My thoughts are similar.
I am not even sure she would accept them. And she probably wont even need it that much. She has an university degree and has a "good" job. Same with her husband.
But maybe she could use them on her kids or something.

 
I wish, but no, I don't have thousands, not even hundreds, but I do have some.

You don't have to
She practically did save my life. Or maybe I would be alive, but life would be very different without her having done what she did.
Funny that for her, what she did, was not a big thing. For me it changed my life.

I have been thinking...
Would it be totally crazy, if I gave 10-15 bitcoins to a woman, who helped me in a really really big way when I was younger.

I mean, would she think I was crazy if I do it?
Would it be a positive thing? Or just weird?

The coins were not worth much when I got them, so from that perspective, it's not THAT big a deal, right?

I would gladly give them to her, but I fear it could have a negative effect to what little friendship we have

And she is married with kids, so while I will always like her, there is no hidden agenda on my part here.   

True story... LOL.
Well, the idea of 300 is based on a true story. But do you really think the enemy was THAT inhuman and cruel? I think they were just a "normal" big enemy force. 

Well. If it is a hacker, BTC would go to zero. If a hacker can crack that many addresses, that would mean that bitcoin has a serious weakness, and the same hacker could crack almost any address he wants.

But if it would be Satoshi, or a hacker that stole the keys from Satoshi, then that would just be a temporary "glitch" in the price of BTC

The best price/power gaming laptop currently is:

Hp pavilion gaming 15-EC-1011NS
AMD Ryzen 5 4600H/8GB/512GB SSD(M.2NVMe)/GTX 1650/15.6"
The price is around 600€

With those specs and price It's hard to find a more capable laptop.
Of course if you put 2x the money you will get a better laptop, but it is also 2x the money.

The negatives are: the display and plastic case, but with those specks you really can't complain.

Bitaddress is an excellent tool. BUT newer use it from the web-page. You are supposed to download a copy of bitaddress to your own machine, and use it locally. Preferably after verifying the download.

You really wouldn't want to put bitcoins to an address, which has a private key that has been in the internet 

As said, Electrum is a good choice too. Just double check that you download it from the right web-page. As there are web-pages that look a lot like official  Electrum pages, but give you a hacked version of it.  And you will end up losing your coins if you use them.

Bitcoin has come a long way.
Yesterday I made my first payment using bitpay and electrum. It was surprisingly easy.
Easy enough for any normal non-technical person to be able to do the same.

The only drawback was that the fee was automatically set to be quite high: 72 sat/byte, when 10 say/byte would have confirmed in approximately one hour. And still it took more than 30min to confirm.


And the remaining BTC in my address are still worth more than what I paid for them. Even though I have used parts of them several times already.
 

Actually...
I think that address is NOT completely unspendable.
It is unspendable with your script, yes, but if someone can come up with another script that has the same hash and that returns TRUE, then with that script the address is spendable

The transfer is considered "finished" after ~6 confirmations. After that the transfer is permanently in the blockchain and no-one can change or remove it.

All transfers will keep getting more and more confirmations as long as the bitcoin network is alive.

So no problem there

Well...
You can spend the extra "donations", because they are in a P2PKH address, that you DO have a private key to. The private key is the same for both P2PK and P2PKH "addresses" made from the same key.
The only difference is that P2PK address works with ONLY the one private key it was created with, but the P2PKH address works with 2^96 different private keys. So you could say the P2PK is safer in that way.

But Satoshi made the Genesis-block special. It is impossible to use the 50BTC block reward of the genesis block before all bitcoins are mined. The donated 18BTC can be used though.

Sorry for continuing an off topic discussion, but:

Of course you can divide by 789.789 if you want.

because 789.789=789789/1000 , which doesn't have decimals in it AND you can divide and multiply by scalar numbers.

Don't know why would anyone want to divide by 789.789, but it s possible

Actually I find it interesting to find out that it took more than a day still in the 15000 block "range".

So at least this IS an interesting topic, that many readers would not have googled by themselves.

Anyone know what is the longest gap in the recent few years?

I assume all of those addresses belong to you


I bet they are 200 addresses with most bitcoins in them that have a public key visible. So the OP can try to crack them.

Good luck with that!

BTW. If you try to crack keys, and happen to succeed, it is not very nice to steal from exchanges, because you would be  stealing from a lot of people. Most of the biggest addresses are exchanges.
A little better (although still not nice) would be trying to find private keys to some of Satoshis addresses. There are about 20000 addresses with 50BTC in each and public key is visible in all of them.

But yeah. I don't believe you can find private keys to any of those addresses. So no worries. Atleast it is a good math/computer exercise if nothing else.

I had corona. Was no fun, but it wasn't THAT bad.

Now I have been healthy for almost 2 weeks.
Still have a little reduced lung capacity, but it is getting better every day.

At first after getting better I was afraid that the lung damage would be permanent.

PS. Most people have a mild case of corona.

Same here, except that we have 78000 cases. Guess what country
But we are not forced to wear mask.

I already had corona, but still I have to be in quarantine like everyone else. It is crazy. There are already 14000 recovered cases here, who are now immune to corona. (actually much more, because most mild cases are not even tested)
We cant get it again and can't infect anyone.
We could do something useful instead of being in quarantine for no reason.

How would that work?
Obviously he can't give you ALL the tBTC back, if he does some testing.
Because there are fees in testnet too

So you would only get back 5 tBTC:s minus testnet fees.

PS. While I understand you want them back, the collateral is awfully close to selling. 

Wow. I didn't know the block reward was already THAT low in testnet  

Do you have an address for donating extra coins? I should have a little less than 4 coins somewhere.

Testnet coins being hard to get defeats the whole purpose of testnet. Don't you think it would be a good time to reset the whole testnet (or just start a new one on a side), so that anyone can play with it as much as they want. Or are we "testing" what will happen when block rewards end altogether?

What would be needed to start a new testnet and make it public? Just one machine mining it and keeping it alive? And a faucet for the coins. And maybe a block explorer for it.
Running a new testnet and a faucet would be cheaper than mining the "old" testnet.

I don't thing anyone would have any reason to oppose having a sizeable pre-mine for the faucet, say 1M coins. (since they are worthless)
 

Communicating is one thing.

Spreading the human race is another. If something bad happens to Earth, life can continue in other places if we have spread it there.

Would be sad to think that we are forever bound to this rock we call Earth 

That is why it is interesting to follow what SpaceX and BO are doing.

That made me have an interesting thought.
Could P2SH be quantum safe? As it is NOT based on public keys, which are weak with QC.


Antiquated? I thought that P2SH is still the only way to do your own "creative" scripts that will be accepted by the network. Like the first implementation of segwith showed.

There was a discussion here where change to SHA512 was suggested with only using the first 256 bits of the result. That way security would be increased while transaction sizes would not take more space.

And if SHA512 would be slower, that would just be an added bonus   

With 64bit CPU:s SHA512 would actually be faster to calculate than SHA256. That is if the modern CPUs didn't have dedicated instruction sets for speeding up calculating SHA256, which they do.

And I do not think we would have to change the elliptic curve if we just change the hash algorithm. We could, but they aren't really connected.