Re: [Bitcoin-development] Virtual Notary.

2015-05-25 Thread Mike Hearn
Very nice Emin! This could be very useful as a building block for oracle based services. If only there were opcodes for working with X.509 ;) I'd suggest at least documenting in the FAQ how to extract the data from the certificate: openssl pkcs12 -in virtual-notary-cert-stocks-16070.p12 -nodes

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Virtual Notary.

2015-05-22 Thread Jonas Schnelli
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * proof of Bitcoin funds (without revealing public addresses or fund location on the blockchain) * proof of Bitcoin address ownership * proof of Tweet * proof of real estate value * proof of DNS ownership * proof of existence *

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Virtual Notary.

2015-05-22 Thread Ben Vulpes
I cannot let http://www.deedbot.org go unmentioned on this thread. On Friday, May 22, 2015, Jonas Schnelli d...@jonasschnelli.ch wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * proof of Bitcoin funds (without revealing public addresses or fund location on the blockchain) *

[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