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The duplicate input vulnerability shouldn't be forgotten Development & Technical Discussion
For example, right now, a huge majority of the network is running vulnerable sof…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 23, 2018, 12:00:55 PM |
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The duplicate input vulnerability shouldn't be forgotten Development & Technical Discussion
Just responding to this particular fork of discussion now,I know this is probabl…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 23, 2018, 11:53:22 AM |
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The duplicate input vulnerability shouldn't be forgotten Development & Technical Discussion
and therefore doesn't have anything to do with Bitcoin,The fact that it created…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 23, 2018, 01:06:18 PM |
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The duplicate input vulnerability shouldn't be forgotten Development & Technical Discussion
Apparently, according to Luke-jr who's subscribed, Bitcoin Core still hasn't eve…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 23, 2018, 01:13:16 PM |
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Bitcoin Core 0.16.3 Released Bitcoin Discussion
Please report the malware false positive. False positives have also happened be…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 20, 2018, 01:33:00 PM |
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Total Number of full nodes operating. Less than 10k. Development & Technical Discussion
Well, I should say all additional full nodes being run, would add some more redu…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 10, 2018, 05:41:22 PM |
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What are the steps to take to publish the solution for blockchain scaling? Development & Technical Discussion
The block limit was purposely implemented for spam protectionThis claim has is j…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 09, 2018, 09:33:49 AM |
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Total Number of full nodes operating. Less than 10k. Development & Technical Discussion
If I help to fund someone to run a full node on my behalf, it still adds value t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 08, 2018, 06:08:41 PM |
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Total Number of full nodes operating. Less than 10k. Development & Technical Discussion
We cannot always make citations on the white paper because Bitcoin has already d…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 08, 2018, 02:36:24 AM |
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Total Number of full nodes operating. Less than 10k. Development & Technical Discussion
Aliashraf,We all understand that you are angry that other people don't want to s…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 07, 2018, 11:01:25 AM |
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Total Number of full nodes operating. Less than 10k. Development & Technical Discussion
Paying someone to run nodes (or running one yourself on a third party controlled…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 06, 2018, 10:02:27 AM |
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Total Number of full nodes operating. Less than 10k. Development & Technical Discussion
Why can we not have services where people make donations to a global company wit…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 05, 2018, 02:35:04 AM |
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Total Number of full nodes operating. Less than 10k. Development & Technical Discussion
We need more companies using Bitcoin and to increase confidence in the project i…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 02, 2018, 02:29:41 PM |
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Total Number of full nodes operating. Less than 10k. Development & Technical Discussion
The number has definitively increased a lot, Only after falling a lot. E.g. on…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 01, 2018, 09:10:37 PM |
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Total Number of full nodes operating. Less than 10k. Development & Technical Discussion
There are many more full nodes running, that page only lists ones that accept in…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 01, 2018, 06:41:53 PM |
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Anonymous Atomic Swaps Using Homomorphic Hashing Development & Technical Discussion
Relevant related things:CoinSwap: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=321228…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 31, 2018, 08:38:07 PM |
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Threshold Multisignatures for Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
Each party interprets the public keys as shares in a Shamir sharing scheme. Put…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 28, 2018, 06:14:11 PM |
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10 min (on average) for block time? is it a rule? Development & Technical Discussion
that made it possible to have orphan rate dropped form 0.41% (2016) to current…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 25, 2018, 08:43:19 PM |
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10 min (on average) for block time? is it a rule? Development & Technical Discussion
I think the actual rate is what we get from a single point in the network.The ra…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 26, 2018, 02:32:22 AM |
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”Argument list too long“ for decoderawtransaction Development & Technical Discussion
bitcoin-cli has the -stdin argument for this reason. (both too long inputs and k…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 19, 2018, 12:39:51 PM |
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how ThreadOpenConnections work? Development & Technical Discussion
You are looking at very old and unsupported code, no one should be running any t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 14, 2018, 05:23:23 PM |
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Bitcoin Block time Development & Technical Discussion
@OP.Few days back I checked the hash rate graph and I found that difficulty alwa…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 10, 2018, 09:40:56 AM |
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Creating private key from 2 different RNG:s? Development & Technical Discussion
Personally I would not use xor as a rng combiner. If one of your functions is…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 05, 2018, 09:21:59 PM |
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Bogus locator in getheaders (rewievers wanted) Development & Technical Discussion
Full nodes use getblock AFAIK to synch, as of getheadersGetblock is only used on…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 02, 2018, 04:25:26 PM |
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Bogus locator in getheaders (test data wanted) Development & Technical Discussion
According to my suggested threshold of 60480, it doesn't fail.No but it would fa…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 04, 2018, 08:58:35 PM |
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CommitTransaction(): Transaction cannot be broadcast immediately, no-witness-yet Altcoin Discussion
Can anyone help me with this error CommitTransaction(): Transaction cannot be br…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 04, 2018, 05:31:20 PM |
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Bogus locator in getheaders (test data wanted) Development & Technical Discussion
Obviously, the criteria is:Any fork, being the longest chain or not, is not allo…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 04, 2018, 05:11:31 PM |
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Bogus locator in getheaders (test data wanted) Development & Technical Discussion
My intuitive assumption is that no legit node will suggest/accept forks with a c…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 03, 2018, 05:55:52 PM |
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Why can Core not Scale at a 0.X% for blocksize in the S-Curve f(X) Development & Technical Discussion
we should take care not to have bitcoin frozen like in its ice age, You state th…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 01, 2018, 10:20:41 PM |
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Bogus locator in getheaders (rewievers wanted) Development & Technical Discussion
As of your 200K loop, and 20% increase in cpu usage: It is huge, imo. With just…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 01, 2018, 01:39:11 PM |
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Why can Core not Scale at a 0.X% for blocksize in the S-Curve f(X) Development & Technical Discussion
I believe you are over-emphasizing on hardware and less on bandwidth and network…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 01, 2018, 03:16:14 PM |
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Which bitcoin core version is best for Merchant website Development & Technical Discussion
It is almost completely certain that the accounts functionality does not do what…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 31, 2018, 09:06:59 PM |
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Need some clarification on usage of the nonce in version message Development & Technical Discussion
Because it saves unnecessary code.If you are worried about one line of code in e…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 26, 2018, 10:11:43 AM |
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Ogg Opus Off-topic |
n/a | gmaxwell | February 26, 2016, 11:31:33 PM |
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Ogg Opus Off-topic |
n/a | gmaxwell | February 27, 2016, 02:34:18 PM |
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Just a few question about transactions Development & Technical Discussion
Nodes already know the prior transactions were valid they don't need to check th…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 23, 2018, 04:46:29 AM |
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Anunymint ban Meta
You are busy as you say and simply don't have the time to engage with the board…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 22, 2018, 06:55:43 PM |
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An analysis of Mining Variance and Proximity Premium flaws in Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
What you are describing here as "Proximity Premium" is normally called "progress…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 21, 2018, 12:56:07 AM |
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Anunymint ban Meta
I just noticed that AnonyMint was banned again, sadly as a result of him posting…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 21, 2018, 08:22:55 PM |
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Bogus locator in getheaders (rewievers wanted) Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteBeing "interesting" or not, this IS a DoS vulnerabilityNo information has b…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 20, 2018, 05:32:59 PM |
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Bogus locator in getheaders (rewievers wanted) Development & Technical Discussion
Looking up an entry is O(1) -- just a trivial hashing operation and one or two p…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 18, 2018, 06:36:47 PM |
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Why to write down your seed? regular InfoSec policies say never write passwords Development & Technical Discussion
"infosec" password advice is given for contexts where the account can be cheaply…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 06, 2018, 04:11:55 PM |
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looked at bitcoind source and looks like a shitcode Development & Technical Discussion
Throwing completely substancesless insults at quality work in order to fool peop…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 23, 2018, 07:46:44 PM |
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segvan: Segwit vanity address & bulk address generator Development & Technical Discussion
I’ve also been seriously mulling ideas for an online service which finds “vanity…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 13, 2018, 11:23:45 PM |
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segvan: Segwit vanity address & bulk address generator Development & Technical Discussion
You want this code: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/pull/507 it will…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 12, 2018, 08:44:38 PM |
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Latest bitcoin core? Development & Technical Discussion
I was going to run two nodes and had setup the addrindex patched node to run on…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 09, 2018, 03:04:32 PM |
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Lightning Network & bigger amounts? Development & Technical Discussion
In theory you can transfer the max-flow in a single go, but software needs to s…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 09, 2018, 04:07:12 AM |
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Random Number On Blockchain Development & Technical Discussion
The standard protocol is a commit and reveal protocol as mentioned above with ha…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 09, 2018, 03:57:28 AM |
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How would it be know if a segwit thieft actually happened? Development & Technical Discussion
Nullius and DannyHamilton are spot on.It's sad that people are getting bamboozle…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 09, 2018, 03:23:12 AM |
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Latest bitcoin core? Development & Technical Discussion
Old versions are old, they have known reliability and performance issues. 0.13.2…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 09, 2018, 03:09:33 AM |
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Dividing miner reward over a k-length jumping window Development & Technical Discussion
As achow noted, fee sniping is a long known concern. The first active countermea…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 09, 2018, 06:36:21 AM |
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Pieter and Greg, Bech32, please Development & Technical Discussion
Bitcoin CashBitmain didn't come up with Bitcoin cash until months after this spe…
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n/a | gmaxwell | December 22, 2017, 03:02:40 AM |
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Pieter and Greg, Bech32, please Development & Technical Discussion
At least, please consider the carbon-based units in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Us,…
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n/a | gmaxwell | December 22, 2017, 01:15:08 AM |
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Pieter and Greg, Bech32, please Development & Technical Discussion
I will meet you halfway in positing that the human-readable prefix “btc” would b…
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n/a | gmaxwell | December 22, 2017, 01:31:11 AM |
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CoinJoin: Bitcoin privacy for the real world (someday!) Development & Technical Discussion
In order to further incentivize work in this space there is now a multisignature…
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n/a | gmaxwell | December 12, 2017, 06:18:03 PM |
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How to use properly secp256k1 library Development & Technical Discussion
Reviewing the libsecp256k1 now I understand better the code. I noted that for th…
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n/a | gmaxwell | December 09, 2017, 04:13:11 PM |
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List of people who have had commit access to Bitcoin Core Development & Technical Discussion
Has there been any formal announcement about revoking Gavin & Jeff's commit acce…
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n/a | gmaxwell | November 27, 2017, 12:15:41 AM |
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Payment No. 1: A Closer Look at the Very First Bitcoin Transfer Development & Technical Discussion
/tx/0437cd7f8525ceed2324359c2d0ba26006d92d856a9c20fa0241106ee5a597c9]look at whe…
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n/a | gmaxwell | November 07, 2017, 12:13:12 AM |
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Simplicity new language for blockchains Development & Technical Discussion
SegWit introduced script versioning so maybe they will be able to deploy Simplic…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 31, 2017, 07:51:34 PM |
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SegWit2x seriously losing support? Altcoin Discussion
Unfortunately, much of the #NO2X crowd still doesn't seem to understand backward…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 13, 2017, 08:30:29 PM |
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Trojan - SegWit2x Development & Technical Discussion
Did you see the last post/response? Seems like a legit answer:Quotejgarzik repli…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 13, 2017, 05:13:36 PM |
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SegWit2x seriously losing support? Altcoin Discussion
And BIP91 Actually, BIP91 predated that NYA entirely and was written as a tool f…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 13, 2017, 01:29:55 PM |
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SegWit2x seriously losing support? Altcoin Discussion
And a couple hours later, we see Blockchain.info double down in support of Segwi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 12, 2017, 11:52:36 PM |
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Should Address expiration time be added to BIP-173 ? Development & Technical Discussion
* We seem to have a minor problem in the ecosystem with people aggressively depl…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 11, 2017, 01:25:16 AM |
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Should Address expiration time be added to BIP-173 ? Development & Technical Discussion
Unfortunately the suggestion isn't timely-- it was made after several parties ha…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 08, 2017, 03:24:11 PM |
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If Bitcoin at protocol level is Great Firewalled, what are the options? Development & Technical Discussion
In terms of just getting it across, I'm pretty sure we've got this. (obviously I…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 04, 2017, 06:36:13 AM |
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Potential SHA256 Mining Speedup (2.3%) Development & Technical Discussion
FWIW early termination has been used by miners since at least 2010.
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 04, 2017, 06:33:44 AM |
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libsecp256k1 as a library/dll/etc Development & Technical Discussion
Libsecp256k1 works fine with no dependencies at all. You're having dependency i…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 26, 2017, 06:13:38 PM |
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2X Altcoin Discussion |
n/a | gmaxwell | September 26, 2017, 12:18:17 PM |
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2X Altcoin Discussion |
n/a | gmaxwell | September 25, 2017, 05:20:42 PM |
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MOVED: 2x is the end of bitcoin as we knew it. Coinbase, US, banks are friends Development & Technical Discussion
This (non-technical) topic has been moved to Bitcoin Discussion.https://bitcoint…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 25, 2017, 04:52:04 PM |
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Just confriming, segwit or segwit2x is going ahead on BTC? Development & Technical Discussion
what would happen if BCH activated segwit....? just to in your face segwit.....2…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 25, 2017, 01:31:34 PM |
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Scenario > Bitcoin goes to 100. How will that affect you ? Bitcoin Discussion
I saw the thread title and figured it would be a necopost of a 2011 thread.
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 23, 2017, 09:27:46 PM |
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A replacement Alert System should be considered to promote updates as necessary Development & Technical Discussion
but bitcoin software is a special case as consensus rule changes require mass sp…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 19, 2017, 12:10:25 AM |
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A replacement Alert System should be considered to promote updates as necessary Development & Technical Discussion
Without some kind of carefully crafted notification, there will always be users…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 18, 2017, 09:08:50 PM |
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A replacement Alert System should be considered to promote updates as necessary Development & Technical Discussion
I see what you're saying, but I'm still not convinced and am going to remain in…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 18, 2017, 08:08:34 PM |
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BIP0151 nodes detected on mainnet Development & Technical Discussion
Our node implementation has full support for bip-0151.Might be a waste of your t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 18, 2017, 05:05:27 PM |
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Why does Bitcoin use UTXO as transaction inputs instead of just public keys? Development & Technical Discussion
Alice pays address 1Bob for his monthly paycheckBob uses the 1Bob coin to pays a…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 14, 2017, 09:12:01 PM |
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GSSSA - Hide your wallet in shares Development & Technical Discussion
Almost everyone I've ever seen link to their own binaries on virus total was in…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 05, 2017, 02:24:13 AM |
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Bad signatures leading to 55.82152538 BTC theft (so far) Development & Technical Discussion
He waited 4 years to try to avoid detection.Unless I'm missing something the par…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 31, 2017, 12:15:05 AM |
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Can Bitcoin Script be extended to be Turing Complete? Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, via segwit script versioning.But it is provably useless to have turing comp…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 29, 2017, 08:18:48 PM |
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What percentage of the gossip network is still on 0.13.0 or equivalent? Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteDo we know how many of the full nodes have upgraded to a version that under…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 15, 2017, 12:22:51 AM |
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New Satoshi Emails Bitcoin Discussion
Shameful. Shameful if they're legit, shameful if they're edited.Here was my resp…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 11, 2017, 12:39:33 PM |
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Disconnect network service bits 6 and 8 until Aug 1, 2018 - discussion Development & Technical Discussion
How typical Last time you ran out of technical argument, you've also gone to que…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 10, 2017, 08:49:13 PM |
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Disconnect network service bits 6 and 8 until Aug 1, 2018 - discussion Development & Technical Discussion
Recently you've had two invalid blocks routed by bitcoin core clients and you ha…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 09, 2017, 06:14:14 PM |
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Why some old clients follow hard-fork chain? Development & Technical Discussion
The developers of BCash went and submitted patches to XT, unlimited, etc. to tur…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 09, 2017, 02:08:19 AM |
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Disconnect network service bits 6 and 8 until Aug 1, 2018 - discussion Development & Technical Discussion
IMHO miners would be crazy to go into 2MB big blocks hard fork.I agree, but I th…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 08, 2017, 06:04:54 PM |
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Thought experiment Development & Technical Discussion
find a way to reliably take a DNA sample from themSome people are chimeric and s…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 06, 2017, 06:18:56 AM |
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Does anyone know why 0.12.x nodes relay transactions faster than later versions? Development & Technical Discussion
What I have seen by monitoring the network is that 0.14.x software has been (so…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 04, 2017, 08:48:50 PM |
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Malleated Transactions Development & Technical Discussion
So your argument against a flexible format is because it requires a hardfork to…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 04, 2017, 08:34:07 PM |
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Bitcoin Core 0.14 mempool saving feature - possibly not the best solution? Development & Technical Discussion
Perhaps a better solution would be for a newly started node to obtain its transa…
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n/a | gmaxwell | April 10, 2017, 07:36:13 PM |
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Blocksonly mode BW savings, the limits of efficient block xfer, and better relay Development & Technical Discussion
Bitcoin Core 0.12 introduced a new blocksonly setting. When set to blocksonly a…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 25, 2016, 09:48:54 PM |
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Why transactions inside blocks are not quite sorted by the fee? Development & Technical Discussion
oh darn, yes in that case you can't tell if you should group without knowing if…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 02, 2017, 04:09:03 AM |
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Bitfinex BCC/BCH Service Discussion (Altcoins)
Considering that Bitfinex decided to only take a part of their users' BCH holdin…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 02, 2017, 03:27:54 AM |
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Why transactions inside blocks are not quite sorted by the fee? Development & Technical Discussion
FWIW, if you think core is doing something-- you can check the getblocktemplate…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 02, 2017, 01:38:31 AM |
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What is in the pipelines for fixing SPV mining incentives introduced in Segwit? Development & Technical Discussion
I'm sure it's already been dealt with or is being dealt with, and I am hoping so…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 07, 2017, 02:15:41 PM |
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Is BitcoinCash a joke? Altcoin Discussion
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6pxs4p/sipas_schnorr_code_deleted_from…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 27, 2017, 05:30:57 PM |
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Is BitcoinCash a joke? Altcoin Discussion
Their code is likely to be less buggy if they copy the tried and tested code and…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 26, 2017, 07:16:01 PM |
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minrelaytxfee vs mintxfee Development & Technical Discussion
Funny thing is that limitfreerelay setting has a non-zero default,Not as of 0.14…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 26, 2017, 06:22:26 PM |
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Bitcoin Cash (BCC) is an Alt-coin trying to profit off the Bitcoin Brand Bitcoin Discussion
Anyone can create one of these stupid spinoff coins at any time, but they're not…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 25, 2017, 03:18:21 PM |
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