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Random generation for Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
My guess is that mining pools probably allocate a different starting *nonce* to…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 08, 2014, 12:18:23 PM |
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Random generation for Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
The quality and speed of random number generation is surely important for Bitcoi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 08, 2014, 11:56:58 AM |
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Why did this transaction confirm? Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, but I saw earlier transactions take a long time to be included in a block a…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 08, 2014, 08:50:21 AM |
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Possible bug 0.9.2.1 bitcoind - rpc port 8332 available to everyone. Development & Technical Discussion
There is an option to control binding separately from access: -rpcbind= …
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 08, 2014, 08:43:33 AM |
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RPC method listtransactions behavior in double spend attack scenario Development & Technical Discussion
Unconfirmed non-self transactions have never been included in reported balances.
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 08, 2014, 08:23:36 AM |
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Why did this transaction confirm? Development & Technical Discussion
I've already nagged the miner in question about the wad of dust floods they just…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 08, 2014, 07:51:26 AM |
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Why no minimum # of TX in a block? Development & Technical Discussion
11 posts in and we've gone full circle already!He's probably just blindly postin…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 07, 2014, 07:43:54 AM |
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LIGHTNINGASIC LA100M,100MHS SCRYPT Miner, USD1999; LA1THS, USD1750.shipped out! Hardware
jack u have lied so many times and u constantly delete on topic posts that cast…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 07, 2014, 06:15:38 AM |
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For fun: the lowest block hash yet Development & Technical Discussion
Currently, the highest achieved difficulty has block 266381:https://blockchain.i…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 06, 2014, 08:22:21 PM |
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in which anonymint can't understand winternitz Off-topic
I wrote that Winternitz trades some more computation for decreased space (as co…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 06, 2014, 07:35:31 PM |
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in which anonymint can't understand winternitz Off-topic
So this is just trading more computation for space. The hash ladder can do this…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 06, 2014, 02:38:18 PM |
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in which anonymint can't understand winternitz Off-topic
Er, as far as I can see there is no protection in Winternitz against signing a d…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 06, 2014, 08:52:40 AM |
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Why no minimum # of TX in a block? Development & Technical Discussion
What's preventing miners from adding a bunch of filler transactions to satisfy t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 05, 2014, 10:29:09 PM |
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in which anonymint can't understand winternitz Off-topic
The space overhead is really considerable— even when using Winternitz compressio…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 04, 2014, 05:20:53 PM |
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in which anonymint can't understand winternitz Off-topic
@gmaxwell, in any case I think you'd have to admit that one-time use Lamport sig…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 04, 2014, 09:33:39 AM |
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"I am in batch 1 and I am screwed by knc." Mining
Please pay attention to the original post. This isn't a thread to debate KNC ge…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 04, 2014, 03:21:46 AM |
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LIGHTNINGASIC LA100M,100MHS SCRYPT Miner, USD1999; LA1THS, USD1750.shipped out! Hardware
I've had to remove many offtopic posts in this thread lately. Please keep in min…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 04, 2014, 02:45:22 AM |
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Chunked download & scalability Development & Technical Discussion
Yeah, it definitely doesn't take that long at today's block size, I'm just think…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 03, 2014, 10:34:35 PM |
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Chunked download & scalability Development & Technical Discussion
What I'm aiming for with the streaming is to try and help reduce latency. So if…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 03, 2014, 09:12:53 PM |
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Sidechain without changing Bitcoin? Development & Technical Discussion
Is it possible to implement sidechains for Bitcoin without changing Bitcoin? i.e…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 03, 2014, 06:44:23 PM |
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Chunked download & scalability Development & Technical Discussion
Block messages for new blocks could consist of just the header, the coinbase tx…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 03, 2014, 12:37:45 PM |
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What would happen if there is a sudden drop of hashing power Development & Technical Discussion
Most people these days are concerned with some miner pool commanding >51% of the…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 03, 2014, 02:56:54 AM |
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Need Patch: Reject TX if calculated Fee is too high!! Development & Technical Discussion
On some occasions, the fee gets too high because of dust. Which I do not want. A…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 02, 2014, 05:32:17 PM |
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Algorithm for elliptic curve point compression Development & Technical Discussion
It doesn't need to be random, but if two different messages are signed with the…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 01, 2014, 07:38:24 PM |
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A Proposal for Brainwallets (v2) Development & Technical Discussion
which cracking software are you referring to?E.g. JTR rules mode is a publicly a…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 01, 2014, 08:13:43 PM |
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A Proposal for Brainwallets (v2) Development & Technical Discussion
The technique I suggestedIs _already_ modeled by existing cracking software: The…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 01, 2014, 07:59:26 PM |
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A Proposal for Brainwallets (v2) Development & Technical Discussion
and you have a brainwallet with fairly good security.There are attackers that ar…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 01, 2014, 07:49:45 PM |
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Faster blocks vs bigger blocks Development & Technical Discussion
Wouldn't convergence basically be the same for 10MB blocks every 10 minutes as f…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 01, 2014, 04:53:56 PM |
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Has the double spend, never confirming transactions bug been fixed? Bitcoin Technical Support
I'm not sure what you're talking about precisely— obviously double spends will n…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 01, 2014, 03:23:36 PM |
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Chunked download & scalability Development & Technical Discussion
I'm not sure why you think this would be all that advantageous.You still cannot…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 01, 2014, 01:53:52 PM |
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NSA and ECC Development & Technical Discussion
Well this one doesn't explain G so it's not all the parameters.. and out of all…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 01, 2014, 05:32:15 AM |
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A Proposal for Brainwallets (v2) Development & Technical Discussion
Which is it? Are the secrets hackable, or are they unrecoverable? You can't have…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 01, 2014, 01:19:08 AM |
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Alternatives to blockchain technology Development & Technical Discussion
Another way:https://ripple.com/wiki/Ledger_FormatUnfortunately ripple is a feder…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 01, 2014, 12:27:08 AM |
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I assume this 497 BTC output is unspendable? Development & Technical Discussion
This means the network can't help you to detect and block fatal flaws.The inhibi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 01, 2014, 12:23:53 AM |
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A Proposal for Brainwallets (v2) Development & Technical Discussion
I don't even think you can say it's impossible to create your secure phrase. ma…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 01, 2014, 12:20:54 AM |
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Alternatives to blockchain technology Development & Technical Discussion
Am I wrong?Yes, you are wrong— if all you are doing is verifying new blocks and…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 30, 2014, 09:00:01 PM |
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I assume this 497 BTC output is unspendable? Development & Technical Discussion
It's a slippery slope, perhaps— "don't @#$@ with the behavior" is a clear positi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 30, 2014, 08:40:25 PM |
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I assume this 497 BTC output is unspendable? Development & Technical Discussion
Well MtGox wasn't the only one to do it. 2609.36304319 BTC over the years due t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 30, 2014, 08:24:27 PM |
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Alternatives to blockchain technology Development & Technical Discussion
this doesn't change the fact that each and every satoshi has a history stored in…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 30, 2014, 08:04:26 PM |
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I assume this 497 BTC output is unspendable? Development & Technical Discussion
This was MTGOX it made a bit of news back when it happened.Like most epic failur…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 30, 2014, 06:45:09 PM |
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Alternatives to blockchain technology Development & Technical Discussion
One of those handicaps is the blockchain size. Blockchain has to include each an…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 30, 2014, 05:51:12 PM |
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NSA and ECC Development & Technical Discussion
secp256k1 is "somewhat rigid" not "fully rigid":Incorrect. The parameters _are_…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 29, 2014, 07:54:06 PM |
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Essentially Gambling your hashes away Mining support
You can mine on P2Pool and turn your share difficulty way up— there is a maximum…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 28, 2014, 10:08:36 PM |
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Algorithm for elliptic curve point compression Development & Technical Discussion
This makes me more confident that there's "nothing up my sleeve" than 2^256 - 2^…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 28, 2014, 05:54:27 PM |
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Proof of reserves Development & Technical Discussion
Now prove you are suppose to have "X" BTC. To be truly proven you must also pro…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 28, 2014, 05:47:47 PM |
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Algorithm for elliptic curve point compression Development & Technical Discussion
2^256-2^32-x is prime for the following positive x: 263, 359, 361, 487, 739, 949…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 28, 2014, 12:46:43 PM |
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What does murmurhash do in BTC? Development & Technical Discussion
What/why is there murmurhash in the middle of bitcoin?What does it do, excatly,…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 28, 2014, 12:37:43 AM |
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Algorithm for elliptic curve point compression Development & Technical Discussion
how is this derived?: p = 2^256 - 2^32 - 2^9 - 2^8 - 2^7 - 2^6 - 2^4 - 1It's a…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 28, 2014, 12:30:16 AM |
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bitcoind-ncurses; Terminal front-end for bitcoind Development & Technical Discussion
Very neat. Perhaps to go with the bandwidth stats some mempool stats and a time…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 27, 2014, 06:53:19 PM |
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Algorithm for elliptic curve point compression Development & Technical Discussion
Its unfortunate— more than anything else patents slayed ecash the first time aro…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 27, 2014, 05:42:17 PM |
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Algorithm for elliptic curve point compression Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteCompression of elliptic curve points is patented by Certicom, so you should…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 27, 2014, 02:14:09 PM |
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Looking for an open source online wallet Wallet software
not exactly a wallet but still quite nice :http://brainwallet.org/That site is b…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 27, 2014, 08:23:10 AM |
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Split block reward to reduce miner variance Development & Technical Discussion
I'm confused again. Im not asking 1 party or pool to come up with 25 solutions m…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 26, 2014, 09:45:06 PM |
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I may have overlooked that satoshi spent an additional 25 BTC in 2009. Not sure. Development & Technical Discussion
I have no intentions to learn more about satoshi than we're supposed to, The bes…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 26, 2014, 02:18:03 PM |
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Identify a block mined by a p2pool Development & Technical Discussion
Is it possible to recognize a block was mined by a p2pool rather than a centrali…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 26, 2014, 01:38:18 PM |
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Time to wait for 99% surety of no double spend, accounting for pool hashrate % Development & Technical Discussion
Mike Hearn was saying recently that ONLY Gavin was working on protocol stuff, mo…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 26, 2014, 11:40:14 AM |
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Recover wallet passphrase - special circumstance? Altcoin Discussion
You want the dumpwallet rpc.Your computer doesn't know the passphrase.Are you su…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 26, 2014, 11:19:21 AM |
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I may have overlooked that satoshi spent an additional 25 BTC in 2009. Not sure. Development & Technical Discussion
Something wrong with the forum software - it dropped the part where you say, "I…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 26, 2014, 11:07:44 AM |
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How to modify "standard" multisig script to create multiple P2SH addresses? Development & Technical Discussion
Yuck. BIP32 exists so that people can derive their partners addresses and do so…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 26, 2014, 11:02:48 AM |
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How to modify "standard" multisig script to create multiple P2SH addresses? Development & Technical Discussion
Yuck. BIP32 exists so that people can derive their partners addresses and do so…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 26, 2014, 04:51:54 AM |
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I may have overlooked that satoshi spent an additional 25 BTC in 2009. Not sure. Development & Technical Discussion
The fixation on Satoshi makes me a little sad. Bitcoin was created to create a…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 26, 2014, 03:20:41 AM |
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Using a DHT to reduce the resource requirements of full nodes. Development & Technical Discussion
Whenever you hear the term DHT what you should be hearing is "total farce of att…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 25, 2014, 11:26:32 PM |
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implementation of a redlisting mechanism Development & Technical Discussion
It's odd that the success rate graphs in the paper do not account for the fact t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 25, 2014, 02:07:02 PM |
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Programmed self-destruction and how to prevent it Development & Technical Discussion
This paper was already discussed extensively in this subforum: https://bitcointa…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 25, 2014, 11:00:47 AM |
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Thought experiment: Own the bitcoin network by paying off node operators Bitcoin Discussion
Bitcoin is based on trustless verification.To the greatest extent possible we do…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 25, 2014, 10:58:09 AM |
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Split block reward to reduce miner variance Development & Technical Discussion
Why not enforce each block to have 25 coinbase tx's to different payout addresse…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 25, 2014, 10:52:27 AM |
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ANN: BITMAIN has Tested Its 28nm Bitcoin Mining Chip BM1382 Hardware
They delayed the launch.
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 24, 2014, 03:20:42 PM |
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Split block reward to reduce miner variance Development & Technical Discussion
It's very similar to p2pool, though p2pool has a much larger merging window (864…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 24, 2014, 11:43:52 AM |
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Yet another Pool Problem solution : Mining multiple blocks simultaneously ? Development & Technical Discussion
The p2pool sharechain has an expected interval of ~30 seconds per share and tha…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 24, 2014, 11:32:41 AM |
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[ANN] Spondoolies-Tech - Best W/GH/s ratio, Best $/GH/s ratio Hardware
Please keep this thread on topic. All posts in a thread should be strictly rela…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 24, 2014, 08:36:23 AM |
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How much are you willing to pay for Bitmain (Antminer) S3? Mining speculation
Delaying the release a week affects your price that much?7 days is a hashrate ch…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 23, 2014, 11:05:10 PM |
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For fun: the lowest block hash yet Development & Technical Discussion
Not too much has happened, I was waiting to get one with apparent work > 2^80 to…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 22, 2014, 01:17:23 AM |
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How much are you willing to pay for Bitmain (Antminer) S3? Mining speculation
For me I can make .9 btc work even 1.0 btc but higher then 1.0 btc How? this do…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 21, 2014, 08:17:28 PM |
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[460 TH] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool Pools
That does not invalidate my point: why make more than trivial commits if miners…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 21, 2014, 03:17:31 PM |
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[2014-06-18] CoinDesk: List of Possible Silk Road Bitcoin Bidders Leaked Press
This wasn't really a bidders list— it was a list of parties who'd contacted USMS…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 19, 2014, 01:56:52 AM |
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solo-mining and bitcoin-core 0.9.1 - block blocked ? Development & Technical Discussion
I can't figure out what you are saying is a problem here.
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 18, 2014, 05:10:33 PM |
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blockchain size Do we really need 20 gbs of data? Development & Technical Discussion
There is nothing "official" about The Bitcoin Foundation. They are a private cl…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 18, 2014, 01:04:09 PM |
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Mitigating Miner Penalty for Large Blocks by Reducing Propagation Penalty by 600 Development & Technical Discussion
Forgive me if this has already been discussed, but I believe [humbly] that you a…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 17, 2014, 08:00:21 PM |
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Why do morons always try to redeem non-standard TX with no fee? Development & Technical Discussion
Your message might get more attention if it had a modicum of civility.
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 17, 2014, 07:44:22 PM |
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Pool Double-Spend Solution Development & Technical Discussion
If you folks like this idea, can we get it pushed through to a core dev.I believ…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 17, 2014, 10:47:10 AM |
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Mitigating Miner Penalty for Large Blocks by Reducing Propagation Penalty by 600 Development & Technical Discussion
Is it possible to mitigate this effects by establishing the rule that, when the…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 17, 2014, 01:29:29 AM |
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Change addresses: What was the motive of Satoshi? Bitcoin Technical Support
We know that "change" in real life are useful because you give ten dollars and y…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 14, 2014, 12:52:50 PM |
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[6600Th] Eligius: 0% Fee BTC, 105% PPS NMC, No registration, CPPSRB (New Thread) Pools
Actions speak LOUDER then WORDS and Whiz's actions speak for them self! TRUST EA…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 13, 2014, 05:31:41 PM |
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A Non-Outsourceable Puzzle to Prevent Hosted Mining Development & Technical Discussion
Update: my advisors at University of Maryland and I have recently written a rese…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 13, 2014, 04:00:14 PM |
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[BCN] Bytecoin (CPU-mining, true anonymity) Announcements (Altcoins)
I can claim BCN is legit1) its been around for 2 years (since 2012)The claim th…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 13, 2014, 12:18:33 PM |
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"Easy way" to extract the UXTO from Bitcoin Core? Development & Technical Discussion
Makes sense. I agree wiki is probably the wrong place. Maybe expanding the inl…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 13, 2014, 03:46:41 AM |
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[6600Th] Eligius: 0% Fee BTC, 105% PPS NMC, No registration, CPPSRB (New Thread) Pools
Can eligius code something that says to the effect "if you are over x% of the po…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 12, 2014, 11:25:52 PM |
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Bit-thereum Development & Technical Discussion
OT has been talking about interesting things in connection with Bitcoin since at…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 12, 2014, 07:26:05 PM |
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"Easy way" to extract the UXTO from Bitcoin Core? Development & Technical Discussion
That would actually be something worth documenting.Preferably on the wiki.This i…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 12, 2014, 07:23:44 PM |
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"Easy way" to extract the UXTO from Bitcoin Core? Development & Technical Discussion
Using this I have been able to locate some tx and decode some portions of the vo…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 10, 2014, 07:37:58 PM |
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Bit-thereum Development & Technical Discussion
I think the IBM cards are basically dead, at this point. TC is now all about Int…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 10, 2014, 03:12:52 PM |
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Would preventing pooled mining help or hurt Bitcoin? Development & Technical Discussion
It would be very easy to design a PoW which requires knowledge of the private ke…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 09, 2014, 10:54:04 PM |
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Bit-thereum Development & Technical Discussion
This subject has been a frequent one in #bitcoin-wizards.The point I like to mak…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 09, 2014, 06:13:20 PM |
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Vanitygen: Vanity bitcoin address generator/miner [v0.22] Development & Technical Discussion
Yeah it would make life much more easier. How hard is to implement that ? I did…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 09, 2014, 03:11:12 PM |
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Vanitygen: Vanity bitcoin address generator/miner [v0.22] Development & Technical Discussion
Still no compressed keys? I'm kinda surprised considering how much faster it ma…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 09, 2014, 02:58:50 PM |
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how to send multiple payments without waiting for change? Bitcoin Technical Support
First and foremost, use sendmany.— I don't understand why you're bringing up bc.…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 09, 2014, 12:42:43 PM |
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Would preventing pooled mining help or hurt Bitcoin? Development & Technical Discussion
Would there be any effective difference between everyone switching to p2pool (in…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 09, 2014, 12:01:34 AM |
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Would preventing pooled mining help or hurt Bitcoin? Development & Technical Discussion
The end result would be that the only way to get low variance would be to invest…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 08, 2014, 07:06:47 PM |
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[BCN] Bytecoin (CPU-mining, true anonymity) Announcements (Altcoins)
I don't have the .onion address. But it looked similar to the one mentioned earl…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 08, 2014, 10:19:22 AM |
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【Truth or FUD???】DarkCoin – The Next Big Thing, or Just Another Pump and Dump? Altcoin Discussion
Btw, this is my alleged pumping link that Greg took exception to: https://bitcoi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | June 06, 2014, 03:14:23 PM |
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