And your point? Silver has been going down. The euro's value changes. Oil prices changes. So what that it just so happens that another market changes slightly. I'm not sure how this is directly related to bitcoin in any fashion.

When bitcoin dropped from $30 to $2, people started really freaking out.

Honestly, until the value of bitcoin hits the value of dogecoin / some random altcoin, it'll live.

That's unless some altcoin magically has a much better feature-set.

Decent idea, but hasn't this been done before for the web of trust on OTR?

Buy an amazon gift card? Seems like a simple solution.

Technically, bitcoin's difficulty could hit nearly 0 (not quite 0, afaik). All'd we have to do is remove ALL miners from the entire network, and only solve one block every few weeks. Eventually, after 15+ years, difficulty would readjust and be close enough to 0.

Curious here, instead of resetting the difficulty to 0, why even have a difficulty? Just make it the same hashing algorithm, and each hash is a reward. Simple as that. Then again, blocks would be found at a crazy rate unless the hashing method would be super intensive (32k rounds of sha256, another 64k rounds of bcrypt anyone? Then the results of 16k sha256 rounds added up together to create a single hash).

It really depends. Personally, I prefer a rural lifestyle. I live in a rather small "town" of ~8000 people. It's actually the largest town for 30+ miles.

Normally, rural areas have lower crime rates. Cities tend to be more dangerous for children as well. Living in a larger city will create a more diverse environment for your child. For example, the demographics where I live are astounding. Over 95% of the population identify as being white. We have literally 13-15 black people in our entire town. That's it. (I believe it's only 4 families). During highschool, we had a single black kid in the ENTIRE highschool. Literally, just one.

But it really does depend on the area, I suppose.

Soylent. It's a liquid, so I guess it's a drink. I don't know. A bit confusing imho.

Just a proof of concept of finding an address generation flaw with a few hundred thousand of addresses between each "flawed" generated address.

I think we've gotten pretty off-topic here, but I've learnt a lot about the blockchain and more information on bitcoin overall, so thanks a ton!

By personally generated addresses, I meant addresses that $username generated. The ones where he has the private key / public key pair. Sorry for not being very clear about that. I suppose it'd be a bit silly for him to include addresses that he already has the private key of.

Technically, I could generate a key pair and have a totally legit address and it not be part of the blockchain (offline wallet). Unless you're saying every address possible is already part of the blockchain.

Ah, brilliant! Thanks for the information. So, technically, someone would be only able to analyze personally generated addresses or addresses that have sent coins. That's really neat to know.

My question -- how are you to obtain the public key of an address? Addresses aren't public keys, but the hashed/formatted version of public keys.

The only way to obtain public keys would be message signing afaik.

Of course, that's with the information I found here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Technical_background_of_version_1_Bitcoin_addresses

As far as I know, none. It'd be rather impossible to know exactly what's stored on someone else's blockchain. Also, it'd be rather difficult to even connect to nearly every user on the network to see who's broadcasting what. For example, my wallet client only connects to two trusted* nodes. For any transaction that I do, it's broadcast through those two nodes.

Then again, I could be wrong about everything I just said.

* I trust these nodes personally, they aren't globally trusted

Well said. If I were to EVER interact with anyone, I'd listen to all the reviews, not just those that I deem "trustworthy". Sure, there's bound to be a few bad sources, but overall, there's more trusthworthy sources than not for most people.

I guess congratz. It's not that much of deal. I mean, you only need to be a member for what? 120 days or ~9 fortnights to become a full member? That's only like a third of a year. Kinda silly to be excited about imho.

They don't. She's a camel.