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Pay to website certificate / public key Development & Technical Discussion
Most bitcoin software doesn't support sweeping of private keys (because it invol…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 14, 2013, 07:58:21 AM |
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Contributing to MultiBit development MultiBit
Pushing fees ever upwards gives me a sad face We need to get a really good grip…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 14, 2013, 07:56:59 AM |
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Extending the Payment Protocol with vCards Development & Technical Discussion
No, not at all. Good standards always start with the code first, and the spec se…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 13, 2013, 03:22:55 PM |
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2013-11-12 WaPo: Bitcoin needs to scale by a factor of 1000 to compete with Visa Press
Good article, although it doesn't mention the network bandwidth issue that would…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 13, 2013, 01:42:11 PM |
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GHash.IO and double-spending against BetCoin Dice Bitcoin Discussion
If I understand the CEX.IO website correctly, it's a place where you can tempora…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 13, 2013, 07:55:00 AM |
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Verifiable bank transfer using SCIP? Development & Technical Discussion
It's still very early days for SNARK/SCIP technology, yes. It's not even open so…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 13, 2013, 06:50:18 AM |
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Bitcoin at the US Senate Bitcoin Discussion
On the 18th November, which is a bit over a week from now, members of the Bitcoi…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 10, 2013, 06:50:12 AM |
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Bitcoin at the US Senate Bitcoin Discussion
http://www.banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&Heari…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 13, 2013, 06:47:09 AM |
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Make transactions with unusually high miners fees non-standard Development & Technical Discussion
Unit testing people!!Anyway, all-fee transactions have a number of uses that we…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 13, 2013, 05:34:59 AM |
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Contributing to MultiBit development MultiBit
Whilst Jim has a point that adding features to MultiBit got a bit painful, there…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 13, 2013, 05:33:38 AM |
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Message to devs from merchant Development & Technical Discussion
It does check the difficulty, so you cannot just mine a diff-1 block. Please rev…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 13, 2013, 05:31:24 AM |
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Extending the Payment Protocol with vCards Development & Technical Discussion
Sure, we're all in violent agreement that there's a UX problem to solve. The que…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 13, 2013, 05:30:40 AM |
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Verifiable bank transfer using SCIP? Development & Technical Discussion
SNARKS are the wrong tool for this job, however, the right tool for the job is a…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 13, 2013, 05:25:22 AM |
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Extending the Payment Protocol with vCards Development & Technical Discussion
It's very rare for someone to pay someone else with no idea at all of who that p…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 12, 2013, 10:40:17 AM |
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Extending the Payment Protocol with vCards Development & Technical Discussion
I don't want to come across as dismissive. If someone wants to build a P2P socia…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 12, 2013, 07:11:30 AM |
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Delayed transactions (using nTimeLock) Development & Technical Discussion
I don't think the no-replacement based version is better, it's much more limited…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 12, 2013, 07:10:13 AM |
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Message to devs from merchant Development & Technical Discussion
A miner could mine a block that contains garbage transactions (like, transaction…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 12, 2013, 07:08:05 AM |
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Message to devs from merchant Development & Technical Discussion
It's weaker in the sense that it increases the possibility miners might try and…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 12, 2013, 04:42:42 AM |
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Transaction Fees Development & Technical Discussion
It has been reduced to 0.0001 already. The direction we're going in is dynamic f…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 11, 2013, 12:07:24 PM |
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Message to devs from merchant Development & Technical Discussion
If the issue is disk space, pruning (when implemented) will solve that problem f…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 11, 2013, 10:55:05 AM |
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Does bitcoin use Dual_EC_DRBG in any way? Development & Technical Discussion
They did. However, SHA-256 is based on well studied public algorithms invented b…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 11, 2013, 10:53:09 AM |
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Does bitcoin use Dual_EC_DRBG in any way? Development & Technical Discussion
The RSA BSAFE library is known to have used it. That in turn has been used in a…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 11, 2013, 07:30:05 AM |
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Extending the Payment Protocol with vCards Development & Technical Discussion
Don't get me wrong, I would love to see fully decentralised P2P infrastructure f…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 11, 2013, 06:54:06 AM |
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Does bitcoin use Dual_EC_DRBG in any way? Development & Technical Discussion
No, it's not used.
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 11, 2013, 06:41:40 AM |
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Using BitcoinJ in .NET (C#) BitcoinJ
OK. Like I said, if you point out which API's are not available, perhaps we can…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 11, 2013, 06:39:43 AM |
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Message to devs from merchant Development & Technical Discussion
If you can't run bitcoind then yes, a bitcoinj based solution would work, althou…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 11, 2013, 06:38:43 AM |
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Bitcoin at the US Senate Bitcoin Discussion
Nobody, not paying members of the Foundation nor anyone else, has the power to f…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 10, 2013, 11:48:52 AM |
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Bitcoin at the US Senate Bitcoin Discussion
You can also post ideas here, of course. Although I think Patrick prefers to use…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 10, 2013, 10:59:54 AM |
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Using BitcoinJ in .NET (C#) BitcoinJ
Or not distribute via the Windows Store? It seems odd that the API would be miss…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 10, 2013, 09:26:27 AM |
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CryptoLock - wow they really are making some money Bitcoin Discussion
These transactions are somewhat puzzling. There are an awful lot of many-to-many…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 09, 2013, 03:57:47 AM |
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Design the wallet of your dreams Wallet software
MultiBit is using Swing which is pretty old. You can make UI's that are virtuall…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 08, 2013, 05:38:48 AM |
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Remarkable sudden increase in confirmation time. Another fork? Development & Technical Discussion
The best way to bring conf times back down is for miners to reconfigure their so…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 08, 2013, 05:32:49 AM |
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MacWallet - another bitcoin wallet app Wallet software
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 08, 2013, 04:42:28 AM |
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Design the wallet of your dreams Wallet software
Yeah, the security issues are to do with downloading and running random programs…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 07, 2013, 04:27:52 PM |
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Let There Be Dark! Bitcoin Dark Wallet Hardware wallets
OK, good to hear that.
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 07, 2013, 08:20:31 AM |
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Inputs.io Is Gone I'm Calling It A Scam Scam Accusations
Actually I've been waiting for this. It's really bad for the reputation of the B…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 07, 2013, 05:50:17 AM |
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Design the wallet of your dreams Wallet software
You can certainly build a wallet that meets the first criteria, if you want. bit…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 07, 2013, 05:31:27 AM |
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Using BitcoinJ in .NET (C#) BitcoinJ
If you find ways we can adjust the library to make it more pleasant to use from…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 06, 2013, 06:47:53 AM |
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Payment Protocol multiple outputs Development & Technical Discussion
Yes. Yes. Sort of.
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 05, 2013, 10:18:04 AM |
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How much slower is a big block propagating than a small block? Development & Technical Discussion
Blocks can be easily sent as full-match merkleblocks. It just wasn't a priority…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 05, 2013, 09:33:26 AM |
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Using BitcoinJ in .NET (C#) BitcoinJ
I've never used IKVM, but it's the approach I've been suggesting .NET developers…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 05, 2013, 05:28:07 AM |
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SSL logs as proof of money transfer for p2p exchanges Project Development
Yes, I did take a quick look and the code seemed quite readable. It's just a mat…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 05, 2013, 05:23:31 AM |
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Introducing Hive, a beautiful new wallet for Mac OS X Wallet software
I've talked about it with Andreas before, he knows I'll revisit this topic at so…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 04, 2013, 12:49:23 PM |
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Introducing Hive, a beautiful new wallet for Mac OS X Wallet software
Changing a library isn't really a great way to seize coins, is it? Even if it we…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 04, 2013, 11:44:36 AM |
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Introducing Hive, a beautiful new wallet for Mac OS X Wallet software
Yes, it requires people in multiple jurisdictions. As it happens we have develop…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 04, 2013, 10:50:19 AM |
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SSL logs as proof of money transfer for p2p exchanges Project Development
Sorry Dan. I don't think the issue is lack of interest in the outcome. I did tak…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 04, 2013, 09:32:31 AM |
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Identity assertions with Bitcoin instead of CA in Payment Protocol? Development & Technical Discussion
It doesn't solve the same problem. What they're doing is anonymous credentials a…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 04, 2013, 08:46:41 AM |
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Introducing Hive, a beautiful new wallet for Mac OS X Wallet software
That's the point of threshold signing. If the developers are spread across multi…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 04, 2013, 07:14:17 AM |
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Design the wallet of your dreams Wallet software
Yes, working across languages that can't operate on the JVM is the most painful…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 04, 2013, 05:38:07 AM |
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Introducing Hive, a beautiful new wallet for Mac OS X Wallet software
The right way to do auto-update of wallet software is threshold signing (i.e. a…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 04, 2013, 05:52:57 AM |
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key.getCreationTimeSeconds() gives 0 BitcoinJ
Is that with the latest code? You shouldn't be seeing missing transactions when…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 03, 2013, 05:11:31 AM |
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Let There Be Dark! Bitcoin Dark Wallet Hardware wallets
Now, I don't mean to say that the two of you go around crushing kittens or such,…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 03, 2013, 04:46:32 AM |
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Design the wallet of your dreams Wallet software
This isn't about a new wallet app but rather just encouraging people who might h…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 03, 2013, 04:34:49 AM |
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simplified payment verification in the official client? Development & Technical Discussion
Well, also that, and it hasn't been implemented ...What you are calling "SPV" is…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 02, 2013, 11:33:48 AM |
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Incremental chain download using SPV proofs? Development & Technical Discussion
Wallets don't need to know the dependencies of their own transactions, so I don'…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 02, 2013, 12:25:32 PM |
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Design the wallet of your dreams Wallet software
A few days I discovered that there's yet another SPV wallet app being developed…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 02, 2013, 12:02:37 PM |
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Android wallet and TOR Bitcoin Wallet for Android
Matt has been working on a rewrite of the network layer that would let us route…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 02, 2013, 11:23:32 AM |
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Introducing Hive, a beautiful new wallet for Mac OS X Wallet software
Yeah, I tend to try and avoid constantly asking the user to make trivial technic…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 02, 2013, 11:22:31 AM |
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Let There Be Dark! Bitcoin Dark Wallet Hardware wallets
More specifically, after Bitcoinica got hacked Amir (genjix) open sourced the Bi…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 02, 2013, 07:43:14 AM |
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Introducing Hive, a beautiful new wallet for Mac OS X Wallet software
You definitely want to post such crash reports to your servers automatically.
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 02, 2013, 06:59:18 AM |
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key.getCreationTimeSeconds() gives 0 BitcoinJ
Where did the key come from originally? I haven't heard of this issue before, en…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | November 01, 2013, 10:48:25 AM |
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Off-chain anonymous transactions by secure transfer of private keys Development & Technical Discussion
In practice, secure hardware seems to be secure enough for many transactions. EM…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 30, 2013, 05:52:17 AM |
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CoinSwap: Transaction graph disjoint trustless trading. Development & Technical Discussion
I guess the interesting thing about CoinSwap is that the participants do keep so…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 30, 2013, 05:48:22 AM |
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[PREORDER] Trezor: Bitcoin hardware wallet Hardware wallets
At the moment I don't believe there are any wallet apps that are usable with the…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 29, 2013, 11:41:28 AM |
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Bitcoin's Killer App = High Speed Anonymous Internet (TOR like) Bitcoin Discussion
This idea is both reasonable and workable for a certain set of scenarios.For exa…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 29, 2013, 11:39:29 AM |
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Exchanging pubkeys for multisig Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, I agree that it works OK with a messaging system underneath. I guess my que…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 28, 2013, 05:36:31 PM |
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the bs "Satoshi:0.8.99" Development & Technical Discussion
It's the same thing. A real bitcoind node isn't useless, so if a useless node cl…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 28, 2013, 12:48:42 PM |
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Should we change the default to P2SH? Development & Technical Discussion
It also expands the size of the entire chain that must be stored forever. It's r…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 28, 2013, 12:00:00 PM |
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Exchanging pubkeys for multisig Development & Technical Discussion
But how about the escrow type transactions with multisig? I'm trying to implemen…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 28, 2013, 11:55:38 AM |
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the bs "Satoshi:0.8.99" Development & Technical Discussion
If they're determined to forge a fake subVer then it won't help much. If they're…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 28, 2013, 11:54:44 AM |
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Introducing Hive, a beautiful new wallet for Mac OS X Wallet software
Right. Some form of auto update is also a must, but I think you already did that…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 28, 2013, 09:02:17 AM |
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Pay to contract with forgability (using a chameleon hash) Development & Technical Discussion
One thing that I'd like to add is that the methods of crypto-anarchy are still u…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 28, 2013, 05:51:29 AM |
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Dust/Transaction too large, how to solve ? Development & Technical Discussion
Right, a mixed tool sounds good, although it'd be best if it was sensitive to th…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 28, 2013, 05:31:51 AM |
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the bs "Satoshi:0.8.99" Development & Technical Discussion
The other thing we could do is start to politely disconnect nodes that appear to…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 28, 2013, 05:28:45 AM |
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Introducing Hive, a beautiful new wallet for Mac OS X Wallet software
We should start to think about a roadmap to get this onto the bitcoin.org choose…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 28, 2013, 05:26:54 AM |
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Dust/Transaction too large, how to solve ? Development & Technical Discussion
Peter's script sends the dust to miners - I suspect most people simply want to c…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 27, 2013, 12:47:38 PM |
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the bs "Satoshi:0.8.99" Development & Technical Discussion
I mean if it's legitimate, setting the subVer to reflect the fact that it's not…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 27, 2013, 12:44:06 PM |
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the bs "Satoshi:0.8.99" Development & Technical Discussion
Looks like they're mostly hosted at your-server.deWhoever is doing this, please…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 27, 2013, 10:46:13 AM |
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Pay to contract with forgability (using a chameleon hash) Development & Technical Discussion
I guess the first step "publish the point" is critical. I don't see what stops A…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 26, 2013, 07:35:32 AM |
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Bitcoin Agents Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteBecause there is nothing interesting to discover there. x86 is pretty much…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 25, 2013, 07:58:23 AM |
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Invoices/Payments/Receipts proposal discussion Development & Technical Discussion
Look, it's late and I'm tired. If you want to learn OpenSSL then go read the doc…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 24, 2013, 04:19:11 PM |
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Invoices/Payments/Receipts proposal discussion Development & Technical Discussion
Perhaps we need a basic tutorial somewhere on how X.509 / PKIX works. I didn't g…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 24, 2013, 04:00:13 PM |
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2013-10-23 Western Union Says Bitcoin Not Ready For Primetime Press
The slides are pretty good. Kudos to Jay and Scott. I might use the first parts…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 24, 2013, 06:17:29 AM |
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Bitcoin Agents Development & Technical Discussion
I think it's easy to over-generalise about the godly power of "hackers" in the a…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 24, 2013, 03:42:06 AM |
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Invoices/Payments/Receipts proposal discussion Development & Technical Discussion
Gavin is also working on a fee rework, p2p protocol upgrades and various other t…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 24, 2013, 03:37:31 AM |
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Miner's fee a barrier to mass adoption Bitcoin Discussion
The way fee's work are being redesigned by Gavin at the moment. I would expect a…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 23, 2013, 04:04:44 AM |
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2013-10-22 WSJ: Bitcoin Poses a Challenge for Law Enforcement Press
You can read WSJ articles if you click through via Google, for some reason. Anyw…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 23, 2013, 03:41:29 AM |
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manage private keys in iOS app BitcoinJ
Bluntly, I think iOS is a non starter and you should forget about it. Apple's le…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 22, 2013, 11:28:12 AM |
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Invoices/Payments/Receipts proposal discussion Development & Technical Discussion
It would be great if we could be purists about everything Bitcoin-related being…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 22, 2013, 11:09:21 AM |
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Invoices/Payments/Receipts proposal discussion Development & Technical Discussion
Well, the issue is that when I ask the relocation server for a validity of a cer…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 22, 2013, 10:45:17 AM |
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Reducing UTXO: users send parent transactions with their merkle branches Development & Technical Discussion
I'm talking about my TXO commitments idea, which is what I replied to the OP wit…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 22, 2013, 10:37:16 AM |
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Invoices/Payments/Receipts proposal discussion Development & Technical Discussion
Isn't there something like a certificate revocation mechanism, that basically ma…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 22, 2013, 10:30:04 AM |
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Invoices/Payments/Receipts proposal discussion Development & Technical Discussion
But there were several mentions of alternative ways to mitigate MITM problem in…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 22, 2013, 10:24:49 AM |
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Invoices/Payments/Receipts proposal discussion Development & Technical Discussion
These questions come up repeatedly, which is why I wrote an FAQ: https://bitc…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 22, 2013, 04:24:54 AM |
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Reducing UTXO: users send parent transactions with their merkle branches Development & Technical Discussion
But is that what was actually proposed? It didn't seem like it:Quote3. Full node…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 21, 2013, 12:01:51 PM |
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Reducing UTXO: users send parent transactions with their merkle branches Development & Technical Discussion
I didn't comment on the proposal because I didn't understand it. Showing that in…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 21, 2013, 10:31:50 AM |
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Reducing UTXO: users send parent transactions with their merkle branches Development & Technical Discussion
Well, there has been much discussion about that, but you reach some fundamental…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 21, 2013, 09:58:24 AM |
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merged mining vs side-chains (another kind of merged mining) Development & Technical Discussion
Don't CampBX and Mpex support short selling already?I don't know, but MPex at le…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 21, 2013, 08:47:33 AM |
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Are these spoofed emails or someone is sending them from bitcoin.org? Bitcoin Discussion
SPF is obsolete and many email providers ignore it. Much better is DKIM+DMARC, w…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 20, 2013, 09:45:42 AM |
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Reducing UTXO: users send parent transactions with their merkle branches Development & Technical Discussion
(Also, full efficient UTXO index today takes >100 Gb, so miners have to simply s…
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n/a | Mike Hearn | October 20, 2013, 09:44:19 AM |
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