Re: [Bitcoin-development] Blockchain alternative storage

2013-06-05 Thread Petr Praus
BitcoinJ is storing parsed blocks (not the whole chunks of bytes) in H2, an embedded SQL database for Java. On 5 June 2013 19:53, Marko Otbalkana wrote: > Could anyone point me to work/project(s) related to storing the block > chain in a database, like PostgreSQL, MySQL? How about any tools tha

Re: [Bitcoin-development] limits of network hacking/netsplits (was: Discovery/addr packets)

2013-05-06 Thread Petr Praus
I think it's worth noting that quite a large portion of Linux users probably get the mainline Bitcoin client from the packages. I think Bitcoin package maintainers are doing mostly a pretty good job :) On 6 May 2013 18:13, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Adam Back wrot

Re: [Bitcoin-development] bitcoin pull requests

2013-04-01 Thread Petr Praus
An attacker would have to find a collision between two specific pieces of code - his malicious code and a useful innoculous code that would be accepted as pull request. This is the second, much harder case in the birthday problem. When people talk about SHA-1 being broken they actually mean the fir

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Implementing trading across chains

2013-02-14 Thread Petr Praus
e, for now only a javascript > web client is open sourced. But it seems they at least have plans for > contracts judging from the wiki: > > https://ripple.com/wiki/Contracts > > > On 2/13/13, Petr Praus wrote: > > Jorge, thanks for bitcoinx tip, I didn't kno

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Implementing trading across chains

2013-02-13 Thread Petr Praus
opment. The new implementation > is very similar to bitcoin in certain senses but it has no mining. > Bitcoin IOUs can be traded there. > > https://ripple.com/ > > Good luck with the implementation, this is a good feature to have, > even if it's not on the main client. >

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Implementing trading across chains

2013-02-07 Thread Petr Praus
Hi, I intend to implement trading across chains in a P2P manner (as described by Mike Hearn in https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts#Example_5:_Trading_across_chains). Note, this is indended more as an alternative chain development, I don't have any plans for merging it back into main client (not b