Re: [Bitcoin-development] ChainDB Whitepaper

2015-05-20 Thread Peter Todd
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 09:13:49AM -0700, Eric Martindale wrote: Hello all, BitPay has just released our first whitepaper on ChainDB, a new peer-to-peer database system backed by the Bitcoin blockchain. This paper outlines our intended consensus mechanism, proof of fee. Please take a

[Bitcoin-development] Virtual Notary.

2015-05-20 Thread Emin Gün Sirer
Hi everyone, Given the recent discussions on projects that use the Bitcoin blockchain to record factoids, people on this list might be interested in the Virtual Notary project. Virtual Notary is essentially an online witness (aka attestor) to online factoids. It can provide: * proof of Bitcoin

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Virtual Notary.

2015-05-20 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 3:25 AM, Emin Gün Sirer el33th4...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Given the recent discussions on projects that use the Bitcoin blockchain to record factoids, people on this list might be interested in the Virtual Notary project. Virtual Notary is essentially an online