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Funding of network security with infinite block sizes Development & Technical Discussion
Why is this debacle so long and painful ? Maybe we should do one of these and if…
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n/a | TierNolan | March 27, 2013, 04:57:20 AM |
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Creating an "official" protocol specification for the Bitcoin internet currency Development & Technical Discussion
I agree, but what I think TierNolan was getting at, was just that the spec shoul…
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n/a | TierNolan | March 27, 2013, 04:54:38 AM |
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Creating an "official" protocol specification for the Bitcoin internet currency Development & Technical Discussion
Has anyone posted a bounty for this yet? I don't know enough about SW developme…
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n/a | TierNolan | March 26, 2013, 04:08:18 PM |
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Creating an "official" protocol specification for the Bitcoin internet currency Development & Technical Discussion
Meanwhile, there is still no formal specification. And the damn thing is compli…
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n/a | TierNolan | March 26, 2013, 08:14:01 AM |
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Funding of network security with infinite block sizes Development & Technical Discussion
I'd imagined that for most businesses they'd just constantly take part in the co…
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n/a | TierNolan | March 24, 2013, 03:12:44 PM |
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Funding of network security with infinite block sizes Development & Technical Discussion
If the system requires a hard-fork, you could just directly add it to the rules.…
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n/a | TierNolan | March 24, 2013, 12:28:17 PM |
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Multi-client verification for miners Development & Technical Discussion
To prevent forks, miners need to produce blocks that are accepted by all (or as…
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n/a | TierNolan | March 20, 2013, 02:43:44 PM |
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What Bitcoin Could Learn From Gnutella (or, why devs need a spanking) Development & Technical Discussion
Once there is a spec, then a spec evolution process (i.e. BIPs) would amend the…
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n/a | TierNolan | March 20, 2013, 04:37:49 AM |
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Is the 21 million bitcoin limit unchangeable? Development & Technical Discussion
That's not quite true. Version 1.0 didn't have a 1MB limit, but instead used the…
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n/a | TierNolan | March 19, 2013, 06:49:04 AM |
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What Bitcoin Could Learn From Gnutella (or, why devs need a spanking) Development & Technical Discussion
"Standardizing Bitcoin" is the top item in BF's charter https://bitcoinfoundatio…
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n/a | TierNolan | March 19, 2013, 04:09:06 AM |
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What Bitcoin Could Learn From Gnutella (or, why devs need a spanking) Development & Technical Discussion
An how would specification prevent what happened yesterday? Document the unknown…
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n/a | TierNolan | March 18, 2013, 05:46:22 AM |
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Now that we've reached the 250kb soft limit... Development & Technical Discussion
As a matter of fact, that is my current proposal on the table, with has met with…
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n/a | TierNolan | March 06, 2013, 02:28:19 PM |
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[ANN] M-of-N "Fragmented Backups" now in Armory (command-line only) Development & Technical Discussion
That's a good point about arbitrary-ness of the x-coord. I forget why I had ori…
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n/a | TierNolan | March 06, 2013, 02:24:31 PM |
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[ANN] M-of-N "Fragmented Backups" now in Armory (command-line only) Development & Technical Discussion
It looks like you store the x and the y coords for each fragment.My understandin…
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n/a | TierNolan | March 06, 2013, 02:15:17 PM |
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Improving Offline Wallets (i.e. cold-storage) Development & Technical Discussion
It is connected to my monitor, but it's not necessary to view the screen. The Pi…
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n/a | TierNolan | March 05, 2013, 04:40:33 PM |
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How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization Development & Technical Discussion
Another method for allowing an increase to the max block size would be to have c…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 28, 2013, 06:41:46 AM |
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How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization Development & Technical Discussion
You can't have anything such as "orphan rate" in a rule, as there is no consensu…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 28, 2013, 05:13:52 AM |
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How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization Development & Technical Discussion
But the miners would still need to check those blocks, and eventually so would e…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 27, 2013, 12:09:55 PM |
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How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization Development & Technical Discussion
I read your proposal, and could find no details about how a swarm client could a…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 27, 2013, 05:47:00 AM |
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Combining Bitcoin and the Ripple -> fast, scalable, decentralized and more Development & Technical Discussion
No, it's not about trust: the trust mainly comes from using reliable software, a…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 26, 2013, 04:22:13 PM |
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review of proposals for adaptive maximum block size Development & Technical Discussion
Even if miners only can ignore transactions, they will do so - including more tr…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 26, 2013, 09:31:09 AM |
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Combining Bitcoin and the Ripple -> fast, scalable, decentralized and more Development & Technical Discussion
This problem seems to be caused by my extremely rigid "no debts, no IOUs, no fra…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 25, 2013, 05:32:39 PM |
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Best method of changing the maximum block size Development & Technical Discussion
What about a rule that tries to maximize tx fees for miners.Every second difficu…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 25, 2013, 12:06:53 PM |
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Best method of changing the maximum block size Development & Technical Discussion
Another thing to consider (mentioned in the bumped thread on the issue) is to ha…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 25, 2013, 11:36:04 AM |
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Economics of block size limit Development & Technical Discussion
1) leave it alone2) vote in the block chain3) Base it on some metricAdding a for…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 25, 2013, 06:35:15 AM |
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Best method of changing the maximum block size Development & Technical Discussion
That's a ridiculous argument because this risk has existed for four years alread…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 25, 2013, 06:17:00 AM |
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Penalizing double spends Development & Technical Discussion
Double spends also happen by accident and the only people that you want to prote…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 25, 2013, 05:05:58 AM |
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Best method of changing the maximum block size Development & Technical Discussion
20% only when 2016 blocks are over 80% full. That cannot be gamed by anyone.Sure…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 25, 2013, 04:46:39 AM |
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Penalizing double spends Development & Technical Discussion
One way to apply a penalty would be to allow double spends to be converted to tr…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 25, 2013, 04:44:41 AM |
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How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization Development & Technical Discussion
Is there a way of merged mining without having to "centralise" the chains to be…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 24, 2013, 02:54:06 PM |
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How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization Development & Technical Discussion
Have you encountered the term "merged mining" yet?Yes, and the lower chains woul…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 24, 2013, 09:27:31 AM |
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How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization Development & Technical Discussion
You know what would be almost functionally equivalent. Release bitcoin2 as soon…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 22, 2013, 11:32:30 AM |
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How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization Development & Technical Discussion
What about multiple blockchains? And i dont mean competing blockchains, i mean o…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 22, 2013, 09:51:31 AM |
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Economics of block size limit Development & Technical Discussion
Say, "block version 3 increases limit to 2 Mb". Miners who agree with that will…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 22, 2013, 09:14:34 AM |
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I do not want blockchain data stored under Application Data folder, how to Development & Technical Discussion
Adding a "Data directory" field in the options I guess.That way only maybe a "da…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 22, 2013, 05:27:05 AM |
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How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization Development & Technical Discussion
As a slight tweak on the pay for space rule, what about making it exponential.Wh…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 22, 2013, 04:41:48 AM |
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Allowing new blocks to be prepared ahead of time Development & Technical Discussion
80 minutes for first confirmation is going to go down real well with the we want…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 21, 2013, 05:00:23 PM |
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Allowing new blocks to be prepared ahead of time Development & Technical Discussion
Under the current rule, you can't create new blocks ahead of time. Once the new…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 21, 2013, 12:26:48 PM |
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Spending coinbase outputs in the same block? Development & Technical Discussion
No. You need to wait 100-120 blocks before you may spend a coinbase output.Ahh…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 21, 2013, 11:23:23 AM |
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Spending coinbase outputs in the same block? Development & Technical Discussion
Is that allowed?I am thinking of schemes that need a number of transactions with…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 21, 2013, 11:20:22 AM |
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Using simplified payment system to support a chain hierarchy Development & Technical Discussion
In the thread on the block size, markm suggested multiple chains as an alternati…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 20, 2013, 10:18:35 AM |
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[ANN] bitcoinj 0.7 released Development & Technical Discussion
I don't understand your proposal I'm afraid. The networking code is already a se…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 20, 2013, 07:10:41 AM |
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[ANN] bitcoinj 0.7 released Development & Technical Discussion
No, it's not a permanent situation. The level of effort taken to find and elimin…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 20, 2013, 06:32:56 AM |
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How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization Development & Technical Discussion
One reasonable concern is that if there is no "block size pressure" transaction…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 20, 2013, 04:22:13 AM |
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[ANN] bitcoinj 0.7 released Development & Technical Discussion
You mention on your site that the new "full node" operation is very likely to ha…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 19, 2013, 08:17:30 PM |
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How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization Development & Technical Discussion
Here's an idea: Reject blocks larger than 1 megabyte that do not include a total…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 19, 2013, 11:19:03 AM |
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How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteThis raises the issue of exchange rates between chains. A user might see t…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 19, 2013, 09:37:00 AM |
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How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization Development & Technical Discussion
Basically it allows the existing hashing power to secure more stuff, with each c…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 19, 2013, 09:03:10 AM |
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BIP: Increasing the Network Hashing Power by reducing block propagation time Development & Technical Discussion
What you are proposing is a relay rule, so the issue is really what % of hashing…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 19, 2013, 08:30:48 AM |
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BIP: Increasing the Network Hashing Power by reducing block propagation time Development & Technical Discussion
Hmm, I have to say I don't really like this proposal. Orphaned blocks are not re…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 19, 2013, 05:29:00 AM |
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How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization Development & Technical Discussion
So we need a maximum block size that is high enough that the vast majority of no…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 19, 2013, 05:57:47 AM |
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P2P database storage Development & Technical Discussion
Summary- All network data storage is a map of the form hash(data) -> data- This…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 18, 2013, 08:22:18 AM |
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Number of clients in the network Development & Technical Discussion
http://blockchain.info/nodes-globe?series=onlineNowhttp://blockchain.info/ip-log…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 17, 2013, 07:58:12 PM |
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Number of clients in the network Development & Technical Discussion
Is there an estimate of how many clients there are in the network?
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n/a | TierNolan | February 17, 2013, 06:30:37 PM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
As an aside, roughly, what is the total number of unspent transaction outputs at…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 15, 2013, 10:24:53 PM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
Are transactions with 0 in 0 out allowed under the spec?They sure are! The only…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 15, 2013, 05:04:18 PM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
If it looks like the sparse, lower-level nodes have 256 pointers, you're looking…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 14, 2013, 08:41:06 AM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
I was thinking about proving that the alt chain is correct for the light weight…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 14, 2013, 05:33:03 AM |
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Rollover transaction fees Development & Technical Discussion
This doesn't make sense to me. Why would anyone choose the lower value strategy?…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 14, 2013, 04:25:01 AM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
As for the comment about node overhead: I couldnt' follow your math (looks like…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 13, 2013, 10:30:31 AM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
Not much time to respond now, but I wanted to point out the the PATRICIA tree co…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 13, 2013, 09:39:06 AM |
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Hash compression for lower variance p2p pool Development & Technical Discussion
I was reading up on P2Pool and an alternative pool chain is a cool idea.However,…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 13, 2013, 08:34:28 AM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
Take your example of adding a million transactions, which is unrealistic anyway…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 12, 2013, 08:39:22 PM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
Actually, here is an idea that could work: rather than making the generated UTXO…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 12, 2013, 05:30:28 PM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
You just can-not assume that hashes calculated directly from data that an attack…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 12, 2013, 03:47:18 PM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
You can't make that assumption because an attacker might create a bunch of trans…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 12, 2013, 03:00:05 PM |
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Rollover transaction fees Development & Technical Discussion
Can you help me see my contradiction in the first part? If miners know they'll b…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 12, 2013, 02:39:39 PM |
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Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes Development & Technical Discussion
Have you considered that since the hashes are well distributed, you could mostly…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 12, 2013, 12:49:51 PM |
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Rollover transaction fees Development & Technical Discussion
I expect building on the latest block will continue to be the norm, but for diff…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 12, 2013, 11:14:03 AM |
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Rollover transaction fees Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, I totally get the idea of passing some on as incentive to the next miner. I…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 11, 2013, 06:53:28 PM |
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Rollover transaction fees Development & Technical Discussion
Unless you are meaning something I can't think of, anyone who sees the block tha…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 10, 2013, 06:59:34 PM |
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Rollover transaction fees Development & Technical Discussion
I was trying to think how to pay someone for choosing to build on your block usi…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 10, 2013, 05:20:34 PM |
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Rollover transaction fees Development & Technical Discussion
One way to pass fees forward would be to have a transaction that is unprotected.…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 09, 2013, 02:49:56 PM |
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The bitcoin and amazon merger Speculation
Why would they buy bitcoins before they started accepting them?If they bought 1…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 09, 2013, 11:28:43 AM |
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Proof of burn - a potential alternative to proof of work and proof of stake Altcoin Discussion
Why do you need the external randomness?Couldn't you just have the "simulated ri…
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n/a | TierNolan | February 09, 2013, 11:05:52 AM |
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Cryptocurrency & sustainable taxation Economics
These "honest nodes" uphold the rules outlined by Satoshi. This could change in…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 18, 2011, 07:11:33 AM |
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Forking the Blockchain for Bonds (25 BTC Bounty) Development & Technical Discussion
You may want to investigate if contracts and scripts can do what you want. I thi…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 16, 2011, 12:29:32 PM |
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Securing contingent claims Development & Technical Discussion
What would the rules be for deciding whether the contingent claim produced bit…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 15, 2011, 06:13:23 PM |
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P2P block download - use bit torrent like method Development & Technical Discussion
Right, but so what? Just because the header is valid you cannot conclude the blo…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 15, 2011, 10:23:30 AM |
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P2P block download - use bit torrent like method Development & Technical Discussion
I'm suggesting having a deep queue of the next blocks ready for verification so…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 15, 2011, 03:43:05 AM |
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P2P block download - use bit torrent like method Development & Technical Discussion
That creates a chicken and egg problem. You can't know the correct block X until…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 14, 2011, 07:31:57 PM |
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P2P block download - use bit torrent like method Development & Technical Discussion
Now you're trying to do this 136,000 times. That's 18 hours at 2 blocks per seco…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 14, 2011, 05:58:20 PM |
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Bitcoin Currency Symbol ฿ Bitcoin Discussion
Of course, I may be wrong.I don't think you are .
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n/a | TierNolan | July 14, 2011, 02:56:48 PM |
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New crypto-currency Beertokens and it's Exchange Project Development
I dunno, he's clearly put in some effort. What is definitely serious is the inf…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 14, 2011, 01:20:35 PM |
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Bitcoin Currency Symbol ฿ Bitcoin Discussion
Someone just needs to black and white that, throw it in a font program, clean it…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 14, 2011, 11:57:48 AM |
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A proposal for fast POS transactions with Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
Sure, except it happens in real-time.There must be some kind of timeout. If I p…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 14, 2011, 11:47:11 AM |
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Forking the Blockchain for Bonds (25 BTC Bounty) Development & Technical Discussion
i will give you an important pointer. If you do not allow for artificial roadblo…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 14, 2011, 10:29:36 AM |
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A proposal for fast POS transactions with Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
http://ripple-project.org/Protocol/Protocol05You should add a packet length fiel…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 14, 2011, 10:13:56 AM |
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A proposal for fast POS transactions with Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
This is enough if all the nodes remain online and they are all well-behaved, but…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 14, 2011, 10:11:26 AM |
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[Automatic] Building windows client from sources Development & Technical Discussion
Relevant lines for pulling updates and re-building bitcoin:Code:for /F "delims="…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 14, 2011, 09:42:10 AM |
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A proposal for fast POS transactions with Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
and also to process transactions atomically, which is probably actually a harder…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 14, 2011, 09:40:32 AM |
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Bitcoin Currency Symbol ฿ Bitcoin Discussion
mm.. it is hard at that scale.I tried with the hash at the base:1.00 icon size a…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 14, 2011, 09:36:05 AM |
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Bots have stalled Bitcoin trading on MtGox @ $14.02 Speculation
Or, unless the bots belong to the same people, and it's the same BTC going back…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 14, 2011, 08:43:23 AM |
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Forking the Blockchain for Bonds (25 BTC Bounty) Development & Technical Discussion
Bonds pay positive real interest even with 0% risk. Bonds are difficult to spend…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 14, 2011, 08:37:44 AM |
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[Automatic] Building windows client from sources Development & Technical Discussion
I would suggest breaking it into 2 batch files. The first one would be to creat…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 14, 2011, 07:19:01 AM |
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A proposal for fast POS transactions with Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteI think manual routing is worse than having a central server do it (unless…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 14, 2011, 07:17:06 AM |
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Forking the Blockchain for Bonds (25 BTC Bounty) Development & Technical Discussion
Make each block a mixture of 50 coins of different maturities. (e.g. 25% reg coi…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 14, 2011, 07:00:53 AM |
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New crypto-currency Beertokens and it's Exchange Project Development
But if you are fixing the price to another currency, why not hold the other curr…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 14, 2011, 05:59:58 AM |
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Ukbx -- deterministic private key generator Development & Technical Discussion
There are two threads on "deterministic wallet" and one has a way to allow gener…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 14, 2011, 05:56:55 AM |
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A proposal for fast POS transactions with Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
I agree. I think that a Bitcoin-specific Ripple system has lots of promise. I ha…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 14, 2011, 05:25:56 AM |
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