https://askthetape.com/notes/One number with the date it is from, one chart you can open, one line of what we measure next — and a dated grade whenever the note makes a promise. A new note whenever a story leaves a number worth keeping. Nothing here is a call on direction: the tape already printed every number on this page.enFri, 23 Oct 2026 21:59:14 +0000https://askthetape.com/notes/xrpl-free-xrp-bug-in-one-number/https://askthetape.com/notes/xrpl-free-xrp-bug-in-one-number/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000To mint XRP from nothing, one payment had to add up to more than 92× all XRP that exists. The ledger's own counter showed 99.99B XRP (99,985,592,890.602616 XRP on ledger 107,560,180, measured Oct-10 2026 11:21Z). A 64-bit sum of drops runs out past 9,223B XRP (9,223,372,036,854,775,807 drops = 9,223.372B). Divide that bar by the supply and the ratio is 92.25, printed here as 92×.https://askthetape.com/notes/us-government-bitcoin-to-coinbase-prime/https://askthetape.com/notes/us-government-bitcoin-to-coinbase-prime/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000From Oct-06 to Oct-08 2026, addresses attributed to the US government moved 21,528 BTC into Coinbase Prime deposit addresses. All three waves went to the same place: 833.6 BTC on Oct-06, 8,427.6 BTC on Oct-07, 12,267.0 BTC on Oct-08. The three add to 21,528.2 BTC.https://askthetape.com/notes/ledger-reseller-drain-traced/https://askthetape.com/notes/ledger-reseller-drain-traced/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000As of Oct-10 06:44Z, the two bitcoin wallets we link to the Ledger reseller drain had not moved: 203.8 BTC (92.5062093 + 111.28199071), spent 0. The coins landed 05:54:20Z–06:15:45Z on Oct-09 2026 (76 and 46 transactions into the two), so the measurement came 24.5 hours after the last inflow. At $82,838.40 per BTC on that print, the two wallets held about $16.9M.https://askthetape.com/notes/money-before-the-block/https://askthetape.com/notes/money-before-the-block/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000A deposit to an exchange is a transaction like any other: it is broadcast, it waits in the mempool, and some minutes later a block confirms it. Over the seven days to Sep-12 2026, 93.6 % of the 49,781 confirmed exchange transfers our map recognises — 46,609 of them — were sitting in the mempool before their block. The day-clustered 95 % interval runs from 91.8 % to 95.1 %, and no single day fell below 89.0 %. Among the transfers seen early the median lead was 7.5 minutes, and one in ten waited longer than 25.5 minutes.https://askthetape.com/notes/five-year-coins-hold-the-waiting/https://askthetape.com/notes/five-year-coins-hold-the-waiting/Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000Count bitcoin's coins and about a third of them are old. Weigh the same coins by how long they have sat still and the picture flips: on Sep-12 2026, coins older than five years were 33.6 % of the supply our ledger sees, but 81.16 % of all the waiting on the chain.