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CoinJoin: Bitcoin privacy for the real world Development & Technical Discussion
This is very safe, however it is not very private. It is essentially not possibl…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 06, 2014, 04:01:03 AM |
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Changing the 21 million bitcoin limit Altcoin Discussion
The op has been a member here since 2011, I don't know how you could be here and…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 05, 2014, 06:53:04 PM |
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[Tracker] Stealth Address Support Project Development
On the Payment Ids issue - if 2 people are sending to me anonymously why not cre…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 04, 2014, 01:58:07 PM |
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[Tracker] Stealth Address Support Project Development
Already we seem to have not learned from the experience with this kind of addres…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 04, 2014, 01:50:25 PM |
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[Tracker] Stealth Address Support Project Development
There are a great many things that can be done wrong— including the fact that a…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 04, 2014, 12:13:01 PM |
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BIP39 HMAC-SHA512 rationale ? Development & Technical Discussion
Still I don't see much utility in this as 2,048 is an insufficient number of ite…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 04, 2014, 11:57:50 AM |
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[Tracker] Stealth Address Support Project Development
Petertodd claimed to be working on a BIP and reserved a number but hasn't propos…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 04, 2014, 11:47:06 AM |
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Will we ever see automatically pushed updates? Development & Technical Discussion
Blockchain-style wallets, while certainly less secure than desktop clients in mo…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 02, 2014, 03:11:00 PM |
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Will we ever see automatically pushed updates? Development & Technical Discussion
Access to control such automatic updates would be begging to be kidnapped at gun…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 02, 2014, 03:06:06 PM |
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For fun: the lowest block hash yet Development & Technical Discussion
Oh, nice!May I ask how you are calculating/estimating the total work done by the…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 01, 2014, 07:59:57 PM |
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For fun: the lowest block hash yet Development & Technical Discussion
00000000000000000000b7de9e5c19e52be073156924b7cf235efb27ae8a202amath.log((2**256…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 01, 2014, 02:30:35 AM |
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History of Hardforks and Rollbacks in Bitcoin Bitcoin Discussion
I think that the only two hardforks were:- The change in the version message whi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 31, 2014, 03:46:26 AM |
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Cuckoo Cycle revisited Development & Technical Discussion
the bandwidth of a few dozen/hundred DRAM chips (are these the ASICs you're look…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 30, 2014, 11:41:09 PM |
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btc hash rate Bitcoin Technical Support
is that means our game isBeing created by people who are not yet qualified to wr…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 30, 2014, 11:19:20 PM |
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Share your ideas on what to replace the 1 MB block size limit with Development & Technical Discussion
Without commenting on the rest, the logic doesn't follow here. It is not necess…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 30, 2014, 10:44:23 PM |
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Share your ideas on what to replace the 1 MB block size limit with Development & Technical Discussion
If Bitcoin is merely a high powered money for international settlement between l…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 30, 2014, 06:35:19 PM |
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bitcoind won't start; runs out of memory Development & Technical Discussion
The UTXO set is not kept in ram, just caches. Block headers are, however... and…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 30, 2014, 01:50:06 PM |
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Speeding up bitcoind compilation? Development & Technical Discussion
I'm creating a patch for a bug in bitcoind code, and I'm compiling bitcoind on a…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 30, 2014, 12:18:47 PM |
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Speed up confirmation time Development & Technical Discussion
Is the green address concept supported by the bitcoin protocol? I am checking th…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 29, 2014, 05:41:44 PM |
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Speed up confirmation time Development & Technical Discussion
It's infrequent that engineering finds a strictly superior solution, — even Bitc…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 29, 2014, 02:25:12 PM |
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Ful node is vanishing Development & Technical Discussion
The number of full node is decrease from 7400 to 7200 in 60 days7400 to 7200 is…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 29, 2014, 02:07:17 PM |
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When would Contract and more complicated transactions be enabled in Bitcoin? Development & Technical Discussion
All features and new functionalities described in https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Con…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 29, 2014, 02:02:16 PM |
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Will Bitcoin QT ever look more "pretty"? Development & Technical Discussion
lol of course this comes from a user named "kittycatbtc"no disrespect. i think d…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 29, 2014, 01:21:50 AM |
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Making a transaction whose output is spendable only after n blocks are found? Development & Technical Discussion
- nLockTime only works if the sequence number is lower than 4294967295- transact…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 28, 2014, 10:04:24 AM |
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ANTMINER S3 Discussion and Support Thread. Hardware
Is anyone selling the 10% off S3 coupons anywhere?
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 28, 2014, 09:49:20 AM |
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Importing a list of private keys Development & Technical Discussion
Yup, that's how I came across it. It's a very helpful addition. It's just that t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 28, 2014, 09:34:39 AM |
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Has there ever been a double-spend? Development & Technical Discussion
This is totally the kind of enlightenment I was looking for. So, if i understan…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 27, 2014, 11:25:59 PM |
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Importing a list of private keys Development & Technical Discussion
The documentation is the integrated online help. use the help rpc on any rpc.
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 27, 2014, 11:04:03 PM |
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Has there ever been a double-spend? Development & Technical Discussion
but this isn't the same as spending the same btc twice in the blockchain.What yo…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 27, 2014, 10:51:32 PM |
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Is there a way to get unspent outputs of an arbitrary address using bitcoind? Development & Technical Discussion
b) is not implemented. I believe there is an -addrindex patch out there somewher…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 26, 2014, 04:40:32 PM |
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Share your ideas on what to replace the 1 MB block size limit with Development & Technical Discussion
but in my opinion that's a feature compensating for cheaper future storage and p…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 26, 2014, 04:35:39 PM |
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Share your ideas on what to replace the 1 MB block size limit with Development & Technical Discussion
A miner who wants to mine a block larger than 1MB needs to give up a part of the…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 26, 2014, 01:54:21 PM |
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Share your ideas on what to replace the 1 MB block size limit with Development & Technical Discussion
while the CryptoNote / Monero solution or something similar also a necessary but…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 26, 2014, 01:34:11 AM |
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Smart Contracts - a suggested format Development & Technical Discussion
This doesn't seem to have anything to do with smart contracts though, perhaps yo…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 26, 2014, 02:32:10 AM |
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Share your ideas on what to replace the 1 MB block size limit with Development & Technical Discussion
This thread is beginning to just rehash the discussion from the several prior on…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 25, 2014, 03:09:30 PM |
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CoinJoin: Bitcoin privacy for the real world Development & Technical Discussion
Would using ring signatures work as a method of mixing without having to trust a…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 25, 2014, 09:19:00 PM |
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Share your ideas on what to replace the 1 MB block size limit with Development & Technical Discussion
This is all very true but it can be addressed by making an increase in difficult…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 25, 2014, 07:01:42 PM |
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Why don't (small) pools join p2pool? [idea towards decentralization] Development & Technical Discussion
I think if a pool were to direct it's resources towards another pool (p2pool, or…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 25, 2014, 12:38:52 AM |
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[Idea] Proposal for improving Bitcoin mining decentralization [Avoid 51% attack] Development & Technical Discussion
The increasing hashrate is relevant, since had it been stable, in the long run t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 24, 2014, 07:46:07 PM |
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[Idea] Proposal for improving Bitcoin mining decentralization [Avoid 51% attack] Development & Technical Discussion
I think miners choose the largest pool not because they don't care, but because…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 24, 2014, 04:47:12 PM |
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[Idea] Proposal for improving Bitcoin mining decentralization [Avoid 51% attack] Development & Technical Discussion
I really like Proof of Activity. It fixes several problems at once:Unfortunately…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 24, 2014, 03:53:18 AM |
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Very very simple yet powerful 51% solution Development & Technical Discussion
If widely used this "solution" would be hazardous to the network: in cases where…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 24, 2014, 03:08:29 AM |
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NSA and ECC Development & Technical Discussion
When you say G is provably irrelevant, I can only assume (and I'd rather not hen…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 23, 2014, 08:58:24 PM |
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[Idea] Proposal for improving Bitcoin mining decentralization [Avoid 51% attack] Development & Technical Discussion
The reality is 40%+ choose the single worst possible option, which is using the…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 23, 2014, 09:10:30 PM |
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Is it possible to create a new address type that uses ring signatures instead? Development & Technical Discussion
I guess the missing piece for me is how they actually are implemented.The origin…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 23, 2014, 06:42:28 PM |
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Is it possible to create a new address type that uses ring signatures instead? Development & Technical Discussion
I've never seen a good explanation of how ring signatures are actually useful, u…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 23, 2014, 06:04:13 PM |
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DIY high quality entropy with low cost Development & Technical Discussion
Less efficient, but set membership is a bit harder to screw up:Take N distinct c…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 23, 2014, 02:47:36 PM |
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The blockchain, charted Development & Technical Discussion
A chart with the size of the UTXO (# of transactions, size or both) would be int…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 22, 2014, 08:44:55 PM |
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Why does Bitcoin not implement anon? Development & Technical Discussion
The short answer is that anonymity as an eventual optional feature (e.g. someth…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 22, 2014, 02:38:20 AM |
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Why does Bitcoin not implement anon? Development & Technical Discussion
Why would anon even be something you want if you want Bitcoin to be mass adopted…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 21, 2014, 10:46:33 PM |
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Is it possible to create a new address type that uses ring signatures instead? Development & Technical Discussion
What's a full verifying node? (The blockchain is much more than 1GB)Nodes curre…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 21, 2014, 01:36:08 AM |
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Very very simple yet powerful 51% solution Development & Technical Discussion
WRT to my quote, I think you misunderstand what gmaxwell & adam3us mean by anony…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 21, 2014, 01:12:48 AM |
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Funny address pair Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteMaybe, how did you find this occurrence of same hash?My script monitors for…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 21, 2014, 01:07:51 AM |
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Is it possible to create a new address type that uses ring signatures instead? Development & Technical Discussion
It would be very neat if we could move BTC to ring signature addresses like cryp…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 20, 2014, 05:52:22 PM |
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Funny address pair Development & Technical Discussion
These two addresses have the same hash d3e604621abfc263162af107834b5a04011b9751T…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 20, 2014, 05:48:35 PM |
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NSA and ECC Development & Technical Discussion
My question stands: where did those numbers come from? The probable answer is…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 19, 2014, 11:09:46 PM |
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Why does Bitcoin not implement anon? Development & Technical Discussion
Using a crypto-currency designed to make tracing transactions impossible would l…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 18, 2014, 08:58:52 PM |
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How safe is an Encrypted Bitcoin core wallet with a strong password? Bitcoin Technical Support
The software uses best-practices in handling, it's adaptively strengthened with…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 18, 2014, 12:23:23 PM |
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Anonymity and Funding Bitcoin Discussion
the bitcoin development community has offered no assurances or support to the z…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 17, 2014, 10:13:35 PM |
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Very very simple yet powerful 51% solution Development & Technical Discussion
Let's say that we run N of M oracles that hold keys to a multisig address. And o…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 17, 2014, 06:23:26 PM |
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Very very simple yet powerful 51% solution Development & Technical Discussion
It's not a stupid solution really - aside from SWIFT, also Ripple uses it if I'm…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 17, 2014, 05:52:26 PM |
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Anonymity and Funding Bitcoin Discussion
The Bitcoin Foundation in no way owns or controls the Bitcoin core implementatio…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 17, 2014, 05:29:47 PM |
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Very very simple yet powerful 51% solution Development & Technical Discussion
You are 100% incorrect you need to go up and read my post again.I read it multip…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 17, 2014, 05:43:49 PM |
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Very very simple yet powerful 51% solution Development & Technical Discussion
If you're going to remove the non-membership of mining and require certified (an…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 17, 2014, 04:58:04 PM |
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On The Longest Chain Rule and Programmed Self-Destruction of Crypto Currencies Development & Technical Discussion
If I have misinterpreted his writings, he will I assume point that out.You have,…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 17, 2014, 08:39:25 AM |
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BitCoin Adopting Unique Alt-Coin Features Development & Technical Discussion
Alt-coins that aren't using Bitcoin's codebase are the only ones that stand a c…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 16, 2014, 04:39:52 PM |
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On The Longest Chain Rule and Programmed Self-Destruction of Crypto Currencies Development & Technical Discussion
but they require O(n^2) communication so Forget that— even ignoring the scaling…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 15, 2014, 08:46:51 PM |
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NSA and ECC Development & Technical Discussion
Instead of a single block hash the computational cost can be easily increased b…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 15, 2014, 02:46:42 PM |
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NSA and ECC Development & Technical Discussion
A neat variation is that for the parties that compute H(R_n) you make H() really…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 15, 2014, 03:00:52 PM |
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NSA and ECC Development & Technical Discussion
It is no different than NIST just randomly generating curves directly.Well, it i…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 15, 2014, 01:35:24 PM |
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On The Longest Chain Rule and Programmed Self-Destruction of Crypto Currencies Development & Technical Discussion
Note in my proposal unwinding only affects double-spent coins, so if you never s…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 15, 2014, 08:48:14 AM |
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NSA and ECC Development & Technical Discussion
how someone researching the security of the DSA of bitcoin might not feel 100% s…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 15, 2014, 07:37:45 AM |
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On The Longest Chain Rule and Programmed Self-Destruction of Crypto Currencies Development & Technical Discussion
and where was my solution proposed before?I don't believe your post contained a…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 14, 2014, 06:30:42 AM |
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On The Longest Chain Rule and Programmed Self-Destruction of Crypto Currencies Development & Technical Discussion
The most important point made in the paperHuh, the fact that someone with
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 14, 2014, 12:22:34 AM |
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NSA and ECC Development & Technical Discussion
Edit: note I did not dig into the bada55 curves to make sure I understand what t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 14, 2014, 06:12:32 AM |
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NSA and ECC Development & Technical Discussion
If I am not mistaken, aren't you moving the goal posts in that you appear to be…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 14, 2014, 12:19:57 AM |
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Question on Transaction Fee and TX input/output, technically Development & Technical Discussion
As we know Bitcoin currently has a minimum transaction fee threshold of 0.0001 B…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 13, 2014, 08:44:28 AM |
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BitCoin Adopting Unique Alt-Coin Features Development & Technical Discussion
Just try getting the bitcoin-core developers to go 'against the grain' as it whe…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 12, 2014, 04:01:10 PM |
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Message Encryption with bitcoin address. Development & Technical Discussion
Aren't you assuming that the receiver is going to respond to your attacks using…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 12, 2014, 03:15:33 PM |
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Message Encryption with bitcoin address. Development & Technical Discussion
I think I'm following your concern, but that's why I said:Obviously this only wo…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 12, 2014, 07:57:38 AM |
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BitCoin Adopting Unique Alt-Coin Features Development & Technical Discussion
Playing a bit of devil's advocate here... but Ethereum is turing-complete, and t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 12, 2014, 07:52:45 AM |
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Message Encryption with bitcoin address. Development & Technical Discussion
encrypted_message = (clear-text message) XOR (symmetric key)Danger! Will Rob…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 12, 2014, 12:06:39 AM |
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BitCoin Adopting Unique Alt-Coin Features Development & Technical Discussion
I think a lot of people think Bitcoin won't ever change, or adapt, or get some d…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 11, 2014, 11:28:16 PM |
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NSA and ECC Development & Technical Discussion
I can't help but notice that not one of the safecurves.cr.yp.to families are imp…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 11, 2014, 06:28:20 PM |
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BitCoin Adopting Unique Alt-Coin Features Development & Technical Discussion
I think Ethereum is quite close to that feat, although they still haven't launch…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 11, 2014, 12:15:22 PM |
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Blockchain Keyframing Development & Technical Discussion
There aren't any current alerts for fraud. The original idea in the paper was a…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 11, 2014, 09:11:23 AM |
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Blockchain Keyframing Development & Technical Discussion
My objective here was to make the blockchain being used smaller for devices such…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 11, 2014, 08:25:45 AM |
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Random generation for Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
I don't see how making it more efficient for everyone would change anything at a…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 10, 2014, 07:53:42 AM |
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A bitcoin client with no PRNG. Possible? Development & Technical Discussion
There is a reason— just that it can hide the faults when your other things faile…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 09, 2014, 11:33:44 AM |
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Bitcoin Is Having Its Moment But There Are Better Sustainable Currencies Bitcoin Discussion
Proof of State coin is not a decentralized currency.This sentence is wrong in so…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 09, 2014, 11:20:11 AM |
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A bitcoin client with no PRNG. Possible? Development & Technical Discussion
I've generally found it to be pretty easy to shuffle poorly... I'd rather throw…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 09, 2014, 10:41:30 AM |
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Why did this transaction confirm? Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteThey are technically spendable but they cost more in marginal fees than the…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 08, 2014, 02:12:56 PM |
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Why did this transaction confirm? Development & Technical Discussion
I see several of these outputs are already spent. How are they supposed to be un…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 08, 2014, 02:07:14 PM |
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Random generation for Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
Ah! That explains it. Several timestamps or modifications may have to be tried i…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 08, 2014, 02:05:52 PM |
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Why did this transaction confirm? Development & Technical Discussion
Some node ( may be not bcpool.io ) keeped it in its memory pool and relayed toda…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 08, 2014, 01:55:36 PM |
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Random generation for Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
Randomness is a tricky issue. Are the Bitcoin proof of work solutions truly rand…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 08, 2014, 01:45:37 PM |
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Random generation for Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
Ok, but couldn't the use of a random generator produce a correct nonce faster th…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 08, 2014, 01:24:55 PM |
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Why did this transaction confirm? Development & Technical Discussion
Blockchain.info indicates that the block with the offending TX (Block #309,740)…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 08, 2014, 12:47:52 PM |
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Random generation for Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
I guess I still don't understand the details of this part - is that due to them…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 08, 2014, 12:25:47 PM |
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Random generation for Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
They all start at zero (or any other number) it doesn't matter as they're all wo…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 08, 2014, 12:20:30 PM |
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