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

2014-01-09 Thread Clément Elbaz
Hi Rob, Thank you for answering. > So you want to 'benefit' from the network without contributing to it ? > Not going to happen - why would anyone be interested in providing you 'free compute resources' ? Not free. As I stated in my second email ("some more thoughts" etc.), it seems really fitt

Re: [Bitcoin-development] The insecurity of merge-mining

2014-01-09 Thread Jorge Timón
On 1/6/14, Peter Todd wrote: > On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 01:27:42AM +0100, Jorge Timón wrote: > It's not meant to prove anything - the proof-of-sacrificed-bitcoins > mentioned(*) in it is secure only if Bitcoin itself is secure and > functional. I referred you to it because understanding the system

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

2014-01-09 Thread Rob Golding
> My program should run on lightweight/embedded hardware. The execution > environment provides access to the Bitcoin network but not enough > resources to set up a trusted node along with my program. So you want to 'benefit' from the network without contributing to it ? > I would need a way to a