It's header in big-endian hexademical format with additional bytes for SHA256 (see wiki on SHA256 for details).
Can you give a link for this? I've search all over and can't find anywhere that explains how the padding should be done? I'm currently trying to work out how to turn a header in byte array form back into a valid getwork hex string. You want section 5. Note that the message length is stored in Intel's crazy-endian format. |
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When energy is cheap, everything else is cheap too.
If I was emperor, every year I'd give a billion dollars to Bussard's team, another billion to the LFTR team, and a billion to a committee to hand it out to the most promising ZPF/LENR cranks in blocks of thousands or millions as they see fit. And another 7 billion to build standard commercial uranium reactors until one of the other projects was ready.
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I've been with BTC Guild since round #28. I'll be here for round #1464 and all the rest too.
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"You can blacklist coins that came from the company that kills whales" - okay...so, let's see - company that kills whales purchased computers from CompCo. CompCo paid its employee with bitcoins sold them for USD using an exchange, some other dude purchased those coins from the exchange and bought a car from dealership, dealership bought some furniture, and now furniture store is trying to buy some contractor services from you but you are going to refuse those coins because somewhere down the line, they were associated with a company that kills whales. Sorry, you aren't hurting the company that kills whales with your personal blacklist. Maybe it gives you a warm fuzzy feeling to know your coins didn't kill whales, but that isn't a good reason to overhaul the protocol to support blacklisting. I didn't read the other thread you mentioned, but I was thinking about a sort of tag that lets you know bitcoins were scammed from someone. this way people wouldn't trade with scammers. also, if the tag could say who got scammed out of them, that would be good. and also if & when the scamee(?) gets them back, the tag could be removed. this does seem like a lot of work, though and I don't care if there's ever a system like it; it was just a thought. anyway, I do think it is hurting the whale killers because if enough people are blacklisting them, CompCo would know not to receive any of their coins 'cause they'd be useless. But, again, you don't know what coins you are going to get until after you already have them. |
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how is bitcoin different from silver? when you give your silver to someone, it's gone. no proof, no chargeback. just like bitcoin. your argument was?
Not really. Silver can't be hacked or lost due to tech problems or power outages. It has real world uses that guarantee it will always hold some value. It doesn't depend on a computer for it to exist. No one can predict the future with 100% certainty, but the probability of the internet disappearing is slim to none. In most developed countries power outages are rare. That's what laptops and phones are for. Not only that, but even if something like a hurricane took out an entire state, the rest of the world would be fine. If you think that the internet might go away some day, make sure that you are spending more money on ammo than on silver. |
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Consider fees and volume too and you'll see a different story.
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Vacuume energy, as far as we know, can not be harvested for 'free energy'.
That is what the governments and big energy companies want you to believe. Many inventors, engineers and scientists have proved otherwise. They are just not recognized by the established scientific journals and universities because they are also under the control of these same interests. Actually, this is what our current understanding of the laws of physics wants us to believe. Extracting useful energy from the ZPF would require overturning just about everything we know about energy. And would be totally cool. |
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Yup. I presume he set the A record to loopback because of the huge incoming DDOS.
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So, you want them to assume that neither the transaction fees nor the exchange rates increase in the future? Huge coincidence that both of those assumptions favor your side in the debate?
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No, the sig is the same every time. The guy that gave me the half coin said so in the thread. The only other traffic on that address was a tenth of a coin for linking the Bitcoin Sun.
Oh, and it looks like someone is now sending 0.03429043 coins, and I have no idea why.
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Someone could sell powerful magnets that you use to destroy hard drives so you can be certain they cant be recovered. I find an angle grinder also works wonders. Can you buy thermite on silk road?
Hard drive media is made with very high coercivity oxides. A field capable of damaging the domains inside the case is likely to cause about as much physical damage as the angle grinder. And you don't need silk road for thermite. Skylighter sells both of the parts you need. Pro tip: you don't want the aluminum to be too finely ground or it'll flash instead of melt. |
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2. To use as a transactional currency. This is the real appeal of the bitcoin. But there is no reason for someone to convert dollars to bitcoins and buy something unless it is illegal. It is inconvenient and provides zero protection against theft or fraud.
You've clearly never purchased anything using bitcoins. It beats the crap out of paypal or credit card purchases in the convenience department. |
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If an economy was permanently deflationary, I would probably save most of my money and be very stingy, especially when it came to investing opportunities. If my money will certainly be worth more tomorrow (a no-risk investment, really) I would probably be less inclined to spend money on ventures with actual risk.
That's just me though
By this logic, I feel it is safe to assume that your credit cards are maxed out today? And that you have as many loans as you can convince banks to give you? |
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I got 0.5 BTC once for insulting a guy. Oddly enough none of my posts that were actually helpful have caused donations yet.
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Can anyone tell me in precise and simple terms what constitutes a node? I read Satoshi's white paper but it is still unclear to me who counts as a node.
For example, which of these are nodes and which are not: a mining pool, an individual in a mining pool, a solo miner, and an individual running the client but not mining.
A node is a participant in the transaction relaying network, and can provide a partial block header to answer a getwork RPC request. The bitcoin client is a node. Mining pool software is not a node, but it requires a connection to a node (usually running on the same box). Mining clients are not nodes, but they require a connection to either a node or to a pool (which is in turn connected to a node). |
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1 The constant byteswapping. Well once (:-)) you have it subclassed you hardly notice it anymore.
This is rampant in networking code. At least in portable networking code. |
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Awesome. Congratulations on getting your API going.
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That's not actually a response. Just a statement about your intention not to respond. |
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Oh, and Steve's paper has been refuted many times in many of the threads that he has posted it into. Perhaps ridiculed would be a better word. I wasted some time on it a couple of weeks ago. 'Ridiculed' is exactly the right word. And the reason I choose to waste my time on such reactions. You didn't waste any time on mine. I'm still waiting for you to respond to any of my criticisms. |
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Dude, there isn't a debate.
Austrian economics is the equivalent of Phlogiston while Keynesian economics... is just science.
And, yeh, it is popular around gov't circles, despite being patently false, but that's because rich conservatives have business partners that, usually, want less regulation and less government intervention.
If you wanna hear a RELLY funny story about rampant deflation, search "The Great Depression" in Wikipedia.
Ha! |
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