[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] Squashing redundant tx data in blocks on the wire

2014-07-18 Thread Emin Gün Sirer
> Most things I've seen working in this space are attempting to minimize > the data transfered. At least for the miner-interested case the round > complexity is much more important because a single RTT is enough to > basically send the whole block on a lot of very relevant paths. Agreed. Yaron's s

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Squashing redundant tx data in blocks on the wire

2014-07-18 Thread Emin Gün Sirer
I thought I'd chime in and point out some research results that might help. Even if they don't, there is a cool underlying technique that some of you might find interesting. The problem being tackled here is very similar to "set reconciliation," where peer A thinks that the set of transactions tha

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Decentralizing ming

2014-07-18 Thread Emin Gün Sirer
My apologies for posting to the wrong thread. On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Emin Gün Sirer wrote: > I thought I'd chime in and point out some research results that might help. > Even if they don't, there is a cool underlying technique that some of you > might find i

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Decentralizing ming

2014-07-18 Thread Emin Gün Sirer
I thought I'd chime in and point out some research results that might help. Even if they don't, there is a cool underlying technique that some of you might find interesting. The problem being tackled here is very similar to "set reconciliation," where peer A thinks that the set of transactions tha