Quote from: Serith on June 17, 2012, 05:37:59 PM

I think you described a regular double spend attack, where is Finney attack involves pre-mined block, and it is not detectable.

Yeah, now that I reflect on it for a long while I believed that Finney attack is a double-spend attack, and that there are just two variations of it, which made things a bit confusing.

Quote from: cypherdoc on June 17, 2012, 07:01:05 PM

sure. but when you're explaining how Bitcoin works to an average Joe, its much simpler to say it it based on math where 2+2 always equals 4.

try explaining it using "cryptography". the discussion all of a sudden gets way more complicated to the point of the listener giving up.

Well, it's not an article aimed at general public, but rather people that know a bit about computer science, or want to know more and are ready to look into some things they have doubts with.

This kinda reminds me of this article:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/10/19/scientists-are-from-mars-the-public-is-from-earth/

Quote from: muyuu on June 17, 2012, 08:40:20 PM

I shall be reading this

Where is the accompanying CD?

The accompanying CD is in my school's archive, and with three other printed copies of the thesis. As I said in the original post, I'll upload its contents eventually (it's mainly a lot of code in Google Go, a bit messy).