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Proving ownership of any file by piggybacking on the blockchain

BTC Leak on July 11, 2020

Most people say Bitcoin cannot have smart contracts. Most people are wrong! Here is a clever method – also a form of a DIY smart contract – you can use to prove beyond all doubt ownership of any file at… Read the full article

Guide: Push any data on to the blockchain forever

BTC Leak on June 26, 2020

Admittedly, hacks for forcing arbitrary data on to the Bitcoin blockchain is not without ethical considerations. The blockchain, Bitcoin’s public ledger, has one job – and that is to maintain a public database of every single transaction so that Bitcoin… Read the full article

Pay bare-minimum Bitcoin transaction fees

BTC Leak on June 20, 2020

We believe that most Bitcoin users spend way too much on transaction fees. The situation is not nearly as bad as before the implementation of Segwit, a quantum leap in the history of Bitcoin. Still, if you look up average… Read the full article

Collect unconfirmed transaction hashes from the mempool

BTC Leak on June 11, 2020

For one of our earlier experiments, we needed to collect “all” the transaction hashes over a few days from the Bitcoin memory pool (mempool). In other words, transactions that are waiting to be picked up by miners, but haven’t yet… Read the full article