[Bitcoin-development] Full Clients in the future - Blockchain management

2012-06-02 Thread Alan Reiner
Devs, I have decided to upgrade Armory's blockchain utilities, partly out of necessity due to a poor code decision I made before I even decided I was making a client. In an effort to avoid such mistakes again, I want to do it right this time around, and realize that this is a good

[Bitcoin-development] Fwd: Re: Full Clients in the future - Blockchain management

2012-06-02 Thread Alan Reiner
(response from Doug forwarded below) It's a very good point. I have no experience with database engines. I had assumed that in most cases, data could always be indexed in RAM, and wanted to know where to go when that's not the case. I will look into that solution, further. I am very

[Bitcoin-development] Defeating the block withholding attack

2012-06-02 Thread Luke-Jr
Analysis, comments, constructive criticism, etc welcome for the following: ==Background== At present, an attacker can harm a pool by intentionally NOT submitting shares that are also valid blocks. All pools are vulnerable to this attack, whether centralized or decentralized and regardless of

[Bitcoin-development] Fwd: Defeating the block withholding attack

2012-06-02 Thread Watson Ladd
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Luke-Jr l...@dashjr.org wrote: Analysis, comments, constructive criticism, etc welcome for the following: ==Background== At present, an attacker can harm a pool by intentionally NOT submitting shares that are also valid blocks. All pools are vulnerable to this