Topic: [ANN] SpreadCoin | Decentralize Everything (decentralized blockexplorer coming) - page 289. (Read 790393 times)

Well, I wouldn't say that download speed is irrelevant, but the bottleneck of synching a full node is definitely the CPU.

Also, if I am not mistaken (I am not sure how Core does it), a full node will always download a single block, then validate it, then ask and wait for the next block to download, validate again etc...
A very serial process.
While the CPU is validating, the program isn't allowed to download the next block, for obvious reasons: if the last block is false, all following blocks are also false (wrong fork).
But not being allowed to download further blocks is what makes synching even slower.

(And vice versa, while the next block is still downloading, the CPU can't validate yet. All those waiting times add to a large delay, especially when you consider hundreds of thousands of blocks.)

So is this the best way of doing things?

The goal is to have better initial synching speed. It concerns people who download a blockchain from scratch, or need to sync weeks or months of data.

It can be argued that syncing could be much faster by downloading a large chunk of the longest available blockchain once (servicenodes will help out), and then do the initial validation process in one sweep,
and if there are errors, go back to serial processing as it is done now--> validate and download the rest of the blockchain from the last validated index, block by block.

Serial processing is necessary once your wallet is up-to-date (or near up-to-date), and you just need to keep track of the best blockchain available on a per-minute basis.
But is it necessary for the initial sync process, that is the question....

I hadn't really factored that it. Thanks.

I was actually thinking about how you could use a decentralized web to authenticate on the fly login requests. Where do the credentials go, how do they get stored, etc?

Do you create a docker container, let the user pull down a run application request, run the application for a session, authenticate (against what?), then allow the user access to xyz. Does the application issue a public key to the user, and matches the return of the public key with the users issued public key to initiate a session now involving private keys?  

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Been for a walk to think about this, and maybe its achievable - well in theory.

* There is a live demo of github repo being pulled into a decentralized environment.
* Protonmail has demonstrated the use of emails using public keys as the initiators of an anonymous and encrypted communication session between two users (user and application, in this example)
* Decentralized web is evidently possible, with live working examples
* Randomly selected ServiceNodes can facilitate and connect all the above

* What this needs are one time issued passwords -> user initiated pull from decentralized github to run a bat file on a servicenode which generates a password and issues it to the user, after entering into anonymous communications with the user through public keys

* the user gets a second layer of protection when initiating a communication 'transaction' by using mobile 2FA against their private keys - two stage login process to prevent sybil attacks.

Don't know why it hasn't been done already, duh  

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or maybe just use Trezor for password less logins, lol

http://cointelegraph.com/news/114456/trezor-offers-password-less-login-to-other-websites-adds-dash

At syncing, the download speed is irrelevant, the hard work for the wallet is to process the incoming data (checkblock: verify hash, verify data, etc)

let me check it out

Hey guys I stumbled into this:
Did sparkster FUD or anything? Maybe an ip issue.

What about it?

The developers left and the website has expired and no one on there talks. How is that my fault?

MOTOcoin !

MrSpace, I would just like to know what I did for you to be like this.
I can't think of anything.

http://i.imgur.com/H99kzci.jpg?1

End of the road, now to start on that sand path 

Bump....for end of road, road map

So I managed to adjust the vanitygen so that it generates compressed addresses by borrowing from this:

https://github.com/salfter/vanitygen/commit/7ee7d9b0aa5b3841d17f0be14d2cc00f719b579f

And it works, it generates compressed SPR privkeys (starting with Letter V instead of 7 (uncompressed).

And I check the validity of the privkey on http://www.universalwalletgenerator.net/ (setup with 63,191, and then wallet-details)
and it works, it recognizes the correct SPR Vanity address.

Problem I still have is, how can I import this address into the wallet?

When I do a simple importprivkey it reports an error.

Is importprivkey as it is implemented ATM even able to import compressed keys?

Doesn't look like it.

yes, the compressed key is used all over in the source

But you can un-compress it 

Now it makes sense why it is only size of 33 with spreadcoin.... ---> it's compressed! 

LMFAO - There is no way in all that is holy that you are Mr. Spread.  Mr. Spread had class, self control, and smarts.  You sir are lacking in all three.  You do serve a purpose though.

- pokeytex

o ok ... kool ...

i honestly thought it was something that was integral and highly important to the coin and wallet and all things spr ...

its not ... but your involvement within the development arena is - so all good mate and happy exploration ...

#crysx

Thanks to elbandi for explaining this.

That's the reason I do the vanitygen, it forces me to explore everything about spreadcoin step by step.

The backstory to decentralised web of nodes proposition (or most things) - which makes sense of what he is proposing and why it will work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa4pckodM9g

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With nodes: more decentralized nodes, the faster the download speeds.

With http: the more the users, the slower the download speeds.

Simples,

http://academictorrents.com/

Only slightly off-topic (there's a comment from the Maidsafe folk), rumblings about PM David Cameron and Home Secretary Theresa May's intentions to backdoor all UK-sourced cryptography:

“Escaping the May-trix: Snoopers’ Charter will force a mass exodus of tech firms from the UK”
http://www.thenational.scot/news/escaping-the-may-trix-snoopers-charter-will-force-a-mass-exodus-of-tech-firms-from-the-uk.3636


but the illustration is absolutely priceless:



Cheers

Graham

Ooh you are a tease!