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Consensus based block size retargeting algorithm Development & Technical Discussion
These are my thoughts about a possible way to adjust the Bitcoin block size limi…
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n/a | TierNolan | August 21, 2015, 06:22:35 PM |
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Economic majority voting Development & Technical Discussion
I just realised from a practical point of view, it might be easy to convince Mik…
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n/a | TierNolan | August 21, 2015, 08:30:17 AM |
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How exactly do off-chain microtransactions avoid total transaction fees? Development & Technical Discussion
It looks like they allow anyone to create an account on their system.You need to…
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n/a | TierNolan | August 20, 2015, 03:15:03 PM |
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Economic majority voting Development & Technical Discussion
A simple way to do it (which would require counterparty risk) is that there is s…
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n/a | TierNolan | August 20, 2015, 01:09:02 PM |
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Proposal for blockchain-based "transaction 2FA" / reversible transaction Development & Technical Discussion
Locktime by itself does not sound like a very interesting feature for short lock…
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n/a | TierNolan | August 20, 2015, 11:36:59 AM |
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Economic majority voting Development & Technical Discussion
In the block size fork, the proposal is to have the miners vote. However, the u…
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n/a | TierNolan | August 20, 2015, 11:18:09 AM |
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Proposal for blockchain-based "transaction 2FA" / reversible transaction Development & Technical Discussion
With the new locktime stuff, you could support this.Code:OP_IF OP_CHECKLOCK…
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n/a | TierNolan | August 20, 2015, 10:01:39 AM |
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How to Ensure Connection is made to Safe Software [XT / Core user decision] Development & Technical Discussion
A) How to make sure that you are actually connecting to a nodethat is running Co…
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n/a | TierNolan | August 20, 2015, 08:02:22 AM |
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Ideas for a new block header format Development & Technical Discussion
Considering all the recent block size drama, it's probably not a good idea to be…
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n/a | TierNolan | August 18, 2015, 07:07:35 AM |
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Random block size and the fee market Development & Technical Discussion
This helps nothing, if not making it worse. The chance of having a long chain of…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 28, 2015, 10:08:53 AM |
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Random block size and the fee market Development & Technical Discussion
Random does not imply dynamic, in your case the block size does not ramp up imme…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 27, 2015, 04:25:27 AM |
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Deleting abandoned UTXO Development & Technical Discussion
This defeats one of the purposes of the proposal: to prove that some coins are i…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 22, 2015, 06:12:35 PM |
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Deleting abandoned UTXO Development & Technical Discussion
A compromise would be to have a rule to allow UTXOs to be "revived". This would…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 21, 2015, 09:51:58 AM |
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Securing the network against miner fraud Development & Technical Discussion
Please elaborate more on fraud proof. How it works etc.They are proof that somet…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 20, 2015, 06:41:35 AM |
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Securing the network against miner fraud Development & Technical Discussion
Encouraging more people to run full nodes is often suggested as a good way to im…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 17, 2015, 06:57:12 AM |
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Safe(r) Deterministic Tie Breaking Development & Technical Discussion
50% is still much better than very low change you have on a late broadcast; I be…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 16, 2015, 06:09:01 PM |
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Safe(r) Deterministic Tie Breaking Development & Technical Discussion
When selecting a block to build on, miners are supposed to use these rules.Mine…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 16, 2015, 10:12:36 AM |
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How does bitcoin finely change the difficulty target..? Development & Technical Discussion
find a number smaller than 1 x 10 ^ 22I thinks I get it?Yes. The target is a fl…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 15, 2015, 12:49:46 PM |
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How does bitcoin finely change the difficulty target..? Development & Technical Discussion
AHHH, can you go into that a little more, what do you mean by under a certian ta…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 13, 2015, 06:16:01 PM |
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Armory - Discussion Thread Armory
nope. if you'd like to sweep coins from a privkey, your fsck'd.Well yeah, that's…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 13, 2015, 07:59:43 AM |
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The most repeated R value on the blockchain Development & Technical Discussion
SECP224K1 and SECP256K1 share the same 166 bit string doubled to produce the gen…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 13, 2015, 04:36:34 AM |
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"SPV Mining" or mining on invalidated blocks Development & Technical Discussion
It's not safe SPV clients; its surely less unsafe, but it still undermines the s…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 13, 2015, 04:21:23 AM |
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Armory - Discussion Thread Armory
Anyone tried yet is Armory compatible with the 0.11 core with pruned blockchain?…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 12, 2015, 06:15:07 PM |
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Double spend protection with replace by fee Development & Technical Discussion
And there is no scope for nodes to reject blocks containing double spends?They c…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 11, 2015, 04:45:48 AM |
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Random block size and the fee market Development & Technical Discussion
With a constant block size, your transaction is either above or below the BTC pe…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 11, 2015, 04:36:47 AM |
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Double spend protection with replace by fee Development & Technical Discussion
I thought "replace by fee" could already be hardened against double spending by…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 10, 2015, 12:51:28 PM |
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Double spend protection with replace by fee Development & Technical Discussion
Why can't the core protocol refuse to relay double spends?Double spenders could…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 10, 2015, 10:28:23 AM |
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Double spend protection with replace by fee Development & Technical Discussion
If a significant number of miners full replace by fee, then it makes it easier t…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 10, 2015, 09:40:11 AM |
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28 000 unconfirmed TXs Development & Technical Discussion
Ok I believe you now. I thought there is already an IP blacklist based DOS prote…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 08, 2015, 12:38:58 PM |
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"SPV Mining" or mining on invalidated blocks Development & Technical Discussion
does this mean a majority of the entire network and is what happened last night?…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 07, 2015, 05:42:37 PM |
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Hierarchical Multisignature Development & Technical Discussion
Does bitcoin have this? Obviously the math would differ in bitcoin possibly, i'…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 07, 2015, 04:07:55 AM |
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Transaction v3 (BIP 62) Development & Technical Discussion
That is interesting.It means that legacy transactions with high locktimes cannot…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 05, 2015, 01:31:43 PM |
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"SPV Mining" or mining on invalidated blocks Development & Technical Discussion
Does that mean that SPV miners would jump on the next block and verify it while…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 05, 2015, 03:38:14 PM |
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Transaction v3 (BIP 62) Development & Technical Discussion
And this seems the relevant part of BIP 66:QuoteThe requirement to have signatur…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 05, 2015, 02:25:21 PM |
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"SPV Mining" or mining on invalidated blocks Development & Technical Discussion
I am also of the opinion that SPV mining should me deincentivized... To begin wi…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 05, 2015, 01:53:38 PM |
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Reflections on the 4 July fork Development & Technical Discussion
I don't think such attack is practical. Attacker has to waste hashing power to m…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 05, 2015, 01:30:02 PM |
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"SPV Mining" or mining on invalidated blocks Development & Technical Discussion
I think this is the crucial calculation for someone who's running a big, non-spv…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 05, 2015, 01:28:01 PM |
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Reflections on the 4 July fork Development & Technical Discussion
If we allow miners to turn off the version immediately after the 95% vote, it is…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 05, 2015, 08:21:33 AM |
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"SPV Mining" or mining on invalidated blocks Development & Technical Discussion
do you guys think that current ASICs or GPUs could speed up block validation?Cu…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 05, 2015, 06:25:59 AM |
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Reflections on the 4 July fork Development & Technical Discussion
I think we can learn a lot from this lesson1. Good practice of SPV mining?Miner…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 04, 2015, 02:43:43 PM |
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"SPV Mining" or mining on invalidated blocks Development & Technical Discussion
How much hashing power was supporting the fork? I only saw AntMiner, F2Pool and…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 04, 2015, 02:27:19 PM |
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Bitcoin XT code enabling bigger blocks Development & Technical Discussion
https://github.com/gavinandresen/bitcoinxt/commit/821e223ccc4c8ab967399371761718…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 04, 2015, 02:05:51 PM |
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"SPV Mining" or mining on invalidated blocks Development & Technical Discussion
So, if I understand correctly, SPV mining when nobody is broadcasting forking bl…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 04, 2015, 12:53:52 PM |
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BIP 66 status Development & Technical Discussion
As far as I understand, this is how SPV mining should be done, but not how it wa…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 04, 2015, 07:38:25 AM |
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Numerically finding an optimal block size using decentralisation-utility Development & Technical Discussion
and that block data needs to be transferred a total of 10 times. This is reasona…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 04, 2015, 05:32:04 AM |
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BIP 66 status Development & Technical Discussion
Major pools doing "SPV mining" and trust any block on the longest chain. Really?…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 04, 2015, 05:16:16 AM |
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Pruning OP_RETURNs with illegal content Development & Technical Discussion
One way to help with this is to make P2SH mandatory.This means that the UTXO set…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 03, 2015, 10:31:50 AM |
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BIP 66 status Development & Technical Discussion
Pieter has updated the 2k graph to show the first possible time of 95% at v3.Tha…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 03, 2015, 08:54:57 AM |
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(Unrelated to block size) Hardfork proposal: OP_RETURNTRUE Development & Technical Discussion
With OP_RETURNTRUE, the scriptPubKey would become:Code: OP_CLTV OP_CHECKSIGAs a…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 02, 2015, 02:50:07 PM |
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(Unrelated to block size) Hardfork proposal: OP_RETURNTRUE Development & Technical Discussion
Not me, but majority of hashpower.Well right. I meant that new features could b…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 02, 2015, 11:06:02 AM |
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Does testnet get reset every now and then? Development & Technical Discussion
It doesn't get reset anymore. I think they used to reset it periodically before…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 02, 2015, 10:03:46 AM |
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(Unrelated to block size) Hardfork proposal: OP_RETURNTRUE Development & Technical Discussion
So, it can be used against old nodes (especially miner nodes)Right. That is how…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 02, 2015, 10:02:46 AM |
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BIP 66 status Development & Technical Discussion
From the looks of things I'd guess by Monday at the latest we will have BIP 66 e…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 02, 2015, 09:23:20 AM |
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(Unrelated to block size) Hardfork proposal: OP_RETURNTRUE Development & Technical Discussion
How do you want to change "OP_CLTV OP_DROP" to one "OP_RETURNTRUE"? Please write…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 02, 2015, 09:18:05 AM |
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(Unrelated to block size) Hardfork proposal: OP_RETURNTRUE Development & Technical Discussion
I don't think this is worth a hard fork but it is an interesting idea. It would…
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n/a | TierNolan | July 02, 2015, 06:29:45 AM |
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Partial validating nodes Development & Technical Discussion
A network of partially validating nodes would be very fast since each node only…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 30, 2015, 04:15:32 PM |
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Partial validating nodes Development & Technical Discussion
This is why I say fraud proof could be a DOS attack vector.The fraud proof itsel…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 29, 2015, 01:52:10 PM |
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Partial validating nodes Development & Technical Discussion
You can cover double spending and false minting with UTXO set commitments.You ne…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 29, 2015, 12:36:46 PM |
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Partial validating nodes Development & Technical Discussion
With increase in block size, it will become more difficult to run a full node. H…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 29, 2015, 06:08:08 AM |
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BIP 66 status Development & Technical Discussion
Minimum of 212 blocks until BIP66 enforcement right now (as of height 363020). B…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 29, 2015, 06:01:00 AM |
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BIP 66 status Development & Technical Discussion
P2Pool is dangerously lagging behind. As usual, for them it's more difficult to…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 28, 2015, 08:04:29 AM |
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A Scalability Roadmap Development & Technical Discussion
http://gtf.org/garzik/bitcoin/BIP100-blocksizechangeproposal.pdfTechnically, the…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 27, 2015, 10:17:59 AM |
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BIP 66 status Development & Technical Discussion
Looks like the last few miners are updating. It exceeded 94% for a moment. Hop…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 25, 2015, 01:13:50 PM |
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Multi-pass block validation Development & Technical Discussion
What happens if there are too many valid txs and are unable to fit in a bitcoin…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 25, 2015, 01:08:54 PM |
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Multi-pass block validation Development & Technical Discussion
Proof of publication systems require much less complex validation by miners. Mi…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 25, 2015, 12:07:37 PM |
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pruning mode on bitcoin core 0.11 - can i use P2Pool ? Development & Technical Discussion
I don't see why that wouldn't work. Pruning throws away information that is no…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 23, 2015, 09:58:24 AM |
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Bitcoin XT code enabling bigger blocks Development & Technical Discussion
8GB is about 1.5 tx per person per day, assuming 250bytes/tx and 7 billion peopl…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 22, 2015, 10:10:44 AM |
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Bitcoin XT code enabling bigger blocks Development & Technical Discussion
@TierNolan, I'm pretty sure I agree with you. You seem to be echoing my skeptic…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 22, 2015, 04:00:10 AM |
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Bitcoin XT code enabling bigger blocks Development & Technical Discussion
You can call the question silly or stupid, but it would have been more helpful i…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 21, 2015, 05:26:26 PM |
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QoS for bitcoind Development & Technical Discussion
I coded a basic QoS patch.There are 2 limits, an upload burst limit and a daily…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 21, 2015, 05:21:38 PM |
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UTXO commitments - Possible Problems? Development & Technical Discussion
Well this seems like a subtle (but serious) flaw. What you could end up with is…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 21, 2015, 05:58:33 AM |
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UTXO commitments - Possible Problems? Development & Technical Discussion
How do you know they will not deny the service?If you connect to 10 different no…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 20, 2015, 06:51:56 PM |
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Bitcoin XT code enabling bigger blocks Development & Technical Discussion
It has a max of 10 doublings, so 8GB blocks in 2036. It depends on how fast int…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 20, 2015, 04:21:51 PM |
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Bitcoin XT code enabling bigger blocks Development & Technical Discussion
So, 8MB and then doubling every 2 years.I think block height rather than timesta…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 20, 2015, 03:29:24 PM |
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60% of hashrate including 2 major exchanges agree to raise block size to 8MB Development & Technical Discussion
Latest as in 0.11? 0.10.x does not allow to run a node in pruning mode AFAIK.Rig…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 18, 2015, 03:30:14 PM |
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60% of hashrate including 2 major exchanges agree to raise block size to 8MB Development & Technical Discussion
20MB is way to much of a jump.. the Blockchain is already very large which preve…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 18, 2015, 02:21:06 PM |
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60% of hashrate including 2 major exchanges agree to raise block size to 8MB Development & Technical Discussion
I think 8MB is just a compromise between 1MB and 20MB.I think they are worried a…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 18, 2015, 03:24:31 AM |
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Confidential Transactions, Content privacy for Bitcoin transactions Development & Technical Discussion
Does this mean that only the amount of the transactions will be obfuscated but t…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 16, 2015, 01:18:28 PM |
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Why 21 million bitcoins? Why was ~that~ number chosen? Development & Technical Discussion
I think BIP42 is also relevant here. In fact, after having read through that BI…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 15, 2015, 12:15:28 PM |
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[1500 TH] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool Pools
Upon 95% of the hashrate having converted, the fork happens, and users that have…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 15, 2015, 10:23:43 AM |
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Recent breach at Blockchain.info -- Android App did a stupid. Service Discussion
They derived a class with a 'SetSeed' method that _mixed_ input with the RNG sta…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 12, 2015, 07:18:26 PM |
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Confidential Transactions, Content privacy for Bitcoin transactions Development & Technical Discussion
Well, 10000 BTC is too high, hell even 10 BTC would be rejected. Also if BTC add…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 11, 2015, 05:28:56 AM |
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Confidential Transactions, Content privacy for Bitcoin transactions Development & Technical Discussion
It's unfortunate how things turned out. only way this makes it in is if a ton o…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 11, 2015, 04:28:53 AM |
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Confidential Transactions, Content privacy for Bitcoin transactions Development & Technical Discussion
I don't understand how that works. CoinJoin works by rearranging input such that…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 10, 2015, 04:05:18 PM |
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Confidential Transactions, Content privacy for Bitcoin transactions Development & Technical Discussion
Since this hides transaction amounts doesn't this make CoinJoin impossible at th…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 10, 2015, 01:13:13 PM |
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Confidential Transactions, Content privacy for Bitcoin transactions Development & Technical Discussion
$ ./alpha-cli getnewaddress22E8QKHaTijFemPDwKvAk9qoTgagPfp8nBQiry87MMU1h2gQbF9xz…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 10, 2015, 06:05:46 AM |
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Compressed p2p communication Development & Technical Discussion
Just out of curiosity, I wonder why the Bitcoin p2p protocol doesn't support any…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 09, 2015, 05:43:02 PM |
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Elements Project testnet sidechain alpha released Development & Technical Discussion
I had a look at moving testnet BTC over and usability is low atm (command line s…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 09, 2015, 02:57:42 PM |
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Elements Project testnet sidechain alpha released Development & Technical Discussion
I think the project is really interesting but I can't see how it could work in m…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 09, 2015, 12:46:15 PM |
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Elements Project testnet sidechain alpha released Development & Technical Discussion
On the transfers, the functionaries are needed to release the funds back on test…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 09, 2015, 11:17:45 AM |
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Confidential Transactions, Content privacy for Bitcoin transactions Development & Technical Discussion
If this materializes, will we see two kinds of Bitcoins traded in exchanges, sta…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 09, 2015, 10:19:12 AM |
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Elements Project testnet sidechain alpha released Development & Technical Discussion
well, its difficulty is always 1 sooo in some sense, yes? Ahh right.QuoteAll no…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 09, 2015, 09:02:40 AM |
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Elements Project testnet sidechain alpha released Development & Technical Discussion
Use of the fedpeg results a centralized trust. OTOH, it gives security properti…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 09, 2015, 08:11:53 AM |
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Elements Project testnet sidechain alpha released Development & Technical Discussion
Why have signed blocks? Is that just to ensure (roughly) 10 mins per block, wit…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 09, 2015, 07:11:18 AM |
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Elements Project testnet sidechain alpha released Development & Technical Discussion
What happens if you run the node with the -testnet flag ?Is there a discussion…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 09, 2015, 05:57:06 AM |
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Are loans with interest possible with Bitcoin? Such as with scripts? Development & Technical Discussion
So, a script couldn't schedule new transactions to repay the principal + interes…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 08, 2015, 02:53:01 PM |
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How is an agreement on a BIP on GitHub reached? Development & Technical Discussion
I was under the impression that, moving forward, the process would be at least s…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 07, 2015, 04:38:00 AM |
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How is an agreement on a BIP on GitHub reached? Development & Technical Discussion
BIPs which don't cause hard forks do not need 95% miner support. That's true, th…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 05, 2015, 08:08:17 AM |
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How is an agreement on a BIP on GitHub reached? Development & Technical Discussion
The "Core developers decide if they will include the code". What if the communit…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 05, 2015, 06:00:51 AM |
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How is an agreement on a BIP on GitHub reached? Development & Technical Discussion
The process for a BIP is basically- discuss the feasibility of the BIP on the ma…
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n/a | TierNolan | June 05, 2015, 03:57:48 AM |
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