[bitcoin-dev] call for demos: Cryptocurrency Implementers' Workshop

2018-12-10 Thread Andrew Miller via bitcoin-dev
Hi all, I'm happy to announce the first Cryptocurrency Implementers' Workshop, cohosted with Financial Crypto. http://fc19.ifca.ai/ciw/ Now that the BITCOIN cryptocurrency research workshop has been folded into the main FC conference, it's time to try something new. The goal of this workshop

[bitcoin-dev] BIP proposal - Dandelion: Privacy Preserving Transaction Propagation

2017-06-12 Thread Andrew Miller via bitcoin-dev
Dear bitcoin-dev, We've put together a preliminary implementation and BIP for Dandelion, and would love to get your feedback on it. Dandelion is a privacy-enhancing modification to Bitcoin's transaction propagation mechanism. Its goal is to obscure the original source IP of each transaction.

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin network simulation testing?

2015-10-06 Thread Andrew Miller via bitcoin-dev
Shadow uses virtual time, entirely decoupled from real time. So while it may slow down your machine, this would not affect the stats collected (although it does make shadow somewhat unpleasant to run, unless you have a fast machine, compared to abstract simulators that avoid running the actual