| Content | Score | Started by | Date posted | ||
 |
 |
blockchain size Do we really need 20 gbs of data? Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteHow do you expect Joe Blow from kokomo to keep 20 + gbs of a blockchain on…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 18, 2014, 09:50:14 AM |
|
|
|
Understanding Public and Private Keys Beginners & Help
Theoretically, quantum computers will render all current cryptography insecure.…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 18, 2014, 09:36:37 AM |
|
|
|
Lost Half of Private Key - Are Bitcoins Safe? Beginners & Help
Reason I asked is that I prefer to give half a key to Alice and Bob and the othe…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 18, 2014, 09:09:50 AM |
|
|
|
Lost Half of Private Key - Are Bitcoins Safe? Beginners & Help
Is it possible to use a ASIC miner for that attack?An ECDSA breaking ASIC? Sure.…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 18, 2014, 09:20:21 AM |
|
|
|
A Non-Outsourceable Puzzle to Prevent Hosted Mining (and Mining Pools) Development & Technical Discussion
I made a proposal to address this issue that I called a rolling root, but even t…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 17, 2014, 10:56:34 PM |
|
|
|
Selling a product with BTC inside it Legal
Thanks DeathAndTaxes... you live up to your name.It sounds like everyone that wa…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 17, 2014, 09:07:44 PM |
|
|
|
51% can be prevented so long as all nodes agree. Bitcoin Discussion
Why not change to just one giant pool, sort of. In a pool, the coinbase transact…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 17, 2014, 07:23:02 PM |
|
|
|
Bitcoin Addresses: What happens after 20 years? Bitcoin Discussion
No. It isn't.with no time reference, you can't create a random formula ...i buil…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 17, 2014, 07:10:15 PM |
|
|
|
Spin-offs: bootstrap an altcoin with a btc-blockchain-based initial distribution Altcoin Discussion
It is somewhat surprising. I would have imagined that the cold storage of major…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 17, 2014, 06:00:06 PM |
|
|
|
Buying Bitcoins Wire Transfer Currency exchange
Forgot you were in Cali. They encountered enough regulatory uncertainty out ther…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 17, 2014, 06:21:53 PM |
|
|
|
Spin-offs: bootstrap an altcoin with a btc-blockchain-based initial distribution Altcoin Discussion
You obviously have way more experience than me with the bitcoin technical detail…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 13, 2014, 11:57:11 AM |
|
|
|
Lost Half of Private Key - Are Bitcoins Safe? Beginners & Help
It makes it 340282366920938463463374607431768211456 times easier to brute force.…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 17, 2014, 04:59:58 PM |
|
|
|
How to sign a text message? Development & Technical Discussion
Yes but I am looking for a function that can sign a text message, instead of a h…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 16, 2014, 10:58:43 PM |
|
|
|
How to sign a text message? Development & Technical Discussion
The purpose of signing is not to hide the message it is to authenticate the mess…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 16, 2014, 10:56:37 PM |
|
|
|
How to sign a text message? Development & Technical Discussion
No. public key cryptography is particularly expensive so a hash of the message…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 16, 2014, 09:56:12 PM |
|
|
|
What's the fastest way to buy bitcoin? Trading Discussion
Cool. Thanks for the all the tips. Yeah I'm in the US, so I guess it could be wo…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 16, 2014, 07:42:28 PM |
|
|
|
Selling a product with BTC inside it Legal
As long as you keep your transactions below $1,000 per day per person you are no…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 16, 2014, 07:11:45 PM |
|
|
|
Selling a product with BTC inside it Legal
If you keep your trades under a certain limit then you don't need to register as…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 16, 2014, 06:51:32 PM |
|
|
|
The real cost of transactions Development & Technical Discussion
I think you misinterpreted a prior post of mine. Danny explains it well in that…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 16, 2014, 11:11:10 AM |
|
|
|
Proof of Hash proposal Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteEvery miner in the network can know this in a deterministic way. This is th…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 16, 2014, 03:37:48 PM |
|
|
|
Transaction not broadcasting!!! :( Bitcoin Technical Support
If the transaction was not picked up by a miner (malformed, fee too small), then…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 16, 2014, 03:18:20 PM |
|
|
|
Delayed transactions (using nTimeLock) Development & Technical Discussion
It seems to me that this still can't be made completely trustless. The locked-T…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 16, 2014, 03:09:33 PM |
|
|
|
Delayed transactions (using nTimeLock) Development & Technical Discussion
There are two issues with a system like thata) Bitcoin has no mechanism for dete…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 16, 2014, 01:29:15 PM |
|
|
|
We're not going anywhere, until the 51% question is answered Speculation
Even though ghash is now at 30% I don't think this question is answered at all a…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 16, 2014, 10:41:36 AM |
|
|
|
Question on DER-encoding of signature pair (r, s) Development & Technical Discussion
As piotr_n pointed out the bitcoin expects the highest bit to be zero so if it i…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 15, 2014, 04:30:22 PM |
|
|
|
Re: Bitcoin-QT client question Bitcoin Technical Support
QuoteI am not saying an invalid TX, but a TX with a invalid output (the technica…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 15, 2014, 02:41:33 PM |
|
|
|
Re: Bitcoin-QT client question Bitcoin Technical Support
Wouldn't this essentially be the same as sending a TX with an invalid output? On…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 15, 2014, 11:42:50 AM |
|
|
|
Theoretical vs Practical Extant Coin Supply Calculations Bitcoin Discussion
Maybe. Entropy is probably the way to go. I would put them in category 4 (post…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 14, 2014, 07:07:52 PM |
|
|
|
Theoretical vs Practical Extant Coin Supply Calculations Bitcoin Discussion
Good idea. In hindsight obviously the UXTO must always be equal to current "mon…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 14, 2014, 06:29:40 PM |
|
|
|
Cold signing a transaction using bitcoin-qt Development & Technical Discussion
You don't. You create the tx on the hot wallet but don't sign it. In Bitcoin-c…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 13, 2014, 06:08:01 PM |
|
|
|
Spin-offs: bootstrap an altcoin with a btc-blockchain-based initial distribution Altcoin Discussion
Distribution of unspent outputs (haven't combined entries to the same identity).…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 13, 2014, 05:58:25 PM |
|
|
|
If a 51% attack actually happens, could one lose thier bitcoins in cold storage? Bitcoin Discussion
that's correct assuming they stop growing and don't go into 70-80% territory.one…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 13, 2014, 01:20:19 PM |
|
|
|
"Easy way" to extract the UXTO from Bitcoin Core? Development & Technical Discussion
There is gettxout, which could be expanded if it's missing some info. I doubt y…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 13, 2014, 01:13:42 PM |
|
|
|
If a 51% attack actually happens, could one lose thier bitcoins in cold storage? Bitcoin Discussion
wrong.as long as ghash.io got over 50% of the network's hashing power they can r…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 13, 2014, 01:06:59 PM |
|
|
|
Block Spacing And Security Development & Technical Discussion
But why isn't everyone adopting your proposed technique? It really isn't being d…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 13, 2014, 12:07:49 PM |
|
|
|
How big of a deal are these mining system exploiters? Bitcoin Discussion
I'm not sure how these replies relate to the theft of shares from the link I pos…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 13, 2014, 12:01:38 PM |
|
|
|
"Easy way" to extract the UXTO from Bitcoin Core? Development & Technical Discussion
Makes sense. I agree wiki is probably the wrong place. Maybe expanding the inl…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 13, 2014, 11:20:48 AM |
|
|
|
"Easy way" to extract the UXTO from Bitcoin Core? Development & Technical Discussion
Thanks to everyone who helped. I got the demo working and correctly parsing UXT…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 13, 2014, 11:15:49 AM |
|
|
|
Spin-offs: bootstrap an altcoin with a btc-blockchain-based initial distribution Altcoin Discussion
Need some sleep but here is a preview of UXTO Parser.Code:E:\Repos\UxtoParser\Ux…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 13, 2014, 12:38:22 AM |
|
|
|
How big of a deal are these mining system exploiters? Bitcoin Discussion
because they still have their same code. even spread over 1000000 servers if all…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 13, 2014, 07:47:36 AM |
|
|
|
Multisig transactions with more than 2-of-3 Development & Technical Discussion
It is important to distinguish between "native multisig" (the output contains th…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 13, 2014, 02:31:13 AM |
|
|
|
FBI coins could sell for a premium Speculation
I'm about as big of a bull as anyone but I can see this sale dropping the price…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 13, 2014, 12:52:40 AM |
|
|
|
Can we all write to FBI asking not to sell bitcoins but hodl them? Bitcoin Discussion
1) It is the DOJ not the FBI who temporary holds seized property2) They sell all…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 13, 2014, 12:43:53 AM |
|
|
|
MINERS UNITE! Block the FBI coins. Do not fund violent underground organizations Bitcoin Discussion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FungibilityIf Bitcoins aren't fungible then they ar…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 12, 2014, 10:04:46 PM |
|
|
|
Sunny King talked security of Peercoin and Bitcoin Altcoin Discussion
QuoteAfter 6~7 years, bitcoin's inflation rate would be close to 1% annual. Let…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 12, 2014, 09:52:19 PM |
|
|
|
Block Spacing And Security Development & Technical Discussion
Why is it not financially sane to do a double spend attack? If merchant is takin…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 12, 2014, 09:43:38 PM |
|
|
|
Spin-offs: bootstrap an altcoin with a btc-blockchain-based initial distribution Altcoin Discussion
You obviously have way more experience than me with the bitcoin technical detail…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 12, 2014, 08:01:24 PM |
|
|
|
"Easy way" to extract the UXTO from Bitcoin Core? Development & Technical Discussion
That would actually be something worth documenting.Preferably on the wiki.This i…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 12, 2014, 07:41:45 PM |
|
|
|
"Easy way" to extract the UXTO from Bitcoin Core? Development & Technical Discussion
Answer to my own question.In script.hCode: static const unsigned int nSpecial…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 12, 2014, 06:22:45 PM |
|
|
|
"Easy way" to extract the UXTO from Bitcoin Core? Development & Technical Discussion
Ok one more decoding mysteryExample tx: http://webbtc.com/tx/14015bd586c0c7a2897…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 12, 2014, 05:50:27 PM |
|
|
|
"Easy way" to extract the UXTO from Bitcoin Core? Development & Technical Discussion
Ok one last thing.When iterating through all keypairs in chainstate there is one…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 12, 2014, 04:53:56 PM |
|
|
|
Spin-offs: bootstrap an altcoin with a btc-blockchain-based initial distribution Altcoin Discussion
So I started working on a UXTO parser instead of a blockchain parser. The UXTO…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 12, 2014, 03:20:33 PM |
|
|
|
How high can ghash's market share go before the price falls? Speculation
So sane miners switched pools when it reached 45% last time - how close to 51% i…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 12, 2014, 01:45:54 PM |
|
|
|
During all this fear about the 51% you missed......... Bitcoin Discussion
I'm amazed they generate keys and send them to users. This just goes to show tha…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 12, 2014, 01:43:15 PM |
|
|
|
We're not going anywhere, until the 51% question is answered Speculation
Also I am fairly certain GHASH.IO doesn't have 50% of the hashrate. The 1 day c…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 12, 2014, 12:57:30 PM |
|
|
|
We're not going anywhere, until the 51% question is answered Speculation
Well, I was reading somewhere about one of the older pools deep something that h…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 12, 2014, 12:31:49 PM |
|
|
|
Can centralised pools point their hashpower at a p2pool node? Development & Technical Discussion
There is one big difference. If I get the list of pending transactions from a po…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 12, 2014, 11:45:00 AM |
|
|
|
Calculation for transaction input-output balling: Development & Technical Discussion
So the min fee in BTC is: 0.0001BTC //now0.00001BTC //soonYes although it is mor…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 12, 2014, 11:18:36 AM |
|
|
|
Guess Which State Bitcoin is About to be Declared Legal Currency? Economics
Wow! I would never have guessed Cali. South Carolina or Montana would have been…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 11, 2014, 12:38:39 PM |
|
|
|
"Easy way" to extract the UXTO from Bitcoin Core? Development & Technical Discussion
Ok one last thing.When iterating through all keypairs in chainstate there is one…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 11, 2014, 08:53:24 PM |
|
|
|
Mandatory transaction fees Development & Technical Discussion
Whether it allows you to send a tx with no fee, depends on how many BTC you want…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 11, 2014, 07:40:44 PM |
|
|
|
Calculation for transaction input-output balling: Development & Technical Discussion
Now sure what you mean 5% to 10%. There is absolutely no reason to pay a fee gr…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 11, 2014, 07:34:53 PM |
|
|
|
M-of-N passwords to generate wallet encryption key Development & Technical Discussion
One way to achieve this would be to generate a random AES key, use SSS to split…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 11, 2014, 05:41:45 PM |
|
|
|
Calculation for transaction input-output balling: Development & Technical Discussion
That looks correct although most of the time the calculations are done in satosh…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 11, 2014, 05:20:38 PM |
|
|
|
Selling one bitcoin for paypal Currency exchange
If you are a US resident, you could use BitSimple ( https://BitSimple.com ) and…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 11, 2014, 01:22:56 PM |
|
|
|
Guess Which State Bitcoin is About to be Declared Legal Currency? Economics
Finally Californian people can pay taxes on their bitcoins. Nope. That would be…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 11, 2014, 12:32:39 PM |
|
|
|
Bit-thereum Development & Technical Discussion
I think the IBM cards are basically dead, at this point. TC is now all about Int…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 11, 2014, 12:19:41 PM |
|
|
|
Help. Need to buy 1 Coin Beginners & Help
DO NOT PAY THE RANSOMWARE! Even if you pay it's still on your computer. And if…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 11, 2014, 12:04:08 PM |
|
|
|
Six blocks in 11 minutes! Bitcoin on steroids? Bitcoin Discussion
It means that hashing power had to almost double, no? :OIf the network solved 40…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 10, 2014, 02:47:33 AM |
|
|
|
Re: Bitcoin-QT client question Bitcoin Technical Support
Also note that transactions can be created that don't pay to an address, but rat…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 10, 2014, 10:55:21 PM |
|
|
|
Re: Bitcoin-QT client question Bitcoin Technical Support
QuoteExample:https://blockchain.info/tx/139c004f477101c468767983536caaeef568613f…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 10, 2014, 11:39:11 PM |
|
|
|
"Easy way" to extract the UXTO from Bitcoin Core? Development & Technical Discussion
Got it finally.For btc values you must first decode it from MSB base-128 format…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 10, 2014, 09:17:15 PM |
|
|
|
"Easy way" to extract the UXTO from Bitcoin Core? Development & Technical Discussion
Another part of the mystery solved. block heights are recorded as MSB base-128…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 10, 2014, 08:54:41 PM |
|
|
|
"Easy way" to extract the UXTO from Bitcoin Core? Development & Technical Discussion
Thanks I located that after posting but I am still not decoding correctly so eit…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 10, 2014, 07:45:15 PM |
|
|
|
"Easy way" to extract the UXTO from Bitcoin Core? Development & Technical Discussion
So a lot of smashing into walls and I figured some of it out.The key is txid + 0…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 10, 2014, 06:49:53 PM |
|
|
|
"Easy way" to extract the UXTO from Bitcoin Core? Development & Technical Discussion
I am not sure about this specific implementation, but normally UTXO database is…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 10, 2014, 12:11:34 PM |
|
|
|
"Easy way" to extract the UXTO from Bitcoin Core? Development & Technical Discussion
On a related note what is the "bytes serialized" representing. 393434666 / 1133…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 10, 2014, 12:09:28 PM |
|
|
|
Separate wallet and daemon even further Development & Technical Discussion
Tangible progress is being made.Disable-wallet support is rolled out in 0.9. Th…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 10, 2014, 11:34:37 AM |
|
|
|
Bit-thereum Development & Technical Discussion
If OP_ADD is allowed, the bulky 8-of-11 multisig is not necessary and some block…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 10, 2014, 11:37:05 AM |
|
|
|
Would preventing pooled mining help or hurt Bitcoin? Development & Technical Discussion
What you described there doesn't prevent pooling, since the block could just be…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 09, 2014, 11:11:49 PM |
|
|
|
Six blocks in 11 minutes! Bitcoin on steroids? Bitcoin Discussion
"Random noise" is correct, but I wonder if this has ever happened before? (othe…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 10, 2014, 10:12:25 AM |
|
|
|
Separate wallet and daemon even further Development & Technical Discussion
It is possible it just hasn't been seen as a priority. There are a lot of advan…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 10, 2014, 10:42:58 AM |
|
|
|
Spin-offs: bootstrap an altcoin with a btc-blockchain-based initial distribution Altcoin Discussion
One quick question though (before I study your post in more detail): for pay2Pub…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 09, 2014, 06:38:38 PM |
|
|
|
[IDEA] Keyed RFID Development & Technical Discussion
What is the advantage of this over a concept like sigsafe (NFC & microprocessor…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 09, 2014, 11:24:52 PM |
|
|
|
Would preventing pooled mining help or hurt Bitcoin? Development & Technical Discussion
It would be very easy to design a PoW which requires knowledge of the private ke…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 09, 2014, 10:19:40 PM |
|
|
|
Ok, but seriously how will I pay for my $250 grocery bill with bitcoin? Development & Technical Discussion
In the short term the solution is probably you register your CC with the grocery…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 09, 2014, 08:07:45 PM |
|
|
|
Where can I buy bitcoin same-day? Beginners & Help
There are many sellers on localbitcoins that can confirm payment and release the…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 09, 2014, 08:04:05 PM |
|
|
|
Kb of a transaction Beginners & Help
How is it calculated? Can I control it? I think it's about 180 bytes per input a…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 09, 2014, 08:01:29 PM |
|
|
|
Spin-offs: bootstrap an altcoin with a btc-blockchain-based initial distribution Altcoin Discussion
A couple corrections: In the description for Section C, drop the word "addresse…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 09, 2014, 03:22:57 PM |
|
|
|
bitcoin-qt/bitcoind - Calculating raw transaction fees! Development & Technical Discussion
Calculation of fee is automatic, it depends on number and size of inputs and I t…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 09, 2014, 11:44:39 AM |
|
|
|
bitcoin-qt/bitcoind - Calculating raw transaction fees! Development & Technical Discussion
I have created a hash value using createrawtransaction and signrawtransaction, a…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 09, 2014, 11:33:55 AM |
|
|
|
Never make a ROI Mining speculation
If mining is unprofitable, having more miners means losing more money.Maybe it i…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 09, 2014, 11:02:50 AM |
|
|
|
Spin-offs: bootstrap an altcoin with a btc-blockchain-based initial distribution Altcoin Discussion
You would lead a snapshot/fork effort to re-launch their coin with 100% bitcoin?…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 09, 2014, 10:39:21 AM |
|
|
|
Block Spacing And Security Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteThe problem is 8% less secure than what? The same hashing power as is being…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 09, 2014, 10:58:36 AM |
|
|
|
Spin-offs: bootstrap an altcoin with a btc-blockchain-based initial distribution Altcoin Discussion
You would lead a snapshot/fork effort to re-launch their coin with 100% bitcoin?…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 09, 2014, 10:03:56 AM |
|
|
|
Are transaction fees expected to rise over time? Bitcoin Discussion
I think miners should collectively act to keep fees as low as possible in USD va…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 08, 2014, 04:28:26 PM |
|
|
|
Spin-offs: bootstrap an altcoin with a btc-blockchain-based initial distribution Altcoin Discussion
The claim, by Peter R, that a Bitcoin Holders only Initial Distribution, is the…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 08, 2014, 03:47:36 PM |
|
|
|
Spin-offs: bootstrap an altcoin with a btc-blockchain-based initial distribution Altcoin Discussion
So taking a look at how to store the values in the ledger entries. These apply…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 08, 2014, 03:00:22 PM |
|
|
|
Are transaction fees expected to rise over time? Bitcoin Discussion
Why do you expect downward pressure on the transaction fee? As the block rewards…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 08, 2014, 03:04:34 PM |
|
|
|
Spin-offs: bootstrap an altcoin with a btc-blockchain-based initial distribution Altcoin Discussion
The solution that addresses this concern is simple... Include both Bitcoin and C…
|
n/a | DeathAndTaxes | June 08, 2014, 02:32:59 PM |
Jump to: