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Why do most people automatically think Bitcoin is a scam/ponzi scheme? Bitcoin Discussion
Mining is by far the most "scammy feeling" part of Bitcoin for the uninformed pe…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 18, 2013, 07:02:30 PM |
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Bitcoin is no longer decentralized Bitcoin Discussion
-Harder to centralize (algorithms that discourage usage of ASIC)You're just pick…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 18, 2013, 04:00:03 PM |
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Bitcoin is no longer decentralized Bitcoin Discussion
what is a share here? Arbitary data with hash less then target?How does the pool…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 18, 2013, 03:56:18 PM |
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Bitcoin is no longer decentralized Bitcoin Discussion
Indeed, it's trivially possible. You don't change them after the fact, you chang…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 18, 2013, 03:15:14 PM |
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Need help to get raw block data to analyze orphan rates variation over time Development & Technical Discussion
What you probably want to do is to take some python blockscanning tool, teach it…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 18, 2013, 03:01:39 PM |
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[28.5Th] Eligius: ASIC, no registration, no fee CPPSRB BTC + 105% PPS NMC, 877 # Pools
Astonishingly the PPS value of a difficulty 1 share is still above 1 bitcoin bas…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 18, 2013, 01:38:10 PM |
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Why do most people automatically think Bitcoin is a scam/ponzi scheme? Bitcoin Discussion
When I tell people about Bitcoin, like I did with my parents, they just would no…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 18, 2013, 01:01:46 PM |
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[BitFury USB Miner] 0.69 BTC with Hashrate up to 2.7 Gh/s Hardware
See also this thread?
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 18, 2013, 09:34:28 AM |
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VolcanicErupter is deleting posts in the VMC -- Hash Fast $6./GH thread Hardware
Presumably if you'd said something important enough to merit repetition you woul…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 18, 2013, 09:32:00 AM |
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Legit or Not? Triple Your Bitcoins in 3 Days? Service Discussion
"If you have to ask…"
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 18, 2013, 02:10:48 AM |
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Bitcoin is no longer decentralized Bitcoin Discussion
Zangelbert is right. centralization is not going to occur.Except it already has…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 18, 2013, 01:51:39 AM |
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Bitcoin is no longer decentralized Bitcoin Discussion
Self-correcting problem.Evidence in the altcoins and in other security systems s…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 17, 2013, 10:46:37 PM |
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fair coin toss with no extortion and no need to trust a third party Development & Technical Discussion
How much coins are we talking about that we want to avoid a third-party? Or is t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 17, 2013, 10:10:34 PM |
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Bitcoin is no longer decentralized Bitcoin Discussion
Utilising the waste heat is also much simpler with a greater temp differential.D…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 17, 2013, 05:27:07 PM |
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Bitcoin is no longer decentralized Bitcoin Discussion
Bitcoin is decentralised such that:1. No one can change the rate of bitcoin prod…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 17, 2013, 01:13:31 PM |
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Bitcoin is no longer decentralized Bitcoin Discussion
Decentralization is not a binary state, it is a continuum.Change is a fact of re…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 17, 2013, 10:34:20 AM |
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"Watching" posts, no longer needed can we kill them? Meta
Would it be really awful to regexp filter posts for something like^\w*[Ww]atchin…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 16, 2013, 09:21:41 PM |
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CoinCovenants using SCIP signatures, an amusingly bad idea. Development & Technical Discussion
This is all really quite in the spirit of this thread. ... Delicious flirtation…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 16, 2013, 07:48:02 PM |
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fair coin toss with no extortion and no need to trust a third party Development & Technical Discussion
With regard to reading the LSB, there's OP_MOD in the Bitcoin script language th…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 16, 2013, 05:52:24 PM |
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fair coin toss with no extortion and no need to trust a third party Development & Technical Discussion
The loser could do this if they're not using iddo's protocol.The point is that i…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 16, 2013, 04:32:52 PM |
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Encrypted wallet.dat, lost password, any solutions? Bitcoin Technical Support
Congrats! FWIW, there are john the ripper patches for wallet.dat passphrases (wh…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 16, 2013, 04:21:01 PM |
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fair coin toss with no extortion and no need to trust a third party Development & Technical Discussion
As you note, the later to release could hold up if they see that they would lose…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 16, 2013, 04:15:31 PM |
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How long does the Bitcoin-QT cleint take to sync for newbies? Bitcoin Technical Support
its a problem for widespread acceptance, until either the blockchain isn't requi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 16, 2013, 02:47:20 PM |
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Pool fees for an asic users are somewhat amusing Hardware
Say you're mining with a shiny new Avalon: 66GH/s of gleaming aluminum computati…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 27, 2013, 11:27:24 AM |
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BTCGuild is a 51% attack risk Pools
thoes with more Hashing power will still dominate the networkThe word dominate v…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 16, 2013, 10:37:14 AM |
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Implementation of push / auto update feature on bitcoin (per configuration) Development & Technical Discussion
It's too bad we don't have some kind of data structure that is automatically rep…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 16, 2013, 09:43:46 AM |
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Implementation of push / auto update feature on bitcoin (per configuration) Development & Technical Discussion
What I'd like to see is a hybrid model in which a large quorum (maybe 20-30 peop…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 16, 2013, 09:15:39 AM |
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Stolen btct shares and bitcoins. Service Discussion
Websites aside, is it theoretically possible for the bitcoin-qt client to suppor…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 16, 2013, 02:16:32 AM |
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Difficulty curve Mining speculation
Sorry if this rant is too off topic, its a pet peeve of mine.It's also a peeve o…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 16, 2013, 01:56:08 AM |
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Forum ranks/positions (What do those shiny coins under my name mean?) Meta
This is missing, at a minimum, the core developer and technical expert flags.
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 16, 2013, 01:26:58 AM |
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Why do guys use female Avatars? Meta
Some of the participants here are pretending to be women specifically because th…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 16, 2013, 01:17:52 AM |
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Ads on backbutton Meta
Sometimes I click away and then only notice the ad "wait! what was that?"... it…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 16, 2013, 01:16:12 AM |
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High Transaction fees Development & Technical Discussion
Ah ok my bad I didn't realise you had to set the transaction fee. So if i edit m…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 16, 2013, 12:55:11 AM |
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[WARNING] Do not sign for any BFL package you plan to get a refund on! CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware
I think people here should show some evidence that they really were shipped out…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 16, 2013, 12:41:38 AM |
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Stolen btct shares and bitcoins. Service Discussion
It's interesting to me that they were careful enough to empty the website before…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 16, 2013, 12:38:12 AM |
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There's going to be a very happy miner. Service Discussion
Your feedback is requested at this pull request, also at this one. You might wan…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 16, 2013, 12:34:20 AM |
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High Transaction fees Development & Technical Discussion
Hi - I'm trying to make a website that will allow you to withdraw your BTC funds…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 16, 2013, 12:31:16 AM |
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BTCGuild is a 51% attack risk Pools
If everyone quit pool mining at the same time and went to solo mining there will…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 15, 2013, 11:38:24 PM |
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Want a BFL PayPal refund? PM me. Hardware
This thread has gone hopeless OT. /Locked. (I've asked the OP to start a self mo…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 15, 2013, 07:03:44 PM |
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Implementation of push / auto update feature on bitcoin (per configuration) Development & Technical Discussion
Exactly my point. If you already have trust in the coder behind the binary, how…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 15, 2013, 11:04:32 PM |
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BTCGuild is a 51% attack risk Pools
Gah. I'm sorry to invite the offtopic deflection, I should have seen it coming. …
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 15, 2013, 11:00:46 PM |
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BTCGuild is a 51% attack risk Pools
These numbers are true, there is one thing to keep in mind: Any attempt to do s…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 15, 2013, 09:42:02 PM |
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BTCGuild is a 51% attack risk Pools
http://blockorigin.pfoe.be/chart.php : 33% != 43%. Please quit using 24-hour ch…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 15, 2013, 07:30:44 PM |
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Forced rescan Development & Technical Discussion
Could bitcoin-qt devs implement a forced rescan triggered by a key inside the wa…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 15, 2013, 07:11:29 PM |
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Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com Mining (Altcoins)
Cut a small metal paper clip in half ... 2c ?I always used the 'insulated' metal…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 15, 2013, 07:38:35 AM |
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How long does the Bitcoin-QT cleint take to sync for newbies? Bitcoin Technical Support
It also depends on your internet connections download speed and on if you use yo…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 15, 2013, 07:25:47 AM |
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All Bitcoind / Bitcoin-qt nodes failing to come up. Workaround inside! Bitcoin Technical Support
I remember now, I set my checkblocks to 1 I think. Maybe I should bump it to 2 o…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 15, 2013, 06:11:12 AM |
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How long does the Bitcoin-QT cleint take to sync for newbies? Bitcoin Technical Support
Depends on a lot of things— the software is fairly sensitive to slow or unreliab…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 15, 2013, 06:00:31 AM |
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All Bitcoind / Bitcoin-qt nodes failing to come up. Workaround inside! Bitcoin Technical Support
What's the harm in a lower checklevel? I tried lower checklevels because I don't…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 15, 2013, 05:13:10 AM |
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[WARNING] Do not sign for any BFL package you plan to get a refund on! CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware
Uh. The subtext here is that cancelling will make them ship yours right away.It'…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 15, 2013, 02:42:25 AM |
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Roger Ver Endorses Trace Mayer For Bitcoin Foundation Board Seat Bitcoin Discussion
it's right here and it was you for sure: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 15, 2013, 02:08:55 AM |
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What if I owned 1.234;567;89 BTC instead of 1.23456789 BTC? Development & Technical Discussion
would displaying the groups of digits in slightly different shades help and be l…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 15, 2013, 12:03:33 AM |
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All Bitcoind / Bitcoin-qt nodes failing to come up. Workaround inside! Bitcoin Technical Support
Mine is not asking to rebuild. Mine is just simply frozen and will not go passed…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 14, 2013, 11:07:06 PM |
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Really Really ultimate blockchain compression: CoinWitness Development & Technical Discussion
So I don't see what exactly the merchant gains from waiting for block confirmati…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 14, 2013, 10:32:52 PM |
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Roger Ver Endorses Trace Mayer For Bitcoin Foundation Board Seat Bitcoin Discussion
gmax, why did you delete this portion of what you said in this part of our githu…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 14, 2013, 09:50:43 PM |
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All Bitcoind / Bitcoin-qt nodes failing to come up. Workaround inside! Bitcoin Technical Support
I upgraded to 0.8.5 and tried to -checklevel=2 method. It's still asking to rebu…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 14, 2013, 08:06:22 PM |
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Roger Ver Endorses Trace Mayer For Bitcoin Foundation Board Seat Bitcoin Discussion
gmax, i'm curious. what do you think of me?i was in those same tempestuous thre…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 14, 2013, 07:39:12 PM |
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Roger Ver Endorses Trace Mayer For Bitcoin Foundation Board Seat Bitcoin Discussion
Why do you perceive the term "statist" as insulting? Cognitive dissonance?For on…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 14, 2013, 07:54:08 PM |
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Roger Ver Endorses Trace Mayer For Bitcoin Foundation Board Seat Bitcoin Discussion
As an aside, it is a sad commentary when morality is considered by some to be a…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 14, 2013, 06:50:40 PM |
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Hiding your bitcoin behind a timelock AND "m of n keys" at the same time? Development & Technical Discussion
Okay, I see what you're saying there.It's actually a similar solution I suggeste…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 14, 2013, 05:09:19 PM |
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Implementation of push / auto update feature on bitcoin (per configuration) Development & Technical Discussion
It's not a comment I made likely, nor is it a new one— I've made the comment man…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 14, 2013, 04:59:15 PM |
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"Error opening block database. Do you want to rebuild the block database now?" Bitcoin Technical Support
What you're describing doesn't make sense except coincidentally. 0.8.4 and 0.8.5…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 14, 2013, 02:29:58 PM |
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I taint rich! (Raw txn fun and disrupting 'taint' analysis; >51kBTC linked!) Bitcoin Discussion
This requires handing your funds over to some third party. Who then themselves l…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 14, 2013, 01:55:15 PM |
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Did Satoshi foresee that secp256r1 was compromised? Development & Technical Discussion
or it was pure luck.or it was satoshi who chose the NIST recommended parameters…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 14, 2013, 03:16:57 AM |
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Implementation of push / auto update feature on bitcoin (per configuration) Development & Technical Discussion
it still uses sourceforge as a source, so it defeats the purpose anyway. Not at…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 14, 2013, 02:03:39 AM |
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Crowd-sourced password recovery with atomic exchange Development & Technical Discussion
This doesn't weaken the KDF at all. Unless your passphrase is 256+ bits, in whi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 14, 2013, 01:13:30 AM |
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Implementation of push / auto update feature on bitcoin (per configuration) Development & Technical Discussion
Right, the auto update / push feature "vulnerability" makes sense now, even thou…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 14, 2013, 12:25:12 AM |
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Crowd-sourced password recovery with atomic exchange Development & Technical Discussion
I'd rather have distributed key escrow than making an industry out of bruteforci…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 13, 2013, 08:58:32 PM |
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Implementation of push / auto update feature on bitcoin (per configuration) Development & Technical Discussion
"Auto update" is categorically not the same as manual updates.Bitcoin is an auto…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 13, 2013, 07:39:10 PM |
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Bug in latest git Development & Technical Discussion
It's 100% reproducible for me so far, used a timeout of 600, linux x86_64, and g…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 13, 2013, 07:44:30 PM |
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REWARD offered for hash collisions for SHA1, SHA256, RIPEMD160 and other Development & Technical Discussion
And that this (government backed security services employed) someone has not pub…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 13, 2013, 04:57:28 PM |
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Is Mastercoin bloating the blockchain and what we can do about it? Project Development
It just happens that I'm the first one to actually take a crack at it.I believe…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 13, 2013, 03:57:58 PM |
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Bug in latest git Development & Technical Discussion
No crash for me in bitcoin-qt on linux x86_64 built from current git on testnet…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 13, 2013, 03:33:39 PM |
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All Bitcoind / Bitcoin-qt nodes failing to come up. Workaround inside! Bitcoin Technical Support
On my side reindexing fixed the problem. I'm using v0.8.3 Coin Control client on…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 13, 2013, 12:04:22 PM |
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Yet another Coin Control Release Development & Technical Discussion
Can someone please work on creating a test plan and working through it so we can…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 13, 2013, 11:55:24 AM |
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Bitcoin Canary Bitcoin Discussion
It's called block 1's 50 BTC. Or perhaps you would be interested in https://bitc…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 13, 2013, 11:53:23 AM |
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I don't use the Bitcoin-Qt client anymore due to lax security, can it be fixed? Development & Technical Discussion
I'm sorry to dig this topic back up. But a big part of me thinks there's some v…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 13, 2013, 11:50:40 AM |
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Latest block hash Development & Technical Discussion
You can get it out of bitcoind and bitcoin-qt.
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 13, 2013, 11:47:42 AM |
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REWARD offered for hash collisions for SHA1, SHA256, RIPEMD160 and other Development & Technical Discussion
Not to take away from Peters wonderful challenge to the world but shouldn't this…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 13, 2013, 11:45:12 AM |
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How to verify bitcoin binary with gpg pgp signature? Bitcoin Technical Support
How is it done for bitcoin? Maybe it is even simpler for bitcoin, and I'm just b…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 13, 2013, 04:27:13 AM |
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All Bitcoind / Bitcoin-qt nodes failing to come up. Workaround inside! Development & Technical Discussion
Due to a bug introduced in Bitcoind/-qt introduced in v0.8.0 nodes may fail to c…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 09, 2013, 04:35:02 AM |
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All Bitcoind / Bitcoin-qt nodes failing to come up. Workaround inside! Bitcoin Technical Support
Due to a bug introduced in Bitcoind/-qt introduced in v0.8.0 nodes may fail to c…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 09, 2013, 04:33:47 AM |
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"Error opening block database. Do you want to rebuild the block database now?" Bitcoin Technical Support
And it looks like a known bug: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=290922.0F…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 13, 2013, 02:12:28 AM |
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All Bitcoind / Bitcoin-qt nodes failing to come up. Workaround inside! Bitcoin Technical Support
Is this the bug I reported back in March?No, absolutely not. Your database was…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 13, 2013, 02:10:09 AM |
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REWARD offered for hash collisions for SHA1, SHA256, RIPEMD160 and other Development & Technical Discussion
I wrote up little description of how these scripts work on reddit. This might b…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 13, 2013, 01:52:39 AM |
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Really Really ultimate blockchain compression: CoinWitness Development & Technical Discussion
I think this is a better idea than the "trusted-computing bank" proposed by rete…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 13, 2013, 01:10:03 AM |
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Bitcoin-Qt / bitcoind version 0.8.5 released Bitcoin Discussion
Stupid question... but is this supposed to also be available on bitcoin.org? If…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 13, 2013, 12:03:50 AM |
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Increasing Anonymity in Bitcoin ... (possible alternative to Zerocoin?) Development & Technical Discussion
Seems really simple to implement using the PBC library:E.g. with the little BC t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 12, 2013, 06:26:54 PM |
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Increasing Anonymity in Bitcoin ... (possible alternative to Zerocoin?) Development & Technical Discussion
The easiest way to add this to the Bitcoin protocol would be to:add a OP_SIGINV…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 12, 2013, 08:10:07 PM |
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Did Satoshi foresee that secp256r1 was compromised? Development & Technical Discussion
If we are to believe the Snowden documents then we must "assume the existence of…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 12, 2013, 04:41:36 PM |
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Checkpoints do protect Bitcoin, don't they? Development & Technical Discussion
Bitcoin is non-functional if you can compute second pre-images of SHA256^2 which…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 12, 2013, 04:02:43 PM |
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NSA and ECC Development & Technical Discussion
Presumably, since it was government work, it should be possible to FOIA any rec…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 12, 2013, 02:17:27 PM |
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Increasing Anonymity in Bitcoin ... (possible alternative to Zerocoin?) Development & Technical Discussion
Ah. I see. I skimmed too quickly. I see why the multiple spend problem does not…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 12, 2013, 01:19:01 PM |
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CoinTerra Breaks the $3 per GH with Two New Low Cost Bitcoin Mining Rigs Hardware |
n/a | gmaxwell | September 12, 2013, 11:45:39 AM |
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Increasing Anonymity in Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
I'm glad to see someone with an aggregate signatures proposal. From an anonymit…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 12, 2013, 09:07:14 AM |
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Just going to vent to you about how we the people(miners) are getting ripped Mining speculation
got over 100-200 btc a day for a few monthsAs others have pointed out, this is n…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 12, 2013, 08:46:28 AM |
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Did Satoshi foresee that secp256r1 was compromised? Development & Technical Discussion
Oh ok. Do you reckon there is any need to switch bitcoin over to Ed25519 at the…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 12, 2013, 01:37:29 AM |
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Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com Mining (Altcoins)
So. Um.All this speculation. If they're going to make people's expected deliver…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 12, 2013, 01:15:35 AM |
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Did Satoshi foresee that secp256r1 was compromised? Development & Technical Discussion
It would be kind of genius if the reason Bitcoin does not use secp256r1 was beca…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 12, 2013, 01:07:25 AM |
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All Bitcoind / Bitcoin-qt nodes failing to come up. Workaround inside! Bitcoin Technical Support
Is it known who submitted these transactions, and with what client? I do. They w…
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n/a | gmaxwell | September 12, 2013, 12:29:04 AM |
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