In a world of many blockchains, Bitcoin will remain the One Chain to Rule Them All. https://t.co/jNi2NulBex
@mikegeister @masonic_tweets Exactly. People will use whatever system they are presented with; they won’t be the deciders.
@masonic_tweets Compromised credit cards could hinder the general public’s trust in traditional financial systems!
Blockchains are cheap. Secure blockchains are not. It’s hard to sell security to someone until after they have experienced a breach.
techdirt DEA Agents Caught Soliciting Prostitutes Rewarded With Light Punishments, Bonus Checks goo.gl/fb/waEPSS
TheEconomist The technology underlying bitcoin is a machine for creating trust. It is very promising econ.st/1jUbh3m pic.twitter.com/0EFVsG5wnE
I updated Statoshi on 10/27 to pull in recent changes from Bitcoin Core master; you can see it rejects more txs now: https://t.co/WZUqa15Vhi
@ClaudioAlbertin @flyosity Sure, but it’s not nearly as sexy as a SALT. Just look at that carefully crafted gat!
@flyosity I can buy a whole magazine of .45 for the cost of a single SALT round. Apparently it’s more economical to kill than incapacitate.
@flyosity If you buy one, can we run a pretend home invasion scenario where I attack you with my training knife?
@cafintechnet @alansilbert And who knows; perhaps the big banks will need to take a baby step before jumping into the deep end.
@alansilbert My view of permissioned blockchains is that they allow users to take a small step from “fully trusted” to “mostly trusted.”
As promised: an open source Key Recovery Service we hope will promote greater security across the Bitcoin ecosystem. https://t.co/8gn59E9f0Q
Announcing the release of @BitGo’s Key Recovery Service with @sneakdotberlin’s Keyternal as our first KRS provider! https://t.co/qNBgJbG68p
@Jeremy_DeGroot @pig_poetry Bitcoin will be inflationary for the next century or so.
@pig_poetry Speculators come and go in cycles as builders continue to make incremental progress regardless.
@pierre_rochard I need the next bubble postponed until Q1 2016 so that I can lower my Bitcoin IRA’s cost basis!
@JVWVU1 I dare not speculate upon the outcome of speculators’ speculative frenzies.
Part of me wants the Bitcoin exchange rate to go up. The other part doesn’t, so that discussions aren’t swamped by speculators.
@twobitidiot Does this mean that we can expect MasterCard to stop publishing anti-Bitcoin opinions?
@RaoulGMI @alansilbert If so, be sure to ask for follow-ups from folks such as @ScouseView https://t.co/6k7YDX2YqT
Computer science majors at @UNC have increased 400% in past 5 years, outpacing budget & faculty resources. https://t.co/9IhyMyhUPH @unccs
@jgarzik We can fix this with Proof of Interview!
@orionwl @pwuille @TheBlueMatt @gavinandresen I missed that, thanks!
RT @orionwl: @lopp @pwuille @TheBlueMatt @gavinandresen Did you see https://t.co/ULcfbiwlRs ?
@orionwl @pwuille @TheBlueMatt @gavinandresen Is this expected behavior or does it merit investigation? https://t.co/L7qftPMz3p
@knucklesandwich it’s a simpler technology - all you need is a screen and a camera. I’ve also heard arguments that it’s more secure.
Bitcoin-enabled smart property is just around the corner! https://t.co/DvnMNZrAno
Anybody know why reported UTXO set “bytes_serialized” has dropped by over 50% in Bitcoin Core master branch? https://t.co/7Nn2EZ34MG
@Kosmatos Yeah, this is addressing a pain point for home node operators that has been known for years! https://t.co/bY9wCU6CGI
Bitcoin XT test binaries w/bandwidth throttling patch now available:
https://t.co/msepWxqj0G
https://t.co/Jghcx0VR5i
https://t.co/2k1xtczMiB
P2P messages on the Bitcoin network will propagate significantly faster with the implementation of TCP_NODELAY https://t.co/isNzDRJfSk
14-year old girl faces assault & battery charges for throwing a baby carrot at teacher. https://t.co/ZImVz5VW1o https://t.co/mmoK40baqS
RT @CrimeADay: 49 U.S.C. §46316(a) & 14 C.F.R. §101.13(a)(1) make it a federal crime to fly a kite within 500 feet of the base of a cloud.
@orweinberger good luck chaining them together
If ambient temperature exceeds body temperature, going faster / higher wind speeds will make you hotter, not cooler. pic.twitter.com/6JibQ8hYb6
An Alabama judge asks poor people to literally pay court fines with their blood. https://t.co/TwTaiXR8eV
@dMnyc @coolbearcjs My bad; Bitcoin is dead - long live Blockchain.
Bitcoin’s continued operation is proof that rules can be enforced without authority.
@kristovatlas apparently
@kristovatlas Will the Blockchain Alliance help get criminals:
RT @Technom4ge: It is time to unveil The First Multisig Physical Bitcoin! https://t.co/m0ZvcRUmRN #bitcoin #denarium #blockchain #multisig
My question is: how do @obpp_org, @Blockstream, and other privacy-focused organizations fit into this equation? O:-) https://t.co/2wrwDqvpl8
RT @nanok: ECJ ruling effectively recognizing Bitcoin as a *real* currency;
“Bitcoin is tax-free in Europe, top court rules” https://t.co/S…
@davidfickling @pmarca Next thing you know, we’ll be rehydrating our pizzas at home!
Time to donate more bitcoins to @wikileaks wikileaks.org/cia-emails/
jgarzik PR 6722 includes something I’ve been pushing for years:
Expiration of not-confirming #bitcoin transactions in the mempool (def.: 72 hrs)
wikileaks ANNOUNCE: We have obtained the contents of CIA Chief John Brennan’s email account and will be releasing it shortly.
obpp_org How common is address reuse in Bitcoin? Here’s the picture for the last 1000 blocks (~7 days) data via @LaurentMT pic.twitter.com/3z7VhLIqfr
Governments enact regulations to give businesses clarity, but then give regulators discretionary authority, creating regulatory uncertainty.
@BitGiveOrg @BitcoinComic @laBITconf I’ll raise my #Bid4BitcoinComic to meet your goal of 3 BTC
@JasonH3ss @Blockstream I don’t think so; the internals of the @21dotco micropayments server is still a big mystery.
@AriannaSimpson An electric car would be nice but what I /really/ want is an electric motorcycle with a decent highway range. /cc @elonmusk
@JasonH3ss I’m only really following @Blockstream’s development of LN and I think we’ll see a usable first release within a year.
The Lightning Network architecture employs creative use of double spends & penalty periods to build trustless transactions off-chain.
I’ll happily enter an opening 2 BTC #Bid4BitcoinComic https://t.co/EnkbHcCwTE - proceeds go to @BitGiveOrg https://t.co/84hG77z1jm
I recommend creating a glossary when reading the Lightning Network whitepaper. lightning.network pic.twitter.com/8O8mKxsPfj
@taariqlewis We’ll have to change the nomenclature. 1 Satoshi = 10 blockchain nanounits.
@MadBitcoins @PurseIO Eventually “investors” will learn that blockchains don’t work without blockchain unit tokens.
@alansilbert Blockchain as a proper noun = cringe. “How will Blockchain change the future of banks?” Kudos @barrysilbert for saying Bitcoin.
“The killer app for Bitcoin is greed and speculation.” - @barrysilbert
Greed makes the world go ‘round; greed makes Bitcoin stronger.
@acityinohio Not sure what’s up with that. I’m not seeing it now but I have seen it randomly on diff browsers… intermittently.
Odd behavior today on the Bitcoin network; full blocks w/few # of txns; perhaps some UTXO set cleanup going on? https://t.co/7Nn2EZ34MG
Creators of shared ledger systems can mix and match these attributes to suit their targeted use cases. pic.twitter.com/KzeM7lDf3a
@jonmatonis The very nature of investments assures us that some of them are going to fail; time will tell…
socrates1024 #InternetOfThings is when your toaster mines bitcoins to pay off its gambling debts to the fridge
_tessr One of the most important responsibilities of an engineer is writing descriptive, yet concise, commit messages. pic.twitter.com/L0lS4FB8Sn
@mikestable @flyosity Imagine all the clicks you could save us if only you’d embed the images!
RT @dan_pantera: “Flight to safety†— #Bitcoin less volatile than tradition asset classes of late: stocks, commodities, paper money. http:…
@MyceliumCom I think your testnet server is down
Bitnodes’ ODROID node hardware is no longer for sale, but it looks like a new plug ‘n play node just hit the market: bitcoinmini.com
@vakeraj @kristovatlas Right, low cost of entry & low maintenance costs mean that competition will be fierce, reducing profitability.
A new version of p2sh.info is now live and was rewritten to use @grafana due to inspiration from statoshi.info :-D
@kristovatlas It will be a race to the bottom just like mining, except the capital requirements and tech skills required are much lower.
Any functional scheme to directly financially incentivize Bitcoin full node operators will quickly drop to near zero profitability.
@whaleclubco @alansilbert *yawn*
@jonmatonis @blockchain RIP @Coinometrics; feel free to replace with statoshi.info ;-)
@NTmoney @Herbalife @caseysgenstore That’s the problem - we can’t eat our bitcoins!
@DylanRatigan Currency doesn’t /need/ to represent anything other than an agreement amongst a group of people that is has value.
@matthew_d_green It depends upon whether or not you believe the security that Proof of Work buys Bitcoin is a waste.
@Snowden 10% accuracy sounds terrible, but the government has decided to grade itself on a curve.
@jgarzik GOTO 1
@deezthugs @matthew_d_green Rotating ciphers; please wait…
TradeBlock Analysis of #bitcoin transaction size trends bit.ly/1LcgNHi pic.twitter.com/4olX1qmgVP
Assume your adversary is capable of computing ten grillion calculations per second. https://t.co/BlHSZZvXWK
the_intercept New whistleblower is behind The Drone Papers, the latest revelations about U.S. drone strikes: interc.pt/1Pjgb6T by @mlcalderone
I tested 0.11.1 yesterday and it was stopping lots of txs from being relayed that were later confirmed. :-/ https://t.co/uf8BrpsWuG
@CathyReisenwitz Somewhere out there, there’s a drone in a hanger with that unnamed source’s military code name written on it.
RT @dattnetwork: YC Application & Towards a Prototype 3 http://t.co/7CqyVmeoxu
Kudos to @gandibar @gandi_net for starting bitcoin acceptance. statoshi.info is hosted with them; I’ll pay future bills in BTC!
@getmoneymarket @joshelman @brian_armstrong @masonic_tweets It’s helpful to have since Bitcoin is not yet as ubiquitous as credit cards. ;-)
“BUY! BUY! BUY!”
*scroll*scroll*scroll*
“SELL! SELL! SELL!”
azopstability.com pic.twitter.com/rzoRAmquEP
@pig_poetry This is why we need The Singularity
@Net_Management Only about 150 MPH - it’s a 4 cylinder 1.5L engine. Meant for nimbleness rather than high speed.
@Net_Management Thanks; not only does it look good, it performs well :-)
https://t.co/Q3Te3Yn4i7
https://t.co/gHihBgSBSP
robustus @lopp Strong self-mod is key to reddit’s entire concept. /r/bitcoin shouldn’t have to over-engineer solutions free-market would yield. ahem.
IMO this is a slippery slope; our philosophy in /r/bitcoinxt is that the community can police itself by downvoting trolls into oblivion.
/r/bitcoin mods promise to clean up trolling: “Post history will be taken into account, even posts to other subs.” https://t.co/35xQAN1sX2
Interesting to see a production @Blockstream sidechain w/a federated peg - if other exchanges want to join, can the federation be expanded?
@VitalikButerin @nanok I can back up my private keys in dozens of places at little cost. Can’t do that with physical assets…
Visualizing how Bitcoin block propagation would work with Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables http://t.co/f8hd4Btgy8
At first, only wealthy people will be able to afford self driving cars. Eventually only wealthy people will afford to manually drive cars.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Inflation creates wealth. https://t.co/jved11ZXF0 http://t.co/BEJ43PI8mp
@rogerkver Government is a confusing beast because it operates simultaneously as both a protection service and as a protection racket.
@Bentyn @masonic_tweets You’d have to ask them, if you can find them. Some attackers do make their reasons known: http://t.co/n1tCN387EH
@Bentyn @masonic_tweets No way to know for sure, but usually these attackers are trying to expose flaws in the Bitcoin protocol.
@Bentyn @masonic_tweets Current spam attack has placed over a gigabyte of unconfirmed transactions in the mempool. Some nodes run out of RAM
@zalzally @pmarca I hear San Francisco has a public pee problem. http://t.co/QTvJzVTlIz
RT @CrimeADay: 21 USC §343(g), 333 & 21 CFR §150.140(b)(2) make it a federal crime to sell mixed fruit jelly made from more than five diffe…
@RussHarben It can certainly work, it’s just not pragmatic to assume that node operators will make the effort. Should be automated.
@RussHarben D’oh! Having to reconfigure nodes as attackers vary tactics is not a solution :-/
I’ve had multiple nodes with 4 GB of RAM running Bitcoin Core crash in the past day, including Statoshi: http://t.co/Uo6XiKyVPA
@latetothe @mriou @taariqlewis Yeah, because a “double spend” just means the tx is trying to spend inputs that have already been spent.
RT @sbetamc: This is what spam attack and malleability looks like #bitcoin #malleability #stresstest http://t.co/nJR1FDB4YP http://t.co/Znj…
RT @CrimeADay: 7 USC §282 & 7 CFR §322.9(a) make it a crime to mail a box of honeybee semen into the US unless it says so on every side in …
@BitcoinHelpDesk @BitseedOrg @jfeldis There is no programmatic way to only drop “spam” transactions and never drop “legit” transactions.
@BitcoinHelpDesk @BitseedOrg @jfeldis Expecting node operators to analyze each attack and adjust configurations is not a feasible solution.
@BitcoinHelpDesk @BitseedOrg @jfeldis However, XT’s logic will likely change soon to drop lower fee txs: https://t.co/Svb8VXQBzR
@BitcoinHelpDesk @BitseedOrg @jfeldis There is no way to programmatically differentiate “legit” from “spam” transactions.
@jfeldis Correct. That chart is the outputs you’d get from using Bitcoin Core’s RPC ‘estimatefee’ command.
Unfortunate downside of @projectfi: it turns your phone number into a Google Voice number, preventing you from forwarding GV numbers to it.
@jfeldis Bitcoin Core Fee Estimate for getting confirmed in 6 blocks is currently 1871 satoshis… https://t.co/F6FNKnYYUs
@jfeldis Unfortunately it’s a flawed approach because the definition of “reasonable” keeps changing as attackers change tactics.
@BitseedOrg Or upgrade to Bitcoin XT 0.11B which will limit the mempool and prevent the kernel from killing bitcoind for using too much RAM.
@JackScottE @btcoinware Does it have a built-in klaxon that goes off if you improbably solve a block?
This is the type of uninteresting embedded mining device that people /assumed/ @21dotco was building. https://t.co/747xXKu5CD
10% of nodes knocked offline in past day; mempool size is over 1 GB. https://t.co/FxTUxq1yR2 https://t.co/1to7bRzxbV https://t.co/mAF9H1c8Je
My RAM-limited Bitnodes hardware was crashing during recent stress test; upgrading to Bitcoin XT 0.11B with mempool limiting prevents OOM.
Is Economics Research Replicable? Sixty Published Papers from
Thirteen Journals Say “Usually Not” http://t.co/RttI5vM4om
@GerberKawasaki @malito_ali @newsfromIN Yes, I linked you to over a dozen reasons. It’s OK if you haven’t found any that suit your needs.
@GerberKawasaki @malito_ali @newsfromIN Bitcoin has no viable function for legal activity? You have much to learn… https://t.co/kW1fbgLe3r
@DigiEconomist Attacks just make honey badger angrier.
Average BTC tx size of current spam is 8 KB, 16X larger than usual. But they’re only paying ~2,000 satoshis / KB, 1/20th the usual rate.
As soon as the transaction malleability attack ends, a new block filling / mempool spam attack begins. https://t.co/y4QDDzKpMa
NickSzabo4 From @SDLerner: “improved version of the Ethereum virtual machine as a Bitcoin sidechain”: fuel pegged to bitcoin. rootstock.io
The transaction malleability attacker used https://t.co/HN6b9OKPvS to verify his claims to a @motherboard reporter: http://t.co/n1tCN387EH
“A Comprehensive Study of Software Forks: Dates, Reasons and Outcomes” http://t.co/wqs9enDMS6 via @gavinandresen http://t.co/OJJgfuyb3C
biz1190 What the heck is #bitcoin? #Listen to @eholtzclaw’s #Tech Tip Tuesday with @BitGo’s @lopp: bit.ly/1Lx46KC. #bybb
Assert your 2FA isn’t SPoF or else you’ll be SOL if SHTF.
John Nash’s “Ideal Money and Asymptotically Ideal Money” annotated: http://t.co/AurxueJEBq
Some Bitcoin scams are so bad that they’re great. pic.twitter.com/5OPB9BI6gd
@TradeBlock I suspect that you may be holding a lot of duplicate malleated transactions in your mempool.
Bitcoin transaction malleability attack seems to have abated as of 24 hours ago: https://t.co/zXsOoORZts
1) Machines translate written & oral languages
2) Machines translate thoughts <=> universal code
3) Written & oral languages are deprecated
@JustusRanvier Just taking a quick detour through Fort Meade.
RT @21dotco: The 21 Full Nodes Index.
https://t.co/kPmz3zpK1n
@pig_poetry Or we’ll see folks leeching off cars with suction cup guns and super skateboards a la Snow Crash
When automobiles are autonomous only hackers will be carjackers.
Bitnodes (@port8333) is no longer supported by @BTCFoundation - is now hosted by @21dotco. New URL is bitnodes.21.co
@motherboard @jgarzik IDK, I’d love to see that headline. 100,000 fridges can’t touch the blockchain.
@valkenburgh Great; please let me know when you’re ready so that we can coordinate efforts.
@EFF @coincenter @BTCFoundation Please read my report on Bitcoin legislation in North Carolina: https://t.co/lEa3cSc5Ix
An update from the front lines regarding Bitcoin Legislation in North Carolina: https://t.co/lEa3cSc5Ix
@pig_poetry That sounds bad. It should stop blowing chunks away.
Tx malleability attack this week has been slightly annoying; you can see it going on at https://t.co/RB8rFDxYYD https://t.co/EBJY9ZRVP0
RT @nanok: Need to keep up with the network? Here are 10+ of the Best Blockchain Monitoring Services - http://t.co/wISFl9OqPV http://t.co/a…
@mims @cdixon And ~321,868,012 citizens who haven’t committed a mass shooting this year. #perspective
Code coverage can’t catch concurrency craziness.
Lifehack for coffee fiends: ask your barista for a caffè@soylentt 2.0.
By the time EMV capable credit card terminals are ubiquitous Bitcoin may be mainstream, offering superior security. http://t.co/4fmdFIrUKM