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Re: SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin

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I dunno if I'm missing something, but I can't see the actual guessed key anywhere on the site? So if I win, I won't be able to actually claim the Mooney's?

The key shows up if you win, you can simulate it by adding ?devwin=1 to the URL.

Oh. That makes sense I guess.

I don't think it'll ever show for reals

Re: SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin

#33
I'm not opposed to LLM-generated code at all, but the such obviously LLM-written README is annoying. The style is so easy to spot. At least try to figure out how to prompt it to not write so obviously like an LLM. (And no, I'm not even referring to the em dashes.)

Re: SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin

#34
>At one spin per millisecond (faster than this app runs), you'd expect a hit roughly once per 1.7 × 10⁶² years — about 10⁵² times the current age of the universe. The heat death of the universe occurs first

Alright! Now there’s only the heat death of the universe standing between me and massive wealth? I like these odds.

Re: SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin

#35
Quick question - why hasn't someone 51 percent attacked Satoshi's wallets?

Estimated cost of a 51% attack on Bitcoin, if no one is cooperating, is $6 billion to $10 billion.

Surely the cost goes down if they get some big players to cooperate.

And the reward is... $83 billion. Basically 10x your money.

I mean, this is the kind of thing that we could sell bonds for, to raise the $6 to $10 billion needed.

Other than the fact that you'd be de-legitimizing BTC, the very thing you're trying to steal. Or morals - them, too. Other than that?

Re: SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin

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Quick question - why hasn't someone 51 percent attacked Satoshi's wallets? Estimated cost of a 51% attack on Bitcoin, if no one is cooperating, is $6 billion to $10 billion. Surely the cost goes down if they get some big players to cooperate. And the reward is... $83 billion. Basically 10x your money. I mean, this is the kind of thing that we could sell bonds for, to raise the $6 to $10 billion needed. Other than the…

51% attack allows you to undo a recent transaction (as if it never happened). It does not allow you to change the destination of a transaction or arbitrarily move bitcoins around.

Re: SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin

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Quick question - why hasn't someone 51 percent attacked Satoshi's wallets? Estimated cost of a 51% attack on Bitcoin, if no one is cooperating, is $6 billion to $10 billion. Surely the cost goes down if they get some big players to cooperate. And the reward is... $83 billion. Basically 10x your money. I mean, this is the kind of thing that we could sell bonds for, to raise the $6 to $10 billion needed. Other than the…

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Re: SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin

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Quick question - why hasn't someone 51 percent attacked Satoshi's wallets? Estimated cost of a 51% attack on Bitcoin, if no one is cooperating, is $6 billion to $10 billion. Surely the cost goes down if they get some big players to cooperate. And the reward is... $83 billion. Basically 10x your money. I mean, this is the kind of thing that we could sell bonds for, to raise the $6 to $10 billion needed. Other than the…

51% attack on bitcoin doesn't let you remove coins from someones wallet it allows you to change which transaction history is considered the real one. So you could send someone bitcoin then do a 51% attack to make the chain without that transaction longest so you get to keep your bitcoin but you can't use it to just take money out of someone elses wallet.
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