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Mystery Boxes OF HATE Goods
0.005BTCno offense but i bet its awful
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n/a | socrates1024 | October 27, 2021, 11:54:17 AM |
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[Bitcoin'17] 4th Workshop on Bitcoin and Blockchain Research (submit by dec 15) Development & Technical Discussion
There are 8 days left to submit papers to the Bitcoin'17 research workshop! http…
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n/a | socrates1024 | December 07, 2016, 07:12:58 PM |
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Increasing the blocksize as a (generalized) softfork. Development & Technical Discussion
This looks interesting to me, it basically extracts the weird part of segwit, bu…
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n/a | socrates1024 | December 20, 2015, 10:56:22 AM |
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Bitcoin Foundation Grant Program - Proposals requested, reviewers needed Bitcoin Discussion
1. Call for proposals! The Bitcoin Foundation has a quarterly grant program that…
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n/a | socrates1024 | August 19, 2014, 01:20:36 PM |
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Alt chains and atomic transfers Development & Technical Discussion
I've been skeptical of atomic cross-chain trades for a while now. In particular…
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n/a | socrates1024 | October 10, 2013, 02:31:03 PM |
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My Useless Who-is-Satoshi Theory Bitcoin Discussion
Here's my Satoshi conspiracy theory. I don't have any particular evidence to sup…
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n/a | socrates1024 | July 12, 2014, 09:36:13 PM |
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A Non-Outsourceable Puzzle to Prevent Hosted Mining (and Mining Pools) Development & Technical Discussion
What if your scheme was implemented and as a result the hosted mining schemes d…
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n/a | socrates1024 | June 19, 2014, 01:14:45 PM |
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A Non-Outsourceable Puzzle to Prevent Hosted Mining (and Mining Pools) Development & Technical Discussion
In case anyone has missed it, Eyal&Sirer have posted about an enhancement to my…
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n/a | socrates1024 | June 19, 2014, 10:59:33 AM |
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A Non-Outsourceable Puzzle to Prevent Hosted Mining (and Mining Pools) Development & Technical Discussion
Problem 3: Nonce WatermarksMining pool admins and members of the pool can agree…
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n/a | socrates1024 | June 19, 2014, 10:28:25 AM |
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A Non-Outsourceable Puzzle to Prevent Hosted Mining (and Mining Pools) Development & Technical Discussion
“Hosted mining” poses a systemic threat to Bitcoin’s decentralization. Due to ec…
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n/a | socrates1024 | October 10, 2013, 04:14:52 PM |
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A Non-Outsourceable Puzzle to Prevent Hosted Mining (and Mining Pools) Development & Technical Discussion
A preprint of my paper can be found here:http://cs.umd.edu/~amiller/nonoutsource…
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n/a | socrates1024 | June 18, 2014, 01:35:55 PM |
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A Non-Outsourceable Puzzle to Prevent Hosted Mining Development & Technical Discussion
Wait, I'm confused, if hosted mining catches on, this doesn't provide a proof-of…
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n/a | socrates1024 | June 18, 2014, 12:03:33 AM |
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A Non-Outsourceable Puzzle to Prevent Hosted Mining Development & Technical Discussion
Update: my advisors at University of Maryland and I have recently written a rese…
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n/a | socrates1024 | June 13, 2014, 03:03:30 PM |
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Mixcoin or CoinJoin - which is easier to implement? Development & Technical Discussion
Here's my take on this:- Both Mixcoin and CoinJoin work just fine with existing…
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n/a | socrates1024 | May 22, 2014, 12:35:43 PM |
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Simple adjustment to prevent mining pools Development & Technical Discussion
This is the same idea as in:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=309073.0Firs…
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n/a | socrates1024 | April 14, 2014, 08:59:01 AM |
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The High-Value-Hash Highway Development & Technical Discussion
Okay, I think I get it. It's also interesting that you could do the same kind…
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n/a | socrates1024 | March 20, 2014, 12:52:31 AM |
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The High-Value-Hash Highway Development & Technical Discussion
I wrote down a rough outline of a security game definition, and a clearer descri…
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n/a | socrates1024 | March 19, 2014, 12:03:05 AM |
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The High-Value-Hash Highway Development & Technical Discussion
Thanks for the writeup, I'm glad there's some renewed interest in this.I can't f…
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n/a | socrates1024 | March 18, 2014, 02:32:03 PM |
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Mixing is practical: economic analysis and design guidelines [academic paper] Development & Technical Discussion
Can you explain this one? I don't think it follows. A given transaction should h…
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n/a | socrates1024 | January 20, 2014, 12:32:33 AM |
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Mixing is practical: economic analysis and design guidelines [academic paper] Development & Technical Discussion
We (Joseph Bonneau, Arvind Narayanan, Andrew Miller, Jeremy Clark, Joshua Kroll)…
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n/a | socrates1024 | January 19, 2014, 07:27:14 PM |
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P2PTradeX revisted Development & Technical Discussion
Isn't it the case that the other coin-swapping protocols are susceptible to this…
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n/a | socrates1024 | December 12, 2013, 04:40:10 PM |
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paper: Secure Multiparty Computations on BitCoin Development & Technical Discussion
One big problem with the N-way lottery protocol in this paper is that it require…
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n/a | socrates1024 | December 06, 2013, 01:02:07 PM |
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Selfish Mining Simulation Development & Technical Discussion
I've already posted a means to overrule my judgment. If you feel that it should…
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n/a | socrates1024 | December 06, 2013, 12:42:22 AM |
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Selfish Mining Simulation Development & Technical Discussion
Oh, sorry. I thought I clarified this already.The initial release was not gener…
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n/a | socrates1024 | December 05, 2013, 10:19:12 PM |
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Selfish Mining Simulation Development & Technical Discussion
So far, this does not meet my requirements. Given that it is written in Javascr…
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n/a | socrates1024 | December 05, 2013, 07:20:39 PM |
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fair coin toss with no extortion and no need to trust a third party Development & Technical Discussion
So the random numbers are part of the blockchain transaction? How would it work…
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n/a | socrates1024 | December 05, 2013, 06:42:49 PM |
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fair coin toss with no extortion and no need to trust a third party Development & Technical Discussion
Can you describe the process in a plainer way, like to a redneck. It appears th…
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n/a | socrates1024 | December 05, 2013, 03:20:56 PM |
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fair coin toss with no extortion and no need to trust a third party Development & Technical Discussion
So, now that the remaining challenges with this protocol have all been solved by…
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n/a | socrates1024 | December 05, 2013, 01:52:48 PM |
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paper: Secure Multiparty Computations on BitCoin Development & Technical Discussion
I thought iddo/adams protocol only worked for the two party case?Yes but general…
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n/a | socrates1024 | December 04, 2013, 12:28:59 PM |
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paper: Secure Multiparty Computations on BitCoin Development & Technical Discussion
Does someone want to summarise their protocol?This paper has a clever solution t…
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n/a | socrates1024 | December 04, 2013, 12:37:19 AM |
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paper: Secure Multiparty Computations on BitCoin Development & Technical Discussion
This neat paper was recently posted on the cryptography e-print server;http://ep…
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n/a | socrates1024 | December 02, 2013, 05:31:22 PM |
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Selfish Mining Simulation Development & Technical Discussion
Getting from a non-selfish steady state to a selfish one would certainly be risk…
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n/a | socrates1024 | November 25, 2013, 11:19:17 PM |
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Bitcoin Client Majority Protocol Attack? Development & Technical Discussion
The difficulty for the next block is fixed by the protocol, as a deterministic f…
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n/a | socrates1024 | November 24, 2013, 12:30:22 PM |
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Selfish Mining Simulation Development & Technical Discussion
So far, this does not meet my requirements. Given that it is written in Javascr…
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n/a | socrates1024 | November 23, 2013, 04:27:55 PM |
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Selfish Mining Simulation Development & Technical Discussion
At a quick glance, eb3full's post here predates the other two by a couple of wee…
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n/a | socrates1024 | November 23, 2013, 03:34:32 PM |
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Selfish Mining Simulation Development & Technical Discussion
kjj, jgarzik, is this bounty considered closed with eb3full's submission? Or is…
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n/a | socrates1024 | November 23, 2013, 12:34:29 PM |
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Forking BC with Value Continuity Development & Technical Discussion
Just because a transaction exists that destroys a Bitcoin doesn't mean that it i…
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n/a | socrates1024 | November 21, 2013, 04:42:38 PM |
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Bitcoin at the US Senate Bitcoin Discussion
These are my favorite clips from the hearing:"so there's a centralized public le…
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n/a | socrates1024 | November 19, 2013, 11:10:21 PM |
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2013.11.18 Senate Hearing - Anyone going? Meetups
I'm going to the hearing on Tuesday the 19th. http://www.banking.senate.gov/publ…
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n/a | socrates1024 | November 18, 2013, 11:46:35 AM |
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1st Workshop on Bitcoin Research, cohosted with Financial Crypto '14 Bitcoin Discussion
Bump because the deadline is in 11 days!
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n/a | socrates1024 | November 13, 2013, 11:46:01 AM |
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Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable Development & Technical Discussion
I wrote the following email to someone asking about this paper, and I feel like…
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n/a | socrates1024 | November 05, 2013, 02:16:18 PM |
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Proof of Storage to make distributed resource consumption costly. Development & Technical Discussion
I implemented this in a few lines of python, mostly to convince myself it works…
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n/a | socrates1024 | October 31, 2013, 02:29:37 PM |
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Feather-forks: enforcing a blacklist with sub-50% hash power Development & Technical Discussion
Couldn't miners just turn around and find methods of determining who is doing "f…
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n/a | socrates1024 | October 17, 2013, 12:19:46 PM |
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Colored coins VS Mastercoins - Which one is better? Bitcoin Discussion
I don't know of an easy way to bound it, but as an SPV client you don't need to…
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n/a | socrates1024 | October 17, 2013, 11:54:24 AM |
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Colored coins VS Mastercoins - Which one is better? Bitcoin Discussion
QuoteMost mobile phone clients use SPV security. You probably can't have a compa…
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n/a | socrates1024 | October 17, 2013, 10:05:31 AM |
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Colored coins VS Mastercoins - Which one is better? Bitcoin Discussion
Neither Mastercoin nor colored coins support SPV security. You can't tell if you…
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n/a | socrates1024 | October 17, 2013, 09:42:08 AM |
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Feather-forks: enforcing a blacklist with sub-50% hash power Development & Technical Discussion
Here are a few variations of a new kind of attack I call a feather-fork, which i…
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n/a | socrates1024 | October 16, 2013, 08:09:44 PM |
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A Non-Outsourceable Puzzle to Prevent Hosted Mining Development & Technical Discussion
I think the best solution is to effectively build a 'mining pool' into the ordin…
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n/a | socrates1024 | October 12, 2013, 11:38:41 AM |
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1st Workshop on Bitcoin Research, cohosted with Financial Crypto '14 Bitcoin Discussion
Bump just because the call-for-papers was finalized. (disclaimer: i'm on the com…
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n/a | socrates1024 | October 12, 2013, 11:13:38 AM |
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Alt chains and atomic transfers Development & Technical Discussion
What if Alice (because she likes to do arbitrage and is speculating on shifting…
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n/a | socrates1024 | October 10, 2013, 05:19:34 PM |
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A Non-Outsourceable Puzzle to Prevent Hosted Mining Development & Technical Discussion
(1) No one currently cares. Pools, for example, can rob their miners undetectab…
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n/a | socrates1024 | October 10, 2013, 05:03:25 PM |
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blind-hashcash, potential bitcoin applications using blind brands certs/ecash Development & Technical Discussion
I can't figure out what you're saying you have in mind for the application of th…
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n/a | socrates1024 | October 10, 2013, 02:44:01 PM |
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Bitcoin as Lottery, Prospect Theory, and Unprofitable Mining Bitcoin Discussion
But I don't buy it. I don't believe acting according to CPT is beneficial, or th…
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n/a | socrates1024 | October 02, 2013, 11:04:43 AM |
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1st Workshop on Bitcoin Research, cohosted with Financial Crypto '14 Bitcoin Discussion
http://fc14.ifca.ai/bitcoin/cfp.html"The recent success of Bitcoin, a decentrali…
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n/a | socrates1024 | October 02, 2013, 10:56:18 AM |
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Bitcoin as Lottery, Prospect Theory, and Unprofitable Mining Bitcoin Discussion
We seem to have a different outcome in Bitcoin... with people racing to the lowe…
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n/a | socrates1024 | October 02, 2013, 09:31:09 AM |
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bitcoins with homomorphic value (validatable but encrypted) Development & Technical Discussion
There's a section in this bibliography about ZK range proofs, but I'm not famili…
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n/a | socrates1024 | October 02, 2013, 08:56:27 AM |
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bitcoins with homomorphic value (validatable but encrypted) Development & Technical Discussion
How do you intend to do a proof that the upper two bits are zero?I don't think a…
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n/a | socrates1024 | October 01, 2013, 10:26:17 AM |
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Bitcoin as Lottery, Prospect Theory, and Unprofitable Mining Bitcoin Discussion
tl;dr Here's an unusual theory: Bitcoin is decentralized only when mining is unp…
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n/a | socrates1024 | October 01, 2013, 09:04:59 AM |
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the theory of colored coins Development & Technical Discussion
I like this approach. Maybe it will help to relate how colored coins generalize…
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n/a | socrates1024 | October 01, 2013, 04:19:10 AM |
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Increasing Anonymity in Bitcoin ... (possible alternative to Zerocoin?) Development & Technical Discussion
First of all, thank you for working on this problem and posting it here!My main…
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n/a | socrates1024 | September 12, 2013, 05:07:58 PM |
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Really Really ultimate blockchain compression: CoinWitness Development & Technical Discussion
The idea is pretty neat: You construct the circuit with additional inputs which…
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n/a | socrates1024 | August 25, 2013, 09:32:28 PM |
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amiller is a scammer Confirmed! proof! Scam Accusations
I am amiller on #bitcoin-otc, my bitcointalk forum account is socrates1024. The…
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n/a | socrates1024 | August 01, 2013, 07:07:05 PM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
I'm not doubting that it's possible, just wondering if you'd actually be gaining…
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n/a | socrates1024 | May 22, 2013, 08:09:59 AM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
IMO your 3-point plan is missing out on the best aspect of having a Merkle UTXO.…
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n/a | socrates1024 | May 21, 2013, 05:41:33 PM |
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Ripple Giveaway! Altcoin Discussion
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n/a | socrates1024 | May 05, 2013, 02:19:42 PM |
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Let's Embrace BTC Trusted Timestamping Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteThe true utility of the timestamping service is, of course, that you can ac…
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n/a | socrates1024 | April 14, 2013, 01:29:56 PM |
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P2PTradeX: P2P Trading between cryptocurrencies Development & Technical Discussion
Sorry to bump this old topic, but I propose making a change to the wikipedia art…
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n/a | socrates1024 | February 24, 2013, 04:58:13 PM |
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I do Design - AD's, Logos, etc. - Cheap opening rates! Services
Hey Xqisit, I need a logo for an open source project called Picarus. http://w…
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n/a | socrates1024 | February 19, 2013, 02:59:46 AM |
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Bitcoin design contract Development & Technical Discussion
Forever is a long time to keep a promise. Even if you tattoo "21M BTC / 10 minut…
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n/a | socrates1024 | December 17, 2012, 02:20:14 PM |
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[SOLD] NEW 100% Genuine Coach Handbag/ Purse [SOLD] Goods
Bump because Thanks!
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n/a | socrates1024 | December 07, 2012, 03:07:05 PM |
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Bitcoin meetup Orlando on Nov 20th Meetups
Yup, thanks everyone for coming out. Gigavps, luke-jr and his wife, tony from bi…
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n/a | socrates1024 | November 21, 2012, 10:19:44 PM |
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Bitcoin meetup Orlando on Nov 20th Meetups
Meetup is 6pm, Nov 20th, near UCF.Anyone who is planning on attending, please pm…
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n/a | socrates1024 | November 15, 2012, 11:02:54 PM |
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Bitcoin meetup Orlando OR north of Tampa, Florida (week of Nov 19th) Meetups
The current consensus (among me, gmaxwell, luke-jr, forrestv) is that the meetup…
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n/a | socrates1024 | November 05, 2012, 10:42:25 PM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, it's possible to BSTs, but it's a lot of work. And it's not simple. To de…
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n/a | socrates1024 | November 04, 2012, 01:08:41 PM |
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Blockchain security tracking/colored coins/smart contracts - short python script Project Development
Any idea what the asymptotic complexity is of this implementation? I'd be intere…
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n/a | socrates1024 | October 10, 2012, 03:05:01 PM |
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Qubic - Quorum-Based Coin Altcoin Discussion
How qubics are createdQubics are created ("minted") by nodes ("providers") that…
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n/a | socrates1024 | September 26, 2012, 01:31:18 PM |
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Distributed bond markets and pay-to-policy outputs Development & Technical Discussion
I don't think the transferable bonds you described are realizable with the limit…
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n/a | socrates1024 | September 21, 2012, 11:36:04 PM |
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Bitcoin Theory (Byzantine Generals and Beyond) Development & Technical Discussion
It's common knowledge that Bitcoin solves (or purports to solve) the Byzantine G…
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n/a | socrates1024 | August 09, 2012, 04:20:21 PM |
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Bitcoin Theory (Byzantine Generals and Beyond) Development & Technical Discussion
It may be easier to explain something when its platonic ideal is deterministic,…
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n/a | socrates1024 | September 13, 2012, 06:23:55 PM |
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Bitcoin Theory (Byzantine Generals and Beyond) Development & Technical Discussion
In my interpretation of affairs it is important to understand that Bitcoin does…
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n/a | socrates1024 | September 13, 2012, 06:02:05 PM |
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Bitcoin Theory (Byzantine Generals and Beyond) Development & Technical Discussion
Satoshi wrote about the Byzantine Generals problem:Quoteit's expected to take 10…
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n/a | socrates1024 | August 09, 2012, 04:57:53 PM |
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Bitcoin Theory (Byzantine Generals and Beyond) Development & Technical Discussion
Sure. Assume the distributed consensus protocol works as intended. This paper as…
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n/a | socrates1024 | September 07, 2012, 12:15:16 AM |
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Proof of Activity Proposal Development & Technical Discussion
My reservations here are similar to those with PoX (X!=W) ideas in general: I'm…
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n/a | socrates1024 | August 22, 2012, 05:44:53 PM |
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Storing UTXOs in a Balanced Merkle Tree (zero-trust nodes with O(1)-storage) Development & Technical Discussion
It's not a derail, it's the most important thing we need to figure out.So then m…
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n/a | socrates1024 | August 21, 2012, 12:34:24 AM |
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Bitcoin Theory (Byzantine Generals and Beyond) Development & Technical Discussion
Here's a way of describing the computational requirements in Bitcoin. This is in…
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n/a | socrates1024 | August 20, 2012, 07:52:04 PM |
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Storing UTXOs in a Balanced Merkle Tree (zero-trust nodes with O(1)-storage) Development & Technical Discussion
I made a post in which I outlined the necessary requirements for the Bitcoin dat…
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n/a | socrates1024 | August 20, 2012, 08:01:37 PM |
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Storing UTXOs in a Balanced Merkle Tree (zero-trust nodes with O(1)-storage) Development & Technical Discussion
why not make all nodes "leaf" nodes? ... It seems like it might save some spac…
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n/a | socrates1024 | August 20, 2012, 04:26:30 PM |
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Storing UTXOs in a Balanced Merkle Tree (zero-trust nodes with O(1)-storage) Development & Technical Discussion
This is a concrete proposal (and reference implementation) for a Merkle-tree of…
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n/a | socrates1024 | August 19, 2012, 09:26:27 AM |
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Storing UTXOs in a Balanced Merkle Tree (zero-trust nodes with O(1)-storage) Development & Technical Discussion
I want to make an improvement to this proposal.Originally, my UTXO tree containe…
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n/a | socrates1024 | August 20, 2012, 03:58:56 PM |
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The High-Value-Hash Highway Development & Technical Discussion
Here's a simple proposal. Let me define the 'value' of a block as the number of…
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n/a | socrates1024 | August 07, 2012, 02:53:21 AM |
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The High-Value-Hash Highway Development & Technical Discussion
In the OP, I suggested an experiment. What's the smallest hash (highest value ha…
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n/a | socrates1024 | August 18, 2012, 12:32:51 AM |
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The High-Value-Hash Highway Development & Technical Discussion
I stopped reading at this point. Ten years of headers is about 40 megabytes. O…
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n/a | socrates1024 | August 08, 2012, 12:43:39 PM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
I don't follow your logic. Did I miss something? Can you elaborate?Yes! You're…
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n/a | socrates1024 | August 08, 2012, 01:46:51 AM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
Ah but etotheipi, let's focus on the last image, since that is the first one to…
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n/a | socrates1024 | August 08, 2012, 12:25:45 AM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
Could you describe how you would update the root hash for the trie?Also, it most…
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n/a | socrates1024 | August 07, 2012, 07:46:23 PM |
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The High-Value-Hash Highway Development & Technical Discussion
A zero means "look low", a 1 means "look high". You send me that number and I no…
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n/a | socrates1024 | August 07, 2012, 07:21:28 PM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
I'm not assuming it's all in memory. I'm not talking about pointers, but about a…
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n/a | socrates1024 | August 07, 2012, 07:16:45 PM |
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The High-Value-Hash Highway Development & Technical Discussion
What do you do with the subinterval exactly?You don't know any blocks between X…
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n/a | socrates1024 | August 07, 2012, 06:01:20 PM |
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The High-Value-Hash Highway Development & Technical Discussion
I imagine that in each block, you store a concise report of the sum of the diffi…
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n/a | socrates1024 | August 07, 2012, 05:53:29 PM |
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The High-Value-Hash Highway Development & Technical Discussion
Consider this, you get a block, block Z. You do not have block (Z-1), so you ch…
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n/a | socrates1024 | August 07, 2012, 04:41:47 PM |
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