JoelKatz
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Democracy is vulnerable to a 51% attack.
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July 11, 2011, 12:14:01 AM |
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Then, IMO, the biggest issue left is whether it would be antisocial to mine lots of blocks with 1,000 or more outputs in the coinbase transaction.
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Once a transaction has 6 confirmations, it is extremely unlikely that an attacker without at least 50% of the network's computation power would be able to reverse it.
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nanotube (OP)
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July 11, 2011, 05:13:21 PM |
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Then, IMO, the biggest issue left is whether it would be antisocial to mine lots of blocks with 1,000 or more outputs in the coinbase transaction.
an extra output in the coinbase tx adds only a few bytes, 50-60 bytes is the figure i was quoted on IRC. so with 1000 outputs in the coinbase, we are only adding 50kb to the block or so. nothing to be writing home about, really.
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July 11, 2011, 09:47:59 PM |
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Where's the RFC?.
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July 12, 2011, 01:44:50 AM |
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If you could add other nodes based on geolocation could you cluster together with nodes that are local to you for lower latency ?
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nanotube (OP)
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July 12, 2011, 03:19:43 AM |
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Where's the RFC?.
well, first post, has a link to a page... with the basic framework written up.
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July 12, 2011, 05:04:52 PM |
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Where's the RFC?.
well, first post, has a link to a page... with the basic framework written up. So?. The Request for Comments (AKA RFCs) are documents published by the IETF like this one. I have yet to see a reference to the number of the RFC you're talking about.
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July 12, 2011, 06:11:34 PM |
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How about a mining system where the clients collect transactions normally (as if they were solo mining) and only the coinbase transaction is predefined by the pool?
While this wouldn't solve the dDoS problem, it would take the "network control" away from pools.
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JoelKatz
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July 13, 2011, 07:29:23 AM |
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How about a mining system where the clients collect transactions normally (as if they were solo mining) and only the coinbase transaction is predefined by the pool?
While this wouldn't solve the dDoS problem, it would take the "network control" away from pools.
It could solve, or at least reduce, the dDoS problem -- the client only needs to talk to the pool to report shares, and it can do that at its leisure. Slowing down the pool server's responsiveness would have no effect.
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nanotube (OP)
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July 13, 2011, 02:49:17 PM |
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Where's the RFC?.
well, first post, has a link to a page... with the basic framework written up. So?. The Request for Comments (AKA RFCs) are documents published by the IETF like this one. I have yet to see a reference to the number of the RFC you're talking about. I am requesting comments. Therefore this is a request for comments. Nowhere did I imply that this was in any way official or connected with any standards-setting organization like IETF.
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JoelKatz
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July 13, 2011, 02:52:26 PM |
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The Request for Comments (AKA RFCs) are documents published by the IETF like this one. I have yet to see a reference to the number of the RFC you're talking about. It is not uncommon at all to use the tag 'RFC' to mean something that is in fact requesting comments. It is the IETF that abuses the term since many IETF RFCs are not requests for comments at all.
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