Looks like Notch is going ahead with space game thing ... titled "Mars Effect" ... "advanced economic and trading system" ... "mining, looting" sounds interesting? "He notes the game is still early in development, but they’re planning to include: Hard science fiction. Lots of engineering. Fully working computer system. Space battles against the AI or other players. A game ending that makes sense. Abandoned ships full of loot. Waist high walls. Seamlessly landing on planets. Advanced economy system. Mining, trading, and looting." http://techzwn.com/mars-effect-announced-by-notch-a-free-roaming-space-sim/#comments |
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I'll be celebrating. It's like marking the transition between the age of pi to the enlightened era of tau.
Good one ... http://tauday.com/  We can have a second party on genesis block anniversary ... Jan. 03, 2013 (3:1:13) just for good measure, 2 is better than one  |
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Or hey, what about a world war? That would certainly put a damper on R&D.
Exact opposite actually. More of a redirection ... although more focussed and done at cheaper rates (military pay). |
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The websites your going to create DNS for hidden from censorship 'ect.' I think it makes sense to include them within the network. If it won't work for Tor create a public blockchain for it(which shows its weakness) and a hidden blockchain within the I2P for that network. If the SilkRoad got massive or this new 'Armoury' Tor site did or alt-currencies got massive and the US tried to block them but people were still using them via Tor the US could and would pull the plug on Tor if the thorn in their side got to big. So if alt-currencies were outlawed and they also pulled the plug on Tor it would be very difficult for alt-currencies to be usefull but a block chain within I2P could still be used if people could get access to the I2P client because apart from outlawing encrypted web-traffic I see no way of stopping I2P unless they monitored a persons internet traffic. You see with Tor they only have to monitor/block the output nodes which would be easier for them to find then monitoring every persons internet traffic for I2P traffic. I think they would find it hard to ban Tor or I2P but to stop Tor it would easier (like I said they like a large Tor network for the CIA to better hide in) than I2P. So an alt-currency within I2P could end up the only alt-currency if the likes of bitcoin got massive and the governments thought they were loosing too much tax.
Your assumption is that bitcoin tech (maybe not alt-currency offshoots) is not a CIA darknet project like Tor. Check your assumptions maybe? |
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Also, it is likely that slush has had a good look over electrum as part of the stratum project .... so there is at least one independent validation, I'm sure there are others.
On another point, do we have any idea of how many electrum clients are active out there?
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Update?
or run off with the bitcoins ..... ?
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Happy Satoshi Day .... only comes around every 4 years.
Edit: the random count from 10 blocks out will be interesting ... 10 ....9-8,.... 7 ... wait for it 6 ...5-4-3 ...
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and people are worried about bitcoins possibly being used for criminal activity ... seriously? http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bank-of-america-too-crooked-to-fail-20120314?page=3Bank of America paid a $137 million fine for its sabotage of the government-contracting process – and in an attempt to avoid prosecution, it applied to the Justice Department's corporate leniency program, essentially confessing its criminal status: As plaintiff attorneys noted, the application "means that Bank of America is an admitted felon." |
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I like the way this thread is trending, some real guestimates to the NSA abilities ... (animated blonde gifs anybody?)
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No NSA can break 256bit AES by brute force.
That statement is slightly ambiguous (especially if you have omitted a comma) ... do you think NSA can or cannot break AES? I agree with the boondoggle aspect of these huge govt. projects. Also the inevitable centralised nature of the resulting installations is cringeworthy. Looking at the schematics here, it would only take a simple failure or attack on either the chillers (6) or the power substations (7) to render the entire complex useless.  .... a botnet or bitcoin is mush more resilient in that sense. Now if bitcoin hashing function could be homeomorphic to AES cracking .... |
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It was different question, for a different topic ... or didn't you read the forum properly? The article is long and many faceted. There are several (actually many) topics in there relevant to bitcoin that could be discussed separately .... the other discussion was a lame "gee whiz", "but who cares" meandering thread with no topic in the OP that I could discern.... animated chanesque pictures of blondes to boot. Thanks for being the concerned bitcoin web citizen though, we are all richer for it! |
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Can we post this article ten more times please?
... and you get to bitch about it being posted ten more times, ten more times? ... no thanks. Why don't you put yourself up for moderator if you feel the need to be policeman so badly? LOL! At the DOE’s unclassified center at Oak Ridge, work progressed at a furious pace, although it was a one-way street when it came to cooperation with the closemouthed people in Building 5300. Nevertheless, the unclassified team had its Cray XT4 supercomputer upgraded to a warehouse-sized XT5. Named Jaguar for its speed, it clocked in at 1.75 petaflops, officially becoming the world’s fastest computer in 2009. Meanwhile, over in Building 5300, the NSA succeeded in building an even faster supercomputer. “They made a big breakthrough,” says another former senior intelligence official, who helped oversee the program. The NSA’s machine was likely similar to the unclassified Jaguar, but it was much faster out of the gate, modified specifically for cryptanalysis and targeted against one or more specific algorithms, like the AES. In other words, they were moving from the research and development phase to actually attacking extremely difficult encryption systems. The code-breaking effort was up and running. The breakthrough was enormous, says the former official, and soon afterward the agency pulled the shade down tight on the project, even within the intelligence community and Congress. “Only the chairman and vice chairman and the two staff directors of each intelligence committee were told about it,” he says. The reason? “They were thinking that this computing breakthrough was going to give them the ability to crack current public encryption.” So can you hazard an answer if NSA are routinely cracking AES?? ... the point of question before you stuck your oar in and diverted the conversation .... |
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I would really like to get people's opinion on this. This passage in the much-talked about Wired article seems to be implying this but I find that a little too incredible ... or ?? "At the DOE’s unclassified center at Oak Ridge, work progressed at a furious pace, although it was a one-way street when it came to cooperation with the closemouthed people in Building 5300. Nevertheless, the unclassified team had its Cray XT4 supercomputer upgraded to a warehouse-sized XT5. Named Jaguar for its speed, it clocked in at 1.75 petaflops, officially becoming the world’s fastest computer in 2009. Meanwhile, over in Building 5300, the NSA succeeded in building an even faster supercomputer. “They made a big breakthrough,” says another former senior intelligence official, who helped oversee the program. The NSA’s machine was likely similar to the unclassified Jaguar, but it was much faster out of the gate, modified specifically for cryptanalysis and targeted against one or more specific algorithms, like the AES. In other words, they were moving from the research and development phase to actually attacking extremely difficult encryption systems. The code-breaking effort was up and running. The breakthrough was enormous, says the former official, and soon afterward the agency pulled the shade down tight on the project, even within the intelligence community and Congress. “Only the chairman and vice chairman and the two staff directors of each intelligence committee were told about it,” he says. The reason? “They were thinking that this computing breakthrough was going to give them the ability to crack current public encryption.” http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1Are NSA capable of routinely (i.e hours not weeks) cracking AES ... anybody? |
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Can we post this article ten more times please?
... and you get to bitch about it being posted ten more times, ten more times? ... no thanks. Why don't you put yourself up for moderator if you feel the need to be policeman so badly? |
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ComicCoin ?  |
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You don't send the private keys, you signed the transaction created by the server, just like a lightweight client.
let's assume that user A wants to send money to address A1 and A2(change).
user B sends to B1 and B2(change)
1. each one creates is own transaction but doesn't sign it and send it to the server.
2. server creates 1 transaction unsigned from these 2.
3. he then send this to user A who verifies his own inputs and outputs and then signs it.
4. I don't know the inner workings of bitcoin protocol and cryptography so I don't know what user B need sto sign (the sign transaction from user A or the unsigned transaction from the server and after that the server append both signatures to transaction).
5. At this point server has 1 bigger transaction signed by all parties. he send it to bitcoin network and deletes individual unsigned transaction which were never meant to be signed.
Hmmm, I think you could use blind signing for doing something like this .... There is also this post by Watson Ladd that claims to have a scheme to include a blinding signature into the protocol with new script OP 'SIG_FUNGIBLE' http://wbl.github.com/bitcoinanon.pdfwould be interested to get some thoughts on that, and the general question "Can the Bitcoin protocol be made more untraceable (fungibililty improved)?" |
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Given the US financial crises was precipitated by the blow-up of trillions of dollars in intricate housing bank loans, some may say a pyramid, and the Euro crises a similar situation in govt. loans, the evidence is clear that banks are pretty terrible at handling loans businesses also.
So they can't keep money safe, the primary role of a bank, they can't do loans very well, and they destroy currency value by centralising their failures .... remind me again what banks are good at?
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SIG_FUNGIBLE ... luv it  Tip: if bitcoin does not do this or something similar then the alt-coin (FunCoin) that does SIG_FUNGIBLE, (blind signing) and merged-mining, will be 'THE ONE' .... |
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