Re: [Bitcoin-development] Getting trusted metrics from the block chain in an untrusted environment ?

Hello all, It seems there was a problem with my first email (thank you Mark for the heads up), so I'll copy paste it there : --- Hello all, I'm designing a program that needs some metrics computed from the Bitcoin block chain (some address balances, or the occurrence or not o

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Getting trusted metrics from the block chain in an untrusted environment ?

Some more thoughts : If no such project exist yet, I thought it could work with an alternate, small and fixed-length 'metric request block chain' of some sort. It would temporarily stores structures defined as [metric request | current block number when request was made | hash of the response] in

[Bitcoin-development] Getting trusted metrics from the block chain in an untrusted environment ?

Hello all, I'm designing a program that needs some metrics computed from the Bitcoin block chain (some address balances, or the occurrence or not of a specific transaction). The kind of infos you get from http://blockchain.info/, provided you trust this website (my program do not). My program sho

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Stealth Addresses

Thanks Peter for the paper! I'm just going to restate your 'simple explanation' to make sure I got it... The payee publishes a public key of theirs, which will be a long-standing identifier, public key = 'Q', corresponding private key = 'd'. To pay them, payee generate a keypair, private key