Zerocoin: Anonymous Distributed E-Cash from Bitcoin

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Mike Hearn:
Rule changes are, by definition, not "backwards compatible". That is the whole point of Bitcoin. You are SUPPOSED to get hard forked off if the rules change and the fact that blocks stop being processed at that point is deliberate.

Yes, if you were to introduce something like ZeroCoin, ordinary users would expect it to be a hard fork. Soft forks are a nasty hack that violates peoples expectations of how their nodes will behave in the face of rule changes.

jl2012:
Quote from: Mike Hearn on July 04, 2013, 11:55:53 AM

Rule changes are, by definition, not "backwards compatible". That is the whole point of Bitcoin. You are SUPPOSED to get hard forked off if the rules change and the fact that blocks stop being processed at that point is deliberate.

Yes, if you were to introduce something like ZeroCoin, ordinary users would expect it to be a hard fork. Soft forks are a nasty hack that violates peoples expectations of how their nodes will behave in the face of rule changes.

Rule changes could be backwards compatible, e.g. allowing homosexual marriage would not make any existing or future heterosexual marriage illegal. The opposite is true for bitcoin: tightening rules would not make existing clients obsolete

The ability to soft-fork is one of the most visionary design in bitcoin

dillpicklechips:
I saw this: https://github.com/Zerocoin/libzerocoin

klee:
Quote from: dillpicklechips on July 05, 2013, 04:15:19 AM

I saw this: https://github.com/Zerocoin/libzerocoin

It has begun!

minimalB:
Wow! Looks like the Bitcoin community never stops!

This is so cool!

BTW: Where can i donate to support the project?

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