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Bitcoin-Qt Wallet software
Great. Consider improving the UI flows whilst you're at it. The address book UI…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | June 12, 2011, 07:38:23 AM |
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"Differentiate Protocol version from client version" - denied? Wallet software
Isn't this why we need client diversity? Bad blocks will not be accepted by othe…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | June 10, 2011, 03:21:46 PM |
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[Proposal] Project code of conduct Project Development
+1, yes please. The forum/IRC is sometimes becoming less useful because of troll…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | June 09, 2011, 02:38:56 PM |
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What would you change about the Bitcoin protocol? Development & Technical Discussion
The scripting language is fairly trivial, it's not what makes Bitcoin complicate…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | June 09, 2011, 02:15:08 PM |
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"Differentiate Protocol version from client version" - denied? Wallet software
Reality check: Gavin wrote to me only days after the BitCoinJ release to tell me…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | June 09, 2011, 02:03:41 PM |
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Java Bitcoin Client Wallet software
BitCoinJ cannot mine. The Block class has a solve() method, but this is only usa…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | June 09, 2011, 01:54:34 PM |
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Proposal for a C bitcoin library. Development & Technical Discussion
Reimplementing Bitcoin in C or Objective-C isn't necessary for an iOS version. Y…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | June 09, 2011, 01:37:04 PM |
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Spend your bitcoins on amazon with no transaction fees Goods
Great service. I have my DVD in front of me now. Jeremy was super helpful even w…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | June 07, 2011, 01:38:58 PM |
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What would you change about the Bitcoin protocol? Development & Technical Discussion
Thanks for writing an interesting paper Steve. I need to think about some of its…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | June 07, 2011, 01:31:59 PM |
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Is this statement True or False about Bitcoin Bitcoin Discussion
If you mean non-listening nodes, they don't matter because to take the network o…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | June 07, 2011, 12:56:31 PM |
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Is this statement True or False about Bitcoin Bitcoin Discussion
Nobody smart would attempt to DoS Bitcoin by outrunning the chain. That's not a…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | June 07, 2011, 12:45:31 PM |
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Is this statement True or False about Bitcoin Bitcoin Discussion
You could (temporarily) DoS all of Bitcoin for far less money than a million dol…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | June 06, 2011, 06:00:28 PM |
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Trasactions with "sequence":0 Development & Technical Discussion
Sequence numbers aren't very useful today because tx replacement is disabled. No…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | June 06, 2011, 01:50:24 PM |
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OP_NOP-appended transactions - how long do non-standard transactions wait? Development & Technical Discussion
Hmm, this is a workaround for the lack of direct-to-miner TX submission isn't it…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | June 06, 2011, 07:08:47 AM |
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BitCoin hurdles to overcome Development & Technical Discussion
The future of Bitcoin is that full verifying nodes don't run on your desktop, so…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | June 06, 2011, 07:03:09 AM |
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scalability/divide and conquer Development & Technical Discussion
I don't think scalability in the long term will be a problem. In the short/mediu…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | June 06, 2011, 07:02:48 AM |
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[RFC] Separating leaf nodes and supernodes Development & Technical Discussion
Yes please. This would be a great improvement.IIRC the code does not broadcast a…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | June 06, 2011, 04:09:40 AM |
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Mining for fee only is unsustainable. Bitcoin Discussion
Guys, can we please cut out the flaming of new people? As has been pointed out a…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | June 06, 2011, 03:30:39 AM |
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I don't like Gavin's and Jeff's Bitcoin client - can I write my own? Wallet software
A C++ regression suite would be really, really useful to have. Though it's quite…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | June 06, 2011, 02:50:18 AM |
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How are we supposed to develop eCommerce and bCommerce sites? Development & Technical Discussion
Yeah, becoming a merchant needs to be a lot easier (along with a bunch of other…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | June 06, 2011, 02:47:10 AM |
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Non-listening nodes causing huge startup time delays Development & Technical Discussion
I noticed a few times now that Bitcoin can take several minutes to establish a n…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | June 01, 2011, 10:34:31 AM |
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The Bitcoin Revolution Bitcoin Discussion
Could these sorts of threads be moved to the politics&society forum please? I kn…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | June 01, 2011, 06:39:50 AM |
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Is the ECDSA public key hashed as a extra level of protection? Development & Technical Discussion
In private discussions I had with Satoshi some time ago, he had this to say on k…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 31, 2011, 02:27:10 AM |
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Transaction pruning details Development & Technical Discussion
It's really not possible to think about pruning without talking about inputs/out…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 31, 2011, 02:23:07 AM |
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How to persuade Google to accept Bitcoin on the Android Market? Bitcoin Discussion
You don't need to get it on Googles radar. Bitcoin is already there.Adding payme…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 30, 2011, 03:40:56 PM |
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Is the ECDSA public key hashed as a extra level of protection? Development & Technical Discussion
AFAIK it's for convenience of typing only. Satoshi envisioned direct-to-IP trans…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 30, 2011, 03:36:31 PM |
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Guy on twitter claims he is working on hash method without brute force. Bitcoin Discussion
Yes, I asked Yu Sasaki specifically about the problem of finding a partial pre-i…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 30, 2011, 03:35:03 PM |
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Guy on twitter claims he is working on hash method without brute force. Bitcoin Discussion
I thought he was designing a miner. Why would he need a pre-image for that? Al…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 30, 2011, 01:18:55 PM |
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Transaction pruning details Development & Technical Discussion
No, transaction inputs are specified in terms of txhash:output_index pairs, not…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 30, 2011, 01:11:06 PM |
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Guy on twitter claims he is working on hash method without brute force. Bitcoin Discussion
For what it's worth I talked to one of the authors behind the current best resul…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 30, 2011, 12:26:47 PM |
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Transaction pruning details Development & Technical Discussion
You can prune a transaction once all of its outputs are spent and it has been bu…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 30, 2011, 12:22:47 PM |
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Why do you want to change Bitcoin? Development & Technical Discussion
I don't think we should talk ourselves into a corner where Bitcoin is "unquestio…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 30, 2011, 06:36:59 AM |
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Bitcoin Signed Binaries Development & Technical Discussion
No, the binaries should be signed for the AV reasons discussed previously. It do…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 30, 2011, 06:21:52 AM |
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Necessary protocol improvement; dissent on future mining configuration Development & Technical Discussion
Yeah, I think your proposal is better than some of the simpler solutions out the…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 30, 2011, 06:16:13 AM |
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Timejacking & Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
Accurate timestamping is basically free. If somebody were to hijack pool.ntp.org…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 28, 2011, 01:37:27 PM |
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Timejacking & Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
pool.ntp.org is itself a peer to peer network. It's no different from LFnet in t…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 28, 2011, 12:31:26 PM |
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I think bitcoin is a great idea but my friend doesn't Bitcoin Discussion
Yes, please don't describe Bitcoins as having "free transactions". It's not true…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 28, 2011, 09:33:14 AM |
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[RFC] Betcoin Project Development
I haven't really understood how this is supposed to be linked to measurable real…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 28, 2011, 05:23:43 AM |
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Bitcoin Mobile for Android by Bitcoin Labs Wallet software
When I looked at the source code it seemed to be using BitcoinJ for a few minor…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 28, 2011, 05:07:18 AM |
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Necessary protocol improvement; dissent on future mining configuration Development & Technical Discussion
Your proposal means changing the voting rules (ie a global upgrade). At that poi…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 28, 2011, 05:06:01 AM |
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Transaction History - Gray/Grey vs Black? Development & Technical Discussion
Probably the transactions had different priorities due to which coins were selec…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 28, 2011, 04:56:58 AM |
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Timejacking & Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
The complicated time handling in Bitcoin has bothered me for a while. Good to se…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 28, 2011, 04:56:29 AM |
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Transaction History - Gray/Grey vs Black? Development & Technical Discussion
Don't use the purgetx patch unless you're extremely sure you know what you're do…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 28, 2011, 04:32:01 AM |
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Bitcoin without mining Development & Technical Discussion
If I don't have to choose who I trust then how do I know what I see on the scree…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 27, 2011, 01:03:04 PM |
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Bitcoin without mining Development & Technical Discussion
It sounds somewhat like Ripple. Satoshis original design goal was a system with…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 27, 2011, 12:45:36 PM |
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Necessary protocol improvement; dissent on future mining configuration Development & Technical Discussion
For family and friends you don't even need to broadcast the transaction at all.…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 27, 2011, 07:53:02 AM |
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Necessary protocol improvement; dissent on future mining configuration Development & Technical Discussion
Yeah. I guess my point is, we shouldn't close our minds to alternative designs.I…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 27, 2011, 04:28:44 AM |
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Designated "business etiquette" boards Meta
There's now a "Politics and society" subforum where these sorts of things can be…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 27, 2011, 04:24:39 AM |
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Necessary protocol improvement; dissent on future mining configuration Development & Technical Discussion
I think it's worth thrashing all this out, as these debates over the stability o…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 26, 2011, 12:11:33 PM |
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handling block branches Development & Technical Discussion
Total disconnection for days on end is very rare. I think Egypt is the only rece…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 26, 2011, 11:49:19 AM |
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BTC NEAR ME Development & Technical Discussion
Suggestion: use a map (as well as) postcodes. The way you do it now doesn't work…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 25, 2011, 03:43:31 PM |
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Handling Bad Peers and Net Neutrality Development & Technical Discussion
Yeah, temporary dos blocking would be a nice enhancement though there isn't much…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 25, 2011, 03:42:21 PM |
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Designated "business etiquette" boards Meta
For now it'd be better to make a politics subforum, IMHO, like how there's one f…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 25, 2011, 02:21:35 PM |
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Bitcoin wallet. Development & Technical Discussion
The wallet stores transactions, which are complex binary data structures. It's r…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 25, 2011, 08:39:33 AM |
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Bitcoin wallet. Development & Technical Discussion
Wallet "corruption" doesn't happen because it uses binary. It's not actually abo…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 25, 2011, 07:00:05 AM |
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Bitcoin Wallet in Java Wallet software
I'm not. But feel free to contribute a patch to add an example of how to do it a…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 25, 2011, 04:45:07 AM |
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BitCoin Vending Machines Bitcoin Discussion
I think Stefan timed this a few weeks ago and found tx propagation was only a fe…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 25, 2011, 02:29:38 AM |
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Credit/Debit card to BTC problems Bitcoin Discussion
Good luck finding a credit card processor who will accept the block chain as pro…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 25, 2011, 02:27:26 AM |
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Satoshi's spare change? Bitcoin Discussion
My guess is that Satoshi existed on a virtual machine (possibly inside another v…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 25, 2011, 02:16:28 AM |
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Introducing Bitbills! Marketplace
I checked out bitcoinj and built it, and I can't run the code. The above comman…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 25, 2011, 02:02:01 AM |
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Bitcoin Wallet in Java Wallet software
I don't know yet. Probably at least a couple of months. At the very least we nee…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 25, 2011, 01:56:07 AM |
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Bitcoin Wallet in Java Wallet software
Yes, it won't work on AppEngine. People who are hosting Bitcoin sites like the f…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 24, 2011, 04:50:49 PM |
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Introducing Bitbills! Marketplace
I improved BitCoinJ a bit so now you can just use PrivateKeys without any modifi…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 24, 2011, 04:45:47 PM |
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Bitcoin Wallet in Java Wallet software
No. I suggest you read Satoshis white paper to start with. BitcoinJ implements "…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 24, 2011, 02:04:32 PM |
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[Bounty] Publish result of Days Destroyed calculation Project Development
Coins sent.
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 24, 2011, 06:09:33 AM |
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Public relations guidelines/talking points wiki page Bitcoin Discussion
I removed the 10% figure. It was given to be by someone who works in the payment…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 24, 2011, 01:32:54 AM |
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Bitcoin Branding Bitcoin Discussion
I added "decentralized currency" to the do-say list, but terms like "the peoples…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 24, 2011, 12:56:13 AM |
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Public relations guidelines/talking points wiki page Bitcoin Discussion
Go right ahead!
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 24, 2011, 12:52:30 AM |
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Bitcoin Mobile for Android by Bitcoin Labs Wallet software
Judging from the source code it's nowhere near finished. I guess when it's ready…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 23, 2011, 04:02:42 PM |
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Public Relations Bitcoin Discussion
I tried to sum up some of these points in a wiki page, see here:http://forum.bit…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 23, 2011, 03:49:51 PM |
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Public relations guidelines/talking points wiki page Bitcoin Discussion
Gavin made many good points in his post on PR: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.p…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 23, 2011, 03:49:10 PM |
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Bitcoin Branding Bitcoin Discussion
I've included some conclusions from this thread in the PR page:https://en.bitcoi…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 23, 2011, 03:45:49 PM |
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Successful timing attack on ECDSA - maybe it's already time to switch algorithms Development & Technical Discussion
Timing attacks aren't usually foiled by randomness, at least in theory, you just…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 23, 2011, 01:25:21 PM |
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New IRC bootstrapping using random channels. Development & Technical Discussion
Thanks laszlo, I didn't realize LFnet was so customized for Bitcoin.
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 23, 2011, 01:23:55 PM |
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Successful timing attack on ECDSA - maybe it's already time to switch algorithms Development & Technical Discussion
I think it would be a concern if you could make a node sign transactions over an…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 23, 2011, 08:20:02 AM |
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Script calculates freeable transactions Development & Technical Discussion
Great work! Simulating the merkle tree collapse is probably much harder, but eve…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 23, 2011, 06:33:26 AM |
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A serious security update that should be made. Development & Technical Discussion
It provides security against some threats but not all. It's still good to have,…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 23, 2011, 06:31:17 AM |
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RFC: SI- type of naming convention for BTC Development & Technical Discussion
I would actually quite like us to come up with a name for the smallest possible…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 23, 2011, 02:22:15 AM |
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Wikiness Development & Technical Discussion
I did a bit of work on the wiki:A new page on distributed contracts, based on th…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 22, 2011, 03:30:11 PM |
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[pull] Remove send to IP address and IP transactions support Development & Technical Discussion
Cleaning out the UI is always worth doing I think.
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 22, 2011, 11:47:58 AM |
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Post-inflation security Development & Technical Discussion
Right, it's not implemented in the software. It's tricky because the codebase as…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 22, 2011, 09:05:07 AM |
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New IRC bootstrapping using random channels. Development & Technical Discussion
IRC is also centralized, it just puts control of the network into the hands of t…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 22, 2011, 09:04:19 AM |
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[pull] Remove send to IP address and IP transactions support Development & Technical Discussion
Agree it should be removed for now. The functionality can go back in at some lat…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 22, 2011, 05:09:34 AM |
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Forum is broken on Chrome Meta
For some reason the forum is now writing all links with SSL. This doesn't work o…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 22, 2011, 05:04:48 AM |
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New IRC bootstrapping using random channels. Development & Technical Discussion
IRC isn't a sustainable discovery protocol anyway. It has lots of problems beyon…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 22, 2011, 05:02:07 AM |
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New IRC bootstrapping using random channels. Development & Technical Discussion
It'll take a long time for people to move across to the new channels. We might a…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 22, 2011, 03:24:28 AM |
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Anne Tompkins: Potential Adversary? Bitcoin Discussion
Yeah, eMansipater has it right. Incidentally, the prosecutor in this case was in…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 22, 2011, 03:23:28 AM |
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Post-inflation security Development & Technical Discussion
Replacing transactions like that isn't possible today. Making it possible would…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 22, 2011, 03:19:20 AM |
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Real names Bitcoin Discussion
After reading Gavins thread on public relations, I wanted to find an easy way to…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 19, 2011, 11:35:24 AM |
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Designing distributed contracts Development & Technical Discussion
I was thinking actually that the bets would be programmatically enforced.I just…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 21, 2011, 03:09:13 PM |
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What's wrong with Bitcoin? Bitcoin Discussion
Maybe so, but this forum isn't a court of law so it's best to communicate in eve…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 21, 2011, 02:26:26 PM |
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What's wrong with Bitcoin? Bitcoin Discussion
Hmm, as I got called out in this post I guess I should respond to (parts of) it.…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 21, 2011, 01:38:47 PM |
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RFC: Non-virtual to Bitcoin currency payment gateway Trading Discussion
Be careful with this and do lots of research. CC fraud using stolen card details…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 21, 2011, 12:13:41 PM |
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Designing distributed contracts Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteYeah, the anonymity of the mediator would run counter to the mediator's abi…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 21, 2011, 11:58:08 AM |
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Designing distributed contracts Development & Technical Discussion
I think it's worth remembering that anonymity in Bitcoin is optional, not mandat…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 21, 2011, 08:51:52 AM |
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[If tx limit is removed] Disturbingly low future difficulty equilibrium Bitcoin Discussion
This topic has also been discussed in this thread: http://forum.bitcoin.org/in…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 21, 2011, 08:36:32 AM |
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Accountability? Bitcoin Discussion
What eBay/PayPal/CC issuers provide is a form of dispute resolution that is (ess…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 21, 2011, 08:33:47 AM |
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Prerecorded Bitcoin national radio ad starts today! Bitcoin Discussion
Stefans ad sounds better to my mind. The one originally posted does make it soun…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 21, 2011, 06:01:45 AM |
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Android Bitcoin Client Bounty (1740 BTC pledged) Project Development
The official client won't work on Android either. It loads the block chain at st…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 20, 2011, 08:56:09 AM |
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Split keys for secure handling on possibly-rooted devices Development & Technical Discussion
Docs? Docs? Where are these docs of which you speak? Yes, you're right, it's not…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 20, 2011, 08:53:34 AM |
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