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Electrum 1.8.1 Stuck on Block 251526 Electrum
Transaction ID: 77822fd6663c665104119cb7635352756dfc50da76a92d417ec1a12c518fad69…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 12, 2013, 05:50:06 AM |
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2013-08-11 WSJ - Regulator Examines Bitcoin Practices Press
If you were are one of the subpoena recipients mentioned here and are marveling…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 11, 2013, 11:58:20 PM |
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Why MP is your God. Off-topic
Your original post is an excellent example of what I mean. You try to pass off t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 11, 2013, 09:36:35 PM |
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Why MP is your God. Off-topic
This is a fact: had he not sunk your stupid little idea you could have so convin…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 11, 2013, 07:58:51 PM |
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Instant Bitcoin confirmation time (IDEA) Bitcoin Discussion
Probability is often the wrong way to think about adaptive attacks.This isn't so…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 11, 2013, 07:41:23 PM |
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Why MP is your God. Off-topic
MP also has a lot of misses, for example (s)he was apparently telling people tha…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 11, 2013, 07:07:01 PM |
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Alt coin for development? Development & Technical Discussion
Almost all altcoins use forks of really old versions of Bitcoin with a mish-mash…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 11, 2013, 07:01:09 PM |
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Bad signatures leading to 55.82152538 BTC theft (so far) Development & Technical Discussion
A forum newbie emailed me and suggested this link would be informative for the t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 11, 2013, 06:02:19 PM |
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Mining 12 hours/day: is it possible? Mining
No, no effort is conserved when mining so none is lost when you turn it off. You…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 11, 2013, 08:54:36 AM |
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Bad signatures leading to 55.82152538 BTC theft (so far) Development & Technical Discussion
Chosen by fair dice roll, guaranteed to be random.
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 11, 2013, 08:43:38 AM |
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Getting Wikipedia to accept Bitcoin donations - Community pledge Project Development
Would you prefer lying about my/our motivation?No, I'd prefer the case be genui…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 11, 2013, 08:16:18 AM |
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Getting Wikipedia to accept Bitcoin donations - Community pledge Project Development
The outgoing Wikimedia chairman is my partner for the last decade, and I have a…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 11, 2013, 06:01:56 AM |
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Getting Wikipedia to accept Bitcoin donations - Community pledge Project Development
It will be possible to mention Wikipedia as an organization accepting Bitcoin do…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 11, 2013, 07:33:58 AM |
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Getting Wikipedia to accept Bitcoin donations - Community pledge Project Development
Donations are an act of one entity supporting another entity, in this case, for…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 11, 2013, 07:23:57 AM |
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Getting Wikipedia to accept Bitcoin donations - Community pledge Project Development
Possibly some staffers still hold similar misconceptions, but part of the proces…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 11, 2013, 06:56:02 AM |
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Why I donated bitcoins to Wikipedia via the community pledge Bitcoin Discussion
I don't think this is a great idea.
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 11, 2013, 06:45:40 AM |
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Alt coin for development? Development & Technical Discussion
You use testnet for this. Start bitcoin(d/qt) with -testnet=1.
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 11, 2013, 01:36:12 AM |
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Bad signatures leading to 55.82152538 BTC theft (so far) Development & Technical Discussion
This seems like a serious problem!Apologies if I am asking a question with an ob…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 11, 2013, 12:48:21 AM |
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Building current Bitcoind on Fedora 19 Development & Technical Discussion
And for bitcoin-qt:From the top level bitcoin source directory,qmake-qt4 USE_UPN…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 10, 2013, 10:00:37 PM |
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 10, 2013, 09:26:33 PM |
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Lavabit— A best case outcome for blockchain.info? Service Discussion
Lavabit was a web-based email service which kept all email encrypted a key prote…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 08, 2013, 08:17:54 PM |
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Optimal Block Header hashing algorithm Development & Technical Discussion
http://blockexplorer.com/rawblock/0000000000000023d60ece1fd23ce92570f873c23f3ad8…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 08, 2013, 06:37:49 PM |
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Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com Mining (Altcoins)
Please keep BFL (other other unrelated vendor stuff) out of this thread. As a r…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 08, 2013, 05:22:42 PM |
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Hash Phrase - Human Readable Hash Function Development & Technical Discussion
I describe the internals on the github README. By default, PBKDF2_HMAC_SHA256 (…
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n/a | gmaxwell | August 01, 2013, 09:53:08 AM |
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The precise status of the relevant number theoretic problems for SHA-256 Development & Technical Discussion
Why so you keep referencing "elliptical curve"? SHA (or any hashing algorithm) h…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 31, 2013, 02:45:16 AM |
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Hash Phrase - Human Readable Hash Function Development & Technical Discussion
If you're using them just for the purpose of comparing it can be better to first…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 31, 2013, 02:25:14 AM |
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Checkpointing Development & Technical Discussion
That SXC answer isn't really great.This has been covered a number of times times…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 30, 2013, 08:15:10 AM |
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**UPDATED** Current P2Pool Server List Pools
This should probably be made a topic on the Bitcoin wiki. I don't think we shou…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 30, 2013, 08:02:20 AM |
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Optimal Block Header hashing algorithm Development & Technical Discussion
Outside of a few very simply or highly abstract subjects when someone says "opti…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 29, 2013, 04:13:11 PM |
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Handling hash drop off Development & Technical Discussion
Nodes will accept new blocks with minimum difficulty based on time since the las…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 29, 2013, 09:33:58 AM |
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Quantum computers and Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteIv'e heard there is a few minutes delay for when the difficulty of bitcoin…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 27, 2013, 11:24:30 AM |
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Why nobody's discussing this? Development & Technical Discussion
Oh, okay. That makes more sense. Still, it doesn't make a lot of sense to submit…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 27, 2013, 11:06:48 AM |
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Process-invariant hardware metric: hash-meters per second (η-factor) Hardware
Yes, you have a good point there; I suppose it ought to be "ITRS process node in…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 27, 2013, 10:39:59 AM |
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Satoshi's canary Development & Technical Discussion
Were the early blocks paid to a public key instead of a bitcoin address?They wer…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 27, 2013, 10:32:18 AM |
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[Group buy - please read] 1000 pcs USB Erupters - EU/Int - price 0.89BTC - Group buys
Please start up a thread in scam accusations, the subforum mods can't really do…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 27, 2013, 01:27:46 AM |
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OTR chat encryption project is taking Bitcoin donations! Bitcoin Discussion
Oh, that whitespace trick is clever. I've avoided OTR because I know someone who…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 25, 2013, 01:03:35 PM |
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Raw Transactions API... Am I using it correctly? Development & Technical Discussion
That would just be a TXID for some transaction which had paid them previously— y…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 24, 2013, 09:59:03 PM |
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Sending use's money back? Development & Technical Discussion
Aren't there some best practices or something?Sure, when the user establishes th…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 24, 2013, 04:33:48 PM |
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Reasons to keep 10 min target blocktime? Development & Technical Discussion
This is not equivalent to a shorter block time. The issue with this approach is…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 23, 2013, 04:29:07 AM |
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Bitcoind SLOOOOW Development & Technical Discussion
Are you actually checking the result? Perhaps you're getting an authentication…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 22, 2013, 08:11:23 PM |
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Can someone please explain what causes orphans like I'm five? Development & Technical Discussion
The purpose of the bitcoin blockchain is to assign an order to all transactions…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 22, 2013, 07:13:13 PM |
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Reasons to keep 10 min target blocktime? Development & Technical Discussion
I am concerned that a possible practical improvement is getting lost in the theo…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 22, 2013, 06:48:21 PM |
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Reasons to keep 10 min target blocktime? Development & Technical Discussion
That's false, which is the main point I was trying to explain in https://bitcoil…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 22, 2013, 02:49:09 PM |
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Bitcoind SLOOOOW Development & Technical Discussion
what the heck are you doing that for? It's a JSON rpc specifically so you can t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 22, 2013, 02:08:33 PM |
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A cautionary note: I just forked webbtc.com/bitcoin-ruby via two different ways Development & Technical Discussion
Yeah, nothing wrong with re-implementations if you hide them behind a trusted bi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 22, 2013, 02:06:29 PM |
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A cautionary note: I just forked webbtc.com/bitcoin-ruby via two different ways Development & Technical Discussion
Quotewriting safety-critical flight avionics softwareI think software for avioni…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 22, 2013, 11:17:55 AM |
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A cautionary note: I just forked webbtc.com/bitcoin-ruby via two different ways Development & Technical Discussion
I don't want to be a douche, but those words shouldn't be used too lightly. As a…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 22, 2013, 11:24:51 AM |
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Reasons to keep 10 min target blocktime? Development & Technical Discussion
And finally, consider litecoin. Litecoin has a 150 second block time. This num…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 22, 2013, 10:32:47 AM |
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Exchange rate on top of forum Meta
I think it's not a great idea.Posting the exchange rate furthers the screwed up…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 21, 2013, 07:55:02 PM |
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GPU mining profit vs. ebay depreciation CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware
I managed to sell my farm of 5830s after two years of use for roughly what I spe…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 21, 2013, 07:08:54 PM |
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Namecoin Flaws & Improvements Tip Bounty Project Development
Uh. How about: Not possible to build a secure (zero trust) lite resolver. To sa…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 21, 2013, 06:36:24 PM |
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Transaction fee in Bitcoin-Qt not saved Development & Technical Discussion
You don't happen to have a bitcoin.conf with txfee=0 in it, do you?
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 21, 2013, 06:21:16 PM |
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NETWORK FREEZE bitcoin difficulty stuck high with a large hashrate drop Development & Technical Discussion
In the case of a network partition we actually _want_ blocks to stop or go very…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 21, 2013, 06:10:57 PM |
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Reasons to keep 10 min target blocktime? Development & Technical Discussion
You know this has been discussed many times before. it would be really best if y…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 21, 2013, 03:47:54 PM |
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ASIC resale value Mining speculation
There are many many potential ways to use proof of work to secure protocols: fig…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 21, 2013, 10:49:53 AM |
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I got ripped off. My Bitcoins at EMC got Stollen Pools
Sounds like your account was hacked. If you were using the same password anywher…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 21, 2013, 08:28:03 AM |
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NETWORK FREEZE bitcoin difficulty stuck high with a large hashrate drop Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteIf two of the largest miners of bitcoin went offline, the entire bitcoin ec…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 20, 2013, 11:29:22 AM |
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Quiz: Are you a Satoshi client guru developer? Development & Technical Discussion
BYW: The code in serialize.h states over "Variable-length integers" : "Every int…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 19, 2013, 05:18:59 PM |
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Zerocoin when? Development & Technical Discussion
The zerocoin part does more than defend against DOS, doesn't it? It also provide…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 19, 2013, 12:17:51 PM |
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A question on ECDSA signing (more efficient tx signing)? Development & Technical Discussion
Interesting. I need to look into that. So when the original message & signatu…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 18, 2013, 10:54:22 PM |
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A question on ECDSA signing (more efficient tx signing)? Development & Technical Discussion
Maybe we are speaking of different things but doesn't ECDSA allow creating a com…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 18, 2013, 10:14:25 PM |
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New Attack Vector Development & Technical Discussion
An overestimate of log2 is easy. It doesn't need two parameters...He went and f…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 18, 2013, 01:29:50 AM |
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A question on ECDSA signing (more efficient tx signing)? Development & Technical Discussion
Some ECC signing systems can do grouping operations where you can compose all th…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 18, 2013, 01:01:08 AM |
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Bitcoin Address Collisions. Bitcoin Discussion
If collissions do occur it won't be because someone brute forces the addresses i…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 17, 2013, 05:27:21 PM |
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Bitcoin Address Collisions. Bitcoin Discussion
Assuming Bitcoin takes off, and your salary is 0.0000000000000000000000000000000…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 17, 2013, 05:26:28 PM |
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Bitcoin Address Collisions. Bitcoin Discussion
And in my opinion, you don't need to count to ~2^256 to find a collision. Perhap…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 17, 2013, 05:07:51 PM |
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What is stopping pruning from being added to the qt client? Development & Technical Discussion
When blocks become very large it will be more efficient to download them in para…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 17, 2013, 03:56:45 PM |
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New Attack Vector Development & Technical Discussion
i dare you give me a piece of c code(10-20 lines) that i can't explain.Okay, I'l…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 17, 2013, 02:25:44 PM |
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What is stopping pruning from being added to the qt client? Development & Technical Discussion
I was suggesting this as a way of storing prunable transactions, not blocks.Ther…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 17, 2013, 01:59:41 PM |
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New Attack Vector Development & Technical Discussion
It mutates with every commit to the satoshi client repo. Code is not a standard.…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 17, 2013, 01:40:57 PM |
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Exhausting the keypool. Development & Technical Discussion
It's just writing code and it doesn't seem so much of work./me looking forward t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 17, 2013, 12:56:30 PM |
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What is stopping pruning from being added to the qt client? Development & Technical Discussion
All nodes could become archives nodes which only store a fraction of the histori…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 17, 2013, 12:46:51 PM |
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What is stopping pruning from being added to the qt client? Development & Technical Discussion
Isn't that what happens with the main client at the moment? Script is not verif…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 17, 2013, 12:12:58 PM |
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New Attack Vector Development & Technical Discussion
+1 you are right, and i have broadcasted a double spend. Thank you. Perhaps you'…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 17, 2013, 11:50:49 AM |
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New Attack Vector Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteCode: assert 1 == ssl.ECDSA_sign(0, hash, len(hash), mb_sig, ctypes.…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 17, 2013, 11:23:48 AM |
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New Attack Vector Development & Technical Discussion
What we need is a protocol, not mad people whining in a forum. That sure won't m…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 17, 2013, 11:05:06 AM |
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New Attack Vector Development & Technical Discussion
Oh, I get it - its the fStrictEncodings.Thanks for explaining Yup. The chain is…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 17, 2013, 10:48:24 AM |
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New Attack Vector Development & Technical Discussion
As this thread politely explains, OpenSSL violates the ASN.1/DER standard and wi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 17, 2013, 10:42:37 AM |
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Forking scenario - when border connections are closed Development & Technical Discussion
This question is self-contradicting. How could one mine (in the normal sense) wi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 17, 2013, 02:39:02 AM |
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What is stopping pruning from being added to the qt client? Development & Technical Discussion
What I don't understand about writing bitcoin software, that you do?You have thi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 17, 2013, 02:01:28 AM |
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Forking scenario - when border connections are closed Development & Technical Discussion
Pooled mining is also low bandwidth, so miners might still be able to contribute…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 16, 2013, 10:49:58 PM |
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Criminal Lawsuit against BFL in Germany [in progress] Scam Accusations
QuoteI can't think of one good reason it should have been in allowedIt's absolut…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 16, 2013, 12:50:53 AM |
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Mixed proof-of-work scheme Altcoin Discussion
I don't believe your scheme could really be expected to confer any of its purpor…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 16, 2013, 12:35:37 AM |
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SHA-256 offers better decentralization than scrypt Development & Technical Discussion
- BFL - Not shiping anytime soon.Many people do have BFL devices now. Not to arg…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 15, 2013, 09:56:28 PM |
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Why is Miniupnpc in Bitcoin-Qt? Development & Technical Discussion
Why the first 50 addresses with non-default port number are considered same as i…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 15, 2013, 09:38:17 PM |
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What is stopping pruning from being added to the qt client? Development & Technical Discussion
But if transactions have already been embedded in the blockchain, new nodes don'…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 15, 2013, 09:09:29 PM |
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I taint rich! (Raw txn fun and disrupting 'taint' analysis; >51kBTC linked!) Bitcoin Discussion
Huh??? How does a system that is based on meeting with others to forge a mix hav…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 15, 2013, 09:03:33 PM |
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I taint rich! (Raw txn fun and disrupting 'taint' analysis; >51kBTC linked!) Bitcoin Discussion
So basically you created another ZeroCoin, but working using obfuscation techniq…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 15, 2013, 03:50:30 PM |
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I taint rich! (Raw txn fun and disrupting 'taint' analysis; >51kBTC linked!) Bitcoin Discussion
Another thing I don't understand is that if all participating members have to si…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 15, 2013, 04:40:03 AM |
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Testing so that opcodes can be re-enabled Development & Technical Discussion
Probably the most interesting thing in testing this stuff is coming up with uses…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 14, 2013, 10:03:32 PM |
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proposal: delete blocks older than 1000 Development & Technical Discussion
You just start up a node and it bootstraps and specializes without any user inte…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 14, 2013, 09:20:57 PM |
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[Someone is selling a BFL] 500 GH/s rig for 100k usd on ebay Off-topic
I've changed the thread title because it's been pretty well established down thr…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 14, 2013, 08:59:06 PM |
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proposal: delete blocks older than 1000 Development & Technical Discussion
A Bitcoin-specific storage system could do better than this, for example by drop…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 14, 2013, 08:45:27 PM |
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How many blocks have no unspent outputs? Development & Technical Discussion
I'm sure quite a few do— since there are many with just a couple outputs beyond…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 14, 2013, 06:35:26 PM |
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proposal: delete blocks older than 1000 Development & Technical Discussion
The freenet model does not provide for reliability, however. My past experience…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 14, 2013, 06:32:17 PM |
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proposal: delete blocks older than 1000 Development & Technical Discussion
I think the proposal to use bittorrent for that is best. A tracker could be sta…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 14, 2013, 06:09:56 PM |
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Why is Miniupnpc in Bitcoin-Qt? Development & Technical Discussion
Prior to UPNP being integrated and enabled by default the network was beginning…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 14, 2013, 05:30:36 PM |
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Is TradeFortress breaking the law? Legal
The substance of your complaint appears to be a password allegation which was i…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 14, 2013, 12:49:06 PM |
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BF Labs Inc. IS stealing from their Bitcoin Development Fund! Scam Accusations
* gmaxwell takes a moment to note that using and reusing "well known" addresses…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 14, 2013, 12:31:22 PM |
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I taint rich! (Raw txn fun and disrupting 'taint' analysis; >51kBTC linked!) Bitcoin Discussion
This could also be used to reduce the damage from deanonymization attacks, like…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 13, 2013, 11:59:43 PM |
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