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Dollar-Backed Digital Currency Aims to Fix Bitcoin’s Volatility Dilemma Bitcoin Discussion
It is really hard to peg some form of money to another exactly. Some reasons are…
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n/a | Peter R | July 10, 2014, 12:06:43 PM |
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Dollar-Backed Digital Currency Aims to Fix Bitcoin’s Volatility Dilemma Bitcoin Discussion
Imagine if the headlines related to Realcoin were instead things like:"Bitcoin F…
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n/a | Peter R | July 10, 2014, 11:59:59 AM |
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Sigsafe: An electronic key tag for signing bitcoin transactions Project Development
I've been adding support for compressed pubkeys in order to minimize the size of…
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n/a | Peter R | July 10, 2014, 01:34:42 AM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
decent article by Krawisz:http://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/bitcoins-rugged-i…
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n/a | Peter R | July 09, 2014, 10:11:50 PM |
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Dollar-Backed Digital Currency Aims to Fix Bitcoin’s Volatility Dilemma Bitcoin Discussion
The problem with this is that the incentives for miners to secure the blockchain…
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n/a | Peter R | July 09, 2014, 09:34:59 PM |
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NSA and ECC Development & Technical Discussion
From the letter I got from Dan Brown, shown here:https://bitcointalk.org/index.p…
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n/a | Peter R | July 09, 2014, 09:46:20 PM |
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Blockchain as login system Bitcoin Discussion
This is one of my hopes for the Sigsafe project that I'm currently working on. …
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n/a | Peter R | July 09, 2014, 09:19:49 PM |
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Dollar-Backed Digital Currency Aims to Fix Bitcoin’s Volatility Dilemma Bitcoin Discussion
If this project comes to fruition in the form described in the WSJ post, it coul…
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n/a | Peter R | July 09, 2014, 08:37:22 PM |
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Sigsafe: An electronic key tag for signing bitcoin transactions Project Development
Very cool. I see you used an uncompressed PubKey. Is there any reason you need…
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n/a | Peter R | July 09, 2014, 10:28:57 AM |
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Sigsafe: An electronic key tag for signing bitcoin transactions Project Development
The Sigsafe communicates with an interface device over NFC using the ISO 7816 AP…
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n/a | Peter R | July 09, 2014, 02:48:40 AM |
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NSA and ECC Development & Technical Discussion
I believe the choice of 977 was explained up thread. Something about a (future?…
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n/a | Peter R | July 08, 2014, 11:46:01 PM |
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NSA and ECC Development & Technical Discussion
I understand that secp256k1's p has the form 2^256 - 2^32 - xbecause this is…
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n/a | Peter R | July 08, 2014, 08:22:28 PM |
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Why did this transaction confirm? Development & Technical Discussion
The coinbase txn decoded contains bcpoool.iohttps://bcpool.io/Yes, but there see…
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n/a | Peter R | July 08, 2014, 04:21:59 PM |
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Why did this transaction confirm? Development & Technical Discussion
It looks like https://blockchain.info/tx/ee61b911610f66f539832699fbbf4ab3955c8bd…
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n/a | Peter R | July 08, 2014, 03:17:05 PM |
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Why did this transaction confirm? Development & Technical Discussion
It looks like https://blockchain.info/tx/ee61b911610f66f539832699fbbf4ab3955c8bd…
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n/a | Peter R | July 08, 2014, 03:56:03 PM |
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Algorithm for elliptic curve point compression Development & Technical Discussion
from Certicom: The negative of the point P = (xP, yP) is the point -P = (xP, xP…
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n/a | Peter R | July 08, 2014, 01:15:22 PM |
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Why did this transaction confirm? Development & Technical Discussion
Hopefully we can build community awareness around the important difference betwe…
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n/a | Peter R | July 08, 2014, 12:42:12 PM |
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Spin-offs: bootstrap an altcoin with a btc-blockchain-based initial distribution Altcoin Discussion
Gerald, you've really done a nice job parsing the UTXO. Am I reading your resul…
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n/a | Peter R | July 07, 2014, 01:12:08 AM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
QuoteNxt, Nem, Ethereum, …I'm looking forward to the launch of the first spin-of…
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n/a | Peter R | July 07, 2014, 01:56:13 AM |
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rpietila Altcoin Observer Altcoin Discussion
I've seen the term 'nothing-at-stake' come up multiple times in this thread. I d…
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n/a | Peter R | July 06, 2014, 01:42:06 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
your a bit well behind the times man! lol Yeah, I guess I should have signed up…
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n/a | Peter R | July 05, 2014, 03:42:17 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
Nxt does not suffer from the nothing at stake issue and I'm not sure that it sti…
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n/a | Peter R | July 05, 2014, 03:22:35 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
PoS coins use the number of coins held as the basis for their signalling system.…
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n/a | Peter R | July 05, 2014, 02:43:36 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
theres a bounty equal to the market cap of nxt. if it was doable. do you not thi…
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n/a | Peter R | July 04, 2014, 09:42:21 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
what about the likes of nxt or soon to be nem? they are far superior platforms n…
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n/a | Peter R | July 04, 2014, 09:22:32 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
Something that critics (or hysterical enthusiasts) miss about 51% attacks is the…
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n/a | Peter R | July 04, 2014, 12:08:29 PM |
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Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion Speculation
Quote...try using http://worldbitcoinnetwork.com/BitcoinPriceModel-Alpha.htmlGod…
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n/a | Peter R | July 04, 2014, 12:02:20 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
...the blocksize limit isn't getting any attention...With an open-source communi…
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n/a | Peter R | July 03, 2014, 12:35:49 PM |
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Sigsafe: An electronic key tag for signing bitcoin transactions Project Development
I would really love to take a try at this device, and maybe even try the NFC HTM…
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n/a | Peter R | July 03, 2014, 05:59:00 PM |
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Can you help me refute a contrarian? Speculation
--There are (or were in January) approximately 12,000,000 bitcoins mined--47 peo…
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n/a | Peter R | July 03, 2014, 03:10:36 PM |
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This is a Golden transaction in the history of Bitcoin Bitcoin Discussion
But somebody (i.e. the owner of the site) did. And the FBI clearly stole the pri…
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n/a | Peter R | July 03, 2014, 02:05:20 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
actually illegal in many places of the world due to the trading platform and the…
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n/a | Peter R | July 03, 2014, 01:44:45 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
but isn't the speed (7 tx/s) different than the block size limit (1MB/block)?Sor…
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n/a | Peter R | July 03, 2014, 01:17:59 PM |
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Algorithm for elliptic curve point compression Development & Technical Discussion
Correct for ECC we are always working with a finite set of positive whole number…
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n/a | Peter R | July 01, 2014, 07:15:06 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
...There was a theory floating about that said, using bitpay etc. actually does…
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n/a | Peter R | July 01, 2014, 12:07:56 PM |
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How much do you all want to bet CIRCLE was the winner of the SR coins? Archival
BNP Paribas is a major French Bank. http://www.bnpparibas.com/en$9bn fine? Ha. B…
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n/a | Peter R | July 01, 2014, 11:35:40 AM |
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How much do you all want to bet CIRCLE was the winner of the SR coins? Archival
BNPWho are they?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNP_Paribas I think it would be cra…
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n/a | Peter R | July 01, 2014, 02:55:32 AM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
Hey Peter, do you have an updated version of this graph published anywhere?That'…
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n/a | Peter R | June 30, 2014, 07:27:57 PM |
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP. Speculation
Thats exponential then, the thing would be is that beneficial or sustainable eve…
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n/a | Peter R | June 30, 2014, 07:06:13 PM |
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Counterparty and Coloured Coins Development & Technical Discussion
Contrast with colored coins, where buy/sell orders are processed external to the…
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n/a | Peter R | June 30, 2014, 03:46:04 PM |
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The legality of a company registered in the blockchain and ownership of IP Legal
I spent some more time looking into the Business Corporation Act of British Colu…
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n/a | Peter R | June 20, 2014, 12:25:18 AM |
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Why is it so hard to regulate Bitcoin? Bitcoin Discussion
Disagree on the stance of digital files. What you call "sharing" I call "theft"…
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n/a | Peter R | June 25, 2014, 02:12:02 PM |
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Mike Hearn: "Progress on the bitcoin protocol has ground to a halt" Speculation
Why fix something thats not broken this is more important than you realize.Right…
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n/a | Peter R | June 24, 2014, 05:06:29 PM |
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Bitcoin and NFC PowerPoint slides Bitcoin Discussion
Can we make NFC payments for bitcoin? Phone - Phone?You can already do this with…
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n/a | Peter R | June 23, 2014, 11:22:00 AM |
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Overstock CEO Calls Bitcoin Code "Slop" Bitcoin Discussion
20 gig is not much, but 20 gig AND growing daily, is VERY scary. Next year we wi…
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n/a | Peter R | June 23, 2014, 03:23:17 PM |
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Canada Signs First Ever Official Law Regulating Bitcoin Legal
I looked at the FINTRAC guidelines years ago when I was just becoming interested…
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n/a | Peter R | June 23, 2014, 11:39:50 AM |
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Western Union Off-topic
Western Union would be ideally positioned to promote the installation of bitcoin…
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n/a | Peter R | June 23, 2014, 12:05:13 PM |
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Bitcoin and NFC PowerPoint slides Bitcoin Discussion
As PayPal president David Marcus said: "Bitcoin is good, NFC is bad"Since I've b…
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n/a | Peter R | June 23, 2014, 11:09:21 AM |
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Bitcoin transaction times Bitcoin Discussion
My question is, since bitcoin is software, will the transaction times be decreas…
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n/a | Peter R | June 23, 2014, 02:08:48 AM |
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Bitcoin and NFC PowerPoint slides Bitcoin Discussion
These are two slides for a presentation on mobile NFC payments at this event in…
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n/a | Peter R | June 22, 2014, 10:14:38 PM |
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What if Samsung or Toshiba were to make ASIC chips? Bitcoin Discussion
A miner is more than just the ASIC.Yes, and this is a reason I'd like to see the…
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n/a | Peter R | June 22, 2014, 02:30:00 PM |
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What if Samsung or Toshiba were to make ASIC chips? Bitcoin Discussion
What would stop some heavily capitalized company from going to a TSCM and making…
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n/a | Peter R | June 22, 2014, 12:10:37 PM |
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What if Samsung or Toshiba were to make ASIC chips? Bitcoin Discussion
The design of integrated circuits (e.g., SHA256 ASCIs) can be carried out indepe…
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n/a | Peter R | June 22, 2014, 11:39:33 AM |
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What if Samsung or Toshiba were to make ASIC chips? Bitcoin Discussion
imagine AMD you mean.. AMD has been "fabless" since 2009: http://www.fabtech.org…
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n/a | Peter R | June 22, 2014, 11:49:08 AM |
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X.509 certificate w. secp256k1? Development & Technical Discussion
Perfect. Thanks for the information 12648430.
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n/a | Peter R | June 21, 2014, 12:22:03 AM |
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X.509 certificate w. secp256k1? Development & Technical Discussion
Quick question that Google doesn't seem to know the answer to: do X.509 certific…
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n/a | Peter R | June 20, 2014, 07:15:55 PM |
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Bitcoin buzz words - getting a little lame? Bitcoin Discussion
I know what you mean, I get an awkward feeling whenever I write "bitcoin space,"…
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n/a | Peter R | June 20, 2014, 05:41:08 PM |
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The legality of a company registered in the blockchain and ownership of IP Legal
I had considered this already - and I think the solution is perhaps to get such…
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n/a | Peter R | June 17, 2014, 03:00:55 PM |
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Selling a product with BTC inside it Legal
Thanks DeathAndTaxes... you live up to your name.It sounds like everyone that wa…
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n/a | Peter R | June 17, 2014, 07:56:52 PM |
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The legality of a company registered in the blockchain and ownership of IP Legal
I had considered this already - and I think the solution is perhaps to get such…
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n/a | Peter R | June 17, 2014, 05:00:13 PM |
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The legality of a company registered in the blockchain and ownership of IP Legal
So I think this all sounds quite promising. In hindsight, this idea isn't reall…
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n/a | Peter R | June 17, 2014, 04:18:36 PM |
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The legality of a company registered in the blockchain and ownership of IP Legal
I was doing some more research on my proposal and found a hiccup. The following…
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n/a | Peter R | June 17, 2014, 02:26:19 PM |
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The legality of a company registered in the blockchain and ownership of IP Legal
Interesting. In this section is sounds like the "endorsement" is independent of…
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n/a | Peter R | June 17, 2014, 03:10:11 PM |
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The legality of a company registered in the blockchain and ownership of IP Legal
I suppose if a shareholder "lost" his private key, that the company might be req…
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n/a | Peter R | June 17, 2014, 03:32:31 PM |
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51% can be prevented so long as all nodes agree. Bitcoin Discussion
No I don't mean changing it, PoW is fine - It's the hash rates that worries me b…
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n/a | Peter R | June 17, 2014, 10:55:21 AM |
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51% can be prevented so long as all nodes agree. Bitcoin Discussion
Can't we just fix the current protocol?It's entirely possible, and IMO likely, t…
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n/a | Peter R | June 17, 2014, 10:43:57 AM |
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51% can be prevented so long as all nodes agree. Bitcoin Discussion
do you really think someone can control 50% of "full nodes" ?Yes, and for less c…
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n/a | Peter R | June 17, 2014, 09:38:35 AM |
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51% can be prevented so long as all nodes agree. Bitcoin Discussion
Nah, it's not even that complicated. No cabal needed. The miner with 51% can j…
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n/a | Peter R | June 17, 2014, 09:37:38 AM |
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51% can be prevented so long as all nodes agree. Bitcoin Discussion
How would ANYONE exclude anyone else this way? If my pool is not changing IP it…
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n/a | Peter R | June 17, 2014, 09:25:39 AM |
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51% can be prevented so long as all nodes agree. Bitcoin Discussion
Ok screw this. I have too much "trust" in human intelect. I should have known th…
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n/a | Peter R | June 17, 2014, 09:14:01 AM |
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51% can be prevented so long as all nodes agree. Bitcoin Discussion
I am not an expert here but if each node is assigned a signature then IP doesn't…
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n/a | Peter R | June 17, 2014, 09:05:15 AM |
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51% can be prevented so long as all nodes agree. Bitcoin Discussion
I am not an expert here but if each node is assigned a signature then IP doesn't…
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n/a | Peter R | June 17, 2014, 08:57:24 AM |
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Official announcement from Ghash.IO Service Discussion
... so would you want bitcoin-core to have a rule that stops any IP from having…
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n/a | Peter R | June 17, 2014, 08:47:41 AM |
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Double spending has already happened when will protocol be fixed? Bitcoin Discussion
QuoteFor the observer to deny that A was actually sent first is to deny objectiv…
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n/a | Peter R | June 17, 2014, 01:22:03 AM |
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what is the first question you would ask, if you met Satoshi Nakamoto? Bitcoin Discussion
what's your reason for creating bitcoin to be susceptible to a 51% attack? thats…
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n/a | Peter R | June 17, 2014, 01:43:55 AM |
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Double spending has already happened when will protocol be fixed? Bitcoin Discussion
35 voters is not the community determining the definition.I agree. The word "de…
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n/a | Peter R | June 16, 2014, 11:52:22 PM |
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Double spending has already happened when will protocol be fixed? Bitcoin Discussion
Nonsense. The blockchain defines the order of transactions. If we had some way…
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n/a | Peter R | June 16, 2014, 11:42:27 PM |
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Sigsafe: An electronic key tag for signing bitcoin transactions Project Development
There is more of a chicken and egg situation with these devices than with the te…
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n/a | Peter R | June 16, 2014, 11:15:48 PM |
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Double spending has already happened when will protocol be fixed? Bitcoin Discussion
Last time we polled the community to determine the accepted definition of "succe…
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n/a | Peter R | June 16, 2014, 10:13:21 PM |
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Official announcement from Ghash.IO Service Discussion
What GHash.IO wrote and posted to Reddit was accurate: any solution that hinders…
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n/a | Peter R | June 16, 2014, 10:03:53 PM |
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Delayed transactions (using nTimeLock) Development & Technical Discussion
I hadn't realized that lock_time could be used in this way with a green-address…
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n/a | Peter R | June 16, 2014, 02:56:07 PM |
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Sigsafe: An electronic key tag for signing bitcoin transactions Project Development
Here's a recent story about this project on Coindesk: http://www.coindesk.com/si…
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n/a | Peter R | June 16, 2014, 01:51:23 PM |
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WebcoinX: colored coin web client demo Project Development
I am using Coinprism but don't like the Open Assets Protocol.What in your opinio…
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n/a | Peter R | June 16, 2014, 01:10:37 PM |
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The legality of a company registered in the blockchain and ownership of IP Legal
Am pretty sure work on this sort of idea is already well underway (although I th…
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n/a | Peter R | June 16, 2014, 12:20:46 PM |
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The legality of a company registered in the blockchain and ownership of IP Legal
No opinions? If you are a lawyer and are interested in working on this idea, pl…
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n/a | Peter R | June 16, 2014, 12:08:15 PM |
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Question on DER-encoding of signature pair (r, s) Development & Technical Discussion
Thanks Gerald. Your explanation was perfectly clear. I'm starting to really ap…
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n/a | Peter R | June 16, 2014, 02:31:51 AM |
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Here's how I think we could implement Bitcoin debit cards w/o a third party Project Development
Alright, I have no idea if this has been suggested before, but here's how I thin…
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n/a | Peter R | June 16, 2014, 01:35:53 AM |
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Open Business Bitcoin Discussion
Such "Open Business" would not be legal, in current legal system, this is specia…
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n/a | Peter R | June 15, 2014, 04:15:52 PM |
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Open Business Bitcoin Discussion
Nicolas, I've been following your work and I think you are doing good things. I…
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n/a | Peter R | June 15, 2014, 02:46:37 PM |
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Re: Bitcoin-QT client question Bitcoin Technical Support
Oh, wait. I see now. You have a PRIMEDICE ad in your signature. That explains…
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n/a | Peter R | June 15, 2014, 02:54:43 PM |
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Question on DER-encoding of signature pair (r, s) Development & Technical Discussion
Awesome. Thanks piotr_n. I am assuming that I was correct and that r comes bef…
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n/a | Peter R | June 15, 2014, 02:14:50 PM |
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Instant confirmation via payment protocol - BIP70 Extension Bitcoin Discussion
I think the spirit of this idea is a good one, but I haven't investigated enough…
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n/a | Peter R | June 15, 2014, 02:11:17 PM |
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Question on DER-encoding of signature pair (r, s) Development & Technical Discussion
I've been working through the byte-level details of bitcoin transactions and I n…
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n/a | Peter R | June 15, 2014, 01:47:20 PM |
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The legality of a company registered in the blockchain and ownership of IP Legal
Goal: To create a company recognized as its own legal entity in Common Law juri…
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n/a | Peter R | June 15, 2014, 12:58:09 PM |
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Theoretical vs Practical Extant Coin Supply Calculations Bitcoin Discussion
Can extant (existing/available) coin supply only be calculated in theory accordi…
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n/a | Peter R | June 14, 2014, 01:54:25 PM |
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Instant confirmation via payment protocol - BIP70 Extension Bitcoin Discussion
I think the spirit of this idea is a good one, but I haven't investigated enough…
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n/a | Peter R | June 14, 2014, 11:56:39 AM |
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Change addresses: What was the motive of Satoshi? Bitcoin Technical Support
No, you don't know how bitcoin works at protocol level. It has nothing to do wit…
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n/a | Peter R | June 14, 2014, 12:38:31 PM |
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Re: Bitcoin-QT client question Bitcoin Technical Support
Like Danny said on the first page of this thread: - Miners can make bitcoins v…
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n/a | Peter R | June 14, 2014, 12:23:01 PM |
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What happens if the cryptography of Bitcoin gets cracked? Bitcoin Discussion
thanks for explaining.... i almost understand.... so, what is the m value actua…
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n/a | Peter R | June 13, 2014, 08:07:08 PM |
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Spin-offs: bootstrap an altcoin with a btc-blockchain-based initial distribution Altcoin Discussion
Distribution of unspent outputs (haven't combined entries to the same identity).…
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n/a | Peter R | June 13, 2014, 07:26:16 PM |
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