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Time it takes to accept new chain and reorganize blocks Development & Technical Discussion
I believe this implies that the peer does not calculate the sum of all difficult…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 07, 2013, 07:21:12 AM |
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Time it takes to accept new chain and reorganize blocks Development & Technical Discussion
Why does it take longer when reorganizing a larger number of blocks?More data ne…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 07, 2013, 05:04:52 AM |
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Vanitygen: Vanity bitcoin address generator/miner [v0.22] Development & Technical Discussion
How would you structure a proof of work? My only idea is to accept partial match…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 07, 2013, 03:41:29 AM |
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A bitcoin blockchain parser in a few hundred lines of C++ Development & Technical Discussion
That would let us get back to hashing without forking the chain. I think a chai…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 06, 2013, 07:21:45 PM |
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A bitcoin blockchain parser in a few hundred lines of C++ Development & Technical Discussion
I don't know if he traded them or not. If he did, I would want to have the mine…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 06, 2013, 05:31:32 PM |
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A bitcoin blockchain parser in a few hundred lines of C++ Development & Technical Discussion
I thought it might be interesting to do some experiments on that block chain, to…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 06, 2013, 04:24:26 PM |
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Proof of Work Question Development & Technical Discussion
Your proof of work is the eight solutions and the connecting tree fragments. Th…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 06, 2013, 05:53:44 AM |
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A bitcoin blockchain parser in a few hundred lines of C++ Development & Technical Discussion
Thanks, I looked at that before. At first it seems close, but it has dependenci…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 05, 2013, 05:56:03 PM |
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A bitcoin blockchain parser in a few hundred lines of C++ Development & Technical Discussion
In the transaction header there are (n1) input scripts and (n2) output scripts;…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 05, 2013, 03:03:56 PM |
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Blockchain Compression Development & Technical Discussion
I think also there could be a difference between verification for mining and gen…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 05, 2013, 03:56:55 AM |
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A bitcoin blockchain parser in a few hundred lines of C++ Development & Technical Discussion
I guess I'm still a little confused on that point. I started writing a script p…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 05, 2013, 02:32:43 PM |
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A bitcoin blockchain parser in a few hundred lines of C++ Development & Technical Discussion
(1) Can you confirm that it is true that a program which only wants to navigate…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 05, 2013, 01:53:37 PM |
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SIGHASH_WITHINPUTVALUE: Super-lightweight HW wallets and offline data Development & Technical Discussion
Also, it is only needed for transfers to cold storage addresses. A client could…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 04, 2013, 02:41:31 PM |
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SIGHASH_WITHINPUTVALUE: Super-lightweight HW wallets and offline data Development & Technical Discussion
Although it's a neat idea, it underestimates the blockchain bloat that comes wit…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 04, 2013, 01:57:36 PM |
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A bitcoin blockchain parser in a few hundred lines of C++ Development & Technical Discussion
There are (n1) input scripts and (n2) output scripts.RightQuoteDoes n1 always eq…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 04, 2013, 10:32:52 AM |
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Proposal: Mini-blocks for network split detection Development & Technical Discussion
As an experiment, I think it is good to first implement it as a voluntary system…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 04, 2013, 10:29:57 AM |
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Proposal: Mini-blocks for network split detection Development & Technical Discussion
Sounds like a good idea. So these mini-blocks would only contain the time, the p…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 04, 2013, 09:24:30 AM |
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Proposal: Mini-blocks for network split detection Development & Technical Discussion
How exactly? The header contains (loosely) the hash over all the TXs in the bloc…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 04, 2013, 09:05:34 AM |
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Blockchain Compression Development & Technical Discussion
That's not true unfortunately. You'll need to do some extra UTXO queries strateg…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 04, 2013, 06:43:11 AM |
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Blockchain Compression Development & Technical Discussion
One catch is that unfortunately UTXO commitments are in themselves very dangerou…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 04, 2013, 05:44:11 AM |
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Blockchain Compression Development & Technical Discussion
The second problem is that you don't need to make these changes to have immediat…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 04, 2013, 04:49:02 AM |
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I Need Version 0.3.25.1-beta of the Bitcoin software Development & Technical Discussion
Thank you! 0.3.24rc3 will work fine. It's odd how Devcoin runs off a 0.3.25 vers…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 04, 2013, 03:03:06 AM |
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I Need Version 0.3.25.1-beta of the Bitcoin software Development & Technical Discussion
How do I pull whatever version number I want though? I am not proficient with na…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 03, 2013, 06:07:00 PM |
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Blockchain Compression Development & Technical Discussion
It'll be written up in BIP form soon. Until then, this link is the first result…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 03, 2013, 04:47:47 PM |
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A bitcoin blockchain parser in a few hundred lines of C++ Development & Technical Discussion
I suppose the question is can I parse out the transactions without also having t…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 03, 2013, 11:23:34 AM |
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Could bitcoin fork to scrypt? Development & Technical Discussion
but what would be the consequence in regard to the difficulty ? Well, if most o…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 03, 2013, 09:48:33 AM |
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Blockchain Compression Development & Technical Discussion
The payment protocol is foundational work, it is required for a lot of other fea…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 03, 2013, 08:45:40 AM |
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Blockchain corruption during power loss? Development & Technical Discussion
Clever programming simply cannot prevent corruption during a power loss. Atomic…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 03, 2013, 06:49:42 AM |
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Blockchain Compression Development & Technical Discussion
An integrated secure invoice system. Something the functionality of which Bitpay…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 03, 2013, 04:21:48 AM |
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Blockchain Compression Development & Technical Discussion
He intends to solve a problem that was already solved by private companies by im…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 03, 2013, 04:18:11 AM |
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Could bitcoin fork to scrypt? Development & Technical Discussion
Trying to keep politics aside here. I realize it would require at least 51% cons…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 02, 2013, 03:36:36 PM |
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[ANNOUNCE] Micro-payment channels implementation now in bitcoinj Development & Technical Discussion
is there a technical reason channel expiration time is always one day? monthly c…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 02, 2013, 09:57:54 AM |
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Blockchain Compression Development & Technical Discussion
Wouldn't this work best if it was integrated into the official client as opposed…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 02, 2013, 04:15:48 AM |
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Limited use proof of burn system Development & Technical Discussion
This proof of burn system sounds a lot like the "Proof of Bitcoins Destroyed" id…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 01, 2013, 10:01:30 AM |
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Limited use proof of burn system Development & Technical Discussion
This would be a modified version of the proof of burn system.Each mining "rig" w…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 01, 2013, 08:15:58 AM |
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Reducing the chance of random reversal Development & Technical Discussion
Basically, this is just a mechanism that miners can use to publish proof that th…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 28, 2013, 06:11:39 AM |
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Reducing the chance of random reversal Development & Technical Discussion
Why 16 instead of 64?There is a tradeoff.If it was set to 128, then there is no…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 28, 2013, 04:10:14 AM |
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Reducing the chance of random reversal Development & Technical Discussion
Oh I missed the part about no tx on each mini block. So all this does is effect…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 28, 2013, 02:43:41 AM |
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Reducing the chance of random reversal Development & Technical Discussion
I haven't fully thought it through, but don't forget that although a fork only t…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 27, 2013, 06:07:40 PM |
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[ANNOUNCE] Micro-payment channels implementation now in bitcoinj Development & Technical Discussion
So, at any time, the server has- fully signed multi-sig transaction (value of A…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 27, 2013, 10:20:40 AM |
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Reducing the chance of random reversal Development & Technical Discussion
I was thinking about a simplification of a proposal I made a while back to speed…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 27, 2013, 09:00:44 AM |
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Decoupling transactions and POW Development & Technical Discussion
[edit]This is the latest suggestion, rather than the OP[/edit]This is a soft for…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 18, 2013, 05:58:31 AM |
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Mixing and remaining "change" Development & Technical Discussion
Is there a concern that some statistics could be used to match before and after?…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 10, 2013, 07:29:48 AM |
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What if the devs are ordered by a US judge to include a government backdoor? Development & Technical Discussion
I would worry more about backdoors in ASIC mining hardware.If the hardware just…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 07, 2013, 05:52:19 AM |
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net split? what would happend? Development & Technical Discussion
Am I missing something? How do you blacklist a block? How do you sanction a fork…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 29, 2013, 11:16:04 AM |
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Propagating orphan block headers Development & Technical Discussion
According to the official protocol rules, when a node receives a block that exte…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 29, 2013, 07:31:58 AM |
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net split? what would happend? Development & Technical Discussion
Note that after the merge any transaction which builds upon one of the newly inv…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 29, 2013, 07:13:15 AM |
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Distributed ownership Development & Technical Discussion
Am I missing anything? May be there is a way to create true distributed key?Ther…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 29, 2013, 06:57:22 AM |
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Get header from height Development & Technical Discussion
The current protocol doesn't allow parallel downloading of the block headers.The…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 27, 2013, 11:14:48 AM |
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Request a Technical Summary of Colored Coins Development & Technical Discussion
I've seen the term colored bitcoins floating around and I'd love to know more ab…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 23, 2013, 03:21:12 PM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
If I understand (remember) correctly, Socrates1024 is making the point that some…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 22, 2013, 04:58:24 AM |
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Alt chains and atomic transfers Development & Technical Discussion
I must admit I do not fully understand Mike Hearns' explanation as presented, I…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 21, 2013, 08:31:21 AM |
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Shardcoin - A Blockchain Partitioning / Sharding proposal Development & Technical Discussion
- I find someone willing to trade, and in one atomic tx, send him my 100 Shard1…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 20, 2013, 07:03:13 AM |
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[BOUNTY: 0.3 BTC/person] Help test Armory backups demo (M-of-N GUI + More) Development & Technical Discussion
I figured the case-sensitivity was okay, because I'm displaying it in such a hug…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 16, 2013, 05:43:17 PM |
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[BOUNTY: 0.3 BTC/person] Help test Armory backups demo (M-of-N GUI + More) Development & Technical Discussion
I think you better tell users to be careful of case for the secure code.or maybe…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 16, 2013, 04:44:56 PM |
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Optimal transaction packing Development & Technical Discussion
It's pretty much:propagation time = [(block size) / (bandwidth) + (transactions…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 16, 2013, 03:38:51 PM |
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Armory - Discussion Thread Armory
This is definitely a Bitcoin problem, not an Armory problem. Armory is bound to…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 16, 2013, 10:16:20 AM |
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Optimal transaction packing Development & Technical Discussion
Isn't the greedy algorithm the best though? Since you're trying to get the most…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 16, 2013, 06:19:15 AM |
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32Bit timestamps in the block headers? Development & Technical Discussion
This is basically a non-issue. Just interpret the timestamp as the lower 32-bit…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 13, 2013, 05:39:37 PM |
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Dealing with SHA-256 Collisions Development & Technical Discussion
While we're at it, why not a triple hash?If you do 100 hashes and then check the…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 13, 2013, 05:27:14 PM |
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Bitcoin 1 and Bitcoin 2: A solution to the block size problem Development & Technical Discussion
This means that stamps-from-Bitcoin-chain can override Fastcoin's own PoW.For cl…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 13, 2013, 04:08:22 AM |
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Bitcoin 1 and Bitcoin 2: A solution to the block size problem Development & Technical Discussion
What is the move back purpose? To make sure that coins have more-or-less the sam…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 12, 2013, 08:05:35 AM |
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Exact definition of POW Development & Technical Discussion
If you are looking for the math that updates the expected next target once a 201…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 11, 2013, 08:12:43 AM |
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Exact definition of POW Development & Technical Discussion
Same? Tie?Work is based on the difficulty, not the hash.The point is that if yo…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 11, 2013, 02:16:35 AM |
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Exact definition of POW Development & Technical Discussion
The proof-of-work is a method/system for demonstrating that work has been done.…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 10, 2013, 08:32:51 PM |
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Exact definition of POW Development & Technical Discussion
The POW for a block is equal to 1/target. Is there an exact way to calculate it…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 10, 2013, 07:01:42 PM |
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Reminder: zero-conf is not safe; $1000USD reward posted for replace-by-fee patch Development & Technical Discussion
Also, your comment about blacklisting is really not the same at all (nor feasibl…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 10, 2013, 07:37:03 AM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
Could anyone let us know the current progress in implementation of this idea?I w…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 10, 2013, 04:22:51 AM |
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Multi Sig Transaction Service Development & Technical Discussion
You should look into Armory.It has a deterministic wallet system. There is one…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 09, 2013, 06:34:47 AM |
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Separating timestamp function and verification function Development & Technical Discussion
Actually there are some subtle flaws possible with PoW schemes where you can't e…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 07, 2013, 05:19:09 PM |
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Separating timestamp function and verification function Development & Technical Discussion
However, you still must pay miners.As I said, verifiers would pay timestampers.Y…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 07, 2013, 10:59:31 AM |
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Bitcoin 1 and Bitcoin 2: A solution to the block size problem Development & Technical Discussion
I've been thinking about this for quite some time (IIRC I posted a message about…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 07, 2013, 10:38:55 AM |
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Separating timestamp function and verification function Development & Technical Discussion
Bitcoin merges these 2 functions. The block chain creates a well defined orderi…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 07, 2013, 10:30:20 AM |
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Alt chains and atomic transfers Development & Technical Discussion
P2PTradeX: P2P Trading between cryptocurrencies (https://bitcointalk.org/index.p…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 07, 2013, 08:00:41 AM |
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Alt chains and atomic transfers Development & Technical Discussion
I'm not completely sure whether I understood your objective here, and I also did…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 07, 2013, 07:59:34 AM |
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The real way to deal with "uneconomic outputs" is to charge for them Development & Technical Discussion
That would allow tx spam and unlimited block sizes.The benefit is that it decrea…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 05, 2013, 07:40:57 PM |
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The real way to deal with "uneconomic outputs" is to charge for them Development & Technical Discussion
Block size limit replaced by total block output size limitThe blockchain's size…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 05, 2013, 05:48:56 PM |
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pooled mining luck theft attack? Development & Technical Discussion
I dont think thats possible other than as a self-harming DoS, because the reward…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 05, 2013, 03:23:03 PM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
I had a little revelation last night, while thinking about this proposal. In hi…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 05, 2013, 06:48:09 AM |
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adopting block chain orphans Development & Technical Discussion
I suppose you mean only the first block in an orphaned chain is included, or per…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 05, 2013, 06:38:18 AM |
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Forked block chain Development & Technical Discussion
Re-broadcasting from where? You need the private key to sign the transaction.I…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 04, 2013, 03:23:15 PM |
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unique identifier of a transaction Development & Technical Discussion
Thanks. {transactionhash,blockheight} is what I wanted to use, but wasn't sure.T…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 04, 2013, 11:56:12 AM |
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adopting block chain orphans Development & Technical Discussion
Mining is absolutely categorically emphatically undoubtedly NOT a "first past th…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 04, 2013, 05:51:14 AM |
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why not measure difficulty in bits? Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteIt depends how you treat it I was thinking about how the block treats it.In…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 02, 2013, 08:18:41 AM |
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Security Fast Payments Against Double Spends? Development & Technical Discussion
Is not forwarding the transaction really that much of a protection. Presumably,…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 02, 2013, 07:23:44 AM |
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Wiki governance Project Development
The wiki pages are protected from spam using the BitcoinPayment system. You make…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 02, 2013, 07:22:07 AM |
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Alt chains and atomic transfers Development & Technical Discussion
One of the big benefits of colored coins is that the transactions are atomic.You…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 02, 2013, 05:35:53 AM |
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Wiki governance Project Development
Have all the wiki pages been locked to editing?
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n/a | TierNolan | May 02, 2013, 04:07:58 AM |
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why not measure difficulty in bits? Development & Technical Discussion
No I mean fractional bits. Hashcash worked on whole bit only, and there it was…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 02, 2013, 04:07:10 AM |
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Fixed length loops for scripts Development & Technical Discussion
The savings from that approach seem negligible. Running a loop 100 times is slow…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 02, 2013, 04:02:15 AM |
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Fixed length loops for scripts Development & Technical Discussion
Sure, but under what circumstances would anyone care about the cost of a script…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 01, 2013, 06:19:43 PM |
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why not measure difficulty in bits? Development & Technical Discussion
It would mean that the steps in difficulty would have to be factors of 2.If the…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 01, 2013, 06:07:40 PM |
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Fallback double spend protection during forks Development & Technical Discussion
For a beneficiary (merchant/exchange/whatever), the safest thing to do in case o…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 01, 2013, 04:42:56 PM |
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Fixed length loops for scripts Development & Technical Discussion
A simpler approach might be to simply assign a CPU and memory cost to each opera…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 01, 2013, 02:29:36 PM |
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Capping the rate of growth of the UTXO set Development & Technical Discussion
I like the idea of penalizing (through fees) of transactions where txout is bigg…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 01, 2013, 11:23:21 AM |
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Fixed length loops for scripts Development & Technical Discussion
One of the reason not to allow loops is that it makes it harder to work out how…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 01, 2013, 08:57:01 AM |
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Capping the rate of growth of the UTXO set Development & Technical Discussion
This came up in the thread about the new rule that transactions with very low ou…
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n/a | TierNolan | May 01, 2013, 04:32:17 AM |
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SIGHASH_WITHINPUTVALUE: Super-lightweight HW wallets and offline data Development & Technical Discussion
Yeah, Armory would do it in a heartbeat.I mean you could include the template wi…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 30, 2013, 06:16:59 PM |
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SIGHASH_WITHINPUTVALUE: Super-lightweight HW wallets and offline data Development & Technical Discussion
This is a hard fork. Using the Pay to Script Hash (/P2SH/) update as a preceden…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 30, 2013, 03:07:21 PM |
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Treat dust outputs as non-standard, un-hardcode TX_FEE constants Development & Technical Discussion
Start with a 1 input 2 output transaction that looks like both outputs are of a…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 30, 2013, 02:37:13 PM |
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