When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Tim Berners-Lee - internet inventor.

Pushing the envelope has nothing to do with paper. It comes from this chart. The green zone is the flight envelope. The safe limits of an aircraft. Test pilots literally pushed against it to see what the plane could take. Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff 1979 book popularise it.

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Did you know the NSA published a Cryptocurrency Paper 12 Years Before Bitcoin?

Satoshi Nakamoto rurns 51! 5th April 1975 is considered Satoshi's birthday. This is known because his profile on the p2pFoundation says so. But no exact date is display so where does the 5th of April come from? There is no snapshots from 4th to 5th April in same year available :( But using these 4 snapshoots on the archiving sites, we can deduce with 100% certainty the DOB is 5th of April. - 3 April 2014: 38 - 4 April 2014: 38 - 28 May 2014: 39 - 5 April 2015: 40 3 & 4 April 2014, he was 38 Hadn’t turned 39 yet - birthday after 4 April 28 May 2014, he was 39 Birthday is before May 28. 5 April 2015, he was 40 Birthday is on or before April 5, but after 4th, which means the 5 is DOB Since he was 39 in 2014, he was born in 1975. Worth noting the 1st person to point this out was gwern on reddit in 2014.

I am very new AI stuff, so may be missing something. Is reinforcement learning not an amazing tool to find strange Bitcoin consenseus bugs and edge cases? I mean is consenseus written in the code not a super verifiable problem? If yes, its fairly trivial and quite low cost to implement something like this. So we should do it ASAP, as an adversary could do this with ease and attack Bitcoin.

This is what buying Bitcoin looked like in 2011. 1BTC = $3.5

Did you know? The coinbase TX with most outputs (919) was mined by Eligius Pool(now Ocean ) on 2011-06-27? f36222943ad100899acbd8300f943ee2c127babef879d8a3c0696c0d914e04ca

I think I solved the mistery of why Satoshi used different endianess in various places. :D

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LNPoS @LNbits that was used by Room 77 for Bitcoin payments. 10 Jul 2019

The legendary Bitcoin Bar - Room 77 One of the 1st places in the world to accept Bitcoin. Did not accept Bitcoins from Coinbase. Pictures from 30 Aug 2018.

John Newbery talking about the newly released Bitcoin Core 0.17 2nd London BitDevs meetup 16 Aug 2018 (not yet called BitDevs)

One things nostr is definetly better than Twitter is posting pictures. The picture are less compressed and thus better quality. However the previewing crop feature needs improvement(at least in primat)

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Bitcoin ATM by GENERAL BYTES 2 Sep 2017. 1 BTC = £3,891 Today: 1 BTC = £85,270 (21x increase!)

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@Bisq when it was called Bitsquare. 1 BTC = $786 18 December 2016.

It’s not clear if bitcoin is legal, but there is no company in control and no one to arrest. Newyorker Article - October 2011