coinalytics the easiest way to query the blockchain - coinalytics.co/tools/explorer… pic.twitter.com/n2jz50jxbY
The Bitcoin Lightning Network (draft whitepaper) lightning.network/lightning-netw…
@rogerkver I’ve always wanted to have a lawyer in my pocket, now if only I can get a judge there as well, I’ll be set!
rogerkver I just heard about an Uber-like app to get attorneys on a video call instantly during a traffic stop or other police encounter. #PoliceState
TheRealNimoy A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP
@pmccall777 “We’re from the government and we’re here to force ‘neutrality’ upon you.”
@barrysilbert but…but… we won’t be able to eat our bitcoins when the EMPs go off!
@aantonop Thanks! I hope to see more discussion about issues such as this so that we can develop block chain best practices.
@sundance30203 By tying fewer pubkeys together (by using them in the same transaction) you make it harder to tie your separate txs together.
@NicholasFrazee @jefft pewpew? This is exactly what Javascript was made for.
sgornick @lopp While UTXOs of 0.01 or less take up a huge amount of space, their monetary value is relatively small: reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comm… #Bitcoin
BitGo The Challenges of Optimizing Unspent Output Selection, by @lopp bitgoinc.com/challenges-opt…
@mikestable NSA LOLs “you hurt us but we can’t prove it because doing so would hurt us” news.vice.com/article/offici…
I just published “The Challenges of Optimizing Unspent Output Selection” medium.com/@lopp/the-chal…
@AriannaSimpson I worked on a Wordpress fork when I was in college; the code was also horrible :-|
BitcoinMagazine BREAKING NEWS: @BitGo Unleashes FDIC-like Insurance Ushering in a New Era of #Bitcoin Security btcm.ag/bitgoxl pic.twitter.com/IAbmRq9O5t
@maraoz I think you’ll need to convince Canonical to add it as a supported repository. As of now you must add PPA maintained by @TheBlueMatt
@kyledrake North Carolina FTW :-)
dan_pantera Never-discussed aspect to the Bitcoin-Internet analog: #Bitcoin is a protocol w/ a price feed. bit.ly/miamipresentat… pic.twitter.com/sGtazV2ubp
@bitonbit @barrysilbert Well, I’m on the advisory board for my credit union, so at LEAST once per quarter :-P
@danielcawrey This is one question to which I’d probably rather not know the answer.
Kudos to David Harding for writing the most comprehensive guide to running a full node; it’s now live at bitcoin.org/en/full-node
danielcawrey Do you run a bitcoin node? If you do, why? If you don’t, why not? ow.ly/Jq73i
@mikebelshe @ryanxcharles Can’t perform the math by hand, can’t trust the hardware that runs the math :-|
@susie_c @kristovatlas Fine, I can offer you a cool Billion Dogecoin
“The tech being built to support Bitcoin… is not just useful to secure bitcoins, but to solve many computer security problems.” - @dakami
@zmanian @taariqlewis @bendavenport @BitGo Correct; it proxies many calls directly to bitcoind, keeping all of the bugs that we love :-)
BitGo Running a bitcoin service on bitcoind? Check out BitGoD, our multi-sig replacement for bitcoind. bitgoinc.com/bitgod-multi-s…
More evidence that bitcoins are valuable enough to incite some people to violence in order to obtain them: observer.com/2015/02/bitcoi…
“Due to fluctuations in USD/Euro, we have decreased credit prices in USD by 7.5%” @gandibar gandi.net/news/en/2015-0…
@bitrated The error occurred when submitting the vouch. It seems to have been a transient issue; I just tried again and it worked.
@breakingjac Sorry @ToTheMoonGuy, I tried to vouch for you but seem to have broken Bitrated: “Internal Server Error”
ROFL @ToTheMoonGuy is on Bitrated but demands a 100% arbitration fee pic.twitter.com/GdoqcS8JQJ
@oocBlog Yay, almost up to 100 eligible nodes, the min threshold for payouts!
Bitrated account verification: my username is lopp, with SIN Tf9ANo7unqGxJk8feBmhbhctymFyftqvJm2. bitrated.com/lopp
@ryanxcharles IDK, I hope that if strong AI becomes reality, I’ll just be able to ask the computer nicely for what I want it to do. :-)
@binarybits That’s what happens when you rely upon marketers to keep you alive ;-)
@oocBlog Theoretical optimization… TL;DR “I have no idea” :-)
@erstw @isidorechan @ryanxcharles Bitcoin is open source; anyone can propose code changes. Dozens of people contributed to latest release.
@pig_poetry No piss tests while working from home?
cqwww If you need to prove timestamped document possession, @trustatom has a private beta of their API api.trustatom.com/doc/certificat… #bitcoin
Congrats to everyone whose code shipped in Bitcoin Core 0.10, including my teammates @isidorechan and @ryanxcharles bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.…
@Jim_Harper If only 0.01% of Bitcoin users care enough about @BTCFoundation to participate, can it claim to be relevant?
orionwl #Bitcoin #Core 0.10.0 has been released! Get it at bitcoin.org/en/download , read the release notes: bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.…
@ryanxcharles @BitGo Glad to have you on the team, Ryan!
ryanxcharles I’ve accepted an offer at @BitGo.
@flyosity Ha, the traffic was not fun. It would have been manageable if I had been on my crotch rocket rather than in a rental car.
PseudoNode has spawned a heated debate. IMO if a “node” is propagating valid data, doesn’t matter if data is local. reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comm…
I spent the past 2 weeks in Silicon Valley and it has bolstered my belief that a ton of smart folks are working hard on improving Bitcoin.
I want to bring Big Data to the blockchain, though parallelizing ingestion of a sequential database is going to be challenging…
roasbeef 1/ Privacy in Bitcoinj: jonasnick.github.io/blog/2015/02/1…. TL;DR: Usage of bloom filters for BitcoinJ SPV clients provides negligible privacy as impl
ryanxcharles Regulators insist that their existence is necessary for bitcoin to work coindesk.com/former-us-trea…
@ristopietila That could just be the post title, then in the body of the post you can go into more detail about yourself.
@ristopietila I’d like to see you do an AMA post on /r/bitcoin! “I’m Risto Pietila, early adopter & castle owner, ask me anything”
TechCrunch This Week On The TechCrunch Bitcoin Podcast: Let’s Play Poker tcrn.ch/1MhpcKB by @alex
@kyledrake You’ve gotta ease into it; after the first week your body should adjust :-)
isidorechan Check out BitGo Express, a unified local REST API for multi-sig medium.com/@benedictchan/…, available on ALL platforms! pic.twitter.com/HYyEPdsBRG
TIL that running bitcoind with full tx indexing enabled (txindex=1) results in an additional 3 GB of disk space usage, only a ~10% overhead.
@Jeremy_DeGroot Gun owners don’t decide whether or not to carry by trying to predict the future. This particular guy was a homicidal maniac.
@Jeremy_DeGroot I read “intent to use” == aggressive immoral action. “I may have to use” == defensive moral action.
@Jeremy_DeGroot People have been injuring and killing each other long before firearms existed. Carrying a weapon != being an aggressor.
@Jeremy_DeGroot Same reason I ever carry - I have no intention of being a victim. I am always intent upon being able to defend myself.
@Jeremy_DeGroot Ahuh. I wore a gun when I confronted the guy who was sleeping with my wife and had no intention of using it.
mdotfallon @lopp @mvlkm I didn’t agree at first but @mvlkm changed my mind with this medium.com/down-the-hashr…. Ƀ for bitcoin
.@mvlkm discusses currency symbols and suggests that Bitcoin not steal the symbol for the Thai Baht :-) #BitPanel pic.twitter.com/A53GDveNS6
@BlockCypher @DraperHeroCity @coinbase @BitGiveOrg @gethashrabbit I’ll see you there!
@cyberfundio 1000 bits to my 1000th follower via @ChangeTip!
@NewbergNate I’ll be working remotely from NC and visiting Silicon Valley every few months.
@NewbergNate It’s a blast; I finally turned my passion into my profession!
.@BitGo and @_CFour_ are proud to jointly announce the release of the draft CryptoCurrency Security Standard. blog.cryptoconsortium.org/ccss/
Are you a Mobile / Backend / Frontend / DevOps Engineer, Marketer, Controller, or InfoSec specialist? Message me! bitgoinc.com/jobs/
ofnumbers alleged original version of #Bitcoin white paper: blacksheepatorenco.com/bitcoin.html cc @gwern @SDLerner @petertoddbtc only 8 footnotes but incl W Dai
Local news just called PD’s license plate scanners a success b/c they were able to query historical data to find a missing person. :-|
.@port8333 has rolled out a Bitcoin node incentive program: getaddr.bitnodes.io/nodes/incentiv…
@dpfrank07 Not me; I’m not particularly concerned about energy usage; people will devote energy to infrastructure so long as it’s profitable
@kyuupichan @fnxTX Possibly if there was a catastrophic price crash or another SHA256 cryptocurrency came along that was more profitable.
“Pruning should arrive in Bitcoin Core 0.11, allowing people to run a full node with only 1 GB of storage space.” @pwuille
“Bitcoin Core 0.10 will track fee usage on the network & provide a feedback loop for fee estimation, essentially creating a market” @pwuille
While developing & testing libsecp256k1, @pwuille found a 12 year old bug in OpenSSL that affects 64 bit AMD CPUs when calculating squares.
“Trying to reimplement Bitcoin’s consensus rules is too risky, which is why we have developed libconsensus, a library of the rules” @pwuille
“Consistency is more important than correctness in consensus critical systems. The implementation IS the specification.” - @pwuille
“Headers first syncing reduces the importance of checkpoints. Checkpoints are not a security mechanism & should not be relied upon” @pwuille
Packed house @ SF Bitcoin dev meetup to hear @pwuille talk about the upcoming Bitcoin Core 0.10 release! pic.twitter.com/0pAIC44gCE
sfpublicworks Double rainbow over San Francisco! pic.twitter.com/r0eNuzNEHO
@fnxTX Supposedly DigiShield and DarkGravityWave are improvements upon Kimoto Gravity Well; I haven’t heard much chatter about them.
@fnxTX It should be trivial to patch in, I’m just not sure if consensus would be achievable RE: security after last year’s time warp vuln.
.@fnxTX I don’t think it’s a big worry for Bitcoin since it has hashing power dominance; PoW coins w/less do benefit from algos such as KGW.
Great analysis on the relationship of hashrate changes to the Poisson process governing the generation of new blocks: hashingit.com/analysis/41-wa…
montymunford It begins…
Samsung’s Smart TV owners warned about mentioning personal information in their living room: pic.twitter.com/EnI2O0TRMQMQ
@orweinberger I do believe that @coinalytics has that functionality
@cdixon Well, that’s an interesting take on fungibility, @NTmoney - I’m not sure many Bitcoin users would agree :-)
OTOH: “I would love to see multiple implementations of Bitcoin being run by miners.” - @gavinandresen youtube.com/watch?v=tqlvk5…
On one hand: “I don’t believe a second, compatible implementation of Bitcoin will ever be a good idea.” - Satoshi bitcointalk.org/index.php?topi…
When you pass an invalid host alias to mongo CLI it silently connects to localhost & you wonder where the data went: pic.twitter.com/NGFn4zn50V
balajis We select people to win popularity contests and then wonder why they’re poor at allocating scarce resources.
@CaseyNewton @AriannaSimpson <serious> She’d be a lot better off mining DGC and converting to BTC dustcoin.com
@mikestable my new drinking glasses are the inverse of my old glasses. pic.twitter.com/zJ6qFAgq8f
@LoganJames @danlowe Meanwhile, New Hampshire is working toward accepting bitcoins for tax payments :-P
@BlueMeanie4 @MarcHochstein If a dominant miner decides to commit suicide by halting tx processing, feel free to say “I told you so.”
@MarcHochstein Sure, if you mine a few bits now and then later BTC exchange rate rises to $1M ;-)
@MarcHochstein Exactly; the system re-adjusts as miners get priced out of the market or as non-miners get incentivized to give it a shot.
@MarcHochstein No problem! You can see the historic difficulty changes here: bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/diffic…
The government can incarcerate Ross Ulbricht but it can’t incarcerate Dread Pirate Roberts.
bendavenport Bitcoin power-users rejoice! There’s now a mostly-complete command-line interface for BitGo. bitgoinc.com/multi-sig-comm…
@emilepetrone Sorry, but I don’t buy his claim that the Internet wouldn’t exist had it not been for the FCC’s “help.”
@flyosity Sounds like it wasn’t very private…
@ErikVoorhees I heard that God invented rules governing math; I hope He doesn’t decide to change the rules out of spite when BTC takes over.
FYI makers who are bitcoin users: a list of DIY electronics suppliers who accept BTC can be found at n-o-d-e.net/post/110013371… /cc @tindie
Hello @BitGo :-) github.com/BitGo/BitGoJS/…
@kristovatlas Congratulations!
kristovatlas Joining the Blockchain.info team, OBPP blog.anonymousbitcoinbook.com/2015/02/joinin…