I just checked the entire bitcoin blockchain, including every signature, from start to finish.
Now I’m gonna try the same from finish to start. I just compiled bitcoin from GitHub and this should contain the fix for the big I found in 2021 while attempting this same exercise.
Spoken like a pure psychopath. 💜
It checks out. 100% checks out, including the two errors back before block 100,000.
My node audits every 10 minutes. Glad to know it’s correct
Few people know that in the first year of bitcoin, two blocks got their block rewards deleted, accidentally, because the transaction hash creating the block reward was a duplicate…an early form of “address” reuse being unwise, sorta…
Jump to section titled bip 30:
https://blog.okcoin.com/btc-developer-asks-where-are-the-coins/
