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Reducing the orphan rate to 0 in a >100k TPS chain Development & Technical Discussion
The reason to care about "orphaned" blocks is because you might believe a transa…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 19, 2015, 04:25:56 PM |
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need someone familiar with finite field arithmetic to write whitepaper Services
This isn't the soliciting people to write stuff for you subforum. Please descri…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 19, 2015, 03:57:25 PM |
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Aggregate Signatures for protecting hotwallets (AKA Luke Wallets) Development & Technical Discussion
What you're doing is normally called a threshold signature or multiparty signatu…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 11, 2015, 06:27:54 AM |
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Why build on the longest chain? Development & Technical Discussion
Bitcoin has a stronger security story if you assume that there are many alturist…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 08, 2015, 08:06:49 PM |
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PSA: cypherdoc is a paid shill, liar and probably epic scammer: HashFast affair Scam Accusations
Another way to look at it-- is there anyone here who still would have done busi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 08, 2015, 07:33:17 PM |
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Towards more consistent block times Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, low variance hashcash is a well known thing. But this is undesirable for B…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 03, 2015, 07:30:18 PM |
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Soft fork to implement SIGHASH_WITHINPUTVALUE Development & Technical Discussion
Ugh. Thats pretty awful to fix in a txout what the maximum fee for that txout,…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 31, 2015, 02:07:06 AM |
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What is the status of BIP62? Development & Technical Discussion
BIP62 is neither necessary or sufficient for micropayment channels; CLTV is suf…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 31, 2015, 02:03:10 AM |
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Please list arguments against the idea of taking away Gavins' alert keys Bitcoin Discussion
The alert functionality is nearly useless, and the usefulness it had has been ou…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 30, 2015, 03:04:30 PM |
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New Proposal to reduce space requirements for full nodes Development & Technical Discussion
This is just the problem of the 0.11 implementation. Not a protocol issue. They…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 29, 2015, 02:50:55 PM |
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Miners should donate to Nodes Development & Technical Discussion
Miners should send a little % of the fees of the block to all connected peers. I…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 29, 2015, 02:48:43 PM |
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Jeff Garzik chose BIP100 block size voting because Blockstream recommended it Bitcoin Discussion
Perhaps not. But I'd say it is quite naive to think that technological advanceme…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 28, 2015, 04:08:28 PM |
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Jeff Garzik chose BIP100 block size voting because Blockstream recommended it Bitcoin Discussion
A misunderstanding can travel halfway around the world while the truth is puttin…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 28, 2015, 04:05:22 PM |
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Fundamental flaw in consensus algorithms? Altcoin Discussion
Section 4.4 of https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/pos.pdfSeperately, selfi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 24, 2015, 02:58:51 AM |
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How will XT be good with regards to the packet frame? Development & Technical Discussion
A block never fit into a single packet.The relay network protocol fits a signifi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 24, 2015, 02:53:27 AM |
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Szabo just tweeted this Bitcoin Discussion
whats interesting is Peercoin Achieves the second, now by design. By, by design,…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 21, 2015, 05:32:13 AM |
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Szabo just tweeted this Bitcoin Discussion
That being so, would it make sense for Core to make a pre-emptive strike by rele…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 21, 2015, 02:44:04 AM |
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Szabo just tweeted this Bitcoin Discussion
ethereum ??!?!Even that slopply designed mess of bugs has effective blocksize an…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 21, 2015, 01:22:11 AM |
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Szabo just tweeted this Bitcoin Discussion
Quote If it seems like the limit is getting hit persistently, and confirmation t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 21, 2015, 01:20:10 AM |
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Szabo just tweeted this Bitcoin Discussion
Do we want it to handle all world daily transactions, or do we want protection f…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 21, 2015, 01:18:00 AM |
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Why not increase the block size limit by 1MB whenever it needs to be increased? Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteWouldn't doing it this way increase the block size whenever the market need…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 19, 2015, 10:25:54 AM |
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I suspect we need a better incentive for users to run nodes (c) Development & Technical Discussion
Have I misrepresented? He seems to be clearly stating that distributed nodes are…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 18, 2015, 02:34:13 PM |
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I suspect we need a better incentive for users to run nodes (c) Development & Technical Discussion
I was quite disappointed to read that Satoshi envisioned huge centralised farms…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 15, 2015, 08:46:57 PM |
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How would you prove that you own >= X BTC without disclosing addresses ? (ZKP) Development & Technical Discussion
Using an AOS ring signature only works when you know the pubkeys, which you don'…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 15, 2015, 06:06:13 AM |
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[VNL] Vanillacoin, a quiet word of warning. Altcoin Discussion
Everyone should read this article (especially the under the hood part):http://co…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 13, 2015, 02:51:39 PM |
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What is soft folk and hard folk? Bitcoin Discussion
That article is unfortunately pretty misleading. Based on the commentary on red…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 13, 2015, 12:40:54 AM |
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Some blocks have earlier block times than their predecessing block, how/why? Development & Technical Discussion
Who says what the altcoins do actually works-- many have just had spontanious fa…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 11, 2015, 06:20:56 PM |
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"Tarball" of blocks to speedup first full sync Development & Technical Discussion
We used to; but since 0.10 the blockchain is now download in parallel and verifi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 11, 2015, 06:17:32 PM |
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An easy way to double or triple the 6000 Bitcoin active full nodes count? Development & Technical Discussion
Adding additional inbound reachable nodes to the network does not solve any prob…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 11, 2015, 02:50:37 AM |
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A asymmetric key question on ECDSA and Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
FWIW that site isn't an "overview of curves", it's a site that exists to promote…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 10, 2015, 12:17:32 PM |
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Berkeley Database version 4.8 requirement unsustainable Development & Technical Discussion
But yes, the wallet needs an import/export format that's not database specific.…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 04, 2015, 01:04:26 AM |
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Berkeley Database version 4.8 requirement unsustainable Development & Technical Discussion
BDB is _only_ used for the wallet. It is not used for peers.dat, for fee_estimat…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 03, 2015, 03:35:00 PM |
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Idea: "Superpeers" Bitcoin core/block broadcast should use prioritized peer list Development & Technical Discussion
The Bitcoin core client doesn't prioritize peers through (at least as far as I c…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 03, 2015, 03:25:24 PM |
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Why is v0.11.0 binary 2x larger than v0.10.2? Development & Technical Discussion
Because the QT part is now statically linked.
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 03, 2015, 03:22:50 PM |
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Spam attack and miners choice of transactions Development & Technical Discussion
Because the size of a block is limited, the approriate stratey (ignoring transac…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 31, 2015, 03:43:20 PM |
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Q:Is there a deterministic private-public keypair generator w/o the BIP32 issue? Development & Technical Discussion
I responded to this here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3f1y35/q_is_…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 31, 2015, 01:17:29 PM |
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Why Bitcoin Core doesn't tell you to encrypt your wallet by default? Development & Technical Discussion
I would add the question, why does the encryption not encrypt the whole wallet?…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 31, 2015, 12:34:17 PM |
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Why Bitcoin Core doesn't tell you to encrypt your wallet by default? Development & Technical Discussion
Some additional thoughts/informations:1) recovery phrase like the electrum does…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 30, 2015, 10:41:18 PM |
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Why Bitcoin Core doesn't tell you to encrypt your wallet by default? Development & Technical Discussion
The protection provided by an encrypted wallet is pretty thin: If a theif person…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 29, 2015, 12:50:41 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
Gavin says "Network usage should get cut in half as soon as we stop doing the si…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 29, 2015, 12:51:42 AM |
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Semi-soft-fork to decrease the risk of tx malleability Development & Technical Discussion
we have BIP66 but there are still many forms of malleability to be fixed.BIP66 i…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 29, 2015, 12:21:54 AM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
i'd like to revisit that thought experiment i introduced last week.an anonymous…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 28, 2015, 12:43:11 PM |
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[4 BTC] AntMiner firmware job Services
CGMiner is GPLed software. Antminer was obligated to distribute the complete coo…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 25, 2015, 01:19:49 PM |
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Deleting abandoned UTXO Development & Technical Discussion
This may be possible with UTXO set commitments of some kind.This is the argument…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 22, 2015, 11:08:38 PM |
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Deleting abandoned UTXO Development & Technical Discussion
1. 0-value outputs are not spendableThis would greatly reduce the scope of funct…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 22, 2015, 01:34:09 PM |
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Increase currency divisibility with soft-fork Off-topic
aztecminer, I'm afraid you might be failing these excercises: https://www.youtub…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 21, 2015, 11:47:38 AM |
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One-time signatures to prevent double spends Development & Technical Discussion
Hi Tonych, it's always good to have more crypto posts here.This is normally call…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 20, 2015, 09:47:02 PM |
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You can have wallet.dat anywhere and with any name, now! Development & Technical Discussion
This is an inconsiderate bump of a very old thread.Interesting and I gonna to tr…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 20, 2015, 04:12:16 PM |
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Safe(r) Deterministic Tie Breaking Development & Technical Discussion
50% is still much better than very low change you have on a late broadcast; I be…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 16, 2015, 10:48:56 AM |
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The Golden Ratio Attack. Blocks more than half full lead to mining monopoly. Bitcoin Discussion
On the facts the above desciption doesn't describe behavior in the network at th…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 15, 2015, 10:36:45 PM |
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BurtW arrested Bitcoin Discussion
Great news!
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 15, 2015, 05:32:05 AM |
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Gadget claims to steal encrypted keys from 19" distance. Time for Paper wallet ? Bitcoin Discussion
After reading this, I had a scary thought: what if hardware wallet companies mad…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 13, 2015, 10:07:20 PM |
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Gadget claims to steal encrypted keys from 19" distance. Time for Paper wallet ? Bitcoin Discussion
Thanks for the clarification. But, it is not nice to argue that PaperWallets are…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 13, 2015, 04:43:21 PM |
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RPC Bitcoin Core activate ... and it crash ! Bitcoin Technical Support
Every other P2Pool user, including myself, is using it fine-- so the issue is li…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 13, 2015, 02:52:53 AM |
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The most repeated R value on the blockchain Development & Technical Discussion
Quotecan you clarify the f2pool patch you mentioned? Was the "patch" the small r…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 12, 2015, 10:50:32 PM |
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"SPV Mining" or mining on invalidated blocks Development & Technical Discussion
SPV mining is safe if there is a timeout (say 1 minute).It's not safe SPV client…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 12, 2015, 08:38:44 PM |
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The most repeated R value on the blockchain Development & Technical Discussion
f2pool uses very short signature. Why cannot I use it also?OK, my math/programmi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 12, 2015, 06:06:15 PM |
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Sipa what have you done ? Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, but I don't run the DNS Seeder. The problem looking like SIPA configured a…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 12, 2015, 05:01:26 PM |
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Bitcoin-QT 0.10.2 crashes Bitcoin Technical Support
0.11 updated QT. You might see if it fixed the issue.Please people; this person…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 12, 2015, 03:41:35 PM |
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The most repeated R value on the blockchain Development & Technical Discussion
Using this K value will leak your private key.I intentionally did not publish th…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 12, 2015, 03:05:17 PM |
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Bitcoin Core is a broken piece of shit Bitcoin Discussion
Description of specifics events around the crash-- crash message, possible trigg…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 11, 2015, 03:21:22 PM |
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Gadget claims to steal encrypted keys from 19" distance. Time for Paper wallet ? Bitcoin Discussion
If what they claim is true, no electronic storage for private keys are safe anym…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 10, 2015, 09:39:34 PM |
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California Bill AB 1326 Legal
https://blockstream.com/DigitalCurrencyCASenateLetter.pdf may be of interest.
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 10, 2015, 08:04:16 PM |
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The biggest single tx in the world? Bitcoin Discussion
This is F2Pool; see #bitcoin-dev earlier today where I gave wangchun a patch to…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 10, 2015, 07:45:57 PM |
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Blockchain forks and proof of their age? Development & Technical Discussion
This is exactly why it is good to verify a transaction on multiple block explore…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 10, 2015, 07:08:56 PM |
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Blockchain forks and proof of their age? Development & Technical Discussion
That kind of profound confuseion is happening much more often because there are…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 10, 2015, 06:57:28 PM |
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We ARE under attack.. we NEED to act... Bitcoin Discussion
scaling blocks would be the perfect solution. but that's an infinite discussion.…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 09, 2015, 07:24:37 PM |
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We ARE under attack.. we NEED to act... Bitcoin Discussion
It would be interesting to hear the reason why bitcoin developers turned down Le…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 09, 2015, 06:57:34 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
I just want to highlight the comments here from bitcoin-dev today, which seem to…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 09, 2015, 04:36:30 AM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
OK. Provide me with your estimates for the following (and explain how you arriv…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 08, 2015, 06:26:59 PM |
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HashFast cypherdoc bankruptcy scandal : Time to clean up bitcoin Meta
Well I found it damning because he mislead me previously-- claiming he was just…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 08, 2015, 12:07:20 AM |
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[Crypto] Compact Confidential Transactions for Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
I've been toying around with a 384 bit quadratic extension field curve that supp…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 07, 2015, 05:01:23 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
On the topic of block verification times, people on Reddit are saying this block…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 07, 2015, 04:12:51 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
ok, i'm not getting the bolded part. this graph shows 37 MB worth of unconf tx'…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 06, 2015, 10:33:50 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
Interesting! And this is why I like the empirical "block box" approach. I don'…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 06, 2015, 10:23:56 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
as you know, even Gavin talks about this memory problem from UTXO. and yes, i r…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 06, 2015, 10:09:22 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
Clean and synched mempools makes for a cleaner blockchain, else garbage in - gar…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 06, 2015, 09:41:27 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
for each block in the Blockchain, which will help answering Q1. Does anyone kno…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 06, 2015, 07:09:19 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
no, memory is not just used for 1MB blocks. it's also used to store the mempool…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 06, 2015, 04:38:13 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
since small pools can also connect to the relay network, and i assume they do, t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 06, 2015, 01:49:46 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
1. Why do larger mining pools have less orphans, assuming most miners even smal…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 06, 2015, 12:40:03 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
Bitcoin sits at a strange intersection of computer science, mathematics, economi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 06, 2015, 01:32:13 AM |
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PSA: cypherdoc is a paid shill, liar and probably epic scammer: HashFast affair Scam Accusations
The original court document has him representing himself. So cypherdoc thinks th…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 06, 2015, 01:15:17 AM |
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PSA: cypherdoc is a paid shill, liar and probably epic scammer: HashFast affair Scam Accusations
Hmmm, where does the 10% figure come from, did HashFast pull in 30,000 BTC?From…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 06, 2015, 12:03:55 AM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
ok, we've all been lead to believe up to now that validation of tx's had to occu…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 05, 2015, 11:40:08 PM |
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How bitcoin dev's are helping to kill bitcoin Bitcoin Discussion
The guy sounds rude but he is right in one point: to be forced to reindex the bl…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 05, 2015, 11:08:41 PM |
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How bitcoin dev's are helping to kill bitcoin Bitcoin Discussion
Also why downloading blocks requires so much time unless you either open ports…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 05, 2015, 10:44:20 PM |
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Transaction v3 (BIP 62) Development & Technical Discussion
Means that if the version of the tx is different from 1 then the transaction is…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 05, 2015, 04:48:41 PM |
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How bitcoin dev's are helping to kill bitcoin Bitcoin Discussion
in other hand...you are still considering Bitcoin Core as Desktop application? M…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 05, 2015, 04:47:10 PM |
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Numerically finding an optimal block size using decentralisation-utility Development & Technical Discussion
Assuming a user will use all of their bandwidth is probably not good, You probab…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 05, 2015, 02:55:16 AM |
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How bitcoin dev's are helping to kill bitcoin Bitcoin Discussion
dude, you should finally realize, that bitcoin core is not desktop application a…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 05, 2015, 02:47:06 AM |
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BIP 66 status Development & Technical Discussion
Yes it's enforced now; at least by the potentially-minority parts of the miners…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 04, 2015, 02:04:58 AM |
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WARNING: blockchain split Bitcoin Discussion
I'm using 0.10.2 and still got the message, it's not a version specific announce…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 04, 2015, 01:43:34 AM |
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WARNING: blockchain split Bitcoin Discussion
My concerns exactly and stated more elegantly than I could have. Perhaps there n…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 04, 2015, 12:44:39 AM |
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WARNING: blockchain split Bitcoin Discussion
from what? all those 1 transaction (the 25btc) blocks?nobody is going to get sc…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 04, 2015, 12:27:04 AM |
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BIP 66 status Development & Technical Discussion
So SPV and old full nodes will see 2 fake confirmations now.SPV nodes made it up…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 04, 2015, 12:18:23 AM |
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Please list arguments against the idea of taking away Gavins' alert keys Bitcoin Discussion
No he didn't. Also gmaxwell is one of the core devs. One of the people you tru…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 03, 2015, 02:36:29 AM |
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Please list arguments against the idea of taking away Gavins' alert keys Bitcoin Discussion
Thats a good info gmaxwell. I guess a fast reaction is almost certain then.[...]…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 03, 2015, 12:19:03 AM |
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HashFast cypherdoc bankruptcy scandal : Time to clean up bitcoin Meta
2. HashFast3. CointerraCointerra actually shipped me hardware, it was a month la…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 02, 2015, 07:37:55 PM |
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Please list arguments against the idea of taking away Gavins' alert keys Bitcoin Discussion
We don't really use the alert mechanism, and many of the contributors to Bitcoin…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 02, 2015, 02:46:16 PM |
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