Re: [Bitcoin-development] Long-term mining incentives

2015-05-13 Thread Pedro Worcel
Thank you for your response, that does make sense. It's going to be interesting to follow what is going to happen! 2015-05-14 3:41 GMT+12:00 Gavin Andresen : > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Adam Back wrote: > >> I think its fair to say no one knows how to make a consensus that >> works in a d

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Long-term mining incentives

2015-05-12 Thread Pedro Worcel
Disclaimer: I don't know anything about Bitcoin. > ​2) Proof-of-idle supported (I wish Tadge Dryja would publish his proof-of-idle idea) > 3) Fees purely as transaction-spam-prevention measure, chain security via alternative consensus algorithm (in this scenario there is very little mining).

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal to address Bitcoin malware

2015-02-02 Thread Pedro Worcel
I think what he is saying is that there is no point in having three signatures if they are not segregated in a secure manner. This is to say, if you use your computer as one "factor", and a third party website as another, but you use the same computer to access the website, there is no gain in

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal to address Bitcoin malware

2015-02-02 Thread Pedro Worcel
Where would you verify that? On 2/3/2015 10:03 AM, Brian Erdelyi wrote: Joel, The mobile device should show you the details of the transaction (i.e. amount and bitcoin address). Once you verify this is the intended recipient and amount you approve it on the mobile device. If the address wa

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Miners MiTM

2014-08-07 Thread Pedro Worcel
s why majority of pools (mine including) don't want to play with >> that... >> >> slush >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Luke Dashjr wrote: >> >>> On Thursday, August 07, 2014 11:02:21 PM Pedro Worcel wrote: >>> > Hi there, >>&

[Bitcoin-development] Miners MiTM

2014-08-07 Thread Pedro Worcel
Hi there, I was wondering if you guys have come across this article: http://www.wired.com/2014/08/isp-bitcoin-theft/ The TL;DR is that somebody is abusing the BGP protocol to be in a position where they can intercept the miner traffic. The concerning point is that they seem to be having some deg