[Bitcoin-development] Merge mining

2013-12-30 Thread Jeremy Spilman
Merge mining lets Bitcoin miners support or attack an alt-coin without any additional cost for their proof-of-work. Since bitcoin miners have to install software to build and claim blocks in the alt-coin, the percentage of bitcoin hashing power reflected toward the alt-coin will follow some

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Looking for GREAT C++ developer for exciting opportunity in bitcoin space

2013-12-30 Thread Luke-Jr
On Monday, December 30, 2013 11:22:25 PM Peter Todd wrote: > that you are using merge-mining is a red-flag because without majority, or > at least near-majority, hashing power an attacker can 51% attack your > altcoin at negligible cost by re-using existing hashing power. I strongly disagree on th

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Looking for GREAT C++ developer for exciting opportunity in bitcoin space

2013-12-30 Thread Peter Todd
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 11:53:19AM -0700, Evan Duffield wrote: > Hello, > > We’re a startup looking for 1 or 2 really good C++ programmer that is > familiar with the bitcoin internals to help with a for-profit startup. > > We will be able to provide more information about the project after signin

[Bitcoin-development] New P2P microblogging project based on Bitcoin

2013-12-30 Thread Miguel Freitas
Hi folks, I'd like to let you know about a new project based on Bitcoin + Libtorrent: twister - a new p2p microblogging platform. First of all, some kudos and apologies are due. Bitcoin and libtorrent are both well written, high quality C++ codebases and i'd like to thank all developers for their