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Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: [FOSS] P2P Crypt - Encrypted text, voice, & video communications - Turnkey
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on: February 15, 2013, 04:33:13 AM
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Noticing skype is a bit controversial these days as to who can listening in, this is the right time to have alternatives made. Sure I could give a helping hand with some testing, what do you need to have done ? Mind I have my own projects but a few time slices could always be donated. Excellent yes, I'm pretty sure we are all busy and my attempt at being mindful and aware it is my plan to try to have my "test releases" straight forward and stable as possible. Example, For the pre-alpha testing you just have to click a few buttons and do a test "send/receive" message. Mostly the following *Generate identity (takes 30 seconds~) *Load identity(Almost instantly) *Send/Receive message (Almost instantly) Windows users have "ported" executables so I can't really say much for those testers all though it should work exactly the same way in theory as the Linux builds.
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Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: [FOSS] P2P Crypt - Encrypted text, voice, & video communications - Turnkey
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on: February 14, 2013, 08:16:43 PM
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It's quite a extensive project you're taking on her Xenland, but I think it's great. Best wishes for this project!
Thank you very much for your wishes! My intentions are purely to allow the world to feel "okay" to talk to each other and do business again with out closed sourced, "government ran", or just complicated/annoying comm software. I always feel like in my business conversations there is the person on the other line always "worried" or "panicky" because of "Big Brother" which makes business progress a very very stressful situation in my opinion, I'm sure others will have a variety of wildly different reasoning’s behind it but I'm sure it all stems from a "big brother" paranoia. To everyone: I can use some testers this weekend and the world could use your help as well, please stand by until Saturday, Cheers everyone!
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Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: [ANNOUNCE] Bitmessage - P2P Messaging system based partially on Bitcoin
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on: February 14, 2013, 07:22:08 AM
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@Atheros ok, but can you explain why I can send Bitcoin to other users even if the client doesn't know my public key? I'm not so expert about the deep works of Bitcoin ...
From what I can tell about bitmessage it looks like since it uses elliptical curve which is what Bitcoin addresses are derived from at a particular layer, I believe if you were to take public key of the elliptical curve and sha256 it and base58 (its been awhile that’s probably not exactly right) you got your self a bitcoin address.
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Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Developers - Best practises for decimal handling
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on: February 13, 2013, 05:17:13 PM
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Use a decimal type of which you explicitly set the precision to whatever required.
Don't confuse floats with decimals, they are completely different, a float is by definition an approximation, a decimal stores an exact value. +1 I use only decimals, and bcmath in php will ensure correct calculations. I might note that in my experience shows any decimal math especially bcmath will result in fun explanations to your customers.... Why? It is 100% accurate as long as you have enough decimals. Probably the way binary is done(hint). Binary doesn’t know a "decimal" and computers(CPU) can only "auto" guess the required precision or their calculations could take as long as infinity to compute(hence why we have a math symbol for repeating decimals...) thus most "Test" cases will look like its working correctly but it will break at some point.
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Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Developers - Best practises for decimal handling
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on: February 13, 2013, 04:46:54 AM
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Use a decimal type of which you explicitly set the precision to whatever required.
Don't confuse floats with decimals, they are completely different, a float is by definition an approximation, a decimal stores an exact value. +1 I use only decimals, and bcmath in php will ensure correct calculations. I might note that in my experience shows any decimal math especially bcmath will result in fun explanations to your customers....
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Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Lets put bitcoin in space. A mining satellite for $8000
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on: February 12, 2013, 09:20:45 PM
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Who needs cooling when we have ARMS that produce no heat. (They really do produce a little heat but the coolness of space should dissipate it quicker than it can heat, infact you might have problems of freezing with arms (can't say for sure thought) I think the real issue is solving all types of radiation that happens out in space mostly electromagnetic radiation sounds like the biggest issue really
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Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Bitcoin version of Chipin
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on: February 12, 2013, 08:41:53 PM
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So, it's been almost a year and the site, while it looks pretty, does not seem to contain any method of creating a widget. The login page is blank. Considering Chipin.com is now shutting down, it sure would be nice if this site was working! Any good news? Are there any other sites doing this with bitcoin? I made the first working version that used a local bitcoin database to search bitcoin addresses and then they would be instantly be refersed in an efficient manner, however the designers skills I picked at the time were not what I had been shown as far as quality went and the chipin owner decided he liked the widgets "interworkings" but not the design. I'd be happy to remake the site again if I can get a great designer to assist and we can team up and release it for once, if the chipin owner is willing to have me integrate my developer work with the "designs" his awesome designer made I wouldn't say no either.
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Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: [FOSS] P2P Crypt - Encrypted text, voice, & video communications - Turnkey
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on: February 12, 2013, 08:26:47 PM
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Nice, yeah someone else suggested the same thing as well just recently. As for updates that happened last night, "identity handles" will be computed like the following md5(sha256(publickey)) and then the md5 will be divided into 8 groups of 4 letters and each group will be assigned a word. By my calculations that means I need a dictionary word list of the size of 58,000 to assign to each possible combination group. This will cut down the total output of words down to 8 words instead of 15+. I'd also like to get different language word lists as well to make it a Multi-lingual but that will be set into the far future for now. Since the identity handles are only for saving visual screen space and for copy and pasting into the contacts list to "auto-retrieve" the recipients public key from the network if any md5 collisions were to happen it the only negative results would be the client saves "both" public keys of each parties colliding, and that’s about it. --In case someone wanted to point out that md5 is insecure anyways.
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Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: [FOSS] P2P Crypt - Encrypted text, voice, & video communications - Turnkey
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on: February 12, 2013, 06:30:12 AM
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I'm trying to think of a way to turn a sha256 output into a consistent string compression scheme but based on what I know about compression I think 50% is the string limit and that’s if the table look up is non-characters. I thought it would be cool to some how turn a sha256 output into something like B3 H1 U8 Z8 I0 T1 Q5 W2 but string compression as I know it can only get down to 64 characters. If anyone know better than me about string compressions that could facilitate something like this that would be awesome. Instead of copying and pasting a sha256(64 characters) string we could copy and paste a 14 character string instead.
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Other / Off-topic / Re: Bitcoin memes!
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on: February 10, 2013, 08:10:37 PM
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But you are not the bank. You hold your tangible coins in your virtual mattress!
I am not the bank your right... but I'm already there!
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Other / Off-topic / Re: Bitcoin memes!
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on: February 10, 2013, 01:56:43 AM
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Love it. Combines humour with very deep insight. I confess I don't get it. It would be awsome if someone could explain it in words better than i can why the humour exists, I tried to go for a "We are the Bank" becuase we can choose to hold our own money if we want to. Instead of laughing all the way to the bank we are up set because in a social setting its weird to just up and gloat about how bitcoins made me a bank... lol i don't think i explained it right but ya..
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Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: [FOSS] P2P Crypt - Encrypted text, voice, & video communications - Turnkey
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on: February 09, 2013, 07:09:06 PM
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@ Xenland If you think locking this thread is the end of the stolen logo idea story than I suggest you to think twice. I have already PMed theymos and will PM other mods here, let's see what they think about the case. Thanks for the heads up. I'm sorry I don't like your logo and that message wasn't intended for just you, it was intended for every artist that sent in the same logo(practically) and when I back out they all think I'm stealing their idea and threaten me, we can't have a community that advocates "vicious circles". I don't want that in my bitcoin reality where they feel "obligated" to pay because they are being intimidated by others. You can be rest assured your intimidation isn't helping your case. As a believer in a voluntary society(me), I would never steal anyone work so its hard for me to take anyone accusing me of "stealing" seriously. I encourage you to "report me" if that is how you feel, but I don't see the benefit of anything your doing except wasting both our time. So I shall ignore you from here on out unless you have a reputable lawyer you would like me to get in touch with. Good day to you sir.
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Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: [CLOSED] P2P Crypt Logo
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on: February 09, 2013, 05:24:16 PM
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I think you're reading too much into what subSTRATA said with all the law crap...
Anyway, on the face of it, it looks like you've acted in pretty bad faith, given that you're logo in that video looks exactly like subSTRATA's but with a different font. I expected it to be different seeing as you claimed you'd found a friend to do the logo *before* subSTRATA even posted his design.
Claiming that it isn't much work to create such a logo, therefore it isn't worth anything is not a valid argument. You're paying for something you could not do yourself which you've proved by the fact that your design is a copy.
By your logic then everyone that sent me a submission should be suing each other because they all similar. All fallacies and I'm closing this thread.
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