2011
10 writings
January 2011
- Private email (Martti Malmi)
Re: Writing about BitCoin
Gavin Andresen wrote: Great True You're the best person to do it. EFF is really important. We want to have a good relationship with them. We're the type of project they like; they've helped the TOR project and done a lot to protect P2P…
- Private email (Mike Hearn)
More BitCoin questions
I reached the same conclusions about client only nodes and this is what I've been implementing. I'm nearly there ..... I have block chain download, parsing and verification of the blocks/transactions done, with creation of spend…
- Private email (Mike Hearn)
More BitCoin questions
Open source. Perfect. Once your code shows how to simplify it down, other authors can follow your lead. Client is a less daunting challenge than full implementation. If it's within reach of more developers, they'll come up with more…
- Private email (Mike Hearn)
More BitCoin questions
By the way, if you didn't see it already, there's a discussion on the security of secp256k1 on the forum: http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/ind ex.php?topic=2699.0 Hal (i presume this is Hal Finney) Yes, it's him. He was supportive on the…
- Private email (Martti Malmi)
Re: Fwd: Bitcoin question
The paper was published in 2008. Someone needs to correct Wikipedia; it incorrectly says the paper was published in 2009. The paper was released earlier than the software. mmalmi@cc.hut.fi wrote:
February 2011
- Private email (Martti Malmi)
Re: 0.3.20 release : shipped
\> I have not sent a message to the sourceforge bitcoin-list mailing list Martti should give you the Drupal admin password. Any subscriber can post to bitcoin-list. Here's the admin password in case you need it later. Gavin: [An encrypted…
March 2011
- Private email (Mike Hearn)
Open sourced my Java SPV impl
I hope you are doing well. I finally got all the lawyers happy enough to release BitCoinJ under the Google name using the Apache 2 license: It's incomplete - notably it doesn't properly handle block chain splits yet - but the rest is…
- Private email (Mike Hearn)
Open sourced my Java SPV impl
See these threads: http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/ind ex.php?topic=1786.msg22119#msg 22119 http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/ind ex.php?topic=2181.msg28729#msg 28729 I see. So right now fees are tricky because you have to decide up front what the…
April 2011
- Private email (Mike Hearn)
Holding coins in an unspendable state for a rolling time window
If the script language is not stateless, if it has access to any outside information that changes or varies between nodes, attackers can use it to fork the chain. The only exception is if it is always false before a certain time and…
- Private email (Mike Hearn)
Holding coins in an unspendable state for a rolling time window
I had a few other things on my mind (as always). One is, are you planning on rejoining the community at some point (eg for code reviews), or is your plan to permanently step back from the limelight? I've moved on to other things. It's in…
