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I’ll keep using Nostr even if we are les than 20k active users.
17 years
In 2015, an eccentric millionaire placed bitcoins in weak addresses. For ye

The individual's goal was to monitor the advancement of computational powmempool.space/tx/08389f34c98c606322740c0be6a7125d9860bb8d5cb182c02f98461e5fa6cd15
The first few dozen addresses were quickly looted. There are bots monitormempool.space/tx/0eb5b5c103e68eb0931430e7786cf1b6962f9eed5a2cb5271d4dd1699b77e86f
It was only at the end of 2015 that one of the owners of these bots noticbitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306983.0
In 2019, the creator exposed the public keys of some addresses (those witmempool.space/tx/17e4e323cfbc68d7f0071cad09364e8193eedf8fefbcbd8a21b4b65717a4b3d3
One of these methods is a very old algorithm from 1978:
Pollard's Kangaro#67 and #68 in early April.
Yesterday, someone, probably a beginner, cracked add#69 but didn’t secure the spending properly and exposed the public key.
Imempool.space/tx/a52c5046f3097a8c2bd3b9889df2fb47b104d47a16cc679d3357feec003db753
The time to crack these addresses — discovering the private key from
We are not going to stop until every single app is a nostr app.
When we launched a year ago we published Bitkey’s source code, so anyone cogithub.com/proto-at-block/bitkey/releases
Perhaps we need to tighten up our language and say more precisely that Bitc
It's not your money

He built a cozy shelter above water so he could fish from it
We will make them obsolete.
