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A Distributed Market Development & Technical Discussion
The P2P network contains a meet-in-the-middle protocol that could be used for se…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 03, 2011, 09:15:04 AM |
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Refereed Transactions Development & Technical Discussion
I don't know. It sounds OK if there is also a maturation time. I'll ask Satoshi…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 03, 2011, 04:45:37 AM |
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Should drugs be listed at bitcoin.it? Bitcoin Discussion
By the authority of MagicalTux who owns the wiki. See the history of the page fo…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 02, 2011, 04:30:03 AM |
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Refereed Transactions Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteI presume that the forking mechanism relies on the clients disagreeing amon…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 02, 2011, 04:25:13 AM |
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Should drugs be listed at bitcoin.it? Bitcoin Discussion
The wiki has been updated to reflect the fact that drugs are not allowed. So thi…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 02, 2011, 04:18:55 AM |
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Refereed Transactions Development & Technical Discussion
Any script opcodes that import state from outside can be used to fork the block…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 01, 2011, 09:35:41 AM |
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Untraceable transactions which can contain a secure message are inevitable. Development & Technical Discussion
Yeah but as far as I can tell, it doesn't help. If recipients are generating a n…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 01, 2011, 06:16:43 AM |
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What are the best alternatives to SHA256 ? Development & Technical Discussion
You need something that allows chaining. The reason SHA is used isn't anything t…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | May 01, 2011, 05:45:06 AM |
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Proposal for breaking "community advertising rules" deadlock Bitcoin Discussion
The forum already has rules forbidding trade of illegal goods/services.Not every…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 29, 2011, 10:30:55 AM |
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Minimum fee-free transaction (split from 0.3.21 discussion) Bitcoin Discussion
It's not hard to DoS nodes just by connecting to them and sending transactions w…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 29, 2011, 10:11:03 AM |
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New, simple online wallet: www.instawallet.org - no signup required Service Announcements
That's really, really great! I totally agree that this is a much superior soluti…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 29, 2011, 09:46:15 AM |
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F-Secure alerted on Bitcoin.exe (0.3.21): "harmful" Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, but I want to integrate it as the default mechanism in BitCoinJ. I think at…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 29, 2011, 07:03:47 AM |
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Managing substantial changes to Bitcoin - a QA network. Development & Technical Discussion
It's a reasonable idea but a lot of work that requires co-ordination from lots o…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 29, 2011, 04:35:14 AM |
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F-Secure alerted on Bitcoin.exe (0.3.21): "harmful" Development & Technical Discussion
The problems with AV false positives are probably due to a mix of:Not signing th…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 29, 2011, 04:31:58 AM |
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Zurich meetup - May 7th 2011 Project Development
Looking forward to it!
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 28, 2011, 12:57:51 PM |
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Proposal for breaking "community advertising rules" deadlock Bitcoin Discussion
Originally, this is about keeping the perception of bitcoin "pure and clean". Bu…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 28, 2011, 10:58:33 AM |
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What are the best alternatives to SHA256 ? Development & Technical Discussion
Well, actually I'd say ASICs are better if you're afraid of government takeover…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 28, 2011, 09:46:31 AM |
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Has someone actually revised the entire code? Development & Technical Discussion
I've looked through most of it. All the important parts for payment verification…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 28, 2011, 09:12:38 AM |
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Alternative protocols to Bitcoin Bitcoin Discussion
There have been quite a few attempts at BitCoin style currencies over the years,…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 28, 2011, 09:11:20 AM |
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Proposal for breaking "community advertising rules" deadlock Bitcoin Discussion
Yes, as I wrote in the first post, some outfits don't list any contact details t…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 28, 2011, 07:54:22 AM |
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Proposal for breaking "community advertising rules" deadlock Bitcoin Discussion
Quite a few merchants already did post such info without any such rules in place…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 28, 2011, 07:28:07 AM |
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What are the best alternatives to SHA256 ? Development & Technical Discussion
Why would you want to do that?Having big concentrations of specialized hardware…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 28, 2011, 06:12:58 AM |
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Proposal for breaking "community advertising rules" deadlock Bitcoin Discussion
The point is to purely to resolve disputes, not make some kind of statement on t…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 28, 2011, 06:05:51 AM |
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Proposal for breaking "community advertising rules" deadlock Bitcoin Discussion
There's been a lot of discussion over what should or should not get free adverti…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 28, 2011, 05:26:13 AM |
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What would you change about the Bitcoin protocol? Development & Technical Discussion
Yes sorry, to be clear the points I didn't reply to I mostly agree with :-)Quote…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 26, 2011, 05:32:16 PM |
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Necessary protocol improvement; dissent on future mining configuration Development & Technical Discussion
What you propose is:a) Not BitCoin. "One CPU one vote" is pretty core to the who…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 26, 2011, 01:47:21 PM |
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What would you change about the Bitcoin protocol? Development & Technical Discussion
The server half of a connection shouldn't speak first. It makes life easy for s…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 26, 2011, 01:42:30 PM |
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RememberCoin: remember that Bitcoin address! Development & Technical Discussion
Definite improvement. Now the problem is that the n-grams don't really blend tog…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 26, 2011, 03:47:23 AM |
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10 minutes target, double-spending and wasted work from forks Development & Technical Discussion
The other thing to think about is that there's really only two interesting speed…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 26, 2011, 03:43:52 AM |
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[If tx limit is removed] Disturbingly low future difficulty equilibrium Bitcoin Discussion
In plain English: When a bus driver lowers his price he lowers it for a whole gr…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 26, 2011, 03:40:27 AM |
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[If tx limit is removed] Disturbingly low future difficulty equilibrium Bitcoin Discussion
Renting capacity from who? Somebody who has 100,000 unused cpu cores kicking aro…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 25, 2011, 03:34:39 PM |
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Bitcoin’s Collusion Problem - by Timothy B Lee Bitcoin Discussion
That is easily solved by having light clients demand to see the first transactio…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 25, 2011, 02:08:45 PM |
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[If tx limit is removed] Disturbingly low future difficulty equilibrium Bitcoin Discussion
No, transaction inputs are phrased as txhash:output index. You can easily refere…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 25, 2011, 02:06:51 PM |
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[If tx limit is removed] Disturbingly low future difficulty equilibrium Bitcoin Discussion
You can't include transactions in the block chain if their dependents aren't als…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 25, 2011, 01:40:49 PM |
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10 minutes target, double-spending and wasted work from forks Development & Technical Discussion
Yeah, to be clear the impression I got from Satoshi is that 10 minutes was an ed…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 25, 2011, 04:38:52 AM |
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OP_TIMESTAMP in script Development & Technical Discussion
So, my comment about scripts having to be stateless was not really from me but r…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 24, 2011, 05:12:04 PM |
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OP_TIMESTAMP in script Development & Technical Discussion
No, scripts have to be stateless. If there was a way to get the time I could mak…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 24, 2011, 04:37:55 PM |
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[If tx limit is removed] Disturbingly low future difficulty equilibrium Bitcoin Discussion
I guess I don't fully understand your position. The natural equilibrium of the m…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 24, 2011, 12:39:25 PM |
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[If tx limit is removed] Disturbingly low future difficulty equilibrium Bitcoin Discussion
You're misusing "irrational". Accepting low-transaction fees is very rational fo…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 24, 2011, 09:59:41 AM |
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why the 10 minutes target? how much can it be decreased? Development & Technical Discussion
This is mentioned in the FAQ actually. Let me know if it's not clear and I'll re…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 24, 2011, 06:40:19 AM |
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WeUseCoins: Some minor announcements Bitcoin Discussion
Great stuff! I'm still not totally convinced mining should be mentioned on weuse…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 24, 2011, 06:34:44 AM |
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Max Number of Bitcoins - Then What Bitcoin Discussion
I think the economics of this are still being thrashed out. See some of the argu…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 24, 2011, 06:14:56 AM |
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[If tx limit is removed] Disturbingly low future difficulty equilibrium Bitcoin Discussion
Well, I can't predict what all miners will do. But I can look at real world busi…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 24, 2011, 06:04:21 AM |
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[Solved] Disturbingly low difficulty equilibrium when coin generation is small Bitcoin Discussion
We all love a bit of drama, but I think you're over-doing it. Now, you suggest a…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 23, 2011, 04:04:09 PM |
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CoinPal beta - Buying bitcoins with PayPal Marketplace
That's excellent. You really are doing a superb job mndrix.
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 23, 2011, 03:53:27 AM |
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[Solved] Disturbingly low difficulty equilibrium when coin generation is small Bitcoin Discussion
I think there is a model that lets us solve this problem without any artificial…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 23, 2011, 03:32:26 AM |
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Value overflow incident.. August 15, 2010 Bitcoin Discussion
Over time big miners will get more organized. It might already be time for a pri…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 22, 2011, 02:29:15 PM |
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[Solved] Disturbingly low difficulty equilibrium when coin generation is small Bitcoin Discussion
The death spiral failure mode seems plausible.Putting a floor under fees by arti…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 22, 2011, 02:26:12 PM |
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feedback on preliminary draft of legal paper Bitcoin Discussion
The protocol defines a BitCoin value as an int64, constrained by the following c…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 21, 2011, 03:52:06 PM |
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Merkle tree inside Block Headers for light client mode Development & Technical Discussion
I think I'm getting confused here. At first you talked about a lightweight clien…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 21, 2011, 03:38:02 PM |
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Merkle tree inside Block Headers for light client mode Development & Technical Discussion
The rapid transaction acceptance thing has been done to death, I feel. Most peop…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 21, 2011, 01:35:54 PM |
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Desktop App needs "Add Bitcoins" Command Development & Technical Discussion
This page is a much better explanation: http://www.weusecoins.com/getting-star…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 21, 2011, 01:32:37 PM |
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feedback on preliminary draft of legal paper Bitcoin Discussion
Thanks for writing this paper. I hope we can read the final product. It's very w…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 21, 2011, 01:24:30 PM |
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Merkle tree inside Block Headers for light client mode Development & Technical Discussion
Well, you say "trusted full client" like that's an easy thing to conjure up. If…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 21, 2011, 11:57:50 AM |
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Merkle tree inside Block Headers for light client mode Development & Technical Discussion
Philippe, could you go even another level higher? You want to do physical transa…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 21, 2011, 09:18:01 AM |
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Bitcoin for Chrome/Chromium OS Development & Technical Discussion
It'd need a fair bit of work on both BitCoin and the network. Chrome[OS] only al…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 21, 2011, 09:14:41 AM |
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Bitcoin’s Collusion Problem - by Timothy B Lee Bitcoin Discussion
That's not quite correct. Miners can include whatever stuff they want into a blo…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 21, 2011, 07:35:28 AM |
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Desktop App needs "Add Bitcoins" Command Development & Technical Discussion
Guys be polite please. The request is a very sensible one. A "Get BitCoins" butt…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 21, 2011, 03:57:16 AM |
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Looking for testers Project Development
Yes, but the code could be reactivated at some point. Your client would then not…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 21, 2011, 12:18:52 AM |
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Merkle tree inside Block Headers for light client mode Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, the problem with your proposal is it doesn't protect you against double spe…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 21, 2011, 12:15:15 AM |
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Looking for testers Project Development
I'd be really careful with that. At the very least try to avoid exposing mining…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 20, 2011, 02:02:49 PM |
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Looking for testers Project Development
Very cool indeed. Is there a todo list somewhere? I see that scripts are not han…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 20, 2011, 12:56:26 PM |
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Extracting Private Key - (java or rpc) Development & Technical Discussion
What are you actually trying to achieve? Sipas patch gives you what you want if…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 20, 2011, 12:42:08 PM |
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Making it easy for merchants to accept Bitcoin as payment Development & Technical Discussion
BitCoinJ isn't really relevant to helping merchants today. It's mostly useful fo…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 20, 2011, 12:40:14 PM |
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Merkle tree inside Block Headers for light client mode Development & Technical Discussion
If you're working on BitCoinJ could you please ask these sorts of questions on t…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 20, 2011, 12:37:39 PM |
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[PULL] Accept non-standard transactions on testnet. Development & Technical Discussion
Could we get nLockTime re-enabled on the testnet as well? And maybe the currentl…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 20, 2011, 12:33:22 PM |
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Bitcoin’s Collusion Problem - by Timothy B Lee Bitcoin Discussion
There isn't really a single answer. What he says is quite possible.I don't think…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 20, 2011, 12:32:23 PM |
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New website does not link to Satoshis paper? Bitcoin Discussion
Perfect, thanks Sirius.
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 20, 2011, 12:25:22 PM |
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bitcoinj bit by bitcoin flood protection BitcoinJ
You can also just look at the version number of the node. If it's between the ve…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 19, 2011, 03:50:45 PM |
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Easy Way To Detect Bitcoin Fork? Bitcoin Discussion
You can run bitcoin -printblocktree then look in debug.log to see any chain spli…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 19, 2011, 02:09:57 PM |
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Looking for testers Project Development
Wow, that's a huge amount of work. Does it have many unit tests?
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 19, 2011, 01:59:21 PM |
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bitcoinj bit by bitcoin flood protection BitcoinJ
If it's flood protection you can see a message in the logs stating that it was t…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 19, 2011, 12:14:43 PM |
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New website does not link to Satoshis paper? Bitcoin Discussion
I couldn't find a link to Satoshis technical paper on the new website design. It…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 19, 2011, 02:23:22 AM |
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Will bitcoin ever be faster? Bitcoin Discussion
I added this to the FAQ as it comes up a lot.
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 19, 2011, 02:13:55 AM |
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Odd pattern in BitcoinMonitor Bitcoin Discussion
Except that you need some coins to post on Witcoin, if I recall correctly. Catch…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 18, 2011, 03:28:48 PM |
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RememberCoin: remember that Bitcoin address! Development & Technical Discussion
You might want to experiment with using n-gram databases like Googles:http://ngr…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 18, 2011, 07:09:32 AM |
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Freezing BitCoin addresses by regulating miners Bitcoin Discussion
Smart people will launder their coins before anyone has a chance to freeze them.…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 17, 2011, 03:14:27 PM |
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Loosely Managed Digital Currency Could Be Avenue for Crime That's Hard to Block Bitcoin Discussion
I thought the article pretty good actually. It makes points made on these forums…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 17, 2011, 04:01:59 AM |
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Freezing BitCoin addresses by regulating miners Bitcoin Discussion
As BitCoin matures, mining will become more and more specialized until nearly al…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 17, 2011, 03:59:59 AM |
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How Can We Protect This Domain From Being Seized? Bitcoin Discussion
I don't think it's worth worrying about this until there are real examples of si…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 17, 2011, 03:24:40 AM |
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Bitcoin ATM Update Development & Technical Discussion
The model can be the same as for anything else. If the amount requested is fairl…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 17, 2011, 03:10:21 AM |
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[RFC] When wallets conflict with the block chain Development & Technical Discussion
I don't see the problem with adding a new message. Old clients will ignore it an…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 17, 2011, 02:58:46 AM |
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Untraceable transactions which can contain a secure message are inevitable. Development & Technical Discussion
That's a neat system, but I'm not sure about the applications.As both sender and…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 17, 2011, 02:47:39 AM |
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Android Bitcoin Wallet Hardware wallets
When he wrote that there was no support for persisting the block chain to disk.T…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 17, 2011, 02:26:36 AM |
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[ANNOUNCE] BitCoinJ v0.1, a client-mode implementation in Java Wallet software
See here: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4384.0
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 17, 2011, 01:45:07 AM |
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Odd pattern in BitcoinMonitor Bitcoin Discussion
That's what a CAPTCHA is and they do not work for anything that monetizes reason…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 16, 2011, 11:33:18 AM |
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BitDNS and Generalizing Bitcoin Bitcoin Discussion
I don't think it's clear there needs to be a different naming system. DNS is alr…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 16, 2011, 11:30:49 AM |
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[RFC] When wallets conflict with the block chain Development & Technical Discussion
The problem is not that people think 0/unconfirmed txns can be spent. The client…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 16, 2011, 11:15:31 AM |
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Odd pattern in BitcoinMonitor Bitcoin Discussion
SMS verification raises the bar but not as much as you might think for things li…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 16, 2011, 11:05:26 AM |
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iOS Development Marketplace
Some BitCoin related iOS software was already rejected from the app store ... so…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 16, 2011, 06:44:27 AM |
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What if bitcoins were used in high-frequency trading? Bitcoin Discussion
Idea #1: Suppose a company can issue its own version of the bitcoin concept as "…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 16, 2011, 06:35:38 AM |
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RememberCoin: remember that Bitcoin address! Development & Technical Discussion
Haha, great idea.You might want to experiment with using n-gram databases like G…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 16, 2011, 06:28:17 AM |
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[RFC] When wallets conflict with the block chain Development & Technical Discussion
This is a specific case of a more general problem, which is it's impossible to k…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 16, 2011, 06:26:22 AM |
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How Can We Protect This Domain From Being Seized? Bitcoin Discussion
When WikiLeaks lost their domain name due to DoS attacks they simply relocated i…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 16, 2011, 05:31:55 AM |
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Android Bitcoin Client Bounty (1740 BTC pledged) Project Development
The fee is there to ensure all Market participants have been through the Google…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 16, 2011, 04:44:51 AM |
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[ANNOUNCE] BitCoinJ v0.1, a client-mode implementation in Java Wallet software
Maybe later. For now there is plenty of work to do in supporting the needs of Go…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 15, 2011, 02:28:14 AM |
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Double Spending Proof of Concept Bitcoin Discussion
If there is a double spend the official client does not alert you, but those tra…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 14, 2011, 04:42:33 PM |
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Odd pattern in BitcoinMonitor Bitcoin Discussion
I'd like to point out a few things, in case whoever attacked the Faucet is readi…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 14, 2011, 04:34:09 PM |
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Can/Will Transactions Ever Be Processed Faster Than Every 10 Minutes? Bitcoin Discussion
You can just connect to the backbone nodes and verify that they have received an…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 13, 2011, 10:43:21 AM |
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Idea to help prevent transaction spam Development & Technical Discussion
How do you know the transactions are bogus?Nodes are probably capable of verifyi…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | April 12, 2011, 05:25:43 AM |
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