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Helix Blockchain
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Helix Blockchain by TierNolan
This is a system which consists of 4 (or more) parallel chains.  Coins can exist…
n/a TierNolan Today at 01:18:46 AM
Timestamp wrap around
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Timestamp wrap around by TierNolan
Is there an official way to handle this?The current time counts in seconds since…
n/a TierNolan December 29, 2024, 01:15:03 PM
Alt chains and atomic transfers
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Alt chains and atomic transfers by TierNolan
One of the big benefits of colored coins is that the transactions are atomic.You…
n/a TierNolan December 25, 2024, 12:22:40 PM
Network time
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Network time by TierNolan
The current system for checking time is to use the median of connected nodes.  T…
n/a TierNolan December 30, 2024, 06:31:41 PM
merkle tree order of hashes
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merkle tree order of hashes by TierNolan
According to the paper, if you have 4 transactions, then the procedure is12 = Ha…
n/a TierNolan December 25, 2024, 06:04:12 AM
Changing N on the fly for a PPLNS system
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Changing N on the fly for a PPLNS system by TierNolan
Has there been any pools that have varied N on the fly.  For example, a pool mig…
n/a TierNolan December 24, 2024, 08:33:23 PM
Simple proof of stake rule
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Simple proof of stake rule by TierNolan
If a transactions sigScript starts with " ...", then it counts as a stake commit…
n/a TierNolan December 30, 2024, 10:35:49 AM
Changing the re-targeting rules with a soft fork
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Changing the re-targeting rules with a soft fork by TierNolan
At first thoughts, this would be impossible.  However, the rule for a soft fork…
n/a TierNolan December 24, 2024, 12:48:46 AM
Release of the secp256k1 library?
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Release of the secp256k1 library? by TierNolan
Is there a formal release of the secp256k1 library?  The github repo just has a…
n/a TierNolan December 30, 2024, 11:02:14 PM
Changing N in a PPLNS scheme
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Changing N in a PPLNS scheme by TierNolan
The idea behind a PPLNS (pay per last N shares) scheme is that instead of gettin…
n/a TierNolan Today at 01:13:04 AM
Block relay when pruning
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Block relay when pruning by TierNolan
I was looking at the block relay code in master.Code:            // Don't relay…
n/a TierNolan December 30, 2024, 04:28:38 AM
Detecting lost records in distributed hash tables
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Detecting lost records in distributed hash tables by TierNolan
Distributed hash tables (DHTs) are a way to store key -> value pairs in a dis…
n/a TierNolan December 28, 2024, 04:11:32 AM
Is the --satoshi-port command line argument disabled?
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Is the --satoshi-port command line argument disabled? by TierNolan
I have a node running on a non-standard port and am trying to get Armory to conn…
n/a TierNolan October 16, 2024, 11:37:45 PM
Why include any transactions?
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Why include any transactions? by TierNolan
Could a miner not just create "blank" blocks which just pay themselves the 50BTC…
n/a TierNolan December 30, 2024, 05:33:20 AM
Multi-pass block validation
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Multi-pass block validation by TierNolan
Proof of publication systems require much less complex validation by miners.  Mi…
n/a TierNolan December 29, 2024, 08:46:55 PM
Allowing new blocks to be prepared ahead of time
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Allowing new blocks to be prepared ahead of time by TierNolan
Under the current rule, you can't create new blocks ahead of time.  Once the new…
n/a TierNolan December 29, 2024, 08:28:25 AM
Pruning and automatic checkpointing
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Pruning and automatic checkpointing by TierNolan
One of the disadvantages with pruning is that you have re-download everything fo…
n/a TierNolan December 27, 2024, 08:14:31 PM
Script to pay if alt-chain authorizes it
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Script to pay if alt-chain authorizes it by TierNolan
Coloured coins and SIGHASH types allow the main chain to be used for trading fia…
n/a TierNolan November 29, 2024, 06:58:37 PM
Address forwarding
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Address forwarding by TierNolan
I was looking at the "addr" message forwarding rules.The rule is to randomly sel…
n/a TierNolan December 05, 2024, 02:17:12 PM
Feature request - receive only wallet.dat file
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Feature request - receive only wallet.dat file by TierNolan
The idea is that the client should create 2 fileswallet.dat -> as nowwallet_r…
n/a TierNolan December 28, 2024, 12:17:26 PM
Unwatching thread you posted in
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Unwatching thread you posted in by TierNolan
Is it possible to remove threads you posted in from the watch-list/notification?…
n/a TierNolan December 26, 2024, 07:59:22 AM
Closing ArmoryDB cleanly
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Closing ArmoryDB cleanly by TierNolan
Is it possible to issue an instruction to ArmoryDB to do a clean shutdown?  Some…
n/a TierNolan December 30, 2024, 07:37:09 AM
Micro payment hubs
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Micro payment hubs by TierNolan
The issue with using channels for micropayments is setting them up.At 0.0001BTC…
n/a TierNolan December 29, 2024, 06:47:08 PM
Extending script and reserved opcodes
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Extending script and reserved opcodes by TierNolan
(I updated this with suggestions from theymos)According to the wiki, a script wh…
n/a TierNolan November 29, 2024, 10:59:04 AM
QoS for bitcoind
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QoS for bitcoind by TierNolan
A deterrent for running a bitcoind node on a home connection is the potential ne…
n/a TierNolan September 20, 2022, 12:05:51 AM
Malleability, deposits and atomic cross chain transfers
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Malleability, deposits and atomic cross chain transfers by TierNolan
Atomic cross-chain transactions require refund transactions to be created.  Tran…
n/a TierNolan December 22, 2024, 05:14:24 AM
Contingency plans
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Contingency plans by TierNolan
On the wiki, there are various contingency plans.The 2 big ones are ECDSA break…
n/a TierNolan December 26, 2024, 03:22:21 PM
Sending large blocks
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Sending large blocks by TierNolan
In the bitcoin network protocol, messages are limited to 32MB.  The entire messa…
n/a TierNolan December 30, 2024, 07:05:33 AM
OP_VERIFY question
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OP_VERIFY question by TierNolan
The description for OP_VERIFY is "Marks transaction as invalid if top stack valu…
n/a TierNolan December 21, 2024, 03:44:01 AM
Gitian windows compile on ubuntu
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Gitian windows compile on ubuntu by TierNolan
I am trying to compile using gitian using Ubuntu (so cross-compile for windows).…
n/a TierNolan December 25, 2024, 12:36:20 PM
P2P block download - use bit torrent like method
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P2P block download - use bit torrent like method by TierNolan
At the moment, the block chain is downloaded linearly.  This places a large load…
n/a TierNolan December 18, 2024, 10:19:35 PM
Compartmentalization of verification
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Compartmentalization of verification by TierNolan
Ideally, for SPV nodes to help with verification, verification steps should be c…
n/a TierNolan February 12, 2021, 02:54:57 PM
Using the confidential transaction sum for proof of reserves
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Using the confidential transaction sum for proof of reserves by TierNolan
It is possible for an exchange to prove their total reserves using a Merkle tree…
n/a TierNolan December 29, 2024, 10:26:00 AM
Getwork RPC call question
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Getwork RPC call question by TierNolan
How does the RPC getwork system work?From the wiki:Quote [data]     If [data] is…
n/a TierNolan December 28, 2024, 03:54:14 PM
Deterministic tie breaking of >2 length forks
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Deterministic tie breaking of >2 length forks by TierNolan
When 2 blocks arrive at around the same time, the rule is to break the tie in fa…
n/a TierNolan December 28, 2024, 10:06:31 PM
Does OP_CODESEPARATOR serve any purpose?
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Does OP_CODESEPARATOR serve any purpose? by TierNolan
I was looking at the new signature method for segregated witness and it preserve…
n/a TierNolan December 27, 2024, 07:50:15 PM
Safe(r) Deterministic Tie Breaking
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Safe(r) Deterministic Tie Breaking by TierNolan
When selecting a block to build on, miners are supposed to use these rules.Mine…
n/a TierNolan December 28, 2024, 02:43:37 AM
Double spend protection with replace by fee
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Double spend protection with replace by fee by TierNolan
If a significant number of miners full replace by fee, then it makes it easier t…
n/a TierNolan Today at 01:24:48 AM
Securing the network against miner fraud
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Securing the network against miner fraud by TierNolan
Encouraging more people to run full nodes is often suggested as a good way to im…
n/a TierNolan December 28, 2024, 09:27:55 PM
Detecting and handling forking events
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Detecting and handling forking events by TierNolan
One of the points that is often raised is that bitcoin solves the "distributed c…
n/a TierNolan December 28, 2024, 12:12:22 PM
ASIC flexibility
in Hardware
ASIC flexibility by TierNolan
I asked this in another thread, but figured the question could do with its own.H…
n/a TierNolan November 06, 2024, 08:05:02 AM
Handling hash drop off
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Handling hash drop off by TierNolan
I was thinking about possible way to get "real" time into the calculations for h…
n/a TierNolan December 30, 2024, 03:02:47 PM
Consensus supported sequence numbers
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Consensus supported sequence numbers by TierNolan
Sequence numbers are currently not enforceable by Bitcoin.  If two transactions…
n/a TierNolan December 28, 2024, 01:58:35 PM
Testing so that opcodes can be re-enabled
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Testing so that opcodes can be re-enabled by TierNolan
From here, Gavin says that re-enabling disabled opcode (and adding new ones) req…
n/a TierNolan December 28, 2024, 10:32:57 AM
Multi-language consensus library
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Multi-language consensus library by TierNolan
The "consensus" critical part of bitcoin is being split into a separate library.…
n/a TierNolan December 29, 2024, 02:11:46 AM
Propagating orphan block headers
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Propagating orphan block headers by TierNolan
According to the official protocol rules, when a node receives a block that exte…
n/a TierNolan December 28, 2024, 12:59:47 PM
Getblocktemplate question
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Getblocktemplate question by TierNolan
What is the process for submitting a share with getblocktemplate?The "submitbloc…
n/a TierNolan December 26, 2024, 06:13:59 AM
Parallel Soft-fork Handling
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Parallel Soft-fork Handling by TierNolan
The system for handling soft forks is to increment the block version.  Since the…
n/a TierNolan December 30, 2024, 08:25:25 PM
Vanity address support
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Vanity address support by TierNolan
Have you considered implementing support for vanity addresses?Granted they inher…
n/a TierNolan December 22, 2024, 10:45:36 PM
Generic client tester
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Generic client tester by TierNolan
This may have already been created, but in addition to each client software havi…
n/a TierNolan December 30, 2024, 05:38:55 PM
Ensuring valid OS image for offline computer
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Ensuring valid OS image for offline computer by TierNolan
When using a micro-computer for offline signing, the first step is to burn an SD…
n/a TierNolan December 22, 2024, 01:20:25 AM
Transaction id hashing and var_ints
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Transaction id hashing and var_ints by TierNolan
The transaction serialization contains various var_int fields.  This means that…
n/a TierNolan December 30, 2024, 07:41:31 PM
Add option to add a fee to dead transactions
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Add option to add a fee to dead transactions by TierNolan
If a user sends a transaction with insufficient fees, it ends up lost in limbo a…
n/a TierNolan December 27, 2024, 05:35:35 AM
Multi-client verification for miners
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Multi-client verification for miners by TierNolan
To prevent forks, miners need to produce blocks that are accepted by all (or as…
n/a TierNolan December 30, 2024, 11:28:48 PM
Updating block version
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Updating block version by TierNolan
BIP 34 established the rules for updating the block version.If 75% of the networ…
n/a TierNolan December 29, 2024, 04:20:06 PM
Limited use proof of burn system
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Limited use proof of burn system by TierNolan
This would be a modified version of the proof of burn system.Each mining "rig" w…
n/a TierNolan December 26, 2024, 09:12:30 AM
Windows signature checking with cygwin
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Windows signature checking with cygwin by TierNolan
I was trying to check the windows signature with Cygwin and gpg.Is this a reason…
n/a TierNolan December 27, 2024, 05:32:16 PM
Version field in the getheaders message
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Version field in the getheaders message by TierNolan
What is the purpose of this field?  Was it intended to only get headers of a par…
n/a TierNolan Today at 01:26:51 AM
Wallet unlock issue
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Wallet unlock issue by TierNolan
I have a paper backup, so this is not a critical problem.I generated around 1000…
n/a TierNolan December 22, 2024, 06:57:37 PM
Merkle Sum Tree Proposal
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Merkle Sum Tree Proposal by TierNolan
In another thread, I suggested that the upcoming hard fork for block size is a o…
n/a TierNolan December 29, 2024, 05:24:16 PM
Standard P2SH encoding for standard transactions
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Standard P2SH encoding for standard transactions by TierNolan
Has something like this been considered?A standard receive scriptPubKey is of th…
n/a TierNolan December 27, 2024, 06:42:12 PM
Block propagation latency with Odd/Even transaction outputs
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Block propagation latency with Odd/Even transaction outputs by TierNolan
The main benefit of the IBLT system is that it allows fast propagation of blocks…
n/a TierNolan December 30, 2024, 10:09:35 PM
0.9 Malleability Fix - isStandard() changes
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0.9 Malleability Fix - isStandard() changes by TierNolan
The changes were to the isStandard() check.  The extra protection only helps if…
n/a TierNolan December 19, 2024, 09:37:41 AM
Discovery of nodes that support custom services
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Discovery of nodes that support custom services by TierNolan
This BIP describes a way to support custom services.It is only at the draft stag…
n/a TierNolan December 27, 2024, 02:15:39 PM
Is there a maximum transaction size?
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Is there a maximum transaction size? by TierNolan
Is there a maximum transaction size, other than requiring that it fits in a bloc…
n/a TierNolan December 30, 2024, 04:33:00 AM
P2P database storage
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P2P database storage by TierNolan
Summary- All network data storage is a map of the form hash(data) -> data- Th…
n/a TierNolan December 20, 2024, 10:21:22 PM
fastblockrelay
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fastblockrelay by TierNolan
{--blS2PvYyKyzEHhjidsesFzWvWP7RIUotADWiM25TNqM14m60SfVYZzIONukB--:quote:2922718}…
n/a TierNolan December 30, 2024, 05:12:45 PM
Some feature requests
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Some feature requests by TierNolan
I had a fun weekend last week trying to manage multiple coins with all the airdr…
n/a TierNolan December 29, 2024, 02:56:05 PM
Capping the rate of growth of the UTXO set
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Capping the rate of growth of the UTXO set by TierNolan
This came up in the thread about the new rule that transactions with very low ou…
n/a TierNolan December 29, 2024, 09:34:29 PM
Consolidate coins to a single output
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Consolidate coins to a single output by TierNolan
I have an address I have been using mining and it has lots of coins.Once I spend…
n/a TierNolan November 19, 2024, 12:50:38 AM
Soft fork to implement SIGHASH_WITHINPUTVALUE
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Soft fork to implement SIGHASH_WITHINPUTVALUE by TierNolan
SIGHASH_WITHINPUTVALUE is a hard fork that allows signing an output that is only…
n/a TierNolan December 29, 2024, 04:47:10 PM
Double spending insurance
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Double spending insurance by TierNolan
I was thinking about a protocol for protecting against double spending.  It woul…
n/a TierNolan December 23, 2024, 07:13:57 PM
Broadcasting all headers that are at least 6 blocks deep
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Broadcasting all headers that are at least 6 blocks deep by TierNolan
When a miner finds a block, he could broadcast the block header immediately.  It…
n/a TierNolan December 28, 2024, 02:04:36 AM
Block write to disk
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Block write to disk by TierNolan
I was looking through main.cpp and it looks like bitcoin core writes unverified…
n/a TierNolan December 20, 2024, 03:59:27 AM
Fixed seed nodes
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Fixed seed nodes by TierNolan
There is an array of IP addresses encoded into the client (here)Where did the li…
n/a TierNolan December 23, 2024, 01:11:22 PM
Fixed length loops for scripts
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Fixed length loops for scripts by TierNolan
One of the reason not to allow loops is that it makes it harder to work out how…
n/a TierNolan December 30, 2024, 08:50:34 AM
Recovering from a drop in hashing power
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Recovering from a drop in hashing power by TierNolan
If hashing power drops suddenly, then the block generation rate also falls off,…
n/a TierNolan Today at 03:41:38 AM
Permanent lightning channel without malleability fix
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Permanent lightning channel without malleability fix by TierNolan
This is a protocol for opening a permanent lightning channel even if malleabilit…
n/a TierNolan December 29, 2024, 12:34:47 AM
What restrictions are placed on the header by ASICs?
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What restrictions are placed on the header by ASICs? by TierNolan
What restrictions does mining hardware place on the Bitcoin block header?Can you…
n/a TierNolan December 30, 2024, 07:53:23 AM
Number of clients in the network
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Number of clients in the network by TierNolan
Is there an estimate of how many clients there are in the network?
n/a TierNolan December 26, 2024, 03:06:17 PM
SPV-grade block provider
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SPV-grade block provider by TierNolan
One of the functions of full nodes is to provide Bloom filtered data to SPV clie…
n/a TierNolan December 28, 2024, 07:43:48 AM
Safe file transfer via Ethernet
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Safe file transfer via Ethernet by TierNolan
I wrote a ethernet library for transferring files from a Raspberry PI over ether…
n/a TierNolan December 08, 2022, 09:19:02 PM
Economic majority voting
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Economic majority voting by TierNolan
In the block size fork, the proposal is to have the miners vote.  However, the u…
n/a TierNolan December 25, 2024, 01:11:34 PM
Reduced storage mining nodes and compressing the UTXO set
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Reduced storage mining nodes and compressing the UTXO set by TierNolan
I was thinking about the "ultimate compression" system and I wonder if it is ove…
n/a TierNolan November 29, 2024, 10:28:19 AM
Auxiliary Header - abusing "blank" transactions
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Auxiliary Header - abusing "blank" transactions by TierNolan
If there are (2^n) + 1 transactions, then the last transaction is hashed with it…
n/a TierNolan December 29, 2024, 06:27:41 AM
Proxy operation
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Proxy operation by TierNolan
There are currently 2 ways to specify nodes to connect to."-connect" means conne…
n/a TierNolan December 27, 2024, 01:43:18 AM
Reducing the chance of random reversal
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Reducing the chance of random reversal by TierNolan
I was thinking about a simplification of a proposal I made a while back to speed…
n/a TierNolan December 29, 2024, 11:16:07 PM
Merkle tree of the block hashes
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Merkle tree of the block hashes by TierNolan
I have been thinking about block commitments.  One interesting commitment is to…
n/a TierNolan December 28, 2024, 11:13:47 AM
Using simplified payment system to support a chain hierarchy
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Using simplified payment system to support a chain hierarchy by TierNolan
In the thread on the block size, markm suggested multiple chains as an alternati…
n/a TierNolan December 27, 2024, 11:46:36 PM
Export public key and chaincode
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Export public key and chaincode by TierNolan
Is there a way to get the client to export a public key and chaincode?Ideally, t…
n/a TierNolan December 23, 2024, 06:13:32 AM
IRC server - alternative port option
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IRC server - alternative port option by TierNolan
The standard client connects to irc.lfnet.org for discovery.  Some ISPs disable…
n/a TierNolan December 30, 2024, 03:52:07 AM
Majority Protected Wallet Storage
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Majority Protected Wallet Storage by TierNolan
A wallet.dat file could be split over multiple USB keys, such that as long as yo…
n/a TierNolan November 23, 2024, 04:32:07 AM
Get header from height
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Get header from height by TierNolan
The current protocol doesn't allow parallel downloading of the block headers.The…
n/a TierNolan December 06, 2024, 08:28:07 AM
Transactions returned by getdata
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Transactions returned by getdata by TierNolan
When pruning was added, random requests for transactions are no longer supported…
n/a TierNolan Today at 01:55:12 AM
Random block size and the fee market
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Random block size and the fee market by TierNolan
With a constant block size, your transaction is either above or below the BTC pe…
n/a TierNolan December 29, 2024, 08:11:10 PM
Backup if Armoury is discontinued
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Backup if Armoury is discontinued by TierNolan
What happens in that case?  I am thinking of a case where you have coins in cold…
n/a TierNolan December 26, 2024, 12:18:22 PM
Locally verifiable unspent transaction output commitments
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Locally verifiable unspent transaction output commitments by TierNolan
A proposal to help SPV nodes verify blocks is to commit the root of an (unbalanc…
n/a TierNolan December 30, 2024, 10:33:01 AM
Requesting parents for orphan transactions
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Requesting parents for orphan transactions by TierNolan
An orphan transaction is a transaction where some of the parents are missing.  T…
n/a TierNolan December 30, 2024, 10:41:42 PM
Extending Transactions to include UTXO info
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Extending Transactions to include UTXO info by TierNolan
I created a draft BIP for extended transactions.Transactions just point to the t…
n/a TierNolan December 29, 2024, 03:21:04 PM
How do pools handle minting fee changes
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How do pools handle minting fee changes by TierNolan
I realize that it only happens once every 2 years.  With a pay per last N shares…
n/a TierNolan December 28, 2024, 06:07:47 AM
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