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Main developers don't give a damn about us, bitcoiners! Bitcoin Discussion
Gavin is including very, very few patches and features people have requested. Ev…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 30, 2013, 05:32:07 PM |
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Pool fees for an asic users are somewhat amusing Hardware
Sure hasn't been my experience.
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 29, 2013, 11:38:32 AM |
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Transaction propagation speed - experimental results Development & Technical Discussion
If you do it with small number of peers, your results will be overly - optimisti…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 29, 2013, 03:56:01 AM |
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Transaction propagation speed - experimental results Development & Technical Discussion
Reprocessed plot (counted each (tx_id, peer) pair only once):One thing you want…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 29, 2013, 01:57:35 AM |
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Is a 0 confirmation double spend for retail possible? Development & Technical Discussion
I sea, So a POS device using the blockchain is never going to be feasible then?…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 28, 2013, 04:13:20 AM |
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random person on irc reports strongcoin compromised Service Discussion
For your consideration, #bitcoin on freenode (times US Pacific):00:04 -!- R0x0rM…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 28, 2013, 02:40:22 AM |
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[ANN] BitEN - bitcoin erlang node Development & Technical Discussion
Insular attitudes make insular code which makes fragile and brittle code.This is…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 27, 2013, 11:35:51 PM |
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Revealing public key (address re-use) Development & Technical Discussion
However, at times I also have this silly illogical action-outcome monkey brain w…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 27, 2013, 09:58:25 PM |
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BFGMiner: modular FPGA/GPU, clk/fans, GBT, RPC, Linux/OpenWrt/PPA/Win64 2.10.5 Mining software (miners)
Be careful! If this (or anything else) bricks your Avalon's controller, you will…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 27, 2013, 08:15:26 PM |
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Pool fees for an asic users are somewhat amusing Hardware
Don't see what the problem is, 3% (or even 10%) of a lot of money is a lot of mo…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 27, 2013, 12:58:05 PM |
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Pool fees for an asic users are somewhat amusing Hardware
It's perhaps an argument that some asic users should chip in to buy Forrestv a d…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 27, 2013, 11:33:50 AM |
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Batch #3 Not selling as fast.... Hardware
Batch 1 took weeks to sell out— and the same thing happened: people put in order…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 26, 2013, 10:18:24 AM |
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BIP32 (Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets) code available in Java Development & Technical Discussion
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'ee'See the other link in the post…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 26, 2013, 10:13:44 AM |
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BIP32 (Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets) code available in Java Development & Technical Discussion
The draft is already published at https://github.com/prusnak/mnemonic but it doe…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 26, 2013, 09:55:42 AM |
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Add user interface to set dust limit and filtered addresses Development & Technical Discussion
That's 2200TB. Which is 37 of the best 2016 HDDs.[...]Would it be outlandish to…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 26, 2013, 02:38:02 AM |
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BFL is keeping a portion of first batch chips for their own mining farm Off-topic
Not hardware related. geesh.
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 24, 2013, 10:58:51 PM |
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Wiki governance Project Development
It seems like this whole discussion has arisen out of some people on Reddit bein…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 24, 2013, 10:20:47 PM |
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Wiki governance Project Development
I don't think think the wiki needs "governance"— or at least the word sort of im…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 24, 2013, 09:15:28 PM |
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White Paper - Receipt of BTC From Unknown Person Legal
Luke-Jr & gmaxwell, would you like to raise these concerns on GitHub too? The la…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 24, 2013, 08:26:44 PM |
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White Paper - Receipt of BTC From Unknown Person Legal
"UP purposely entered in JD’s bitcoin address information and initiated the the…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 24, 2013, 05:00:30 PM |
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Dedicated bitcoind node, 1gb ram ="errors" : "EXCEPTION: St9bad_alloc \nstd::bad Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, bitcoind memory usage seems to grow fairly steadily at the moment.I haven't…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 24, 2013, 05:52:03 PM |
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Add user interface to set dust limit and filtered addresses Development & Technical Discussion
these "dust" transactions will no longer be dust.Are you really anticipating an…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 24, 2013, 10:39:48 AM |
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Funding of network security with infinite block sizes Development & Technical Discussion
Isn't this just a complicated way of saying, "if the majority hashpower is disho…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 24, 2013, 10:21:01 AM |
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bitcoind memory and cpu footprint: oh my! Strategies? Development & Technical Discussion
Fair enough, I've compiled it on Centos 6.4 but to my surprise it's now using al…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 24, 2013, 10:15:39 AM |
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coinbase transaction when block reward is 0 Development & Technical Discussion
A corner case to keep in mind if we ever want to prohibit zero value outputs!
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 23, 2013, 09:04:18 PM |
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Add user interface to set dust limit and filtered addresses Development & Technical Discussion
Would people who support this also support an alternative which strongly de-prio…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 23, 2013, 09:03:10 PM |
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Funding of network security with infinite block sizes Development & Technical Discussion
1. Miners VOTE for the next block size every X blocks, using special transaction…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 23, 2013, 08:52:31 PM |
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Funding of network security with infinite block sizes Development & Technical Discussion
A transaction pays me 1000 BTC in block X.I want to make sure that payment stays…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 23, 2013, 07:35:21 PM |
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Bitcoin and me (Hal Finney) Bitcoin Discussion
There is at least a small group of the technical crowd around here who has been…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 19, 2013, 04:05:57 PM |
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UTXO set size does not increase storage costs, you just suck at computer science Development & Technical Discussion
you just don't store UTXO set locally. [...]But, of course, it's also possible t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 18, 2013, 08:01:48 AM |
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How to force a rule change by bloating the UTXO set Development & Technical Discussion
If running a full node becomes impractical for home users, but millions of small…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 17, 2013, 11:08:46 AM |
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UTXO set size does not increase storage costs, you just suck at computer science Development & Technical Discussion
For all practical intents and purposes it is enough to have N latest blocks + UT…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 17, 2013, 10:43:14 AM |
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No-recompilation fix for the "Lock table is out of available lock entries" Development & Technical Discussion
Don't you think it is about time the "majority" decided what is best for the blo…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 12, 2013, 02:46:14 PM |
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A successful DOUBLE SPEND US$10000 against OKPAY this morning. Bitcoin Discussion
gmaxwell pointed out that this could happen if an attacker started by flooding t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 12, 2013, 02:20:09 PM |
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Alert: chain fork caused by pre-0.8 clients dealing badly with large blocks Bitcoin Discussion
0.8 is not flawed. The flaw lied in 0.7 and below. If an upgrade was hastened, t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 12, 2013, 01:09:55 AM |
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In re Bitcoin Devs are idiots Bitcoin Discussion
Another way to state the real problem: There is no Bitcoin Protocol Spec, most s…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 12, 2013, 12:18:22 AM |
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Alert: chain fork caused by pre-0.8 clients dealing badly with large blocks Bitcoin Discussion
0.8 is not flawed. The flaw lied in 0.7 and below. If an upgrade was hastened, t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 11, 2013, 09:50:49 PM |
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Predicting Time to Finish Downloading Chain Development & Technical Discussion
The download time is linear in the number of transactions. 0.8.1 (current git) u…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 10, 2013, 04:04:53 PM |
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Discouraging dust without hurting exotic uses of small valued coins Development & Technical Discussion
My crazy list of things mostly only suitable for altcoins has what I believe to…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 10, 2013, 05:14:20 AM |
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Dust Collection Development & Technical Discussion
True, it doesn't require any protocol changes... but it does require miners to c…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 09, 2013, 03:42:56 PM |
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why did bitcoin choose secp256k1 over secp256r1? Development & Technical Discussion
i've always been a bit wary of djb crypto, despite the guy being a pretty big pr…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 09, 2013, 02:31:39 PM |
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Bitcoin 1 and Bitcoin 2: A solution to the block size problem Development & Technical Discussion
If UTXO tree is maintained via merged mining which has only 1/1000 of hashing po…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 09, 2013, 12:59:07 PM |
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why did bitcoin choose secp256k1 over secp256r1? Development & Technical Discussion
yeah, i had seen that it does offer some speed advantages. i don't believe signa…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 09, 2013, 08:57:37 AM |
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[ANN] Fast blockchain C++ parser w/ source code Development & Technical Discussion
Ah, and since he changed this back— I suppose I should point this out here:This…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 09, 2013, 08:37:14 AM |
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[ANN] Fast blockchain C++ parser w/ source code Development & Technical Discussion
After interacting with znort987 on IRC I'd advise being very careful in using th…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 09, 2013, 08:13:25 AM |
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Transaction Spam Awareness: What YOU Can Do! Bitcoin Discussion
It cannot be pruned because it has to stay around in fast storage to detect doub…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 08, 2013, 01:59:09 AM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
So some discussions from the inflationproofing thread provided two additional re…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 08, 2013, 01:46:50 AM |
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Inflation-proofing via fraud notices Development & Technical Discussion
This overall upgrade strikes me as quite important for scaling beyond the curren…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 08, 2013, 01:26:53 AM |
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Satoshi Nakamoto's words regarding nodes, mining and blocksize 100GB TX/Day! Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, but defenders of Block size limit should not say ”Satoshi said 1MB so that'…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 08, 2013, 01:22:48 AM |
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Soft block size limit reached, action required by YOU Mining
It's not wrong, because it's not the entire solution. I forgot to add that you a…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 08, 2013, 01:08:16 AM |
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Soft block size limit reached, action required by YOU Mining
Why not simply require fees == 50 - subsidy before the block size can be raised…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 07, 2013, 10:13:12 PM |
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Soft block size limit reached, action required by YOU Mining
to take other steps to hassle SD (client changes to encourage higher fees to le…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 07, 2013, 08:38:56 PM |
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Soft block size limit reached, action required by YOU Mining
OK, there is a patch for miners to blacklist SD tx's from being included in bloc…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 07, 2013, 08:13:05 PM |
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Soft block size limit reached, action required by YOU Mining
Some fun stats I posted in another thread earlier:Here are some recent blocks, t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 07, 2013, 07:53:46 PM |
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Soft block size limit reached, action required by YOU Mining
Is that what I asked? If so, can I send the 1 BTC to the address on your sig or…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 07, 2013, 07:45:05 PM |
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Soft block size limit reached, action required by YOU Mining
That's a slippery slope gentlemen.Ehh... I don't agree— when Bitcoin is used cor…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 07, 2013, 07:42:17 PM |
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Soft block size limit reached, action required by YOU Mining
Code:diff --git a/src/main.cpp b/src/main.cppindex 9a06dbf..d3fba73 100644--- a/…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 07, 2013, 07:35:08 PM |
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Now that we've reached the 250kb soft limit... Development & Technical Discussion
Some people might be interested in some analysis of recent blocks.There seems to…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 07, 2013, 06:09:06 PM |
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Inflation-proofing via fraud notices Development & Technical Discussion
Since SPV clients anyways need to trust full clients,The point of this is fixing…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 07, 2013, 11:53:35 AM |
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WTF happened to ripple? Altcoin Discussion
Oh, and a shared disadvantage of both colored coins and 2PR is that they can't p…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 05, 2013, 03:29:45 PM |
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I taint rich! (Fun with raw transactions and disrupting 'taint' analysis) Bitcoin Discussion
Code:0100000003c8e2c94e969d9d66aae4812b6cf156f32267b773fb2118db696bb847ebd3454a1…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 28, 2013, 09:25:03 PM |
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Trouble recovering wallet Beginners & Help
What you can do is try to salvage the wallet.Salvage doesn't work too well right…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 03, 2013, 09:37:32 PM |
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Can anybody stall Bitcoin for 72BTC per hour? ANSWER: PARTIALLY? Development & Technical Discussion
But For 2400 satoshis Per Block In transaction fees, you can make It that only p…
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n/a | gmaxwell | March 02, 2013, 09:57:07 PM |
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Finney Attack against SatoshiDice or how to get 250 BTC per solved block. Development & Technical Discussion
blockchain on a non- ECC RAM machine. There's going to be a lots of folks follo…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 27, 2013, 10:59:57 PM |
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Finney Attack against SatoshiDice or how to get 250 BTC per solved block. Development & Technical Discussion
The blockchain and transaction information is still not stored in a database, bu…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 27, 2013, 06:23:39 PM |
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[Announcement] Avalon ASIC Batch #1 Ships Hardware
Just confirming I haven't missed some thread— have no US customers (beyond the t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 26, 2013, 05:32:24 PM |
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A clean solution to ALL Bitcoin problems: SatoshiDice, Block size, future fees. Development & Technical Discussion
If the maximum block size is increased, then this proposal will prevent fees fro…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 26, 2013, 03:16:11 PM |
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 25, 2013, 12:10:31 AM |
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Save any files to namecoin blockchain Altcoin Discussion
Namecoin has nothing on bitcoin testnet:Code:(bitcoind -testnet getrawtransactio…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 24, 2013, 11:18:16 PM |
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Should bitcoin move to SHA-3 ? Development & Technical Discussion
You're also forgetting that ditching SHA256 will make all mining software and cu…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 24, 2013, 11:12:53 PM |
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[WTS] Ripple coins for sale Altcoin Discussion
I have Ripple coins for sale.I sell them in quantities of 1,000 XRPPM me your of…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 24, 2013, 01:52:19 PM |
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Not a alt-coin, but better. Alt-communications Altcoin Discussion
I noticed that when you send a message the CPU maxes to 100% for about 2.5 minut…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 24, 2013, 11:36:45 AM |
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Ripple Giveaway! Altcoin Discussion
Bitstamp ate mine, so hey, maybe if I ask for more I'll get it.rHs4j8RLTdgGiF3cB…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 23, 2013, 10:33:26 PM |
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Bitcoin BIP 16 /P2SH/ is bad, your action is needed! Mining
"Standard" scripts is merely miner bias. It's a flaw that the software developer…
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n/a | gmaxwell | January 13, 2012, 04:08:13 PM |
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Not a alt-coin, but better. Alt-communications Altcoin Discussion
A lot of the decisions in it seemed weird and unfortunate to me— E.g. it uses gi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 23, 2013, 08:39:13 PM |
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[ANN] [PPC] PPCoin 0.3.0 Release - Upgrade Required Altcoin Discussion
I am not aware of any centrally controlled clock that you are talking about. Cou…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 23, 2013, 08:08:56 PM |
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WTF happened to ripple? Altcoin Discussion
There is a reasonable fix for this though, just set a reorg limit say 100 blocks…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 23, 2013, 07:46:25 PM |
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[ANN] [PPC] PPCoin 0.3.0 Release - Upgrade Required Altcoin Discussion
Yes, but at the same time people can lead dishonest discussions of design decisi…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 23, 2013, 06:18:06 PM |
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And it's gone: losing all your ripples in 0.01 seconds Altcoin Discussion
They said they're working with bitstamp to auto-return the XRP. Maybe you'll get…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 23, 2013, 05:17:39 PM |
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And it's gone: losing all your ripples in 0.01 seconds Altcoin Discussion
Turns out ripple has no way for an address to identify if it's supposed to accep…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 23, 2013, 03:31:08 PM |
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I'VE CHANGE MY MIND! Development & Technical Discussion
Can you explain this in more laymen terms of why it needs to be increased to at…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 23, 2013, 03:01:07 AM |
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solution for blockchain scalability problem Altcoin Discussion
E.g. suppose transaction spends outpoint 123456:1. We need to confirm that this…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 22, 2013, 07:08:41 PM |
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A proposal for fast POS transactions with Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
Ripple could use bitcoin to settle up, settling only when rippling failed or asy…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 13, 2011, 08:21:12 PM |
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A proposal for fast POS transactions with Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
So, what do you think? Is this a useful addition to the Bitcoininfrastructure? D…
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n/a | gmaxwell | July 13, 2011, 03:31:13 PM |
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WTF happened to ripple? Altcoin Discussion
If you mean a mesh of trust with link X being some validator who trusts validato…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 22, 2013, 05:50:42 PM |
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WTF happened to ripple? Altcoin Discussion
And what happens with small world topologies like this:Code: *full-mesh of 32…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 22, 2013, 04:54:09 PM |
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WTF happened to ripple? Altcoin Discussion
I largely agree. It comes down to the practical question of which scheme will be…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 22, 2013, 12:40:20 AM |
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I defend Ripple - “Premined” is more decentralized Altcoin Discussion
QuoteSubsidy is so important in mining it promotes the creation of large mining…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 22, 2013, 12:07:31 AM |
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WTF happened to ripple? Altcoin Discussion
Is there a similar compact and fairly comprehensive expression of Ripple's secur…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 21, 2013, 11:44:33 PM |
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WTF happened to ripple? Altcoin Discussion
We have a lot of ideas for how to manage this. But we won't get to decide. We ca…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 21, 2013, 10:27:55 PM |
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WTF happened to ripple? Altcoin Discussion
It qualifies as peer-to-peer in my book as long as you've got enough people to r…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 21, 2013, 09:23:23 PM |
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review of proposals for adaptive maximum block size Development & Technical Discussion
Any "sum of transaction fees" reduces to miners picking whatever they want, sinc…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 21, 2013, 07:18:01 PM |
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Economics of block size limit Development & Technical Discussion
I've wrote on my blog about various economic forces behind block size limit. Her…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 21, 2013, 07:11:11 PM |
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How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization Development & Technical Discussion
It's hard enough to sell the idea of a distributed cryptocurrency without also n…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 21, 2013, 07:07:53 PM |
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Save any files to namecoin blockchain Altcoin Discussion
Most of the insertion slowness is probably the recursive IsFromMe / IsConfirmed…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 21, 2013, 06:53:37 AM |
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Why the Bitcoin rules can't change (reading time ~5min) Bitcoin Discussion
Or does the fork mean that the current money supply gets divided between those t…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 21, 2013, 05:02:13 AM |
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[Announcement] Avalon ASIC Batch #1 Ships Hardware
Could someone with a low Batch 1 number call DHL and check if they have any trac…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 21, 2013, 04:29:55 AM |
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Ripple Giveaway! Altcoin Discussion
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 21, 2013, 01:56:38 AM |
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Mutually dependent transactions Development & Technical Discussion
I'm wondering how the network would handle mutually dependent transactions (I'm…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 21, 2013, 01:51:19 AM |
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Finney Attack against SatoshiDice or how to get 250 BTC per solved block. Development & Technical Discussion
Why would miners drop transactions for SD? That makes no sense. Sure they might…
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n/a | gmaxwell | February 21, 2013, 01:32:50 AM |
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