asciilifeform: !q uptime
snsabot: asciilifeform: time since my last reconnect : 4d 5h 56m
asciilifeform: $ticker btc usd
btcinfobot: Current BTC price in USD: $39166.49
asciilifeform: !w poll
watchglass: Polling 17 nodes...
watchglass: 84.16.46.130:8333 : Could not connect!
watchglass: 185.163.46.29:8333 : Could not connect!
watchglass: 54.39.156.171:8333 : (ns562940.ip-54-39-156.net) Alive: (0.064s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=685023
watchglass: 205.134.172.26:8333 : Alive: (0.082s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=684919
watchglass: 205.134.172.4:8333 : (172-4.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.083s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=685023
watchglass: 205.134.172.6:8333 : (172-6.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.142s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=685023
watchglass: 108.31.170.100:8333 : (pool-108-31-170-100.washdc.fios.verizon.net) Alive: (0.177s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=685023 (Operator: asciilifeform)
watchglass: 205.134.172.28:8333 : Alive: (0.112s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=685023 (Operator: whaack)
watchglass: 192.151.158.26:8333 : Alive: (0.217s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=685023
watchglass: 208.94.240.42:8333 : Alive: (0.184s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=685023
watchglass: 143.202.160.10:8333 : Alive: (0.223s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=685023
watchglass: 176.9.59.199:8333 : (static.199.59.9.176.clients.your-server.de) Alive: (0.273s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=412055 (Operator: jurov)
watchglass: 213.109.238.156:8333 : Alive: (0.329s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=685023
watchglass: 24.28.108.235:8333 : Violated BTC Protocol: Bad header length! (Operator: trinque)
asciilifeform: !q uptime
snsabot: asciilifeform: time since my last reconnect : 0d 0h 0m
whaack: asciilifeform: The highest block number I've found with a high S signature is 388166, hash 000000000000000005de239ca0d781cc9e78add7c48e94e2264223aa31fc6256; it was mined around December 13, 2015.
whaack: I checked up until block 400,000 after that, there could possibly be a high s signature between 401,000...present day
asciilifeform: whaack: mighty interesting find. see what you get when check the rest of'em
asciilifeform: evidently took at least that long to nail down the cartel properly
whaack: yes I was quite stunned, before doing this search after having read the logs etc. I thought that the cartel took over July 4th or 5th, that same day as the supposed fork
whaack: Then I read elsewhere that no, it was only when prb 0.11.1 was released, on October 15th, that the cartel started enforcing its new fake rule (https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.11.1, https://archive.is/8ecWN)
whaack: asciilifeform: Btw, I determined that a txn was "high s" if the signatures s-value was 33 bytes as per this guide I found here (https://archive.is/GpooO)
asciilifeform: imho interesting related piece found while digging.
whaack: Although the guide I just linked, as far as I can tell, has some disinfo. For example it appears that s, and r values can be less than 31 bytes long, not something one would deduce from the guide.
whaack: asciilifeform: Do you have a recommendation of a guide for learning the internals of ECDSA? I'd like to write my own signer + verifier, in order to understand bitcoin sigs in better detail.
asciilifeform: whaack: i know of none that i consider a++ great. there's the orig. SEC 1 and SEC 2 turds (warning:pdfism) ; vanstone's 'applied cryptography'; and of course existing proggies.
asciilifeform: ( the latter includes jfw's thing, he had what he said was a working signer, i have not tried however )
gregorynyssa: whaack: my friend found a relatively concise implementation in PHP (with GMP dependency) in case you are interested.