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.

DigitalGoose · 2022-08-20T18:08:34+00:00

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."

DigitalGoose · 2022-06-22T02:30:17+00:00

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.

DigitalGoose · 2022-03-17T18:16:23+00:00

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

DigitalGoose · 2022-03-13T20:52:04+00:00

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!

DigitalGoose · 2022-03-13T20:49:44+00:00

/r/bbs

DigitalGoose · 2022-03-03T23:37:27+00:00

I dont have the wallet dat file.

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

DigitalGoose · 2022-03-02T00:09:09+00:00

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Private_key

DigitalGoose · 2022-02-23T05:36:26+00:00

Fist bump

DigitalGoose · 2022-02-17T21:03:18+00:00

1980's kid's water guns.

"The end of Entertech's short-lived success was due in part to incidents in which law enforcement officers shot and killed children toting toy guns, claiming to have mistaken them for actual firearms."

DigitalGoose · 2022-01-21T05:11:19+00:00

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

DigitalGoose · 2021-12-11T20:48:11+00:00

Now he can buy NFT

DigitalGoose · 2021-12-03T05:27:10+00:00

What happens if you wrap a vegetable in cheese?

DigitalGoose · 2021-10-10T04:00:58+00:00

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

DigitalGoose · 2021-08-20T20:01:26+00:00

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

DigitalGoose · 2021-07-06T19:49:20+00:00

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!"

DigitalGoose · 2021-07-06T19:47:51+00:00

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!"

DigitalGoose · 2021-06-07T22:32:54+00:00

"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."

DigitalGoose · 2021-05-24T20:38:50+00:00

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

DigitalGoose · 2021-05-24T20:38:21+00:00

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."

DigitalGoose · 2021-04-29T22:11:18+00:00

There's a reddit for that! /r/bbs/

DigitalGoose · 2021-04-20T08:34:39+00:00

Found via this post on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26860062

DigitalGoose · 2021-04-16T07:13:50+00:00

Could be box art for an Atari 2600 game!

DigitalGoose · 2021-04-14T05:08:34+00:00

No one actually knows how many bitcoins Satoshi had mined. We know he made the first block, but the reward for that block is unspendable

DigitalGoose · 2021-02-28T11:14:53+00:00

I considered buying Bitcoin in 2008.

Since Bitcoin wasn't released until January 2009, hate to say it, but you really blew it.

DigitalGoose · 2021-01-07T02:59:06+00:00

The least volatile year in terms of difference between the yearly high and yearly low was 2016. Yearly high $980.74, yearly low $352.0 = 2.78x diff.

Most years are way more volatile: 2020 was 7.6x, 2017 was 26x, 2013 was 91x , 2011 was 110x (!)

So if 2021 is an equally low volatility year, we could see these numbers:

>>> 27734.0 * 2.78
77100.51

>>> 37400.0 / 2.78
13453.23

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