54 AM |
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Codex32 Development & Technical Discussion |
n/a | gmaxwell | August 11, 2023, 05:40:02 PM |
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If you used "bx seed" you probably already lost your bitcoins, but if... Development & Technical Discussion
They made a similar post on reddit, I responded with some questions but they hav…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 11, 2023, 01:33:06 PM |
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