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CoinCovenants using SCIP signatures, an amusingly bad idea. Development & Technical Discussion
Just add a rule to require all SCIP inputs must be sent to standard pubkey hash…
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n/a | maaku | March 02, 2015, 02:21:22 PM |
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Individual Block Difficulty Based on Block Size Development & Technical Discussion
I think you're misunderstanding the problem as this isn't about transaction sele…
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n/a | maaku | February 17, 2015, 02:18:17 PM |
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Individual Block Difficulty Based on Block Size Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, but it is not immediately obvious what effect that has on mining incentives…
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n/a | maaku | February 17, 2015, 10:48:01 AM |
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Individual Block Difficulty Based on Block Size Development & Technical Discussion
Work calculations would need to follow the declared work of the block -- e.g. a…
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n/a | maaku | February 16, 2015, 09:15:06 PM |
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Individual Block Difficulty Based on Block Size Development & Technical Discussion
This is a challenge for the distant future, if ever. It seems pretty likely the…
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n/a | maaku | February 16, 2015, 07:08:29 AM |
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10 BTC bounty for first AT *atomic cross-chain transfer* with Script clone Project Development
You can do atomic trade with regular old bitcoin script. Would that qualify for…
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n/a | maaku | October 26, 2014, 09:00:55 PM |
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User assets, peer-to-peer exchange, off-chain accounting & transitive txn in btc Development & Technical Discussion
There will be an update coming soon. Although we were unable to secure funding f…
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n/a | maaku | September 02, 2014, 03:48:30 PM |
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ALSA IceBucketChallenge (Ice Bucket Challenge) I challenge ALL OF YOU! Off-topic
Guys this is pretty despicable. ALS is a real disease that afflicts hundreds of…
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n/a | maaku | August 31, 2014, 02:17:08 PM |
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[ANN] Freicoin: demurrage crypto-currency from the Occupy movement (crowdfund) Announcements (Altcoins)
http://freico.in"This Domain Name Has Expired"Well, that isn't a good sign.Expir…
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n/a | maaku | August 05, 2014, 07:21:18 PM |
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Sidechains, Treechains, the TL;DR, welcome to join discussion. Altcoin Discussion
ex0du5, the point is that the bitcoin validators can do full validation of the s…
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n/a | maaku | August 03, 2014, 05:26:26 PM |
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Sidechains, Treechains, the TL;DR, welcome to join discussion. Altcoin Discussion
In the most general, sidechains will use “SPV Proofs” to send satoshis from the…
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n/a | maaku | August 03, 2014, 02:41:08 PM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
No offense, but I'm not sure you understand "UTXO" well enough to explain it to…
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n/a | maaku | July 06, 2014, 07:01:17 AM |
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I assume this 497 BTC output is unspendable? Development & Technical Discussion
Imagine the situation when top-10 mining pools will accept this protocol change…
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n/a | maaku | July 01, 2014, 10:40:10 AM |
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Is funding a development team really that difficult? Development & Technical Discussion
One of the posters in this very thread was responsible for funding much of my de…
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n/a | maaku | June 27, 2014, 04:54:42 PM |
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CoinJoin: Bitcoin privacy for the real world Development & Technical Discussion
Read the first page of this thread. There's a solution involving blinded outputs…
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n/a | maaku | June 24, 2014, 05:41:11 PM |
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CoinJoin: Bitcoin privacy for the real world Development & Technical Discussion
So it's trivially identifiable whose outputs are whose based on the observed off…
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n/a | maaku | June 24, 2014, 12:31:29 PM |
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[ANN] Freicoin: demurrage crypto-currency from the Occupy movement (crowdfund) Announcements (Altcoins)
I'm not sure what you're asking for re: timeline. Freicoin was released in Dec 2…
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n/a | maaku | June 22, 2014, 11:56:58 PM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
I don't know of anyone besides me who is still working on UTXO commitments. It i…
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n/a | maaku | June 21, 2014, 07:25:48 PM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
That appears to be a correct description of SPV+ mode.
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n/a | maaku | June 21, 2014, 10:54:00 AM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
I explained myself, twice:The miner needs to verify the entire block chain histo…
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n/a | maaku | June 20, 2014, 01:59:36 AM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
Checkpoints are a temporary hack that will go away soon, we hope.
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n/a | maaku | June 19, 2014, 03:02:18 PM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
Sure I can, now that I'm at my computer instead of my phone The miner needs to v…
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n/a | maaku | June 18, 2014, 11:27:18 PM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
no it's worse than that -- you have to download and process every single block s…
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n/a | maaku | June 18, 2014, 10:09:13 PM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
You never ever under any circumstances want to be mining on top of a chain you h…
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n/a | maaku | June 18, 2014, 05:55:25 PM |
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[Fundraising] Finish “Ultimate blockchain compression” Project Development
UTXO commitments have always required a soft-fork, whether they are added to the…
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n/a | maaku | June 18, 2014, 05:16:13 PM |
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[Fundraising] Finish “Ultimate blockchain compression” Project Development
Here is something I just posted on a related pull request last night:QuoteThe UT…
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n/a | maaku | June 18, 2014, 04:41:38 PM |
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[ANN][XCP] Counterparty - Pioneering Peer-to-Peer Finance - Official Thread Announcements (Altcoins)
There are trustless escrows (c.f. the trustless flipped die protocol). Obviously…
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n/a | maaku | June 08, 2014, 05:53:41 PM |
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[ANN][XCP] Counterparty - Pioneering Peer-to-Peer Finance - Official Thread Announcements (Altcoins)
And because bitcoins cannot be escrowed.o_O
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n/a | maaku | June 08, 2014, 02:47:50 PM |
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(non-ultimate) blockchain compression? Development & Technical Discussion
As I said, protocol change required.
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n/a | maaku | June 02, 2014, 10:48:11 PM |
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[ANN][XCP] Counterparty - Pioneering Peer-to-Peer Finance - Official Thread Announcements (Altcoins)
you are only reserving 4% for the founders and developers? are you sure that's g…
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n/a | maaku | June 02, 2014, 10:06:45 PM |
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(non-ultimate) blockchain compression? Development & Technical Discussion
But the protocol layer can fix that. A block that is just header + coinbase + tx…
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n/a | maaku | June 02, 2014, 06:53:45 PM |
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get sender address from RPC api Bitcoin Technical Support
RangerK the only legitimate way of retrieving the transaction sender's address i…
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n/a | maaku | May 31, 2014, 11:38:38 PM |
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CoinJoin: Bitcoin privacy for the real world Development & Technical Discussion
maaku, you do actually have to read the post before making OT admonishmentsHe wa…
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n/a | maaku | May 31, 2014, 10:31:04 AM |
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Is merged mining going to have excessive overhead as Bitcoin grows? Development & Technical Discussion
Size of the merkle hash tree proof is logarithmic not linear.
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n/a | maaku | May 30, 2014, 12:55:20 PM |
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What's "Insanely high transaction fees" ? Development & Technical Discussion
it is very important to point out that this is not a protocol rule it is just th…
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n/a | maaku | May 30, 2014, 12:41:05 PM |
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What's "Insanely high transaction fees" ? Development & Technical Discussion
It's called a fail-safe design. Because typically when someone provides a >0.1bt…
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n/a | maaku | May 30, 2014, 10:17:54 AM |
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(non-ultimate) blockchain compression? Development & Technical Discussion
The issues there are not block chain data size, but rather the network sync algo…
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n/a | maaku | May 30, 2014, 10:27:33 AM |
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CoinJoin: Bitcoin privacy for the real world Development & Technical Discussion
anti-scam: off-topic. please use the zerocash thread.
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n/a | maaku | May 30, 2014, 10:18:45 AM |
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CoinJoin: Bitcoin privacy for the real world Development & Technical Discussion
Here's how we did it in the initial CoinJoin implementation we made.* There's an…
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n/a | maaku | May 28, 2014, 07:45:58 AM |
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How to get an address/public key from a CTxIn ? Development & Technical Discussion
Thanks for the hints As for the actual idea, change is usually pretty obvious a…
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n/a | maaku | May 27, 2014, 03:49:10 PM |
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CoinJoin: Bitcoin privacy for the real world Development & Technical Discussion
Please stay on topic.@genjix, I think you misunderstood my point about multiple…
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n/a | maaku | May 27, 2014, 03:45:49 PM |
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CoinJoin: Bitcoin privacy for the real world Development & Technical Discussion
Sharedcoin is a blockchain.info product. You can read about it on their website,…
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n/a | maaku | May 26, 2014, 07:00:18 PM |
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CoinJoin: Bitcoin privacy for the real world Development & Technical Discussion
Greg has nothing to do with sharedcoin (and sharedcoin has little to do with coi…
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n/a | maaku | May 26, 2014, 05:20:04 PM |
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How to get an address/public key from a CTxIn ? Development & Technical Discussion
you cannot assume anything about the values in the scriptSig without knowing the…
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n/a | maaku | May 26, 2014, 05:22:11 PM |
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How to get an address/public key from a CTxIn ? Development & Technical Discussion
That is a terrible idea. It circumvents behavior that is designed to make bitcoi…
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n/a | maaku | May 26, 2014, 02:27:10 PM |
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get sender address from RPC api Bitcoin Technical Support
No, that is not accurate. There are an unlimited ways in which this can break (a…
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n/a | maaku | May 18, 2014, 04:53:59 PM |
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[ANN] Freicoin: demurrage crypto-currency from the Occupy movement (crowdfund) Announcements (Altcoins)
I'm not sure how informed you are about Freicoin, but the underlying purpose and…
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n/a | maaku | May 18, 2014, 10:54:35 AM |
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n/a | maaku | May 17, 2014, 07:38:32 PM |
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[ANN] Freicoin: demurrage crypto-currency from the Occupy movement (crowdfund) Announcements (Altcoins)
That is normal for p2pool, and does not affect your payout. You may also try htt…
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n/a | maaku | May 17, 2014, 03:45:53 AM |
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CoinJoin: Bitcoin privacy for the real world Development & Technical Discussion
Yeah okay. I'll see if I can find time to finish the half-written BIP I've alrea…
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n/a | maaku | May 04, 2014, 01:11:50 AM |
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Turing complete language vs non-Turing complete (Ethereum vs Bitcoin) Altcoin Discussion
But getting back couple of pages to the requirements of resistance to DoS attack…
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n/a | maaku | May 03, 2014, 09:01:30 PM |
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Turing complete language vs non-Turing complete (Ethereum vs Bitcoin) Altcoin Discussion
Lisp is actually not ideal here. Some sort of stack-based language with strong s…
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n/a | maaku | May 03, 2014, 07:55:29 PM |
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Issuing Dividends Through the Blockchain? Development & Technical Discussion
This is a classic use case for colored coins. Since the share outputs are themse…
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n/a | maaku | May 03, 2014, 12:53:34 PM |
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CoinJoin: Bitcoin privacy for the real world Development & Technical Discussion
@caedes, why not have a peer-to-peer broadcast-flood channel for announcing join…
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n/a | maaku | May 03, 2014, 11:23:58 AM |
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Standardising block versions Development & Technical Discussion
Currently if we upgraded blocks to version 3 and made some change that causes th…
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n/a | maaku | May 02, 2014, 06:07:15 PM |
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Standardising block versions Development & Technical Discussion
Not all possible version upgrades are exclusive. You could have a version 3 bloc…
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n/a | maaku | May 02, 2014, 03:32:57 PM |
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CoinJoin: Bitcoin privacy for the real world Development & Technical Discussion
Is there a central server involved in your implementation? I'm not trying to spr…
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n/a | maaku | May 02, 2014, 11:03:40 AM |
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Is Bitcoin's JSON-RPC interface safe? Or proper handling of money. Development & Technical Discussion
Try rounding to 8 decimal digits of precision, like you would with bitcoin.
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n/a | maaku | April 29, 2014, 01:31:14 AM |
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Side chains vs Tree chains Development & Technical Discussion
Peter Todd, could you illustrate how tree chains remain compatible with SPV mode…
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n/a | maaku | April 29, 2014, 01:30:15 AM |
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Is Bitcoin's JSON-RPC interface safe? Or proper handling of money. Development & Technical Discussion
Fun fact: JavaScript has MAX_INT equal to 2^53 - 1, for exactly this reason. The…
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n/a | maaku | April 28, 2014, 12:43:19 PM |
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Is Bitcoin's JSON-RPC interface safe? Or proper handling of money. Development & Technical Discussion
Double has 53 bits position which is more than enough to encode all monetary val…
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n/a | maaku | April 27, 2014, 11:50:53 PM |
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censorship of censorship-resistant currency Bitcoin Discussion
You know that bitcoin isn't censorship resistant?
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n/a | maaku | April 19, 2014, 02:14:40 PM |
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Blockchain 2.0 – Let a Thousand Chains Blossom Bitcoin Discussion
No, soft fork.
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n/a | maaku | April 17, 2014, 08:57:01 PM |
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Blockchain 2.0 – Let a Thousand Chains Blossom Bitcoin Discussion
If thousand chains blossom, how do i know which is the longest and honest one ?D…
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n/a | maaku | April 17, 2014, 04:24:34 PM |
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Decreasing the variance of block interval w/o decreasing the mean of interval Development & Technical Discussion
And mining is no longer progress-free. Now the fastest miner finds all the block…
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n/a | maaku | April 16, 2014, 03:05:38 AM |
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Byte order in serialisation Development & Technical Discussion
It does not currently work on big-endian systems, no. But it could in principle…
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n/a | maaku | April 16, 2014, 03:04:32 AM |
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Byte order in serialisation Development & Technical Discussion
How the compiled binaries behave on supported platforms (just x86, currently) is…
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n/a | maaku | April 15, 2014, 01:49:54 PM |
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Blockchain 2.0 – Let a Thousand Chains Blossom Bitcoin Discussion
Q: if this side-chain idea, two-way-peg, and merge-mining gets rolling...Would i…
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n/a | maaku | April 14, 2014, 02:32:13 PM |
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Sidechain Technical Feasibility Discussion Development & Technical Discussion
Yes we've looked at that and it is pretty straightforward to have either inflati…
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n/a | maaku | April 13, 2014, 06:39:19 PM |
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Sidechain discussion Development & Technical Discussion
So the fundamental qualification for a side-chain would be direct, chain verifie…
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n/a | maaku | April 12, 2014, 06:03:23 PM |
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Sidechain Technical Feasibility Discussion Development & Technical Discussion
The attack fails because of the quieting period during which anyone can step for…
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n/a | maaku | April 12, 2014, 05:46:21 PM |
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[ANN][XCP] Counterparty Protocol, Client and Coin (built on Bitcoin) - Official Announcements (Altcoins)
@freedomfighter,This is getting into implementation details, so pay close attent…
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n/a | maaku | April 12, 2014, 04:38:00 PM |
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So who's going to develop a real time cryptocurrency trading platform? Development & Technical Discussion
jestersimpps, that's a pretty picture but you know it's got nothing to do with t…
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n/a | maaku | April 12, 2014, 04:36:16 PM |
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[ANN][XCP] Counterparty Protocol, Client and Coin (built on Bitcoin) - Official Announcements (Altcoins)
No, it'd be a soft-fork change to bitcoin.
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n/a | maaku | April 12, 2014, 04:28:44 PM |
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[ANN][XCP] Counterparty Protocol, Client and Coin (built on Bitcoin) - Official Announcements (Altcoins)
why would they swap? they cant risk a lossAtomic cross-chain swap has zero risk…
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n/a | maaku | April 12, 2014, 04:15:46 PM |
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Sidechain Technical Feasibility Discussion Development & Technical Discussion
who makes that decision?No one does. It's a definitional difference:http://en.wi…
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n/a | maaku | April 12, 2014, 04:01:06 PM |
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Sidechain Technical Feasibility Discussion Development & Technical Discussion
Here is an interview with Adam on the matter: http://letstalkbitcoin.com/e99-sid…
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n/a | maaku | April 12, 2014, 02:21:17 PM |
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[ANN][XCP] Counterparty Protocol, Client and Coin (built on Bitcoin) - Official Announcements (Altcoins)
Why will it take 3 days to clear? First, a significant amount of work needs to b…
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n/a | maaku | April 12, 2014, 10:31:20 AM |
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[ANN][XCP] Counterparty Protocol, Client and Coin (built on Bitcoin) - Official Announcements (Altcoins)
So is it the case that at any time, anyone can move any amount of BTC that they…
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n/a | maaku | April 11, 2014, 07:04:04 PM |
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[ANN][XCP] Counterparty Protocol, Client and Coin (built on Bitcoin) - Official Announcements (Altcoins)
the coins come from somewhere.when you enter into a contract with someone else t…
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n/a | maaku | April 11, 2014, 03:05:31 PM |
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[ANN][XCP] Counterparty Protocol, Client and Coin (built on Bitcoin) - Official Announcements (Altcoins)
Validation of the protocol rules by miners, such that confirmations are a meanin…
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n/a | maaku | April 11, 2014, 01:13:45 AM |
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[ANN][XCP] Counterparty Protocol, Client and Coin (built on Bitcoin) - Official Announcements (Altcoins)
And then Freicoin eliminates the rent entirely. We have wandered very off topic…
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n/a | maaku | April 10, 2014, 06:38:41 PM |
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[ANN][XCP] Counterparty Protocol, Client and Coin (built on Bitcoin) - Official Announcements (Altcoins)
No, that is not a universally held view. Innovation can bring productivity gains…
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n/a | maaku | April 10, 2014, 06:24:19 PM |
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[ANN][XCP] Counterparty Protocol, Client and Coin (built on Bitcoin) - Official Announcements (Altcoins)
In my mind, the only valid currencies are those which are distinct from each oth…
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n/a | maaku | April 10, 2014, 06:05:22 PM |
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[ANN][XCP] Counterparty Protocol, Client and Coin (built on Bitcoin) - Official Announcements (Altcoins)
2-way pegging means that value may be transferred at a pegged (fixed) rate in ei…
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n/a | maaku | April 10, 2014, 05:11:21 PM |
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[ANN][XCP] Counterparty Protocol, Client and Coin (built on Bitcoin) - Official Announcements (Altcoins)
Parasitic is a technical word that describes precisely what it is; those other t…
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n/a | maaku | April 10, 2014, 03:42:24 PM |
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[ANN][XCP] Counterparty Protocol, Client and Coin (built on Bitcoin) - Official Announcements (Altcoins)
Theoretically, a side-chain can be created to do the same things as Counterparty…
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n/a | maaku | April 10, 2014, 02:49:49 PM |
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[ANN][XCP] Counterparty Protocol, Client and Coin (built on Bitcoin) - Official Announcements (Altcoins)
Sorry, but no it's not immediately clear this 2-way pegging mechanism has any ap…
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n/a | maaku | April 10, 2014, 11:50:01 AM |
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[ANN][XCP] Counterparty Protocol, Client and Coin (built on Bitcoin) - Official Announcements (Altcoins)
I am one of the unnamed core developers working with Adam Back on this project.…
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n/a | maaku | April 09, 2014, 07:31:10 PM |
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[ANN][XCP] Counterparty Protocol, Client and Coin (built on Bitcoin) - Official Announcements (Altcoins)
There is no commercialization of bitcoin core development going on here. Adam an…
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n/a | maaku | April 09, 2014, 09:50:52 PM |
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What is the math involved in calculating the hash of each block Development & Technical Discussion
You might find this helpful:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2
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n/a | maaku | April 08, 2014, 10:19:22 AM |
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Is the long block confirmation time a problem? Development & Technical Discussion
@e4xit, the probability of successfully performing an attack when you are less t…
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n/a | maaku | April 07, 2014, 10:15:55 AM |
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Is the long block confirmation time a problem? Development & Technical Discussion
And let me reiterate -- dropping the block interval has real measurable negative…
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n/a | maaku | April 06, 2014, 05:54:30 PM |
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Is the long block confirmation time a problem? Development & Technical Discussion
Decreasing the blockchain linearly increases the load on mobile clients which sy…
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n/a | maaku | April 05, 2014, 01:51:20 PM |
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[ANN][XCP] Counterparty Protocol, Client and Coin (built on Bitcoin) - Official Announcements (Altcoins)
We're talking about network-level sybil attackers; this isn't about hashing powe…
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n/a | maaku | April 02, 2014, 08:30:12 PM |
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[ANN][XCP] Counterparty Protocol, Client and Coin (built on Bitcoin) - Official Announcements (Altcoins)
How do you propose to filter? Such an attacker could essentially "own" the mark…
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n/a | maaku | April 02, 2014, 08:01:06 PM |
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[ANN][XCP] Counterparty Protocol, Client and Coin (built on Bitcoin) - Official Announcements (Altcoins)
We'd have to wait for an actual P2SH^2 implementation.But from the P2SH^2 discus…
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n/a | maaku | April 02, 2014, 07:42:14 PM |
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[ANN][XCP] Counterparty Protocol, Client and Coin (built on Bitcoin) - Official Announcements (Altcoins)
As I said in the text you quoted, a filtered average over previous blocks solves…
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n/a | maaku | April 02, 2014, 05:54:50 PM |
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[ANN][XCP] Counterparty Protocol, Client and Coin (built on Bitcoin) - Official Announcements (Altcoins)
As I pointed out on the mailing list observing the chain for matched orders tell…
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n/a | maaku | April 02, 2014, 03:42:09 PM |
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[ANN][XCP] Counterparty Protocol, Client and Coin (built on Bitcoin) - Official Announcements (Altcoins)
Peter, I don't think that's fair or accurate. Anyone observing the chain gets pr…
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n/a | maaku | April 02, 2014, 01:20:49 PM |
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