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The Deathblow to Proof of Stake Altcoin Discussion
As price action and market volume observations show, buying 51% of NXT would be…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 15, 2014, 09:13:14 AM |
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The Deathblow to Proof of Stake Altcoin Discussion
For PoS attacks you need currency units of the network you intend to attack. If…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 15, 2014, 09:10:54 AM |
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The Deathblow to Proof of Stake Altcoin Discussion
because in proof of stake coins, there is a master node responsible for checkpoi…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 14, 2014, 09:30:39 PM |
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Quantum computers: possible menace to Bitcoin? Bitcoin Discussion
all i can say on this matter is a future bitcoin update will allow both rsa256 a…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 14, 2014, 09:21:26 PM |
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[ANN][LTS] LottoShares - airdrop for BTC and DOGE holders Announcements (Altcoins)
Please excuse my excess of prudence but what are "in general" (not talking about…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 14, 2014, 06:35:21 PM |
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Are there any coins that limit the usefulness of hashpower? Altcoin Discussion
QuoteThe idea seems entirely feasible.The idea doesn't seem feasible at all unle…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 14, 2014, 06:28:27 PM |
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Let's get the denominations of BTC straight Bitcoin Discussion
Technically, satosies are represented by bits. The software uses integers.So is…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 14, 2014, 11:51:39 AM |
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Passphrase utility Development & Technical Discussion
56 bits is pretty weak for a salt and worse they would be heavily biased. Due t…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 14, 2014, 11:33:53 AM |
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Let's get the denominations of BTC straight Bitcoin Discussion
You are mistaken.1 bit is 1/100,000,000 of a bitcoin, so a 'bit' is 10 nBTC.Well…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 14, 2014, 11:27:11 AM |
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Passphrase utility Development & Technical Discussion
Agreed with Tim. Please let this post die. It is a horribly insecure method.Le…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 14, 2014, 11:22:54 AM |
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LTC trade volume much higher than BTC ? Altcoin Discussion
volume would be number of trades Volume is not the number of trades but the numb…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 12, 2014, 05:01:34 PM |
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Bitcoin Transactions with Auto-Response Return Address Development & Technical Discussion
Sure some addresses will be less than 40 bytes but 100% of addresses in 100% of…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 11, 2014, 04:51:07 PM |
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Bitcoin Transactions with Auto-Response Return Address Development & Technical Discussion
OP_RETURN is limited to 40 bytes. That is good for a txn return bitcoin address…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 11, 2014, 03:15:58 PM |
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A bitcoin client with no PRNG. Possible? Development & Technical Discussion
I'm going to tread into dangerous waters here….Not really it is something I beli…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 11, 2014, 01:37:54 PM |
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Why won't Core send this transaction? Development & Technical Discussion
The txn has been accepted into their memory pool but I don't believe Eligius wil…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 11, 2014, 11:25:24 AM |
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Why won't Core send this transaction? Development & Technical Discussion
Actually looking at the debug.log it looks likes the error is simply indicating…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 11, 2014, 10:55:03 AM |
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Why won't Core send this transaction? Development & Technical Discussion
ScriptPubKey indicates the issue is with one of the vouts. IIRC an empty PkScri…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 11, 2014, 10:46:56 AM |
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Wallet Address hash generation Development & Technical Discussion
In fact for the last 3 years I've wondered why nobody made an online SHA256 hash…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 11, 2014, 12:17:54 AM |
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Wallet Address hash generation Development & Technical Discussion
The problem is your tool. The tool you are using is hashing the input as "text…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 10, 2014, 11:50:39 PM |
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Message Encryption with bitcoin address. Development & Technical Discussion
There are encryption systems which can use ECC keys. ECIES is one system:https:…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 10, 2014, 10:56:52 PM |
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Dollar-Backed Digital Currency Aims to Fix Bitcoin’s Volatility Dilemma Bitcoin Discussion
But I don't know if I'm following what you are saying in your post. Let's say C…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 10, 2014, 06:15:21 PM |
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Message Encryption with bitcoin address. Development & Technical Discussion
No. Bitcoin uses ECDSA which is a digital signature algorithm not an encryption…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 10, 2014, 06:04:37 PM |
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Novec 7000 Project [immersive evaporating cooling] Hardware
its a lot easier and cheaper to cool a closed-loop coil within the vapour area,…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 10, 2014, 02:01:10 PM |
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Sigsafe: An electronic key tag for signing bitcoin transactions Project Development
Yes, this is my intention, I just haven't got that far yet. Presently, I am det…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 10, 2014, 01:56:34 PM |
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Sigsafe: An electronic key tag for signing bitcoin transactions Project Development
I would also recommend supporting RFC6979 (deterministic signatures). It provid…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 10, 2014, 12:00:39 PM |
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Sigsafe: An electronic key tag for signing bitcoin transactions Project Development
Although the same private key (in byte form) was used, the resulting bitcoin add…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 10, 2014, 11:28:22 AM |
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How to run getblock command ? need help !! Bitcoin Technical Support
Well first the in the syntax simply means a required parameter and the [] means…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 09, 2014, 08:13:32 PM |
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NSA and ECC Development & Technical Discussion
Well Bitcoin could always support a second curve. A curve over F(p) where P =…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 09, 2014, 10:51:58 PM |
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NBitcoin : Almost full bitcoin implementation in .NET Wallet software
Nice taking a look at it now.
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 09, 2014, 08:17:43 PM |
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A bitcoin client with no PRNG. Possible? Development & Technical Discussion
I agree, intuitively it feels like alternating riffle and strip shuffling should…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 09, 2014, 11:55:22 AM |
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Sigsafe: An electronic key tag for signing bitcoin transactions Project Development
Ah figured it out. Code:def get_privkey_format(priv): if isinstance(priv,(in…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 09, 2014, 12:38:57 PM |
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Sigsafe: An electronic key tag for signing bitcoin transactions Project Development
Quoterobably because I'm just learning about compressed vs uncompressed now Smi…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 09, 2014, 12:35:10 PM |
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Sigsafe: An electronic key tag for signing bitcoin transactions Project Development
Very cool. I see you used an uncompressed PubKey. Is there any reason you need…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 09, 2014, 09:30:07 AM |
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A bitcoin client with no PRNG. Possible? Development & Technical Discussion
Would it not be simpler to throw the cards on the floor, take a picture and then…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 09, 2014, 09:27:50 AM |
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A bitcoin client with no PRNG. Possible? Development & Technical Discussion
Exceptionally large clumps might be a concern, but I'd also be a bit concerned a…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 09, 2014, 02:26:23 AM |
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A bitcoin client with no PRNG. Possible? Development & Technical Discussion
My only concern would be that the deck be truly and well shuffled.Good point. H…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 08, 2014, 11:59:25 PM |
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A bitcoin client with no PRNG. Possible? Development & Technical Discussion
Someone mentioned using the random ordering of a deck of cards as the entropy fo…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 08, 2014, 07:48:42 PM |
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NSA and ECC Development & Technical Discussion
They are equivalent: 2^9 - 2^8 - 2^7 - 2^6 - 2^4 - 1 = 977.The former provides s…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 08, 2014, 07:22:34 PM |
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Why did this transaction confirm? Development & Technical Discussion
The coinbase txn decoded contains bcpoool.iohttps://bcpool.io/
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 08, 2014, 03:57:55 PM |
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40 minute BTC block time - No big deal Bitcoin Discussion
The orphan cost is just an estimate and some other people (pool operators) have…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 08, 2014, 02:38:50 PM |
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Random generation for Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
Well all the txns are distilled down to a single merkle root hash which only has…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 08, 2014, 02:03:31 PM |
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Random generation for Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
Literally infinite? I would have thought the variables could be enumerated and…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 08, 2014, 01:56:21 PM |
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Random generation for Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
Randomness is a tricky issue. Are the Bitcoin proof of work solutions truly rand…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 08, 2014, 01:46:21 PM |
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Random generation for Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
thanks for the clarification (now it makes sense why starting at 0 for the nonce…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 08, 2014, 01:42:33 PM |
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Algorithm for elliptic curve point compression Development & Technical Discussion
are you saying that b/c elements of the field F2m are m-bit strings, they don't…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 08, 2014, 01:24:21 PM |
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Algorithm for elliptic curve point compression Development & Technical Discussion
If you are looking for the math related to Bitcoin Secp256k1, it is a curve over…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 08, 2014, 01:21:40 PM |
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Why can't the Bitcoin development be more like Linux? Bitcoin Discussion
Why can't the Bitcoin development be more like Linux? Linux has a huge developme…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 08, 2014, 10:05:32 AM |
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Why did this transaction confirm? Development & Technical Discussion
There are a lot of dust and spam transactions in the blockchain. We should live…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 08, 2014, 10:15:47 AM |
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Why did this transaction confirm? Development & Technical Discussion
As pointed out dust is allowed. That miner just massively bloated the UTXO and…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 08, 2014, 09:48:45 AM |
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Possible bug 0.9.2.1 bitcoind - rpc port 8332 available to everyone. Development & Technical Discussion
was there not some discussion of having bitcoin bind to a random port on the spe…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 08, 2014, 09:32:52 AM |
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Who has the patent on the technology? Bitcoin / Crypto Currencies? Beginners & Help
Two words: "prior art"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_art
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 08, 2014, 12:25:14 AM |
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Gotta vent - eBay/Paypal suck! AND some people are just scum Bitcoin Discussion
Just wait until one of your "buyers" ships back a brick in a box (delivery confi…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 07, 2014, 10:57:58 PM |
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Possible bug 0.9.2.1 bitcoind - rpc port 8332 available to everyone. Development & Technical Discussion
I am aware of the fact that I can configure the firewall to set rules which I p…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 07, 2014, 10:19:59 PM |
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[REQ] C# or PHP Library for handling bitcoin transactions Project Development
Here you go:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=575142.0Even has nuget packa…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 07, 2014, 10:38:25 PM |
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Outbound and inbound connections bitcoind 0.9.2.1 Bitcoin Technical Support
There is a relationship between memory and connections but it is not linear and…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 07, 2014, 10:28:50 PM |
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Possible bug 0.9.2.1 bitcoind - rpc port 8332 available to everyone. Development & Technical Discussion
server=1 doesn't override rpcallowip settings. server=1 has no effect on bitcoi…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 07, 2014, 09:33:55 PM |
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Outbound and inbound connections bitcoind 0.9.2.1 Bitcoin Technical Support
It can't be changed without modifying the source. I don't believe any such patc…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 07, 2014, 09:57:11 PM |
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Can anyone spend this output (don't get excited it has zero value)? Development & Technical Discussion
https://blockchain.info/tx/87d8ed6aae8ad82b01e2b9d7d7ca21e55e83e8fa2ae587892f12b…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 07, 2014, 06:47:10 PM |
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NBitcoin : Almost full bitcoin implementation in .NET Wallet software
On an unrelated issue. There are some unspendable but still valid outputs in th…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 07, 2014, 04:31:13 PM |
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NBitcoin : Almost full bitcoin implementation in .NET Wallet software
Yeah I got it working like that but I found it easier to modify BitcoinExtKey an…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 07, 2014, 03:53:48 PM |
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Spin-offs: bootstrap an altcoin with a btc-blockchain-based initial distribution Altcoin Discussion
Gerald, you've really done a nice job parsing the UTXO. Am I reading your resul…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 07, 2014, 11:41:09 AM |
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innovation of bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
b-money didn't "solve" the byzantine general problem (prevent double spends) in…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 07, 2014, 09:20:56 AM |
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Best way to use Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme Development & Technical Discussion
If you are using SSS then I would share the private key directly. For added sec…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 07, 2014, 09:34:37 AM |
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Delaying a Bitcoin Transaction/ Reversing a Misspent Txt 0 Confirmation Input Development & Technical Discussion
It would be trivial to add a "cancel" button to the bitcoin-core client (or any…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 07, 2014, 09:16:00 AM |
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How does one safely deposit large USD amounts ($50k-$100k) after selling BTC? Bitcoin Discussion
So I guess now the question is: Has anyone had a bank deposit coming from coinba…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 06, 2014, 09:27:10 PM |
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How does one safely deposit large USD amounts ($50k-$100k) after selling BTC? Bitcoin Discussion
So I guess now the question is: Has anyone had a bank deposit coming from coinba…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 06, 2014, 08:53:53 PM |
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How does one safely deposit large USD amounts ($50k-$100k) after selling BTC? Bitcoin Discussion
So basically they won't tell me if I ask, and I won't know until I try? Sounds l…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 06, 2014, 08:52:07 PM |
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How does one safely deposit large USD amounts ($50k-$100k) after selling BTC? Bitcoin Discussion
This would be one of my concerns-- that the SAR would be applied because it is a…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 06, 2014, 08:49:06 PM |
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Is this the silkroad auction winners address? 29,656.51593736 BTC Beginners & Help
I am surprised it wasn't a P2SH multisig address (starts with "3").
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 06, 2014, 08:47:10 PM |
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How does one safely deposit large USD amounts ($50k-$100k) after selling BTC? Bitcoin Discussion
The CTR (currency transaction report) is for cash (as in those physical pieces o…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 06, 2014, 08:42:56 PM |
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NBitcoin : Almost full bitcoin implementation in .NET Wallet software
Glad to hear it. I have a question on the difference between ExtKey and Bitcoin…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 06, 2014, 11:52:09 AM |
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So I dumped my wallet.dat... Bitcoin Technical Support
An address with zero balance (technically no unspent outputs) can exist for one…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 06, 2014, 11:09:09 AM |
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What's the mean of "Account has insufficient funds" Bitcoin Technical Support
how can I keep the relationships between Bitcoind and Database of the website ?T…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 06, 2014, 10:59:18 AM |
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Purpose of "hardened key" in BIP32? Bitcoin Technical Support
What is the purpose of "hardened key" in BIP32? The BIP seems to talk around the…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 06, 2014, 10:58:02 AM |
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So what wallet does Coinbase/BitPay/Kraken/Blockchain use? Development & Technical Discussion
Nothing wrong with bitcoind (or a cluster of bitcoinds) if you use it properly.…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 05, 2014, 07:59:26 PM |
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Simple EC question on multiplying/adding private keys Development & Technical Discussion
It looks like you are just using the wrong value for the modulus. It is modulo…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 05, 2014, 04:12:22 PM |
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NBitcoin : Almost full bitcoin implementation in .NET Wallet software
QuoteThanks for the tip, highly appreciate !!No problem. It is a very solid lib…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 05, 2014, 11:59:59 AM |
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How does someone with a single wallet with 30k coins not feel vulnarable? Bitcoin Discussion
How does someone with a single wallet (with all their coins in) not have an addr…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 05, 2014, 11:41:07 AM |
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NBitcoin : Almost full bitcoin implementation in .NET Wallet software
A tip sent. Please continue to development you got something good started here.…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 05, 2014, 11:28:37 AM |
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Open and edit wallet.dat Development & Technical Discussion
Depending on what you are looking to do pywallet may be useful.
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 03, 2014, 10:17:17 PM |
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Spin-offs: bootstrap an altcoin with a btc-blockchain-based initial distribution Altcoin Discussion
One last update before the weekend. Compared to the one above I hashed all PubK…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 03, 2014, 06:00:14 PM |
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NBitcoin : Almost full bitcoin implementation in .NET Wallet software
So I finally got around to taking a look at this library as I need to do some BI…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 03, 2014, 04:49:14 PM |
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Spin-offs: bootstrap an altcoin with a btc-blockchain-based initial distribution Altcoin Discussion
I removed zero value outputs, excluded 20,412 provably unspendable outputs, and…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 03, 2014, 10:30:09 AM |
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Chunked download & scalability Development & Technical Discussion
The reality is that optimally nodes should already have all (or at least most) o…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 03, 2014, 11:42:24 AM |
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Fee and Application Question Beginners & Help
The min fee is per KB and only on low priority txns. So more quick txns made w…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 02, 2014, 09:56:48 PM |
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How many Bitcoins have been provably lost? At least ... Bitcoin Discussion
just because coins are unredeemed does not mean they don't belong to anyone and…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 02, 2014, 07:16:47 PM |
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40 minute BTC block time - No big deal Bitcoin Discussion
I think this is one of the flaws of Bitcoin. Free markets aren't flaws.
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 02, 2014, 06:55:14 PM |
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How many Bitcoins have been provably lost? At least ... Bitcoin Discussion
In validating a UTXO parser I started looking at various outputs which are prova…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 02, 2014, 06:19:44 PM |
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Transaction's number of outputs changed over time for multi-sig transactions Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteCan someone explain to me what is going on with these multisig outputs? Sin…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 01, 2014, 09:53:12 PM |
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US Marshals: One Auction Bidder Claimed All 30,000 Silk Road Bitcoins Bitcoin Discussion
I heard this lady like to buy up lots of assets ....(No I am not being serious b…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 01, 2014, 04:07:48 PM |
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A Proposal for Brainwallets (v2) Development & Technical Discussion
The problem jonald is determining the level of entropy. Also humans are very go…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 01, 2014, 09:28:50 AM |
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I assume this 497 BTC output is unspendable? Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteIf they indeed are unspendableThey are unspendable today because today the…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | July 01, 2014, 08:05:52 AM |
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About the Multisig Transaction. Bitcoin Technical Support
You mean encode to an address? It is already decoded. No. It can sometimes b…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 30, 2014, 09:49:10 AM |
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I assume this 497 BTC output is unspendable? Development & Technical Discussion
It's a slippery slope, perhaps— "don't @#$@ with the behavior" is a clear positi…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 30, 2014, 10:37:24 PM |
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I assume this 497 BTC output is unspendable? Development & Technical Discussion
Thanks. Those were my assumptions although I wasn't committed on the third one.…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 30, 2014, 10:29:22 PM |
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I assume this 497 BTC output is unspendable? Development & Technical Discussion
So somewhat off topic of my own topic but since it my draw people who know.OP_DU…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 30, 2014, 09:21:57 PM |
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I assume this 497 BTC output is unspendable? Development & Technical Discussion
They were all within a couple hours of each other AFAIK and all by MTGOX. Am I…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 30, 2014, 08:25:12 PM |
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I assume this 497 BTC output is unspendable? Development & Technical Discussion
Ouc, well MtGox at least MtGox can point to the fact that they weren't the only…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 30, 2014, 08:23:25 PM |
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I assume this 497 BTC output is unspendable? Development & Technical Discussion
In building a UTXO parser I came across a number of high value "custom" scripts…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 30, 2014, 06:31:43 PM |
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Spin-offs: bootstrap an altcoin with a btc-blockchain-based initial distribution Altcoin Discussion
I have been too busy to do as much with this in the past two weeks but I have ma…
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n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 30, 2014, 10:55:03 AM |
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