Re: [Bitcoin-development] side-chains & 2-way pegging (Re: is there a way to do bitcoin-staging?)

2014-11-03 Thread odinn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Possibly relevant... https://www.iacr.org/archive/eurocrypt2002/23320001/euro02.ps Some interesting stuff here too http://des.cse.nsysu.edu.tw/asiacrypt2014/accepted/index.htm Andrew Poelstra wrote: > false proof - -- http://abis.io ~ "a protoc

Re: [Bitcoin-development] side-chains & 2-way pegging (Re: is there a way to do bitcoin-staging?)

2014-11-03 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 06:01:46PM +0200, Alex Mizrahi wrote: > > Yes, but "harder" isn't same as "unlikely". > We are aware of the distintion between hardness (expected work) and likelihood of successful attack -- much of Appendix B talks about this, in the context of producing compact SPV proof

Re: [Bitcoin-development] side-chains & 2-way pegging (Re: is there a way to do bitcoin-staging?)

2014-11-03 Thread Jorge Timón
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Alex Mizrahi wrote: > This isn't applicable in case of sidechains: anybody with sufficient > hashpower will be able to unlock a locked coin on the parent chain by > producing an SPV proof. > "Only if the miners form a shared valid history" isn't a requirement here,

Re: [Bitcoin-development] side-chains & 2-way pegging (Re: is there a way to do bitcoin-staging?)

2014-11-03 Thread Alex Mizrahi
> From the introduction "[...]Because signers prove computational work, > rather than proving secret knowledge as > is typical for digital signatures, we refer to them as miners. To > achieve stable consensus on the > blockchain history, economic incentives are provided where miners are > rewarded

Re: [Bitcoin-development] side-chains & 2-way pegging (Re: is there a way to do bitcoin-staging?)

2014-11-03 Thread Jorge Timón
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Alex Mizrahi wrote: > >> For those following this thread, we have now written a paper >> describing the side-chains, 2-way pegs and compact SPV proofs. >> (With additional authors Andrew Poelstra & Andrew Miller). >> >> http://blockstream.com/sidechains.pdf > > > Ha

Re: [Bitcoin-development] side-chains & 2-way pegging (Re: is there a way to do bitcoin-staging?)

2014-11-03 Thread Alex Mizrahi
> For those following this thread, we have now written a paper > describing the side-chains, 2-way pegs and compact SPV proofs. > (With additional authors Andrew Poelstra & Andrew Miller). > > http://blockstream.com/sidechains.pdf Haven't seen any material discussion of this paper in this mailing

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bug in genbuild.sh ?

2014-11-03 Thread Wladimir
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Francis GASCHET wrote: > Hello, > > I just compiled bitCoin core on Debian 7. > I got an error message "too many arguments" when executing genuid.sh > I fixed it as shown hereafter and it worked fine. > > > pcfg:~/bitcoinCore> diff -u shareOLD/genbuild.sh share/gen

[Bitcoin-development] Bug in genbuild.sh ?

2014-11-03 Thread Francis GASCHET
Hello, I just compiled bitCoin core on Debian 7. I got an error message "too many arguments" when executing genuid.sh I fixed it as shown hereafter and it worked fine. pcfg:~/bitcoinCore> diff -u shareOLD/genbuild.sh share/genbuild.sh --- shareOLD/genbuild.sh2014-11-03 08:32:08.950708258