Concurrent programming course of the University of Oxford Updated 2025-07-16
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Stefan Thomas Updated 2025-07-16
www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/technology/bitcoin-passwords-wallets-fortunes.html
As for his lost password and inaccessible Bitcoin, Mr. Thomas has put the IronKey in a secure facility - he won’t say where - in case cryptographers come up with new ways of cracking complex passwords. Keeping it far away helps him try not to think about it, he said.
“I would just lay in bed and think about it," Mr. Thomas said.
Sexual innuendo Updated 2025-07-16
Star Trek character Updated 2025-07-16
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Taproot Wizards Updated 2025-07-16
www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/01/12/taproot-wizards-bitcoin-ordinals-project-that-raised-75m-to-sell-quantum-cats-collection/:OMG if only the worlds wouldn't invest in such useless crap... it would probably be a better and more boring world.
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Largest ordinal inscription Updated 2025-07-16
We can get a list of the ordinals at: archive.org/details/bitcoin-ordinal-inscriptions.csv and then sort them by payload size with:
sort -k6 -n -t, ordinals.csv -o ordinals-sort-size.csvThis shows to us that as of block ~831k, there are 4 ordinals which are far far larger than any other between 3 MiB and 4 MiB, at about 10x larger than then 5th one d115a6e689086fd587e5032f24ba2a8c01f2f87cba758c9d5eb8cf7f6e9a816a
In those cases, a single inscription takes almost the entire block, and the inscribers must have had direct dealings with their mining pool:
- ordinals.com/inscription/4af9047d8b4b6ffffaa5c74ee36d0506a6741ba6fc6b39fe20e4e08df799cf99i0: 3,946,469 bytes (image/jpeg). Bitcoin Magazine cover showing the face of Julian Assange. tx 4af9047d8b4b6ffffaa5c74ee36d0506a6741ba6fc6b39fe20e4e08df799cf99 block 786501 (2023-04-22). Mined by Terra Pool.
- ordinals.com/inscription/0301e0480b374b32851a9462db29dc19fe830a7f7d7a88b81612b9d42099c0aei0: 3,915,537 bytes (image/jpeg). Taproot Wizards ad. This was apparently the largest block ever mined at the time: www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/10r6t1l/the_first_4_mb_block_in_bitcoin_history_mined_by/ and received some notice. tx 0301e0480b374b32851a9462db29dc19fe830a7f7d7a88b81612b9d42099c0ae block 774628 (2023-02-01). Mined by Luxor pool.
- ordinals.com/inscription/79b91e594c03c8f06d70c44a288a88a413c540abca007829ca119686a7f979dai0: 3,878,842 bytes (image/webp). "Bitcoin War Bonds". A spoof of something. No time to understand now. tx 79b91e594c03c8f06d70c44a288a88a413c540abca007829ca119686a7f979da block 777945 (2023-02-23). Mined by Terra Pool.
- ordinals.com/inscription/b5a7e05f28d00e4a791759ad7b6bd6799d856693293ceeaad9b0bb93c8851f7fi0: 3,379,682 bytes (video/mp4). Short looping video of a "purple frog drinking from a glass with a straw". Yes you heard that right. TODO context? tx b5a7e05f28d00e4a791759ad7b6bd6799d856693293ceeaad9b0bb93c8851f7f block 776884 (2023-02-16 ) Despite being huge, this received very little attention, the only Google mention is at An overview of recent non-standard Bitcoin transactions by 0xB10C. Mined by Terra Pool.
Ciro Santilli's open source contributions Not verified Updated 2025-07-16
The following contributions where not immediately verified by others, but they were not reverted either and I think they are good.
| Date | Project | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-12 | plasticboy/vim-markdown | Review patch | Add tilde-fenced code blocks |
First Bitcoin transactoin Updated 2025-07-16
Using funds from block 9.
General-purpose computing on graphics processing units Updated 2025-08-08
Stacks Project Updated 2025-07-16
- Renders: stacks.math.columbia.edu/. HTML is one tiny section per page, making it unreadable.
- LaTeX source: github.com/stacks/stacks-project
The book is very dry, extremelly boring unfortunately. Definition and theorem only for the most part.
First mentions of bitcoin on Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli's hardware SanDisk Ultra Flair 64 GB Updated 2025-07-16
Bitcoin Inscription Indexer Updated 2025-07-16
Previously called "bitcoin-strings-with-txids" since text was the initial focus, but Ciro Santilli decided to go for the more general name once images became more and more important to the project.
Set of scripts b Ciro Santilli, primarily created while researching Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain.
Wayland Updated 2025-07-16
They've been trying to get it to work forever, and it's beeen buggy forever:
Became the default on Ubuntu 21.04: www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/01/ubuntu-21-04-will-use-wayland-by-default
Knowledge graph and LLMs Updated 2025-07-16
GraphRAG: The Marriage of Knowledge Graphs and RAG by Emil Eifrem
. Source. Lost Bitcoin case Updated 2025-07-16
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LSF command Updated 2025-07-16
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