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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
i posted earlier how the incentives in Bitcoin continue to screw up every major…
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n/a | Peter R | May 11, 2015, 02:21:28 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
I think there's two ways to look at it:1. Clearly, if an attacker has 50.0001%,…
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n/a | Peter R | May 11, 2015, 01:40:43 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
And the other problem is IBLT may never be able to be deployed. Hard forks are p…
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n/a | Peter R | May 10, 2015, 10:29:29 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
Peter, can you extend the chart out to the right so we can see what year the 20M…
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n/a | Peter R | May 10, 2015, 12:58:07 PM |
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Permanently keeping the 1MB (anti-spam) restriction is a great idea ... Bitcoin Discussion |
n/a | Peter R | May 10, 2015, 09:59:17 AM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
An attacker with 49% of the hashpower will succeed in double-spending a 6-confir…
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n/a | Peter R | May 09, 2015, 06:33:44 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
An attacker with 49% of the hashpower will succeed in double-spending a 6-confir…
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n/a | Peter R | May 09, 2015, 06:18:51 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
BTW, it is also a myth that >50% is needed to successfully double-spend with a "…
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n/a | Peter R | May 09, 2015, 05:31:51 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
Has anyone reddited this yet? With the right title it should get 100 or more upv…
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n/a | Peter R | May 09, 2015, 03:22:15 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
^ Here's a chart that shows the historical blocksize growth along with the limit…
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n/a | Peter R | May 08, 2015, 03:45:22 PM |
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SecondMarket Bitcoin Investment Trust Observer Speculation
When the Authorized Participant (AP) redeems 100 shares, he gets 10 BTC minus wh…
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n/a | Peter R | May 05, 2015, 11:36:46 AM |
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SecondMarket Bitcoin Investment Trust Observer Speculation
Hey guys,So I understand how shares are added to the BIT / GBTC... but is there…
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n/a | Peter R | May 05, 2015, 09:53:49 AM |
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Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion Speculation
...Does this mean that the network becomes more cost-effective to operate as it…
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n/a | Peter R | May 04, 2015, 02:25:52 PM |
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Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion Speculation
Tim Swanson thinks transactions cost 25 BTC divided by the number of transaction…
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n/a | Peter R | May 04, 2015, 02:08:40 PM |
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Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion Speculation
Jorge deliberately chooses to ignore the role of a bitcoin miner. That role is t…
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n/a | Peter R | May 04, 2015, 08:44:38 AM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
...Speaking of high-powered explanatory tools, it would be great if there were a…
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n/a | Peter R | May 03, 2015, 04:22:29 PM |
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Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion Speculation
Tim Swanson thinks transactions cost 25 BTC divided by the number of transaction…
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n/a | Peter R | May 03, 2015, 03:37:39 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
Just read the NYT article on Bitcoin & Argentina. Quite a large piece devoted to…
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n/a | Peter R | April 30, 2015, 09:59:10 AM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
Technical functionality: It could work, but not as well as bitcoin does, because…
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n/a | Peter R | April 29, 2015, 09:01:00 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
Why would this not work?If they take away all of anonymity, non-intervention in…
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n/a | Peter R | April 29, 2015, 07:40:51 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
The rest of the world also may not like the Fed having coinbase transaction priv…
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n/a | Peter R | April 29, 2015, 03:39:17 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
also, i thought that the trolls said that banksters couldn't give a hoot about B…
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n/a | Peter R | April 29, 2015, 12:17:26 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
Lastly, and unrelated to the topic of who processes the payments, I liked this c…
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n/a | Peter R | April 29, 2015, 02:20:12 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
I guess I don't understand. You've verified everything up to the time you exit t…
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n/a | Peter R | April 27, 2015, 05:27:13 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
I guess I don't understand. You've verified everything up to the time you exit t…
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n/a | Peter R | April 27, 2015, 04:50:46 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
…Bitcoin without pruning is trustless by design (though maybe not 100% in practi…
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n/a | Peter R | April 27, 2015, 04:07:25 PM |
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variance in block times --- std deviation Development & Technical Discussion
And a weird property of the Poisson distribution is that it doesn't matter how l…
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n/a | Peter R | April 24, 2015, 09:10:26 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
The outstanding question though is who will change for who? Will society/governm…
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n/a | Peter R | April 23, 2015, 05:06:28 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
A consequence of the "adoption" that so many of us want, is that Bitcoin must pe…
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n/a | Peter R | April 23, 2015, 03:19:39 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
MIT's Digital Currency Initiative is, for numerous reasons, a positive thing for…
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n/a | Peter R | April 23, 2015, 03:19:27 PM |
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Important Topics for Review Articles Development & Technical Discussion
When I discovered Bitcoin in early 2013, I was blown away by the brilliant ideas…
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n/a | Peter R | April 22, 2015, 07:13:23 PM |
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Theoretical minimum # of logic operations to perform double iterated SHA256? Development & Technical Discussion
It seems obvious that reversible computing is the future for Bitcoin mining ASIC…
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n/a | Peter R | April 20, 2015, 06:05:11 PM |
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Theoretical minimum # of logic operations to perform double iterated SHA256? Development & Technical Discussion
You should read up on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_computing. You ca…
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n/a | Peter R | April 20, 2015, 11:33:26 AM |
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Statistical analysis of Bitcoin's difficulty retargeting Development & Technical Discussion
Thanks for sharing the well-written paper, domob! I appreciate your efforts to…
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n/a | Peter R | April 19, 2015, 01:03:06 AM |
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Concise but complete technical description of various proof-of-stake (PoS) schemes? Altcoin Discussion
OK, I think it's fairly clear that a formal difference between the consensus alg…
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n/a | Peter R | April 14, 2015, 05:40:20 PM |
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[NXT] Vitalik B. confirms the NXT algo is secure. Altcoin Discussion
This was posted in a different thread, but here are some comments I made in rega…
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n/a | Peter R | April 08, 2015, 01:33:39 PM |
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Concise but complete technical description of various proof-of-stake (PoS) schemes? Altcoin Discussion
If more than one valid chain exists, the operator of the node would consult with…
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n/a | Peter R | April 05, 2015, 02:04:38 PM |
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Concise but complete technical description of various proof-of-stake (PoS) schemes? Altcoin Discussion
You mentioned that the incentive to stay on the same branch are economic. I tak…
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n/a | Peter R | April 07, 2015, 02:19:57 PM |
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Concise but complete technical description of various proof-of-stake (PoS) schemes? Altcoin Discussion
Vitalik may have just done the proof you were looking for for Nxt...Thanks for t…
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n/a | Peter R | April 07, 2015, 11:39:33 AM |
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Concise but complete technical description of various proof-of-stake (PoS) schemes? Altcoin Discussion
Thanks for response. I'd like to re-word this in a way that doesn't use the ter…
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n/a | Peter R | April 07, 2015, 11:57:35 AM |
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Concise but complete technical description of various proof-of-stake (PoS) schemes? Altcoin Discussion
Reading Andrew Poelstra's recent paper "On Stake and Consensus" got me intereste…
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n/a | Peter R | April 04, 2015, 12:37:03 PM |
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Concise but complete technical description of various proof-of-stake (PoS) schemes? Altcoin Discussion
But then signing was replaced with hashing, restricting to one attempt to solve…
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n/a | Peter R | April 05, 2015, 12:02:54 PM |
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Concise but complete technical description of various proof-of-stake (PoS) schemes? Altcoin Discussion
In the very beginning (first 30'000 blocks) Nxt indeed used signing. It was an i…
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n/a | Peter R | April 05, 2015, 11:23:55 AM |
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Concise but complete technical description of various proof-of-stake (PoS) schemes? Altcoin Discussion
Here's what I've got so far for Peercoin (thanks in part to http://www.neucoin.o…
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n/a | Peter R | April 05, 2015, 01:19:35 AM |
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Concise but complete technical description of various proof-of-stake (PoS) schemes? Altcoin Discussion
I'm wondering if I misinterpreted this statement:Quote from: Nxt white paperTo p…
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n/a | Peter R | April 04, 2015, 09:01:19 PM |
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Concise but complete technical description of various proof-of-stake (PoS) schemes? Altcoin Discussion
The both parts are understood incorrectly. Sorry, can't tell how it should be, t…
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n/a | Peter R | April 04, 2015, 07:21:36 PM |
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Concise but complete technical description of various proof-of-stake (PoS) schemes? Altcoin Discussion
Thanks. Here's what I've got so far for Nxt:QuoteHow are new blocks added to the…
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n/a | Peter R | April 04, 2015, 06:31:52 PM |
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Concise but complete technical description of various proof-of-stake (PoS) schemes? Altcoin Discussion
Concise and complete. I think the title is asking too much By "concise but comp…
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n/a | Peter R | April 04, 2015, 05:00:50 PM |
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Concise but complete technical description of various proof-of-stake (PoS) schemes? Altcoin Discussion |
n/a | Peter R | April 04, 2015, 03:05:31 PM |
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Bitcoin's Proof of Work Validated and Vindicated Speculation
But what exactly do you mean by "stake"? For example, if I controlled 51% of th…
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n/a | Peter R | April 02, 2015, 10:08:52 PM |
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Bitcoin's Proof of Work Validated and Vindicated Speculation
Bitshares is secure provided 51% of stake is honest.But what exactly do you mean…
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n/a | Peter R | April 02, 2015, 07:14:27 PM |
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Bitcoin's Proof of Work Validated and Vindicated Speculation
Im still waiting for you or someone to break it to prove it can be done….It's al…
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n/a | Peter R | April 02, 2015, 05:20:55 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
http://bitcoinism.liberty.me/2015/03/09/scaling-bitcoin-to-its-first-billion-use…
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n/a | Peter R | March 09, 2015, 01:27:59 PM |
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Quick elliptic curve security question Development & Technical Discussion
Thanks for the responses Andrew, Greg and Nikinger. I was quite certain the ans…
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n/a | Peter R | March 09, 2015, 11:27:41 AM |
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Quick elliptic curve security question Development & Technical Discussion
Question for the experts out there:Let Q1 = k1 * Gand Q2 = (k1 + n) * G…
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n/a | Peter R | March 08, 2015, 01:57:36 PM |
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Sigsafe: An electronic key tag for signing bitcoin transactions Project Development
UPDATE: September 7, 2014Demonstration video: http://vimeo.com/105458967UPDATE:…
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n/a | Peter R | May 15, 2014, 02:24:35 PM |
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Permanently keeping the 1MB (anti-spam) restriction is a great idea ... Bitcoin Discussion
If we inspect the fees paid to miners per day in US dollars over the lifetime of…
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n/a | Peter R | February 05, 2015, 03:00:10 PM |
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Permanently keeping the 1MB (anti-spam) restriction is a great idea ... Bitcoin Discussion
In response to those claiming that a hard fork to increase the blocksize limit w…
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n/a | Peter R | February 05, 2015, 01:20:18 PM |
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Permanently keeping the 1MB (anti-spam) restriction is a great idea ... Bitcoin Discussion
Fantastic work, DeathAndTaxes!Two things really stuck out for me after reading y…
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n/a | Peter R | February 05, 2015, 01:36:37 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1422975660.phpWhy inflation is just smoke & mi…
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n/a | Peter R | February 03, 2015, 08:42:33 PM |
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Bitcoin 20MB Fork Bitcoin Discussion
Since more transactions will fit, the fee per transaction will be lower because…
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n/a | Peter R | February 01, 2015, 09:06:45 PM |
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Bitcoin 20MB Fork Bitcoin Discussion
Even with tx/day logarithmic it doesn't look like a linear fit is very appropria…
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n/a | Peter R | February 01, 2015, 09:58:31 PM |
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Bitcoin 20MB Fork Bitcoin Discussion
Another interesting correlation that exists is the one between Bitcoin's market…
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n/a | Peter R | February 01, 2015, 09:18:09 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
There was once discussion about an exodus plan if a superior technology existed…
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n/a | Peter R | January 29, 2015, 01:03:24 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
tbh, i think the new wave of alt coins wouldnt even want to be pegged to btc.. t…
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n/a | Peter R | January 30, 2015, 12:38:42 PM |
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Mastering Fiat - new book out from O'Really Publishing Economics
Haha I enjoyed it!
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n/a | Peter R | January 30, 2015, 11:37:47 PM |
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Fork off Bitcoin Discussion |
n/a | Peter R | January 29, 2015, 03:46:04 PM |
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Book release : Blockchain Programming in C# (Part 1) Development & Technical Discussion
You are a highly productive individual, Nicolas. Congrats on the Blockchain Pro…
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n/a | Peter R | January 21, 2015, 12:22:48 AM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
page 1000!!!!! Haha, we've sunken to the level of the Wall Observer thread.Page…
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n/a | Peter R | January 07, 2015, 10:41:46 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
I'm still waiting for an answer on my bet.I don't bet money if I can avoid it. …
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n/a | Peter R | January 07, 2015, 01:18:20 AM |
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sidechains discussion Speculation
Jorge, easy money if you're right, no?I'm still waiting for an answer on my bet.
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n/a | Peter R | January 06, 2015, 10:44:15 PM |
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sidechains discussion Speculation
It has value because...Sorry, I was not blessed with the necessary Faith. ...I…
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n/a | Peter R | January 06, 2015, 03:52:17 PM |
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Bitcoin's biggest problem Speculation
...Haha, welcome back! Happy New Years and all the best for 2015!
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n/a | Peter R | January 06, 2015, 02:21:17 PM |
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sidechains discussion Speculation
That if your home computer had to do 2.25TB/day down to be a full node you might…
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n/a | Peter R | January 05, 2015, 02:16:18 PM |
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sidechains discussion Speculation
He's saying that increasing the full-node bandwidth requirements is a centralizi…
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n/a | Peter R | January 05, 2015, 02:29:44 PM |
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sidechains discussion Speculation
The problem is not so much the storage. Bandwidth is where you'll run into a bot…
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n/a | Peter R | January 05, 2015, 01:17:45 AM |
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sidechains discussion Speculation
The problem is not so much the storage. Bandwidth is where you'll run into a bot…
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n/a | Peter R | January 05, 2015, 12:47:29 AM |
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sidechains discussion Speculation
One of my primary concerns with sidechains is that this "other degree freedom" i…
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n/a | Peter R | January 02, 2015, 03:06:51 PM |
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sidechains discussion Speculation
I think it was Gavin's argument that as long as the typical home internet connec…
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n/a | Peter R | January 02, 2015, 12:38:14 PM |
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sidechains discussion Speculation
The debate then is one of finding the right balance between 'enough transactiona…
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n/a | Peter R | January 01, 2015, 04:10:47 PM |
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sidechains discussion Speculation
I'd like to see the network hard-fork to address scalability before the protocol…
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n/a | Peter R | January 01, 2015, 03:52:38 PM |
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sidechains discussion Speculation
Adam, what are your thoughts on increasing Bitcoin's blocksize limit? Does Bloc…
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n/a | Peter R | January 01, 2015, 02:24:03 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
Adam, what are your thoughts on increasing Bitcoin's blocksize limit? Does Bloc…
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n/a | Peter R | December 31, 2014, 07:53:15 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
what is "constant time"?Improved signing securityFor 0.10 the security of signin…
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n/a | Peter R | December 23, 2014, 06:29:24 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
Producing additional ECDSA signatures (additional outbound TXs) from that addres…
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n/a | Peter R | December 23, 2014, 12:48:20 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
Adding to what @rocks said…If ECDSA signatures are produced correctly, re-using…
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n/a | Peter R | December 22, 2014, 04:02:09 PM |
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Ripple has no inflation, right? Will it replace bitcoin? Altcoin Discussion
In the longrun, the case for bitcoin is as an asset that can be money, but which…
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n/a | Peter R | December 17, 2014, 01:20:25 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
Growth isn't an axis on the chart. The y-axis is expectations not growth. By the…
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n/a | Peter R | December 15, 2014, 01:33:57 PM |
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Microsoft News: Bitcoin and the Under-18 Demographic Speculation
+1This is a great point, Raystonn. It is currently difficult for the under-18 c…
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n/a | Peter R | December 11, 2014, 12:56:26 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
Is anybody here planning to attend the North American Bitcoin Conference in Miam…
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n/a | Peter R | December 08, 2014, 05:28:00 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
that was a pain in the ass. but well worth the time:Yep. You'll always remembe…
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n/a | Peter R | December 03, 2014, 02:40:57 AM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
can someone direct me to a source where i can practice constructing a multi-sig…
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n/a | Peter R | December 02, 2014, 09:10:31 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
this sounds pretty amazing. anyone see any holes?http://blog.choosecase.com/Yes…
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n/a | Peter R | December 02, 2014, 05:37:26 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
Yes but there are still advantages to decentralizing the transaction even if red…
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n/a | Peter R | December 02, 2014, 12:17:48 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
John Mauldin...The Bitcoin blockchain technology allows for the most secure elec…
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n/a | Peter R | December 02, 2014, 01:52:51 AM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
Is Bitcoin the Future?by John Mauldinof Mauldin EconomicsWhile I think that Bitc…
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n/a | Peter R | December 01, 2014, 11:36:56 AM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
This gold mining argument still seems a bit silly and perhaps circular to me. We…
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n/a | Peter R | November 30, 2014, 12:29:49 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
Quote from: David AndolfattoIs there a cheaper way? The current protocol uses wh…
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n/a | Peter R | November 30, 2014, 03:27:17 AM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
Quote from: David AndolfattoLet me be clear about this. Bitcoin costs zero to pr…
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n/a | Peter R | November 30, 2014, 02:52:16 AM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
Bitcoin is fundamentally different because its supply is defined a priori at the…
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n/a | Peter R | November 30, 2014, 02:03:50 AM |
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