Guys/Gals, can we please please stop getting carried away with this shadow and cryptonote... Shadow is not based on cryptonote and does not function like cryptonote!
Thanks
Oops. Sorry. smooth an I had a convo based on the assumption Shadow (ssv2) was based on cryptonote! He read the whitepaper and somehow was under the impression it was. How ddi this confusion begin?
Please tell us what it is if not based on cryptonote! Is it somehow an improvement?!
EDIT: Cryptonote 2.0 is cited in the references, altho I cannot see where the reference appears in the paper.
I have a question about shadow-to-shadow transactions.
0) I own 0 shadow.
1) Person A sends me 1 shadow.
2) I then myself 1 shadow. (not sure if this step is needed).
3) I send A some of the shadow back, say 0.9.
Question: Is it possible for A using some offline techniques in the (far enough) future to tell this 0.9 shadow is mine with a high probability? Probably this depends on the number of transactions of the network and number of users. So if you answer this question feel free to go into this as well.
I know for instance that, as things are right now, with Monero this fails, i.e. person A can tell the money comes from me with a high probability.
This is an open discussion, so your thoughts more than welcome.
Here is what i think that happened:
"A few people with a lot of money, a few brilliant ideas and the will to fuck everyone up in order to make loads more money came up with a great idea: let's create digital money, some bullshit about fighting banks, some japanese guy that doesn't really exist, silkroad for a bit. Let's give this Bitcoin thing value by pumping the hell out of it, and let it drop on a bunch of unwanted childs that dream of getting rich with this shit. In the Meantime we will have an organized ring of scammers ( Karpelles, cryptorush, mintpal.. etc etc .. ) that will make us even richer. We will also have another organized ring of scammers/devs that will create new coins so we can pump and dump the hell out of them to make even more and more money. Once this shit gets regulated we will just leave with more billions and see ya"
Bitcoin is a pump and dump just like gold is. This says it all.
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Re: ProcessBlock: ORPHAN BLOCK in debug.log – Meaning?
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Fujireloaded
on 19/08/2014, 21:27:43 UTC
Yes, it's definitely an issue. It slows down the syncing terribly.
You get all those orphaned blocks when they get sent to you in parallel by the peers you're connected to (that's what I read and I still don't really get what's going on).
Apparently it's been fixed and it will make it into 0.9.3.
But if you can't wait here's how I went around it. Just launch bitcoind with -maxconnections=3. Since the parallelism is lower this reduces the amount of orphans dramatically. I find the speed still pretty good with 3 connections.
After you're done with the syncing, leave out this parameter cause the more connections you have the better. There shouldn't be orphans after the syncing.
Hope it helps.
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ProcessBlock: ORPHAN BLOCK in debug.log – Meaning?
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Fujireloaded
on 19/08/2014, 19:09:02 UTC
In my debug.log I see a lot of the following messages (with different orphan block number):
However, I don't really understand exactly what the problem is and if there is something I can do about it.
The bitcoind was running on a Mac Mini 2.3Ghz i7, 4GB RAM, 1TB HD. It was run after a fresh reboot and most of the HD is free.
Does anybody know what's going on there?
Edit: Actually, I just noticed the orphan block number is now always 751. It looks like it reached like a sort of maximum value.
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How long does it take for bitcoind to sync nowadays?
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Fujireloaded
on 19/08/2014, 12:16:35 UTC
I let it run on a Mac mini i7 with HD (not SSD) for 14.5 hours using bootstrap.dat and the txindex=1 in bitcoin.conf. I'm now at block 277'000 (December 26th 2013). It's slowing down like crazy.
Anybody care to share their timings? Thx!
EDIT: The sync is over. It took me 23 hours with Bootstrap.dat and txindex=1. Be careful if you're using the 0.9.2.1 version. You can fix a bug that slows down the syncing here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=746840.0
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Am in SF for 1 month, wanna build the best iPhone wallet?
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Fujireloaded
on 04/06/2014, 20:05:21 UTC
I'm a senior senior iOS developer and I'm visiting San Francisco for 1 month. Any kick-ass designers or other iOS developers out there that might want to meet up to discuss and possibly start a Bitcoin iPhone wallet together?
Looking forward!
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Re: Distributed BTC/USD exchange using regular chip-and-pin credit cards
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Fujireloaded
on 01/04/2014, 20:18:49 UTC
This is really, really cool.
Congrats!
I was wondering if the fraud detection system of banks would turn on since you're using the card all over the world. Probably this won't happen cause, as you said, they think the card is inserted physically?
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Skycoin
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Fujireloaded
on 23/12/2013, 18:27:11 UTC
Does anybody know how coins are generated with Skycoin? I'm still a "newbie" and can't directly post to the thread I was following..