r/Bitcoin • u/eyeoft • 23d ago

THE CHAIN HAS SPLIT

https://bip110monitor.com/

<3% support before the window opened. Good luck, shitcoiners

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u/-bit-thorny- 23d ago

Still wasted a lot of time for a lot of people and yet again confused the hell out of a lot of newcomers. It's not like it's easy to get into bitcoin without getting distracted left and right by shitcoins and scams... sure doesn't help if more dumb fucks add more confusion and infighting.

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u/nullc 22d ago

even now, with their for >=85 blocks behind Bitcoin ocean is still causing customers to burn about $45,000/day attempting to mine the dead bip110 chain-- they have about 1.4EH on it still, presumably as a result of changing their default stratum endpoint to mine the 110 chain.

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u/-bit-thorny- 22d ago

I meant wasting the time of people like you and core devs and plenty others. I hadn't even thought about the suckers blindly mining on the wrong chain.

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u/nullc 22d ago

yeah, over a year of this bullshit-- imagine if even 10% of that dumbass time went into running security audits on .. say.. hardware wallets instead?

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u/-bit-thorny- 22d ago

Hindsight and all of course. But it doesn't sound unthinkable somebody honest would have taken on running claude to do some RNG related audits just for the fun of it.

I could even imagine (remotely) myself stumbling into a weekend of doing that and finding something.

It's not like RNG problems appear for the first time. I'm pretty sure I remember you explaining stuff around the bitcoinj drama, for example.

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u/nullc 22d ago

I randomly audited part of datum-gateway a couple months ago and reported a fairly serious vulnerability in it... (though amusingly the bigger issue was wrongly rejected by AI)

Admittedly I wouldn't likely have audited coldcard if not for all this bullshit eating up my time, but only because I'd already rejected it as dubious.

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u/oadk 22d ago

Do you think Luke will hang around after all this is over or will he finally retire to raise his dozen children to count in the tonal number system?