Questions tagged [satoshi-nakamoto]
Use this tag for questions about the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, and their work on Bitcoin.
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Where did Staoshi Nakamoto state that bitcoin is gold or digital gold?
I'm confronted by someone who states that Satoshi Nakamoto never compared Bitcoin to gold in the monetary sense (not about mining).
However, I'm sure that I recall a quote from Satoshi stating Bitcoin ...
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Very old Bitcoin Wallet
What I am going to share with you will make you very surprised. I will quickly jump in to the topic as I need some help here.
I have one of the oldest wallet key from 2009 Dec.
I used to play an MMO ...
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What was Bitcoin's Supply in the Pre-Alpha Release? (posted by Cryddit on Bitcointalk in 2013)
So I'm doing some research into this Bitcoin code that apparently pre-dates the first release of Bitcoin v0.01 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=382374.0
There's a lot of differences in this ...
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How many ways are there to Read Satoshi era Wallets?
I've come acrossed a few -
running the original Satoshi v.0.1.0 through v.0.1.5 Clients all the way up to Satoshi v.0.7.x - I believe all of these can read Original Satoshi Wallet.dat(s) -
I have a ...
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How Much Bitcoin Does Satoshi Have?
How can we calculate all Satoshi Bitcoin holdings?
I know about the genesis address 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa and then there are lots of mining addreses
When did he stopped mining, sending ...
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If someone wanted to pretend to be Satoshi by posting a fake signature to defraud people how could they?
If a random fraudster wanted to post a bunch of mysterious ECDSA signatures that the public would believe came from Bitcoin's creator, in order to disrupt the Bitcoin market, extract money from people,...
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How would we know the real Satoshi?
Should Satoshi decide to reveal his or her true identity, how can one know the person is the real creator of Bitcoin, rather than a person who hacked the forum login, email address or the like? In ...
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How did peer discovery work in Bitcoin v0.1?
Nowadays there are DNS seeds and hardcoded IP addresses, but back in the day when Satoshi released Bitcoin v0.1, how did new nodes connect to the rest of the network? My initial thought was that the ...
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What Satoshi Nakomoto quotes are there in relation to forks and altcoins?
What Satoshi Nakomoto quotes are there in relation to:
forks of Bitcoin?
forks in general?
altcoin/similar projects?
Here I mean forks that form distinct new coins/ecosystems, not in relation to ...
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Was the first full node IP address Satoshi's and how did shim hide it?
It is not surprising that people assume Satoshi used ToR when scouring the internets however if my understanding is correct in order for someone to run a full node they need to provide their IP ...
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Satoshi's coding quality
I have little knowledge about C++, so I want to ask two questions from "expert" (C++) programmers here:
Why Satoshi wrote Bitcoin in C++ and not in (for example) C language? any technical ...
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Where was the term "coinbase" first coined, who first used it?
The white paper doesn't mention the term "coinbase" (in reference to the reward transaction).
I see the first version of the software main.cpp does:
// First transaction must be coinbase,...
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What actually caps Bitcoin's supply at 21 million?
I have seen everywhere that the total BTC supply is permanently capped at 21 million. I understand blockchain, cryptography, SHA256, etc... generally, but where/what is actually capping the supply at ...
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Which opcodes where disabled by Satoshi Nakamoto for cve 2010 5137
Lot of opcodes where disabled over the years.
But which opcodes where disabled Satoshi himself and specifically for the any one can spend any coin bug?
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What prior work influenced the design of the Bitcoin instruction set?
The "Script" system used by Bitcoin transactions is commonly described as a Forth-like, stack-based language.
What prior work influenced the design and layout of the Script instruction set?
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Why is there a 5 days gap between genesis and block 1?
I remember reading somewhere that it was because Satoshi wanted to make sure everyone had time to download the client and setup everything, but now that I think about it I’m not satisfied with this ...
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Delay time for the second block of Bitcoin blockchain
According to the data stored in the blockchain, the genesis block is mined at Jan 03, 2009. The second block is mined at Jan 09, 2009, 6:24:25 AM. Which is 6 days later. At first, it seems rational to ...
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Are satoshis private keys easier to find than modern ones (given proper security in both cases)?
I read that back then, you had entropies of 128 bit instead of 256. Like 12 vs 24 word mnemonic seed phrases. Are their wallets easier to brute force than other ones?
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What is a 'Satoshi'?
I am aware that Satoshi Nakamoto is the author of the paper that originated Bitcoin and the creator of the original bitcoin client. However, I often hear the term Satoshi as if it was a monetary unit.
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Early version of bitcoin and poker
How can we locate the code for an online poker game in version 0.1.0 of Bitcoin, which multiple articles on the internet claim was included by Satoshi Nakamoto? Furthermore, how can we verify that ...
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How did Satoshi Nakamoto create the first Bitcoin? The Genesis Block
How did Satoshi Nakamoto create the first Bitcoin? I have never read any statement where he recommends specific tools like CGMiner. You can't mine with the Bitcoin Core software. Actually, Bitcoin ...
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Did the Bitcoin network reduce spam?
In an 2008-11-03 email, Satoshi Nakamoto hypothesized that Bitcoin could actually reduce spam by making botnets more valuable for being part of the Bitcoin network than spamming:
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Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? I have heard about him and read his paper.
Why is he no-longer publicly involved in Bitcoin?
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Who created the Bitcoin blockchain?
Satoshi Nakamoto wrote the theory about Bitcoin in his paper, but did he (or they) also launch the Bitcoin blockchain?
Like: Peter Higgs founded the Higgs particle in theory, but he didn't find the ...
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When was the paper of bitcoin announced?
When examining about this, it is said that many are November 1, 2008, but on the other hand, there are sites that are on October 31st. Which one is correct?
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What was the last life sign of Satoshi Nakamoto?
I heard that the name may be a pseudonym and that very little is known about the initiator of bitcoin. Also it seems that he has stopped working on the main client.
When was his last verifiable life ...
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What was the bug for the Bitcoin value overflow in 2010?
In 2010, there was an incident of value overflow on Bitcoin.
I am not a developer, but I want to know what the bug was in more detail. #1 is the only answer I found online, and #2-3 are my attempts to ...
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Did Satoshi make any kind of "farewell speech" before leaving?
As I understand it, Satoshi has not posted anything online for many years now. Exactly when the last time was is apparently fuzzy.
Assuming that he didn't die (or was murdered), would he not have made ...
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Why does Satoshi's public key have the uid "BuZz Spacedout"
This is more of a historical question about bitcoin than a technical question. Hope that's okay...
Does anyone happen to know why the public key numbered:
pub 1024D/5EC948A1 2008-10-30
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Does the creator of BitCoin hold a 'master' private key?
If the creator of BitCoin, whoever he/she is, was the one that started the block-chain and with every cryptographic operation deriving from that initial key, would the network be under the complete ...
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How did we know that Satoshi Nakamoto has one million bitcoin?
As I know there is no known bitcoin wallet belongs to Satoshi Nakamoto. So how did we know that Satoshi Nakamoto owns between 750000 and 1100000 bitcoin?
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Where can I access the original, Satoshi written Bitcoin code?
The articles of https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=41718.0 seem to be annotated walkthroughs, and I'd like to see the raw code, as it was originally written in the first release.
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Is bitcoin script necessary?
satoshi created bitcoin script which is the language that the bitcoin client uses to handle most of the operations such as sending or verifying transactions.
was it necessary to have another language ...
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How do we know that Bitcoin supply is actually capped at 21 million?
Everyone says that the Bitcoin supply is capped at 21 million. But how did everybody come to this number? In Nakamoto's paper, I could not find this number. Can someone explain where it is or how we ...
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What were "atoms" in Bitcoin-0.1.0?
Satoshi's first implementation of Bitcoin had a kind of internal marketplace as well. In that part of the code, Atoms are "added" and "propagated" but I'm having a hard time ...
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Why were OP_RESERVED, OP_RESERVED1, and OP_RESERVED2 originally reserved?
Since the earliest public release of Bitcoin, OP_RESERVED, OP_RESERVED1, and OP_RESERVED2 have been defined at 0x50 (80), 0x89 (137), and 0x8a (138), respectively.
Why?
The intended purpose of all the ...
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did Satoshi anticipate large pools?
Is there any statement about the design of Bitcoin alluding to dealing with large pools controlling a good part of the network? while it is true that pools can compete and people can "vote" by ...
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Why do early blocks contain OP_PUSHBYTES instructions in the coinbase input?
Early blocks contain OP_PUSHBYTES sequences in the coinbase input ScriptSig:
Block 1: OP_PUSHBYTES_4 ffff001d OP_PUSHBYTES_1 04
Block 2: OP_PUSHBYTES_4 ffff001d OP_PUSHBYTES_1 0b
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Bitcoin Whitepaper - Details of digital signature used in transactions
I have read the whitepaper a few times now, I just want to know precisely what Satoshi meant by 'digitally signing a hash of the previous transaction and the public key of the next owner and adding ...
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What was Satoshi's approach/sample code for implementation of web apps?
A quote from satoshi on the bitcointalk server, May 26 2010:
I'm also recommending this approach for the implementation of web
apps. I just posted some sample code showing a suggested way of
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What is the email of Satoshi Nakamoto?
I know the Satoshi Nakamoto profile: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3 and his public key: http://forum.bitcoin.org/Satoshi_Nakamoto.asc
And I know maybe Satoshi is not a real ...
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Did Satoshi invent UTXOs?
Did Satoshi invent the UTXO model (the concept of "unspent transaction outputs" that are spent fully when invoked, leaving new UTXOs and "change"), or was the UTXO model based on ...
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Major changes to Bitcoin since original paper
Is there a history of the major changes/additions (as well as perhaps major proposals) to Bitcoin since the original paper by Satoshi? I realize of course that one can read through the BIPs and ...
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Copyright claim to Bitcoin Whitepaper
As you might know Craig W.(rong) is currently trying to «get» ownership over the BTC Whitepaper. I know this venture might seem ridiculous and harmless, but I believe it can be dangerous because of it'...
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Where can I find the technical discussion between Satoshi and other contributors in the sourceforge website?
Where I can find the technical discussion between Satoshi and other contributors in the sourceforge website?
I read the book of Satoshi in spanish and really excited about his comprehension of the ...
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Can satoshi nakamoto change bitcoin
If I understand correctly, Satoshi Nakamoto (or any cryptocurrency creator) can change things in Bitcoin, like supply limit, halving, etc.
My question is: How is Bitcoin decentralized if Satoshi ...
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How did Satoshi manage to mine so many bitcoins being the first user of the system?
I'm just learning about Bitcoin and if I understand its conception properly, mining bitcoins means validation of transactions by computing a hash which should satisfy some preset condition. In other ...
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Verify Bitcoin ownership
I saw a recent article supporting Craig Wright's claim to being Satoshi Nakamoto. Other articles about him suggest that most of the community believes he's a scammer, and not actually Nakamoto. The ...
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How did Nakamoto untraceably pay for registering bitcoin.org?
Wikipedia says "Nakamoto created a website with the domain name bitcoin.org" and "transferred several related domains", while bitcoin.org says it was "originally registered ...
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Did Satoshi Nakamoto (in his blogs or the whitepaper) forecast that mining pools would exist?
Mining pools are common today where users pool their resources together and share profits accordingly. Such pools today can account for significant proportions of a network's hash power and they're ...
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