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sr. member
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Although the Nxt Asset Exchange will be a useful addition I think that we are missing something that could be much more useful (and perhaps a "killer" addition) and that is "atomic cross-chain crypto-currency transfers" (some of you would recall I've already mentioned it).

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It wouldn't work fast enough to do "day trading" but for those not in a huge rush the promise of 100% secure transactions with only minimal blockchain fees would be pretty appealing.

What do you guys think?


Given the history of crypto exchanges failing or stealing money, and what's happening with Mt Gox right now, you are right that this would be a killer app.

I know JL777 was really pushing it, but he seems like he really pushes a lot of ideas, so not sure if he's still interested.

I'm not all that technical so I can't help build such a thing. What can we do to make this happen?
legendary
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rofl. i completely missed that thread where i was mentioned like a dozen times

U should monetize ur reputation. If u were a fiat gateway operator for Asset Exchange, u would help the community a lot. I would accept dollars issued by u without any doubt. Think of such a business plz...

I was planning on being the silver bullion gateway but I could also do fiat.
newbie
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Critical bug disclosure

Few days ago the guy who found a vulnerability in Blockchain.Info and picked the secret phrase of Nxt genesis account found a security flaw in NRS cryptographic algorithm.

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I can't explain details of the flaw, coz it's out of my area of expertise. U can contact him directly via nextcoin.org forum.

I'm the guy.  I just created a thread providing more technical details https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,3884.0.html and to answer questions.  I don't really check this forum/thread so posting there is the best way to reach me.
sr. member
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I don't really come from outer space.
rofl. i completely missed that thread where i was mentioned like a dozen times

U should monetize ur reputation. If u were a fiat gateway operator for Asset Exchange, u would help the community a lot. I would accept dollars issued by u without any doubt. Think of such a business plz...

Anon136,

If you do consider fiat gateway, iDeal might be something to look into for accepting Euros. 

http://www.ideal.nl/banken/?lang=eng-GB

I had asked in this thread earlier if anyone had any experience with it, and a member did PM me to tell me that he used it and that it was awesome.  If you're interested, I can ask him to PM you, also, to get an idea of how it is used.

He gave me this link:

http://www.bitcoinvergelijker.nl/

But I don't speak Dutch so I only got a vague idea of what is said there.
legendary
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Ian Knowles - CIYAM Lead Developer

Why the rush?  Oh - let me take a guess - a bunch of new accounts praising another new account that is trying to get "investment". Wink
legendary
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But if the bug has been fixed you sure could tell us which part of the code was altered.
I am interested in taking a look at the changes.

Jean-Luc altered it. I'm not so familiar with the refactored version to find this change.
hero member
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Critical bug disclosure
I can't explain details of the flaw, coz it's out of my area of expertise. U can contact him directly via nextcoin.org forum.

But if the bug has been fixed you sure could tell us which part of the code was altered.
I am interested in taking a look at the changes.
legendary
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Newbie
rofl. i completely missed that thread where i was mentioned like a dozen times

U should monetize ur reputation. If u were a fiat gateway operator for Asset Exchange, u would help the community a lot. I would accept dollars issued by u without any doubt. Think of such a business plz...
legendary
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hero member
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Crypti Community Manager
Critical bug disclosure

Few days ago the guy who found a vulnerability in Blockchain.Info and picked the secret phrase of Nxt genesis account found a security flaw in NRS cryptographic algorithm. The flaw allowed to replay transactions that would lead to double-triple-etc amounts sent. In fact, by finding this flaw he conducted an audit of Crypto class and won the bounty that we collected specially for such a case.

I can't explain details of the flaw, coz it's out of my area of expertise. U can contact him directly via nextcoin.org forum.

The flaw has been fixed and all who updated to 0.6.0+ are safe now. Users of older versions are safe too as long as they are connected to nodes with 0.6.0+.

PS: The community should collect 10 BTC again coz we still need to do the audit of the code.

can we hire this amazing fellow for the dev team?
+1, sent PM on nextcoin.
legendary
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Critical bug disclosure

PS: The community should collect 10 BTC again coz we still need to do the audit of the code.

thnx for the info!    Wink

Any chance you will be selling some of those unclaimed NXT again?    Roll Eyes

No chance, we already decided that I hand over the coins to keepers, I'm just waiting for their account ids. Ask the corresponding keeper, plz.

who are the keepers?
legendary
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Newbie
can we hire this amazing fellow for the dev team?

Dunno, ask him.
legendary
Activity: 2142
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Newbie
Critical bug disclosure

PS: The community should collect 10 BTC again coz we still need to do the audit of the code.

thnx for the info!    Wink

Any chance you will be selling some of those unclaimed NXT again?    Roll Eyes

No chance, we already decided that I hand over the coins to keepers, I'm just waiting for their account ids. Ask the corresponding keeper, plz.
legendary
Activity: 1722
Merit: 1217
Critical bug disclosure

Few days ago the guy who found a vulnerability in Blockchain.Info and picked the secret phrase of Nxt genesis account found a security flaw in NRS cryptographic algorithm. The flaw allowed to replay transactions that would lead to double-triple-etc amounts sent. In fact, by finding this flaw he conducted an audit of Crypto class and won the bounty that we collected specially for such a case.

I can't explain details of the flaw, coz it's out of my area of expertise. U can contact him directly via nextcoin.org forum.

The flaw has been fixed and all who updated to 0.6.0+ are safe now. Users of older versions are safe too as long as they are connected to nodes with 0.6.0+.

PS: The community should collect 10 BTC again coz we still need to do the audit of the code.

can we hire this amazing fellow for the dev team?
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Congrats to "the guy"  Wink
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1000 TPS is a theoretical number, in fact I'd wager that it would take at least 2 (possible more) years to have that many transactions per second. So no, you won't need 300GB available (per month).
The max transaction is 255 per block(per minute),right?
so I didnot catch clearly what is mean of 1000 TPS.

We have to remind ourself that the POSSIBILITY of 1000TPS brings us to 1000TPS in a few years. If we now state "not possible", we lose one feature.

For the record, there was no "theoretically" about 1000 transactions pe rsecond (TPS).

What do you mean with 4.25 tps to 1000 tps?

One of the killer features of Nxt is ability to process transactions at VISA rate (thousands per second).

Btw, any ideas how much the price will rise after VCs realize that Nxt is able to process 1000+ tps? 10x is min, imho. 100x-1000x is more likely...

There have been occasional hints by CfB of incremental steps to improve the capacity of NXT by making the number of bytes encapsulating a transaction smaller (going from JSON to binary with a target of 128 bytes per transaction) so a block could hold more transactions, synchronizing the timing of blocks ("time warp"), and speeding up the rate at which NXT blocks were produced.  The problem of block chain bloat has not been discussed by the core devs and remains a future problem to achieving this stated capability.  

In my opinion, solving the block chain bloat ( by reforging a new genesis block around every 1500 blocks) is THE problem facing future expansion of NXT.  But:

Blockchain pruning / minimization is for survival.

U should undestand that everything is in ur own hands. Pruning is not a rocket science. Just make a snapshot at some block height and use it as Genesis Block 2.

Once the development committee membership has been finalized and they are in control of 3M NXT from the unclaimed funds currently held by CfB, I will lobby vigorously for them to immediately hire a programmer to focus exclusively on block chain bloat shrinkage and real time genesis block forging.  This is how we take the future of NXT into our own hands as a community.  This is too important to just throw a bounty up and wait for somebody to wander by and say they'll do it.  Ideally, such a hired programmer should integrate ASAP with JLP's ongoing efforts under a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) and not wait for open source release in 60 days.  We need to be working on block chain bloat NOW.  

We don't have to sit around wailing while the price of NXT slowly sags.  We can take action NOW to make NXT the premiere cryptocurrency on the planet.  Once we crack the "not-rocket-science" nut of real-time genesis block reforging, we will have created all the components necessary to set up a 1000 TPS testnet that we can demonstrate to the world.  

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=345619.msg4964910;topicseen#msg4964910

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=345619.msg4966259;topicseen#msg4966259

And with a functional 1000 TPD demonstration testbed in place to demo at will to media, venture capitalists, and critics, NXT WILL GO TO THE MOON.  

legendary
Activity: 2142
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Newbie
Critical bug disclosure

Few days ago the guy who found a vulnerability in Blockchain.Info and picked the secret phrase of Nxt genesis account found a security flaw in NRS cryptographic algorithm. The flaw allowed to replay transactions that would lead to double-triple-etc amounts sent. In fact, by finding this flaw he conducted an audit of Crypto class and won the bounty that we collected specially for such a case.

I can't explain details of the flaw, coz it's out of my area of expertise. U can contact him directly via nextcoin.org forum.

The flaw has been fixed and all who updated to 0.6.0+ are safe now. Users of older versions are safe too as long as they are connected to nodes with 0.6.0+.

PS: The community should collect 10 BTC again coz we still need to do the audit of the code.
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