https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=205878
This encoding is designed so that it could replace Base58Check in new data,
with the following goals in mind:
- Impossible(?) to manipulate without completely changing it
- Clearly identifiable prefix, regardless of data size
- Cheaper to process (simpler and
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 09:39:46PM +0200, Harald Schilly wrote:
>If you have your own domain, you can store your key there as a TXT entry.
>
>$ dig +short harald._pka.schil.ly. TXT
>
>and even use it automatically:
>$ gpg … --auto-key-locate pka -r email@address.domain
Nice. But we all kow about
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:50:27PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Well if it is a later transaction, not an integral part of the reward
>> transaction (that is definitionally mined by being serialized into the
>> coinbase), the user may elect to withhold the promised transaction
>> give-to-miner, so
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Melvin Carvalho
wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, could PGP keyservers suffer from a similar 51% attack
> as the bitcoin network?
Well, no, and yes. It doesn't work like that.
If you have your own domain, you can store your key there as a TXT entry.
$ dig +short h
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 09:16:28PM +0200, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> > FWIW I take this stuff pretty seriously myself. I generated my key
> > securely in the first place, I use a hardware smartcard to store my PGP
> > key, and I keep the master signing key - the key with the ability to
> > sign other
On 14 May 2013 20:41, Peter Todd wrote:
> report: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=205349.0
>
> Every talk will be widely witnessed and videotaped so we can get some
> reasonably good security by simply putting out PGP fingerprints in our
> slides. Yeah, some fancy attacker could change th
report: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=205349.0
Every talk will be widely witnessed and videotaped so we can get some
reasonably good security by simply putting out PGP fingerprints in our
slides. Yeah, some fancy attacker could change the videos after the
fact, but the talks themselves w
> Bitcoins relative lack of privacy creates a problem with tainted coins
> risking becoming unspendable, or spendable only with some users, or at a
> discount. So while the policy coded says all coins are equally acceptable,
> the information exists so people can unilaterally reject them, dependin
> I've been thinking about a decentralized way to create an anonymous
> identity
This is the fidelity bond/anonymous passport idea that has been kicked
around in the forums quite a few times. I mentioned it on the tor-talk once
as a solution to the problem that you cannot create Google accounts v
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:25 AM, Adam Back wrote:
> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 06:00:27PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>
>> When a transaction's input value exceeds its output value, the
>> remainder is the transaction fee. The miner's reward for processing
>> transactions is the 25 BTC initial curren
Adam,
Take a look at this privacy enhancing solution based on fair exchange
implemented by bitcoin contracts and cut-and-choose. It would require a
public pool of users willing to exchange in common denominations at
moments in time together to ensure unlinkability. It also leave a trace
of exc
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 01:51:51PM +0200, Adam Back wrote:
> Adam Back in Sep 1999, cypherpunks list:
>>I wouldn't say ecash has to use blinding, but I would argue it would be a
>>misuse of the word "ecash", if something which was revocable were dubbed
>>ecash.
So I still think that is an importan
So back in 1999, in an ecash thread on cypherpunks I claimed:
http://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=95280154629900&w=2
> I wouldn't say ecash has to use blinding, but I would argue it would be a
> misuse of the word "ecash", if something which was revocable were dubbed
> ecash.
This was in the conte
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 06:00:27PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>When a transaction's input value exceeds its output value, the
>remainder is the transaction fee. The miner's reward for processing
>transactions is the 25 BTC initial currency distribution + the sum of
>all per-transaction fees. A des
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