I've read a little bit in that thread and they are saying, that they'd need a SPV (Simple Payment Verification)-compatible wallet, to implement the coin into Hive.
That's another reason to upgrade our wallet to the Bitcoin-code as soon as possible (as gjhiggins already mentionened above, it would also overcome the transaction malleability-problem), inlcuding changing from random rewards to static rewards for the miners (but leaving the rest of the algorithm completely intact).
See this link for more on SPV:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability#Simplified_payment_verificationEdit: See this link, for information on bitcoinj, an implementation of SPV:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BitcoinjTo be supported by Hive, mooncoin needs SPV-implementation. SPV = Simplified Payment Verification. For that we need so called trusted servers, which verify the transactions instead of the clients. But it also is more vulnerable. From the bitcoin-whitepaper:
"As such, the verification is reliable as long as honest nodes control the network, but is more
vulnerable if the network is overpowered by an attacker. While network nodes can verify
transactions for themselves, the simplified method can be fooled by an attacker's fabricated
transactions for as long as the attacker can continue to overpower the network. One strategy to
protect against this would be to accept alerts from network nodes when they detect an invalid
block, prompting the user's software to download the full block and alerted transactions to
confirm the inconsistency."
That means, we need not only one but enough trusted servers for SPV, if I understand it right. And the next question is: Is it enough to have these trusted servers and Hive knows them, or do we have to extend the mooncoin wallet code with additional functionality for SPV?
