On 03/27/2014 08:09 AM, Tamas Blummer wrote: > A notable suggestion was to instead of building a directory of magic numbers > (like 0 for Bitcoin, 1 for Litecoin etc) use a hash of the word "Bitcoin", > "Litecoin", "Dogecoin", so collosion is unlikely and > cetral directory is not needed.
Nice idea, but keep in mind that you are hashing into 2^32 space, so collisions will occur, unfortunately and we'll end up with directory again :-/ Even if they did not occur you would need to keep up the registry of names anyway (is it Peercoin or PPCoin, Testnet or TestNet ...)? -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol Rusnak <[email protected]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
