Quote from: JollyGood on August 03, 2022, 11:58:17 AM

That settles it then, the mystery was not so much a mystery after all. I did not pay much attention to what was going on with the wallet or the memorial puzzle but after reading the last post it becomes clear why funds were added and who added them Grin

To be clear: I did not send the funds on 2022-04-30 and 2022-07-10. I have no idea who did. Lauda had many friends and admirers. Despite my wish to keep the puzzle puzzling, I do not wish inadvertently to be credited for money that anonymous others contributed to the prize!

I created the puzzle, and I initially funded it with 0.001 BTC on 2021-03-14.

I think it’s remarkable that the first new addition of money came when I was “asleep”—just over a year after I had last posted on this forum. Of course, others remember Kitty—but I was pleasantly surprised that someone remembered my Kitty-puzzle. 😺

Quote from: PrimeNumber7 on Today at 07:04:56 AM

Quote from: nullius on August 01, 2022, 09:00:03 PM

PrimeNumber7, I think that Lauda probably cared about her privacy from the beginning.

I have seen evidence that Lauda was not initially careful with their identity when they initially joined the forum. I prefer to not publicly state what evidence I have seen as it may weaken Lauda's privacy as it stands today.

Thank you for respecting Lauda’s privacy.

Quote from: PrimeNumber7 on Today at 07:04:56 AM

I think Lauda initially struggled with some of the technical aspects of Bitcoin, and later learned the necessary skills to understand bitcoin. I find the reasons that I previously stated to be most reasonable.

However she learned, she learned well. A few days ago, I took a walk down memory lane with some of her posts from 2017. I had seen many of her posts at the time, while lurking; at the time, I was impressed. Now, with the benefit of hindsight, I am amazed at how accurately she predicted events in a complex system that involved both human decisions, and technology.

Bitcoin is apolitical money, as to external politics—but internally, it is also highly politicized money (and I must credit Cøbra for having pointed out this latter part, somewhere that I didn’t see at the time). Unlike many other realms of politics, Bitcoin politics often hinge directly on technical factors. Being technically correct means winning.

I think that one of the reasons why Lauda had such certitude about being on the winning side was that she understood Bitcoin’s consensus mechanism better than Jihan did. Better than I did, too. Until I saw the theories put to the test, I myself had some doubts about how the Bitcoin network would behave in various adversarial scenarios. Lauda was highly confident about this—and she was right.

Besides that, she mostly stayed out of technical discussions; but sometimes, she popped up with something like this:

Re: Bitcoin Block confirmations, Why do they lag at times?

Quote from: Lauda on April 06, 2020, 06:27:05 AM

While these answers have substances, they are all wrong i.e. do not explain what is going on. The time between blocks follows the Exponential distribution, the number of blocks in an interval follows the Poisson distribution (Poisson distribution can be derived from an Exponential or Binomial distribution) — with the expected time being 10 minutes, and the variance being 100 minutes.

Quote from: nullius on April 06, 2020, 04:03:15 PM

Bitcoin mining is a Poisson process. Lauda hit the nail on the head by identifying the mathematically precise distributions, for those who want to learn more about how this really works.

Meow.

Quote from: nullius on August 01, 2022, 09:05:34 AM

I know of only two or three other people who have actively tried to correct this fallacy in the Bitcoin community—and all of them have sometimes been accused of being my alts (including Lauda, lolz).

Quote from: JollyGood on Today at 08:57:56 AM

If she wanted her privacy maintained then that is something which should be respected even after she left the forum.

Yes, indeed.