Chain Archaeology revisited -- Any more known miners for sub 1000 blocks?
I really enjoyed Taras' 2014 thread Chain Archaeology - Answers from the early blockchain
unfortunately most of the links don't show up so I had to manually view them to get full effect.
Kind of entertaining watching how Taras' mind was working/evolving over the thread, but I did reproduce some of Taras' work for fun and generated a final chart mapping the early miners' Extra Nonce values for their coinbase transactions from this message:
If I understand correctly some of the miners in brackets were just names assigned by Taras to unknown miners that I think were identified purely because of the pattern?, but others like Hal Finney were obtained using a screen shot of his earliest transactions so they are 100% confident at least.
Questions:
1) At this time frame using the early non customized bitcoin.exe is it expected to see the miner's coinbase block increment like Hal's until they restart their instance? It is so odd they all have approximately the same angle over time...is that a reflection of the hash rate for a typical PC in 2009 or something else?
2) Does anyone know of miners of blocks less than 1000 that aren't included in Taras' list? Screen shots of early transactions like Hal's would be ideal
I have screen shot of theymos early transactions he posted, but they are much later than 1000.
Thanks!
unfortunately most of the links don't show up so I had to manually view them to get full effect.
Kind of entertaining watching how Taras' mind was working/evolving over the thread, but I did reproduce some of Taras' work for fun and generated a final chart mapping the early miners' Extra Nonce values for their coinbase transactions from this message: list of spent blocks we've linked so far (see link for list)
If I understand correctly some of the miners in brackets were just names assigned by Taras to unknown miners that I think were identified purely because of the pattern?, but others like Hal Finney were obtained using a screen shot of his earliest transactions so they are 100% confident at least.
Questions:
1) At this time frame using the early non customized bitcoin.exe is it expected to see the miner's coinbase block increment like Hal's until they restart their instance? It is so odd they all have approximately the same angle over time...is that a reflection of the hash rate for a typical PC in 2009 or something else?
2) Does anyone know of miners of blocks less than 1000 that aren't included in Taras' list? Screen shots of early transactions like Hal's would be ideal
I have screen shot of theymos early transactions he posted, but they are much later than 1000.Thanks!