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Reducing UTXO: users send parent transactions with their merkle branches Development & Technical Discussion
2. Users send not only a transaction, but all parent transactions and their merk…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 19, 2013, 07:16:35 PM |
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Making fraud proofs safe to use in practice. Development & Technical Discussion
An idea which has come up in the past is that various security model reductions…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 19, 2013, 07:49:07 PM |
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[24 TH] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool Pools
I love my p2pool, ty so much for writing it. I wish I could still use it.However…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 19, 2013, 03:40:00 AM |
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merged mining vs side-chains (another kind of merged mining) Development & Technical Discussion
Actually, SPV is pretty sketchy in case with normal merged mining too.Assuming t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 19, 2013, 03:12:05 AM |
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merged mining vs side-chains (another kind of merged mining) Development & Technical Discussion
By the way, while Namecoin transactions can be SPV'd, domain resolution requires…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 19, 2013, 02:55:40 AM |
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Zhou Tonged - End of Silk Road Politics & Society
I expected this to be dumb. Indeed, it was. But it was also a lot of fun. Nice s…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 19, 2013, 12:14:18 AM |
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Bitcoin RPM packages for Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Project Development
Interesting, how are the Bitcoin devs going to get around the ECDSA patent shit-…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 19, 2013, 12:06:16 AM |
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Potential Future Bitcoin Issue Development & Technical Discussion
I would anticipate that pools/ miners will actively scan pending transactions. W…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 18, 2013, 11:25:11 PM |
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How does vanitygen know when 100% is? Development & Technical Discussion
The numbers vanity gives are just bogus.There is a fixed low probablity of findi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 18, 2013, 10:10:33 PM |
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merged mining vs side-chains (another kind of merged mining) Development & Technical Discussion
Everyone will neglect sidechain X because it is invalid. [...] SPV clients on th…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 18, 2013, 07:30:51 PM |
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Suggestion for how to choose a pool difficulty for miners. Pools
I don't see why people give a shit if their _daily_ income has only a 1% variati…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 18, 2013, 06:29:00 PM |
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merged mining vs side-chains (another kind of merged mining) Development & Technical Discussion
On the other hand, side-chain consensus is fully dependent on Bitcoin consensus:…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 18, 2013, 06:15:35 PM |
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HD wallets for increased transaction privacy [split from CoinJoin thread] Development & Technical Discussion
Nor is there a need to give customers in many cases an extended public key such…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 18, 2013, 04:06:04 PM |
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HD wallets for increased transaction privacy [split from CoinJoin thread] Development & Technical Discussion
Ok, so you delegate an extended public key to your VPS and keep your master seed…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 18, 2013, 03:56:27 PM |
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HD wallets for increased transaction privacy [split from CoinJoin thread] Development & Technical Discussion
If you're going to encourage people to upload their extended public keys to this…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 18, 2013, 03:47:59 PM |
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HD wallets for increased transaction privacy [split from CoinJoin thread] Development & Technical Discussion
You have failed to improve anyone's privacy.You've subtly misrepresented what I…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 18, 2013, 03:25:44 PM |
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BIP0032 Mistake Development & Technical Discussion
I pointed that mistake out over a month ago.Where?
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 18, 2013, 02:13:51 PM |
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Is it possible to include a large amount fee while sending a small amount coins? Bitcoin Technical Support
Indeed. To purposefully orphan the block custom mining software is needed too an…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 18, 2013, 12:15:39 PM |
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HD wallets for increased transaction privacy [split from CoinJoin thread] Development & Technical Discussion
Substitute Bitmessage, or any other eavesdropping-resistant P2P messaging system…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 18, 2013, 12:12:20 PM |
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HD wallets for increased transaction privacy [split from CoinJoin thread] Development & Technical Discussion
What if there is no "last transaction"? How else but a lookahead bound to you pr…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 18, 2013, 12:09:56 PM |
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HD wallets for increased transaction privacy [split from CoinJoin thread] Development & Technical Discussion
The recipient still has to have some bound on the key lookahead,Why? As keys are…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 18, 2013, 11:30:46 AM |
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BIP0032 Mistake Development & Technical Discussion
Also having "(mod n)" is pointless. It's known that the elliptic curve operation…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 18, 2013, 11:09:52 AM |
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Transaction with a message Development & Technical Discussion
Thanks for the information. You're right, it would be too much information for t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 18, 2013, 03:20:48 AM |
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SHA256 + concatenation as good as scrypt? Development & Technical Discussion
Am I missing something critical here?Please don't go inventing your own cryptogr…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 18, 2013, 02:48:34 AM |
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Transaction with a message Development & Technical Discussion
Is there the option to sign a transaction with a message, only readable for the…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 17, 2013, 06:03:47 PM |
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Big Guys be stealing my bucket! Off-topic
It was an intentionally trolling thread and off-topic because it wasn't about cu…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 17, 2013, 04:41:20 PM |
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Bitcoin wallet security Hardware wallets
he and I can still log in to our bank accounts from his computer without anyone…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 17, 2013, 04:17:52 PM |
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[IDEA] - LockMyCoins Project Development
Be very careful: We don't know what the world will look like in ten years. Secu…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 17, 2013, 03:38:54 PM |
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Can moderator names be obfscuated in the HTML? Meta
It's effectively impossible to search for my old posts on the forum via google b…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 17, 2013, 12:44:36 PM |
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Should miners collude to steal funds from wallet confiscated by US government? Bitcoin Discussion
2. tell them "we need to steal all these coins NOW".3. get them to agree.4. m…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 17, 2013, 11:31:40 AM |
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HD wallets for increased transaction privacy [split from CoinJoin thread] Development & Technical Discussion
Why would anyone want to give the forum operators the ability to track all their…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 16, 2013, 08:53:45 PM |
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Feather-forks: enforcing a blacklist with sub-50% hash power Development & Technical Discussion
You can think of this as a very-soft-fork, or a weak form of blacklisting. As fa…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 16, 2013, 08:33:51 PM |
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HD wallets for increased transaction privacy [split from CoinJoin thread] Development & Technical Discussion
The forum has it's BIP32 seed and generates a subnode for each registered member…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 16, 2013, 06:09:33 PM |
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HD wallets for increased transaction privacy [split from CoinJoin thread] Development & Technical Discussion
It's not really any different than how existing deterministic wallets work now.…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 16, 2013, 04:34:26 PM |
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HD wallets for increased transaction privacy [split from CoinJoin thread] Development & Technical Discussion
Is the serialization format mentioned in BIP32 not sufficient for this?I'm unsur…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 16, 2013, 03:24:19 PM |
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valid assumption?: scriptSig can be used to return coins to sender? Development & Technical Discussion
PAYTHRU don't want people's bitcoins, so you're absolutely right that you should…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 16, 2013, 02:08:17 PM |
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HD wallets for increased transaction privacy [split from CoinJoin thread] Development & Technical Discussion
HD wallets?Sure, but we need an address type that encodes an extended public key…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 16, 2013, 01:50:47 PM |
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hardening brain-wallets with a useful blind proof of work Development & Technical Discussion
Now don't speculate on my intentions as it's unproductive, to my best knowledge(…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 16, 2013, 03:38:02 AM |
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Removing old coin uncertainty Bitcoin Discussion
Why the 'know the circulation with precision' itch makes people scratch is beyon…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 16, 2013, 03:20:29 AM |
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Satoshi identified, now what? Bitcoin Discussion
The only reason to identify Satoshi is to use his humanity to discredit Bitcoin.…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 16, 2013, 02:32:57 AM |
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hardening brain-wallets with a useful blind proof of work Development & Technical Discussion
Your brain is trained to memorize phrases, not random alphabet-number-symbol mix…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 16, 2013, 02:22:25 AM |
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Removing old coin uncertainty Bitcoin Discussion
It would be much more than a moderate inconvenience for me.Personally I think 1…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 16, 2013, 01:55:02 AM |
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Removing old coin uncertainty Bitcoin Discussion
So, let me get this straight. You're basically attempting to start some sort of…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 15, 2013, 11:50:46 PM |
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Removing old coin uncertainty Bitcoin Discussion
I agree that supply uncertainty is a concern and a mistake in the original syste…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 15, 2013, 03:42:51 PM |
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hardening brain-wallets with a useful blind proof of work Development & Technical Discussion
It's not that difficult to memorize five random phrases, which will contain quit…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 15, 2013, 11:14:59 PM |
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Bitcoin RPM packages for Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Project Development
URGENT: IF YOU ARE USING THIS PACKAGE IN ITS SERVER/DAEMON MODE YOU MUST IMMEDIA…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 15, 2013, 10:38:24 PM |
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Proof of Storage to make distributed resource consumption costly. Development & Technical Discussion
I think Sergio means the client could outsource the computation to another clien…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 15, 2013, 06:15:13 PM |
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valid assumption?: scriptSig can be used to return coins to sender? Development & Technical Discussion
That's almost laughable since it suggests stripping control away from the user i…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 15, 2013, 04:42:52 PM |
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Is it possible that I spoke with satoshi? Maybe another Bitcoin dev can answer Bitcoin Discussion
but its made me curious ever since. Isn't it more fun to wonder than to know?
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 15, 2013, 05:40:10 PM |
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Proof of Storage to make distributed resource consumption costly. Development & Technical Discussion
Also it's important to note that C may not store all the tree, but only a precom…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 15, 2013, 05:28:24 PM |
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Namecoin was stillborn, I had to switch off life-support Altcoin Discussion
My my, thats unfortunate. Had this been fixed before being exploited it would h…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 15, 2013, 04:04:16 PM |
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CoinJoin: Bitcoin privacy for the real world Development & Technical Discussion
1) Coinjoin as I see it adds some plausible deniability but the taint is still t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 15, 2013, 01:05:11 PM |
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CoinJoin: Bitcoin privacy for the real world Development & Technical Discussion
Thus the anonymity and privacy obtained is unpredictable.It is never less than n…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 15, 2013, 12:29:59 PM |
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valid assumption?: scriptSig can be used to return coins to sender? Development & Technical Discussion
If you can describe a better way to provide refund ability in the current ecosys…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 15, 2013, 10:59:33 AM |
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valid assumption?: scriptSig can be used to return coins to sender? Development & Technical Discussion
It's possible, but people will tell you to wait for 0.9 features.I'm not keen on…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 15, 2013, 10:48:41 AM |
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valid assumption?: scriptSig can be used to return coins to sender? Development & Technical Discussion
Trying to work out if I can use the pubKey part of scriptSig in an transaction V…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 15, 2013, 10:40:00 AM |
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CoinJoin: Bitcoin privacy for the real world Development & Technical Discussion
On this general subject, I've been enjoying Peter Todd's dust-b-gone: https://gi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 15, 2013, 02:23:39 AM |
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Isn't the output of SHA256 *slightly* too big to use for a private key? Development & Technical Discussion
I did read a very interesting thread before, where it was shown brainwallets wit…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 15, 2013, 02:05:46 AM |
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What to do with BFL FPGA singles now? CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware
Let me say, I do not think they are scrap. They do have a value, it is just pre…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 15, 2013, 12:37:07 AM |
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Scrypt Bitcoin Threads NOT Allowed Altcoin Discussion
True, if the powers that be ban BTC2 based on name, then are they violating the…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 14, 2013, 10:30:07 PM |
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HashFast launches sales of the Baby Jet Hardware
We realized that a bit of confusion was raised yesterday in regard to the MPP. S…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 14, 2013, 09:12:39 PM |
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How exactly were comments sent to FBI's SilkRoad coins address? Development & Technical Discussion
So, how were the comments sent to the FBI's SilkRoad address?As far as I know, t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 14, 2013, 07:53:20 PM |
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Bitcoin Client with User Defined Difficulty and Stratum Support? Development & Technical Discussion
So I can just tell my miner to use the GBT protocol?If it has a sufficiently com…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 14, 2013, 07:36:05 PM |
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Bitcoin Client with User Defined Difficulty and Stratum Support? Development & Technical Discussion
Solo mining against the Bitcoin-QT client results in allot of shares being leake…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 14, 2013, 06:32:38 PM |
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Bruce Schneier: Insecurities in the Linux /dev/random Development & Technical Discussion
Does this effect any bitcoin address created from a wallet on Linux?Insecurities…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 14, 2013, 06:29:09 PM |
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Detecting an address collision? Development & Technical Discussion
Ok. But the old public key ("pubkey1") is still stored somewhere in the blockcha…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 14, 2013, 05:03:07 PM |
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Risk of accepting 0-confirmation transactions with Bitcoin-QT? Bitcoin Technical Support
I agree those would work, but the downside is that you couldn't be pseudonymous.…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 14, 2013, 02:01:16 PM |
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NSA and ECC Development & Technical Discussion
Seed has a generic meaning. Is that the best FUD you can do to avoid addressing…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 14, 2013, 12:56:13 PM |
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NSA and ECC Development & Technical Discussion
And the Koblitz curve explanations doesn't remove the lack of transparency in th…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 13, 2013, 05:59:45 PM |
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NSA and ECC Development & Technical Discussion
Came across this on HN, thought it would be useful here: SafeCurves: choosing sa…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 14, 2013, 12:46:44 PM |
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512 qbit quantum computer is here... Bitcoin Discussion
512 qbit quantum computer is here...This device is not the same class of device…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 14, 2013, 12:05:05 PM |
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PHP jsonRPPClient sendmany --- trouble it is not working. bitcoind 80500 Bitcoin Technical Support
You are specifying your value as a string.
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 14, 2013, 10:16:03 AM |
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Understanding elementary bitcoin signature scripts Development & Technical Discussion
Now the first operation is OP_DUPThe results from the scriptSig are already on t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 14, 2013, 10:15:09 AM |
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Bitcoin Client with User Defined Difficulty and Stratum Support? Development & Technical Discussion
When will there be variable or use defined difficulty and stratum support in the…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 14, 2013, 10:11:12 AM |
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Multiple payments in single transaction Bitcoin Technical Support
I have seen peoples sending bulk payments/funds to different wallets in a single…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 13, 2013, 07:19:02 PM |
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Proof of Storage to make distributed resource consumption costly. Development & Technical Discussion
So each node requires a gigabyte for their own storage table, plus one gigabyte…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 13, 2013, 07:07:04 PM |
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How is same signed transaction not reusable, also quantum security of ECDSA? Development & Technical Discussion
I am not spreading FUD, rather the FACT that we don't have the usual safeguards…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 13, 2013, 02:58:03 PM |
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bitcoin.org and sourceforge.net are not running on https Development & Technical Discussion
HTTPS is more deeply insecure than just the CA infrastructure sucking.It require…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 13, 2013, 02:32:07 PM |
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Worst case scenario Development & Technical Discussion
https isn't all that secure, for that matter, but it is better than nothing. Any…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 13, 2013, 02:13:57 PM |
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Risk of accepting 0-confirmation transactions with Bitcoin-QT? Bitcoin Technical Support
Let's say some local businesses start accepting bitcoin. So I download DoubleSpe…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 13, 2013, 04:29:38 AM |
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HashFast announces specs for new ASIC: 400GH/s Hardware
Read again. Nobody is getting raw chips, every batch protected by MPP will get f…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 13, 2013, 03:50:16 AM |
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HashFast announces specs for new ASIC: 400GH/s Hardware
Hashfast first batch customers paid 2.5x the current sale prices— part of that w…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 13, 2013, 01:19:16 AM |
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Risk of accepting 0-confirmation transactions with Bitcoin-QT? Bitcoin Technical Support
This is Bitcoin-101 basic tech support stuff, so I've removed it from the develo…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 13, 2013, 01:08:05 AM |
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Selectively choosing transactions to be included in a block Development & Technical Discussion
FWIW, I hope no one that had to learn this from reading this thread is running a…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 12, 2013, 11:09:33 PM |
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How is same signed transaction not reusable, also quantum security of ECDSA? Development & Technical Discussion
Thanks guys. So the one sentence answer to my OP is "yes the Nonce is the txid".…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 12, 2013, 10:24:59 PM |
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How is same signed transaction not reusable, also quantum security of ECDSA? Development & Technical Discussion
Systems based on balances have many complicated race conditions far beyond the p…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 12, 2013, 10:55:08 PM |
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Solution to a 51% attack? Altcoin Discussion
It doesn't sound legitimate at all. It sounds like the writing of someone who do…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 12, 2013, 01:16:32 AM |
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A Non-Outsourceable Puzzle to Prevent Hosted Mining Development & Technical Discussion
The only way to see a reasonably steady trickle of income is to join a mining po…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 12, 2013, 12:31:25 AM |
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How is same signed transaction not reusable, also quantum security of ECDSA? Development & Technical Discussion
Please excuse my raw ignorance,To correct this ignorance please start by reading…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 11, 2013, 09:32:19 PM |
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Whos paying for the DOS attacks? Mining speculation
A lot of pools have been DDOSed lately, including ones like Bitparking which are…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 11, 2013, 08:16:14 PM |
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History of United States Anti-Money Laundering Laws Bitcoin Discussion
At least three of the participants seemed to treat it as a no-brainer and the ob…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 11, 2013, 06:50:25 PM |
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[bitcoind] [brainwallet.org] Verify message, different results for same message Development & Technical Discussion
I'm investigating this behavior I reported earlier further. I'm doing further in…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 11, 2013, 06:42:35 PM |
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Worst case scenario Development & Technical Discussion
I think sending a maximum sequence alert is equal to sending the "URGENT: Alert…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 11, 2013, 12:00:27 PM |
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HashFast announces specs for new ASIC: 400GH/s Hardware
Sort of unfortunate to see it using rpi ... they've been pretty unreliable histo…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 10, 2013, 07:30:38 PM |
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A Non-Outsourceable Puzzle to Prevent Hosted Mining Development & Technical Discussion
I care. I use p2pool and avoid central mining pools. just sayin.So do I. But…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 10, 2013, 07:19:04 PM |
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A Non-Outsourceable Puzzle to Prevent Hosted Mining Development & Technical Discussion
Arguably the reduction in 1 block commitment security might have useful benefits…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 10, 2013, 04:50:39 PM |
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Worst case scenario Development & Technical Discussion
What if the alert system key(s) is compromised? Any mechanism to revoke the old…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 10, 2013, 01:00:37 PM |
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Worst case scenario Development & Technical Discussion
- An attacker could break directly into the source control where the source code…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 10, 2013, 11:32:22 AM |
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Isn't the output of SHA256 *slightly* too big to use for a private key? Development & Technical Discussion
You are more likely to introduce a bug in handling the special case than the cha…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 10, 2013, 12:23:29 AM |
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NSA and ECC Development & Technical Discussion
In other words, is there any possible efficiency argument that can be made for t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | October 08, 2013, 12:15:47 AM |
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