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Off-Line Karma: A Decentralized Currency for Peer-to-peer and Grid Applications Bitcoin Discussion
Oops, good point. I wish academic papers provided dates at the start along with…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | March 03, 2011, 01:07:00 PM |
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Off-Line Karma: A Decentralized Currency for Peer-to-peer and Grid Applications Bitcoin Discussion
QuoteWe also assume that the overlay network is capable of safely distribut-ing…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | March 03, 2011, 09:32:00 AM |
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Coding guidelines Development & Technical Discussion
Firstly, what is the justification for using esoteric elliptic curve cryptograph…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | March 02, 2011, 09:00:30 AM |
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Some questionable aspects of Bitcoin Bitcoin Discussion
decisionmatrix, I have to echo the poster who said you don't understand BitCoin…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | March 01, 2011, 03:45:21 PM |
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Transaction fee Bitcoin Discussion
That'd just be a temporary workaround though, right? We're not anywhere near any…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | March 01, 2011, 11:38:46 AM |
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CreateTransaction: suggest/enforce fee for big low-priority transactions Development & Technical Discussion
Right, that's pretty much what dropping the concept of "free space" would do. Al…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | March 01, 2011, 11:12:22 AM |
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How many transactions per second can the bitcoin network sustain? Bitcoin Discussion
Yeah, there's an artificial limit on block size which can be removed/put off by…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | March 01, 2011, 07:17:25 AM |
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Sending bitcoins to an IP address Bitcoin Discussion
Sending by IP address isn't really used anymore, it'll probably be removed in a…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 28, 2011, 04:04:29 PM |
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How many transactions per second can the bitcoin network sustain? Bitcoin Discussion
The network can probably sustain around 80 tps right now, assuming some signific…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 28, 2011, 04:03:04 PM |
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Search Engine Results Snapshots (before & after) Bitcoin Discussion
Hey, it's not a good idea to try and measure popularity using the "1 of X result…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 27, 2011, 07:34:11 AM |
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Idea for encrypted wallet implementation Development & Technical Discussion
You can just use a smartphone app for everything. I don't think it's worth tryin…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 26, 2011, 01:36:26 PM |
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CoinPal beta - Buying bitcoins with PayPal Marketplace
Yes, the problem is fully resolved. It's a shame PayPal seems to be flaky but as…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 26, 2011, 10:52:03 AM |
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CoinPal beta - Buying bitcoins with PayPal Marketplace
This is just a heads up that CoinPal might be broken at the moment. I just tried…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 26, 2011, 05:34:37 AM |
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Idea for encrypted wallet implementation Development & Technical Discussion
Right, the plan starts to work at step 3 where you "require a hardware device to…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 26, 2011, 05:01:29 AM |
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Idea for encrypted wallet implementation Development & Technical Discussion
I'm not sure what this is supposed to accomplish. If I can trojan your machine I…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 25, 2011, 01:28:15 PM |
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Mental note: ensure EC crypto is not susceptible to side channel attacks Development & Technical Discussion
All operations are constant time. I don't know if you have to do more than that…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 25, 2011, 10:38:15 AM |
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Mental note: ensure EC crypto is not susceptible to side channel attacks Development & Technical Discussion
For people working on mobile clients: http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/attack…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 25, 2011, 05:18:36 AM |
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BitDroid Network implementation opensourced Development & Technical Discussion
Great! I am TD on that channel. Say hi some time.
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 24, 2011, 08:17:55 AM |
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BitDroid Network implementation opensourced Development & Technical Discussion
Hi chromicant,There is LOTS of interest in an Android client. Hopefully soon we'…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 24, 2011, 08:09:13 AM |
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Ignite! Amherst talk about Bitcoin Bitcoin Discussion
Yes. We also need to solve the server problem. It's currently unable to handle b…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 24, 2011, 08:07:09 AM |
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genesis block Bitcoin Discussion
I am a native English speaker and routinely mix British and American spellings i…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 24, 2011, 07:57:05 AM |
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Bitcoin-like implementation of Ripple Bitcoin Discussion
Ripple is an interesting concept and I discussed it with Ryan some years ago.It…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 24, 2011, 07:55:58 AM |
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Prize for importing private key [WON] Development & Technical Discussion
G is a constant specified by the curve parameters. BitCoin uses the secp256k1 cu…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 24, 2011, 05:06:48 AM |
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BitDroid Network implementation opensourced Development & Technical Discussion
Great to see this be released!I finally got all the approvals I need to open sou…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 23, 2011, 06:01:29 PM |
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Printing bitcoins, an implementation Bitcoin Discussion
Code: // ASN1_SEQUENCE(EC_PRIVATEKEY) = { // ASN1_SIMPLE(EC_PRIV…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 23, 2011, 04:58:55 AM |
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Printing bitcoins, an implementation Bitcoin Discussion
As I said, I think the bitbill is using an ASN.1/DER encoded form of the key whi…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 23, 2011, 03:19:34 AM |
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Prize for importing private key [WON] Development & Technical Discussion
Presumably Hal modified his copy of BitCoin to extract the private key, or maybe…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 23, 2011, 03:18:46 AM |
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The Week In Bitcoin - Feb 21 through Feb 27, 2011. Bitcoin Discussion
Thanks for doing this. It's really good.
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 22, 2011, 12:18:47 PM |
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Printing bitcoins, an implementation Bitcoin Discussion
I rather like it. I imaging that handing a bartender a bitcoin bill could more e…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 22, 2011, 10:12:06 AM |
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Bitcoin logos based on the original icon Bitcoin Discussion
That's still pretty close. Dollar symbol is written with both one and two strike…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 22, 2011, 09:14:56 AM |
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Printing bitcoins, an implementation Bitcoin Discussion
This is using a format you just made up, there's no such thing as a bitcoin:priv…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 22, 2011, 08:31:01 AM |
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Bitcoin logos based on the original icon Bitcoin Discussion
Could it just be a B in a circle? That way it'd match the Ⓑ unicode symbol that…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 22, 2011, 08:19:01 AM |
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Prize for importing private key [WON] Development & Technical Discussion
JollyGreen, I posted the (single) line of code you need to do that with the Boun…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 22, 2011, 04:52:28 AM |
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Prize for importing private key [WON] Development & Technical Discussion
I sent you 50 coins Hendi, thanks. That program is still kind of useless without…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 22, 2011, 04:52:08 AM |
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Prize for importing private key Development & Technical Discussion
http://hendi.name/bitcoin/ Like that?Yes, very close!There's a small bug. If the…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 21, 2011, 06:22:54 PM |
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The Growth of Cryptography MIT Lecture Development & Technical Discussion
Very interesting. I didn't realize there was usable fully homomorphic cryptograp…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 21, 2011, 04:14:15 PM |
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Best practice for fast transaction acceptance - how high is the risk? Bitcoin Discussion
You're still open to the 'finney attack' described earlier, if whatever you're s…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 21, 2011, 10:37:47 AM |
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Prize for importing private key [WON] Development & Technical Discussion
Yeah, we need to do a better job of explaining the mechanics of Bitcoin to a non…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 21, 2011, 06:39:46 AM |
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Prize for importing private key [WON] Development & Technical Discussion
XML isn't a good format to use for storing large, binary data structures which i…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 21, 2011, 04:52:26 AM |
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Prize for importing private key Development & Technical Discussion
I have an implementation of the BitCoin protocol written in Java that is fairly…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 20, 2011, 05:06:28 PM |
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Prize for importing private key Development & Technical Discussion
Actually I changed my mind, deletion of the keys will have to be a requirement,…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 20, 2011, 06:08:02 PM |
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Prize for importing private key Development & Technical Discussion
Also what do you mean by "export" -- write and then remove the keys from the wal…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 20, 2011, 05:57:34 PM |
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Prize for importing private key Development & Technical Discussion
By the way, I did this with a private Java implementation of BitCoin. I'm workin…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 20, 2011, 03:55:45 PM |
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Prize for importing private key Development & Technical Discussion
Sorry m0mchil, I have to admit I was surprised when I reloaded the page and saw…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 20, 2011, 03:39:54 PM |
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Typing the ⓑ and Ⓑ symbols on a Mac Bitcoin Discussion
It turns out that you can set up MacOS X to make typing the Unicode encircled le…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 20, 2011, 03:33:14 PM |
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Official Bitcoin Unicode Character? Bitcoin Discussion
Well, I like ⓑ and Ⓑ so I put together a wiki page on how to make them super eas…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 20, 2011, 03:31:55 PM |
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Prize for importing private key Development & Technical Discussion
Why thankyou Hal, you are a scholar and a gentleman. That was an unexpectedly pr…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 20, 2011, 03:00:01 PM |
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Prize for importing private key Development & Technical Discussion
Yeah, I got to the same point :-( Looks like either we're all missing something…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 20, 2011, 02:07:52 PM |
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Metadata Development & Technical Discussion
If you want the ability to do chargebacks you'd have to do it via an intermediat…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 20, 2011, 08:27:03 AM |
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Very portable Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
It can be done, technically, but it opens you up to fraud. Android devices are a…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 19, 2011, 06:03:46 AM |
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Maximum number of bitcoins Development & Technical Discussion
Fractional reserve issued currency is inflation by any reasonable definition of…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 18, 2011, 06:07:17 AM |
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The threat of centralization through pools? Bitcoin Discussion
Right now the software Slush uses to run his pool is proprietary, so it's a bit…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 18, 2011, 06:02:42 AM |
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Maximum number of bitcoins Development & Technical Discussion
No, you are correct. Bitcoin is a slightly deflationary currency when looking on…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 17, 2011, 07:14:26 AM |
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Using GPU to *verify* blocks? Bitcoin Technical Support
Yes, the "client mode" that's nearly finished in the client can speed up initial…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 17, 2011, 06:11:57 AM |
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Mt Gox Bitcoin Widget for Android released Project Development
Great! The graph doesn't show any data though. I guess it will fill out over the…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 17, 2011, 05:41:20 AM |
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Facebook credit: what to think about that? Project Development
FBCredits is not a currency, it's a stored value system pegged to the dollar.
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 16, 2011, 05:46:33 AM |
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Why the transfers are not implemented immediately???? Bitcoin Discussion
Or maybe just use well known addresses? MyBitcoin could, on receiving coins, for…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 15, 2011, 05:26:25 PM |
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Best practice for fast transaction acceptance - how high is the risk? Bitcoin Discussion
X and Y are both addresses I control. The point of what I was describing is not…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 15, 2011, 05:07:46 PM |
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Why the transfers are not implemented immediately???? Bitcoin Discussion
Having product specific stored value systems like this is going to suck though.…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 15, 2011, 03:01:24 PM |
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Maximum number of bitcoins Development & Technical Discussion
This is like saying the quantity of dollars is limited by the amount of paper in…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 15, 2011, 02:38:49 PM |
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Idiot's Guide to Bitcoin [WIP] Bitcoin Discussion
That depends on many things that are unknowable, like the rate of deflation, wha…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 15, 2011, 01:19:12 PM |
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Best practice for fast transaction acceptance - how high is the risk? Bitcoin Discussion
QuoteAlso, my proposal was to only reject blocks containing 'suspicious' transac…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 15, 2011, 01:07:32 PM |
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Resubmitting transactions with higher fees Development & Technical Discussion
Sounds reasonable although would that defeat the point of having the feature at…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 15, 2011, 07:23:29 AM |
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Idiot's Guide to Bitcoin [WIP] Bitcoin Discussion
I think the fees system is still something of an open question at this point. It…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 15, 2011, 05:55:00 AM |
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[RFC] P2P pooled mining Development & Technical Discussion
By the way, for the statistical attack in which you leave when you earned more t…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 15, 2011, 03:57:31 AM |
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[RFC] P2P pooled mining Development & Technical Discussion
I quite like this idea. I've been concerned about the concentration of mining po…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 15, 2011, 03:10:31 AM |
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Best practice for fast transaction acceptance - how high is the risk? Bitcoin Discussion
Propagation time for transactions across very large networks is where the 10 min…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 15, 2011, 03:01:46 AM |
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Iphone/Webphone bitcoin payment app? Project Development
See here:http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3017.0
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 14, 2011, 06:26:27 PM |
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Best practice for fast transaction acceptance - how high is the risk? Bitcoin Discussion
OK, here's a strawman proposal. Knock it down :-)The key problem is that of untr…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 14, 2011, 06:16:19 PM |
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Best practice for fast transaction acceptance - how high is the risk? Bitcoin Discussion
I'd be very careful about making assumptions about BitCoins non-scalability. See…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 14, 2011, 05:32:39 PM |
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Is it possible for two private keys/clients to generate identical BTC address ? Development & Technical Discussion
1. Yes.2. Both people will be able to spend the coins. Whoever spends first gets…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 14, 2011, 12:27:56 PM |
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Anonymous Bitcoin Discussion
The DoS risk is not merely about space in the block. There are several resources…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 14, 2011, 07:58:07 AM |
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Resubmitting transactions with higher fees Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, the code that allows for transaction replacement is disabled. Unfortunately…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 14, 2011, 07:52:41 AM |
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Send bitcoins to an unknown recipient Development & Technical Discussion
Why not do a fully blown Facebook integration? Just have a site that lets you pi…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 14, 2011, 07:49:47 AM |
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HUGE spike in Google trends Bitcoin Discussion
Does anyone know why Russia appears to be so much more interested in Bitcoin tha…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 14, 2011, 07:47:02 AM |
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How will the merkel hash tree be stored? Development & Technical Discussion
Well, the point of all this is to ensure all chains benefit from the same pool o…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 13, 2011, 07:37:41 AM |
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How will the merkel hash tree be stored? Development & Technical Discussion
I think he meant a merkle tree on top of the blocks, not the one inside the bloc…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 13, 2011, 05:51:07 AM |
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Newbie question re: my computer Computer hardware
I think only an admin can do that. It was more an observation than a command. Th…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 12, 2011, 02:27:06 PM |
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More divisibility required - move the decimal point Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, the 0.01 minimum is a hack. The easiest fix is to just adjust it downwards…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 12, 2011, 01:29:50 PM |
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Newbie question re: my computer Computer hardware
We should move this thread to the mining section.
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 12, 2011, 09:58:07 AM |
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Added a wiki page on scalability Development & Technical Discussion
See here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability It's based on the posts I ma…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 12, 2011, 09:49:04 AM |
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Network-wide cost of a transaction Development & Technical Discussion
I just read back some of the old threads. It seems Gavin has already got the DoS…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 12, 2011, 06:40:12 AM |
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Register bitcoin protocol (bitcoin://...) Bitcoin Discussion
Code wins. It just needs somebody to go ahead and implement it.
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 12, 2011, 05:54:48 AM |
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Anonymous Bitcoin Discussion
There are several people on this forum who could break the prodnet tomorrow by f…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 12, 2011, 05:45:08 AM |
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Andrew Schaaf's Bitcoin Talk at Hack & Tell Bitcoin Discussion
Good presentation but an implementation of the BitCoin node in JavaScript? Reall…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 11, 2011, 01:58:39 PM |
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Anonymous Bitcoin Discussion
We already know that a motivated attacker has several ways to screw with BitCoin…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 11, 2011, 01:51:56 PM |
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Network-wide cost of a transaction Development & Technical Discussion
Totally agree that we want fees to be zero for as long as possible (or forever).…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 11, 2011, 11:07:06 AM |
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Anonymity Development & Technical Discussion
What exactly would you blind sign?The Chaum system assumed a central authority.…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 11, 2011, 09:26:01 AM |
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Network-wide cost of a transaction Development & Technical Discussion
ECDSA is intensive. See here:http://www.cryptopp.com/benchmarks.html
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 11, 2011, 07:17:41 AM |
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MtGox Bitcoin Android App Project Development
See here:http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3276.0
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 11, 2011, 03:56:34 AM |
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Network-wide cost of a transaction Development & Technical Discussion
These calculations make me uncomfortable because they assume nodes scale up infi…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 11, 2011, 03:44:45 AM |
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More divisibility required - move the decimal point Development & Technical Discussion
And what about somebody monopolizing the network's resources with tons of larger…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 10, 2011, 01:02:06 PM |
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More divisibility required - move the decimal point Development & Technical Discussion
Well that is simple for the implementors but complicated for everyone else. What…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 10, 2011, 12:54:18 PM |
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More divisibility required - move the decimal point Development & Technical Discussion
The point of the fee is to avoid somebody monopolizing the networks resources wi…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 10, 2011, 12:28:21 PM |
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More divisibility required - move the decimal point Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, lowering the fee is useful but it can be done today. It doesn't solve the p…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 10, 2011, 12:07:24 PM |
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More divisibility required - move the decimal point Development & Technical Discussion
It's easy to say "let's just move the decimal point". But this part of BitCoin i…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 10, 2011, 11:09:15 AM |
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Parity Party Bitcoin Discussion
Yes, but the question is really - will it stay above dollar parity or not?
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 09, 2011, 05:41:03 PM |
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Mt Gox Bitcoin Widget for Android released Project Development
I think the issue may be that the Wildfire has a small screen. Try changing your…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 09, 2011, 05:33:11 PM |
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Using Liberty Reserve? READ THIS NOW! Off-topic
Right. I don't think it's reasonable to say the "point" of BitCoin is anonymity.…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 09, 2011, 08:15:28 AM |
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Mt Gox Bitcoin Widget for Android released Project Development
Works for me on a Nexus S.Post your manifest here and I'll take a look at why it…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | February 09, 2011, 07:36:31 AM |
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