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So, stock exchange is not allowed in usa using bitcoins? Legal
becoin, the only question you have to ask is "What would a judge think?". The la…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 08, 2012, 06:05:03 AM |
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FATCA Bitcoin Discussion
FATCA by Mike Hearn
As a US expat living in Belize, I can say that this is explicitly not true. The…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 07, 2012, 04:59:48 PM |
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[CLAG requests your input] Interview w/ Tax Notes International Legal
Bitcoin doesn't make taxation impossible by any means, but adoption of it in a c…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 06, 2012, 09:27:10 AM |
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So, stock exchange is not allowed in usa using bitcoins? Legal
I think it's worth trying to understand the wider context around these sorts of…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 07, 2012, 04:47:49 PM |
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Is it possible to script a contract for committed savings in the blockchain? Development & Technical Discussion
That seems like a rather roundabout way to achieve your goal. Why would I put an…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 06, 2012, 08:54:57 AM |
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FATCA Bitcoin Discussion
FATCA by Mike Hearn
Given the tremendous costs of compliance for even one countries FACTA-like laws,…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 06, 2012, 08:50:08 AM |
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Bitcoin Wallet for Android Hardware wallets
Yes, we know. I'll fix that soon.
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 06, 2012, 08:41:20 AM |
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Is it possible - A block chain for stocks? Development & Technical Discussion
You don't need a separate block chain. Look at the smart property wiki page:http…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 06, 2012, 08:39:56 AM |
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Handle much larger MH/s rigs : simply increase the nonce size Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, they do.If USB1 is too slow to send new work to a 1TH ASIC fast enough then…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 05, 2012, 10:03:33 AM |
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If you want to know why I hate the dev team and how they treat Bitcoin... Bitcoin Discussion
I read the reddit thread and did not see any Bitcoin developers post on it. How…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 05, 2012, 09:45:33 AM |
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MultiBit MultiBit
Bloom filter on the Satoshi side is here:https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 04, 2012, 05:58:25 AM |
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Assurance contracts Development & Technical Discussion
Right, obviously just putting pledges into a wallet is insufficient. The pending…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 03, 2012, 04:01:07 PM |
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Assurance contracts Development & Technical Discussion
If a transaction is in the wallet and "pending", then it will be checked wheneve…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 03, 2012, 12:26:22 PM |
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MultiBit MultiBit
On the Java issue - Java as an app-specific runtime is not a security issue, th…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 03, 2012, 08:25:59 AM |
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MultiBit MultiBit
Actually Matt has implemented bloom filters in bitcoinj already. It's just pendi…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 03, 2012, 08:11:47 AM |
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Subscription Model - OP_CHECK_HEIGHT? Development & Technical Discussion
Right, exactly. The reason why you may not want to pay up front is as the OP men…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 01, 2012, 05:59:46 AM |
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Video of talk on Bitcoin contracts, apps, micropayments, lending etc Development & Technical Discussion
A video of the talk I gave at the Bitcoin Conference 2012 is here:https://www.yo…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 27, 2012, 09:27:45 AM |
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How safe is the first address in the standard client? Development & Technical Discussion
Huh? I don't know what hamdi is talking about.Encrypting the wallet encrypts all…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 29, 2012, 11:30:27 AM |
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MultiBit MultiBit
Re: spending unconfirmed change.Yes this is annoying and I plan to fix it in bit…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 29, 2012, 05:09:10 AM |
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SER_DISK vs SER_NETWORK Development & Technical Discussion
Sure, contributing back the blk parser would be welcome.My concern with your heu…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 29, 2012, 05:07:25 AM |
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Possible new vulnerability: poor entropy in Windows generated keypairs.. Development & Technical Discussion
The Windows random source probably includes the timings and various data of hard…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 29, 2012, 05:02:38 AM |
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Possible new vulnerability: poor entropy in Windows generated keypairs.. Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, I see now. I was confused by the title of your post which states there is p…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 28, 2012, 08:53:58 AM |
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SER_DISK vs SER_NETWORK Development & Technical Discussion
Are you planning to contribute your blkdat parser back to bitcoinj? It sounds us…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 27, 2012, 02:25:04 PM |
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Possible new vulnerability: poor entropy in Windows generated keypairs.. Development & Technical Discussion
Keypairs are generated by OpenSSL which has its own code for getting entropy fro…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 27, 2012, 02:22:47 PM |
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Why do people trust Casascius so much? Service Discussion
I think it goes without saying that Mikes coins, whilst very neat (I have a few…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 27, 2012, 12:03:35 PM |
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Smart property Development & Technical Discussion
That's true, good idea. You could just store the ticket in your phone and tap it…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 27, 2012, 11:50:37 AM |
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Bitcoin Signed Binaries Development & Technical Discussion
Agree with Mike, just one quibble - the main usage of PE signatures today is so…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 26, 2012, 01:06:44 PM |
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Better security for the internet currency Bitcoin??? Development & Technical Discussion
That's the key point of disagreement. It is safe for many (most?) sellers to acc…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 26, 2012, 06:40:17 AM |
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"Heads or tails" cointoss with Bitcoin transactions? Development & Technical Discussion
The creator of the transaction can add random information to the transaction if…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 26, 2012, 06:26:26 AM |
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Size of BTC blockchain centuries from now... Development & Technical Discussion
You can run a full node that prunes (see Satoshis paper). The only time when you…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 25, 2012, 09:34:02 AM |
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Size of BTC blockchain centuries from now... Development & Technical Discussion
I think the limit will go away and also that it won't matter.Storage is really c…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 25, 2012, 07:39:46 AM |
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Better security for the internet currency Bitcoin??? Development & Technical Discussion
"Real" well, it's real if you don't follow the advice widely propagated and embe…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 25, 2012, 03:47:15 AM |
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New Sidechain Concept Development & Technical Discussion
I didn't see this post originally, but all the goals cited in the first post can…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 25, 2012, 03:42:33 AM |
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Distributed bond markets and pay-to-policy outputs Development & Technical Discussion
Even without a convention for which input/output is used, the car knows the last…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 25, 2012, 03:41:26 AM |
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bitcoinj 0.6 is now available BitcoinJ
I'm pleased to announce the release of version 0.6 of bitcoinj, the leading Java…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 24, 2012, 08:43:35 AM |
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2012-09-24 ethz.ch - Better security for the internet currency Bitcoin Press
How did this research published months ago end up back in the news?It's an ETH s…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 24, 2012, 08:13:52 AM |
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Better security for the internet currency Bitcoin??? Development & Technical Discussion
Stefan and I met with these researchers a few months ago in Zurich and discussed…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 24, 2012, 03:59:46 AM |
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Satoshi Dice -- Statistical Analysis Service Discussion
Have you tried monitoring their progressive games with the SNS signature trick,…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 23, 2012, 07:31:13 AM |
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2012-09 sophos.com - The ZeroAccess Botnet – Mining and Fraud for Massive Financ Press
Very interesting link, thanks.It sounds like the operators weren't ready to scal…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 23, 2012, 07:03:19 AM |
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Smart property Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, it's a form of digital rights management and the assumption is the implemen…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 23, 2012, 05:45:03 AM |
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Atomic coin swapping Development & Technical Discussion
SIGHASH_ALL is the default which is why it's not mentioned. There are descriptio…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 22, 2012, 12:02:37 PM |
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Distributed bond markets and pay-to-policy outputs Development & Technical Discussion
Im sorry but if you need to trust a human to pay a loan back its going to fail a…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 22, 2012, 06:55:29 AM |
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Will somebody please create an escrow utility that accepts user defined inputs? Development & Technical Discussion
Building and broadcasting the transactions is easy. The hard part is coming up w…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 22, 2012, 06:53:55 AM |
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Atomic coin swapping? Development & Technical Discussion
It's a part of the same transaction indeed.
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 22, 2012, 06:50:02 AM |
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Distributed bond markets and pay-to-policy outputs Development & Technical Discussion
I think you guys are mixing up a few different things here.There is one weak poi…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 22, 2012, 06:48:22 AM |
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Design for cheap (<$2) Bitcoin tipjar using NFC tags Development & Technical Discussion
The point of NFC is it requires very close contact to trigger (a few centimeters…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 21, 2012, 07:52:40 AM |
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Smart property Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, a PAM module or OpenSSH extension is possible. Access to remote computers i…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 21, 2012, 07:51:29 AM |
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Design for cheap (<$2) Bitcoin tipjar using NFC tags Development & Technical Discussion
This could work great, and I don't see the problem with the money trail, who car…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 21, 2012, 04:07:38 AM |
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Assurance contracts Development & Technical Discussion
I've played around a bit with bitcoinj earlier today (while also brushing up my…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 20, 2012, 05:02:22 PM |
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The future of Bitcoin: new applications and rebuilding the banking system Bitcoin Discussion
The talk was videod so presumably it'll be available (with both audio and video)…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 20, 2012, 04:45:07 PM |
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Assurance contracts Development & Technical Discussion
As an Ubuntu user though, a lot of applications I use are made in Python and the…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 20, 2012, 03:16:35 AM |
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Design for cheap (<$2) Bitcoin tipjar using NFC tags Development & Technical Discussion
I'd really rather avoid the signing solution if possible. The goal of this is to…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 19, 2012, 05:27:28 PM |
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Design for cheap (<$2) Bitcoin tipjar using NFC tags Development & Technical Discussion
From my post:QuoteWhen the user wakes up their phone and touches it to the tag,…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 19, 2012, 09:39:05 AM |
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Searching alternative client... Wallet software
If you want to implement very specific privacy policies like the ones you descri…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 19, 2012, 09:37:20 AM |
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Assurance contracts Development & Technical Discussion
That's great! Here are a few thoughts.I strongly suggest to anyone who wants to…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 19, 2012, 08:17:52 AM |
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Bitcoin Re-Occuring Subscritption Payments Solution? Development & Technical Discussion
The software people use doesn't support it at the moment, but it's an easy modif…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 19, 2012, 08:10:04 AM |
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Design for cheap (<$2) Bitcoin tipjar using NFC tags Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, as I said at the start you can just embed a Bitcoin URI or something else t…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 19, 2012, 08:05:14 AM |
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Transaction metadata (do we need an OP_DROP transaction type?) Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteNow anyone can create a transaction with an identically marked scriptPubKey…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 19, 2012, 06:04:10 AM |
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Peer Isolation for DoS prevention Development & Technical Discussion
Old clients won't know about your extension, therefore they will be (by your def…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 18, 2012, 12:52:58 PM |
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Design for cheap (<$2) Bitcoin tipjar using NFC tags Development & Technical Discussion
What are NFC tags?Writable NFC tags like the Mifare 4k are interesting because t…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 18, 2012, 07:43:19 AM |
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Peer Isolation for DoS prevention Development & Technical Discussion
Yeah you really want to see anti-DoS as a way to prioritize traffic and drop wha…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 18, 2012, 10:54:15 AM |
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Transaction metadata (do we need an OP_DROP transaction type?) Development & Technical Discussion
Oh, I see what you mean now. That's a bit awkward but I suppose it could work. Y…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 18, 2012, 10:49:02 AM |
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Iphone/Android Bitcoin Client... the hurdles? Development & Technical Discussion
They thought there were legal issues with it in some jurisdictions (they would n…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 18, 2012, 07:03:15 AM |
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Transaction metadata (do we need an OP_DROP transaction type?) Development & Technical Discussion
You can't put the data into the scriptSig, for obvious reasons - the purpose of…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 18, 2012, 06:07:34 AM |
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Iphone/Android Bitcoin Client... the hurdles? Development & Technical Discussion
You're correct. Apple has repeatedly banned Bitcoin wallets. The best experience…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 18, 2012, 06:06:32 AM |
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Iphone/Android Bitcoin Client... the hurdles? Development & Technical Discussion
You don't need a service to have a mobile wallet. Just install the Bitcoin Walle…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 17, 2012, 01:31:33 PM |
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Bitcoin Wallet for Android Hardware wallets
Hm, I've sold people Bitcoins in person many times without that issue.What is th…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 13, 2012, 12:24:57 PM |
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Transaction metadata (do we need an OP_DROP transaction type?) Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteDoes everything that is broadcast have to be incorporated into the block ch…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 11, 2012, 10:59:42 AM |
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Transaction metadata (do we need an OP_DROP transaction type?) Development & Technical Discussion
Thanks for the explanation. I had to look up some notation/take a quick ECC tuto…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 11, 2012, 04:26:26 PM |
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MultiBit MultiBit
Haha. It might be worth running translations you get via Google Translate in fut…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 11, 2012, 10:54:49 AM |
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Transaction metadata (do we need an OP_DROP transaction type?) Development & Technical Discussion
Doing tricks with the public key doesn't solve the bond market cases where you w…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 10, 2012, 05:14:21 PM |
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Non-canonical signatures: looking for detectives Development & Technical Discussion
I checked BouncyCastle/bitcoinj and AFAICT it's doing the right thing here. The…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 08, 2012, 01:06:18 PM |
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New vulnerabilities in the advent of off-the-shelf ASIC mining Development & Technical Discussion
FWIW I like the idea of being able to add checkpoints via RPC. Yes, there's pote…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 07, 2012, 04:48:45 AM |
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About proposed double-spend alerts in "Two Bitcoins at the Price of One" Development & Technical Discussion
Right. Allowing people to raise fees by calculating them recursively was brought…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 07, 2012, 04:38:48 AM |
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why aren't we, the community, regularly paying the lead developers of bitcoin? Bitcoin Discussion
I agree with Steve that the right way to do this is to post assurance contracts…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 06, 2012, 11:37:10 AM |
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About proposed double-spend alerts in "Two Bitcoins at the Price of One" Development & Technical Discussion
How does "relay but don't remember" work? Just blast it out without an inv? If y…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 06, 2012, 11:04:03 AM |
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About proposed double-spend alerts in "Two Bitcoins at the Price of One" Development & Technical Discussion
There's nothing wrong with accepting zero confirm transactions as long as you ha…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 06, 2012, 10:14:11 AM |
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Three Pools Have Near-total Control Over the Bitcoin Network Bitcoin Discussion
The reason you can't set up a company that competes with Intel is not due to pat…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 06, 2012, 10:11:00 AM |
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About proposed double-spend alerts in "Two Bitcoins at the Price of One" Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, industrialized Finney attacks are an issue but I don't think that means the…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 06, 2012, 03:44:12 AM |
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Three Pools Have Near-total Control Over the Bitcoin Network Bitcoin Discussion
That's a rather huge over-generalization Erik.Pooled mining is an activity with…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 05, 2012, 05:59:44 PM |
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Security Patterns and Practices Bitcoin Discussion
Unless you've got a way to provide a high volume online exchange without any tru…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 05, 2012, 06:19:25 AM |
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Avoiding theft using trusted computing Development & Technical Discussion
You don't need a serial cable. A regular network cable is plenty secure enough a…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 05, 2012, 06:09:14 AM |
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Preparation for the inevitable Bitcoin Discussion
See here for how to build a peer-to-peer currency exchange: https://en.bitcoin.…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 03, 2012, 04:03:01 PM |
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Survey: gauging community opinion regarding criminal transactions Bitcoin Discussion
I think the biggest problem with this thread is the conflation of bitcointalk.or…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 03, 2012, 03:49:11 PM |
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Avoiding theft using trusted computing Development & Technical Discussion
Superb, Jonathan got TrustVisor open sourced. For a while I think they were cons…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | September 03, 2012, 03:37:02 PM |
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[ANN] Mt.Gox overview: August 2012 / Transparency Service Announcements
Thanks, it's interesting. The dominance of the USD over the Euro is remarkable.…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | August 31, 2012, 04:23:23 AM |
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Why are micro-transaction such a problem? Bitcoin Discussion
Don't feel too bad about it. Most users are still on Satoshis code which does no…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | August 31, 2012, 04:19:32 AM |
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Reviving post: Where's the -walldir option in bitcoind? Development & Technical Discussion
Clients based on bitcoinj don't use a database for the wallet, they use a single…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | August 31, 2012, 04:02:37 AM |
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What client is easiest to fork? Wallet software
Matt Corallo has done a lot of work on making bitcoinj fully verifying (not only…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | August 31, 2012, 03:56:29 AM |
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Bitcoin Buy button? Development & Technical Discussion
MultiBit already also supports it. So I am hoping that we can adjust the forum s…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | August 31, 2012, 03:54:51 AM |
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Malicious Bitcoin Address Rewrites Bitcoin Discussion
Yes, this is an obvious problem that the team has known about for a long time. R…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | August 30, 2012, 05:48:03 AM |
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Crazy notion about multisig transactions. Bitcoin Discussion
You might want to look at multi-party computation. It's a way for people to comp…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | August 28, 2012, 12:24:38 PM |
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Getting Coins out of testnet in a box Development & Technical Discussion
testnet in a box is supposed to come with a huge balance "out of the box", but I…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | August 28, 2012, 11:26:07 AM |
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Theoretical max speeds for ECDSA verification Development & Technical Discussion
Thanks for the input Hal, it's tremendously helpful as always to have a professi…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | August 28, 2012, 05:24:54 AM |
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Bitmit - Bitcoin shopping mall (Translators wanted) Service Announcements
10 BTC donation sent, something like this is a really great thing for the commun…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | August 27, 2012, 04:03:50 PM |
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Theoretical max speeds for ECDSA verification Development & Technical Discussion
I spent some time reading the literature to learn more about batch verification…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | August 27, 2012, 05:06:49 AM |
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Improved Block Relaying and Validation Development & Technical Discussion
This isn't a new idea and Matt has already got it implemented on a branch (along…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | August 26, 2012, 09:08:23 AM |
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Theoretical max speeds for ECDSA verification Development & Technical Discussion
That's wrong; you wouldn't be able to send a new-style transaction to a merchant…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | August 26, 2012, 08:38:41 AM |
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Theoretical max speeds for ECDSA verification Development & Technical Discussion
That would probably be better than a hard fork; I'm not sure what the transition…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | August 25, 2012, 11:24:32 AM |
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Theoretical max speeds for ECDSA verification Development & Technical Discussion
There are more potential optimizations:Yes, you'll see I mentioned both of these…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | August 25, 2012, 10:35:41 AM |
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