Dan Kaminsky was this legendary security researcher and privacy advocate, like genuinely one of the best hackers in the world. He was famous for finding a critical flaw in the entire DNS system that could of broken the internet. In 2011 he decided to take a serious look at the Bitcoin source code because he figured it was probably full of holes. Like some anonymous person releasing financial software had to have screwed something up somewhere right. So he started attacking it, looking for vulnerabilities, the kind of stuff he did professionally. He found like nine different potential exploits, ways to flood the network, break the validation logic, mess with timestamps, stuff like that. And every single one had already been quietly patched. Quietly without fanfare, before Kaminsky even looked. Satoshi had apparently thought through attack vectors that only a handful of people in the world would have even considered. Kaminsky came away genuinely shook, he gave interviews about how whoever wrote this was goated, like not amateur good but deeply deeply sophisticated. It's weird because Satoshi usually gets talked about in these mythical terms but this was a concrete case of one of the best security minds on earth trying to break the thing and finding out someone already anticipated him at every turn. Kaminsky died in 2021 and never found out who Satoshi was. So basically one of the only people actually qualified to evaluate how good the code was tried his hardest to break it and just couldn't.
@JoelKatz@totallymoving You have a 22% chance of bringing that hard drive back to life.
You have a 63% chance of it being lost forever.
You have a 13% chance of finding a back up in the hard drive.
You have a 2% chance that someone found a back door access and took everything.
@totallymoving Nope, sorry. All the keys to all my old "Satoshi" wallets were on it and I don't have any backups. I guess I picked the wrong week to retire.
A hard drive in my primary desktop computer failed today. I was shocked to discover that the hard drive had been in continuous service, moved over each time I upgraded my desktop, for more than 19 years.
A transaction on the XRPL occurred on March 15th 2018 with the destination tag as 1.
Amount delivered to the USD Ripplestate Node was $10,000,000,000 ($10 Billion)
Transaction fee was 0.00012 XRP
Sequence code was 83
Decoded Hex Memo was “client rt1.4.1”
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I met a girl in 2021 who said she did crypto.
She begged me to invest in DOT.
It was around 40 dollars at the time.
I wanted to flex so I bought 120k worth.
I ended up selling for 103k loss.
The girl is now my wife.
@SMcgeesh@Meta_Tron144@albus114@grok@pennjillette@MrTeller Penn juggled chainsaws and apples and took bites from the apple as he was doing it. He spoke as he was chewing for comedic effect and the front row got covered with bits of apple.
Ripples Chess Game♟️
XRP will soon be moving into E9..
Extending into territory reserved for powerful pieces, a complex tactical play from the 🐻
Happy New Year🟣 @bearableguy123