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From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
To: Adam Back <adam@cypherspace•org>
Cc: Bitcoin-Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] is there a way to do bitcoin-staging?
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:20:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130614192058.GA11509@petertodd.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130613133932.GA13028@netbook.cypherspace.org>

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On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 03:39:32PM +0200, Adam Back wrote:
> I had one thought towards this which is a different kind of merged mining.
> 
> I think a "fair" merged mining aiming for price parity would be done by the
> miner having to choose the altcoin or btc at mine time, and altcoin chain
> considering btc mine unspendable and bitcoin considering ac unspendable.

One way to look at what you are describing is to say you want to prove
your sacrifice of potential BTC earnings. That goes back to the PoW
hashcash stuff I mentioned earlier, and is accomplished by simply mining
shares with an unspendable coinbase to prove you did work that could
have resulted in Bitcoins, but didn't.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-14 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-19 13:23 Adam Back
2013-05-19 15:08 ` Peter Vessenes
2013-05-20  6:34   ` Alan Reiner
2013-10-14 18:08     ` Adam Back
2013-10-14 18:21       ` Jeff Garzik
2013-11-21 20:22       ` coinscoins
2013-11-21 20:35       ` Melvin Carvalho
2013-11-21 21:11         ` [Bitcoin-development] bitcoin 1.x & 0.x in parallel (Re: is there a way to do bitcoin-staging?) Adam Back
2014-03-16 22:58       ` [Bitcoin-development] 2-way pegging " Adam Back
2014-03-16 23:22         ` Jorge Timón
2014-03-17 15:55         ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-10-14 18:43     ` [Bitcoin-development] is there a way to do bitcoin-staging? Michael Gronager
2013-10-14 20:20       ` Alan Reiner
2013-05-22  3:37   ` zooko
2013-05-22  4:12     ` Jeff Garzik
2013-05-20  7:12 ` Luke-Jr
2013-06-13 13:39 ` Adam Back
2013-06-14 19:20   ` Peter Todd [this message]
2013-06-14 20:50     ` Adam Back
2013-06-14 21:10       ` Luke-Jr
2013-06-14 21:25         ` Andreas Petersson
2013-06-15  0:09           ` Dennison Bertram
2013-06-15  1:57             ` Luke-Jr
2013-06-15  8:43               ` Dennison Bertram
2013-06-15 11:18 ` Melvin Carvalho
2013-06-15 13:26   ` Dennison Bertram
2013-06-16 15:46     ` Dennison Bertram

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