werd up, but no word on availability.

What's the specs on the box you are building on? Always good to know for comparison.

I know, but you would need hash power to keep the central database secure. "Confirmations" are backed by hash power, and not many users are going to leave bitcoin to hash your chain for no monetary benefit to themselves, leaving it wide open to attack resulting in blocks rolled back. Merged mining gives you the benefits of the Bitcoin network hash power with not much additional work needed to make it happen.

NB: My use of the word "central" above means universally accessible, not centralized. It would be decentralized in the same manner as Bitcoin.

With the advent of merged mining, the blockchains of such parallel databases can be secured as well as Bitcoin itself, without needing another alt coin to accompany it.

Ugh not this again. Here, have a link for your viewing pleasure: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=unreadreplies <-- that's why people "sub". They don't want an email from the Notify link.


Still interesting nonetheless.

You mentioned a potential protocol vulnerability, so of course many people are interested.

Wasn't Vladmir planning to fill a whole datacenter with ASICs, and still only have 5-8Th/s or so? Wonder how many times his big investors have crapped their pants today, since BFL's flagship product is supposedly specced to provide that much hash power in 5-8 compact units.

wtf?

I wonder if there is any way to record the transaction history in a compact format and retain second-by-second granularity.

Wow, this is epic. Best of luck to you!

Well I for one am not going to bother digging through all my addresses to see if it's in there, unless I have a good reason to. So maybe we could have a little bit of background on this request?

From the client's perspective, there isn't any way to tell except with the block timestamps which I doubt it will trust.

Which new blackberry? I have the 9900, which is a reasonably fast dual core with a beautiful screen and the industry-leading keyboard. Are they planning something better?

The internet prefers the term "cumdumpster".

convertible mercedessss

So I'm assuming you will be adding BFL ASIC rigs to this setup instead of whatever else you were planning? At ~$30k per terahash, it doesn't seem space-efficient to use anything else even if power and cooling were free.

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First you claim not to believe that anything exists, and then you start talking about what's coming next. Make up your fucking mind.

Just change the memorypool code to require massive fees from 1dice addresses.

Dammit BFL, why do you have to announce this in the middle of the night when I'm sleeping? I just had to read 7 pages of bullshit.

My opinion/guesses based on what I've read so far: although the Single fiasco resulted in a product that was way under spec for hash rate and over spec for power, they seem to have fixed this with the mini-rig. The mini-rig is over spec on the speed by 1gh/s and under spec on the power by 100 watts, and is a week or 2 late instead of a month late like the Single.

Therefore, here's hoping the trend continues: stuff shipping on time that is on-spec. To do this with the published specs, some have mentioned the necessity of using a 40nm process. I don't think that is impossible, especially with VC funding, but it's akin to attacking an ant with a shotgun, and is going to have a similar effect on the difficulty level.

Here's hoping I can order soon.