Re: [cryptography] the Zcash Open Source Miner Challenge (and about Zcash in general)

2017-07-07 Thread lodewijk andré de la porte
> On 7 Jul 2017, at 22:52, Jaromil wrote: > > On Tue, 04 Jul 2017, Lodewijk andré de la porte wrote: > >> this is a good answer, in particular your declaration that you >> "haven't bought or sold any ZEC". I believe you should give this >> answer to those people considering themselv

Re: [cryptography] the Zcash Open Source Miner Challenge (and about Zcash in general)

2017-07-07 Thread Jaromil
On Tue, 04 Jul 2017, Lodewijk andré de la porte wrote: > this is a good answer, in particular your declaration that you > "haven't bought or sold any ZEC". I believe you should give this > answer to those people considering themselves victims of a market > gambling operation yo

Re: [cryptography] the Zcash Open Source Miner Challenge (and about Zcash in general)

2017-07-04 Thread Lodewijk andré de la porte
> > I'd agree that "forums" are a poor choice. > They're magnets for masses of the clueless, > which is fine for that purpose. They are easy to use, rather than archaic and unappealing. Not sure what kind of argument this is, anyway. > And they're heavyweight, captive, and exploitable. > My co

Re: [cryptography] the Zcash Open Source Miner Challenge (and about Zcash in general)

2016-11-16 Thread Jaromil
dear Zooko, On Tue, 15 Nov 2016, Zooko Wilcox-OHearn wrote: > On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Jaromil wrote: > > > > ...but ZCash feels a bit scammy. Its pumped up entry on the market > > burnt a lot of people's money... is it just their fault being stupid? > … > > Sincerely, I'm not trolling.

Re: [cryptography] the Zcash Open Source Miner Challenge (and about Zcash in general)

2016-11-14 Thread Zooko Wilcox-OHearn
On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Jaromil wrote: > > ...but ZCash feels a bit scammy. Its pumped up entry on the market > burnt a lot of people's money... is it just their fault being stupid? … > Sincerely, I'm not trolling. Seeing there is some space for a civil > conversation, I'd be interested in

Re: [cryptography] the Zcash Open Source Miner Challenge (and about Zcash in general)

2016-11-09 Thread Jaromil
On Sat, 05 Nov 2016, David Mercer wrote: > But a proper mailing list for core engineering work is indeed > desirable. I'd offer place on lists.dyne.org... ...but ZCash feels a bit scammy. Its pumped up entry on the market burnt a lot of people's money... is it just their fault being stupid? is

Re: [cryptography] the Zcash Open Source Miner Challenge (and about Zcash in general)

2016-11-05 Thread David Mercer
I just finished my port of Zcash to Mac OS X on Nov 3 (see: https://github.com/radix42/zcash ) and agree that a mailing list hosted by the Linux Foundation would be ideal. However I wouldn't shutter the zcash forum: a user there contributed a patch to libsnark to work around the lack of ::clock_get

Re: [cryptography] the Zcash Open Source Miner Challenge (and about Zcash in general)

2016-11-02 Thread grarpamp
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 10:55 PM, Zooko Wilcox-OHearn wrote: > open-source implementations > Jump in! The worst that can happen is that you get the fun and > education of implementing an interesting new proof-of-work algorithm. > :-) Zcash is Linux only. That's not good for diversity, adoption,

Re: [cryptography] the Zcash Open Source Miner Challenge (and about Zcash in general)

2016-10-11 Thread grarpamp
I'd agree that "forums" are a poor choice. They're magnets for masses of the clueless, which is fine for that purpose. And they're heavyweight, captive, and exploitable. Lists can be archived, replicated, distributed, offlined, searched with any MUA, etc. +1. (A bidirectional gateway to list, with

Re: [cryptography] the Zcash Open Source Miner Challenge (and about Zcash in general)

2016-10-11 Thread Peter Todd
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 03:34:33PM -, sten...@nymphet.paranoici.org wrote: > Zooko Wilcox-OHearn writes: > > > https://z.cash ... There's a lot going on there. ... Jump in! > > I want to jump in but I can't because z.cash has no mailing list. A > mailing list is needed because it allows par

Re: [cryptography] the Zcash Open Source Miner Challenge (and about Zcash in general)

2016-10-11 Thread stenski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zooko Wilcox-OHearn writes: > https://z.cash ... There's a lot going on there. ... Jump in! I want to jump in but I can't because z.cash has no mailing list. A mailing list is needed because it allows participation by individuals for whom any low-l

Re: [cryptography] the Zcash Open Source Miner Challenge (and about Zcash in general)

2016-10-10 Thread Russell Leidich
Hi Zooko, I have a simple challenge for you. But first of all, let me state that I think Zcash is the most promising of all cryptocurrencies from a security standpoint. (Yeah, I know. Them's fightin' words. It's just my personal opinion and plenty of people will disagree.) I may change my mind at s

[cryptography] the Zcash Open Source Miner Challenge (and about Zcash in general)

2016-10-10 Thread Zooko Wilcox-OHearn
Hi folks! I've been quiet on this list for a while now. I've been hard at work on creating a Bitcoin-like cryptocurrency with zero-knowledge-based crypto: https://z.cash This is the most sophisticated crypto that I've ever seen someone attempt to deploy at scale to the Internet. (By all means fe