Did you know OP_RETURN had a bug that allowed anyone to spend anyone's Bitcoins? The bug would skip over the instructions and return 1, interpreted that spending conditions are meet. But was found and reported by Artforz in 20 July 2010. image A fix was quickly issue by Satoshi and downplayed, probably in the hope of not triggering an exploit. He also included some improvements in the upgrade. The fix made the OP CODE return false, meaning outputs are now provably unspendable. - i.e. can never be spent = burned! image 3/4 in 2013 people were doing odd hacks to insert in the blockchain: - random data - use it as a timestamp But these hacks would forever stay in the the UTXO set! A decision to set OP_RETURN as a parameter that allowed 40 bytes of data to be added. This data can be pruned! image And ever since it was introduced, OP_RETURN always caused controversy and was changed quite a few times. And the conversation was always about HOW MUCH data it should allow? And now we are having this conversation yet again. What do you think? image
Did you know Hal Finney joined the Bitcoin Network at block 49. We know this since he reported a crash 1st time he ran the client on Sourceforge. In the debug file last block see by node was 49. image
Did you know Satoshi had alternative names for Bitcoin? Netcoin, e-cash & supercoin! 1 day before registering Satoshi registered http://netcoin.org image Before launching the White Paper on 31 October 2008, Satoshi contacted Adam Back to verify the Hashcash citation. in the email a draft of the White Paper is present. Filename: e-cash.pdf The Title is pasted in the email "Electronic Cash Without a Trusted Third Party." image Adam mention's Wei Dai's b-money. 22 August 2008 Satoshi contacts Wei Dai, same draft is shared in the same format. Link to a e-cash.pdf The Title pasted: "Electronic Cash Without a Trusted Third Party." image I was also curious if he registered http://e-cash.org around then. Looks like someone did on the 20 July 2008. Sameish period. But different IP, and different registar. Very possible these were owned by domain investors(from parking behaviour) image 5/5 And the last name come from the preBitcoin v0.1 code that Satoshi shared in private to a few testers. In one instance when testing if the mining functions work he calls it SUPERCOIN. This code was later share by one of the testers. image