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Distribution of nonce values Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteI set out to test the claim: "Every nonce has an equal chance of winning."T…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 11, 2015, 06:32:09 PM |
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Sending bitcoins without miner fees Development & Technical Discussion
The minimum fee required for send a tx in the new bitcoin core is 1'000 satoshi,…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 11, 2015, 04:59:57 PM |
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Protocol or Paper for Joint Random Secret Sharing (JRSS)...? Development & Technical Discussion
To extend this to a t of n case they must make sure that each and all of the pos…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 11, 2015, 03:04:25 PM |
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new paper: Securing Bitcoin wallets via threshold signatures Development & Technical Discussion
The source is here:https://github.com/citp/TwoFactorBtcWallet/They've eliminated…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 09, 2015, 09:49:36 PM |
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Quick elliptic curve security question Development & Technical Discussion
Do take care that because your one more discrete log problem is secure doesn't m…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 08, 2015, 07:03:58 PM |
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BIP 32 questions Development & Technical Discussion
Another way to convert your custom string into an electrum wallet is to do a sha…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 08, 2015, 04:51:09 AM |
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Is someone monitoring large parts of the network? (evidence+firwall rules) Development & Technical Discussion
Latest Bitcoin Core with 2000 connections allowed2000 connections is not possibl…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 06, 2015, 08:26:52 PM |
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Slowing down block propagation Development & Technical Discussion
e.g. 1MB block 0% haircut, 10MB block 10% haircut, 1000MB block 95% haircut. So…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 05, 2015, 12:27:31 PM |
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Counting the number of tx in a block without downloading the whole block? Development & Technical Discussion
Is it possible to count the number of tx in a block without downloading the whol…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 04, 2015, 01:19:46 AM |
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Definition of the priority buckets Development & Technical Discussion
Thats goofy, I missed that. Don't worry: I'm going to go remove that right now.
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 04, 2015, 02:28:47 AM |
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Definition of the priority buckets Development & Technical Discussion
There is no such thing as categories of priority. Priority is either high enough…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 04, 2015, 12:39:29 AM |
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Bitcoin Core 0.10.0 starts very slow. Bitcoin Technical Support
How long does it usually take for the wallet to open if opened the first time of…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 03, 2015, 11:44:50 PM |
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0 confirmation confidence (of block inclusion) Development & Technical Discussion
Consider me to be uninitiated - is this relevant only if I'm a miner, or if I'm…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 03, 2015, 07:27:56 AM |
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0 confirmation confidence (of block inclusion) Development & Technical Discussion
Is there anything in bitcoind RPC (or even an external service, blockchain.info…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 03, 2015, 04:53:36 AM |
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Interesting github forks? Development & Technical Discussion
If Satoshi had agreed with that point of view, it seems unlikely he would have r…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 28, 2015, 11:09:06 AM |
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Interesting github forks? Development & Technical Discussion
Many contributors have own coins. I believe that is incorrect. The only non-triv…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 28, 2015, 05:05:14 AM |
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Pruning OP_RETURNs with illegal content Development & Technical Discussion
Honestly I think new non-P2SH outputs should be made invalid at some point in th…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 27, 2015, 09:18:20 PM |
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Is bitcoin v0.10's new libsecp256k1 safe & without mathematical backdoors? Development & Technical Discussion
It really is upsetting how many THINGS bitcoin building depends on.Take a breath…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 27, 2015, 06:11:22 AM |
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Pruning OP_RETURNs with illegal content Development & Technical Discussion
It may be absurd that there is reason to be concerned about such things, but the…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 25, 2015, 06:09:33 PM |
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What if all possible bitcoin wallets are owned? Beginners & Help
It is my understanding that bitcoin wallets are created through a hash table wit…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 25, 2015, 06:07:00 PM |
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An easy way to remember a bitcoin address Development & Technical Discussion
FirstBits didn't require centralized trust.In practice it did, because it requir…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 24, 2015, 08:41:43 PM |
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bitcoind JSON RPC performance declining over the blockchain? Development & Technical Discussion
it blocks all RPC calls, including ones that wouldn't have to be blocked (such a…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 24, 2015, 05:53:42 PM |
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JSONRPC - not working with Bitcoin - others are 100% working Bitcoin Technical Support
YES I have rpcallowip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx set correct because other coins are workin…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 24, 2015, 12:59:33 AM |
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Bitcoin is an Electronic Bearer Bond and the US government will not like it! Bitcoin Discussion
2011 called, looking for its concern troll-posts back.Back in 2011 this kind of…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 23, 2015, 10:39:11 PM |
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An easy way to remember a bitcoin address Development & Technical Discussion
The exception is stealth addresses which I have great hope once we resolve the O…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 23, 2015, 08:05:00 PM |
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An easy way to remember a bitcoin address Development & Technical Discussion
Basically this idea existed more or less before in the form of the ill fated 'fi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 23, 2015, 06:40:37 PM |
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Bitcoin Core 0.10.0 has been released Bitcoin Discussion
You sure this issue related ONLY to 32 bit systems? I mean it already know bug w…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 23, 2015, 05:04:38 AM |
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Size of raw transaction? Development & Technical Discussion
Doof, impressive that you managed a response even less useful than mine.
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 23, 2015, 01:32:39 AM |
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Size of raw transaction? Development & Technical Discussion
For my project it's *imperative to use specific outputs when sending coins.Well,…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 21, 2015, 06:24:49 PM |
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Bitcoin Core 0.10.0 has been released Bitcoin Discussion
10 have same bug as was in 8.xx and 9.xx versions.If you set -dbcache=xxx to hig…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 21, 2015, 04:27:35 PM |
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AT is a technology designed for any blockchain - it is not an alt! Meta
There hasn't been any real interest or discussion in it in technical-development…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 21, 2015, 03:57:07 PM |
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[ANN] Armory 0.93 Official Release Armory
Great work as always. I particularly appreciate the highly accessible source co…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 21, 2015, 03:46:15 PM |
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Are very old clients still able to participate on the bitcoin network? Development & Technical Discussion
EDIT: I think I have found the answer.Current clients can only talk to other cli…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 20, 2015, 12:57:08 PM |
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Why Reduce the Block Reward? Development & Technical Discussion
by the block reward.By subsidy and transaction fees. You're missing part of it.…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 20, 2015, 04:29:12 AM |
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bitcoind JSON RPC performance declining over the blockchain? Development & Technical Discussion
Why are you assuming the performance has anything to do with Bitcoind. JSON is j…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 20, 2015, 04:24:28 AM |
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getblocktemplate on testnet giving wrong target and bits? Development & Technical Discussion
It is also possible that everything is fine, and jerks are just generating testn…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 19, 2015, 06:02:59 PM |
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getblocktemplate on testnet giving wrong target and bits? Development & Technical Discussion
Getblocktemplate is working correctly there.Getdifficulty is telling you the dif…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 19, 2015, 01:59:46 PM |
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Pruning OP_RETURNs with illegal content Development & Technical Discussion
There is no reason for you, personally, to keep around any old transactions for…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 18, 2015, 09:11:34 PM |
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Multi-language consensus library Development & Technical Discussion
Are there any languages which can't call a static external c library? I think t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 18, 2015, 09:08:39 PM |
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Get all Bitcoin Addresses with balance >= 0.00000001 Development & Technical Discussion
The system itself doesn't have balances in any direct way, so thats one reason i…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 18, 2015, 01:47:15 PM |
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Get all Bitcoin Addresses with balance >= 0.00000001 Development & Technical Discussion
The system itself doesn't have balances in any direct way, so thats one reason i…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 18, 2015, 06:24:45 AM |
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Multi-language consensus library Development & Technical Discussion
However, not all clients are written in c++.Libconsensus is intentionally C call…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 17, 2015, 03:42:35 PM |
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Risks of big changes to Bitcoin Core Development & Technical Discussion
There are some scary code in the reference implementationWhat "scary code" are y…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 16, 2015, 05:09:09 PM |
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Why is difficulty a float number? Development & Technical Discussion
It isn't: in the Bitcoin p2p protocol and blockchain there is no "difficulty", d…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 16, 2015, 03:19:52 AM |
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Individual Block Difficulty Based on Block Size Development & Technical Discussion
No, they can't. They can only influence users' expectations of required fees in…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 15, 2015, 06:45:29 PM |
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Individual Block Difficulty Based on Block Size Development & Technical Discussion
tl;dr Non-mining nodes can in principle receive compensation for transaction han…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 15, 2015, 03:30:12 PM |
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Don't Let Anyone Tell You Satoshi's Identity is NOT Important Bitcoin Discussion
Click bait article; don't be suckered.Bitcoin is a system governed by its softwa…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 14, 2015, 04:18:22 AM |
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What about kill or fill transactions? Development & Technical Discussion
An invariant we've tried to avoid breaking is reorg safety.Right now, if you rec…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 12, 2015, 06:05:37 PM |
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Lightweight Cryptos without Block Chain Bloat (Coq Development and Paper) Altcoin Discussion
Greetings, interesting work.I'm not sure if you're aware of it, but Bitcoin core…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 08, 2015, 07:34:45 PM |
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Trustless, Tradable, Reality-Based Contracts on cryptonote coins Altcoin Discussion
hm previously that response directed me to the other thread, but once I responde…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 07, 2015, 06:57:10 PM |
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Permanently keeping the 1MB (anti-spam) restriction is a great idea ... Bitcoin Discussion
In the end, the whole block of transactions must be present on the blockchain at…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 07, 2015, 02:27:31 AM |
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How to Create a Bitcoin Address from a Coin Flip Development & Technical Discussion
I will argue that 256 coin flips from random.org is the best random number possi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 06, 2015, 02:35:14 PM |
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Trustless, Tradable, Reality-Based Contracts on cryptonote coins Altcoin Discussion
As a general bit of advice, people tend to throw writeups in the trash when they…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 06, 2015, 01:44:35 PM |
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I thought trxid is unique Development & Technical Discussion
I don't trust blockchain.info as much as before.BC.i frequently shows outright i…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 06, 2015, 02:03:00 AM |
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Permanently keeping the 1MB (anti-spam) restriction is a great idea ... Bitcoin Discussion
Why couldn't MAX_BLOCK_SIZE be self-adjusting? That very vague.... based on what…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 06, 2015, 12:15:42 AM |
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Permanently keeping the 1MB (anti-spam) restriction is a great idea ... Bitcoin Discussion
The chance of orphan blocks should provide some competition for space.Centralize…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 05, 2015, 05:29:43 PM |
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Permanently keeping the 1MB (anti-spam) restriction is a great idea ... Bitcoin Discussion
Do not forget that the hard-coded fees constants fix should be addressed simulta…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 05, 2015, 05:17:26 PM |
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Permanently keeping the 1MB (anti-spam) restriction is a great idea ... Bitcoin Discussion
All you've done here is reinforce the fact that the design of the P2P network is…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 05, 2015, 03:49:46 PM |
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Permanently keeping the 1MB (anti-spam) restriction is a great idea ... Bitcoin Discussion
A non-scarce good is one that does not require allocation because the available…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 05, 2015, 02:53:29 PM |
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Is bitcoin v0.10's new libsecp256k1 safe & without mathematical backdoors? Development & Technical Discussion
I guess we are just setting returns to negatives to represent errors?This is cle…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 05, 2015, 02:44:07 AM |
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What is a Bitcoin soft fork? (in laymen's terms) Development & Technical Discussion
Hi, I was wondering if anyone can describe what a soft fork is and how it is imp…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 04, 2015, 06:00:00 PM |
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 03, 2015, 03:32:25 AM |
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 02, 2015, 09:38:06 PM |
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Is bitcoin v0.10's new libsecp256k1 safe & without mathematical backdoors? Development & Technical Discussion
To be fair, OpenSSL has a much wider goal. It's an apples and oranges comparison…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 01, 2015, 04:40:56 AM |
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Is bitcoin v0.10's new libsecp256k1 safe & without mathematical backdoors? Development & Technical Discussion
If the squaring bug referenced is not a concern for Bitcoin implementations, the…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 31, 2015, 07:19:17 AM |
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Is bitcoin v0.10's new libsecp256k1 safe & without mathematical backdoors? Development & Technical Discussion
Here's a counter-point:The author of that page seems to not understand that char…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 30, 2015, 10:50:20 PM |
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Reused R values again Development & Technical Discussion
I just need one important question answered: why did Satoshi or whoever decide t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 30, 2015, 10:29:16 PM |
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Did satoshi not know that public key is recoverable from ECDSA signature? Development & Technical Discussion
Honestly the wire protocol is very poorly done.I suspect you don't have much exp…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 29, 2015, 11:57:09 PM |
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New HD wallet that tolerates leakage of some child private keys Development & Technical Discussion
So I think it would be an obvious improvement and might well be worth an increas…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 29, 2015, 08:39:23 AM |
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Is bitcoin v0.10's new libsecp256k1 safe & without mathematical backdoors? Development & Technical Discussion
99,9% of the people already have to believe every other piece of code of bitcoin…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 29, 2015, 08:29:49 AM |
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Is bitcoin v0.10's new libsecp256k1 safe & without mathematical backdoors? Development & Technical Discussion
I thought about what the OP is saying myself when I read the release notes on th…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 27, 2015, 01:32:46 PM |
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How are UTXOs stored? Development & Technical Discussion
Please describe step by step the actual attack, which things would the attack do…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 26, 2015, 01:17:10 AM |
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[ANN] Coinshield: Pure SHA3, Decentralized Checkpoints, Block Rewards Never Half Announcements (Altcoins)
Sorry to inform you, but 571 is a prime and quite intentionally so.
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 26, 2015, 01:05:14 AM |
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Compiling secp256k1 without makefile Development & Technical Discussion
The ones I have are 32k flash. I could always go to a bigger chip, but I have a…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 26, 2015, 12:49:20 AM |
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Questions on Private Key Generation Development & Technical Discussion
The beginning encodes some metadata, like a version id; so you shouldn't expect…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 25, 2015, 02:46:33 PM |
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How are UTXOs stored? Development & Technical Discussion
It would at least offer a shortcut to a complete -reindex and slightly raise the…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 25, 2015, 02:19:31 PM |
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How are UTXOs stored? Development & Technical Discussion
There are proposals out there to add a hash of a deterministically generated UTX…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 25, 2015, 01:31:17 PM |
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Remove block validations in order to speed up initial sync from known client Development & Technical Discussion
This is inadvisable. It doesn't speed things up that much, and it removes the sy…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 25, 2015, 01:24:45 PM |
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Could ASIC-producers perform a block withholding attack? Mining speculation
Yup, worse, they could return only 80% of solutions after some time or difficult…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 25, 2015, 11:01:20 AM |
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Are BTC Devs Doing Enough To Encourage Adoption of BTC? Development & Technical Discussion
But your comment was not helpful.I think I gave you the most useful piece of adv…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 24, 2015, 11:40:35 PM |
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Are BTC Devs Doing Enough To Encourage Adoption of BTC? Development & Technical Discussion
I'm sorry that you feel that volunteers my not be doing enough to serve your per…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 24, 2015, 10:25:23 PM |
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Compiling secp256k1 without makefile Development & Technical Discussion
Yep, the only thing I really need is signing. The chip I have on hand for testin…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 24, 2015, 10:05:53 PM |
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Bitcoin Core soft-fork proposal for strict DER enforcing Development & Technical Discussion
I agree with the soft fork, though an annoying thing about this is that increasi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 24, 2015, 08:53:18 AM |
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Compiling secp256k1 without makefile Development & Technical Discussion
Thanks, took me a while to wrap my head around all the config options, but I fin…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 23, 2015, 10:48:25 PM |
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Compiling secp256k1 without makefile Development & Technical Discussion
The memory is mostly taken by the pre calculated multiples of G. You can reduce…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 23, 2015, 11:03:07 PM |
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Bitcoin Core soft-fork proposal for strict DER enforcing Development & Technical Discussion
Chiming in to say I agree with jl2012's proposal to have the implementation only…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 23, 2015, 10:43:17 PM |
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Block size Development & Technical Discussion
How easy is, for a miner, to find the place in the source code where it says "1…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 23, 2015, 02:22:17 PM |
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Is there any full node implementation 100% compatible with the core client? Development & Technical Discussion
This is really no different than any other alternative implementation when you g…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 23, 2015, 02:13:29 PM |
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Is there any full node implementation 100% compatible with the core client? Development & Technical Discussion
The risk of having a centralized core team for bitcoin againstThis is a false di…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 23, 2015, 10:40:58 AM |
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Bitcoin Core soft-fork proposal for strict DER enforcing Development & Technical Discussion
Am I just too paranoid?Yes. Due to malleability invalid scriptSig are re-encodab…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 23, 2015, 09:40:13 AM |
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Bitcoin Core soft-fork proposal for strict DER enforcing Development & Technical Discussion
Is there any cons worth discussing ? I only see the pros.I believe all the cons…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 21, 2015, 03:32:59 PM |
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Bitcoin Core soft-fork proposal for strict DER enforcing Development & Technical Discussion
Greetings, as suggested in the post about the recent OpenSSL incompatibility the…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 21, 2015, 01:17:56 PM |
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ECDSA 2 of 2 signing Development & Technical Discussion
my 0.01 BTCMight want to consider putting those views on sale, because that pric…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 19, 2015, 08:47:55 PM |
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ECDSA Signatures allow recovery of the public key Development & Technical Discussion
Please don't bump old threads, especially not to propose something new. You can…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 19, 2015, 10:05:31 AM |
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Is provoking a fork on purpose a good thing ? Development & Technical Discussion
Potential forking conditions need to be handled in a coordinated manner in order…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 17, 2015, 06:07:45 PM |
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secp256k1 as a library on Windows Development & Technical Discussion
You should probably not be using the library right now, especially not if you're…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 16, 2015, 09:56:42 AM |
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 14, 2015, 11:12:23 PM |
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Is there any full node implementation 100% compatible with the core client? Development & Technical Discussion
To me, what it really comes down to is probabilities. The popular assumption is…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 14, 2015, 08:18:49 PM |
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