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PSA: cypherdoc is a paid shill, liar and probably epic scammer: HashFast affair Scam Accusations
He's already screwed his reputation, Dunno about that; after the hashfast faile…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 02, 2015, 01:07:24 PM |
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PSA: cypherdoc is a paid shill, liar and probably epic scammer: HashFast affair Scam Accusations
After hashfast blew up (I lost ~100 BTC to it, got nothing in return-- bummer co…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 01, 2015, 07:28:52 PM |
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is FSS RBF really solving what it suppose to solve? Development & Technical Discussion
The requirement is that it meets all the prior validity criteria (e.g. is locked…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 29, 2015, 01:59:37 PM |
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Pita Bread Munchers Could Steal Bitcoins from Public Laptops Bitcoin Discussion
A core developer saying that should lay worries to rest. Though even though you…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 29, 2015, 08:13:53 AM |
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Pita Bread Munchers Could Steal Bitcoins from Public Laptops Bitcoin Discussion
Bitcoin Core uses signing which is constant time, constant memory access, and ha…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 29, 2015, 06:12:45 AM |
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New York Times identifies Nick Szabo as Satoshi Nakamoto Bitcoin Discussion
Wait....I am a little bit confused.I thought Nick Szabo was a pseudonym...You gu…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 29, 2015, 03:09:20 AM |
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BIP 66 status Development & Technical Discussion
I think there was a "hard fork" of the p2pool chain recently though to allow for…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 29, 2015, 02:32:48 AM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
There may be bug (or luck to find some number) and then creating bitcoins out of…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 28, 2015, 01:00:31 AM |
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[XMR] Monero Speculation Speculation (Altcoins)
I agree - any means to increase fungibility is a win. But based on my understand…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 28, 2015, 12:07:07 AM |
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[XMR] Monero Speculation Speculation (Altcoins)
(1) people who send BTC in the "ring signature sidechain" (RSSC), taint their BT…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 27, 2015, 10:31:54 PM |
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[1500 TH] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool Pools
Getting similar blank spaces occasionally, before and sometimes after the new wo…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 26, 2015, 10:25:04 PM |
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 25, 2015, 06:56:15 PM |
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Gregory Maxwell threatens to sell his bitcoins and find other things to work on Bitcoin Discussion
Egads, what a boggling thread. (I will not be sending a christmas card to the me…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 24, 2015, 08:53:00 PM |
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[Crypto] Compact Confidential Transactions for Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
Unfortunately, Andrew Poelstra was able to break the cryptosystem for this schem…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 23, 2015, 07:18:54 PM |
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Bitcoin Research Report, Part 1 Development & Technical Discussion
Hi j0kie_smurf,I welcome your enthusiasm and interest! You probably want to do…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 18, 2015, 07:55:31 PM |
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Deterministic Usage of DSA and ECDSA Digital Signature Algorithms (RFC 6979) Development & Technical Discussion
I reached out to Colin Percival (who wrote scrypt, for example) for his thoughts…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 09, 2013, 08:48:02 PM |
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[Crypto] Compact Confidential Transactions for Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
To be honest, I think the muted response speaks for itself. This stuff turns out…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 17, 2015, 07:30:07 PM |
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Anonymity in the Mini-Blockchain scheme Altcoin Discussion
@Maxwell: I was hoping to see a modified version of mini- blockchain scheme amon…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 17, 2015, 05:34:15 PM |
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Bitcoin QT is extremely difficult to get working, prohibitive to Bitcoin users Bitcoin Technical Support
3-4 days to download the blockchain is not viable tho, we are losing a TON of po…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 17, 2015, 04:05:51 PM |
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Bitcoin QT is extremely difficult to get working, prohibitive to Bitcoin users Bitcoin Technical Support
The problem here is that it seems that Core thinks that all of the nodes that it…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 17, 2015, 03:59:04 PM |
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HashFast announces specs for new ASIC: 400GH/s Hardware
Yes you should vote for the plan, it matters. If you go read the proposal you w…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 16, 2015, 12:40:24 AM |
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Hash algorithm that cannot be implemented in ASIC ? Development & Technical Discussion
I wonder if the network could somehow take psuedorandom data from the block chai…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 14, 2015, 09:57:59 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
As a point of order; since this seems to be a common and oft-exploited set of mi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 14, 2015, 07:35:55 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
lots and lots of big words. never any justification for preventing Bitcoin from…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 14, 2015, 07:23:02 PM |
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Bitcoin GPLed because of GMP? Development & Technical Discussion
I'm trying to build that great secp25k1 library (https://github.com/bitcoin/secp…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 14, 2015, 12:43:52 PM |
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Confidential Transactions, Content privacy for Bitcoin transactions Development & Technical Discussion
as far as I understand both sidechains and blocksize increase will need a hardfo…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 13, 2015, 08:15:34 PM |
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What does "taint analyis" on blockchain.info really mean? Service Discussion
The computation on BC.i is darn near a random number generator. The main thing i…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 13, 2015, 08:13:25 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
guys, i think it's pretty clear that Greg isn't even going to consider Jeff's pr…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 12, 2015, 11:02:34 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
If you're going to argue that the "original" has some kind of terribly weight to…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 12, 2015, 10:41:17 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
so it sounds to me that you aren't willing to even talk to Gavin on this issue,…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 12, 2015, 09:07:12 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
at this pt, you'd have to propose a concrete commitment plan and present it to G…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 12, 2015, 08:54:27 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
it's certainly a lot simpler than anything you've proposed; oh wait, maybe not,…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 12, 2015, 08:16:31 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
I hate the fact that politics must be played. But after this debacle, sidechain…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 12, 2015, 07:45:40 PM |
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Notice: _ALL POOLS AND SOLO MINERS MUST UPDATE FOR BIP-66_ Pools
Isn't it only required to be on 0.10.1 on any system but windows?Indeed, PeterTo…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 12, 2015, 05:52:51 PM |
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Notice: _ALL POOLS AND SOLO MINERS MUST UPDATE FOR BIP-66_ Pools
Please see this post on bitcoin-development by Peter Todd: http://sourceforge.ne…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 12, 2015, 03:32:39 PM |
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The overlooked existential threat of centralization Bitcoin Discussion
I think anyone with significant amount of bitcoin holding (10K+ USD) will surely…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 12, 2015, 01:59:32 AM |
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Great Orphan Block Hunt Development & Technical Discussion
Anyone can trivially forge old orphan blocks (and have in the past...) sooo...
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 10, 2015, 10:47:45 PM |
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Confidential Transactions, Content privacy for Bitcoin transactions Development & Technical Discussion
Don't be so sure. I think there is at least even odds that the recent drama will…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 10, 2015, 09:40:14 PM |
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Confidential Transactions, Content privacy for Bitcoin transactions Development & Technical Discussion
Since the vast majority of transactions will be 0 will stand out and be much les…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 10, 2015, 09:04:02 PM |
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Confidential Transactions, Content privacy for Bitcoin transactions Development & Technical Discussion
It seems the public/blinding key operates on a per-wallet basis. Doesn't that b…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 10, 2015, 10:38:49 AM |
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Confidential Transactions, Content privacy for Bitcoin transactions Development & Technical Discussion
Interesting ~ this probably sounds anti-privacy a bit for me to ask perhaps at t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 09, 2015, 10:51:01 PM |
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Confidential Transactions, Content privacy for Bitcoin transactions Development & Technical Discussion
Taint tracking is inherently against the fungibility property of money. Perhaps…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 09, 2015, 11:35:23 AM |
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Elements Project testnet sidechain alpha released Development & Technical Discussion
Does the standard client do that? Could a non-functionary produce the fraud pro…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 09, 2015, 09:25:02 AM |
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Elements Project testnet sidechain alpha released Development & Technical Discussion
Peer coin had a system where they had a centralised block signing server (plus P…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 09, 2015, 08:47:53 AM |
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Elements Project testnet sidechain alpha released Development & Technical Discussion
Why have signed blocks? Is that just to ensure (roughly) 10 mins per block, wit…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 09, 2015, 07:54:28 AM |
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Elements Project testnet sidechain alpha released Development & Technical Discussion
On the sidechain side, a 21M UTXO entry is awarded to the functionaries, who tra…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 09, 2015, 06:56:50 AM |
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Anonymity in the Mini-Blockchain scheme Altcoin Discussion
Hi, All-- By an interesting coincident of timing bffranca asked me two days ago…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 09, 2015, 05:40:01 AM |
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Confidential Transactions, Content privacy for Bitcoin transactions Development & Technical Discussion
I mentioned that I was using the new Borromean ringsig as a building block for a…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 09, 2015, 05:18:56 AM |
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Elements Project testnet sidechain alpha released Development & Technical Discussion
I'm surprised that there isn't a thread on this yet.I'm pleased to announce the…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 09, 2015, 05:16:27 AM |
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Quick Question about bitcoin Project Development
It's also what I thought (specifically: "Hm. well what category are ponzi scheme…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 07, 2015, 06:49:04 PM |
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Idea for new client. Development & Technical Discussion
Well having this ability to archive wallet address makes it simpler to find addr…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 06, 2015, 05:39:33 PM |
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Idea for new client. Development & Technical Discussion
You haven't said anything about the motivation, it's not self apparent.How would…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 06, 2015, 12:33:35 PM |
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Antminer is "attacking" the testnet Development & Technical Discussion
These issues obviously come from theTestnet reorgs and most of those services no…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 03, 2015, 11:11:06 AM |
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Thinking about ways to make it more difficult to link IP address to txn creator. Development & Technical Discussion
I assume the sidecar daemon needs to be notified somehow? So it doesn't have to…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 03, 2015, 01:06:44 AM |
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Elastic block cap with rollover penalties Development & Technical Discussion
I expect a fee pool alone will increase block verification cost.It would not, in…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 03, 2015, 12:55:35 AM |
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Elastic block cap with rollover penalties Development & Technical Discussion
There is a major shortcoming I can see in the rollover fee pool suggestion: mine…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 02, 2015, 11:31:48 PM |
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[Crypto] Borromean ringsig: Efficiently proving knowledge for monotone functions Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, it could replace the construct used in Monero (though I am pretty sure it w…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 02, 2015, 06:58:24 PM |
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[Crypto] Borromean ringsig: Efficiently proving knowledge for monotone functions Development & Technical Discussion
Some here may be interested in a new cryptosystem I've been working on which eff…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 02, 2015, 02:07:36 AM |
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QoS for bitcoind Development & Technical Discussion
If I'm understanding the OP correctly, then you are trying to develop a way to p…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 27, 2015, 02:45:46 PM |
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help with finding issues in a modifcation of Bitcoin core Development & Technical Discussion
So you think it's better to just ignore the issue and hope people don't modify t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 26, 2015, 11:25:24 PM |
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Rounding error in calculation of chainwork Development & Technical Discussion
Fair enough! I will likely use this as an example implementation detail in the…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 26, 2015, 11:11:25 PM |
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Rounding error in calculation of chainwork Development & Technical Discussion
It's just mathematically inaccurate.It's not clear to me that it's "mathematical…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 26, 2015, 06:20:34 PM |
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Was TF finally given a scammer tag? Meta
Looking at TF on his face, he appears to be very honorable and to be someone tha…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 26, 2015, 01:55:09 AM |
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Are these attacks preventable? Meta
"Please do not perform any actions on my account without a signed PGP message".T…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 26, 2015, 01:28:43 AM |
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Rounding error in calculation of chainwork Development & Technical Discussion
150,112 hash is nothing, of course. But I think this would affect the way we det…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 26, 2015, 01:11:16 AM |
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Softfork cutoff Development & Technical Discussion
The idea sounds like the rule activates for 75% and is locked in for 95%, but re…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 25, 2015, 05:01:53 PM |
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Softfork cutoff Development & Technical Discussion
Setting the thresholds is tricky. First you much recognize that this process i…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 25, 2015, 10:52:32 AM |
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help with finding issues in a modifcation of Bitcoin core Development & Technical Discussion
Since there are people who are going to override this anyways I think its better…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 21, 2015, 11:39:49 AM |
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help with finding issues in a modifcation of Bitcoin core Development & Technical Discussion
Having to maintain and compile a separate fork means they have to run code that…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 20, 2015, 11:43:43 PM |
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Can dynamic accumulators be used to store UTXOs Development & Technical Discussion
Deletion is possible in this scheme. It requires running the extended gcd algor…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 20, 2015, 05:42:30 PM |
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Reduce Block Size Limit Development & Technical Discussion
There was a hard 256kb limit on maximum acceptable blocksize? Are you sure abou…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 20, 2015, 04:52:32 PM |
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Can dynamic accumulators be used to store UTXOs Development & Technical Discussion
AFAIK These accumulator schemes require a spent coins list that grows forever; a…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 20, 2015, 01:07:21 AM |
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Regtest Consensus Forking Behavior Introduced in Bitcoin Core in May 2014 Development & Technical Discussion
Sorry if this is a stupid question. Why would you need to test with a low diffic…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 20, 2015, 03:19:17 AM |
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How long would it take me to complete Bitcoin client upgrade? Bitcoin Technical Support
it should not if your chain is not corrupted and you shut it down cleanly first.…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 20, 2015, 03:14:47 AM |
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Reduce Block Size Limit Development & Technical Discussion
a socialist production quota that removes the incentive to improve the p2p netwo…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 20, 2015, 03:11:22 AM |
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Regtest Consensus Forking Behavior Introduced in Bitcoin Core in May 2014 Development & Technical Discussion
I have to admit I'm disappointed that the answer is basically that Bitcoin Core…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 19, 2015, 05:45:34 PM |
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Regtest Consensus Forking Behavior Introduced in Bitcoin Core in May 2014 Development & Technical Discussion
This was actually pointed out at the time the change was made; but it seemed sil…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 19, 2015, 12:36:14 PM |
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help with finding issues in a modifcation of Bitcoin core Development & Technical Discussion
Achow101, you are basically asking for help to abuse the network. Other people…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 16, 2015, 10:13:56 PM |
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how to maximize block download speed on a single local node Development & Technical Discussion
There is an intentional sleep in message handling.It was removed in 0.11 (git ma…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 16, 2015, 05:05:50 AM |
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Should we just remove the wallet function of Bitcoin Core Development & Technical Discussion
Just see another victim of the 100-address trap in the Chinese subforum. 10BTC l…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 10, 2015, 07:21:29 PM |
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WTF is this? Someone found a trick for fast mining? Development & Technical Discussion
Indeed, yes it is the case that the work first issued right after a new block of…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 10, 2015, 07:01:25 PM |
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WTF is this? Someone found a trick for fast mining? Development & Technical Discussion
Mean blocktime validation of one transaction blocks: [...]Shorter validation tim…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 10, 2015, 04:00:07 PM |
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Max block size should also consider the size of UTXO set Development & Technical Discussion
block size => bandwidth and storage costutxo size => RAM costNo the UTXO isn't i…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 09, 2015, 03:08:26 PM |
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How is UTXO currently stored in Bitcoin Core? Development & Technical Discussion
However, 35.86 bytes is merely enough for storing the size of scriptPubKey (1 by…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 09, 2015, 03:29:17 PM |
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Effect of the Distribution of Block Interarrival Time On Blockchain Security Development & Technical Discussion
Please let me know your thoughts.The assumption we've historically made is that…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 09, 2015, 02:55:11 PM |
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Max block size should also consider the size of UTXO set Development & Technical Discussion
So your idea is to replace the MAX_BLOCK_SIZE with a single composite score of b…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 09, 2015, 02:28:16 PM |
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Max block size should also consider the size of UTXO set Development & Technical Discussion
since unspendable outputs should not be entered into the UTXO set.Unless P == NP…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 09, 2015, 02:02:09 PM |
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Max block size should also consider the size of UTXO set Development & Technical Discussion
Yea, this has been in several different threads before (I'm not even sure if I w…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 09, 2015, 06:46:58 AM |
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A Proposal to Reduce Variation in Block Creation Times Development & Technical Discussion
Greetings. The use of multiple smaller hashcashes is described in the original…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 08, 2015, 08:25:22 PM |
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Dev & Tech Opinion on Mike Hearn's "Crash Landing" scenario Development & Technical Discussion
We've actually hit the soft limit before, consistently for long periods and did…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 08, 2015, 03:05:38 AM |
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WTF is this? Someone found a trick for fast mining? Development & Technical Discussion
Hmm, this 32 bit signed integer must be greater or equal to the current block ve…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 07, 2015, 08:30:11 PM |
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Encoding a transaction in a point of the curve y^2=x^3+7 and Bitcoin Core Development & Technical Discussion
In my opinion, there are only two types of objects used in ECDSA: group elements…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 07, 2015, 08:01:23 PM |
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WTF is this? Someone found a trick for fast mining? Development & Technical Discussion
Whatever, but nonces appear uniformly distributed contradicting the arbitrary cl…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 06, 2015, 04:00:00 AM |
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Why was block 52,000 generated on April 2010 and not January 2010? Development & Technical Discussion
The network difficulty can not go below below a minimum level (Described as "1"…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 06, 2015, 02:17:08 AM |
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Including merkleroot of blockheaders in coinbase? Development & Technical Discussion
Do you mean morphing the "bits" field in the header? Is it legal to use an lower…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 05, 2015, 03:35:00 AM |
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Database of orphan blocks Development & Technical Discussion
Old forks must be obtained from a source you trust-- just just to be honest but…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 05, 2015, 02:57:12 AM |
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Including merkleroot of blockheaders in coinbase? Development & Technical Discussion
Do you mean one can use a very low value hash to replace the whole blockchain?No…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 04, 2015, 07:22:20 PM |
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Lagging bitcoin 0.10.1 node Development & Technical Discussion
Can you email me the debug.log? [email protected] description is a bit unclear. …
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 04, 2015, 07:11:33 PM |
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Is this a possible solution for the bitcoin side chain challenges??? Development & Technical Discussion
You've just described the two way peg mechanism which is what people are usually…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 04, 2015, 07:08:14 PM |
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WTF is this? Someone found a trick for fast mining Development & Technical Discussion
You will agree that this facts are independent by themselves. You will agree tha…
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n/a | gmaxwell | May 04, 2015, 05:26:58 AM |
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