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Title: Implementation of colored coins? Post by: The Goat Master on August 18, 2013, 02:06:21 PM The concept has been discussed before, but is the implementation of colored coins possible? If so, how, and is it planned to be added to bitcoin soon?
Title: Re: Implementation of colored coins? Post by: CIYAM on August 18, 2013, 02:11:26 PM I believe the project has progressed quite a bit but probably best to check with "killerstorm" about the details (although I don't think that support for it will be appearing in an official version of the Satoshi client any time soon).
Title: Re: Implementation of colored coins? Post by: Trongersoll on August 19, 2013, 10:02:38 PM Just what are colored coins? :-[
Title: Re: Implementation of colored coins? Post by: Meni Rosenfeld on August 19, 2013, 10:07:00 PM Colored coins have already been implemented. ArmoryX is a color-aware Armory fork but it's abandoned because of Armory's resource consumption.
We currently have http://bitcoinx.github.io/webcoinx/ currently working on testnet, and there's a plan for a next gen client - https://github.com/bitcoinx/colored-coin-tools/wiki/The-next-gen-colored-coin-client. More information is at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=106373.0. Colored coins are a layer on top of Bitcoin so it does not need to be "added to Bitcoin". Just what are colored coins? :-[ The thing that is described here (https://bitcoil.co.il/BitcoinX.pdf).Title: Re: Implementation of colored coins? Post by: fishy on August 20, 2013, 12:41:18 AM Colored coins have already been implemented. ArmoryX is a color-aware Armory fork but it's abandoned because of Armory's resource consumption. We currently have http://bitcoinx.github.io/webcoinx/ currently working on testnet, and there's a plan for a next gen client - https://github.com/bitcoinx/colored-coin-tools/wiki/The-next-gen-colored-coin-client. More information is at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=106373.0. Colored coins are a layer on top of Bitcoin so it does not need to be "added to Bitcoin". Just what are colored coins? :-[ The thing that is described here (https://bitcoil.co.il/BitcoinX.pdf).How can you exactly "color" a bitcoin? Thank you. Title: Re: Implementation of colored coins? Post by: Meni Rosenfeld on August 20, 2013, 07:50:10 AM Colored coins have already been implemented. ArmoryX is a color-aware Armory fork but it's abandoned because of Armory's resource consumption. We currently have http://bitcoinx.github.io/webcoinx/ currently working on testnet, and there's a plan for a next gen client - https://github.com/bitcoinx/colored-coin-tools/wiki/The-next-gen-colored-coin-client. More information is at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=106373.0. Colored coins are a layer on top of Bitcoin so it does not need to be "added to Bitcoin". Just what are colored coins? :-[ The thing that is described here (https://bitcoil.co.il/BitcoinX.pdf).How can you exactly "color" a bitcoin? Thank you. Basically, coloring is based on the ordering of inputs and outputs. |