On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Melvin Carvalho <[email protected]> wrote: > On 22 May 2013 16:07, Jeff Garzik <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Melvin Carvalho >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Some out of band algo/hash could work so long as there was a one to one >> > relationship between the described object and the UUID. In this case >> > the >> > gensis block may not uniquely identify a coin. >> >> What does this mean? It seems extremely unlikely that two different >> genesis blocks will have the same hash. > > > Two coin ecosystems could have the same genesis block
That has really, really bad side effects. The whole point of the bitcoin consensus algorithm is to avoid situations like this. We don't want to encourage that behavior with code. -- Jeff Garzik exMULTI, Inc. [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_may _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
