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.
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.
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/
I shall be reading this 
Where is the accompanying CD?
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).