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Such a shame. What a loser.
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why does Don spend so much of his valuable talk time talking about the mtgox hack?
less than 1 minute? Know what a random stranger said to me in the street recently: "Bitcoins? Didn't they get raided recently. Lost all their money." |
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Ahhh true, I forgot about the case insensitivity.
Thanks for the advice.
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ok so I just commited an example app to get the balance of a bitcoin address: #include <iostream>
#include <bitcoin/types.hpp>
#include <bitcoin/kernel.hpp>
#include <bitcoin/storage/postgresql_storage.hpp>
#include <bitcoin/util/logger.hpp>
using namespace libbitcoin;
void display_balance(const std::error_code& ec, uint64_t value)
{
if (ec)
{
log_fatal() << ec.message();
return;
}
log_info() << "Balance: " << value;
}
int main()
{
kernel_ptr app(new kernel());
storage_ptr app_storage(new postgresql_storage(
app, "bitcoin", "genjix", ""));
app->register_storage(app_storage);
data_chunk address =
bytes_from_pretty("12 ab 8d c5 88 ca 9d 57 87 dd "
"e7 eb 29 56 9d a6 3c 3a 23 8c");
app_storage->fetch_balance(address, display_balance);
std::cin.get();
return 0;
}
Does anyone here know how I could do something like: SELECT sum(value)
FROM outputs
WHERE script LIKE decode('76a91412ab8dc588ca9', 'hex') + '%'; Where script is a bytea object in order for me to support firstbits? That way I could add a fetch_balance_partial(...) method to support this. |
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I have a friend (Martin Dittus) who runs the non-profit London Hackspace who expressed an interest in doing this when we were tossing around the idea some months back. Would be worth getting him on board if so to do the adminstration/relevant registration. Also another friend of mine, jaromil, works in the Dutch public sector and runs the non-profit dyne foundation and would definitely be up for helping. |
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How would you represent the genesis address?
a1zp1e Also my vote goes to having it not fixed at any length. You can for instance say a1zp1e or a1zp1ep5q or a1 (as long as there's no conflicting matches- in which case it fails). |
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genjix, I sent you PM and you didn't reply,
for the love of bitcoin, you could at least try to listen what I had to say...
Sorry, I didn't see your PM as it isn't very obvious when you have new messages. Answering now. |
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Glad to hear it! Dropping the '1' prefix has been discussed since the summer with good arguments on either side, however, the '1' prefix distinguishes bitcoin from most altcoin addresses.
I'm not sure that's a good idea. I never get confused between a fax number and a telephone number. You usually state what an identifier means- it's far easier to remember. Bitcoin: 1kk5k vs Bitcoin: kk5kfb The 1 is redundant and not needed. We don't need a checksum to make sure it's a bitcoin address as that is unlikely to happen. reduce the chance that a typo will lead to a mistaken payment. There are some good single character checksums such as the Luhn algorithm. |
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I know it's not simple but what stops you guys to get licensed as a financial institution to be able to have other people deposit/withdraw funds from your accounts?
We've been trying this for months and months already. It's been our main goal from day 1. |
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Nope, for security reasons.
Although the question is why?
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This is barely worthy of being called an attack, this is just bitcoin hitting up against pre-existing banking regulations and failing to sneak under the radar of broader financial protections put in place to protect consumers, stop laundering etc. (and arguably also designed to protect existing commercial interests)
A real attack would be regulators specifically moving against bitcoin.
Someone in the EU commanded for a bunch of EUR and GBP accounts in 4 different countries to be shut-down in under a week after being open for 6+ months. |
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Synopsis:- MTGox EUR and GBP accounts have been closed. - Intersango GBP (our EUR account remains) were suddenly terminated overnight. - TradeHill EUR bank account was closed. - ExchangeBitcoins closes suddenly (might be unrelated). Solutions:Not having exchanges for bitcoin is a bad thing, and will destroy confidence in the currency if don't believe that you'll be able to exchange your bitcoins for fiat in the future. Other solutions to this crisis are hard to come by. An idea is accepting cash vouchers, however to accept them is no easy task. Working with card payments is infeasible as they're reversible and VISA/MASTERCARD would never stand for supporting competing businesses. WOT systems are nice, but they fail to scale beyond a few dozen users and are ripe to be gamed by scammers. WOT also doesn't have much liquidity as you have to be pro-active in deducing the market-rate to find appropriate orders. This is barely worthy of being called an attack, this is just bitcoin hitting up against pre-existing banking regulations and failing to sneak under the radar of broader financial protections put in place to protect consumers, stop laundering etc. (and arguably also designed to protect existing commercial interests)
A real attack would be regulators specifically moving against bitcoin.
Someone in the EU commanded for a bunch of EUR and GBP accounts in 4 different countries to be shut-down in under a week after being open for 6+ months.
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Hi Genjix, are you considering implementing the firstbits algorithm in libbitcoin? Oh! That is clever! I must certainly will. Tip: bitcoin addresses always begin with 1, so maybe use Kk5kFb instead. |
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I would love to invite the CIA or FBI to debate bitcoin!
That would be incredible. Let the world see our arguments in the open based on individual merit!
More openness to alternative viewpoints in the community please. Lets not stop challenging ourselves otherwise we will become dogmatic cultists repeating each others inbred lines. Vili represents a significant proportion of society who thinks along his lines. We can build a bridge to them.
You won't win people over by shutting them out or fighting them. Bitcoin is an inclusive thing, and there is no reason why everybody can't be accommodated. There is an enormous potential with Bitcoin for huge positive social good. And a whole lot more than mere anonymity and anti-authoritarianism.
By not being willing to also demonstrate the other aspects that make bitcoin so amazing, we are handing a victory to the naysayers who argue that bitcoin is a way for drug traffickers, criminals, terrorists and paedophiles to evade the law. Bitcoin is MUCH MORE than that.
It is something that will transform culture on the internet with funding models previously unimagined due to the simplicity, the divisibility and the extensible scripting system. It is a system that will weaken international borders and bring about an egalitarian inter-connected future for economics, how the internet transformed knowledge-transfer for information.
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Google Translate:  La Conferencia Europea de Bitcoin (Nov 25-27) reunirá a diversas personas de todo el espectro para discutir el estado de bitcoin y las metas futuras parcelas. Esta conferencia de 3 días cubre la vanguardia de la evolución y la innovación a través de sesiones que fomentan la interacción y discusión entre profesionales en los campos de la tecnología, la política, las finanzas y la economía. Si usted está interesado en hablar, no dude en contactar con nosotros en la convocatoria sigue abierta. Los asistentes pueden registrarse para la conferencia, siguiendo las instrucciones en la página web del congreso. Visita conference.bitgroups.org para más información. |
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Saluton! En Prago okazos konferencon pri interesa projekto nomita Bitmono. Bitmono estas discentra valuto. La mono ne posedas regantan aŭtoritaton kaj funkcias kiel baza reto. Kio signifas bazan reton? Ĝi signifas samtavola ŝutado, kie ĉiu persono egalas en la reto. Neniu persono povas ordoni al vi, ke li kreu regulojn pri kiel vi uzi vian monon. Ekzemple, retopaĝo ekzistas per Tor por aĉetado de narkotaĵo kiel Mariĥuano. Mi parolos tie pri bitmono, kaj feliĉiĝos kunvenigi aliajn esperantistojn. Mia nomo estas Amir Taaki. La ligo: conference.bitgroups.orgEsperanto, Linukso, Bitmono, Vikipedio, ... kaj tiel plu. Tiuj projektoj nature similas unu la alian. |
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Small update: Thanks to phantomcircuit to DB is much faster and more efficient. I've put up database dumps of the blockchain. |
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updated dump above:
- more efficient db format
- 150256 blocks
- faster (uses bytea for hashes, compacted scripts)
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