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Myriad because multi-pow offers enhanced blockchain security and fair distribution catering to 5 different niches and allowing gpus fgpas asics and cpus to coexist on the same blockchain. Also slow distribution and halving and no scammy shit going on like production cuts and premines and ipos or stuff like that.
Re: Multi-vPoW - Myriadcoin's Solution to Parasitic Merge Mining
I have a question it doesn't directly relate to the topic but more to vPoW-
let me give you a scenario - :
is there an attack vector that exists here:
lets say we have for example 3 "algos"
1. Xa
2. Xb
3. Xc
now (in this world) - there is a beautiful community developed CPU and GPU miner for both
what this miner does is it can mine each of the 3 and choose the lowest diff of each -
is there a potential attack vector where the miner can "game" the next block i.e by jumping form aglo to aglo -
so exploited some how the way in which the next block is determined?
sorry for the newb question.
what i'm asking is:
what is the mechanism that determines the next block is it really random?
let me give you a scenario - :
is there an attack vector that exists here:
lets say we have for example 3 "algos"
1. Xa
2. Xb
3. Xc
now (in this world) - there is a beautiful community developed CPU and GPU miner for both
what this miner does is it can mine each of the 3 and choose the lowest diff of each -
is there a potential attack vector where the miner can "game" the next block i.e by jumping form aglo to aglo -
so exploited some how the way in which the next block is determined?
sorry for the newb question.
what i'm asking is:
what is the mechanism that determines the next block is it really random?
None, the block hash is generated and can be solved by any of the algos. It's just a matter of difficulty vs hash power.
Re: [ANN][VRC] | VeriCoin | POS - NSDI | VeriBit | VeriSend | VeriSMS
Please let's hear the solution from all the people complaining about a rollback. Please solve everyone's problems. If your reply amounts to "I don't know, but a rollback isn't the solution" then please STFU you have nothing to offer.
do nothing, require mintpal to pay as any other sane coin community would, realize pos is a flawed concept because right now the hacker controls over 50% of the network, dump all pos coins, live happily ever after.
Re: [ANN][VRC] | VeriCoin | POS - NSDI | VeriBit | VeriSend | VeriSMS
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1) We lost a considerable amount of VeriCoin in the attack, however we have been working with the VRC developers and all major exchanges to hard fork the coin at a position before the attack. This will allow us to retrieve the stolen coins and facilitate all withdrawals. We are also working with various exchanges to accommodate any losses they may encouter as a result of the required fork.
This is a problem right here. Just because it's stolen does not mean they should be able to arbitrarily reverse the hack. If they're successful at hard forking, this will set precedence that any time there is a theft reported, devs can just hard fork again. This will eventually be abused, and corruption happens.
True on the bright side at least it was not the Bitcoin accounts that got broken into
Always scary when an exchange gets hacked
mintpal was most likely keeping it all in a hotwallet staking the shiznit out of it because you know ... profits.
Re: [ANN][VRC] | VeriCoin | POS - NSDI | VeriBit | VeriSend | VeriSMS
What happens to the people who bought/sold outside of mintpal after the rollback ?
Also what if this happens again ? another rollback ? plugging the holes in a ship doesn't make it a better ship if it's still made out of shit.
Also what if this happens again ? another rollback ? plugging the holes in a ship doesn't make it a better ship if it's still made out of shit.
ASIC manufacturing is already more distributed than GPU manufacturing, isn't it?
-MarkM-
-MarkM-
debatable.
Interesting!
It is about time for a primetime game working with digital currencies!
Ente
We're working our butts off trying to promote the kickstarter so that the game can get done faster
spv don't play with pos thus there is no security against malitious nodes thus timebomb.
What is spv? PoS is 'point of sale', right?
spv is a verification process that only requires block headers to be verified and not the whole chain downloaded because it's too big for phones. pos is proof of stake I presumed.
Aha, thanks, yes, I understand now. By "template" he's talking about the fact that the schildbach wallet is open-source/GPL so you can start with that as a starting point. Now I understand why he's talking about scrypt coins. This makes more sense than point-of-sale system... lol
It's natural that you haven't made a correlation since POS is inherently flawed and shouldn't be used at all until it's heavily patched against all the problems it has thus no serious crypto enthusiast should put much thought into it as of now.
Re: [ANN] LastMail: World's first passive post-mortem message system [Free+Open!]
is it trustless ? how do peers verify I'm dead ?
It is trustless. When using the main system, you still need to trust me, the site administrator, to a certain extent. But as the source is open, and you're allowed to upload your own private use version, trusting me is not even neccesary.
Also, all information about the messages you write, the subject, whom you address it to and the name you take is stored in an encrypted way, and is unreadable with just database access. So no worries to be had there either.
How LastMail knows you've died:
The system keeps track of when you're reading your emails, by knowing when you view the embedded image in the activity mails.
When you have been inactive for a prolonged amount of time (the exact time amount is configurable), the system will then flag you as 'deceased', and at that time automatically send out your Last Mails.
Afterwards, these messages are deleted from the server and erased from LastMail's memory forever.
morbid but interesting