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Suggested MAJOR change to Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
This is a perennially bad proposal. The security of an N block bury comes larg…
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n/a | maaku | November 11, 2011, 03:55:43 AM |
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OP_EVAL proposal Development & Technical Discussion
That's kinda my point. Even if this were a problem (I have yet to see or think u…
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n/a | maaku | October 19, 2011, 09:50:00 PM |
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OP_EVAL proposal Development & Technical Discussion
You don't have to switch hash functions, just increase the number of bits you in…
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n/a | maaku | October 19, 2011, 06:25:36 PM |
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OP_EVAL proposal Development & Technical Discussion
Why allow recursion? Is there a use-case for this?
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n/a | maaku | October 19, 2011, 03:06:19 PM |
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We need a litecoin improvement -deflation within 6 months Altcoin Discussion
Also, since when is deflation necessary for a usable currency ? Indeed, quite th…
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n/a | maaku | October 16, 2011, 08:29:37 PM |
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Coinbaser branch's new JSON-RPC method Development & Technical Discussion
Couldn't one of the rules of the aux-chains be to reject proof-of-works which ha…
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n/a | maaku | October 16, 2011, 12:32:07 AM |
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We need a litecoin improvement -deflation within 6 months Altcoin Discussion
Ok, what do you mean by "inflatoin"?Are you talking about price inflation or BTC…
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n/a | maaku | October 15, 2011, 02:23:38 PM |
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We need a litecoin improvement -deflation within 6 months Altcoin Discussion
Please keep in mind that on January 01, 2011 BTC was at 0.37 USD and is still a …
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n/a | maaku | October 15, 2011, 11:38:43 AM |
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We need a litecoin improvement -deflation within 6 months Altcoin Discussion
Bitcoin is not suffering 30% inflation--that is bad economic analysis. You are f…
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n/a | maaku | October 15, 2011, 03:08:41 AM |
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Time to grow up. Altcoin Discussion
There is a claim that Botnets aren't that big of a threat (e.g. on Tenebrix FAQ)…
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n/a | maaku | October 10, 2011, 01:27:11 PM |
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Time to grow up. Altcoin Discussion
There is absolutely no technical difference between litecoin and the various bri…
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n/a | maaku | October 09, 2011, 06:50:11 PM |
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Time to grow up. Altcoin Discussion
I misspoke. All altchains seen so far (except namecoin) should have no valuation…
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n/a | maaku | October 09, 2011, 04:13:07 PM |
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Time to grow up. Altcoin Discussion
As long as we're talking philosophical principles, fine. The “point” I'm referri…
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n/a | maaku | October 09, 2011, 02:19:45 PM |
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Time to grow up. Altcoin Discussion
@ripper234, if the first thing that comes to your mind in describing bitcoin is…
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n/a | maaku | October 09, 2011, 01:50:33 PM |
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Alternate Cryptocurrencies Rewiew Altcoin Discussion
PERSONAL VIEWS:Namecoin: mined during subsidized periods, ridiculed during patsy…
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n/a | maaku | October 09, 2011, 01:20:06 PM |
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Time to grow up. Altcoin Discussion
@ripper234, “bitcoin silver” is a funny analogy I don't quite get. It's not fund…
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n/a | maaku | October 09, 2011, 01:14:03 PM |
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Time to grow up. Altcoin Discussion
2) Since I am not economist (so please don't take this question as some kind of…
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n/a | maaku | October 09, 2011, 12:31:09 PM |
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Time to grow up. Altcoin Discussion
@Lolcust, nominally is different from actually--to my knowledge there is no *coi…
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n/a | maaku | October 09, 2011, 04:08:41 AM |
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Time to grow up. Altcoin Discussion
Ok, seriously folks: what's the point? About once a week we see a “new” coin cro…
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n/a | maaku | October 09, 2011, 03:25:16 AM |
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Time to grow up. Altcoin Discussion
Only in a universe where merge-mining is impossible.
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n/a | maaku | October 09, 2011, 03:34:27 AM |
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Difficulty adjustment needs modifying Development & Technical Discussion
The problem is that if you have a drop-off of 50%, that's 50% of the potential c…
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n/a | maaku | October 05, 2011, 02:48:50 PM |
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Typo-tolerant base58 for Bitcoin clients Development & Technical Discussion
This assumption is not safe. If a person is typing in a string they are reading…
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n/a | maaku | October 05, 2011, 11:50:09 AM |
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Typo-tolerant base58 for Bitcoin clients Development & Technical Discussion
I voted no but send people a warning. If you've ever used an iphone you'd unders…
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n/a | maaku | October 05, 2011, 11:40:37 AM |
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A blockchain with a hashing function doing useful work Altcoin Discussion
Yeah, that would never work.The bitcoin protocol actually has two proof-of-work-…
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n/a | maaku | October 04, 2011, 12:53:21 AM |
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A blockchain with a hashing function doing useful work Altcoin Discussion
Cute, but missing the point. I don't think anyone is trying to replace bitcoin w…
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n/a | maaku | October 03, 2011, 09:20:03 PM |
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A blockchain with a hashing function doing useful work Altcoin Discussion
- At times when F@H is down and there are no rewards, why would anyone waste po…
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n/a | maaku | October 03, 2011, 04:59:26 PM |
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A blockchain with a hashing function doing useful work Altcoin Discussion
I'll warrant that the F@H people can cheat the system (destroying all value) if…
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n/a | maaku | October 03, 2011, 02:14:03 PM |
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Difficulty adjustment needs modifying Development & Technical Discussion
You can do both calculations and accept either-or during a transitionary period…
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n/a | maaku | October 03, 2011, 01:00:54 PM |
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A blockchain with a hashing function doing useful work Altcoin Discussion
As I said, we've confined just the coin generation transactions to rely upon the…
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n/a | maaku | October 03, 2011, 12:58:14 PM |
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A blockchain with a hashing function doing useful work Altcoin Discussion
It's not, but that's the price of aiding and abetting a centralized project. You…
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n/a | maaku | October 03, 2011, 11:57:01 AM |
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A blockchain with a hashing function doing useful work Altcoin Discussion
Stay tuned...
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n/a | maaku | October 03, 2011, 11:34:04 AM |
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PHP: how to calculate the transaction fee? Development & Technical Discussion
What fee it calculates depends on what transaction outputs it decides to use to…
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n/a | maaku | October 03, 2011, 11:29:49 AM |
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Difficulty adjustment needs modifying Development & Technical Discussion
This is way off-topic from the OP... but Gavin, why couldn't ArtForz's patch be…
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n/a | maaku | October 03, 2011, 11:26:48 AM |
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Difficulty adjustment needs modifying Development & Technical Discussion
Under the “bitcoin as planned” alternative there is no incentive either way, so…
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n/a | maaku | October 03, 2011, 03:23:16 AM |
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Difficulty adjustment needs modifying Development & Technical Discussion
Trivial example for how time-based has the same flaw, let's say daily retarget a…
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n/a | maaku | October 03, 2011, 02:24:14 AM |
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Difficulty adjustment needs modifying Development & Technical Discussion
Unless I'm seriously misunderstanding, no one is discussing asymmetric adjustmen…
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n/a | maaku | October 02, 2011, 10:47:54 PM |
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Difficulty adjustment needs modifying Development & Technical Discussion
Unless I'm seriously misunderstanding, no one is discussing asymmetric adjustmen…
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n/a | maaku | October 02, 2011, 05:29:33 PM |
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Difficulty adjustment needs modifying Development & Technical Discussion
If the block time was changed from the current esotheric one to something which…
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n/a | maaku | October 02, 2011, 12:48:10 PM |
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OP_EVAL proposal Development & Technical Discussion
Well, when we release our blockchains and API in a few months, that will be a ch…
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n/a | maaku | October 02, 2011, 12:33:20 PM |
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OP_EVAL proposal Development & Technical Discussion
I am 100% for DIGEST160 stuff. (Along a similar vein, CHECKSIG should have been…
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n/a | maaku | October 02, 2011, 01:24:54 AM |
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Securing your Bitcoins against death, amnesia or prison. Bitcoin Discussion
casascius, it would be nice if you would custom make them to a specified denomin…
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n/a | maaku | October 02, 2011, 02:18:37 AM |
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Hash rate question - WTF variance? Bitcoin Discussion
I would expect about 9% variance due simply to random chance if this metric were…
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n/a | maaku | October 02, 2011, 02:13:02 AM |
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Proposed extensions to the transaction protocol: Receiver scripts, OP_TIME, more Development & Technical Discussion
Again, that isn't any different than with double-spends. ByteCoin posted a doubl…
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n/a | maaku | October 02, 2011, 02:02:23 AM |
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Difficulty adjustment needs modifying Development & Technical Discussion
I did some simulation of blocktime variance (assuming honest nodes, and after ca…
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n/a | maaku | October 02, 2011, 01:41:40 AM |
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Proposed extensions to the transaction protocol: Receiver scripts, OP_TIME, more Development & Technical Discussion
Cool points for quoting Satoshi, but I'm afraid that line of reasoning doesn't h…
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n/a | maaku | October 02, 2011, 12:44:17 AM |
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Proposed extensions to the transaction protocol: Receiver scripts, OP_TIME, more Development & Technical Discussion
theymos, can you provide a reference for that? It's not an intuitive result.EDIT…
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n/a | maaku | October 01, 2011, 03:23:06 PM |
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Proposed extensions to the transaction protocol: Receiver scripts, OP_TIME, more Development & Technical Discussion
Why make the address a hash of the script? Unless the scripting system allowed L…
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n/a | maaku | October 01, 2011, 12:44:34 PM |
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Proposal : standard transactions for security/backup/escrow Development & Technical Discussion
Public key operations in bitcoin are done by signing and verifying signatures of…
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n/a | maaku | October 01, 2011, 12:04:38 PM |
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IDEA: Anonymous, revocable transactions Development & Technical Discussion
If you're going to add something though, you might as well provide basic AES pri…
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n/a | maaku | October 01, 2011, 01:04:31 AM |
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Proposal : standard transactions for security/backup/escrow Development & Technical Discussion
jtimon, you're conflating signature operations with secret keys.
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n/a | maaku | September 30, 2011, 07:42:35 PM |
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How to estimate Network Speed for Guinness World Record Development & Technical Discussion
I'm not sure why there has to be voodoo involved. Most of the bitcoin network is…
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n/a | maaku | September 30, 2011, 12:12:06 PM |
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Designing distributed contracts Development & Technical Discussion
Multi-sig is being discussed here. Multi-sig is a primitive operation that would…
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n/a | maaku | September 30, 2011, 12:55:55 AM |
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How mining GeistGeld/Tenebrix can get you a prison sentence in the US Altcoin Discussion
How could you not suspect a laundering operation? Look how white that labcoat is…
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n/a | maaku | September 28, 2011, 01:31:51 AM |
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Disabled script operands Development & Technical Discussion
They're not disabled because there are known attacks against scripts using them…
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n/a | maaku | September 27, 2011, 01:14:28 PM |
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Network-adjusted transaction fees? Development & Technical Discussion
Miners will have to set their fees somehow, and spenders will have to have some…
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n/a | maaku | September 26, 2011, 11:49:06 AM |
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Cryptographic reasoning for double-hash? Development & Technical Discussion
You are either ignorant, or tin-foil paranoid.EDIT: That came off as mean, which…
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n/a | maaku | September 26, 2011, 03:15:32 AM |
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What Guarantees Are There That The Supply of Bitcoin Will Be Limited Development & Technical Discussion
lets suppose automatic upgrade feature is installed and widely adopted, and so t…
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n/a | maaku | September 26, 2011, 03:04:13 AM |
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Network-adjusted transaction fees? Development & Technical Discussion
Why wouldn't there be a need?Once generation of new coins tapers out, there will…
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n/a | maaku | September 26, 2011, 02:50:28 AM |
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Cryptographic reasoning for double-hash? Development & Technical Discussion
@hashcoin: that's the case for a second-preimage attack, but I believe my statem…
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n/a | maaku | September 26, 2011, 02:31:22 AM |
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Cryptographic reasoning for double-hash? Development & Technical Discussion
I'm *not* trying to increase the bit strength of the encryption (the sort of sec…
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n/a | maaku | September 25, 2011, 07:27:25 PM |
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Network-adjusted transaction fees? Development & Technical Discussion
Has anyone experimented with having the expected/automatic transaction fees adju…
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n/a | maaku | September 25, 2011, 06:25:00 PM |
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Cryptographic reasoning for double-hash? Development & Technical Discussion
So to summarize, you're saying that the brute-force key-recovery attack against…
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n/a | maaku | September 25, 2011, 05:57:15 PM |
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Cryptographic reasoning for double-hash? Development & Technical Discussion
Under the theory that should a practical attack on AES be published, it's a reas…
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n/a | maaku | September 25, 2011, 01:08:33 PM |
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Cryptographic reasoning for double-hash? Development & Technical Discussion
I don't know about you, but my CPU has hardware AES...
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n/a | maaku | September 25, 2011, 05:41:35 AM |
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Cryptographic reasoning for double-hash? Development & Technical Discussion
Thanks; if you read the stackexchange question I mention TDEA. The first securit…
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n/a | maaku | September 25, 2011, 02:40:11 AM |
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Cryptographic reasoning for double-hash? Development & Technical Discussion
I just asked it on crypto.stackexchange:http://crypto.stackexchange.com/question…
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n/a | maaku | September 25, 2011, 01:56:50 AM |
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Is blockexplorer's total bitcoins in existance accurate? Development & Technical Discussion
Interesting, thanks.
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n/a | maaku | September 24, 2011, 06:57:10 PM |
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Cryptographic reasoning for double-hash? Development & Technical Discussion
Your comments about iterative hashing are irrelevant for bitcoin, because the di…
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n/a | maaku | September 24, 2011, 06:52:29 PM |
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Is blockexplorer's total bitcoins in existance accurate? Development & Technical Discussion
@ShadowOfHarbringer: those 0.00000002 BTC were never generated. Transactions are…
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n/a | maaku | September 24, 2011, 06:24:41 PM |
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Cryptographic reasoning for double-hash? Development & Technical Discussion
Multiple hashing rounds are a common way to slow down hashing searches. The onl…
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n/a | maaku | September 24, 2011, 02:02:42 PM |
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Cryptographic reasoning for double-hash? Development & Technical Discussion
Ah, because most types of attacks become less feasible as you increase the numbe…
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n/a | maaku | September 23, 2011, 11:33:38 PM |
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Cryptographic reasoning for double-hash? Development & Technical Discussion
Why "SHA256(SHA256(data))"?I understand the point of "address = RIPEMD160(SHA256…
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n/a | maaku | September 23, 2011, 05:53:47 PM |
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Bit-error in Block 108009, Tx 23 ? Development & Technical Discussion
No, that would neither stop cosmic rays (too much energy), nor atmospheric neutr…
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n/a | maaku | September 21, 2011, 08:29:27 PM |
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Bitcoin Enhancement Proposals (BEPS) Development & Technical Discussion
“biceps”?
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n/a | maaku | September 21, 2011, 12:19:40 AM |
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Bit-error in Block 108009, Tx 23 ? Development & Technical Discussion
by the same logic, the block chain is full of H0E's too.That made me smile EDIT…
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n/a | maaku | September 20, 2011, 11:57:49 PM |
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Bit-error in Block 108009, Tx 23 ? Development & Technical Discussion
@casascius: RAID with any kind of redundancy (i.e, not RAID-0 or JBOD) *does* co…
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n/a | maaku | September 20, 2011, 07:16:20 PM |
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Recycle lost coins Development & Technical Discussion
How do you differentiate coins in lost wallets from coins that just haven't been…
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n/a | maaku | September 20, 2011, 05:40:28 PM |
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Bit-error in Block 108009, Tx 23 ? Development & Technical Discussion
Here's paper on the frequency of random-bit errors:http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bi…
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n/a | maaku | September 20, 2011, 05:36:12 PM |
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Enhancements to Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
BRFI : Bitcoin Requests for Implementation (a la Scheme)
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n/a | maaku | September 20, 2011, 03:17:23 PM |
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Bit-error in Block 108009, Tx 23 ? Development & Technical Discussion
If you're this thorough about everything in life, I'm surprised you haven't enco…
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n/a | maaku | September 20, 2011, 03:04:56 PM |
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Recycle lost coins Development & Technical Discussion
I do, because for those ~17 years the owner of those coins would have received a…
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n/a | maaku | September 20, 2011, 02:57:24 PM |
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Bit-error in Block 108009, Tx 23 ? Development & Technical Discussion
Bit atrophy? A stray cosmic ray?
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n/a | maaku | September 20, 2011, 12:09:57 PM |
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Recycle lost coins Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, I'm aware of that and consider it a feature. I don't think that lost coins…
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n/a | maaku | September 20, 2011, 12:07:44 PM |
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Bitcoin Enhancement Proposals (BEPS) Development & Technical Discussion
Though I am not a core developer by any means, let me say that this is a great s…
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n/a | maaku | September 20, 2011, 10:32:38 AM |
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Recycle lost coins Development & Technical Discussion
Yeah, but my proposal also includes a new transaction type where fees can be cla…
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n/a | maaku | September 20, 2011, 10:21:02 AM |
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Recycle lost coins Development & Technical Discussion
Then perhaps we should have demurrage for coins which haven't been moved in 10 y…
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n/a | maaku | September 19, 2011, 12:12:14 PM |
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Recycle lost coins Development & Technical Discussion
Because my proposal trades that inconvenience to the miners with a reward for th…
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n/a | maaku | September 19, 2011, 11:19:59 AM |
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Recycle lost coins Development & Technical Discussion
the main thing i am trying to "fix" is the extreme uneven distribution of curren…
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n/a | maaku | September 18, 2011, 12:27:32 PM |
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Easy offline transactions with standard client Development & Technical Discussion
This would be extraordinarily useful for high-value accounts, ones which store m…
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n/a | maaku | September 17, 2011, 09:00:38 PM |
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Recycle lost coins Development & Technical Discussion
Demurrage would solve this...Anyway, simply build into the client an automatic ‘…
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n/a | maaku | September 17, 2011, 08:43:29 PM |
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Investors hiring for 'Bitcoin successor' Bitcoin Discussion
What a joke. They want to hire CEO, lead front-end, and lead back-end developers…
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n/a | maaku | September 16, 2011, 08:06:17 PM |
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Hypothetical currency with decentralized monetary policy Altcoin Discussion
I value price stability, just as you do. But you and I are working to create an…
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n/a | maaku | September 15, 2011, 11:22:40 PM |
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Hypothetical currency with decentralized monetary policy Altcoin Discussion
It won't balance out unless the miners and speculators just happen to have equal…
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n/a | maaku | September 15, 2011, 10:16:17 PM |
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Hypothetical currency with decentralized monetary policy Altcoin Discussion
How does that achieve price stability, however? People would vote with their sel…
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n/a | maaku | September 15, 2011, 09:12:50 PM |
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[7.3 btc bounty] Implement demurrage in an alternative chain with merged mining Development & Technical Discussion
I don't understand why your solution results in faster processing for the user.…
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n/a | maaku | September 13, 2011, 12:18:13 PM |
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[7.3 btc bounty] Implement demurrage in an alternative chain with merged mining Development & Technical Discussion
Or maybe it's hardcoded into the client and not explicit in the block chain, tha…
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n/a | maaku | September 13, 2011, 10:23:47 AM |
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[7.3 btc bounty] Implement demurrage in an alternative chain with merged mining Development & Technical Discussion
Quote from: JohnDoeSo any ETA on your fork maaku?Hi, I was at a conference all w…
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n/a | maaku | September 12, 2011, 01:02:07 PM |
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[7.3 btc bounty] Implement demurrage in an alternative chain with merged mining Development & Technical Discussion
Quote from: JohnDoeMade a thread about this on bitcointalk to make the discussio…
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n/a | maaku | September 12, 2011, 01:01:15 PM |
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[7.3 btc bounty] Implement demurrage in an alternative chain with merged mining Development & Technical Discussion
On 10 second rounds:In the past two months there have been 15 reorgs of the bloc…
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n/a | maaku | September 12, 2011, 12:59:37 PM |
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[7.3 btc bounty] Implement demurrage in an alternative chain with merged mining Development & Technical Discussion
I'm finally out of newbie status and able to post. Here's the discussion that's…
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n/a | maaku | September 12, 2011, 12:58:28 PM |
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