Guess a value for the empty nonce in the last block that results in a hash with sufficient number of leading zeros and you win 18000 dollars. Why a block chain database? A regular online bank account keeps you from spending digital money more than once. Read more…
Notes Video Title: Charles Hugh Smith — Can Trump pull a Rabbit out of a Hat or is US Economy Doomed 11:35: Another cryptocurrency will overtake BitCoin > he likens it to AOL the early stage solution 16:10 CHaS friends suggest Dash is better
Smart phones were designed to spy on you. Standard windows boxes are easily infected. According to McAfee any of the free porn sites will infect you with a key logger. He suspects the hackers behind this are waiting to commit a big score rather than dribble hack everyone to death Read more…
Target Article: Speculative Bitcoin Adoption/Price Theory In this article a few follow on modifications / additions are briefly mentioned. They are Lightening Network SideChains They are both directed at speeding up bitcoin transactions which is a currently a limiting feature of BitCoin at the moment.
Blockchain is a distributed database that maintains a continuously-growing list of records called blocks secured from tampering and revision. Research Links Wikipedia: BlockChain A blockchain in 200 lines of code This is the key article explains a simple block chain and uses JavaScript code to implement it. GitHub: NaiveChain JavaScript Read more…
Research Links How to Cancel Unconfirmed Bitcoin Transactions Cancelling stuck Bitcoin transaction sent from your local BTC wallet requires you to run the qt wallet client with a special option that would remove all pending transactions that are not included in the blockchain. You need to run bitcoin-qt.exe (or the Read more…
BitCoin Value in Dollars Versus Time with Event Annotation
​Bitcoin Core does not have a GUI for displaying private keys. There is probably a good reason for that. What is it? launch your bitcoin client as usual and wait for it to load the blockchain and start up click on 'help' in the menu bar (top right) click on Read more…
Research Links How to Send BitCoins from a Paper Wallet Each public private key pair can be thought of as a single note as shown below In order for that note to be good it has to be loaded up first. This is done by sending the public key to Read more…