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How to force a rule change by bloating the UTXO set Development & Technical Discussion
Is there a profitable service on Litecoin? I dunno - I don't follow alt-currenci…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 14, 2013, 02:42:32 PM |
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How to force a rule change by bloating the UTXO set Development & Technical Discussion
What if blocks remain 1MB?: Profitable services like SD out price simple user fr…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 14, 2013, 02:31:23 PM |
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How to force a rule change by bloating the UTXO set Development & Technical Discussion
So right now with 1MB blocks the most the unspent transactions (UTXO) set can gr…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 14, 2013, 01:43:27 PM |
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Cancelling unconfirmed transactions Development & Technical Discussion
I thought I have seen Gavin somewhere talking about adding fees to already exist…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 14, 2013, 11:14:58 AM |
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Sending small amounts of BTC to thousands? Development & Technical Discussion
Well I'm pondering what was mentioned here about using blockchain.info or InstaW…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 14, 2013, 01:52:24 AM |
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[ANN] BitSafe Hardware Wallet Now Shipping Bitcoin Discussion
Just bought one! It's great to see this happen for real.
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 14, 2013, 12:35:55 AM |
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Sending small amounts of BTC to thousands? Development & Technical Discussion
Given the very low value of the outputs I would recommend making the total size…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 13, 2013, 10:10:25 PM |
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Oh god, I see a chance for lifting the 1M block size limit !!! Bitcoin Discussion
What if the some people get their way and the limit is increased to say 100MB pe…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 13, 2013, 03:39:50 AM |
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Fidelity-bonded banks: decentralized, auditable, private, off-chain payments Bitcoin Discussion
* To give a sense of how inaccessible the blockchain would become: 2000 txs/bloc…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 11, 2013, 01:03:55 PM |
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Soft block size limit reached, action required by YOU Mining
A validation node is just that, a validation node. It allows the person running…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 11, 2013, 04:14:41 AM |
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Blocking the creation of outputs that don't make economic sense to spend Development & Technical Discussion
Ok. $0.08 might not sound like much, but remember the fees go to the miner, the…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 10, 2013, 03:40:34 PM |
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Blocking the creation of outputs that don't make economic sense to spend Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, the thing you didn't consider is that if I am a new user and fire up my bra…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 10, 2013, 03:20:47 PM |
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Blocking uneconomic UTXO creation Pools
I've created a patch that blocks the creation of transaction outputs whose value…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 09, 2013, 08:59:50 PM |
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Blocking the creation of outputs that don't make economic sense to spend Development & Technical Discussion
A lot of people have been creating various patches blocking SatoshiDice, or as s…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 09, 2013, 08:47:53 PM |
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Blocking the creation of outputs that don't make economic sense to spend Development & Technical Discussion
Oh, we very much agree on this.Actually, if all the exotic uses of dust sized co…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 09, 2013, 10:05:51 PM |
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Blocking the creation of outputs that don't make economic sense to spend Development & Technical Discussion
How can you tell the difference between spam and a legit use for an anonymous tr…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 09, 2013, 09:22:51 PM |
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Blocking the creation of outputs that don't make economic sense to spend Development & Technical Discussion
Can't we block the spam without nuking legitimate uses for small valued coins?Ho…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 09, 2013, 09:17:13 PM |
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Soft block size limit reached, action required by YOU Mining
There is also the rather obvious and oft-overlooked fact that mining generates w…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 07, 2013, 10:11:13 PM |
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Block Size soft-limit maxing out this AM 6/3/13 Development & Technical Discussion
Thanks retep for this finding. I really did not consider that one transaction co…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 07, 2013, 06:54:13 PM |
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ISP-independent Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
With 1MB blocks such projects are actually quite reasonable. Data rates in the 2…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 07, 2013, 03:04:18 PM |
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Soft block size limit reached, action required by YOU Mining
Finally: in my opinion, there is rough consensus that the 1MB block size limit W…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 07, 2013, 02:08:06 PM |
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Now that we've reached the 250kb soft limit... Development & Technical Discussion
how can be block 224711 more than 250kB?http://blockchain.info/it/block-index/35…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 07, 2013, 12:45:37 PM |
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Inflation-proofing via fraud notices Development & Technical Discussion
I see what you mean now, but it still makes no difference. SPV clients validate…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 07, 2013, 11:23:28 AM |
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Block Size soft-limit maxing out this AM 6/3/13 Development & Technical Discussion
So, despite the block reward being >$1000, and not due for halving until 3.75 ye…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 07, 2013, 06:21:38 AM |
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Bitcoin decentralization myth - is it important? Bitcoin Discussion
Ask your self, can Mt. Gox prevent you from doing a face to face bitcoin exchang…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 07, 2013, 04:54:07 AM |
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Now that we've reached the 250kb soft limit... Development & Technical Discussion
It seems to me the most fair way to decide block size it is to have the block ch…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 06, 2013, 11:55:27 PM |
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Now that we've reached the 250kb soft limit... Development & Technical Discussion
I'm not saying that Bitcoin will shrink, I'm saying that it will reach an equili…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 06, 2013, 11:13:02 PM |
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Soft block size limit reached, action required by YOU Mining
Add an additional .001 optional fee in your client and your transaction will be…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 06, 2013, 10:56:09 PM |
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Lets Build TestNets to simulate the future of Bitcoin and the blocksize Development & Technical Discussion
Actually, rather than a testnet, I'm working on doing a Bitcoin network simulato…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 06, 2013, 05:10:00 PM |
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A new bitcoin testnet3 faucet Development & Technical Discussion
Thanks! It's been useful, sent you 0.1BTC, the real kind.
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 05, 2013, 10:31:35 AM |
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Bitcoin website operators: please consider using Google sign-in Bitcoin Discussion
I'd suggest website operators take a third approach: support Google Authenticato…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 28, 2013, 07:12:59 PM |
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A clean solution to ALL Bitcoin problems: SatoshiDice, Block size, future fees. Development & Technical Discussion
1. fees equal or greater than the average fees of the last 50 blocks are always…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 28, 2013, 12:39:44 PM |
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A clean solution to ALL Bitcoin problems: SatoshiDice, Block size, future fees. Development & Technical Discussion
How does this prevent a miner from creating their own transactions to game the c…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 26, 2013, 03:04:05 PM |
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At any given point in time the entire BTC networks txs are handled by 1 miner Development & Technical Discussion
Regarding the maximum transaction rate, I worked it out using the most efficient…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 26, 2013, 11:38:45 AM |
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Fidelity-bonded banks: decentralized, auditable, private, off-chain payments Bitcoin Discussion
The Intel/AMD stuff isn't secure though yet.Well, security is a spectrum, but re…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 26, 2013, 02:01:09 AM |
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[PATCH] increase block size limit Development & Technical Discussion
This comment concerns me very much. Dust spam may not have economic value when d…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 25, 2013, 03:48:01 PM |
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[PATCH] increase block size limit Development & Technical Discussion
Dust is by definition a transaction output (bitcoin) so small that it is economi…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 25, 2013, 02:45:42 PM |
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How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization Development & Technical Discussion
With full nodes building on trusted computing platform, miners with low bandwidt…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 24, 2013, 11:56:51 AM |
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How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization Development & Technical Discussion
However, I have extracted the transaction counts and they average 1190 each. Loo…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 24, 2013, 11:48:08 AM |
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Fidelity-bonded banks: decentralized, auditable, private, off-chain payments Bitcoin Discussion
By the way, IBMs trusted computing system is pretty much a dead end these days,…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 23, 2013, 04:00:55 PM |
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Fidelity-bonded banks: decentralized, auditable, private, off-chain payments Bitcoin Discussion
I'm not trying to be argumentative, I think Fidelity banks might provide great f…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 23, 2013, 03:26:30 PM |
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Fidelity-bonded banks: decentralized, auditable, private, off-chain payments Bitcoin Discussion
Is it possible for everyone to audit the amount of bitcoin held by the bank and…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 23, 2013, 03:02:19 PM |
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Fidelity-bonded banks: decentralized, auditable, private, off-chain payments Bitcoin Discussion
In my mind off-chain should mean zero fees, since it should be an improvement an…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 23, 2013, 02:37:06 PM |
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Fidelity-bonded banks: decentralized, auditable, private, off-chain payments Bitcoin Discussion
The receiver still has to validate the received funds with the bank, so it isn't…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 23, 2013, 02:21:13 PM |
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Fidelity-bonded banks: decentralized, auditable, private, off-chain payments Bitcoin Discussion
Your idea seems sound to me, although I'm not quite satisfied by your answer wha…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 23, 2013, 02:09:12 PM |
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Fidelity-bonded banks: decentralized, auditable, private, off-chain payments Bitcoin Discussion
For the "Trusted Computing" part, does the bank operator know the bitcoin addres…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 23, 2013, 01:43:24 PM |
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Fidelity-bonded banks: decentralized, auditable, private, off-chain payments Bitcoin Discussion
I wasn't intending to make this so public so soon - I and gmaxwell are still wor…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 23, 2013, 12:49:34 PM |
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I'VE CHANGE MY MIND! Development & Technical Discussion
...also, for more sober experimentation, see block #54512, 0000000010bf4453b170a…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 23, 2013, 01:22:07 AM |
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I'VE CHANGE MY MIND! Development & Technical Discussion
THE MAX BLOCK SIZE MUST BE INCREASED TO AT LEAST 1.7MiB NOW!This is why:Code:(bi…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 23, 2013, 01:19:28 AM |
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Should bitcoin lower the transaction fee? Development & Technical Discussion
This is why losing SatoshiDICE bets are so harmful to the system. You get back…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 22, 2013, 03:18:56 PM |
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Pay to email/host name vanity addresses Development & Technical Discussion
DNS is unauthenticated (1) and we really don't want to give your ISP's sysadmins…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 22, 2013, 07:34:53 AM |
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Bitcoin trades higher than 50% of the companies on NASDAQ in market cap... Speculation
Bitcoin's almost higher than the number of days in ANY month!!!!!!Market cap isn…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 22, 2013, 07:31:07 AM |
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How to compromise SatoshiDice "1dice" private keys (theoretical attack) Development & Technical Discussion
- Delay a random number of milliseconds before sending each payout transaction.-…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 22, 2013, 06:19:23 AM |
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Spending coinbase outputs in the same block? Development & Technical Discussion
Even if you mine the block yourself?In other words, is a block seen as invalid,…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 21, 2013, 02:23:27 PM |
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[SUCCESS] Double Spend against a satoshidice loss Development & Technical Discussion
SIGHASH_ALL is the default so it should work fine.It may be the default, but if…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 21, 2013, 09:34:54 AM |
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[SUCCESS] Double Spend against a satoshidice loss Development & Technical Discussion
Say if you connected to a 1 well connected node (eg slushpool) and used -noliste…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 21, 2013, 08:58:35 AM |
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Finney Attack against SatoshiDice or how to get 250 BTC per solved block. Development & Technical Discussion
its really really easy to double spend against SD because some pools will not mi…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 21, 2013, 01:22:18 AM |
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Why the Bitcoin rules can't change (reading time ~5min) Bitcoin Discussion
He isn't talking about users of bitcoin. he is talking about MINERS. Already min…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 21, 2013, 01:16:32 AM |
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Why the Bitcoin rules can't change (reading time ~5min) Bitcoin Discussion
You're priviledged in your space and bandwith capacity. What about those not so…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 20, 2013, 06:11:18 PM |
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The fork Bitcoin Discussion
Why wouldn't miners reject interactions with miners who set the block size too h…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 20, 2013, 11:29:09 AM |
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The fork Bitcoin Discussion
Isn't part of this whole cool story the tale of the brave defenders of the origi…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 20, 2013, 10:45:14 AM |
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The fork Bitcoin Discussion
Increasing the block size, and especially allowing miners themselves to determin…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 20, 2013, 10:42:16 AM |
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The fork Bitcoin Discussion
An oligopoly is a situation where there are very high barriers to entry. Exactly…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 20, 2013, 09:47:20 AM |
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Coinbase discourages anonymity! Service Discussion
That's true and there are trade-offs. However, since Coinbase is mostly frequent…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 20, 2013, 09:19:08 AM |
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[SUCCESS] Double Spend against a satoshidice loss Development & Technical Discussion
A simple way to fix this issue would be to first only accept bet transactions wh…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 20, 2013, 06:24:52 AM |
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[SUCCESS] Double Spend against a satoshidice loss Development & Technical Discussion
You meant SIGHASH_ALL, right? SIGHASH_NONE is not generated by any client today…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 20, 2013, 09:16:20 AM |
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artificial 250kB limit? Development & Technical Discussion
No, the hard limit has been 1 megabyte forever. Why there is such limit?Because…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 20, 2013, 09:10:34 AM |
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The fork Bitcoin Discussion
Suffice it to say that such large, amazingly outperforming oligolies are extreme…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 20, 2013, 09:06:59 AM |
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The Long Wait for Block Chain Download... Development & Technical Discussion
Startbitcoin.com is now offering the blockchain on DVDs that can be shipped for…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 20, 2013, 08:17:20 AM |
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[ANN] bitcoinj 0.7 released Development & Technical Discussion
You mention on your site that the new "full node" operation is very likely to ha…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 20, 2013, 08:00:18 AM |
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Contest: New name for BFGMiner! (0.33 - 1 BTC prize) Games and rounds |
n/a | Peter Todd | February 19, 2013, 07:53:38 PM |
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artificial 250kB limit? Development & Technical Discussion
Wow. So lets see if I have this right. Only people who use custom hacks ever mad…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 19, 2013, 07:40:19 PM |
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The fork Bitcoin Discussion
I can understand how needing greater bandwidth can cut off a minority of miners.…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 19, 2013, 04:21:53 PM |
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The fork Bitcoin Discussion
Otherwise the basic plan seem to be to pull a bait-and-switch, selling people on…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 19, 2013, 03:44:38 PM |
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How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization Development & Technical Discussion
If you think that the block size should stay at 1 megabyte forever, then you're…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 19, 2013, 11:04:33 AM |
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BIP: Increasing the Network Hashing Power by reducing block propagation time Development & Technical Discussion
You have to be careful with transmitting transaction hash lists rather than the…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 19, 2013, 09:24:19 AM |
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The fork Bitcoin Discussion
retep,I saw in that other thread that you gave quite a bit of thought to how inc…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 19, 2013, 08:42:57 AM |
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BIP: Increasing the Network Hashing Power by reducing block propagation time Development & Technical Discussion
There needs to be some way for people to confirm that transactions are known. M…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 19, 2013, 08:20:58 AM |
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The fork Bitcoin Discussion
Yawn.If the majority of developers feel it is important to change the protocol t…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 19, 2013, 08:03:44 AM |
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BIP: Increasing the Network Hashing Power by reducing block propagation time Development & Technical Discussion
Two pull requests I would like to see, ones that make prototyping this stuff eas…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 19, 2013, 04:34:35 AM |
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How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization Development & Technical Discussion
Please people, understand one thing: you can't run a full payment network used b…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 19, 2013, 04:11:16 AM |
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Satoshi Dice -- Statistical Analysis Service Discussion
I'm a little late today. I've been trying and failing to chop down dead trees f…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 19, 2013, 02:11:01 AM |
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BIP: Increasing the Network Hashing Power by reducing block propagation time Development & Technical Discussion
"header" command format is:- Block header- transactions hash list- Coinbase tran…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 19, 2013, 01:49:52 AM |
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How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization Development & Technical Discussion
However, with no limit on block size, it effectively becomes miners who are in c…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 19, 2013, 01:03:54 AM |
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2013-02-18 newstatesman.com - How Paypal robs the Bank of England Press
QuoteIf you do, things get trickier; the exchanges have had a number of high-pro…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 18, 2013, 05:23:52 PM |
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How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization Development & Technical Discussion
Network assurance contracts are far from a sure thing. It's basically an attempt…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 18, 2013, 04:46:16 PM |
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How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization Development & Technical Discussion
In the absence of a block size cap miners can be supported using network assuran…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 18, 2013, 03:35:12 PM |
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How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization Development & Technical Discussion
RE: lots of code to write if you can't keep up with transaction volume: sure. …
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 18, 2013, 02:45:30 PM |
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How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization Development & Technical Discussion
Half-baked thoughts on the O(N) problem:So, we've got O(T) transactions that hav…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 18, 2013, 02:09:02 PM |
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How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization Development & Technical Discussion
I agree with Gavin, and I don't understand what outcome you're arguing for.You w…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 18, 2013, 01:42:30 PM |
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Does a Request for Comments (RFC) for the Bitcoin protocol exist? Development & Technical Discussion
Of course, I can't think of any projects you've actually created, so I don't hav…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 18, 2013, 01:26:59 PM |
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How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization Development & Technical Discussion
So... I start from "more transactions == more success"I strongly feel that we s…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 18, 2013, 01:08:14 PM |
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How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization Development & Technical Discussion
Wouldn't already a valid header (or even just the hash of that header) be enough…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 18, 2013, 12:28:43 PM |
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Why do people pay fees? Why are free transactions accepted by miners? Development & Technical Discussion
Considering that the network pays a bounty of 25 BTC for a block containing 300…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 18, 2013, 12:11:52 PM |
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Does a Request for Comments (RFC) for the Bitcoin protocol exist? Development & Technical Discussion
Bitcoin Airlines 2012 Annual Report:You can troll all you want, but fundamentall…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 18, 2013, 12:03:24 PM |
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How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization Development & Technical Discussion
This is a re-post of a message I sent to the bitcoin-dev mailing list. There has…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 18, 2013, 11:43:02 AM |
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Applying Ripple Consensus model in Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
If this idea is too controversial, could we first build it as an alarming system…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 18, 2013, 10:39:58 AM |
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Does a Request for Comments (RFC) for the Bitcoin protocol exist? Development & Technical Discussion
So what is the moral of the story above? Standards are tools (like axes), they c…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 18, 2013, 10:32:47 AM |
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Does a Request for Comments (RFC) for the Bitcoin protocol exist? Development & Technical Discussion
In any case, for everyone who thinks an RFC or similar specification document is…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 18, 2013, 03:46:52 AM |
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Applying Ripple Consensus model in Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
Retep makes no direct comment on my proposal. I'd like to know what he thinksPro…
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n/a | Peter Todd | February 15, 2013, 07:03:13 AM |
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