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Treat dust outputs as non-standard, un-hardcode TX_FEE constants Development & Technical Discussion
Minimum transaction output is (conservatively) calculated from the minimum relay…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 30, 2013, 02:00:06 PM |
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Distributed/scaled bitcoind Development & Technical Discussion
I disagree about the wallet part.If you are going to the effort of recoding bitc…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 30, 2013, 01:43:55 PM |
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Treat dust outputs as non-standard, un-hardcode TX_FEE constants Development & Technical Discussion
The changes make sense. Right now Bitcoin has a large variety of what we call "m…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 30, 2013, 01:41:17 PM |
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Treat dust outputs as non-standard, un-hardcode TX_FEE constants Development & Technical Discussion
So: if you have a better suggestion for fixing the problem of new users wasting…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 30, 2013, 10:30:47 AM |
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Preventing double-spending attacks with semi-trusted 3rd parties Development & Technical Discussion
No. Imagine that it is like sending bunch of bitcoin to an "M of N address" befo…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 30, 2013, 06:52:39 AM |
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Treat dust outputs as non-standard, un-hardcode TX_FEE constants Development & Technical Discussion
Also, doesn't this kill coloured coins? They would require a separate relay ne…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 30, 2013, 04:33:41 AM |
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Treat dust outputs as non-standard, un-hardcode TX_FEE constants Development & Technical Discussion
What about adding a way to poll nodes that will accept a given relay fee.This wo…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 30, 2013, 04:05:37 AM |
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Anyone use raspberry pi with armory? NT Armory
Oh yeah! Nice find!Can anyone confirm this would easily mate with the RPi?Lookin…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 29, 2013, 02:42:03 PM |
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PURE Java Miner Development & Technical Discussion
So - because it's total POT luck if you get the correct HASH.. It doesn't matter…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 29, 2013, 01:00:35 PM |
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Anyone use raspberry pi with armory? NT Armory
Was doing some Googling and found this. It is $12 but includes a touch screen.
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n/a | TierNolan | April 29, 2013, 11:43:06 AM |
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Do these things work? Development & Technical Discussion
That is pretty interesting.You could make it completely secure by having the enc…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 29, 2013, 11:10:03 AM |
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Block size targeting algo based on average propagation times for blocks? Development & Technical Discussion
The detection mechanism for orphan blocks makes sense for miners, but it does no…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 29, 2013, 09:59:28 AM |
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PURE Java Miner Development & Technical Discussion
Hello,I am trying to write a pure JAVA miner, a nice webstart app or applet that…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 29, 2013, 08:27:22 AM |
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Limits to accepting a new longest chain to prevent >50% Development & Technical Discussion
So, how do you prevent that from basically being the same as "everyone flip a co…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 29, 2013, 04:36:39 AM |
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Block size targeting algo based on average propagation times for blocks? Development & Technical Discussion
Ideally it should be possible to compute difficulty updates based purely on the…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 29, 2013, 04:28:40 AM |
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Limits to accepting a new longest chain to prevent >50% Development & Technical Discussion
What about just defining a fork more than 10k blocks from the main chain as just…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 29, 2013, 03:55:33 AM |
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How does the initial sync is done? Development & Technical Discussion
Yes make a lot of sense. So the longer a blockchain exist, the more difficult to…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 29, 2013, 03:53:33 AM |
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How does the initial sync is done? Development & Technical Discussion
OK I got it. Once the peer network established, everything is fine. You can calc…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 28, 2013, 05:09:34 PM |
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Limits to accepting a new longest chain to prevent >50% Development & Technical Discussion
Errr. I thought dev-hardcoded checkpoints prevent a complete reversal even in th…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 28, 2013, 01:57:11 PM |
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Anyone use raspberry pi with armory? NT Armory
Here we go:Cool.Armory will definitely have to be modified to get it usable on s…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 28, 2013, 01:16:57 PM |
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Limits to accepting a new longest chain to prevent >50% Development & Technical Discussion
It doesn't seem to me that bitcoin's "the hashiest chain wins" approach is "brok…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 28, 2013, 12:26:00 PM |
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Anyone use raspberry pi with armory? NT Armory
I submitted a pull request to help with this.Assuming the pull request is accept…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 27, 2013, 02:52:20 PM |
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Using difficulty as a proxy for price Development & Technical Discussion
Exactly. What do you think about a BIP being created proposing default fees be l…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 28, 2013, 08:16:20 AM |
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Anyone use raspberry pi with armory? NT Armory
I tweaked the PR slightly. It now checks that "python" returns a version of 2.x…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 28, 2013, 05:18:01 AM |
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How to report and warn on protocol incompatibilities between clients? Development & Technical Discussion
This would be too much traffic, I think. It's effectively rebroadcasting dozens…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 26, 2013, 01:30:44 AM |
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Is there any plan to support crowdfunding (Assurance contracts) on armory? Armory
A Kickstarter to make Kickstarter unnecessary ?
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n/a | TierNolan | April 25, 2013, 04:23:11 PM |
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How to report and warn on protocol incompatibilities between clients? Development & Technical Discussion
As far as I know, there are no re-implementations of Bitcoin where the authors s…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 25, 2013, 10:09:31 AM |
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How to report and warn on protocol incompatibilities between clients? Development & Technical Discussion
I think a better way is multiple verification by miners.Create a new message "ch…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 25, 2013, 09:13:41 AM |
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New block exactly every 10min? how? Development & Technical Discussion
If so, what if the difficulty is so low (has so many zero's up front), that ther…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 25, 2013, 08:55:41 AM |
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Is it known that every block CAN produce a hash under target? Development & Technical Discussion
There's also the timestamp field in the header, which can also be updated (and d…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 25, 2013, 07:53:57 AM |
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Fixed denomination coins with Armoury Armory
This would be where the online system generates lots of standard addresses from…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 25, 2013, 07:48:11 AM |
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How do Paper Wallets work? I'm completely mystified Development & Technical Discussion
Unfortunately, that's the "cost" of security.Have you considered fork detection?…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 25, 2013, 04:30:33 AM |
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Is it known that every block CAN produce a hash under target? Development & Technical Discussion
I think the OPs question is more "given a set of transactions and a single times…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 24, 2013, 05:39:41 PM |
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Satoshi Client: Improving time from "Start" to "Usable" Development & Technical Discussion
verification of all transactions in the block. this usually isn't a limiting fac…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 24, 2013, 11:09:09 AM |
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Satoshi Client: Improving time from "Start" to "Usable" Development & Technical Discussion
What does database verification involve?
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n/a | TierNolan | April 24, 2013, 10:16:32 AM |
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Limits to accepting a new longest chain to prevent >50% Development & Technical Discussion
If Bitcoin thinks that 100/120 is the *safe* point to allow spending from coinba…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 24, 2013, 06:35:08 AM |
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Limits to accepting a new longest chain to prevent >50% Development & Technical Discussion
Although perhaps not a very likely scenario such an attack would be a massive co…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 24, 2013, 06:26:47 AM |
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Reminder: zero-conf is not safe; $1000USD reward posted for replace-by-fee patch Development & Technical Discussion
What you want is a rule that is a Nash equilibrium. It is in the best interests…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 24, 2013, 04:21:52 AM |
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Backup if Armoury is discontinued Armory
What happens in that case? I am thinking of a case where you have coins in cold…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 24, 2013, 04:11:51 AM |
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What (if any) mechanism is there to protect against a massive hash rate drop? Development & Technical Discussion
The bug is that the timestamp difference is calculated on the wrong blocks. If…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 23, 2013, 01:36:23 PM |
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What (if any) mechanism is there to protect against a massive hash rate drop? Development & Technical Discussion
Amusingly, you are also totally wrong. No node on the network will accept a blo…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 24, 2013, 04:00:38 AM |
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Forked block chain Development & Technical Discussion
If I found myself at all tempted to use both forks, I think I'd create a set of…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 24, 2013, 03:48:46 AM |
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Reminder: zero-conf is not safe; $1000USD reward posted for replace-by-fee patch Development & Technical Discussion
* Proof-of-work system must follow one main rule: longest valid chain wins. If…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 23, 2013, 05:16:25 PM |
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What (if any) mechanism is there to protect against a massive hash rate drop? Development & Technical Discussion
P.S. The bug cannot be fixed with a soft fork. It is an absolutely hard fork t…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 23, 2013, 11:17:37 AM |
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What (if any) mechanism is there to protect against a massive hash rate drop? Development & Technical Discussion
Any asymmetric function for difficulty adjustment can be gamed.Your concerns are…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 23, 2013, 10:52:59 AM |
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What (if any) mechanism is there to protect against a massive hash rate drop? Development & Technical Discussion
This is an insanely bad idea, just like it was the last 20 or so times it was su…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 23, 2013, 08:22:10 AM |
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The minimum transfer fee is not trivial anymore Development & Technical Discussion
Because dust have a unique cost. They likely will never be spent. They just re…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 23, 2013, 06:50:47 AM |
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What (if any) mechanism is there to protect against a massive hash rate drop? Development & Technical Discussion
A simple rule is build on the valid chain with highest POW.A chain is valid if-…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 23, 2013, 06:37:05 AM |
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difference between blocksize and inconsistent hash record. Development & Technical Discussion
It seems not a good idea to make orphaned blocks in the main chain, or there is…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 23, 2013, 06:23:18 AM |
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Quantum Computers META THREAD Defacto STICKY Development & Technical Discussion
If quantum computers was capable of breaking ECC but not breaking RIPEMD-160, th…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 23, 2013, 05:17:42 AM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
There's not a way around this, other than just having full nodes store the entir…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 22, 2013, 12:26:47 PM |
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amortizable hashcash & zero-trust poolfree Development & Technical Discussion
I think I have to read about p2pool before I can understand what you wrote on th…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 22, 2013, 10:57:22 AM |
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Forked block chain Development & Technical Discussion
I don't understand your objection. The coins that are valid on both sides of th…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 22, 2013, 03:50:40 AM |
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amortizable hashcash & zero-trust poolfree Development & Technical Discussion
I called hypothetically directly claimable micro (low denominatoin) bitcoins mic…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 21, 2013, 06:17:17 PM |
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amortizable hashcash & zero-trust poolfree Development & Technical Discussion
Amortizable hashcash (my later 2002 variation following on from hashcash) means…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 21, 2013, 03:49:54 PM |
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How do Paper Wallets work? I'm completely mystified Development & Technical Discussion
What's really going on here?The number is the root of your wallet. From that nu…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 21, 2013, 03:10:32 PM |
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Need Test-Net Bitcoins Development & Technical Discussion
Again...?I meant "do they change". So, I can take that as a yes?
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n/a | TierNolan | April 21, 2013, 02:37:19 PM |
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Need Test-Net Bitcoins Development & Technical Discussion
There is a mention of resetting TestNet. Does they change the root or something…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 21, 2013, 02:20:13 PM |
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quantaum computers Development & Technical Discussion
I thought that if 51% of miner adopted a client change eg 50 millcoins that wou…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 21, 2013, 12:07:50 PM |
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a better bot net use & software assurance (Re: defending ahead the p2p nature) Development & Technical Discussion
But also there is an indirect human utility to having botnets being used for min…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 21, 2013, 08:10:47 AM |
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SIGHASH_WITHINPUTVALUES: Super-lightweight HW wallets and offline data Development & Technical Discussion
What about using something like a 2 step transaction.I create a transaction whic…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 21, 2013, 05:51:30 AM |
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Decoupling transactions and POW Development & Technical Discussion
I think I really haven't understood what your goal is or how you're achieving it…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 21, 2013, 04:44:50 AM |
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Decoupling transactions and POW Development & Technical Discussion
An even larger extension to this would be to have the sub-chain made up of singl…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 21, 2013, 03:10:17 AM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
Another feature (or disadvantage) is that it allows dropping of extra info added…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 20, 2013, 07:45:46 PM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
This is yet another area where the trie-based structures win -- since there is b…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 20, 2013, 01:40:30 PM |
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defending ahead the p2p nature of bitcoin - blending hashcash & scrypt Development & Technical Discussion
Certain practicalities (like "motivating miners of the meta-chain") aside, monoc…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 20, 2013, 01:29:02 PM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
I was thinking about this as a pure system that would allow dropping the blockch…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 20, 2013, 01:24:48 PM |
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Will the size of the blockchain file continue to increase indefinitely? Development & Technical Discussion
Ledger clients would simply be unresponsive when polled for blocks older than 5…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 20, 2013, 12:04:50 PM |
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Proposed solution to "lost coins" Development & Technical Discussion
I will be lazy instead of learning to read the code. Can the block size increase…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 20, 2013, 11:51:41 AM |
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Proposed solution to "lost coins" Development & Technical Discussion
blockchain space doesn't relate to coins?There is 1 MB of data per block at the…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 20, 2013, 11:01:46 AM |
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Proposed solution to "lost coins" Development & Technical Discussion
But actually what happens is you approach an asymptote of peak oil, and alternat…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 20, 2013, 10:51:20 AM |
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Support for Hierarchical Multi-Signature Transactions? Development & Technical Discussion
Ah thank you Vitalik. That's exactly what I was looking for.But most of this is…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 20, 2013, 08:09:34 AM |
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Generic client tester Development & Technical Discussion
This may have already been created, but in addition to each client software havi…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 20, 2013, 08:04:01 AM |
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Solving the fast payments problem Development & Technical Discussion
How about forwarding whenever, from our perspective, a new input is used ?Sounds…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 20, 2013, 07:25:17 AM |
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Decoupling transactions and POW Development & Technical Discussion
An even larger extension to this would be to have the sub-chain made up of singl…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 20, 2013, 06:23:16 AM |
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Decoupling transactions and POW Development & Technical Discussion
This still only has one probability, which will only vary with the target and no…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 20, 2013, 05:53:42 AM |
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Mining Codex Mining
2.) First in, first minedTransactions will not be replaced by double spends with…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 20, 2013, 04:38:58 AM |
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Using difficulty as a proxy for price Development & Technical Discussion
That's assuming the max block size cap is not lifted. If it is, I think a rule o…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 20, 2013, 04:35:01 AM |
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Decoupling transactions and POW Development & Technical Discussion
Unless I misunderstand you, that's still a single probability for any given targ…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 20, 2013, 04:31:49 AM |
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defending ahead the p2p nature of bitcoin - blending hashcash & scrypt Development & Technical Discussion
Seriously though, with all due respect (and with admittance of my conflict of in…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 20, 2013, 04:05:33 AM |
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Decoupling transactions and POW Development & Technical Discussion
Bitcoin txns are based on proof not trust, or reputation.Substituting trust for…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 20, 2013, 03:01:57 AM |
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Solving the fast payments problem Development & Technical Discussion
if the devs made this change people would accept it. I hope Gavin takes notice b…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 19, 2013, 07:33:21 PM |
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P2P Exchange for bitcoin Project Development
Why just one asset pair / chain? I was trying to keep that chain clean and hopef…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 19, 2013, 07:10:42 PM |
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Solving the fast payments problem Development & Technical Discussion
interesting. A problem that is clearly a problem on paper but in the real world…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 19, 2013, 07:03:00 PM |
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P2P Exchange for bitcoin Project Development
So, what about the following framework.Transactions would be kept to a few limit…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 19, 2013, 06:50:09 PM |
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Solving the fast payments problem Development & Technical Discussion
what incentive does the individual node have to rebroadcast suspected double spe…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 19, 2013, 06:11:55 PM |
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An idea on how to reduce the risk of a 51 % attack Development & Technical Discussion
When were you informed about the fork, after or before it became a hard fork (th…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 19, 2013, 05:24:56 PM |
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Solving the fast payments problem Development & Technical Discussion
This kills in the bud all race attacks, where the merchant is unaware that a fra…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 19, 2013, 04:51:56 PM |
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Using difficulty as a proxy for price Development & Technical Discussion
From this spreadsheet, the price vs difficulty ratio has been reasonably consta…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 19, 2013, 04:09:09 PM |
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Detecting lost records in distributed hash tables Development & Technical Discussion
Distributed hash tables (DHTs) are a way to store key -> value pairs in a distri…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 19, 2013, 03:43:43 PM |
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defending ahead the p2p nature of bitcoin - blending hashcash & scrypt Development & Technical Discussion
I'm not really the To Go Guy in this regards, but it seems to me that for variou…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 19, 2013, 11:19:08 AM |
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Decoupling transactions and POW Development & Technical Discussion
This does not make any sense.Faster (lower difficulty) blocks = less secure bloc…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 19, 2013, 11:17:33 AM |
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Reminder: zero-conf is not safe; $500USD reward posted for replace-by-fee patch Development & Technical Discussion
1) Go to the counter2) Get a Whopper®3) Pay with bitcoin4) Go out5) Attempt a do…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 19, 2013, 08:57:10 AM |
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Decoupling transactions and POW Development & Technical Discussion
What's the implication for mining pools? Do they need to communicate with miner…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 19, 2013, 08:56:41 AM |
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defending ahead the p2p nature of bitcoin - blending hashcash & scrypt Development & Technical Discussion
Well, distributing the verification "back" would be nice, but it seems to me (fr…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 19, 2013, 08:35:28 AM |
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Decoupling transactions and POW Development & Technical Discussion
One other question - how do you suggest the block reward be distributed? Every b…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 19, 2013, 07:37:37 AM |
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defending ahead the p2p nature of bitcoin - blending hashcash & scrypt Development & Technical Discussion
When you account for pooled mining, ASICS become completely irrelevant - it does…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 19, 2013, 07:35:07 AM |
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Decoupling transactions and POW Development & Technical Discussion
Thanks for the explanation. I think I mostly understand what you propose, but I…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 19, 2013, 07:22:58 AM |
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Reminder: zero-conf is not safe; $500USD reward posted for replace-by-fee patch Development & Technical Discussion
Another compromise rule would be that double spending would result in both trans…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 19, 2013, 06:40:13 AM |
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Decoupling transactions and POW Development & Technical Discussion
If you have a transaction that is 100 blocks deep in the chain, it is very unlik…
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n/a | TierNolan | April 19, 2013, 06:00:48 AM |
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