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2012-12-19 archive.org - My adventure in donating bitcoins to the Internet Archi Press
Meh, wallet encryption is purposeless against trojans, the only protection it ma…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 20, 2012, 06:18:06 AM |
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Way for SPV clients to cheaply prove when a miner has cheated on his fee reward Development & Technical Discussion
I suppose you're right, maybe I'm being too pessimistic about this. If you can e…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 20, 2012, 06:02:33 AM |
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Deterministic wallets Development & Technical Discussion
hackjealousys use case is indeed one we were considering during the design of th…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 20, 2012, 05:38:59 AM |
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Way for SPV clients to cheaply prove when a miner has cheated on his fee reward Development & Technical Discussion
You can't check the error message is correct. If I claim a TX was a double spend…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 19, 2012, 12:48:39 PM |
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Merged mining - How does it really work? Development & Technical Discussion
Maybe this page helps:https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Alternative_Chains
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 19, 2012, 12:19:26 PM |
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2012-12-19 archive.org - My adventure in donating bitcoins to the Internet Archi Press
bitcoinj doesn't currently support encrypted wallets. It's being worked on by Ji…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 19, 2012, 08:37:06 AM |
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[PROPOSAL] Secure Payment Protocol Development & Technical Discussion
I just wanted to point out something that maybe isn't obvious based on the previ…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 19, 2012, 08:00:28 AM |
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2012-12-19 archive.org - My adventure in donating bitcoins to the Internet Archi Press
This is a smart man. At least he learnt something with it:QuoteMy lesson: avoid…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 19, 2012, 07:43:42 AM |
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Way for SPV clients to cheaply prove when a miner has cheated on his fee reward Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteIf a miner tried to include such a transaction, couldn't an error message p…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 19, 2012, 07:34:59 AM |
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[PROPOSAL] Untrackable addresses Development & Technical Discussion
That's very neat, thanks. I suggest we write this up on the wiki somewhere so it…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 18, 2012, 05:19:36 PM |
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Way for SPV clients to cheaply prove when a miner has cheated on his fee reward Development & Technical Discussion
You can't really solve this problem. I've thought about it many times and always…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 18, 2012, 05:08:20 PM |
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[SUCCESS] Double Spend against a satoshidice loss Development & Technical Discussion
1. Can a transaction reference an unconfirmed transaction as an input? If so, ca…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 18, 2012, 08:33:22 AM |
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[SUCCESS] Double Spend against a satoshidice loss Development & Technical Discussion
This should be a pretty reliable method.1) Create a long chain of unconfirmed tr…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 18, 2012, 05:55:35 AM |
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Why would an average person actually choose to use Bitcoin? Bitcoin Discussion
The contracts features of Bitcoin give it a series of uses that existing financi…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 17, 2012, 07:45:22 AM |
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[PROPOSAL] Secure Payment Protocol Development & Technical Discussion
Yeah, that's exactly what I was proposing.
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 17, 2012, 05:30:00 AM |
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[PROPOSAL] Secure Payment Protocol Development & Technical Discussion
SSL termination can be performed on a machine different from the one running the…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 17, 2012, 04:30:08 AM |
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[PROPOSAL] Secure Payment Protocol Development & Technical Discussion
DNSSEC signatures are conceptually no different to SSL signatures - they form a…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 16, 2012, 07:14:46 AM |
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legal aspects of decentralized capital markets Legal
Heh. I was exchanging emails with Satoshi on Bitcoin back in the spring of 2009,…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 16, 2012, 07:07:41 AM |
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legal aspects of decentralized capital markets Legal
Well, I don't know much about MPEX except that it's some kind of exchange that i…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 15, 2012, 01:29:05 PM |
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legal aspects of decentralized capital markets Legal
Hmm, I thought MPOE-PR was some alter-ego of the owner of MPEx. Guess not I thin…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 15, 2012, 08:16:36 AM |
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MultiBit MultiBit
Got a link to the patch you made, so I can give it a quick review?
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 14, 2012, 11:20:11 AM |
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Protecting merchants from compromised webservers Development & Technical Discussion
Also, it complicates rollout still further. Currently people can re-use their ex…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 14, 2012, 09:32:40 AM |
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Will Android clients ever support encrypted QR codes? (for paper wallets) Wallet software
I see. Yes Jims work should lay the foundation for that.
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 14, 2012, 09:10:58 AM |
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Protecting merchants from compromised webservers Development & Technical Discussion
Well that was fast. Adam replied to my question. It turns out that the kind of c…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 14, 2012, 08:03:10 AM |
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Will Android clients ever support encrypted Private Keys? Wallet software
Jim is working on encrypted wallet support for MultiBit. Once he contributes the…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 14, 2012, 07:42:06 AM |
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MultiBit MultiBit
200 a day, nice! Remember the importance of upgrade notifications though!
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 14, 2012, 07:37:29 AM |
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Protecting merchants from compromised webservers Development & Technical Discussion
Indeed, it seems to be the same as what was proposed by thanke. Great minds thin…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 14, 2012, 06:23:36 AM |
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[PROPOSAL] Secure Payment Protocol Development & Technical Discussion
I suppose you mean an X.509 cert with all the bitcoin specific extensions that a…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 14, 2012, 06:13:23 AM |
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@MtGox Staff... when will mtgox change the number of confirmations? Service Discussion
In this case there is no cost to double spending (if success is guaranteed). So…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 13, 2012, 03:59:16 PM |
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@MtGox Staff... when will mtgox change the number of confirmations? Service Discussion
Which paper are you referring to?Double spending can be seen like this. How much…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 13, 2012, 02:41:44 PM |
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[PROPOSAL] Secure Payment Protocol Development & Technical Discussion
I'm confused. Are you arguing against the usage of X.509 certs or not?If yes, wh…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 13, 2012, 02:15:42 PM |
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@MtGox Staff... when will mtgox change the number of confirmations? Service Discussion
The correct way to think about this is not in terms of blocks but gigahashes of…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 13, 2012, 07:50:47 AM |
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[PROPOSAL] Secure Payment Protocol Development & Technical Discussion
The merchant's certificate in the certificate chain would have to contain their…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 13, 2012, 05:47:39 AM |
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[PROPOSAL] Secure Payment Protocol Development & Technical Discussion
Thanks for the thorough and high quality paper. I only had time to scan read it…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 12, 2012, 07:01:37 PM |
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BIP proposal: automated compliance check and block template exchange Development & Technical Discussion
Matt has written a tool that feeds blocks received from one node to another and…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 12, 2012, 02:56:39 PM |
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[BOUNTY 300 BTC] Make a bitcointalk forum plugin to allow tipping via BTC Project Development
Agreed about requirements, but why would you ever want to tip somebody less than…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 12, 2012, 01:04:33 PM |
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ANN: Announcing code availability of the bitsofproof supernode Development & Technical Discussion
You're right, but the upgrade vs alt-impl scenarios differ in a key way - if you…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 12, 2012, 11:39:28 AM |
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[BOUNTY 300 BTC] Make a bitcointalk forum plugin to allow tipping via BTC Project Development
So what happens on reddit if the user never picks up the coins?It's better to th…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 12, 2012, 11:29:43 AM |
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[BOUNTY 300 BTC] Make a bitcointalk forum plugin to allow tipping via BTC Project Development
Why would the forum need to host wallets?Users could just provide the forum soft…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 12, 2012, 08:12:34 AM |
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[ANN] Hardware wallet project Hardware wallets
There was a quick discussion on IRC about how to handle the case where malicious…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 12, 2012, 08:02:39 AM |
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Major Dutch bank blocks bitcoin purchases Bitcoin Discussion
I've been on the other side of this (writing risk analysis software). It's a rea…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 11, 2012, 01:55:57 PM |
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ANN: Announcing code availability of the bitsofproof supernode Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, like I said, Bitcoin is not like normal software. Of course in a normal sof…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 11, 2012, 01:46:20 PM |
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ANN: Announcing code availability of the bitsofproof supernode Development & Technical Discussion
I'm sorry guys, but I feel like we're not getting through to you.There is no can…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 11, 2012, 12:38:30 PM |
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ANN: Announcing code availability of the bitsofproof supernode Development & Technical Discussion
Whilst I was playing around to see if the bug I saw was real (it is), I noticed…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 10, 2012, 04:41:54 PM |
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ANN: Announcing code availability of the bitsofproof supernode Development & Technical Discussion
You might be furious about this statement, but if that code would be suitable to…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 10, 2012, 02:13:44 PM |
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ANN: Announcing code availability of the bitsofproof supernode Development & Technical Discussion
I was pretty specific about the bug actually. It's a thread safety issue that ca…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 10, 2012, 12:22:52 PM |
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ANN: Announcing code availability of the bitsofproof supernode Development & Technical Discussion
I'm pretty sure there is a bug, yes. If I'm wrong then I will of course apologis…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 10, 2012, 08:06:47 AM |
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ANN: Announcing code availability of the bitsofproof supernode Development & Technical Discussion
I took a quick look at the latest code also, it seems there is a thread safety…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 10, 2012, 06:14:15 AM |
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2012-12-07 The Guardian - Virtual currency Bitcoin registers with EU regulators Press
I sent Ms Kiss an email explaining the differences between these things.
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 08, 2012, 08:09:51 AM |
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My first experience with bitcoin was NOT positive :( Bitcoin Discussion
We're getting a bit off topic here, but this stuff is important (the extension w…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 08, 2012, 07:48:24 AM |
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Assurance contracts Development & Technical Discussion
You can combine assurance contracts with mediation if you don't trust the entrep…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 07, 2012, 09:43:32 AM |
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Bitcoin-Central, first exchange licensed to operate as a bank. This is HUGE Exchanges
The reason some people are querying that you allow US customers is FATCA. It isn…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 07, 2012, 06:29:00 AM |
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Explain lock time / replacing transactions Development & Technical Discussion
Transaction replacement has been "implemented" since day 1, but it was switched…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 07, 2012, 06:11:29 AM |
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Legitimately paying for Bitcoins seems like a complete chore Trading Discussion
Once you buy some coins, buy more than you need then become a reseller via local…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 06, 2012, 07:32:13 AM |
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My first experience with bitcoin was NOT positive :( Bitcoin Discussion
OK, it's good that MultiBit can import blockchain wallet backups, that definitel…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 04, 2012, 04:19:00 PM |
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My first experience with bitcoin was NOT positive :( Bitcoin Discussion
What I meant is you have the address queries in your logs tied to IP and so on.…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 04, 2012, 01:11:01 PM |
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My first experience with bitcoin was NOT positive :( Bitcoin Discussion
Have you tried importing your blockchain wallet into other clients? As far as I…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 04, 2012, 12:25:03 PM |
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MultiBit MultiBit
Thanks for paying attention to these small UI details Jim. It really makes the d…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 04, 2012, 12:13:23 PM |
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My first experience with bitcoin was NOT positive :( Bitcoin Discussion
There are several problems with blockchain.info My Wallet which is why I don't t…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 04, 2012, 11:51:29 AM |
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My first experience with bitcoin was NOT positive :( Bitcoin Discussion
It's not like this is a new concern.The correct solution is to point people to a…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 04, 2012, 09:01:23 AM |
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Validating transactions with 0 confirmations Development & Technical Discussion
SatoshiDice is based on a fork of bitcoinj. You can't do it with the regular bit…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 03, 2012, 06:30:11 PM |
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New wallet file ideas Development & Technical Discussion
That sounds like duplicating operating systems existing support for disk encrypt…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 02, 2012, 07:06:32 PM |
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Java Bitcoin Utils Development & Technical Discussion
Just take the ECKey, Address and VersionedChecksummedBytes classes from bitcoinj…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 02, 2012, 07:02:38 PM |
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Invoices/Payments/Receipts proposal discussion Development & Technical Discussion
I agree this little communication with customer is great, but maybe call it Ackn…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 02, 2012, 07:01:32 PM |
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Invoices/Payments/Receipts proposal discussion Development & Technical Discussion
As Gavin already mentioned, the X.509 support is optional. You can create unsign…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 02, 2012, 05:22:02 AM |
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Invoices/Payments/Receipts proposal discussion Development & Technical Discussion
P2SH is itself a script so you can already do that.A signed invoice and accepted…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 01, 2012, 12:42:54 PM |
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Invoices/Payments/Receipts proposal discussion Development & Technical Discussion
I think there are a few things that need to be cleared up here.Firstly, self sig…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | December 01, 2012, 09:43:41 AM |
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Who is turning off? Pools
If you want to stop mining but still contribute to the Bitcoin network, running…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 29, 2012, 11:16:41 AM |
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Bitcoin Virus Project Development
I don't think so.
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 29, 2012, 10:24:53 AM |
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[ANNOUNCE] picocoin and libccoin -- C-based bitcoin library and client Wallet software
You could use an SPV client to reduce resource usage, but if you're running a we…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 29, 2012, 10:04:42 AM |
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[ANNOUNCE] Bitmessage - P2P Messaging system based partially on Bitcoin Project Development
This is great. Thanks for taking it on. I'm very much encouraged by the professi…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 29, 2012, 09:49:07 AM |
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Bitcoin Virus Project Development
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Agents
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 29, 2012, 09:05:55 AM |
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Bitcoin allows for reversible transactions! Development & Technical Discussion
If you can reverse the payment it's no different to just not making it in the fi…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 29, 2012, 09:00:04 AM |
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Micropayment idea --> Actually a really good idea for very large payments Development & Technical Discussion
Hey, glad you liked the talk.Bitcoin addresses contain checksums exactly to prev…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 29, 2012, 08:58:22 AM |
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Big Shots in favor of Bitcoin Bitcoin Discussion
I think their questions about end user adoption are reasonable, actually.Yes, we…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 29, 2012, 08:22:49 AM |
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New wallet file ideas Development & Technical Discussion
Alan, did you look at the payment protocol discussions happening on bitcoin-deve…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 29, 2012, 08:12:02 AM |
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Big Shots in favor of Bitcoin Bitcoin Discussion
This is how the mainstream media were covering the internet in 1995 - over a dec…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 29, 2012, 07:43:52 AM |
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Selective M of N Transaction Development & Technical Discussion
Yes that's possible. CHECKSIGVERIFY 2 CHECKMULTISIGVERIFY
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 28, 2012, 05:20:37 PM |
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2012-11-27 nsslabs.com - Bitcoin emerges from the shadows, but just how safe is Press
Yeah, but you do it in a really nice and professional way. I like how you quote…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 28, 2012, 09:35:42 AM |
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2012-11-26 New Scientist - Virtual economy looms as digital cash grows up Press
Addresses aren't personal information, no. An address you keep to yourself is po…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 27, 2012, 03:55:33 AM |
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2012-11-26 New Scientist - Virtual economy looms as digital cash grows up Press
They require a name and an email address, hardly personal information. Anyone ca…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 26, 2012, 05:02:29 PM |
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2012-11-26 New Scientist - Virtual economy looms as digital cash grows up Press
Hey, if you'd tip the author with Bitcoins you might as well sign up. It's what…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 26, 2012, 03:07:34 PM |
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2012-11-25 Slashdot - Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve Press
Technomage is correct. I've read every story on Slashdot about Bitcoin and poste…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 26, 2012, 01:12:51 PM |
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Competitive analysis of Bitcoin vs Square, SumUp, iZettle, Payleven Bitcoin Discussion
Thanks for the info BitPay and DublinBrian. Do you know anything more about this…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 26, 2012, 12:58:00 PM |
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Competitive analysis of Bitcoin vs Square, SumUp, iZettle, Payleven Bitcoin Discussion
... And the same sorts of secure chips EMV uses can be applied to Bitcoin to all…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 25, 2012, 06:03:47 PM |
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Competitive analysis of Bitcoin vs Square, SumUp, iZettle, Payleven Bitcoin Discussion
3. Payments must be made in sterling, and an exchange rate (Link opens in a new…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 25, 2012, 06:01:44 PM |
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Blockchains, Usenet, and brainstorming about things I don't fully understand. Altcoin Discussion
Hi, this idea doesn't make a whole lot of sense I'm afraid.The difficult part of…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 25, 2012, 07:59:11 AM |
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Competitive analysis of Bitcoin vs Square, SumUp, iZettle, Payleven Bitcoin Discussion
This post has some notes on competitors to Bitcoin in the mobile payments space,…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 25, 2012, 07:01:28 AM |
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SSL certificates are changing on Bitcoin websites Bitcoin Discussion
Running a hidden service doesn't stop DoS attacks. If anything it makes them har…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 23, 2012, 07:51:54 AM |
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BIP proposal: Pruned block format Development & Technical Discussion
I don't think it's worth worrying about chain download. This is not going to be…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 23, 2012, 06:00:53 AM |
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MultiBit MultiBit
The one I'm used to seeing is "swap" at least, "swop" looks odd.I agree with Slu…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 22, 2012, 09:35:36 AM |
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MultiBit MultiBit
Awesome. I'm loving MultiBit these days.Shouldn't it be "swap" not "swop"?
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 22, 2012, 08:20:25 AM |
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[ANN] cbitcoin 2.0 - The Route to Bitcoin's Future Project Development
QuoteI see the future of bitcoin resting in open innovation, with fast, secure a…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 22, 2012, 07:55:09 AM |
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Blockchain = Powerful Tool for Keynesian Monetary Policy Economics
But it is! If attack is successful, then it's equivalent to (transparent) inflat…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 19, 2012, 11:22:41 AM |
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Would it be possible to make a decentralised stock exchange? Project Development
See here:https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 19, 2012, 10:46:48 AM |
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Blockchain = Powerful Tool for Keynesian Monetary Policy Economics
You need to be really careful with terminology when explaining that attack. It i…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 19, 2012, 10:46:19 AM |
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SSD - Downloading full blockchain on v0.7.1 Development & Technical Discussion
The current code in git (what will become 0. is a lot faster.
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 19, 2012, 09:42:12 AM |
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What was the 90,000 BTC transaction? Bitcoin Discussion
I think this was MtGox going through a wallet consolidation.Bitcoins wallet code…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 19, 2012, 09:41:43 AM |
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are full nodes without port forwarding useful? Development & Technical Discussion
No, that wasn't my point.If you have a path A -> B -> C and B doesn't listen, t…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 16, 2012, 12:30:14 PM |
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are full nodes without port forwarding useful? Development & Technical Discussion
Alright. I agree that if a node is faster than normal, or doing some kind of cro…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 15, 2012, 01:47:24 PM |
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