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FPGA mining for fun and profit Mining
Miners can trivially prove their capacity by signing a challenge nonce with the…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 20, 2011, 08:51:55 AM |
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Android Bitcoin Client Bounty (1740 BTC pledged) Project Development
As has been noted several times, BitCoinJ is not ready for use on Android yet. W…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 20, 2011, 04:20:32 AM |
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Read the introduction- still have questions Bitcoin Discussion
Your wallet belongs to your computer rather than some account on a third party s…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 20, 2011, 04:16:43 AM |
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Split keys for secure handling on possibly-rooted devices Development & Technical Discussion
Bitcoin allows you to lock up coins such that more than one signature is require…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 20, 2011, 04:13:22 AM |
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The pools are getting far too powerful. Development & Technical Discussion
Tycho is trustworthy, but if his setup gets hacked Sony-style that could be quit…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 20, 2011, 03:00:17 AM |
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Designing distributed contracts Development & Technical Discussion
Hmm, but you would get your money back no matter what, so if you wanted you coul…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 20, 2011, 02:51:18 AM |
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Large Roadblock to Bitcoin being accepted by Large companies Trading Discussion
It's possible to create transactions that require signatures from several differ…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 19, 2011, 03:14:15 PM |
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Public Relations Bitcoin Discussion
I understand unks argument, but given that currencies need a lot of trust in the…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 19, 2011, 03:09:54 PM |
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Real names Bitcoin Discussion
Sure, that's why I included things these people had done.Credentials and qualifi…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 19, 2011, 01:55:06 PM |
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Real names Bitcoin Discussion
Why bother? There's nothing wrong with using a pseudonym. The only point of usin…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 19, 2011, 01:44:16 PM |
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Real names Bitcoin Discussion
No that's fine, divert away. I just wanted to explain why I changed my nick. It…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 19, 2011, 01:36:05 PM |
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Guide to non-standard transactions needed Development & Technical Discussion
I posted a description of how to use non-standard transactions to form contracts…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 19, 2011, 11:02:19 AM |
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Public Relations Bitcoin Discussion
Fully agree! I think it's definitely worth playing the "banking is broken so why…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 19, 2011, 10:45:14 AM |
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Designing distributed contracts Development & Technical Discussion
Not really. It's about limiting peoples options at each stage to remove the chan…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 19, 2011, 04:01:12 AM |
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AT&T "IRC Botnet" Warning Development & Technical Discussion
Yeah it's a pretty reasonable assumption on AT&Ts part. I'm glad they're trying…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 19, 2011, 02:11:25 AM |
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Mining for local trust network only block chain Development & Technical Discussion
Bitcoins complexity and the "waste" of electricity are so it can operate in an e…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 19, 2011, 02:10:09 AM |
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Designing distributed contracts Development & Technical Discussion
I call them contracts because that's what Satoshi called them. I guess it's a re…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 19, 2011, 02:06:47 AM |
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Quora discussion - Is the cryptocurrency Bitcoin a good idea? Bitcoin Discussion
If people think they have coins and they are willing to trade based on that beli…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 18, 2011, 02:10:38 PM |
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Quora discussion - Is the cryptocurrency Bitcoin a good idea? Bitcoin Discussion
Well, I agree fractional reserve lending might seem too risky to do if there's n…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 18, 2011, 01:31:24 PM |
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Quora discussion - Is the cryptocurrency Bitcoin a good idea? Bitcoin Discussion
The fact that this topic keeps coming up just means we're doing a bad job of ans…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 18, 2011, 11:34:34 AM |
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New Attack Vector Development & Technical Discussion
What function is mitigating the collisions between clients, and which client bec…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 18, 2011, 11:17:27 AM |
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Fixing the "mining problem" Bitcoin Discussion
The next release of the software will not have a "generate coins" option, and fo…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 18, 2011, 11:13:15 AM |
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Bitcoin concept is groundless TECHNICALLY..this article says..Can anyone defend? Bitcoin Discussion
It's not accurate because the author doesn't know about the TFTP. If he did he w…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 18, 2011, 11:00:00 AM |
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Post-inflation security Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, that sets the minimum fee at the cost of processing and verifying the trans…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 18, 2011, 10:56:00 AM |
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Post-inflation security Development & Technical Discussion
I think we should distinguish between the rules that are in place now, vs the ru…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 18, 2011, 02:03:59 AM |
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Is it too hard to enter the bitcoin world? Bitcoin Discussion
The "Generate Coins" option has already been removed from the code, so the next…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 17, 2011, 11:05:53 AM |
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Post-inflation security Development & Technical Discussion
It's to do with contracts, I think.I've written up a description of how distribu…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 16, 2011, 08:17:47 AM |
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Post-inflation security Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, but it doesn't let you change the inputs. So you can't add more money into…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 16, 2011, 08:00:37 AM |
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Will the block chain size ever become too large? Development & Technical Discussion
Lightweight clients do exist. BitcoinJ is one such implementation. It's not quit…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 16, 2011, 04:04:52 AM |
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Design notes for sharing work between multiple independent chains Development & Technical Discussion
Why would anyone want to kill off alternative chains so badly?And yeah I agree w…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 15, 2011, 04:13:19 PM |
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Post-inflation security Development & Technical Discussion
Sure, I'm not saying the additional security is a bad thing. Just that if there…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 15, 2011, 04:09:32 PM |
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Design notes for sharing work between multiple independent chains Development & Technical Discussion
What stops an attacker who intends to fork your non-bitcoin block chain from sen…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 15, 2011, 05:20:47 AM |
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Design notes for sharing work between multiple independent chains Development & Technical Discussion
Hmm, it seems I need to make things clearer. Or maybe just shorter, it's a lot t…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 15, 2011, 04:44:38 AM |
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Post-inflation security Development & Technical Discussion
Recently there's been a lot of discussion of the "tragedy of the commons" with r…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 15, 2011, 05:08:40 AM |
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Introducing Bitbills! Marketplace
Oh sorry, so they are. I seem to have read the second B symbol as a dollar.
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 14, 2011, 12:37:38 PM |
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Introducing Bitbills! Marketplace
A few thoughts, worth what you paid for them The B symbol you're using is alread…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 14, 2011, 11:10:22 AM |
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So ... why hasn't bitcoin been slashdotted again? Bitcoin Discussion
Slashdot has already covered Bitcoin twice in recent months. It's intended to be…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 14, 2011, 10:45:32 AM |
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135 BTC Stolen from my Deepbit account!!!!!!!! Bitcoin Discussion
Lack of brute forcing protection might be it.If anyone is setting up Bitcoin rel…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 14, 2011, 10:31:57 AM |
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[RFC] New TX fee: 0.0005 BTC Bitcoin Discussion
The difficulty target is independent of how many transactions there are in a blo…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 14, 2011, 10:29:19 AM |
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Design notes for sharing work between multiple independent chains Development & Technical Discussion
I've written up the results of this discussion and put it into a (very large) wi…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 14, 2011, 10:12:09 AM |
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Bitcoin As An Eternity Service Development & Technical Discussion
You're right, sorry. I was thinking far out (years) but then it's true you'd sti…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 14, 2011, 05:32:04 AM |
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[RFC] New TX fee: 0.0005 BTC Bitcoin Discussion
Yeah, that sounds a bit like the plan I was proposing for people to submit their…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 14, 2011, 05:01:07 AM |
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Bitcoin press hits, notable sources Press
If SHA256 were to fall completely it would allow for double spending, until node…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 14, 2011, 04:55:24 AM |
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Bitcoin As An Eternity Service Development & Technical Discussion
Yeah, I guess it depends what you mean by invasive changes to BitCoin. It does m…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 14, 2011, 04:34:27 AM |
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Bitcoin As An Eternity Service Development & Technical Discussion
Tx deletion does not require protocol changes*. Any client can delete a transact…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 13, 2011, 04:23:12 PM |
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Bitcoin As An Eternity Service Development & Technical Discussion
If the keys become known then everyone can prove to themselves that those transa…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 13, 2011, 05:06:11 PM |
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What just happened? Bitcoin Discussion
It'd help to quote block hashes rather than numbers here, for obvious reasons.I…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 13, 2011, 06:53:30 AM |
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I'm curious about a slow transaction Bitcoin Discussion
Your 0.07 transaction is very-low-priority, and still waiting to get in a block.…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 13, 2011, 06:34:23 AM |
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I'm curious about a slow transaction Bitcoin Discussion
I'm wrong. ArtForz corrected me. Somehow this transaction is a double spend - it…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 12, 2011, 12:03:55 PM |
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I'm curious about a slow transaction Bitcoin Discussion
Hardly. He's spending an output that entered a block yesterday.These priority ba…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 12, 2011, 11:59:49 AM |
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Block size limit automatic adjustment Development & Technical Discussion
I already explained in the "disturbingly low tx fee equilibrium" thread how I th…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 12, 2011, 03:53:46 AM |
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[RFC] Requirements for headers-only client? Development & Technical Discussion
Yeah, the first-launch optimizations are definitely the initial goal.One trick i…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 12, 2011, 03:49:52 AM |
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Networking Questions Off-topic
I have a friend who is very interested in mesh networks. I think he sees it as a…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 11, 2011, 05:19:38 PM |
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Thoughts on modifying the bitcoin codebase to implement a complementary currency Project Development
I guess I don't see the point. If you want a central bank issued currency with s…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 11, 2011, 05:00:27 PM |
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free source for bitcoin iPhone App Project Development
There's already a Bitcoin wallet app in the Android market (testnet only).
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 11, 2011, 04:52:36 PM |
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Block size limit automatic adjustment Development & Technical Discussion
The problem is that we will never reach the point at which the block size "needs…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 11, 2011, 04:46:31 PM |
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[RFC] Requirements for headers-only client? Development & Technical Discussion
After a few years of bitcoin growth, you'll be asking a smartphone to drink from…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 11, 2011, 04:39:44 PM |
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Block size limit automatic adjustment Development & Technical Discussion
Why would it matter? BitCoin is the only financial system I know of that cares a…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 11, 2011, 04:37:34 PM |
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[RFC] Requirements for headers-only client? Development & Technical Discussion
Yeah block sizes mean it's not a big deal today. Though it'd be best if people d…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 11, 2011, 03:38:00 PM |
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[RFC] Requirements for headers-only client? Development & Technical Discussion
I don't think it makes sense for these clients to relay stuff or take part in th…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 11, 2011, 02:44:15 PM |
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Block size limit automatic adjustment Development & Technical Discussion
Visa handles around 8,000 transactions per second during holiday shopping and ha…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 11, 2011, 02:17:41 PM |
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[ANNOUNCE] BitCoinJ v0.1, a client-mode implementation in Java Wallet software
Yes indeed. See:http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=7972.0
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 11, 2011, 02:11:50 PM |
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[RFC] Requirements for headers-only client? Development & Technical Discussion
I'll try and answer as I've imagined it playing out - these are all just proposa…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 11, 2011, 02:11:09 PM |
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Block size limit automatic adjustment Development & Technical Discussion
There are actually several block size limits. Practically speaking, the client h…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 11, 2011, 08:12:40 AM |
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Block size limit automatic adjustment Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteOr like the also professional SMTP servers who have never implemented some…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 11, 2011, 04:59:39 AM |
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Block size limit automatic adjustment Development & Technical Discussion
Block size limits are only relevant to miners, as it's they who decide whether t…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 11, 2011, 04:36:14 AM |
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0.3.21 Mac client & UPnP Development & Technical Discussion
Ah sorry, I see what you mean now. In that case yeah UPnP would help, if it were…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 11, 2011, 04:31:04 AM |
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0.3.21 Mac client & UPnP Development & Technical Discussion
UPnP can't do what you want. With NAT you will only ever be able to have one nod…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 10, 2011, 02:53:32 PM |
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Will it Scale? Bitcoin Discussion
See:https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#If_every_transaction_is_broadcast_via_the_net…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 10, 2011, 10:38:00 AM |
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Limit on transaction speed Development & Technical Discussion
I'm not planning on implementing block size checks in BitCoinJ. Most users will…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 10, 2011, 10:37:35 AM |
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Configurable transaction fees Development & Technical Discussion
Sequence numbers are in the inputs, not the outputs. Satoshis plan for letting y…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 09, 2011, 09:48:54 AM |
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[RFC] Continuous block reward decrease Development & Technical Discussion
You're probably right. I wanted to show that it is quite possible to implement a…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 09, 2011, 06:37:44 AM |
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Will The Bitcoin Economy Only Be Able To Sustain 18,000 Transactions Per Hour? Economics
See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 09, 2011, 03:02:56 AM |
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[RFC] Continuous block reward decrease Development & Technical Discussion
Yeah, I don't think it's so much harder to explain.The concern over the transiti…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 09, 2011, 02:56:43 AM |
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Announcements section? Meta
Major new pieces of software or services of interest to all BitCoiners are curre…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 08, 2011, 02:53:49 PM |
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Design notes for sharing work between multiple independent chains Development & Technical Discussion
I was using BitDNS/DnsCoin/NameCoin interchangably to refer to "people who would…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 07, 2011, 04:14:51 AM |
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Skipping validation for txs until the last checkpoint Development & Technical Discussion
I'm dealing with a lot of block chain downloads and as such I've been thinking a…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 06, 2011, 03:52:45 AM |
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Design notes for sharing work between multiple independent chains Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteAnd this still leaves open the attack for flood the system with domain name…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 06, 2011, 03:50:18 AM |
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[ANNOUNCE] Webcoin Alpha Sneak Preview Development & Technical Discussion
Looks great! I've wondered for a while how practical a JavaScript implementation…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 05, 2011, 04:43:34 PM |
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Design notes for sharing work between multiple independent chains Development & Technical Discussion
Paying miners for including your NameTx can be done in a straightforward manner.…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 05, 2011, 04:25:12 PM |
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Design notes for sharing work between multiple independent chains Development & Technical Discussion
So merchants will be ok with supporting bitcoin transactions for drugs, porn, al…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 05, 2011, 11:52:20 AM |
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[ANNOUNCE] BitCoinJ v0.1, a client-mode implementation in Java Wallet software
Yes, that is supposed to work. I haven't tested it though. John Sample has been…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 05, 2011, 11:36:33 AM |
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Configurable transaction fees Development & Technical Discussion
That doesn't work for lightweight SPV clients.This is one reason I think we'll m…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 05, 2011, 11:32:10 AM |
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Design notes for sharing work between multiple independent chains Development & Technical Discussion
Miners hash the BitCoin block header. Miner workers like UfaSoft/poclbm wouldn't…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 05, 2011, 11:23:24 AM |
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[ANNOUNCE] BitCoinJ v0.1, a client-mode implementation in Java Wallet software
Is it possible to create a Peer without a Wallet? It seems like you need a Walle…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 05, 2011, 11:18:47 AM |
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Design notes for sharing work between multiple independent chains Development & Technical Discussion
Well, then that's even more damaging to the blockchain... You're sending an arbi…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 04, 2011, 03:24:09 PM |
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Design notes for sharing work between multiple independent chains Development & Technical Discussion
There have been a bunch of discussions on IRC lately with people who want to bui…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 04, 2011, 08:57:42 AM |
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Design notes for sharing work between multiple independent chains Development & Technical Discussion
I updated the original post to have the pay-to-self solution instead of using co…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 04, 2011, 03:08:09 PM |
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What would you change about the Bitcoin protocol? Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, the risk is that you end up with lots of people using a slightly different…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 04, 2011, 02:55:24 PM |
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Design notes for sharing work between multiple independent chains Development & Technical Discussion
Burning coins wasn't very well thought out, I had to get back to doing real work…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 04, 2011, 02:44:42 PM |
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Configurable transaction fees Development & Technical Discussion
I think in the long run people will be submitting transactions directly to miner…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 04, 2011, 02:33:58 PM |
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Design notes for sharing work between multiple independent chains Development & Technical Discussion
Note that your proposed system does not help all the other people who have to st…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 04, 2011, 02:20:08 PM |
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What would you change about the Bitcoin protocol? Development & Technical Discussion
Be aware of the dangers of reimplementations too. If your client diverges from S…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 04, 2011, 01:22:55 PM |
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Method of supporting a "return address"? Development & Technical Discussion
If there's going to be arbitrary data in transactions like that (is it really ne…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 04, 2011, 01:04:35 PM |
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Method of supporting a "return address"? Development & Technical Discussion
Treat BitCoinJ as experimental ... don't put coins into it you can't afford to l…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 04, 2011, 10:17:38 AM |
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Testing bitcoinj on Ubuntu Wallet software
Whoops, fixed. Updating to svn head should resolve things. You don't need to ins…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 04, 2011, 06:58:03 AM |
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Untraceable transactions which can contain a secure message are inevitable. Development & Technical Discussion
OP_DROP just makes you pay for network bandwidth and disk storage rather than CP…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 04, 2011, 06:53:35 AM |
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Stopping an attacker who has >50% of the hashing power Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteBitcoin would not "belong" to the attacker. The only thing such attacker wo…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 04, 2011, 06:50:29 AM |
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What would you change about the Bitcoin protocol? Development & Technical Discussion
It's necessary for distributed contracts. There's no GUI for that in BitCoin tod…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 03, 2011, 01:48:10 PM |
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Methods of getting bitcoins Bitcoin Discussion
Depending on where you live there may be a local trader, see http://tradebitcoin…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 03, 2011, 09:58:43 AM |
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