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Who is creating non-DER signatures? Development & Technical Discussion
Why not simply declare certain deviations from DER as valid in Bitcoin transacti…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 15, 2013, 06:01:25 PM |
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Who is creating non-DER signatures? Development & Technical Discussion
What about introducing a soft fork rule that those transactions can only be inco…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 15, 2013, 03:52:37 AM |
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Blocking uneconomic UTXO creation Pools
Does the patch allow 0 value tx? These don't have to be spent but can be pruned…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 15, 2013, 08:53:49 AM |
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Blocking the creation of outputs that don't make economic sense to spend Development & Technical Discussion
Isn't there a way of doing this without touching the UTXO space? Some kind of fl…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 15, 2013, 08:43:27 AM |
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Zerocoin: Anonymous Distributed E-Cash from Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
people have very different emotional reactions to privacy (good!) vs anonymity (…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 15, 2013, 08:06:04 AM |
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Satoshi's Fortune lower bound is 100M USD(DEBATE GOING ON, DO NOT TWEET!) Bitcoin Discussion
So who's making FUD ?The sheer intensity of this thread puzzles me.Lets assume y…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 14, 2013, 08:27:39 PM |
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Funding network security in the future Development & Technical Discussion
Also, if someone wants to add a section to the wiki on non-proof-of-work forms o…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 14, 2013, 06:25:35 PM |
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Funding network security in the future Development & Technical Discussion
Mike locked his original thread unfortunately, so I thought it would be good to…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 14, 2013, 06:12:09 PM |
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Satoshi's Fortune lower bound is 100M USD Bitcoin Discussion
BTW all this crap about 32 hash bits etc is irrelevant. When did Sergio go batsh…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 14, 2013, 07:15:30 AM |
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Funding of network security with infinite block sizes Development & Technical Discussion
Mike: please explain how what you are proposing is an assurance contract, by the…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 14, 2013, 07:04:43 AM |
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Funding of network security with infinite block sizes Development & Technical Discussion
Re-wrote the wiki page with corrections, as well as expanded on the material to…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 14, 2013, 05:30:02 AM |
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Alternate methods of blockheader distribution Development & Technical Discussion
You should do this but also offer a digital signature on what you see as the hig…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 14, 2013, 12:59:51 AM |
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Alternate methods of blockheader distribution Development & Technical Discussion
I got around to releasing the source code for the twitter thing: https://github.…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 13, 2013, 09:21:42 PM |
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Funding of network security with infinite block sizes Development & Technical Discussion
It seems that you can get the same effect without OP_RETURN by having a transact…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 12, 2013, 03:27:06 PM |
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Blocking the creation of outputs that don't make economic sense to spend Development & Technical Discussion
Well, at present, people are uploading wikileaks data, GPG encrypted data, pytho…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 12, 2013, 12:51:05 AM |
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Fidelity-bonds for trust free mixers Development & Technical Discussion
Trust free mixers have the problem that you need to trust the mixer to not revea…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 09, 2013, 11:50:04 PM |
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Creating an "official" protocol specification for the Bitcoin internet currency Development & Technical Discussion
An alt client which implements the 95% of the network rules would probably be fu…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 09, 2013, 09:11:13 PM |
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Creating an "official" protocol specification for the Bitcoin internet currency Development & Technical Discussion
What is the core problem that bitcoin solves? The distributed consensus problem…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 09, 2013, 03:15:22 PM |
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Using bitcoin for trusted timestamping? Development & Technical Discussion
retep: You can always pad the git ID with 24 zeroes to get it 256bit:Here is the…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 09, 2013, 07:28:24 AM |
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Using bitcoin for trusted timestamping? Development & Technical Discussion
You should make it possible to timestamp short strings as well. For instance it'…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 09, 2013, 05:13:19 AM |
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Funding of network security with infinite block sizes Development & Technical Discussion
What is Plan B if just trusting miners/merchants/users to do the right thing doe…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 06, 2013, 02:53:03 PM |
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To Fee or not to Fee Development & Technical Discussion
I changed my timestamper to set nLockTime on every transaction it creates to the…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 06, 2013, 07:13:37 AM |
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Funding of network security with infinite block sizes Development & Technical Discussion
I think this shows great consideration and judgement because I note and emphasiz…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 06, 2013, 03:55:39 AM |
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[ANN Mt.Gox] It’s been an epic few days: What happened? Service Announcements
+1 to the private UDP broadcast idea.Further, there has been talk off and on (by…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 06, 2013, 03:34:49 AM |
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Funding of network security with infinite block sizes Development & Technical Discussion
Of course that services have a strong interest in staying on the branch that's m…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 05, 2013, 06:10:39 AM |
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2013-03-29 Mastercard Insights blog: Bitcoin, Sovereigns and the End Times Press
I have no idea if that is technically possible, but could a lightweight bitcoin…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 05, 2013, 02:17:19 AM |
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Funding of network security with infinite block sizes Development & Technical Discussion
Well, one thing seems clear to me by now. No amount of continued arguments will…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 05, 2013, 01:57:03 AM |
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Funding of network security with infinite block sizes Development & Technical Discussion
Accepting this as true, for which you present a strong case in your thread on tr…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 04, 2013, 05:40:07 AM |
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Funding of network security with infinite block sizes Development & Technical Discussion
Assuming equivalent UIs, what theoretical advantages to your third party off-cha…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 03, 2013, 06:21:23 PM |
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Funding of network security with infinite block sizes Development & Technical Discussion
Peter, what is your opinion here:Should complementary off-chain solutions develo…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 03, 2013, 02:39:35 PM |
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Funding of network security with infinite block sizes Development & Technical Discussion
You know, it says a lot when your opponents resort to attacking you rather than…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 03, 2013, 02:07:31 PM |
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Funding of network security with infinite block sizes Development & Technical Discussion
Not much?In the event that some jurisdictions with aggressive regulators try to…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 02, 2013, 07:36:10 PM |
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Funding of network security with infinite block sizes Development & Technical Discussion
Mike, lets suppose for a second that I am correct, and Tor bandwidth and other a…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 02, 2013, 06:28:47 PM |
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Funding of network security with infinite block sizes Development & Technical Discussion
That requires collusion, though, just like a 51% attack. Any attacker that can c…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 02, 2013, 04:22:33 PM |
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Funding of network security with infinite block sizes Development & Technical Discussion
...which means an attacker has strong incentives to buy, rent, or coerce hashing…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 02, 2013, 03:56:41 PM |
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Funding of network security with infinite block sizes Development & Technical Discussion
... so the arguments to keep the blocksize small to allow for anonymous mining a…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 02, 2013, 03:24:24 PM |
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Funding of network security with infinite block sizes Development & Technical Discussion
Guys we really need some semblance of a solution forming. I have a feeling it wi…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 02, 2013, 03:01:09 PM |
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Alternate methods of blockheader distribution Development & Technical Discussion
The fundamental security assumption of bitcoin is that information is easy to co…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 01, 2013, 12:20:48 PM |
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465k Transaction... Development & Technical Discussion
Holy crap... they have $1000 in coins, and they spend $300 to send $700... yikes…
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n/a | Peter Todd | April 01, 2013, 10:15:04 AM |
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Scalability - because it's good to have stretch goals Development & Technical Discussion
Bitcoin was released with a 32MiB blocksize limitCool! Do you realize this is ex…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 29, 2013, 04:58:40 AM |
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Scalability - because it's good to have stretch goals Development & Technical Discussion
I'd say implement the technical measures, then think about taking off the traini…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 28, 2013, 06:07:57 PM |
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Is a 0 confirmation double spend for retail possible? Development & Technical Discussion
A double-spend would be pretty easy if the purchase transaction was sent without…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 28, 2013, 05:58:03 PM |
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Scalability - because it's good to have stretch goals Development & Technical Discussion
When Bitcoin was first released it had no specific limit on the block size. This…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 28, 2013, 05:45:18 PM |
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Scalability - because it's good to have stretch goals Development & Technical Discussion
Alright, lets hear your list of such industries.Not until I see some reciprocity…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 28, 2013, 05:42:07 PM |
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Scalability - because it's good to have stretch goals Development & Technical Discussion
I could go on all day citing examples of industries that are difficult and expen…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 28, 2013, 05:06:31 PM |
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The minimum transfer fee is not trivial anymore Development & Technical Discussion
Basically, they're saying that as the block sizes continue to increase due to in…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 28, 2013, 01:49:59 PM |
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Funding of network security with infinite block sizes Development & Technical Discussion
I don't see that you've shown something I missed (not trying to be sarcastic). I…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 28, 2013, 01:43:27 PM |
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Funding of network security with infinite block sizes Development & Technical Discussion
Hang on a second. Am I missing something? I don't think miners need a hard block…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 28, 2013, 01:31:31 PM |
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Funding of network security with infinite block sizes Development & Technical Discussion
If you're holding Bitcoins but not spending them, you're still using the service…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 28, 2013, 11:21:38 AM |
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Decentralised crime fighting using private set intersection protocols Development & Technical Discussion
Thus, in this case, the taint is useless.It gets better than that: the tainted c…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 28, 2013, 11:03:03 AM |
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Is a 0 confirmation double spend for retail possible? Development & Technical Discussion
off-chain doesn't necessarily have to be a trusted third party, though at the mo…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 28, 2013, 09:23:43 AM |
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[Proposal] A Massive Effort to Pay Back the BTC debts owed by scammer Matthew N. Bitcoin Discussion
Quotewho lost a ton of moneyWhat? As far as i know no one sent money to matthew…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 27, 2013, 07:22:51 PM |
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Open Letter to Instawallet Service Discussion
That's enough grandstanding, TheFounder. Kicking and screaming is going to push…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 27, 2013, 03:11:01 PM |
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Idea: Subchains with only a legal, not technical, connection to the blockchain Development & Technical Discussion
Did you see my post about fidelity-bonded ledgers on the bitcoin-development ema…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 24, 2013, 03:34:00 PM |
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Add user interface to set dust limit and filtered addresses Development & Technical Discussion
I didn't know 0 value outputs exist. What purpose do they serve?There are only t…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 24, 2013, 03:16:10 PM |
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Decentralised crime fighting using private set intersection protocols Development & Technical Discussion
That seems disingenuous. What do small blocks do to prevent coin blacklists fro…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 24, 2013, 03:09:08 PM |
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Decentralised crime fighting using private set intersection protocols Development & Technical Discussion
An outlaw currency is not even useful to outlaws. So that would be the end of Bi…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 24, 2013, 03:03:45 PM |
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Decentralised crime fighting using private set intersection protocols Development & Technical Discussion
A comment in the Reddit post that sums it up:http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/com…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 24, 2013, 02:54:32 PM |
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Decentralised crime fighting using private set intersection protocols Development & Technical Discussion
"A pack of wolves and a flock of sheep voting on what's for dinner" is the phras…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 24, 2013, 06:55:37 AM |
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Hard fork, which road will you take? (poll) Bitcoin Discussion
If a BitCoin fork emerges with a sensical tx fee system (or no damn tx fee at al…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 24, 2013, 03:04:23 AM |
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Hard fork, which road will you take? (poll) Bitcoin Discussion
For scaling, I favor alternate end-user solutions which are welcome to, and prob…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 24, 2013, 02:18:35 AM |
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Funding of network security with infinite block sizes Development & Technical Discussion
That said, I note that the alternative proposal (restrict block size and charge…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 23, 2013, 09:09:31 PM |
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Decentralised crime fighting using private set intersection protocols Development & Technical Discussion
It will anyway be countered by more advanced mixers and in the end will not be e…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 23, 2013, 10:30:05 PM |
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coinbase transaction when block reward is 0 Development & Technical Discussion
A corner case to keep in mind if we ever want to prohibit zero value outputs!Ha,…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 23, 2013, 09:10:43 PM |
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coinbase transaction when block reward is 0 Development & Technical Discussion
Blocks are already valid with the coinbase reward set to 0 - the reward is allow…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 23, 2013, 06:45:37 PM |
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How to send BitCoins with LOW TX FEE (Not No TX Fee) Development & Technical Discussion
Interesting - does this apply to both "sides" of the tx (i.e. the input UTXOs an…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 23, 2013, 04:23:54 AM |
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How to send BitCoins with LOW TX FEE (Not No TX Fee) Development & Technical Discussion
The code you quoted sets nMinFee to zero if there is space left in the current b…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 23, 2013, 04:15:41 AM |
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2013-03-23 Quantum computing nearing realization Off-topic
The specific type of quantum computer D-Wave has developed can-not solve cryptog…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 23, 2013, 04:09:33 AM |
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How to send BitCoins with LOW TX FEE (Not No TX Fee) Development & Technical Discussion
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/main.cpp#L574
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 23, 2013, 04:07:18 AM |
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How to send BitCoins with LOW TX FEE (Not No TX Fee) Development & Technical Discussion
Read the code, not some wiki.Priority is only used if the minimum fee is zero. I…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 23, 2013, 03:58:03 AM |
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How to send BitCoins with LOW TX FEE (Not No TX Fee) Development & Technical Discussion
Not if aged, if aged long enough no fees are force, or even needed. This is prev…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 23, 2013, 03:42:20 AM |
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How to send BitCoins with LOW TX FEE (Not No TX Fee) Development & Technical Discussion
They send it once a day, probably other external funds that are aged.That's not…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 23, 2013, 03:31:11 AM |
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How to send BitCoins with LOW TX FEE (Not No TX Fee) Development & Technical Discussion
Well...how the fuck are all these other PTC/Faucets doing it without running a 1…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 23, 2013, 03:26:51 AM |
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How to send BitCoins with LOW TX FEE (Not No TX Fee) Development & Technical Discussion
So... No solution as of yet has been proposed and the 1000% fee is .... not work…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 23, 2013, 03:15:08 AM |
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SatoshiDICE: Win Bitcoins while stress testing the network! (Reddit ad) Service Discussion
Bitcoin must handle 100x SatoshiDice. What happens if a nefarious group decides…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 22, 2013, 01:50:55 PM |
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So bitzino and any tx's off the blockchain are now money transmitters Legal
Thought #2: I can use remote attestation capable trusted computing hardware to p…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 20, 2013, 01:14:27 PM |
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So bitzino and any tx's off the blockchain are now money transmitters Legal
Does this mean all wallet services at all are money transmitters?Take blockchain…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 20, 2013, 01:02:43 PM |
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Is the 21 million bitcoin limit unchangeable? Development & Technical Discussion
That's not quite true. Version 1.0 didn't have a 1MB limit, but instead used the…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 19, 2013, 10:38:56 AM |
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Poll, FinCEN Guidance, Good or Bad? Bitcoin Discussion
QuoteA person that creates units of this convertible virtual currency and uses i…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 19, 2013, 02:57:13 AM |
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UTXO set size does not increase storage costs, you just suck at computer science Development & Technical Discussion
Or maybe there is some sort of game-theoretic advantage to broadcasting the tran…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 18, 2013, 12:33:42 PM |
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2013-03-18 Wired: Ring of Bitcoins: Why Your Digital Wallet Belongs ... Press
Great idea, great PR. However skipping just one digit from the ring won't stop p…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 18, 2013, 09:02:52 AM |
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How to force a rule change by bloating the UTXO set Development & Technical Discussion
Read my top few messages.
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 18, 2013, 07:57:08 AM |
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How to force a rule change by bloating the UTXO set Development & Technical Discussion
Unfortunately it could be up to 2016 blocks before the difficulty resets. And e…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 18, 2013, 02:45:25 AM |
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Is the 21 million bitcoin limit unchangeable? Development & Technical Discussion
How was I "not quite true"? Because I didn't bother to specify details? Was I…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 18, 2013, 12:58:32 AM |
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Is the 21 million bitcoin limit unchangeable? Development & Technical Discussion
My view is that the association is silly. The max_blocksize rule was added by S…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 18, 2013, 12:40:33 AM |
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How to force a rule change by bloating the UTXO set Development & Technical Discussion
You suggest the current 1M limit will allow UTXO grows by 52GB per year at most,…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 17, 2013, 09:57:39 PM |
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Block #225430 chain fork dataset available Development & Technical Discussion
You are right, I should read the code indeed. A protocol defined in the code rat…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 17, 2013, 06:50:56 PM |
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[ANN] bcflick - using TPM's and Trusted Computing to strengthen Bitcoin wallets Development & Technical Discussion
One quick question - I didn't think TPMs have a secure clock. Did I just miss th…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 17, 2013, 05:13:52 PM |
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How to force a rule change by bloating the UTXO set Development & Technical Discussion
Don't get me wrong, I think there should be a specific UTXO growth limit just li…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 17, 2013, 04:54:36 PM |
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Block #225430 chain fork dataset available Development & Technical Discussion
2. It is beyond belief that validity of a block could be decided by such impleme…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 17, 2013, 03:15:09 PM |
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How to force a rule change by bloating the UTXO set Development & Technical Discussion
As we increase the max block size, we may have a UTXO index, which is the total…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 17, 2013, 02:56:44 PM |
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Is the 21 million bitcoin limit unchangeable? Development & Technical Discussion
Gavin's quote is talking about "pressure" from the amount of transactions these…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 16, 2013, 12:37:09 PM |
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Dangerous precedents set on March 12 2013 Bitcoin Discussion
Satoshis paper makes no mention of a one megabyte block size limit.Or a non-infl…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 16, 2013, 01:17:14 PM |
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Is the 21 million bitcoin limit unchangeable? Development & Technical Discussion
Of course that assumes that the economic majority do want to backtrack to and/or…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 16, 2013, 03:53:19 AM |
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Call non-pool miners 'block submitters' instead of 'miners' Mining
I like the term "hashers" myself, short and simple.
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 15, 2013, 03:21:54 PM |
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How to force a rule change by bloating the UTXO set Development & Technical Discussion
I'll refer the religious capitalist wonks to my earlier post on the nature of Bi…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 15, 2013, 11:46:39 AM |
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Decentralized networks for instant, off-chain payments Development & Technical Discussion
Cool! Also I'm seconding jgarzik's demand to see a demo.
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 15, 2013, 11:36:55 AM |
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How to force a rule change by bloating the UTXO set Development & Technical Discussion
And that, kids, is why every hobbyist wants at least one Google-style portable d…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 15, 2013, 12:08:02 AM |
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How to force a rule change by bloating the UTXO set Development & Technical Discussion
I wonder if even BBQcoin would consider such a fun experiment to be their kind o…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 14, 2013, 11:47:59 PM |
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Cancelling unconfirmed transactions Development & Technical Discussion
Re: retep & deepceleron,Why promote bad usage habits in the first place?I'm a pr…
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n/a | Peter Todd | March 14, 2013, 11:01:06 PM |
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