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A proposal for fast POS transactions with Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
Hm. Yea, I've been pretty skeptical of ripple in general, but backed with bitcoi…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 14, 2011, 05:11:11 AM |
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ECDSA in python Development & Technical Discussion
Update: After enough hex-diving and specification documents, I figured out how…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 13, 2011, 05:25:59 PM |
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A proposal for fast POS transactions with Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
Ripple could use bitcoin to settle up, settling only when rippling failed or asy…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 13, 2011, 04:59:25 PM |
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A proposal for fast POS transactions with Bitcoin Development & Technical Discussion
IMHO this is the real issue that needs to be solved in a distributed and decentr…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 13, 2011, 02:24:37 PM |
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New crypto-currency Beertokens and it's Exchange Project Development
Ok, so you are basically a 100% reserve bank of whatever currencies you decide t…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 13, 2011, 02:11:13 PM |
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New crypto-currency Beertokens and it's Exchange Project Development
If you dont have direct control of the supply, you wont be able to control it fo…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 13, 2011, 08:07:22 AM |
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Cryptocurrency & sustainable taxation Economics
The max that can be paid out in an insurance claim is the buildings value. This…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 13, 2011, 04:19:13 AM |
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bitcoin symbol adjustment proposal Beginners & Help
I assume that people have gone through the entire unicode table ?I did a quick s…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 12, 2011, 03:54:21 PM |
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What EXACTLY means "longest" chain ? Development & Technical Discussion
There is no rule that the best chain is the one with the most blocks. It's the o…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 12, 2011, 01:36:57 PM |
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Cryptocurrency & sustainable taxation Economics
Nothing that complicated is required. Everyone can self assess their property va…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 12, 2011, 01:31:35 PM |
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What EXACTLY means "longest" chain ? Development & Technical Discussion
Each hash on itself is as hard as any other. The number of tries you need is pro…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 12, 2011, 10:56:30 AM |
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What EXACTLY means "longest" chain ? Development & Technical Discussion
The value of the block's hash is not a good measure for the amount of work that…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 12, 2011, 09:53:28 AM |
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What EXACTLY means "longest" chain ? Development & Technical Discussion
The weight of a block comes from its difficulty - namely the hash value it had t…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 12, 2011, 07:39:34 AM |
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Cryptocurrency & sustainable taxation Economics
Land value cannot be hidden. How about taxing land value?That is often the sugge…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 12, 2011, 07:29:30 AM |
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Cryptocurrency & sustainable taxation Economics
1. I have done work for people in exchange for Bitcoin already. I don't see any…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 12, 2011, 04:50:48 AM |
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What EXACTLY means "longest" chain ? Development & Technical Discussion
In your system, the reversal can happen several minutes later, and it can cause…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 12, 2011, 05:53:01 AM |
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What EXACTLY means "longest" chain ? Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, but it will tend to be a small portion of the network that is forkeds.With…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 11, 2011, 02:09:12 PM |
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What EXACTLY means "longest" chain ? Development & Technical Discussion
With a well-defined tie break rule, the number of reorganizations would be much…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 11, 2011, 09:34:37 AM |
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What EXACTLY means "longest" chain ? Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, but they won't have the same difficulty after the next block is received.Th…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 11, 2011, 06:10:31 AM |
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What EXACTLY means "longest" chain ? Development & Technical Discussion
The longest chain is defined as the one with the most proof-of-work.I am not sur…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 10, 2011, 05:13:25 PM |
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Cryptocurrency & sustainable taxation Economics
The vast majority of people will still be assessable for income tax. If you wor…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 07, 2011, 08:04:25 AM |
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Timestamp wrap around Development & Technical Discussion
Clarified that for ya.Yeah, thanks .
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n/a | TierNolan | July 07, 2011, 03:13:27 AM |
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Timestamp wrap around Development & Technical Discussion
This workaround you've proposed effectively makes it an unsigned 32-bit integer.…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 06, 2011, 03:15:53 PM |
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Timestamp wrap around Development & Technical Discussion
It's a good idea to read the source code before making posts like this.Hmm, I am…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 06, 2011, 11:30:47 AM |
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Distributed TX Lists and TX flooding defense. Development & Technical Discussion
If someone broadcasts an invalid transaction to the network (perhaps moving coin…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 06, 2011, 08:42:59 AM |
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Deflation and Bitcoin, the last word on this forum Economics
Holding currency has precisely the same disadvantage in either an inflationary o…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 06, 2011, 07:17:00 AM |
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Timestamp wrap around Development & Technical Discussion
Is there an official way to handle this?The current time counts in seconds since…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 06, 2011, 06:50:04 AM |
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Deflation and Bitcoin, the last word on this forum Economics
I think people underestimate "menu costs".It is hard for people to "think in bit…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 06, 2011, 03:45:21 AM |
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Distributed TX Lists and TX flooding defense. Development & Technical Discussion
I want to create an Android app that allows you to confirm receipt of your BTC,…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 06, 2011, 03:33:57 AM |
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Distributed TX Lists and TX flooding defense. Development & Technical Discussion
My understanding is that there is not currently a protocol for getting specific…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 05, 2011, 06:39:54 PM |
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I don't like Gavin's and Jeff's Bitcoin client - can I write my own? Wallet software
A C++ regression suite would be really, really useful to have. Though it's quite…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 05, 2011, 11:21:04 AM |
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IDEA: Anonymous, revocable transactions Development & Technical Discussion
The current client will refuse to put them into blocks that it mines. So they wo…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 05, 2011, 09:02:57 AM |
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IDEA: Anonymous, revocable transactions Development & Technical Discussion
This can easily be added to bitcoin without disruption, though it cannot be done…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 05, 2011, 06:35:38 AM |
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Instant TX for established business relationships (need replacements/nLockTime) Development & Technical Discussion
"This tx is spendable with a signature from party B, plus a value Y. If Y hashe…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 05, 2011, 06:21:20 AM |
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Dangerous bug in current client Development & Technical Discussion
I agree. Unless the decimal point is handled property (moved) bitcoin will neve…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 04, 2011, 10:39:29 AM |
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Forking the Blockchain for Bonds (25 BTC Bounty) Development & Technical Discussion
The bitcoin spec is pretty much already set down in stone. You can't allow bloc…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 04, 2011, 05:54:29 AM |
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Securing contingent claims Development & Technical Discussion
One problem with using the existing block chain is that it ties up BTC in escrow…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 04, 2011, 05:09:05 AM |
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Blind Bitcoin Transfers Bitcoin Discussion
Seriously, think about it before you read the next paragraph, and if you realize…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 02, 2011, 12:55:26 PM |
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How Paypal did it - Bitcoin should do the same - 10BTC Bounty for implementation Bitcoin Discussion
People have upload majority of the block chain. So download the file and stick i…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 01, 2011, 12:26:43 PM |
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Blind Bitcoin Transfers Bitcoin Discussion
Duncant, you say on your site that "The payout schedule for this service is not…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 01, 2011, 12:24:44 PM |
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How Paypal did it - Bitcoin should do the same - 10BTC Bounty for implementation Bitcoin Discussion
It would be better if they charged a small fee and sent the BTC back to a return…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 01, 2011, 12:13:57 PM |
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PC World Claims Counterfeit Bitcoins Bitcoin Discussion
Right, this is the key quote:QuoteThe fake Bitcoins and cash "existed inside Mt.…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 01, 2011, 11:54:54 AM |
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[50 BTC total bounty] for Groupcoin development and help Project Development
Who decides whether or not a miner has broken the rules?It is whoever controls t…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 01, 2011, 09:43:27 AM |
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How Paypal did it - Bitcoin should do the same - 10BTC Bounty for implementation Bitcoin Discussion
I think fast block chain setup is important too.Nothing says impulse buy like a…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 01, 2011, 09:03:35 AM |
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IRC server - alternative port option Development & Technical Discussion
? It's reliably much faster than IRC in my testing. It pretty much always gets c…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 01, 2011, 04:26:22 AM |
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Android Bitcoin Wallet Hardware wallets
Yes the blockchain handling in BitCoinJ needs a lot of work. It's not just stora…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 01, 2011, 04:25:13 AM |
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[ANNOUNCE] BitCoinJ/BitCoinSharp v0.2 Wallet software
BitcoinJ stores serialized StoredBlock objects to disk, without transaction data…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 01, 2011, 04:19:01 AM |
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P2P block download - use bit torrent like method Development & Technical Discussion
It will rescan for transactions.... but if the chain download lies to you and gi…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 30, 2011, 05:25:09 PM |
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Extending script and reserved opcodes Development & Technical Discussion
But why would you have a new opcode if there is already an existing "legacy" seq…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 30, 2011, 04:51:13 PM |
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P2P block download - use bit torrent like method Development & Technical Discussion
If you aren't verifying anything or looking for transactions that are relevant t…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 30, 2011, 04:56:01 PM |
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P2P block download - use bit torrent like method Development & Technical Discussion
I am downloading the chain again, and the process is at 90% CPU, so I guess I wa…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 30, 2011, 04:53:31 PM |
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P2P block download - use bit torrent like method Development & Technical Discussion
I'm pretty sure that verification time is the dominant factor when fetching a la…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 30, 2011, 04:43:15 PM |
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IRC server - alternative port option Development & Technical Discussion
I submittted a pull, maybe a waste if they are switching to DNS seeding.However,…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 30, 2011, 04:22:50 PM |
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Extending script and reserved opcodes Development & Technical Discussion
I updated the original post slightly.
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n/a | TierNolan | June 30, 2011, 02:43:42 PM |
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Extending script and reserved opcodes Development & Technical Discussion
(I updated this with suggestions from theymos)According to the wiki, a script wh…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 30, 2011, 05:44:05 AM |
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Extending script and reserved opcodes Development & Technical Discussion
Actually, I think it would work if there was just one OP_OP_ENABLE that takes a…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 30, 2011, 02:26:44 PM |
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Extending script and reserved opcodes Development & Technical Discussion
Old clients now have a different view of which blocks are valid. They are on a s…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 30, 2011, 12:54:31 PM |
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P2P block download - use bit torrent like method Development & Technical Discussion
That's a bit misleading.Part of the 80 bytes is the merkle root of the transacti…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 30, 2011, 12:49:42 PM |
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P2P block download - use bit torrent like method Development & Technical Discussion
As is pointed out in the posts, it might be much faster to download lots of smal…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 30, 2011, 10:46:59 AM |
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P2P block download - use bit torrent like method Development & Technical Discussion
I too think the speed of block chain downloading is an issue.Even you want to ve…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 30, 2011, 09:17:42 AM |
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P2P block download - use bit torrent like method Development & Technical Discussion
If you are downloading the headers with the intention of downloading all the ful…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 30, 2011, 08:32:22 AM |
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Blockchain growth is the biggest roadblock: use keyblocks Development & Technical Discussion
Once you have the headers for the entire chain, you can then ask for the blocks…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 30, 2011, 06:55:16 AM |
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P2P block download - use bit torrent like method Development & Technical Discussion
Isn't the reason that the blocks have to verified linear anyway? As in part of t…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 30, 2011, 06:25:43 AM |
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Blockchain growth is the biggest roadblock: use keyblocks Development & Technical Discussion
Bitcoin really needs a way to keep the blockchain and traffic at a reasonable si…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 30, 2011, 06:14:38 AM |
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P2P block download - use bit torrent like method Development & Technical Discussion
At the moment, the block chain is downloaded linearly. This places a large load…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 30, 2011, 06:08:43 AM |
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IRC server - alternative port option Development & Technical Discussion
Don't bother with the IRC bootstrapping. Add -dnsseed to your startup arguments…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 30, 2011, 05:45:25 AM |
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Majority Protected Wallet Storage Development & Technical Discussion
I guess I am really confused about how this would work. If I needed shares to r…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 29, 2011, 06:50:14 PM |
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Majority Protected Wallet Storage Development & Technical Discussion
Why do you need to generate a bunch of useless data to obscure the original wall…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 29, 2011, 05:36:25 PM |
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Majority Protected Wallet Storage Development & Technical Discussion
I created a c program that will do the shamir sharing system.This system generat…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 29, 2011, 04:15:07 PM |
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IRC server - alternative port option Development & Technical Discussion
The standard client connects to irc.lfnet.org for discovery. Some ISPs disable…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 29, 2011, 03:30:35 PM |
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Getwork RPC call question Development & Technical Discussion
Same getwork reqeuest as first one in this post, except params isn't empty and h…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 29, 2011, 02:49:42 PM |
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Deterministic wallets Development & Technical Discussion
Type-2 is a bit less obvious and understanding it requires you to know about a p…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 29, 2011, 11:15:03 AM |
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Getwork RPC call question Development & Technical Discussion
How does the RPC getwork system work?From the wiki:Quote [data] If [data] is…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 29, 2011, 09:23:27 AM |
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Explain lock time / replacing transactions Development & Technical Discussion
Basically if presented with 2 transactions then miners can randomly choose which…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 29, 2011, 04:30:34 AM |
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Deterministic wallets Development & Technical Discussion
Excuse me if I'm being a noob, but as I understand this system, it's basically g…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 28, 2011, 08:19:25 PM |
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Explain lock time / replacing transactions Development & Technical Discussion
Basically if presented with 2 transactions then miners can randomly choose which…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 28, 2011, 08:16:57 PM |
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[ANNOUNCE] BitCoinJ/BitCoinSharp v0.2 Wallet software
You can't verify a transaction by merely checking the inputs are valid. It could…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 28, 2011, 06:23:17 PM |
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Explain lock time / replacing transactions Development & Technical Discussion
Why would they need to know? If you changed everything in the transaction, what…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 28, 2011, 06:37:25 PM |
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[RFD] Bitcoin Deterministic wallet Development & Technical Discussion
I like this idea and agree with da2ce7. I would prefer an email address and stro…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 28, 2011, 02:13:48 PM |
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How to create a PULL request Development & Technical Discussion
For those of us that are ignorant, can somebody tell me what a PULL request in l…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 28, 2011, 11:19:39 AM |
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[RFD] Bitcoin Deterministic wallet Development & Technical Discussion
I wonder if this would work well when combined with a majority secured wallet.da…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 28, 2011, 09:46:09 AM |
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[ANNOUNCE] BitCoinJ/BitCoinSharp v0.2 Wallet software
It's intended that will be possible. It may even work today. I haven't tried it…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 28, 2011, 06:17:14 AM |
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[ANNOUNCE] BitCoinJ/BitCoinSharp v0.2 Wallet software
Sorry for so many questions, but is a pretty useful library.What is the thread s…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 27, 2011, 05:44:14 PM |
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Add option to add a fee to dead transactions Development & Technical Discussion
Ahh. The reason is probably because reusing keys is a bad idea, in general. Ma…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 27, 2011, 04:47:18 PM |
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Majority Protected Wallet Storage Development & Technical Discussion
Unless a way is found to break truecrypt encryption, then the wallets are very s…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 27, 2011, 04:35:31 PM |
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Add option to add a fee to dead transactions Development & Technical Discussion
Why isn't a dependent transaction which pays a fee all that is needed? This requ…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 27, 2011, 04:04:54 AM |
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Add option to add a fee to dead transactions Development & Technical Discussion
Ahh. The reason is probably because reusing keys is a bad idea, in general. Ma…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 26, 2011, 06:43:46 PM |
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Add option to add a fee to dead transactions Development & Technical Discussion
Say the first transaction is X+Y in and A+B out, with no fee so that X+Y == A+B.…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 26, 2011, 06:04:43 PM |
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Add option to add a fee to dead transactions Development & Technical Discussion
We absolutely cannot allow people to cancel unconfirmed transactions.If a transa…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 26, 2011, 05:36:34 PM |
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Add option to add a fee to dead transactions Development & Technical Discussion
What's interesting to me is that a receiver can add a fee by making a tx that is…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 26, 2011, 03:31:29 PM |
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Merkle tree of open transactions for lite mode? Development & Technical Discussion
No, transactions and their state are loaded from disk. Bitcoin does not keep tra…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 26, 2011, 04:51:09 PM |
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Merkle tree of open transactions for lite mode? Development & Technical Discussion
I had a look at the default client and it seems to operate as followsCode:Start:…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 26, 2011, 09:31:19 AM |
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Merkle tree of open transactions for lite mode? Development & Technical Discussion
Around the end of May there were about 150,000 transactions with spendable outpu…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 26, 2011, 08:32:13 AM |
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Add option to add a fee to dead transactions Development & Technical Discussion
In the general case, it is impossible to use the same outputs, as you may need m…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 26, 2011, 07:56:59 AM |
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Add option to add a fee to dead transactions Development & Technical Discussion
The problem I see here is that as long as the unwanted transaction is already ha…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 26, 2011, 06:37:28 AM |
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Add option to add a fee to dead transactions Development & Technical Discussion
I think the way it is supposed to work with the system the way it currently is,…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 26, 2011, 04:19:13 AM |
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Add option to add a fee to dead transactions Development & Technical Discussion
If a user sends a transaction with insufficient fees, it ends up lost in limbo a…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 25, 2011, 10:55:54 PM |
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Majority Protected Wallet Storage Development & Technical Discussion
A wallet.dat file could be split over multiple USB keys, such that as long as yo…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 25, 2011, 10:21:52 PM |
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Merkle tree of open transactions for lite mode? Development & Technical Discussion
Hm? I'm not asking for proof related to unconfirmed transactions, I'm asking fo…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 25, 2011, 08:20:06 PM |
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[RFC] Betcoin Project Development
dangerous idea: an anonymous censor resistant marketplace of user-created bets i…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 25, 2011, 04:17:05 PM |
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