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How to attack Bitcoin mining? Mining speculation
There is so much Wrong information here that goes against everything I thought.M…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 19, 2014, 03:53:54 PM |
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Extract Bitcoin Address from Public Key Development & Technical Discussion
What happens when you put the public key after https://blockchain.info/address/…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 18, 2014, 08:08:13 PM |
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Extract Bitcoin Address from Public Key Development & Technical Discussion
What happens when you put the public key after https://blockchain.info/address/…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 18, 2014, 06:58:20 PM |
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"Treasury Securities" vs. US National Debt Economics
I'm talking about from the worker's perspective. If I can end up with more mone…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 18, 2014, 03:21:52 PM |
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A Bedroom of Pc's? Mining speculation
Have your parents drop you off at Walmart and have them pick you up in a few hou…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 17, 2014, 04:48:50 PM |
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Store bitcoins in a timed vault. Bitcoin Discussion
If/when lockTime is fully supported in bitcoin...Create lockTime transaction sen…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 13, 2014, 06:34:11 PM |
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Is the wiki incorrect about length of addresses. Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteAssume a 20 byte hash value of 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFo…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 13, 2014, 04:38:50 PM |
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Is the wiki incorrect about length of addresses. Development & Technical Discussion
On edit: deleted prior post. I realized I misunderstood azeteki's post when I s…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 13, 2014, 04:20:20 PM |
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Is the wiki incorrect about length of addresses. Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteA Bitcoin address, or simply address, is an identifier of 27-34 alphanumeri…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 13, 2014, 01:22:45 PM |
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Rule 30 automaton as hash function Development & Technical Discussion
I learned that Bitcoin has a big problem with what is called variance. Transacti…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 13, 2014, 10:19:28 AM |
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BIP proposal: Canonical Deterministic Signatures Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteWhy not simply using RFC 6979?RFC 6979 is not used by anyone and is unneces…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 07, 2014, 06:29:27 PM |
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Ross Ulbricht: FBI Didn't Have Search Warrant, Violated Fourth Amendment Bitcoin Discussion
doubt that trial judge will dismiss the case based on a technicality, however I…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 05, 2014, 11:43:23 AM |
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Feature Request for Bitcoin Core: Replace by Fee Development & Technical Discussion
DeathandTaxes, can he create another transaction and broadcast it elsewhere then…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 05, 2014, 12:04:07 PM |
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Feature Request for Bitcoin Core: Replace by Fee Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteIt means that Blockchain.info is being retarded as it usually does. It prov…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 05, 2014, 11:58:49 AM |
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Feature Request for Bitcoin Core: Replace by Fee Development & Technical Discussion
Unfortunately, BitWallet is not the app that is rebroadcasting the transaction.…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 05, 2014, 11:57:07 AM |
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Ross Ulbricht: FBI Didn't Have Search Warrant, Violated Fourth Amendment Bitcoin Discussion
IMO this case is too high profile for a judge to grant a dismissal. They are thr…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 05, 2014, 11:23:39 AM |
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Bitcoin is not the answer for microtransactions; how to rebroadcast unconfirmed? Bitcoin Discussion
The error may be due to the fact the BCT adds hidden spaces to long strings. Al…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 05, 2014, 11:20:06 AM |
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Bitcoin is not the answer for microtransactions; how to rebroadcast unconfirmed? Bitcoin Discussion
In the meantime, I could import my private keys into Armory or Electrum and try…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 04, 2014, 11:35:45 AM |
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My new garage and 200 amps Hardware
-You can't use the same outlets, the wiring has to be a higher gauge to handle t…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 05, 2014, 11:15:51 AM |
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My new garage and 200 amps Hardware
Well nobody runs a 1200W PSU @ 1200W of load. 30A is good for 5760W (after 20%…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 05, 2014, 10:44:53 AM |
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A basic question about addresses Development & Technical Discussion
As jl2012 said the answer is no. The same keypair can be used on both networks…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 04, 2014, 11:29:10 AM |
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My new garage and 200 amps Hardware
I think he was writing it as 208V/240V because it is the same exact connectors f…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 05, 2014, 10:06:14 AM |
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What's the difficulty of testnet Development & Technical Discussion
Well no difficulty is also adjusted normally every 2016 blocks.So in 2016 blocks…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 05, 2014, 09:20:47 AM |
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My new garage and 200 amps Hardware
For the same power rating, doesn't 240v takes less current from the mains than 1…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 05, 2014, 09:15:22 AM |
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What's the difficulty of testnet Development & Technical Discussion
If no blocks are found on testnet in 20 minutes it will reset difficulty back to…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 05, 2014, 09:13:34 AM |
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My new garage and 200 amps Hardware
Why would you want to use 120V? PC power supplies can run on either. 240V is m…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 05, 2014, 12:21:06 AM |
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Is this possible? Altcoin Discussion
Why would burnt coins have value though?"Miners" burn coins to gain the ability…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 05, 2014, 12:16:06 AM |
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Is this possible? Altcoin Discussion
I guess it would help to explain why I ask. There is a coin called slimcoin tha…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 05, 2014, 12:15:21 AM |
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How does distributed transaction log get stored? Bitcoin Discussion
The blockchain is the decentralized transaction log. Transactions are stored i…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 04, 2014, 11:50:47 PM |
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Is this possible? Altcoin Discussion
A wallet is a collection of addresses. So if you mean change the private key an…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 04, 2014, 11:35:01 PM |
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Bitcoin can be use by future Mars Inhabitants? Bitcoin Discussion
In theory yes but given the cost of interplanetary transmission and the long lat…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 04, 2014, 11:38:12 PM |
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Testnet fees? Development & Technical Discussion
Uh Miners? You make it sound like there are testnet pools and such. If you are l…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 04, 2014, 11:29:48 PM |
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Bitcoin Killswitch Speculation
Control over a certain % of nodes doesn't give you any special power over the ne…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 04, 2014, 11:26:37 PM |
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Bug with timestamps on Bitcoin-Qt client for OS X Development & Technical Discussion
Also, if I imported my private keys into another app (such as MultiBit, for exam…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 04, 2014, 01:34:33 PM |
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What does bitcoin client do except for being a wallet/payments manager? Development & Technical Discussion
Full nodes also provide transaction data to SPV (lite) clients. The more conne…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 04, 2014, 08:43:06 AM |
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BIP39 HMAC-SHA512 rationale ? Development & Technical Discussion
The HMAC is only used when going from mnemonic -> seed. QuoteA user may decide…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 04, 2014, 11:50:38 AM |
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Bitcoin is not the answer for microtransactions; how to rebroadcast unconfirmed? Bitcoin Discussion
Great discussion. In the meantime, does anybody have any advice on what I can do…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 04, 2014, 11:13:40 AM |
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Is this possible that I'll loose my coins due to forks in bitcoin client? Development & Technical Discussion
As kludge said it is very possible that on a long enough timeline your wallet fo…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 04, 2014, 08:51:12 AM |
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Is pgp really that safe? Off-topic
So, no telling what was unencrypted, but I wouldn't think that EVERYTHING was op…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 03, 2014, 01:06:52 PM |
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Is pgp really that safe? Off-topic
I would also add this here:Strong cryptography is really strong. It is "use mor…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 03, 2014, 10:07:10 AM |
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Bitcoin is not the answer for microtransactions; how to rebroadcast unconfirmed? Bitcoin Discussion
With a .0001 BTC required transaction fee for all transactions under .01 BTC, th…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 03, 2014, 11:12:38 AM |
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rpietila Wall Observer - the Quality TA Thread ;) Speculation
Many things are difficult, but that shouldn't be difficult at all: miners just i…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 03, 2014, 11:01:22 AM |
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Is pgp really that safe? Off-topic
PGP is an open standard. The algorithms used are well known and used in other a…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 03, 2014, 10:02:23 AM |
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Will we ever see automatically pushed updates? Development & Technical Discussion
There will never be mass adoption of a client if users (read non-techie, normal…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 02, 2014, 08:34:55 AM |
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At what point (hash) is solo mining viable? Beginners & Help
You are correct. Anyone taking what I wrote and saying the expected return is l…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 01, 2014, 01:52:37 PM |
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Is it just me, or does this chart look too uniform? Bitcoin Discussion
Crying about greed doesn't fix anything. The miners need some incentive. Your re…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 01, 2014, 01:05:04 PM |
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Speed up confirmation time Development & Technical Discussion
I have been trying to collect information and reading about the green addresses…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 01, 2014, 11:47:32 AM |
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Is it just me, or does this chart look too uniform? Bitcoin Discussion
7tps is just an estimate and probably an overly optimistic one*. The only limi…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 01, 2014, 10:44:36 AM |
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Is it just me, or does this chart look too uniform? Bitcoin Discussion
Quotethe problem is that a block can store 4200 transactions no problsmNot likel…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 01, 2014, 09:55:03 AM |
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BIP39 HMAC-SHA512 rationale ? Development & Technical Discussion
It is called key stretching.Say the attacker has a brute force cracking rig whic…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | August 01, 2014, 09:47:04 AM |
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Bitcoin Killswitch Speculation
Without checkpoints a competing blockchain starting of the genesis block with a…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 31, 2014, 06:12:56 PM |
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bitcoind 0.9.2 uses 800MB of RAM at 30 connections! Development & Technical Discussion
If developers think 800MB is acceptable and trending higher is expected, how in…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 31, 2014, 06:04:32 PM |
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Best practice for setting up a seed for a JavaScript wallet (apart from don't) Development & Technical Discussion
The second one, but thanks for putting it clearly.No problem. It would appear b…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 31, 2014, 10:27:09 AM |
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bitcoind 0.9.2 uses 800MB of RAM at 30 connections! Development & Technical Discussion
Yeah I am at a loss unless it is just bad luck due to the peer mix. I assumed i…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 31, 2014, 10:34:57 AM |
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Best practice for setting up a seed for a JavaScript wallet (apart from don't) Development & Technical Discussion
Likewise on deterministic k values I'm going to defer to bitcore.js, which looks…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 31, 2014, 09:35:08 AM |
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bitcoind 0.9.2 uses 800MB of RAM at 30 connections! Development & Technical Discussion
The memory pool is getting larger as is the UTXO (the UTXO isn't in memory but t…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 31, 2014, 09:58:58 AM |
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Chase Bank Closes Bitcoin related accounts Bitcoin Discussion
Alright, I now know what I should start doing.Aim to get a banking license, and…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 30, 2014, 11:17:43 PM |
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Is there room for a State Run Cryptocurrency? Economics
I believe that if Bitcoin becomes mainstream, a fractional reserve banking syste…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 30, 2014, 04:38:35 PM |
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When Buying Groceries...would you use BTC, GOOG or USD...? Bitcoin Discussion
So based on this analysis, would you say that you are quite comfortable with cur…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 30, 2014, 02:16:12 PM |
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"Treasury Securities" vs. US National Debt Economics
Well as I pointed out it is $914B not $914T or $194T. It aligns pretty closely w…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 29, 2014, 09:48:13 PM |
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(2014-07-28) CD: Coinapult Launches LOCKS, a Tool to Eliminate Bitcoin Price Vol Press
Maybe I'm dumb but why do you guys make it so complicated with futures etc? I ho…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 30, 2014, 08:09:21 AM |
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Is this site legit? Service Discussion
Lets see, a site appears out of nowhere, never been posted about on this forum (…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 30, 2014, 02:02:10 PM |
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When Buying Groceries...would you use BTC, GOOG or USD...? Bitcoin Discussion
This shows that at the current float, only about 3-4% of all BTC is moving dail…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 30, 2014, 01:05:36 PM |
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bitcoind won't start; runs out of memory Development & Technical Discussion
It has been slowly and continually increasing pretty much forever. There is no…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 30, 2014, 12:51:35 PM |
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Receive Payment Notification Development & Technical Discussion
The blockchain API doesn't support walletnotify or blocknotify. It is unclear w…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 30, 2014, 12:49:56 PM |
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Please stop with mBTC, microBTC, ...! Economics
However, given that bitcoin transactions can indeed be measured in bits (althoug…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 30, 2014, 12:27:04 PM |
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At what point (hash) is solo mining viable? Beginners & Help
It all comes down to how much time you are willing to accept between paydays and…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 30, 2014, 11:51:25 AM |
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Is this transaction spendable? Development & Technical Discussion
I'm curious though.Can anyone think of a script that uses the altstack and can d…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 30, 2014, 09:40:45 AM |
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Is there room for a State Run Cryptocurrency? Economics
The blockchain is expensive. It is expensive to store, expensive to process, an…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 30, 2014, 08:13:00 AM |
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Link to download uncompiled version of bitcore? Development & Technical Discussion
Like I said the big blue button downloads is an .exe file that's not a source co…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 30, 2014, 12:27:14 AM |
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Receive Payment Notification Development & Technical Discussion
Use walletnotify and blocknotify so your backend is aware when a new payment is…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 29, 2014, 11:19:29 PM |
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Can a block be created without the reward transaction? Beginners & Help
Imagine the first 210.000 bitcoin blocks were created without claiming its rewar…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 29, 2014, 10:55:34 PM |
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Link to download uncompiled version of bitcore? Development & Technical Discussion
You didn't notice on the webpage the big, blue, bold link "Get the source code"?
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 29, 2014, 10:35:17 PM |
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Can a block be created without the reward transaction? Beginners & Help
So if a miner is willing to take no reward for his effort, he will generate bloc…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 29, 2014, 10:31:44 PM |
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Can a block be created without the reward transaction? Beginners & Help
The "reward" txn is the coinbase txn (no relationship with the company having th…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 29, 2014, 10:05:09 PM |
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"Treasury Securities" vs. US National Debt Economics
No idea where they got that number from but it is $914B not $914T. Maybe it is…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 29, 2014, 08:43:15 PM |
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Please stop with mBTC, microBTC, ...! Economics
If 1 satoshi = $0.01 then 1 BTC = $1M USD and the coin supply would be worth $21…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 29, 2014, 08:32:20 PM |
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Please stop with mBTC, microBTC, ...! Economics
Question, if we ended up using satoshi (in the future) as a normal payment, mayb…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 29, 2014, 08:06:37 PM |
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Chase Bank Closes Bitcoin related accounts Bitcoin Discussion
This is pretty standard in banking contracts. Either party can at any time and f…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 29, 2014, 07:20:57 PM |
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When Buying Groceries...would you use BTC, GOOG or USD...? Bitcoin Discussion
Guaranteed by who?Nobody hence the "if". The OP claim was based around the idea…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 29, 2014, 07:10:00 PM |
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When Buying Groceries...would you use BTC, GOOG or USD...? Bitcoin Discussion
If GOOG was appreciating as much as Bitcoin every year and you could buy things…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 29, 2014, 05:30:26 PM |
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(2014-07-28) CD: Coinapult Launches LOCKS, a Tool to Eliminate Bitcoin Price Vol Press
It would be an interesting way to "short" bitcoin without using an exchange howe…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 29, 2014, 03:34:48 PM |
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Ful node is vanishing Development & Technical Discussion
Fullnodes need to be incentivized otherwise they will become a liability to the…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 29, 2014, 01:19:43 PM |
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All of Satoshi's bitcoins will belong to NY after 5 years of inactivity Legal
This would only be true if he held his bitcoin at an exchange and his account at…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 29, 2014, 02:03:47 PM |
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Is becoming a Western Union Agent a fast track to USA Compliance? Legal
The license WU issues to agents doesn't cover the exchange of virtual currency.…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 29, 2014, 12:13:54 PM |
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Compressed blocks in blockchain only with unspent TXs Development & Technical Discussion
So in future the Bitcoin Core can compress the local blockchain and eliminate al…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 29, 2014, 10:49:13 AM |
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Is becoming a Western Union Agent a fast track to USA Compliance? Legal
No because your licensed with WU is only for licensed activity and that doesn't…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 29, 2014, 10:16:42 AM |
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UTXOC - Unspent Transaction Output based Certificates Development & Technical Discussion
That is an interesting idea to use the blockchain for revocation. unspent = val…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 28, 2014, 10:09:48 AM |
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Rule 30 automaton as hash function Development & Technical Discussion
Maybe not for Bitcoin but the O(n2) of R30 makes it very computationally intensi…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 28, 2014, 10:02:39 AM |
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Bitcoin External Dependencies and Block Generation Time Development & Technical Discussion
Am I correct in thinking that the Bitcoin difficulty adjustment algorithm which…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 28, 2014, 09:11:59 AM |
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Compressed blocks in blockchain only with unspent TXs Development & Technical Discussion
The problem with that is an attacker (even one with 51% of hashrate) currently h…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 27, 2014, 02:20:11 PM |
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Making a transaction whose output is spendable only after n blocks are found? Development & Technical Discussion
I may be wrong but nLockTime isn't correctly implemented. nLockTime only works i…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 27, 2014, 11:33:16 AM |
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All of Satoshi's bitcoins will belong to NY after 5 years of inactivity Legal
Forfeit Bitcoins that are inactive for over 5 years to the State of New York - (…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 26, 2014, 11:06:16 PM |
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Spin-offs: bootstrap an altcoin with a btc-blockchain-based initial distribution Altcoin Discussion
Here is a good native multisig (vout:2) to use in your example instead of a fake…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 26, 2014, 06:38:12 PM |
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Spin-offs: bootstrap an altcoin with a btc-blockchain-based initial distribution Altcoin Discussion
Nice diagrams. I love it when a plan comes together.One recommendation would be…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 26, 2014, 04:11:32 PM |
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Best practice for setting up a seed for a JavaScript wallet (apart from don't) Development & Technical Discussion
First I would look into implementing RFC6979 (Deterministic ECDSA Signatures). …
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 26, 2014, 03:08:27 PM |
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Is there a way to get unspent outputs of an arbitrary address using bitcoind? Development & Technical Discussion
For custom application development it would be nice to use bitcoind as a node on…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 26, 2014, 01:34:56 PM |
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bitcoind version "Perone:0.0.1" Bitcoin Discussion
Well 0.0.1 makes me think it is someone doing some alpha development (and obviou…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 25, 2014, 07:55:25 PM |
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Want to know about Provably fair... Beginners & Help
But, the person above me is claiming every cryptography has a backdoor. Is not t…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 25, 2014, 04:05:42 PM |
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Change Address vs Outside Address in Transaction from Core Wallet Bitcoin Discussion
After that bug where they trusted the Android random number generator was random…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 25, 2014, 02:25:03 PM |
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