[Bitcoin-development] Dual elliptic curve algorithms

2013-12-22 Thread Ron
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Re: [Bitcoin-development] Dual elliptic curve algorithms

2013-12-22 Thread Mike Hearn
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[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin difficulty sanity check suggestion

2013-12-22 Thread Ryan Carboni
I think Bitcoin should have a sanity check: after three days if only four blocks have been mined, difficulty should be adjusted downwards. This might become important in the near future. I project a Bitcoin mining bubble.

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin difficulty sanity check suggestion

2013-12-22 Thread Mark Friedenbach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ryan, these sort of adjustments introduce security risks. If you were isolated from the main chain by a low-hashpower attacker, how would you know? They'd need just three days without you noticing that network block generation has stalled - maybe they