Does anyone have a list of the countries that have adopted BTC in some manner?
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Saturday, 21 January 2023
Transaction hash of block 71036
I recently downloaded the blockchain and I started having fun reading the binary files. However, I can't get some of the transactions hash present on block 71036, more specifically those transactions that contains a bunch of OP_CHECKSIG.
On those cases, how the transaction hash was obtained?
Edit: you can look at block 71036 here.
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Friday, 20 January 2023
The CEO of JP Morgan Said Bitcoin Is a Pet Rock. I would say the same thing if a decentralized technology were disrupting my entire industry and taking my business.
I just love the fact that Jamie Dimon exposed himself that he has no fucking clue about Bitcoin.
Saying something is a decentralized ponzi scheme is similar to saying a round rectangle exists. It defeats the criteria of the original definition of a ponzi scheme.
Then the fact that he mentioned 21 million BTC limit is not true. He stated "What if Satoshi comes out after 21 million BTC is created and says 'Ha-Ha'?" (LMAO)
First of all, BTC has no hard limit of 21 million. The halving creates that limitation. When 2140 AD approaches, the block reward will be so small, a tiny fraction of a full BTC, that it'd be impossible to cross the 21 million mark. There's no line in the white paper that says 21 million is the absolute hard limit. But the halving protocol sets that limit indirectly. Understand this first Jamie Dimon.At least let an expert debrief you before going on television and making stupid claims.
Secondly, I greatly love the fact that the CNBC interviewers were actually on the side of BTC, surprisingly. For what it's worth they've been covering BTC enough and have met several talents in the ecosystem to have a better gist of the bitcoin ecosystem than most pompous prick bankers who can't see past their own noses. It's a sign that Bitcoin is winning. "Slowly, but surely" is coming true.
I just love it.
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Thursday, 19 January 2023
Hypothetically
If millions of people collectively took out massive loans from banks and put them all in Bitcoin then declare bankruptcy what could they even do if Bitcoin is un seizable?😂
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Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Definitions of Inflation and Deflation
I’d like to discuss the various meanings of deflation and inflation. I have seen the usage of these words vary a lot in media and finance. While I have a decent understanding of what is going on, I often get confused by the conflated use of these words and would like to clear some things up.
From my current knowledge, I see inflation as being an increase in broad money supply. For the fiat system, this is best described as an increase in M2. For Bitcoin, it would be described as an increase in supply of bitcoins.
Furthermore, the rate of inflation is just the derivative of broad money supply (basic calculus). For Bitcoin, this is extremely easy to calculate, based on the current halving cycle (i.e. block subsidy), and it sits around 1.75%. For fiat, this is more complicated, nebulous and volatile. As of today, the YoY increase in M2 is about 0.01% due to recent rate hikes, but it was obviously much higher in the past year. Financial institutions try to measure the inflation rate using CPI, but this is blatantly biased and flawed, since inflation effects everyone differently and the “basket of goods” is ever-changing.
On the other hand, deflation is the decrease in broad money supply. I won’t go over the meaning agains, since it is pretty much just the opposite of inflation.
However, I would like to better understand how Bitcoin is deflationary. As Bitcoin eventually reaches its hard cap of 21 million, it will become neither inflationary or deflationary. I’m not sure if there is a technical term for this, but I’ll call it “sound”. In this state of sound money, I understand that the prices of goods will deflate in relation to Bitcoin (as they already have in the past). While this makes sense to me, I believe it is a misnomer to call Bitcoin deflationary. Bitcoin would only be deflating if its supply was decreasing.
Can someone please help me clear up these semantics?
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BCH Unlimited docker image
Hi all, I'm trying to set up a node on a synology NAS. VMs seem to use too much memory so I'm hoping there's a BCH unlimited docker image somewhere. I'd like to go with BCHU because the electroncash server is built in. Any suggestions? Thanks.
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source https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/10elhvb/bch_unlimited_docker_image/
electrum wallet multisig signing on coldcard completely broken
I can't seem to be able to transfer a psbt to the coldcard in a way where it would be able to sign it - all I get is Failure, my xfp not involved. It works perfectly fine with sparrow, but the exact same wallet created in electrum (showing the exact same addresses) is a no go. I am assuming this might be because there are no fingerprints for the coldcards in the electrum wallet, but there doesn't seem to be any way of actually adding them. Any ideas?
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What is halving and what are its special features?
Halving is a process whereby the reward given for mining is halved once a certain stage is reached. Initially, the reward in the BTC network was 50 coins per block found. However, after several halving stages, the reward was reduced to 3.125.
In total there were 4 Halving:
28-11-2012, reward 25;
09-07-2016, reward 12.5;
11-05-2020, reward 6.25;
19-04-2024, reward 3.125.
After each reward decline, Bitcoin's price starts to rise and takes a new high.
Read more about cryptocurrencies on our blog - https://changenow.io/blog
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Tuesday, 17 January 2023
Right before Coinflex exit scammed BCH holders, futures volumes had all time high shorts which crashed the market from $400 to $100. There has not been comparable futures volume since June 2022 when coinflex announced their insolvency. Check the chart and set the interval to 1 day. Price was rigged.
Any information on chaintip?
Hello, I tried searching the chaintip subreddit, but it seems pretty dead, found some comments telling OPs to ask here, so here I am giving it a shot, thanks for any info.
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source https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/10dtc2g/any_information_on_chaintip/
Instant buy Bitcoin with PayPal or Apple Pay?
Where do I buy Bitcoin to a wallet directly with PayPal or Apple Pay? Without any verification and somewhere that’s got good reviews/trustworthy.
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Monday, 16 January 2023
Anyone here have thoughts on the WEF discussing crypto regulations Tuesday?
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The WEF will be discussing crypto in Davos on Tuesday[1]. Although I don't think this will have any immediate impact on crypto, I think this will really be significant for seeing the trajectory over the next few years. The WEF consists of "2,500 heads of state and government, business CEOs, civil society representatives, global media and youth leaders from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and North America to work together to rebuild trust and shape the principles, policies and partnerships needed to meet the challenges of 2023" [2]. I personally believe that all of these people will have a relatively unified opinion on crypto, and the guy running the WEF is Klaus Schwab so it HAS to give some insight into how banks will be handling crypto in the future. [1] https://stellar.org/events/world-economic-forum-2 [2] https://www.iberdrola.com/about-us/iberdrola-world-economic-forum-davos PS: Is this more evidence that a singular completely untraceable guy did not create something that could override the entire financial system completely by himself, and it's actually some government agency that owns a million bitcoin? https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracyNOPOL/comments/oi45gv/bitcoin_was_created_by_the_nsa/ [link] [comments] |
source https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/10cvyl3/anyone_here_have_thoughts_on_the_wef_discussing/
Sunday, 15 January 2023
Wall Street Journal silent on bitcoin rally.
I searched the entire online publication intently and found no mention of the fact that the price of bitcoin has risen 25% in 5 days. There was unrelenting coverage of exchanges and CeFi companies imploding along with the price of BTC. I assume they feel their readership is only interested in hearing about bitcoin failing, since 90% of them don’t own any.
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Creating Tokens on Bitcoin(BTC) using OP_Return, Smart Contract Treasuries and Distributed Bots Secured by DRM
Hi, r /btc, I'd like to share with you a concept I created for designing de-fi systems that function on Bitcoin Layer 1, no side-chain or forks required. Hope you like it :)
The system described in this post is called "Peng(o)". This post outlines how Fungible and non-fungible tokens (Similar to ERC-20 and ERC-721 on EVM chains with a few improvements) can be created and managed on Bitcoin BTC while preserving the security of its users. This would allow the creation of secure stablecoins using the trustless TeF algorithm (not an external data source). With non-fungible tokens it will be possible to create subscriptions, reoccurring payments, on-chain escrows and trust funds.
Peng is designed in such a way that it would be impossible to "hack" a token or have special privileges that would allow "rugpulls" to occur.
The system is purely in its design phase. Peng is open source; Apache 2.0, DRM is only used to secure post-genesis versions of node software.
Creating L1 Tokens on Bitcoin will require three things;
- OP_Return
- Smart Contract Treasuries
- Distributed bots
OP_Return
https://i.ibb.co/CtXy6PB/OP-return-Peng-bitcoin-btc.png
An "OP_Return" is a message in a transaction output as seen in the example above, OP_Return is used to create a new "account" within the distributed Peng Network, the bots read all associated OP_Return transactions sent to the Peng(o) multi-sig address and use that as an account list.
In the above example we can see a line for "variables", the variables are an "internal ledger" or json directory stored within the distributed bots that hold the user's actual balance.
https://i.ibb.co/WW2dNzp/Peng-o-OP-return-example.png
So what the user does when they need to deposit for the first time is interact with the web app, which will request a digital signature to prove that they own an account, this signature plus the randomly generated code issued for encryption is stored on the OP_Return itself.
The user would then need to send the required fee to create the OP_Return to an address controlled by the distributed bots. While also sending the desired amount for deposit to the treasury multi-sig, the transaction is expected, so even before it is confirmed on the blockchain the bots will update the user's balance in the internal ledger and the user can begin transferring to other accounts, but each deposit from an unconfirmed transaction is tainted in an "error chain", this means if the transaction is rejected or reverted; every subsequent transaction logged can be undone and redone without the tainted coins.
When a user has created their account they do not need to pay a fee to create a new OP_Return message and can deposit freely, this is because the OP_Return stores a static account and does not need a new message on-chain to update balances, balances are updated from within the internal ledger.
Proofing
https://i.ibb.co/prTPVJQ/Peng-screen-3.png
Each transaction requires a proof, this shows that the user in question owns the address they want to transact with and is achieved through the use of digital signatures as seen above. The user is issued a code which they need to sign in their wallet, they present the output and it is corroborated with the public key and original code, this proves they are the rightful owner of the address.
The proof for each account creation is appended on the OP_Return, and the proof for each transaction is appended to the json file within the bot (only the last 10 transactions for any account is logged, each transaction is sorted by "nonce" or number once, a simple way to count each transaction). Every internal transaction is public and auditable.
Smart contract treasuries
On Bitcoin(BTC) it is already possible to create smart contracts that obey simple parameters or rules, for example a user could create a contract that will send a specific amount of BTC to a specific address after a specific number of blocks have passed. How Peng incorporates this is that all funds are held within a "Treasury contract", this is a multi-sig address, which means six keys are required to pass a transaction, each of these keys represents a bot sub-group in the distributed network.
To expand on this; bots within the network are assigned sub-groups, each sub-group possesses a key which is created automatically post-genesis, meaning no one sees the keys before they are generated, the security of this is guaranteed in the heading further down; "distributed bots".
https://i.ibb.co/y44NyRc/peng-o-token-format.png
Tokens on Peng are similar to accounts, their creation is made on an OP_return and their variables are stored within the internal ledger, multiple types of token updates exist, in the above image we see the most common which is a token_buy, when a token is bought two updates occur; one for the user and one for the token account, this sends a certain amount of coin to the token's account while sending a certain amount of the token to the user's account.
Each user can only hold (4) tokens at a time, when a user buys a token for the first time what this does is add their public key to a token registry and the slot used to hold said token, this slot is then used for all future buys of the same token. The mechanism for this swap is single sided and not constant market, single sided means an enforced amount of token is swapped for a specific amount of coin, the impact of each buy is then recorded and used to update the price.
This means liquidity is not a pair, the liquidity for each asset is stored separately, ensuring that even if liquidity for one asset should drop significantly so long as there is enough for a particular trade it will enforce the correct price.
https://i.ibb.co/qNYC327/Bitcoin-Total-transactions-vs-usd-price-logarithmic.png
The use of this system to create stablecoins would use a static price in TeF, TeF is simply a data source gotten from the average transaction amount per block on the main blockchain then divided by 100,000,000, this becomes 1TeF.
TeF is correlational with the value of the main blockchain vs the greater commodities market because as more people buy the coin it becomes scarcer and therefore each transaction will have an average of fewer Bitcoin being sent, so in this way TeF is closer to the USD price of the chain while not being USD.
More information on TeF and its variants can be found on my medium; here. Tokens pegged to TeF using the existing swap protocol will always trade at the exact TeF price.
Distributed bots
https://i.ibb.co/bry3XFJ/Screen-3.png
The Peng webapp and everything else managed by the network would be hosted by distributed bots, anyone can host a bot and receive rewards per transaction, transactions are randomly assigned to nodes in the network and make use of "absolute consensus".
This is possible thanks to the network's DRM software known as HYPR, HYPR prevents reading or writing of the node software by anyone but itself, it does this by embedding itself in the kernel and seizing control of the computer. When the computer is booted up, HYPR boots with it and runs a simple taskbar launcher which can be used to start or stop the bot.
Further details and protective measures for HYPR and the protocol as a whole are expanded upon in my design for Peng(a), which is designed to work on BitcoinCash (BCH) and can be found on my medium; here.
How this is an improvement over token swaps on EVM chains
A. Swap protocols on EVM chains typically use a constant market algorithm, this means the assets are paired and go up or down in value depending on which asset is more scarce. The problem arises in how price is calculated; total holders vs circulating amount vs liquidity, each buy is simply a transfer, each transfer is also a buy, each time a token is transferred it is recorded as purchase, this means if someone were to distribute the token's supply to a large number of addresses this would greatly increase the price of the token. However, because those were not actual purchases; liquidity was not added, so there is a liquidity deficit. The image below illustrates that but in an extreme example;
https://i.ibb.co/j88CM3v/mcap-Market-Cap-Coinlist-Rug-2.png
The ERC-20 token shown above was distributed to millions of addresses, thus its circulating supply and number of holders made it seem more valuable than it actually was, this exploit can and has been used to "game" the constant market system. Peng solves this.
B. Users cannot pull liquidity; this is because liquidity on Peng is a network primitive and not a token standard that can be customized, When users create a token its supply is not active until adequate liquidity is reached; this is; preset supply of the token multiplied by the preset price. Once liquidity is added the deployer still has to buy the token same as everyone else. The incentive for creating a token are the fees taken on each transaction which cannot exceed 5%, though fees are only paid out once liquidity is above 105% of the price multiplied by supply, each fee below that is instead used to refill the liquidity pool.
C. Users cannot define special privileges on the Peng Main-network, this means a user cannot "hack" a token using a backdoor, because there is no backdoor. However because it would be possible to create sub-networks using Peng(o) multi-sigs that can in turn have their own internal ledger, it would be possible for someone to create a webapp where there are backdoors that allow rugpulls, but the user would have to be lured to such a site in the first place, sub-networks are not shown on the main-network in any fashion.
With that said I will conclude the post here, thank you for reading, I do require assistance with implementing Peng, if you have any critique or recommendations please let me know below.
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I saw it coming (secret indicator)
You want to know what that indicator is huh? I will tell you, it is …. MEMES!! I have been part of this sub for more than 5 years now and it has been true again and again. Once people start accepting the lowest of the low and producing good quality memes I know “the end of the bear is near”
PS: Ban me from r/bitcoin if this is a bull trap. Thanks.
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