Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fidelity bonds for decentralized instant confirmation guarantees

2014-06-17 Thread Goss, Brian C., M.D.
Can two signed transactions using the same output as an input (ie, a double spend) be used to trigger a third transaction? It would be nice if I could sign a tx that would pay m bitcoins to an arbitrary address if and only if someone could present proof that I signed more than 1 transaction us

[Bitcoin-development] 1. Re: On the optimal block size and why transaction fees are 8

2013-11-08 Thread Goss, Brian C., M.D.
Peter, What is the propagation time within a pool? If my pool is made up of a ton of fancy ASICs connected by 300 baud modems, how does that affect your analysis (ie, Q for a mining pool is effectively a function of time as well)? Brian P.S. I hope these are not ignorant questions; if they ar

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: remove "getwork" RPC from bitcoind

2013-08-19 Thread Goss, Brian C., M.D.
What if we have a massive (like many orders of magnitude) drop in network harsh rate? Might such a function be useful to salvage the (non-functioning) network? Same for IRC bootstrapping. How do we pick ourselves up off the ground in case of the equivalent of a great depression in network hash