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Proof that Proof of Stake is either extremely vulnerable or totally centralised Development & Technical Discussion
So now they are low intelligence large stakeholders?The point is the danger of d…
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n/a | monsterer | March 01, 2016, 11:30:26 AM |
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Proof that Proof of Stake is either extremely vulnerable or totally centralised Development & Technical Discussion
So, as we see even "buy keys" attack can do nothing if economic majority keeps a…
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n/a | monsterer | March 01, 2016, 11:23:44 AM |
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Proof that Proof of Stake is either extremely vulnerable or totally centralised Development & Technical Discussion
How would it be possible for all large stakeholders to go from being large stake…
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n/a | monsterer | March 01, 2016, 11:15:58 AM |
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Proof that Proof of Stake is either extremely vulnerable or totally centralised Development & Technical Discussion
He saved you thousands of dollars for the privkey. that privkey is the one for t…
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n/a | monsterer | March 01, 2016, 11:11:23 AM |
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Proof that Proof of Stake is either extremely vulnerable or totally centralised Development & Technical Discussion
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."Use t…
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n/a | monsterer | March 01, 2016, 11:05:51 AM |
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Proof that Proof of Stake is either extremely vulnerable or totally centralised Development & Technical Discussion
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."Use t…
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n/a | monsterer | March 01, 2016, 11:02:13 AM |
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Proof that Proof of Stake is either extremely vulnerable or totally centralised Development & Technical Discussion
This attack is known for years, just the first link from google: https://bitcoin…
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n/a | monsterer | March 01, 2016, 10:48:03 AM |
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Proof that Proof of Stake is either extremely vulnerable or totally centralised Development & Technical Discussion
Imagine the difficulty of contacting enough such stakeholders. So with a very lo…
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n/a | monsterer | March 01, 2016, 05:47:59 AM |
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Proof that Proof of Stake is either extremely vulnerable or totally centralised Development & Technical Discussion
Where can I buy these keys? I am interested to buy up any PoS using this method…
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n/a | monsterer | March 01, 2016, 05:26:39 AM |
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Proof that Proof of Stake is either extremely vulnerable or totally centralised Development & Technical Discussion
IntroductionThis is an very informal proof, because I wanted it to be as readabl…
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n/a | monsterer | March 01, 2016, 04:51:48 AM |
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MicroCash. Now in Alpha 2 release. Announcements (Altcoins)
Whitepaper?
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n/a | monsterer | March 01, 2016, 04:04:10 AM |
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Study Suggests Bitcoin Needs Major Changes to Scale UP Development & Technical Discussion
Gmaxwell is definitely correct that you have to factor in many variables, and th…
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n/a | monsterer | March 01, 2016, 03:53:22 AM |
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DASH scam exposed at the Satoshi Roundtable retreat! Altcoin Discussion
Genuine question, how do you envision companies using Zcash without having such…
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n/a | monsterer | February 29, 2016, 05:42:53 PM |
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Which Altcoin has the highest number of full nodes? Which is most decentralized? Altcoin Discussion
If you go by the definition that a checkpoint is something devs code into the so…
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n/a | monsterer | February 29, 2016, 01:06:55 PM |
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Which Altcoin has the highest number of full nodes? Which is most decentralized? Altcoin Discussion
Nxt and its 720 blocks deep rolling decentralized checkpoints.http://wiki.nxtcry…
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n/a | monsterer | February 29, 2016, 12:27:13 PM |
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Which Altcoin has the highest number of full nodes? Which is most decentralized? Altcoin Discussion
What central location do new reorganized blocks come from? Chain reorgs are resu…
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n/a | monsterer | February 29, 2016, 12:07:48 PM |
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Which Altcoin has the highest number of full nodes? Which is most decentralized? Altcoin Discussion
What central location do new reorganized blocks come from? Chain reorgs are resu…
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n/a | monsterer | February 29, 2016, 12:00:55 PM |
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Which Altcoin has the highest number of full nodes? Which is most decentralized? Altcoin Discussion
Network latency makes rolling checkpoints going one block deep a nonsense. There…
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n/a | monsterer | February 29, 2016, 11:51:29 AM |
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Which Altcoin has the highest number of full nodes? Which is most decentralized? Altcoin Discussion
In essence you can't explain why rolling decentralized checkpoints are evil. You…
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n/a | monsterer | February 29, 2016, 11:29:10 AM |
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Which Altcoin has the highest number of full nodes? Which is most decentralized? Altcoin Discussion
Rolling checkpoints do not centralize control of the chain, they are a feature o…
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n/a | monsterer | February 29, 2016, 10:56:56 AM |
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Which Altcoin has the highest number of full nodes? Which is most decentralized? Altcoin Discussion
Look, all I am saying is properly designed PoW and PoS have their advantages and…
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n/a | monsterer | February 29, 2016, 10:24:50 AM |
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Which Altcoin has the highest number of full nodes? Which is most decentralized? Altcoin Discussion
first I'd like to indicate what you need to successfully accomplish the PoS atta…
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n/a | monsterer | February 29, 2016, 09:39:37 AM |
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Which Altcoin has the highest number of full nodes? Which is most decentralized? Altcoin Discussion
In theory pigs can fly. I can name a number of theoretical attack vectors on PoW…
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n/a | monsterer | February 29, 2016, 08:36:10 AM |
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Which Altcoin has the highest number of full nodes? Which is most decentralized? Altcoin Discussion
QuoteThats not really what they're for— though that have the effect too. Most of…
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n/a | monsterer | February 29, 2016, 07:03:29 AM |
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Which Altcoin has the highest number of full nodes? Which is most decentralized? Altcoin Discussion
Avoid anything with any element of PoS; more to the point, anything which relies…
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n/a | monsterer | February 29, 2016, 06:57:04 AM |
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Which Altcoin has the highest number of full nodes? Which is most decentralized? Altcoin Discussion
Avoid anything with any element of PoS; more to the point, anything which relies…
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n/a | monsterer | February 29, 2016, 06:46:24 AM |
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Which Altcoin has the highest number of full nodes? Which is most decentralized? Altcoin Discussion
Is there anyway to know?Would definitely inform my decision of where I want to p…
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n/a | monsterer | February 29, 2016, 03:06:53 AM |
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Does proof-of-work solve the Byzantine generals problem? Development & Technical Discussion
The cost is too high.It is economically unreasonable to solve 'Byzantine general…
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n/a | monsterer | February 29, 2016, 03:03:56 AM |
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DASH scam exposed at Satoshi Roundtable REKD Altcoin Discussion
So I would sincerely hope that the Monero and BitShares communities would not gl…
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n/a | monsterer | February 28, 2016, 06:01:03 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
No you fail to understand the salient distinction. Apps failing doesn't impact t…
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n/a | monsterer | February 27, 2016, 06:33:27 PM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
Now you claim this is only isolated to a flawed DE script and I say that there a…
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n/a | monsterer | February 27, 2016, 10:53:41 AM |
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DECENTRALIZED crypto currency (including Bitcoin) is a delusion (any solutions?) Altcoin Discussion
This makes them impossible to attack but it also makes them a sham. They're just…
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n/a | monsterer | February 27, 2016, 09:18:26 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
You have failed to read the linked thread and understand the issue. Please repor…
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n/a | monsterer | February 27, 2016, 09:17:01 AM |
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DECENTRALIZED crypto currency (including Bitcoin) is a delusion (any solutions?) Altcoin Discussion
Sure, but again, this only applies to someone who has never connected before and…
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n/a | monsterer | February 26, 2016, 09:18:37 AM |
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DECENTRALIZED crypto currency (including Bitcoin) is a delusion (any solutions?) Altcoin Discussion
The simplest check, ask someone who is connected to the network already.If you h…
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n/a | monsterer | February 26, 2016, 08:29:19 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
Scripting opens a Pandora's box that destroys the normal security model for bloc…
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n/a | monsterer | February 26, 2016, 05:22:10 AM |
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DECENTRALIZED crypto currency (including Bitcoin) is a delusion (any solutions?) Altcoin Discussion
Thanks - in principle I knew - but I'd like to have a really rigid statment from…
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n/a | monsterer | February 26, 2016, 04:35:11 AM |
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DECENTRALIZED crypto currency (including Bitcoin) is a delusion (any solutions?) Altcoin Discussion
@TPTB_need_war another way to think about why PoS isn't as secure as PoW in gene…
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n/a | monsterer | February 26, 2016, 04:17:13 AM |
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DECENTRALIZED crypto currency (including Bitcoin) is a delusion (any solutions?) Altcoin Discussion
Another way to think about why PoS isn't as secure as PoW in general:PoS does no…
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n/a | monsterer | February 26, 2016, 03:40:24 AM |
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Attached Transactions - Alternative to Replace By Fee (RBF) - Anti Censorship Development & Technical Discussion
> What exactly does the 'word' being spread about censorship actually accomplis…
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n/a | monsterer | February 26, 2016, 03:23:07 AM |
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Attached Transactions - Alternative to Replace By Fee (RBF) - Anti Censorship Development & Technical Discussion
The solution is an emergency hard fork to another mining algorithm which renders…
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n/a | monsterer | February 25, 2016, 08:33:50 AM |
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Attached Transactions - Alternative to Replace By Fee (RBF) - Anti Censorship Development & Technical Discussion
Miners en-masse currently can decide to block transactions. With something like…
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n/a | monsterer | February 25, 2016, 08:03:36 AM |
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Bitcoin Constitution - Looking for feedback Development & Technical Discussion
I think it means to move the power away from the miners, towards some smart peop…
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n/a | monsterer | February 23, 2016, 04:32:04 PM |
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Bitcoin Constitution - Looking for feedback Development & Technical Discussion
We should work to reduce the influence of miners. Selfish miners are part of the…
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n/a | monsterer | February 23, 2016, 11:03:34 AM |
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DECENTRALIZED crypto currency (including Bitcoin) is a delusion (any solutions?) Altcoin Discussion
Would this simply cause the chain to explode 'width-wise' ?Exactly - this is lik…
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n/a | monsterer | February 23, 2016, 10:03:30 AM |
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DECENTRALIZED crypto currency (including Bitcoin) is a delusion (any solutions?) Altcoin Discussion
But non-miners do not contribute to consensus?But in this DAG system there are n…
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n/a | monsterer | February 23, 2016, 06:48:15 AM |
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DECENTRALIZED crypto currency (including Bitcoin) is a delusion (any solutions?) Altcoin Discussion
I maintain that unless there is a monetary incentive to behave in favour of the…
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n/a | monsterer | February 23, 2016, 06:23:45 AM |
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Attached Transactions - Alternative to Replace By Fee (RBF) - Anti Censorship Development & Technical Discussion
> Choosing to publish zero transactions is not rational behaviourCurrently happe…
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n/a | monsterer | February 22, 2016, 04:48:23 AM |
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Attached Transactions - Alternative to Replace By Fee (RBF) - Anti Censorship Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteFull censorship isn't possible unless a miner has a majority of hashing pow…
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n/a | monsterer | February 21, 2016, 05:34:08 PM |
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Attached Transactions - Alternative to Replace By Fee (RBF) - Anti Censorship Development & Technical Discussion
If each transaction could be "attached" to another in this way it could become…
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n/a | monsterer | February 21, 2016, 08:31:37 AM |
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DECENTRALIZED crypto currency (including Bitcoin) is a delusion (any solutions?) Altcoin Discussion
monsterer there are no mempools in my design.Indeed. I wasn't referring to your…
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n/a | monsterer | February 20, 2016, 12:40:55 PM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
If you are incapable of comprehending technical details, that isn't my fault. It…
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n/a | monsterer | February 20, 2016, 08:57:27 AM |
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DECENTRALIZED crypto currency (including Bitcoin) is a delusion (any solutions?) Altcoin Discussion
Bringing this topic back on track, I'd like to discuss what I believe is the pri…
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n/a | monsterer | February 20, 2016, 08:52:45 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
I am 7 minutes into the video, and Vlad Zamfir (developer of Casper) has already…
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n/a | monsterer | February 19, 2016, 05:35:21 PM |
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DECENTRALIZED crypto currency (including Bitcoin) is a delusion (any solutions?) Altcoin Discussion
Why does temporarily halting the network = drive the price down to 0? Once it i…
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n/a | monsterer | February 18, 2016, 04:18:29 PM |
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DECENTRALIZED crypto currency (including Bitcoin) is a delusion (any solutions?) Altcoin Discussion
Why would they:-Create witnesses that will do what negative actions exactly?-Vot…
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n/a | monsterer | February 18, 2016, 03:28:40 PM |
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DECENTRALIZED crypto currency (including Bitcoin) is a delusion (any solutions?) Altcoin Discussion
Most of these types of attacks end up much less profitable than simply being an…
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n/a | monsterer | February 18, 2016, 03:29:46 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
That is because the gas (currency) transfers must be atomic with the script bloc…
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n/a | monsterer | February 17, 2016, 01:29:10 PM |
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Mining subsidy in a DAG Development & Technical Discussion
Total ordering is proven impossible by the Second Law of Thermodynamics and beca…
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n/a | monsterer | February 17, 2016, 12:22:14 PM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
He has to implicitly (whether or not he includes the latest update to that other…
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n/a | monsterer | February 17, 2016, 11:40:22 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
He has to implicitly (whether or not he includes the latest update to that other…
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n/a | monsterer | February 17, 2016, 11:32:39 AM |
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Mining subsidy in a DAG Development & Technical Discussion
Total ordering is proven impossible by the Second Law of Thermodynamics and beca…
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n/a | monsterer | February 17, 2016, 11:16:47 AM |
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Mining subsidy in a DAG Development & Technical Discussion
You will end up right back to why Iota had to adopt a mathematical model of this…
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n/a | monsterer | February 17, 2016, 11:11:26 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
The block producer makes sure his partition (the one he is validating) is valid.…
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n/a | monsterer | February 17, 2016, 11:09:20 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
The block becomes orthogonal to whether any of the partitions in it are valid or…
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n/a | monsterer | February 17, 2016, 10:51:32 AM |
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Mining subsidy in a DAG Development & Technical Discussion
In the meantime, payers need to know where to place their transactions in the DA…
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n/a | monsterer | February 17, 2016, 10:20:16 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
The system must have some means of converging on a consensus choice amongst comp…
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n/a | monsterer | February 17, 2016, 09:48:35 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
I believe I have figured out what Fuserleer's design is doing based on re-readin…
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n/a | monsterer | February 17, 2016, 08:40:37 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
That's the dichotomy at handThere is no dichotomy in the case of strict partitio…
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n/a | monsterer | February 17, 2016, 08:12:13 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
No you don't. And you slobbering all over the thread. I guess I have to put you…
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n/a | monsterer | February 17, 2016, 07:08:19 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
You apparently still haven't comprehended that for a strict partitioning that ob…
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n/a | monsterer | February 17, 2016, 06:50:39 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
#1 does not apply because the design is such that validation is split between pa…
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n/a | monsterer | February 17, 2016, 06:12:48 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
#1 does not apply because the design is such that validation is split between pa…
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n/a | monsterer | February 17, 2016, 05:59:25 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
monsterer w.r.t. to the underlined, I grow very weary of you subjecting all of u…
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n/a | monsterer | February 17, 2016, 05:18:20 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
But that underlined wasn't the problem. Did you forget the point about the Nash…
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n/a | monsterer | February 17, 2016, 04:49:38 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
Validating (a.k.a. verifying) also means checking that it isn't a double-spend,…
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n/a | monsterer | February 17, 2016, 04:18:13 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
The entire point of partitions is that not all full nodes are validating (verify…
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n/a | monsterer | February 17, 2016, 04:01:23 AM |
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DECENTRALIZED crypto currency (including Bitcoin) is a delusion (any solutions?) Altcoin Discussion
My question: am I missing something? Is there a trustless way to ensure converge…
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n/a | monsterer | February 17, 2016, 03:25:52 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
Following up on that bolded commitment quoted above, cross-partition transaction…
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n/a | monsterer | February 17, 2016, 03:20:13 AM |
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DECENTRALIZED crypto currency (including Bitcoin) is a delusion (any solutions?) Altcoin Discussion
*If* you don't think a major partitioning event is possible or won't happen then…
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n/a | monsterer | February 16, 2016, 03:14:14 PM |
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Mining subsidy in a DAG Development & Technical Discussion
I'm using the wrong terminology. I should be saying 'partitions', rather than br…
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n/a | monsterer | February 16, 2016, 12:15:47 PM |
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Mining subsidy in a DAG Development & Technical Discussion
Merging branches is a requirement for convergence. Consider a DAG with infinite…
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n/a | monsterer | February 16, 2016, 11:46:18 AM |
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Mining subsidy in a DAG Development & Technical Discussion
Branches don't need to be merged, we can have 100 branches all the time and stil…
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n/a | monsterer | February 16, 2016, 11:11:15 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
I think perhaps what you are proposing (yet you did not articulate it) is that y…
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n/a | monsterer | February 16, 2016, 11:01:55 AM |
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Mining subsidy in a DAG Development & Technical Discussion
Sounds right to me. You are supposed to find a sweet spot and if you fail you'll…
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n/a | monsterer | February 16, 2016, 10:02:58 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
monsterer you are babbling nonsense. Sorry I am not going to unravel for you the…
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n/a | monsterer | February 16, 2016, 09:59:52 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
If a student was babbling nonsense in front of the entire classroom and the Prof…
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n/a | monsterer | February 16, 2016, 09:28:23 AM |
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Mining subsidy in a DAG Development & Technical Discussion
But what about your example earlier? Temporary partitions caused by network late…
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n/a | monsterer | February 16, 2016, 09:03:14 AM |
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Mining subsidy in a DAG Development & Technical Discussion
Except in the case of double spends, where the more branches you merge, the lowe…
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n/a | monsterer | February 16, 2016, 08:27:07 AM |
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Mining subsidy in a DAG Development & Technical Discussion
What I'm looking at currently, is the incentive to merge branches. The rational…
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n/a | monsterer | February 16, 2016, 07:07:57 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
Re-read my prior post. You seem to not understand basic facts of computer scienc…
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n/a | monsterer | February 16, 2016, 07:06:19 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
If you are talking about scripting, then I think you've failed to entirely under…
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n/a | monsterer | February 16, 2016, 06:57:45 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
You are referring to asset exchange (not Ethereum's scripting). As you have stat…
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n/a | monsterer | February 16, 2016, 06:30:26 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
Even the script can't stop a user from copying data from one partition to anothe…
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n/a | monsterer | February 16, 2016, 05:57:11 AM |
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Mining subsidy in a DAG Development & Technical Discussion
Can't be done because of what I wrote upthread:Well, my current knowledge lets m…
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n/a | monsterer | February 16, 2016, 05:30:16 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
No script fails from the perspective of the block chain. The external users see…
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n/a | monsterer | February 16, 2016, 05:09:33 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
For asset transfers, I need to think about the harm that can be done and whether…
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n/a | monsterer | February 16, 2016, 04:50:00 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
Also I have pointed out in my video and the follow up posts in this thread about…
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n/a | monsterer | February 16, 2016, 04:35:42 AM |
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Mining subsidy in a DAG Development & Technical Discussion
Btw, you might want to reference the post I made within the past month or so (pr…
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n/a | monsterer | February 16, 2016, 04:28:18 AM |
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The Ethereum Paradox Altcoin Discussion
Another point, I wanted to touch on this idea of 'Turing completeness'. I'm not…
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n/a | monsterer | February 16, 2016, 04:17:56 AM |
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