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1021  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bringing decentralization back to the Bitcoin network. on: January 23, 2012, 07:45:58 PM
+1 to OP.

The centralization of pools is currently probably the weakest point of Bitcoin currently. We should remember that CIA/FBI/Governments/Banks/Whatever can have extremely large amounts of money & fire/manpower to bribe/intimidate pool operators.

This should be fixed as soon as possible.

1022  Bitcoin / Armory / Re: Armory - The most advanced Bitcoin Client in existence! on: January 17, 2012, 10:34:58 AM
@etotheipi

Out of curiosity:
What is your stance on BIP 0016 ?

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0016
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=56969.0
1023  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: PULL request #748 : Pay-to-script-hash (OP_EVAL replacement) on: January 17, 2012, 10:02:03 AM
If we manage to get 55% or better on Feb 1, then for the next two week's I'll be sending out the message "Upgrade or you might be on the short end of a blockchain split come Feb 15" -- and I expect the result to be a large majority of miners supporting P2SH by the Feb 15'th switchover date. If we're still at 55% on Feb 7'th then I'll be worried, too, and might advise miners to push the hard switchover date a couple of weeks (if they're using the patches I'm creating then it is a command-line argument to bitcoind).

You know Gavin - after some thinking i understand that we need to constantly move forward, but you are perhaps going too fast about this.
Shouldn't there be a longer wait period before implementation of something that can split chains ?

I mean this is a serious change. Shouldn't this be programmed in a way so that it is activated at, for example, block 190.000 ? This way we would lower the risk of splitting chains & stuff.

Why the rush ? This may be actually dangerous for the network. Can't we have more time to adapt ?
1024  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: PULL request #748 : Pay-to-script-hash (OP_EVAL replacement) on: January 17, 2012, 01:30:10 AM
The issue you are discussing is way too complex for me to understand, however i got an idea:

Can we perhaps invite all developers (who already wrote "some" Bitcoin code) here to vote on this before implementing in the mainline client ?
Perhaps a closed dev-only poll (done with posts) would suffice.
1025  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin in tv show -The Good Wife - Episode 3.13 - Finding Mr. Bitcoin on: January 17, 2012, 01:00:44 AM
I just saw the episode and it is absolutely INCREDIBLE !

I mean, of course it had a lot of usual stupidities and simplifications so average american is not bored (like "Mr. Bitcoin is such an awesome haXX that only he can change the bitcoin code and embed something in the blockchain" - LOL), but overall, the episode was much much better than I thought.

What i mean to say is I expected it to be far more foolish and inaccurate. They actually got about 90% of the important details **right**, except for that creating currency is not illegal in the US. They even included the currency vs commodity dispute which is often brought up on the forums.

I am also impressed by the number of times they actually used the word "Bitcoin" in it. It was like they were really trying to advertise it !

I may consider actually watching "The Good Wife" after this, even though i don't like the "law-drama" genre very much.
1026  Bitcoin / Armory / Re: Armory - The most advanced Bitcoin Client in existence! on: January 14, 2012, 12:05:52 AM
Quote from: etotheipi
Armory does all of its communication to the Bitcoin network through the Satoshi client
Will that be changed in future releases?
Code:
# proxychains ./armory_executable
That could leak some info that doesn`t respect for some reason proxychains, such as DNS requests.

Untrue.

Proxychains actually proxies DNS through its chains ! It also works well with TOR (also tested myself).

This fancy thing even works with advanced apps (GUI apps).
1027  Bitcoin / Armory / Re: Armory - The most advanced Bitcoin Client in existence! on: January 13, 2012, 11:04:25 PM
Looks just great. Do you plan to add proxy/socks feature? Or maybe I missed something and can`t find where to set this up.

That's a very good question.  I'm not familiar with that aspect of networking (in general) to know how much effort that would take.  Perhaps someone else on the forums can reply to the following naive answer:

Right now, Armory does all of its communication to the Bitcoin network through the Satoshi client.  Perhaps, if you set up the Satoshi client to go through a proxy, then you will get the benefit of having done that in Armory.  This assumes that you can still execute a localhost connection to the Satoshi client while it is using the proxy.

Code:
# proxychains ./armory_executable
will probably work well on most Linux/BSD/UNIX-like systems.

http://proxychains.sf.net/

If it even works with SSH (checked myself), it should work with most of apps.
1028  Economy / Economics / Re: Deflation and Bitcoin, the last word on this forum on: January 08, 2012, 10:53:01 PM
This kind of information belongs into a wiki or a FAQ if you ask me..


Assuming anybody actually reads these things.

I have to because I subscribed 6 months ago. CHRIST HOW DO YOU UNSUBSCRIBE TO THREADS..

Oh, that's a good one. Don't know the answer to that either.
1029  Economy / Economics / Re: Deflation and Bitcoin, the last word on this forum on: January 08, 2012, 07:28:00 PM
This kind of information belongs into a wiki or a FAQ if you ask me..


Assuming anybody actually reads these things.
1030  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Apple, Nokia, RIM Provide Backdoor To Governments on their devices on: January 08, 2012, 05:58:53 PM
Leaked Memo Says Apple, Nokia, RIM Provide Backdoor To Governments

...so think again if you plan to use Bitcoin on your IPhone.

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/01/08/069204/leaked-memo-says-apple-provides-backdoor-to-governments
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/india/have-rim-nokia-apple-provided-indian-military-with-backdoor-access-to-cellular-comm/838

"In a tweet early this morning, cybersecurity researcher Christopher Soghoian pointed to an internal memo of India's Military Intelligence that has been liberated by hackers and posted on the Net. The memo suggests that, "in exchange for the Indian market presence" mobile device manufacturers, including RIM, Nokia, and Apple (collectively defined in the document as "RINOA") have agreed to provide backdoor access on their devices. The Indian government then "utilized backdoors provided by RINOA" to intercept internal emails of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a U.S. government body with a mandate to monitor, investigate and report to Congress on 'the national security implications of the bilateral trade and economic relationship' between the U.S. and China. Manan Kakkar, an Indian blogger for ZDNet, has also picked up the story and writes that it may be the fruits of an earlier hack of Symantec. If Apple is providing governments with a backdoor to iOS, can we assume that they have also done so with Mac OS X?"
1031  Economy / Economics / Re: Deflation and Bitcoin, the last word on this forum on: January 08, 2012, 02:03:48 AM
Why is this stupid tread even pinned?

So people stop creating new ones, messing up the forum.

If you read the first post BTW, you wouldn't ask such questions.
1032  Bitcoin / Armory / Re: Armory - The most advanced Bitcoin Client in existence! on: January 07, 2012, 05:50:52 PM
Forced-fees are the default, but they are possible to disable if you manually edit the settings file.  I did this to make it possible

Excellent ! The right approach.
You already did what i asked the mainline devs for (many times), and they never complied, even though making a simple setting in configuration file is not that much coding really.

I will give your client some testing and perhaps i will be using it as my default BTC client some day.
1033  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: [Stratum] Overlay network protocol over Bitcoin on: January 07, 2012, 01:37:35 PM
* ShadowOfHarbringer is watching this
1034  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: [ANN] Bitcoin fork "No Forced TX Fee" v0.5.0 released on: January 07, 2012, 01:11:39 PM
2012-01-07 Update:

NFTF - version 0.5.1 released.

A fresh tag - nftf-v0.5.1 is avaiable for download.
https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tags

Trunk code has also been merged back:
https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tree/
1035  Bitcoin / Armory / Re: Armory - The most advanced Bitcoin Client in existence! on: January 07, 2012, 12:45:25 PM
@etotheipi

I am sure you are aware that in the current implementation of the mainline Bitcoin client, transaction fees are forced even when not necessary (which is the reason i created the fork of mine).

So, does your client allow no-fee transactions ?

1036  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Pulling patches for version 0.6 on: December 31, 2011, 02:54:55 AM
Multiple signatures for single transaction ?

Simply GENIUS. This is effectively a built-in escrow service ! The ramifications of this will be simply **disastrous** for fiat-money-based economy. Now credit cards & bank accounts "security" looks more like an April's fool joke comparing to Bitcoin.

I have just read about this, and i came here right away.

Excellent work, Gavin & others.
1037  Bitcoin / Project Development / Excellent article about Bitcoin's future by Genjix on BM on: December 25, 2011, 03:05:52 AM
There is a new awesome article about Bitcoin on BitcoinMedia.
(A little TL;DR though)

We are on the verge of revolution. A revolution that will make the industrial revolution seem trivial. We stand at the focus, the cumulation, the precipice, of a fundamental re-thinking of our shared social fabric. Actions today will reverberate for centuries. Technologies like bitcoin evince prophecy.
(...)
To create a computer program, programmers write in a special language called a programming language. This programming language is a halfway point between the ambiguous world of human language and the highly mathematical world of machine language. This code they write is termed sourcecode. If I wish to understand how a program works or make modifications to it, then I must have access to this code.

This source code was shared freely between developers. Source code has the unique property of being free to redistribute, free to manufacture into software and of being highly reusable across many projects. By mixing and matching pieces of software across projects, developers created a new world in cyber space. Tools to write, edit music, solve math, discover science and create art.
(...)
We stated before, the 3 principles underlying the hacker movement online; privacy, anti-authority and transparency. One particular sub-group within this movement are crypto-anarchists. Using cryptography, the idea is to enforce privacy by encrypting communications protecting personal privacy and making them impossible to eavesdrop on by authority.

My congratulations, Genjix !

//BTW, Before somebody asks, I was not asked/told/paid/forced/whatever by Genjix to write this post.
//I just noticed it fits this forum, so here ya go.
1038  Other / Politics & Society / USA, land of the "free" on: December 20, 2011, 10:43:55 PM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/30/jefferson-memorial-dancing-arrests_n_868719.html

U.S. Park Police arrested five people on Saturday at the Jefferson Memorial. Their offense? Dancing.

The dancers were protesting an appeals court ruling handed down last week that the national monuments are places for reflection and contemplation -- and that dancing distracted from such an experience.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWeF6lwg4aY
1039  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: 128-bit Quantum Computer Commercially Available - Qubitcoin coming soon? on: December 14, 2011, 11:38:17 PM
Hmm, dwave again...
They tricked us last time, i highly doubt this is the real deal..

Actually last time they themselves didn't know if it was quantum (!!) or not, are they sure this time ?

Or did they also invent Quantum Trolling Technology™ ?
1040  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Should the Bitcoin client have a donate button? on: December 12, 2011, 04:15:19 PM
Here's another thought-- on the about page (or somewhere else) have a blurb about donating to the developers, then list a Bitcoin address for each developer.  Let the end user decide what the send to whom.  It might not be the fairest, but it would take care of the problems that have been mentioned.

+1

+2
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