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From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail•com>
To: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] ASIC-proof mining
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 13:01:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5408721.UFIVL0MiXs@momentum> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgRrAOgEv7Hq4BofS5UoDPsJy3hEt34od54pY6vtEq0Agw@mail.gmail.com>

On Friday 04 July 2014 04:37:26 Gregory Maxwell wrote:

[excellent explanation removed for brevity]

> > Apologies in advance if this is a stupid idea.
> 
> No need to be sorry— talking about these things is how people learn.
> While I don't think this idea is good, and I'm even skeptical about
> fixed versions— I promise you many other people were thinking similar
> or even less useful things and will find the discussion interesting.

Thank you for the very thorough and courteous response.  I'm sorry that I 
suggested something that had been thought of before (seems to be the case on 
every great idea I have for Bitcoin) and was not practical; but I'm glad to 
have had your response which was certainly educational for me.



Andy

-- 
Dr Andy Parkins
andyparkins@gmail•com




  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-04 12:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-04 10:27 Andy Parkins
2014-07-04 10:53 ` Alan Reiner
2014-07-04 11:08   ` Eugen Leitl
2014-07-04 11:15   ` Andy Parkins
2014-07-04 11:22     ` Alan Reiner
2014-07-04 11:28       ` Andy Parkins
2014-07-04 11:37 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-07-04 12:01   ` Andy Parkins [this message]
2014-07-04 15:20     ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-04 16:50 ` kjj
2014-07-04 18:39   ` Ron Elliott
2014-07-04 19:54     ` Aaron Voisine
2014-07-04 20:21   ` Jorge Timón
2014-07-04 20:38     ` Luke Dashjr
2014-07-04 20:55     ` Randi Joseph
2014-07-05  8:43       ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-07  0:20         ` Randi Joseph
2014-07-07  6:12           ` Odinn Cyberguerrilla

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