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Incentives (and an idea) Bitcoin Discussion
I don't believe the software does this now, but a miner could copy the transacti…
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n/a | Hal | March 09, 2011, 04:10:17 PM |
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I solved 7 blocks yesterday Bitcoin Discussion
The frequency of finding blocks is an example of the Poisson distribution. Here…
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n/a | Hal | March 08, 2011, 08:24:48 PM |
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What would you change about the Bitcoin protocol? Development & Technical Discussion
My pet peeve, related to endianness, is treating hashes as numbers and reversing…
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n/a | Hal | March 08, 2011, 03:52:00 PM |
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Poll: What are your Bitcoin Client Feature Request / wishlist? Development & Technical Discussion
In another thread, they proposed bringing accounts into the UI, and doing them a…
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n/a | Hal | March 07, 2011, 06:41:57 PM |
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Development roadmap Development & Technical Discussion
Another feature we need IMO is the ability to reclaim payments that aren't going…
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n/a | Hal | March 06, 2011, 01:51:22 PM |
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Development roadmap Development & Technical Discussion
design/implement a secure DNS-like "map string to bitcoin address" system (so I…
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n/a | Hal | March 05, 2011, 04:29:52 PM |
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New bitcoincharts.com is live! Economics
I love that it works on my iPad - a lot of charting services don't.In the top ri…
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n/a | Hal | March 05, 2011, 04:01:17 PM |
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A free market approach to dark pools Economics
Suppose you sell some bitcoins on mtgox and when you go to withdraw the proceeds…
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n/a | Hal | March 05, 2011, 03:53:58 PM |
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Can't find Wallet.dat on OSX Bitcoin Technical Support
That's where it is. Maybe you were looking at another Library folder? Start with…
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n/a | Hal | March 05, 2011, 03:44:47 PM |
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Development roadmap Development & Technical Discussion
Is there anything we need to do for robustness against spam/flooding attacks? I…
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n/a | Hal | March 05, 2011, 02:32:32 PM |
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Bitcoin "From" address, can i change it? Development & Technical Discussion
Bitcoin's behind-the-scenes address handling makes things a little complicated.…
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n/a | Hal | March 05, 2011, 02:28:03 PM |
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dPriority and free transactions Development & Technical Discussion
CreateNewBlock() has this code:Code:3368 uint64 nBlockSize = 1000;3369 …
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n/a | Hal | March 05, 2011, 02:14:52 AM |
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Oldest redeemed bitcoin? Bitcoin Discussion
I did some mining the first few weeks of Bitcoin and I got a block or two the fi…
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n/a | Hal | March 03, 2011, 07:53:10 PM |
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getnewaddress per wallet Development & Technical Discussion
It may be a good security to generate 1'000'000'000 addresses to avoid someone t…
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n/a | Hal | March 01, 2011, 08:11:26 PM |
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CreateTransaction: suggest/enforce fee for big low-priority transactions Development & Technical Discussion
When investigating this I noticed lots of errors in ~/.bitcoin/debug.log like th…
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n/a | Hal | March 01, 2011, 05:37:21 PM |
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6 hours and 0 confirms! Bitcoin Discussion
How did it happen though? Should be impossible unless you did more than you said…
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n/a | Hal | February 24, 2011, 06:24:15 PM |
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Printing bitcoins, an implementation Bitcoin Discussion
The online QR encoder at http://zxing.org/w/decode.jspx works on the 6.66 Bitcoi…
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n/a | Hal | February 24, 2011, 05:28:28 PM |
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Alternative History of Bitcoin Bitcoin Discussion
Actually if you look at Wei Dai's b-money or Nick Szabo's Bit Gold proposals, bo…
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n/a | Hal | February 23, 2011, 08:49:14 PM |
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Why was this transaction structured this way? Development & Technical Discussion
Actually I was wrong, this is exactly what is happening here. You see that both…
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n/a | Hal | February 22, 2011, 11:03:47 PM |
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Why was this transaction structured this way? Development & Technical Discussion
I don't think it's happening here, but I had something similar happen when I pai…
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n/a | Hal | February 22, 2011, 10:56:50 PM |
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Mr. Lucky begins to mine... Development & Technical Discussion
He'll get all of them in less than an hour.What about difficulty adjustments tho…
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n/a | Hal | February 22, 2011, 05:24:02 PM |
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Bitcoin Signature Generator Marketplace
Yes, I can read it now with the darker background.
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n/a | Hal | February 22, 2011, 01:52:00 PM |
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Bitcoin Signature Generator Marketplace
Frankly I find it illegible.
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n/a | Hal | February 21, 2011, 06:11:43 PM |
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Prize for importing private key Development & Technical Discussion
I'm kind of surprised that Mike's transactions didn't show up in my wallet. Inst…
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n/a | Hal | February 21, 2011, 05:56:26 PM |
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BTC addresses per second Development & Technical Discussion
Gavin has a patch for creating an address with your name in it:http://bitcointal…
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n/a | Hal | February 21, 2011, 05:37:04 PM |
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Race Conditions Between Transactions and Wallet Backup Development & Technical Discussion
1. In the FAQ it says, "You need to make a backup of the wallet after every tran…
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n/a | Hal | February 21, 2011, 05:26:44 PM |
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Patch needed ASAP: 100BTC + 50% for completion in < 24 hrs Development & Technical Discussion
Did you ever get this? Here's some minimal code that might work. Add to rpc.cpp…
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n/a | Hal | February 21, 2011, 05:21:23 PM |
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Project: Increasing Rationality of Bitcoiner Economics
I was an early participant on Less Wrong as well as its progenitor Overcoming Bi…
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n/a | Hal | February 21, 2011, 03:57:11 PM |
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Prize for importing private key [WON] Development & Technical Discussion
This is a base58 encoded plain private key (256 bit value from a "key" entry in…
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n/a | Hal | February 19, 2011, 05:36:49 PM |
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P2P Email Off-topic |
n/a | Hal | February 20, 2011, 08:44:14 PM |
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Project: Increasing Rationality of Bitcoiner Economics
Is it rational to try to achieve Bitcoin dominance? How confidant are you in for…
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n/a | Hal | February 20, 2011, 08:39:57 PM |
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verifying hashes using sha256sum Development & Technical Discussion
sha256sum produces hex output, you need to convert to binary with xxd:sha256sum…
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n/a | Hal | February 20, 2011, 08:30:52 PM |
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Prize for importing private key Development & Technical Discussion
I'm kind of surprised that Mike's transactions didn't show up in my wallet. Inst…
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n/a | Hal | February 20, 2011, 08:06:46 PM |
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Prize for importing private key Development & Technical Discussion
Congratulations Mike! That was fast, you got the bitcoins only two blocks later.…
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n/a | Hal | February 20, 2011, 04:25:48 PM |
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Prize for importing private key Development & Technical Discussion
Sorry! I did screw up the encoding. Here is the 256-bit private key in big-endia…
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n/a | Hal | February 20, 2011, 02:39:41 PM |
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BTC addresses per second Development & Technical Discussion
Checking the amount on an address would be very fast. Just scan the block chain…
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n/a | Hal | February 19, 2011, 07:17:07 PM |
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Prize for importing private key Development & Technical Discussion
The corresponding bitcoin address is 17kzeh4N8g49GFvdDzSf8PjaPfyoD1MndL. Here's…
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n/a | Hal | February 19, 2011, 07:10:50 PM |
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BTC addresses per second Development & Technical Discussion
Right now I'd estimate there are 300,000-400,000 funded addresses. Let's round u…
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n/a | Hal | February 19, 2011, 05:03:48 PM |
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Online wallet Bitcoin Technical Support
Online wallet by Hal
If you have a home computer, https://github.com/tcatm/bitcoin-js-remote gives yo…
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n/a | Hal | February 19, 2011, 04:11:24 PM |
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Is it possible for two private keys/clients to generate identical BTC address ? Development & Technical Discussion
Bitcoin addresses are 160-bit hashes of keys which have 256 bits of uniqueness.…
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n/a | Hal | February 19, 2011, 04:04:26 PM |
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BTC addresses per second Development & Technical Discussion
The bottleneck is an elliptic curve multiply, which takes about 2 ms, for 500/se…
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n/a | Hal | February 19, 2011, 03:51:10 PM |
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New SHA Functions Boost Crypto On 64-bit Chips Development & Technical Discussion
Does anyone know if SHA-512/256 produces the same digests as SHA256? If so, the…
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n/a | Hal | February 19, 2011, 01:19:12 PM |
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The case of the Russian Scammer. Off-topic
Why are so many Russians dishonest? Is it because of all those years of communis…
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n/a | Hal | February 19, 2011, 01:15:26 PM |
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Where do you keep your bitcoins? Economics
Don't forget the risk of theft. Backups won't help if your coins get spent. Best…
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n/a | Hal | February 18, 2011, 07:20:39 PM |
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Bitcent? Bitcoin Discussion |
n/a | Hal | February 17, 2011, 08:42:41 PM |
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Using GPU to *verify* blocks? Bitcoin Technical Support
I've done some benchmarking suggesting that the main CPU bottleneck on initial b…
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n/a | Hal | February 17, 2011, 06:01:14 PM |
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inheriting bitcoins Bitcoin Discussion
http://articles.cnn.com/2009-05-18/tech/death.online_1_online-multiple-e-mail-ad…
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n/a | Hal | February 17, 2011, 05:34:11 PM |
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FreedomBox Off-topic
FreedomBox by Hal
Article in the NY Times today about FreedomBox, Eben Moglen's project to get eve…
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n/a | Hal | February 16, 2011, 04:12:24 PM |
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Cost of electricity to mine or mint bit coins Economics
Probably should amortize the price of the graphics card over two or three years.…
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n/a | Hal | February 15, 2011, 10:57:26 PM |
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Competing Bitcoin like virtual currencies Bitcoin Discussion
Would there be interest in a network based on a GPU-resistant problem, instead o…
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n/a | Hal | February 15, 2011, 07:26:52 PM |
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Where did the $3.37 come from? Bitcoin Discussion
Actually I'd say this hints at a serious bug in the client. Look at the record o…
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n/a | Hal | February 15, 2011, 07:14:55 PM |
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Buy Bitcoins NOW! 30% harder to generate in 3-5 days! Bitcoin Discussion
I have argued that difficulty should be proportional to price. Difficulty will r…
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n/a | Hal | February 15, 2011, 04:27:00 PM |
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Why the transfers are not implemented immediately???? Bitcoin Discussion
Imagine if mybitcoin.com could optionally issue payments signed with a single pu…
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n/a | Hal | February 15, 2011, 04:20:20 PM |
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Why the transfers are not implemented immediately???? Bitcoin Discussion
The Double Trouble game only waits for one confirmation. This should take ten mi…
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n/a | Hal | February 15, 2011, 02:09:03 PM |
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Is it possible for two private keys/clients to generate identical BTC address ? Development & Technical Discussion
Is it possible for me to win every lottery for the next ten years, just by luck?…
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n/a | Hal | February 14, 2011, 02:17:19 PM |
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Best practice for fast transaction acceptance - how high is the risk? Bitcoin Discussion
I wonder if there's some way to discourage that kind of anti-social behavior; co…
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n/a | Hal | February 14, 2011, 02:02:46 PM |
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mybitcoin receiving address question Off-topic
This is off-topic because it is on-topic.
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n/a | Hal | February 13, 2011, 09:19:22 PM |
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Payment to yourself Development & Technical Discussion
It did finally go through, just slow I guess.
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n/a | Hal | February 13, 2011, 06:14:22 PM |
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Best practice for fast transaction acceptance - how high is the risk? Bitcoin Discussion
Suppose the attacker is generating blocks occasionally. in each block he generat…
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n/a | Hal | February 13, 2011, 04:48:44 PM |
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Payment to yourself Development & Technical Discussion
I did "Copy to Clipboard" of my Bitcoin address and then hit Pay, paid myself 20…
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n/a | Hal | February 13, 2011, 04:30:06 PM |
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Send bitcoins to an unknown recipient Development & Technical Discussion
I think this is a great idea Joe. There have been many, many, many requests for…
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n/a | Hal | February 13, 2011, 03:01:25 PM |
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How will the merkel hash tree be stored? Development & Technical Discussion
I agree that Satoshi's "200 bytes for backward compatibility" is something of a…
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n/a | Hal | February 13, 2011, 02:33:12 PM |
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How will the merkel hash tree be stored? Development & Technical Discussion
The idea of a Merkle tree is you just store the root, and then when someone want…
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n/a | Hal | February 12, 2011, 11:33:31 PM |
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Cannot seem to toggle bit coins server switch. Help! Bitcoin Technical Support
Did you create the bitcoin.conf file? Should be in the same directory as wallet.…
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n/a | Hal | February 12, 2011, 04:21:22 PM |
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More divisibility required - move the decimal point Development & Technical Discussion
The problem is this code in main.h:GetMinFee(), called from main.cpp:AcceptToMem…
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n/a | Hal | February 12, 2011, 04:15:11 PM |
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Peer Review Bitcoin Discussion
Peer Review by Hal
There was some discussion on the cryptography mailing list two years ago (much o…
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n/a | Hal | February 11, 2011, 11:35:37 PM |
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Core ideas of Bitcoin Bitcoin Discussion
I would focus on two ideas:How are bitcoins created?Everyone on the network comp…
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n/a | Hal | February 10, 2011, 07:46:28 PM |
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Network-wide cost of a transaction Development & Technical Discussion
Verifying an ECDSA signature takes about 3 ms. Let's say the typical transaction…
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n/a | Hal | February 10, 2011, 06:31:02 PM |
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More divisibility required - move the decimal point Development & Technical Discussion
Lots of good ideas here!I like Gavin's idea to display full precision in the UI…
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n/a | Hal | February 10, 2011, 01:53:14 PM |
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Wanted: How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World Marketplace
I used to have a copy, but I think maybe I gave it away. I'll have to check my s…
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n/a | Hal | February 10, 2011, 01:28:54 AM |
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Bitcoin value Economics
Bitcoin value by Hal
IMO one way to get a handle on a reasonable value for 1 bitcoin is via this form…
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n/a | Hal | February 10, 2011, 12:10:30 AM |
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Bitcoin 10x parity. When will 1BTC=10USD? Vote! Economics
You're missing Oct-Dec
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n/a | Hal | February 09, 2011, 11:38:43 PM |
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Displaying bitcoins in wallet Development & Technical Discussion
I have enhanced the bc_key program to print interesting information about transa…
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n/a | Hal | February 09, 2011, 07:43:33 PM |
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Sppliting/merging wallets Development & Technical Discussion
People talk about moving keys/addresses, but also it is important to move the tr…
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n/a | Hal | February 09, 2011, 01:16:50 PM |
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Speeding up signature verification Development & Technical Discussion
I've put the code up at github. I'm a C programmer more than C++; it shows.https…
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n/a | Hal | February 08, 2011, 04:08:58 PM |
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Speeding up signature verification Development & Technical Discussion
I implemented an optimized ECDSA verify for the secp256k1 curve used by Bitcoin,…
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n/a | Hal | February 08, 2011, 02:11:52 AM |
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Speeding up signature verification Development & Technical Discussion
In another thread, [mike] wrote:I don't know of any algorithms that will make EC…
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n/a | Hal | February 07, 2011, 05:31:27 PM |
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Dept Fiat Money Questions. Economics
So what does that mean for Bitcoin loans? Where would the money come from to pay…
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n/a | Hal | February 07, 2011, 12:55:06 PM |
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Bitcoin Monitor: web-based live ticker for activity on the Bitcoin network Project Development
I really like this, sent a tip. Be nice to be able to see a larger window of tim…
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n/a | Hal | February 06, 2011, 10:28:06 PM |
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Improving the Bitcoin Forum Meta
I'd like to see a separate forum for mining. Lately mining posts are filling the…
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n/a | Hal | February 06, 2011, 01:31:54 PM |
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BitBet - gambling on upcoming events Marketplace
I'd like to bet on Bitcoin difficulty and dollar trading price, 6 and 12 months…
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n/a | Hal | February 05, 2011, 02:52:10 PM |
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Will the block chain size ever become too large? Development & Technical Discussion
See this analysis by [mike] looking at similar transaction loads and what that w…
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n/a | Hal | February 05, 2011, 02:32:12 PM |
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Is bitcoin safe? Bitcoin Discussion
You could tear your banknotes into 5 pieces and hide them separately. As long as…
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n/a | Hal | February 04, 2011, 01:59:32 PM |
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How many BitCoin Users are there? Bitcoin Discussion
How many dots on that map? I lost count.
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n/a | Hal | February 03, 2011, 08:25:34 PM |
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Texas Hold Em site Marketplace
I'd like to learn to play poker. Would this be a good place?
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n/a | Hal | February 03, 2011, 08:11:32 PM |
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Bitcoin bottleneck Bitcoin Discussion
I agree this can be a problem. Putting in a transaction fee won't help if the ne…
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n/a | Hal | February 03, 2011, 06:21:15 PM |
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How many BitCoin Users are there? Bitcoin Discussion
How about counting the number of people in #bitcoin? That should include almost…
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n/a | Hal | February 03, 2011, 06:09:54 PM |
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When to "move the decimal points" ? Economics
This is how I understand transaction fees to work:- the client offers a fee by c…
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n/a | Hal | February 02, 2011, 08:35:43 PM |
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Bitcoin and bittorrent don't work. Ports blocked? Bitcoin Technical Support
I recently moved [to a maximum security prison] and I can't connect to peers wit…
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n/a | Hal | February 02, 2011, 08:23:04 PM |
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MtGox account compromised Bitcoin Discussion
Almost everyone had transactions from "united". It does NOT mean that your accou…
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n/a | Hal | February 02, 2011, 08:15:03 PM |
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The Illusion of the Infallibility of Gold as Money Bitcoin Discussion
I wouldn't be surprised if in 30-50 years they were able to genetically engineer…
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n/a | Hal | February 01, 2011, 01:39:35 PM |
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MtGox account compromised Bitcoin Discussion
Now I'm paranoid. I just tried to login to mtgox from my iPad and got an invalid…
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n/a | Hal | February 01, 2011, 01:24:42 PM |
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What if you spend after receiving a double spend? Development & Technical Discussion
Suppose you receive a payment and then immediately spend it. Then there is a blo…
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n/a | Hal | January 28, 2011, 04:41:15 PM |
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Mobile client design ideas Development & Technical Discussion
Walking the block chain means you don't have to store much data at all. In fact,…
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n/a | Hal | January 28, 2011, 04:28:34 PM |
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an introduction portal web site for total bitcoin newbies Bitcoin Discussion
None of the pictures have been showing up at http://bitcoinme.com for a few week…
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n/a | Hal | January 28, 2011, 02:21:03 PM |
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Tragedy Of The Commons Bitcoin Discussion
Ultimately it's good for the network for mining to be expensive. It makes it tha…
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n/a | Hal | January 28, 2011, 02:09:17 PM |
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Clusters of transactions on the hour Bitcoin Discussion
I listen to the network (via http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2808.0), and…
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n/a | Hal | January 28, 2011, 12:33:14 AM |
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BouncyCastle - How to generate Bitcoin compatible keys, signatures, and verify? Development & Technical Discussion
Signatures are DER encoded in Bitcoin, and your signature above is in the same f…
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n/a | Hal | January 27, 2011, 10:48:22 PM |
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BouncyCastle - How to generate Bitcoin compatible keys, signatures, and verify? Development & Technical Discussion
Well my attempt to verify that sig in openssl failed, it didn't verify. That's n…
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n/a | Hal | January 27, 2011, 09:04:13 PM |
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Mobile client design ideas Development & Technical Discussion
Several people have mentioned they are working on mobile clients (at least Andro…
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n/a | Hal | January 27, 2011, 07:55:23 PM |
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