[Bitcoin-development] network disruption as a service and proof of local storage

2015-03-16 Thread Sergio Lerner
The problem of pseudo-nodes will come over and over. The cat and mouse chase is just beginning. It has been discussed some times that the easiest solution world be to request some kind of resource consumption on each peer to be allowed to connect to other peers. Gmaxwell proposed Proof of Storage

[Bitcoin-development] Relative CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY (was CLTV proposal)

2015-03-16 Thread Matt Corallo
In building some CLTV-based contracts, it is often also useful to have a method of requiring, instead of locktime-is-at-least-N, locktime-is-at-least-N-plus-the-height-of-my-input. ie you could imagine an OP_RELATIVECHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY that reads (does not pop) the top stack element, adds the

[Bitcoin-development] My thoughts on the viability of the Factom token

2015-03-16 Thread Peter Todd
Repost of https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2z9k5p/factom_announces_launch_date_for_software_token/cph0pvo for archival/disclosure purposes: I'm very skeptical about the long-term viability of Factom and the value of the Factom token. The idea behind Factom is to create a

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Criminal complaints against network disruption as a service startups

2015-03-16 Thread Aaron Voisine
Thanks Jan, we added several additional checks for non-standard protocol responses, and also made the client revert to DNS seeding more quickly if it runs into trouble, so it's now more robust against sybil/DOS attack. I mentioned in the coindesk article that I didn't think what your nodes were

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Criminal complaints against network disruption as a service startups

2015-03-16 Thread Jan Møller
What we were trying to achieve was determining the flow of funds between countries by figuring out which country a transaction originates from. To do that with a certain accuracy you need many nodes. We chose a class C IP range as we knew that bitcoin core and others only connect to one node in