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by b1db77d2 12y ago
You can get semi decent USB webcams for $3 US shipped. Get a box load and some USB hubs. Done.
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by b1db77d2 12y ago
They're ASIC processors. It's already set in stone (silicon, whatever).
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by b1db77d2 12y ago
Getting consensus with 3 nodes is easy. Keeping it is the hard part. You'll no doubt find that your daemons don't behave the way you'd expect cross platform, cross architecture. Come back to this post when you fork, and tell
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by b1db77d2 12y ago
A little note about the "make a privkey" section of the signature example; it can sometimes* make invalid privkeys that are off the end of the EC curve. Only integers between 0x1 and 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFEBAAEDCE6AF48A
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by b1db77d2 12y ago
Does it matter? Bitcoin has thousands of clones but they still manage to gain userbases. http://mapofcoins.com/
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by b1db77d2 12y ago
In a decentralized consensus every single node must have the same behavior, handle errors the same way, make the same decisions based on the same core rules. Experience with Bitcoin has taught us that nobody is currently capable of duplicat
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by b1db77d2 12y ago
Which for something that's meant to be maintaining consensus is a fairly stupid move.
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by b1db77d2 12y ago
It takes no effort to change the name and clone it completely.
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by b1db77d2 12y ago
Seeding the jar with BTC is speculated to be what Mastercoin did as well, it's not an unreasonable idea in the least. It's essentially free except for the encumbered funds being unusable for a short period.