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Shazll's avatar

The more I read of your work Kevin, the more I am impressed with the thought and intellect behind it.

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Just a Clinician's avatar

"To honor his bone headed claim, I made a Bitcoin Vanity address to record GWsukx into the bitcoin blockchain for eternity."

Well done!

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Vivien C Buckley's avatar

You have the smarts and creativity too. Great combination.

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Anon's avatar

POWERFUL work here. Wow, this whole read made me feel (for lack of a better word) proud. 💪

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RexesRule's avatar

Beautiful take down of another heckler who messed with the wrong cat. Now he is immortalized on the bitcoin blockchain. Quite a legacy for GW!

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Gigolo Joe's avatar

Didn't Webb break onto the conspiracy scene during Pizzagate? I'm not saying Pizzagate was a complete fraud, but Webb sure was. He put on an act involving daily videos where he was in 𝘩𝘰𝘵 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘶𝘪𝘵 around the globe of some human traffickers, and his investigation was going to bring down the government or something. He eventually admitted he is Jewish. I have read that he is linked to DynCorp, which is not inconsistent with the belief of many that he is CIA/intelligence.

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Bob's avatar

Utterly brilliant! As has been said before, the who-is-to-guard-the-guards problem has been unexpectedly solved by the blockchain.

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psmi's avatar

Regarding the address space for bitcoin keys, I prefer this way to see how impossible it is that they can be brute forced.

- there is a lower bound for the amount of energy required for information to exist (ie a 1 to be distinguished from a 0) that is enforced by the laws of physics.

- taking even this minimal value the amount of energy required to even count to 2*256 (let along conduct brute-force trials of any kind) is far greater than the lifetime energy output of our galaxy.

- so it doesn't matter if you have an infinitely fast computer, the energy to brute force a bitcoin key basically doesn't exist in the universe.

(that's from my recollection anyway!)

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Dr Paul Oosterhuis's avatar

The new peer review emerges.

Well done Kevin!

As one of the comments says " They messed with the wrong cat " lol

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Dan's avatar

Wow, Kevin. Thanks for the primer on bitcoin.

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

Thank u for all your tireless work and efforts.

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Marc G. Wathelet's avatar

Amazing feature of bitcoin I did not know about, thank you. Yeah, GW, what a character, the legend in his own mind who is oozing so much slime no one can take him seriously.

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Sandy K's avatar

"Anandamigos" 💕💕💕💕

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Potatodots's avatar

Wow!

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ME's avatar

The 14 digit -longest in history, using umpteenth computers to create, reminds me of the ENTs, whose reciting of their names alone took centuries...

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charles's avatar

Hasn't "George Webb" admitted to having worked for the Mossad?

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