Lol ah ok, that makes complete sense to me. I suppose it would have nothing to do with anything other than personal information that only the true PoM would know. That makes complete sense. Thank you Jesus.Jesús Malverde wrote:You wouldn't make an ID on someone you'd met using electronic trickery like IP addies--which in this case would inevitably lead nowhere anyway--you'd ask what you'd had for dinner that evening or what someone was wearing or what you talked about or details like that. If Smokes says it's PoM; it's PoM.Ganja Is Great wrote: One thing that I noticed SmokeBreaks said is that "He is for sure that this PoM is the same PoM from years ago" in a post earlier in the thread. My question is how does he know? I'm guessing hes an admin to the site since he's given out rules and stuff, was he able to cross referance IP addresses? or has PoM never connected to this site via clearnet? I know he said they met IRL, but I am unsure how he confirmed it's the same person typing now as it was back in the day Pre-SR.
PS: It's PoM.
Ah ok - Thank you dude, that is a perfect answer and now it makes perfect sense to me. I guess I never really realized there was a difference between an "address" and a "wallet". That makes perfect sense, and also helps explain how some people have 1000 wallets with 10 btc in each. I always wondered how they would keep track of this sort of thing, seems like the ultimate pain in the ass lol.PartyTimez wrote:The quick answer is yes.Ganja Is Great wrote: Correct me if I am wrong - So you can have a wallet with multiple addresses storing coins separately that is protected by the same wallet passphrase?
The long answer is that there are usually two definitions of a wallet that get passed around in Bitcoin lingo:Neither definition of a wallet has any kind of representation on the ledger/blockchain itself, which deals primarily in movement of coins through addresses, it's just a concept maintained by software or people outside the Bitcoin network and blockchain.
- A collection of Bitcoin addresses. Just some arbitrary group of addresses, presumably controlled by the same entity.
- A piece of software that manages a collection of Bitcoin addresses. That is to say that it keeps the private keys corresponding to those addresses so that it can sign transactions that send bitcoins from those addresses. The software can also act as a node on the bitcoin network and broadcast transactions it has signed or repeat the transactions signed by others. The software could easily offer password security or encryption of the private keys to prevent unauthorized use or analysis; most Bitcoin clients do this.
That said, you can derive an idea of what addresses might comprise a wallet by either:
- Getting a copy of a wallet software's data stores. For example, wallet.dat if you're using Bitcoin core. In some wallet softwares, getting the seed string of bytes used to generate all of its addresses is sufficient.
- Analyzing the transactions found in the blockchain. If more than one address is used as an input in a single transaction, you can assume that some entity (wallet software, person, whatever) conceivably has the private key for all of those addresses, otherwise, how could they sign that transaction. WalletExplorer.com uses this technique to join addresses together, for example, in determining the original Silk Road's big hot wallet contents. If you really want to dig deep, you can also try to guess what outputs of a transaction are being made to change addresses that are auto-generated by the originating wallet.
Any word on when PoM was supposed to be back around?
Oregon comes online for legal recreational sales tomorrow, California will probably fall next year. And that's just the West Coast of the US. Wait, then it's the *entire* West Coast including Alaska. The problem I see is that crypto doesn't really replace retail banking services, once the customer can use credit/debit cards at the POS everyone will be using USD like any other business. Won't they? And then there's the volatility of cryptos--it makes even routine transactions clearing over say three days into a game of craps. Someone should do one that's somehow pegged to the USD to breed the volatility out. Might still work as a stopgap until then, but people are making due with cash, some Credit Unions have been helpful here. You do read now and then about banks not appreciating bales of cash that smell like kush.
