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Was that in 2010? Do you have a link with more details? I'm not questioning the fact, I'd like to read more about it!
See Wikipedia Eye of Providence and Great Seal of the United States (note section Conspiracy theories in the latter, if that's what you're looking for).
There are even worse things than 'nothing works': How a 'NULL' License Plate Landed One Hacker in Ticket Hell
The question is probably not meant to be answered (only) on the technical level ("does such a thing as miner-activated softfork (MASF) exist?").
But (additionally), what effects a controversial MASF by a majority of miners would have on the various economic players. How the economic majority would react.
See Bitcoin, A Game-Theoretic Analysis for the kinds of politics involved.
Dear Mrs. Young; I am writing to you yet again to complain about your sons' behaviour at school. All of their teachers have come to me with a range of complaints from abusive language to obscene gestures to obstreperousness verging on violence. Malcolm is a certainly old enough to know that his constant humming is neither amusing nor impressive. The few times a day he puts pen to paper it turns out he is writing what appears to be poetry of some vile sort. Angus does not stop eating chocolate bars and Smarties long enough to pay attention to his teachers and his work. His uniform is filthy, his knees are constantly bruised, his eyes blackened, his nose running. Won't you please, Mrs. Young, have a talk with Malcolm and Angus to help us try to make them into responsible citizens. Yours very sincerely, R.K. Lanning, Headmaster
It was one of those days when a man feels good, feels like speaking to his neighbor, is glad to live in a country like ours, and proud of his government. You know what I mean, one of those rare days when everything is right and nothing is wrong.
-- Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows
Still, that was enough to collect on the $100 bet; conveniently for the Cooks, half of it stayed in the family.
That part I fully understood 😉
Fun nut fact #2
For nuts that start with cashuB, the rest of the string (everything after cashuB) is CBOR encoded. You can use CBOR to JSON Online Converter and paste it into the left side, and it will show you the (more) human-readable JSON data on the right.
As can be seen below, the data in your nut starts with the mint URL. So changing the left-most part will corrupt that.
You'd think that the later sections would be important, too, since they contain key ids and secrets. But at the very end your nut contains DLEQ proofs, which are not needed to melt tokens.
I took your nut and replaced the mint with an url of a public mock-up service, so we can now see who tried to take the nut on mockio.
There were only two attempts, both using wallet.cashu.me. Doesn't look like bots to me. But shows you can dox your IP if you blindly open nuts without Tor.
This is a sneaky 🌰, can you guess what it does?
cashuBo2FteDdodHRwczovLzUwYTY4YTEyNDY0MjQxMjk5ZjQwMTBlNjllNTk3MjllLmFwaS5tb2NrYmluLmlvYXSBomFpSAD_1IuPXs-AYXCGo2FhGIBhc3hANmI4OWNjODZiZWIyNmVlMTVmOGQ5NTg3OTdkYmZjZDllMDVhMmYwOWNiNTBiNmIwODY3Y2E5ZTNkM2Y1M2YzY2FjWCEDcEof7vJMEfPUhn3q718adhcYdsKAVjMifqSaQU68ozCjYWEYQGFzeEBiYzYwZTY0MTI2M2M1NzliNTk0ZWJmODFmNTkxZDYxZjI1ZWUxYTVkM2VlMGI4MDg3NjgzNDJiMDZiYmFiMTkzYWNYIQOHyklS9ZadgiX22ER6wkSDsvQY_HkY5CiZ5_Az0Z5s2qNhYRBhc3hAMWM1YjI3YzFhNTc3NWY3ZTMzODk3MTcwZGIwMmQ5MzIwYWFlYzI1ZTljMWY1ZWI5MWQzYTFmNjU0ZmM1ZDg5M2FjWCEDKYp1lC0d5L9k4cAnHZJYxCrSt8BC0mBrx55WGgdFxoujYWEIYXN4QDkwZTQwNWZjNGQ0OWFkMzBhMjJkMjBhZTU3MzNiMTk0Yzg2ZWRhM2E3OTBmYjBiNDU3ZjdiZDQ5NjMzZTM2NjdhY1ghAxNyWaoPAykb78lO2gpqB_0uAUX98WcAXQPunuJ-oEpSo2FhBGFzeEAwMTgxY2I5YWFhYzQ2NWY1N2Q1NTA3M2ZjN2NhZmUzNjNjM2FjM2FiMGQ0M2FhOWRlYjExZDk4MzYwYzZlYTM1YWNYIQImE44yW65xHM4tebaGSsPfDnyoFCZYvt7QfABFtClQNaNhYQJhc3hAY2VkNWM5ZjdiNzU0NzQ3YTdjZjEwYzAzZTdjY2M3MzFiNjA0Zjg0OTVmNmVkNzg2NDVjYTMwMzUyNjZlYTBkMmFjWCECFq8mlhDYGhCzGKSl1dCyf72RTv-sCMnBfPqPYz78Io9hdWNzYXQ
This seems like an old problem, too: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/03/10/392112708/6-5-million-social-security-numbers-linked-to-those-112-or-older
Fun nut fact #1
The size of a nut (the length of the cashuB string) is related to the amount it contains, but not in the simplest way ("larger amount means larger size").
The mint offers tokens in pre-defined amounts: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 sats etc. (powers of two). A nut containing only one such token has minimal size.
To reach other amounts, like 222 in this case, multiple tokens must be combined.
This nut combines six tokens 128+64+16+8+4+2=222 hence its larger size.
So, a 32768 sat nut with a single token gives a short cashuB string, while a 255 sat nut will give a longer cashuB string.
For privacy reasons, the combination can matter.
If you hire a driver, or use a taxi, offer to pay the driver to take you to visit their mother. They will ordinarily jump at the chance. They fulfill their filial duty and you will get easy entry into a local’s home, and a very high chance to taste some home cooking. Mother, driver, and you leave happy. This trick rarely fails.
This one I find curious; wouldn't this require strategic small-talk first? Or are there places where you can literally get into a cab, and when the driver asks you where you want to go, you ask to see his mum?
