I’ve been working on a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party. The paper is available at: http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf The main properties: Double-spending is prevented with a peer-to-peer network. No mint or other trusted parties. Participants can be anonymous. New coins are made from Hashcash style […]
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Re: Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
>Satoshi Nakamoto wrote: >> I’ve been working on a new electronic cash system that’s fully >> peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party. >> >> The paper is available at: >> http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf > >We very, very much need such a system, but the way I understand your >proposal, it does not […]
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>> As long as honest nodes control the most CPU power on the network, >> they can generate the longest chain and outpace any attackers. > >But they don’t. Bad guys routinely control zombie farms of 100,000 >machines or more. People I know who run a blacklist of spam sending […]
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>[Lengthy exposition of vulnerability of a systm to use-of-force >monopolies ellided.] > >You will not find a solution to political problems in cryptography. Yes, but we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years. Governments are good at cutting […]
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Ray Dillinger: > the “currency” is inflationary at about 35% > as that’s how much faster computers get annually > … the inflation rate of 35% is almost guaranteed > by the technology Increasing hardware speed is handled: “To compensate for increasing hardware speed and varying interest in running nodes […]
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Hal Finney wrote: > it is mentioned that if a broadcast transaction does not reach all nodes, > it is OK, as it will get into the block chain before long. How does this > happen – what if the node that creates the “next” block (the first node > […]
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James A. Donald wrote: > The core concept is that lots of entities keep complete and consistent > information as to who owns which bitcoins. > > But maintaining consistency is tricky. It is not clear to me what > happens when someone reports one transaction to one maintainer, and […]
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James A. Donald wrote: >OK, suppose one node incorporates a bunch of >transactions in its proof of work, all of them honest >legitimate single spends and another node incorporates a >different bunch of transactions in its proof of >work, all of them equally honest legitimate single >spends, and both proofs […]
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James A. Donald wrote: > Furthermore, it cannot be made to work, as in the > proposed system the work of tracking who owns what coins > is paid for by seigniorage, which requires inflation. If you’re having trouble with the inflation issue, it’s easy to tweak it for transaction […]
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James A. Donald wrote: > So what happened to the coin that lost the race? > > … it is a bit harsh if the guy who came second > is likely to lose his coin. When there are multiple double-spent versions of the same transaction, one and only one […]
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