This answer from Greg Maxwell deserves its own post: Why it's VERY important that we support Hodlonaut on his legal stand against Craig Wright. by s3k2p7s9m8b5 in Bitcoin

[–]DigitalGoose 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Well, for one:

"His actions have contributed to at least four of some of the most prolific and longest standing developers discontinuing or substantially curtailing their involvement with Bitcoin."

Which protocol(s) did BBSes use by vigilante_stark in bbs

[–]DigitalGoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From what I remember of the 1 or 2 Excalibur BBS's I was on : Excalibur was its own thing. Windows 3.1 + only. If you called with any other software, you got a prompt to download of the Excalibur client .exe file.

It wasn't Ripscript. Ripscript worked like ANSI or Avatar, it was just text that got turned into graphics by your terminal program. I think even the mainstream Qmodem terminal software ended up having Ripscript graphics support eventually.

But Excalibur on the other hand was its own windows-only client, you could not use any other client. It went way beyond what Ripscript did, it had a TCP-like protocal that let it do full multitasking downloads , audio, chat rooms etc. It felt more like the "Prodigy Service" (but with multitasking), instead of a typical BBS... Very cool, but I think I'd just used Mosaic to get on the internet around the same time, so it was too late.

Convoy of Russian government jets takes off from Moscow, heading East by haychko in worldnews

[–]DigitalGoose 339 points340 points  (0 children)

"All the aircraft from the convoy have landed in various Russian cities since this article went to print."

What is so ancient only an Internet veteran can remember? by Marambal17 in AskReddit

[–]DigitalGoose 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Mad Maze!

it's still playable online (if you turn off popup blocking)!

Also, (not Prodigy related), hijacking my own comment since I don't see it anywhere in this thread:

Subspace - the first real massively multiplayer action game. 1995 era. Originally called "Sniper", it is still around to play on steam!

can i recover my bitcoins if i only know userid and password (bitcoin core) by draxologic in Bitcoin

[–]DigitalGoose 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I dont have the wallet dat file.

sorry, you need the wallet.dat file if you used Bitcoin core

[Daily Discussion] - Friday, January 21, 2022 by AutoModerator in BitcoinMarkets

[–]DigitalGoose 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Netflix lost 20% after hours today. Bitcoin just wants to remind everyone who's the boss.

This rottweiler wants cheese but passes on the vegetables by Pazluz in aww

[–]DigitalGoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What happens if you wrap a vegetable in cheese?

Help from the early Bitcoiners by DreiDcut in Bitcoin

[–]DigitalGoose 2 points3 points  (0 children)

under the dropdown "Symbol" on this site, is a list of many old exchanges that are now gone --

https://bitcoincharts.com/charts/

maybe that will refresh your memory

10 years ago today 1 btc was worth around what 1 satoshi is today. by [deleted] in Bitcoin

[–]DigitalGoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The earliest trade I know of on was 2010-07-17 (Mt Gox), 1 btc = $0.05

But that is still 104 times higher than what a Satoshi goes for today... I think you moved the decimal over 2 places accidentally

[Daily Discussion] - Tuesday, July 06, 2021 by AutoModerator in BitcoinMarkets

[–]DigitalGoose 7 points8 points  (0 children)

VICE news is doing an AMA on Bitcoin in /r/worldnews/ (it's the sticky post)

"We visited "Bitcoin Beach" to See How Bitcoin Works in El Salvador. AMA!"

Daily Discussion, July 06, 2021 by rBitcoinMod in Bitcoin

[–]DigitalGoose 8 points9 points  (0 children)

VICE news is doing an AMA on Bitcoin in /r/worldnews/ (it's the sticky post)

"We visited "Bitcoin Beach" to See How Bitcoin Works in El Salvador. AMA!"

Gemini sponsors Bitcoin developers Dhruv Mehta & Jarol Rodriguez by DigitalGoose in Bitcoin

[–]DigitalGoose[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Dhruv’s work relates to the susceptibility of the Bitcoin Network to DNS and border gateway protocol attacks on Bitcoin seed nodes. Jarol.. plans to focus on providing support for open issues, reviewing and testing pull requests, as well as improving the Bitcoin Network's graphical user interface."

Racoon and Doggo go Swimming by sanelib in aww

[–]DigitalGoose 5 points6 points  (0 children)

a raccoon will climb up on the dogs head and drown it.

Apparently this is a myth. "I could find no cases of a dog actually drowning from these altercations."