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merged mining vs side-chains (another kind of merged mining) Development & Technical Discussion
Don't CampBX and Mpex support short selling already?OTOH, short selling requires…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 21, 2013, 07:25:06 AM |
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MasterCoin: New Protocol Layer Starting From “The Exodus Address” Altcoin Discussion
Again, thanks for the additional information. Reflecting on your suggestions fo…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 21, 2013, 07:18:55 AM |
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Testnet script which does not follow basic chunking rules... Development & Technical Discussion
I was under the impression that there were some basic chunking encoding rules (e…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 21, 2013, 06:46:48 AM |
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Testnet script which does not follow basic chunking rules... Development & Technical Discussion
There's nothing in Bitcoin that checks the contents of a scriptPubKey until some…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 21, 2013, 06:36:49 AM |
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merged mining vs side-chains (another kind of merged mining) Development & Technical Discussion
killerstorm: https://github.com/petertodd/decentralized-consensus-systems.git
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 21, 2013, 05:39:11 AM |
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merged mining vs side-chains (another kind of merged mining) Development & Technical Discussion
I think 99% of these arguments would go away if we had a simple library and some…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 21, 2013, 05:13:59 AM |
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MasterCoin: New Protocol Layer Starting From “The Exodus Address” Altcoin Discussion
You're on the right track, although be warned... All the same, I hope this helps…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 21, 2013, 05:02:54 AM |
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MasterCoin: New Protocol Layer Starting From “The Exodus Address” Altcoin Discussion
Another option is to ask bitcoin foundation to allow msc data transaction. li…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 21, 2013, 04:55:50 AM |
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[ANN] Bitmsg - A Proof-of-Sacrifice distributed messaging layer over Bitcoin Project Development
You may find this post on generating valid-looking pubkeys that hide data intere…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 20, 2013, 09:11:56 PM |
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MasterCoin: New Protocol Layer Starting From “The Exodus Address” Altcoin Discussion
I ran up 20,000 compressed pubkeys from random, then used the last byte rotation…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 20, 2013, 08:11:42 PM |
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Colored coins VS Mastercoins - Which one is better? Bitcoin Discussion
The only thing Coloredcoin or Mastercoin have in common is that they both will d…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 20, 2013, 05:13:55 PM |
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Reducing UTXO: users send parent transactions with their merkle branches Development & Technical Discussion
We were discussing this issue the other day on IRC actually; I've got an idea ca…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 19, 2013, 06:40:17 PM |
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CoinJoin: Bitcoin privacy for the real world Development & Technical Discussion
It works pretty well, although currently there's a serious privacy problem becau…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 19, 2013, 05:46:49 PM |
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Blockchain.info - Bitcoin Block explorer & Currency Statistics Web Wallets
Only if you are mixing with other users who want to send different amounts. When…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 19, 2013, 04:58:52 PM |
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merged mining vs side-chains Development & Technical Discussion
Now let's compared these side-chains to "parasitic consensus systems" which were…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 18, 2013, 08:00:06 PM |
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Momentum Proof-of-Work Bitcoin Discussion
Yes it is very simple and elegant After the Fact... but I have posted bounties…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 18, 2013, 07:07:00 PM |
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Time for another testnet reset? Development & Technical Discussion
I just wasted 20 minutes of my time reading through this thread without noticing…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 18, 2013, 12:45:08 PM |
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[ANN] Bitmsg - A Proof-of-Sacrifice distributed messaging layer over Bitcoin Project Development
Yeah, long-term data storage on the blockchain will never be a day-to-day backup…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 18, 2013, 12:04:49 PM |
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[ANN] Bitmsg - A Proof-of-Sacrifice distributed messaging layer over Bitcoin Project Development
Another thought: make Bitmsg pay at least slightly over the 0.0001BTC/KB minimum…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 18, 2013, 10:04:40 AM |
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MasterCoin: New Protocol Layer Starting From “The Exodus Address” Altcoin Discussion
I'd use the word symbiotic rather than parasitic, since I believe we'll be good…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 18, 2013, 04:04:06 AM |
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[ANN] Bitmsg - A Proof-of-Sacrifice distributed messaging layer over Bitcoin Project Development
Well, if messages are encrypted it would be hard for anyone contributing to the…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 18, 2013, 03:11:55 AM |
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HD wallets for increased transaction privacy [split from CoinJoin thread] Development & Technical Discussion
Of course all this stuff is really assuming that blockchain space remains cheap…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 17, 2013, 10:52:48 PM |
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HD wallets for increased transaction privacy [split from CoinJoin thread] Development & Technical Discussion
Sure, I understand that, but then you're back to wondering - how many keys shoul…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 17, 2013, 07:27:11 PM |
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USB block erupters are now useless. $5 - $7 each. Mining speculation
Has anyone come up with something else to do with them once they truly are usele…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 17, 2013, 11:13:28 AM |
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HD wallets for increased transaction privacy [split from CoinJoin thread] Development & Technical Discussion
Why not just generate addresses from HDseed+blockheight/n, where n is some small…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 17, 2013, 09:39:47 AM |
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[ANN] Bitmsg - A Proof-of-Sacrifice distributed messaging layer over Bitcoin Project Development
Sarchar: Oh, and one more thing: I outlined a scheme of mine on #bitcoin-wizards…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 17, 2013, 09:20:56 AM |
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[ANN] Bitmsg - A Proof-of-Sacrifice distributed messaging layer over Bitcoin Project Development
Sarchar: Something I was thinking about yesterday is how messaging and data dist…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 17, 2013, 09:08:24 AM |
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Namecoin was stillborn, I had to switch off life-support Altcoin Discussion
I'm not sure that a block chain is required at allWhat prevents double-transfer…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 15, 2013, 08:01:18 PM |
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Proof of Storage to make distributed resource consumption costly. Development & Technical Discussion
The timing comment leaves me feeling a bit confused. I don't hope to prevent ou…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 15, 2013, 06:03:39 PM |
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Namecoin was stillborn, I had to switch off life-support Altcoin Discussion
Is there such a thing as a thin client DNS server? I can't think of any way to s…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 15, 2013, 03:49:34 PM |
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HD wallets for increased transaction privacy [split from CoinJoin thread] Development & Technical Discussion
The only reliable solution is to source your coins in small values, so you don't…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 15, 2013, 02:04:11 PM |
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Namecoin was stillborn, I had to switch off life-support Altcoin Discussion
If your threat model included nation-state level attackers, your only chance of…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 15, 2013, 01:57:56 PM |
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[ANN] Bitmsg - A Proof-of-Sacrifice distributed messaging layer over Bitcoin Project Development
Cool!FWIW BitMessage has decent ECC encryption implemented for its messages; you…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 15, 2013, 12:16:12 PM |
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Namecoin was stillborn, I had to switch off life-support Altcoin Discussion
One issue I could see with implementing NMC on top of BTC is future scalability.…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 15, 2013, 10:13:24 AM |
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Namecoin was stillborn, I had to switch off life-support Altcoin Discussion
I'm not sure that a block chain is required at allWhat prevents double-transfer…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 15, 2013, 09:55:12 AM |
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bitcoin.org and sourceforge.net are not running on https Development & Technical Discussion
I think Peter asked people to include their PGP key fingerprint on the slides fo…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 13, 2013, 04:20:21 PM |
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Selectively choosing transactions to be included in a block Development & Technical Discussion
Can you explain why there is an increased orphan risk due to the mintxfee settin…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 13, 2013, 10:04:50 AM |
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Selectively choosing transactions to be included in a block Development & Technical Discussion
Hi,can anyone tell me if the current bitcoind RPC interface allows for selective…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 12, 2013, 10:10:41 PM |
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[ANN] Bitmsg - A simple utility to send and receive encrypted Bitcoin messages Project Development
Another trick is to use the low-order-bits of the txout value to signal which PU…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 10, 2013, 09:30:35 AM |
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[ANN] Bitmsg - A simple utility to send and receive encrypted Bitcoin messages Project Development
Well, I'll be damned. The relevant code is in script.cpp Solver():Code: …
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 10, 2013, 05:28:45 AM |
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[ANN] Bitmsg - A simple utility to send and receive encrypted Bitcoin messages Project Development
Look at the IsStandard() function in script.cpp - a pubkey in the standard trans…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 10, 2013, 04:10:39 AM |
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[ANN] Bitmsg - A simple utility to send and receive encrypted Bitcoin messages Project Development
Up to 3 pubkeys, but a pubkey can be any data from 33 to 120 bytes long. (what's…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 09, 2013, 05:49:13 PM |
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[ANN] Bitmsg - A simple utility to send and receive encrypted Bitcoin messages Project Development
You'll find you can get longer and cheaper messages by (ab)using CHECKMULTISIG.A…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 09, 2013, 02:03:43 PM |
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Deterministic Usage of DSA and ECDSA Digital Signature Algorithms (RFC 6979) Development & Technical Discussion
Quoteif you look at the current code in git master, it just subtracts order/2 wh…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 08, 2013, 10:07:43 AM |
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Attackers had backdoor code in the forum for the last 2 years? Meta
Fascinating bit of timing there - Ulbricht's lawyers could very well try to clai…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 08, 2013, 08:17:23 AM |
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FAQ on the payment protocol Bitcoin Discussion
You understood my point perfectly well. You can become your own CA for much less…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 07, 2013, 09:49:16 AM |
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FAQ on the payment protocol Bitcoin Discussion
QuoteQuoteIt's a free market for providers that are unified by common cryptograp…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 07, 2013, 07:17:28 AM |
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FAQ on the payment protocol Bitcoin Discussion
Perhaps it would be a good idea to specify a decentralized example. PGP comes t…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 07, 2013, 04:00:39 AM |
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Setting tx fee manually MultiBit
There are a few other reasons why transactions can take a while - it is not just…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 02, 2013, 12:26:23 PM |
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Setting tx fee manually MultiBit
This is a bit more like it !You can fork the MB code, set bounties, have assuran…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 01, 2013, 05:26:57 PM |
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on average, how much HD space does bitcoin-qt consume per day Development & Technical Discussion
Of course, lots of people don't see that as a problem at all: Mike Hearn has sai…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 01, 2013, 05:19:29 PM |
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Armory - Discussion Thread Armory
As an Armory user who'd absolutely love to see a new release out with lower reso…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 01, 2013, 05:03:09 PM |
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Setting tx fee manually MultiBit
So, are you telling me there is no user friendly way to change the fee?If so (wi…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 01, 2013, 03:32:41 PM |
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on average, how much HD space does bitcoin-qt consume per day Development & Technical Discussion
Wait, so you've managed to come up with a way for SPV nodes to satisfyingly veri…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 01, 2013, 03:15:15 PM |
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Once again, what about the scalability issue? Bitcoin Discussion
Oreally! That is interesting. I only looked at Litecoin early on and have live…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 01, 2013, 12:54:08 PM |
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Setting tx fee manually MultiBit
This is the minimum tx structure being accepted by the network currently. Your t…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 01, 2013, 12:42:19 PM |
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on average, how much HD space does bitcoin-qt consume per day Development & Technical Discussion
caveden: You can audit the sourcecode in pieces, and there are plenty of people…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 01, 2013, 12:27:28 PM |
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Once again, what about the scalability issue? Bitcoin Discussion
The thing I was referring to was not block chain compression (that's not making…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 01, 2013, 12:08:19 PM |
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on average, how much HD space does bitcoin-qt consume per day Development & Technical Discussion
caveden: You can audit the sourcecode in pieces, and there are plenty of people…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 01, 2013, 06:16:31 AM |
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FAQ on the payment protocol Bitcoin Discussion
My point is that while mass keysigning parties and magic trust in the "strong se…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 01, 2013, 06:06:23 AM |
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Going forward: MultiBit HD and MultiBit Classic MultiBit
Of course there are good reasons. Most obviously, you want to frequently update…
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n/a | Peter Todd | October 01, 2013, 05:51:57 AM |
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FAQ on the payment protocol Bitcoin Discussion
How about requesting the 2 or more certificates from different CAs? That makes a…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 30, 2013, 03:17:13 PM |
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Going forward: MultiBit HD and MultiBit Classic MultiBit
The HD seed will be very useful to make "HD wallet specific stuff" yes but it se…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 30, 2013, 03:09:25 PM |
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Going forward: MultiBit HD and MultiBit Classic MultiBit
I figure if we have all of:+ HD wallets only with strong insistence to write you…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 30, 2013, 01:44:20 PM |
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Once again, what about the scalability issue? Bitcoin Discussion
Can we stop spreading incorrect information please?MultiBit does not rely on a t…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 30, 2013, 01:28:31 PM |
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FAQ on the payment protocol Bitcoin Discussion
I think Mike's point is that any key in the WoT that became widely known enough…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 30, 2013, 12:29:21 PM |
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FAQ on the payment protocol Bitcoin Discussion
(Mike Perry's) description of the WoT as being a "quasi-religious hacker ritual"…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 30, 2013, 11:55:02 AM |
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Trezor developer coordination Hardware wallets
Mea culpa.I put some thought into doing P2P data storeage awhile ago; if the dat…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 29, 2013, 06:21:41 PM |
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Trezor developer coordination Hardware wallets
you'll need to make sure your users use a cryptographically strong password - at…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 29, 2013, 07:30:29 AM |
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Trezor developer coordination Hardware wallets
Mike, do you mean that users would maintain a small P2P filesharing network only…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 29, 2013, 07:06:09 AM |
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The Bitcoin Foundation has added protecting decentralization to its bylaws Bitcoin Discussion
It isn't in any way a rule, but a statement that they support decentralization.S…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 29, 2013, 01:13:15 AM |
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The Bitcoin Foundation has added protecting decentralization to its bylaws Bitcoin Discussion
One way or another, the bylaws are just words on a piece of paper, and the conce…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 28, 2013, 11:01:21 PM |
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Will the Trezor wallet be able to store multiple private keys or just one? Development & Technical Discussion
You can use the same private keys for multiple alt currencies: https://bitcointa…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 28, 2013, 10:42:01 PM |
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The Bitcoin Foundation has added protecting decentralization to its bylaws Bitcoin Discussion
tl;dr: The following language was added to the bylaws to make it clear that the…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 27, 2013, 04:39:08 PM |
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fair coin toss with no extortion and no need to trust a third party Development & Technical Discussion
For anti-coercion refund transactions, you actually want them to _not_ be in the…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 27, 2013, 01:59:09 PM |
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[Fundraising 195btc] Finish “Ultimate blockchain compression” Project Development
The performance cost of SHA256^2 compared to SHA256 is a lot less than 2. Heck,…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 27, 2013, 03:29:29 AM |
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Invoices/Payments/Receipts proposal discussion Development & Technical Discussion
Really? It seems like a significant limitation/oversight if this is intended to…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 26, 2013, 01:10:49 PM |
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Instant confirmation, call it "confirmed-by-owner" Development & Technical Discussion
No one is realistically going to orchestrate a double-spend or MitM attack to ge…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 26, 2013, 03:14:36 PM |
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Salvaging refund protocols from malleability attacks with P2SH Development & Technical Discussion
FWIW jl2012 almost described what you just described, except he didn't make it e…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 26, 2013, 02:03:36 PM |
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Instant confirmation, call it "confirmed-by-owner" Development & Technical Discussion
In the end we if we can come up with a set of rules to accept 0 conf payments wi…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 26, 2013, 01:29:08 PM |
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[Fundraising 195btc] Finish “Ultimate blockchain compression” Project Development
You can't assume that slowing down block propagation is a bad thing for a miner.…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 26, 2013, 01:05:34 PM |
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Invoices/Payments/Receipts proposal discussion Development & Technical Discussion
Are there any restrictions on a payment request (signed or unsigned) being modif…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 26, 2013, 12:11:42 PM |
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[Fundraising 195btc] Finish “Ultimate blockchain compression” Project Development
To be clear, I'm not sure that example would have the effect you're imagining. C…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 26, 2013, 06:42:54 AM |
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[Fundraising 195btc] Finish “Ultimate blockchain compression” Project Development
(Note that a very simple optimization prevents this from being an onerous requir…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 25, 2013, 03:41:15 PM |
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FAQ on the payment protocol Bitcoin Discussion
Mike thank you for the explanation.Unfortunately I don't have time to dig deep e…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 25, 2013, 02:01:26 PM |
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FAQ on the payment protocol Bitcoin Discussion
For big online merchants, the customers could sign the shop's public key in proc…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 25, 2013, 01:49:34 PM |
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FAQ on the payment protocol Bitcoin Discussion
Cut-thru paymentsA future version of the payment protocol can allow the receiver…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 24, 2013, 08:00:49 PM |
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FAQ on the payment protocol Bitcoin Discussion
It just sounds too complicated. Raised level of complexity normally will have un…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 24, 2013, 04:21:47 PM |
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FAQ on the payment protocol Bitcoin Discussion
Cut-thru paymentsA future version of the payment protocol can allow the receiver…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 24, 2013, 03:56:14 PM |
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FAQ on the payment protocol Bitcoin Discussion
Right, thanks for the correction. In the first deployment wallets will still be…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 24, 2013, 03:34:30 PM |
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FAQ on the payment protocol Bitcoin Discussion
Yes, thezerg has it right. But I really wish people would back up arguments abou…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 24, 2013, 02:29:41 PM |
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FAQ on the payment protocol Bitcoin Discussion
Adding OpenPGP to the payment protocolSo you want to use the OpenPGP WoT to auth…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 24, 2013, 02:19:23 PM |
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Poker and the shared pot at the table in a decentralised network Development & Technical Discussion
QixCoin is salable and performant (the block-chain is NOT cluttered with ZNPs).…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 24, 2013, 12:19:54 PM |
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Invoices/Payments/Receipts proposal discussion Development & Technical Discussion
Meh, you already trust SSL whenever you copy a Bitcoin address off of a SSL-prot…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 24, 2013, 11:49:05 AM |
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Invoices/Payments/Receipts proposal discussion Development & Technical Discussion
I think anything that Google (MS or any other such company) suggests would not b…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 24, 2013, 11:17:15 AM |
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Invoices/Payments/Receipts proposal discussion Development & Technical Discussion
Is anyone concerned about root authority, now that it is being discussed that NS…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 24, 2013, 10:28:43 AM |
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Coin melting: how hide transactions from network analysis Bitcoin Discussion
HDD speed, CPU speed, and how well connected you *AND* your peers are, in roughl…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 24, 2013, 08:58:03 AM |
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Entropy source for smartphone or HW wallet Development & Technical Discussion
Asking for camera privilege has some privacy concern. Combining other standard A…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 23, 2013, 06:20:29 AM |
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OFFICIAL LAUNCH: New Protocol Layer Starting From “The Exodus Address” Altcoin Discussion
Well, retep's report will likely recommend something "controversial", like a mor…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 23, 2013, 05:32:31 AM |
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Coin melting: how hide transactions from network analysis Bitcoin Discussion
This might be a bit off topic but I'm actually quite curious about this analysis…
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n/a | Peter Todd | September 23, 2013, 05:13:53 AM |
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