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From: joliver@airmail•cc
To: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] The relationship between Proof-of-Publication and Anti-Replay Oracles
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 11:03:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57e9838d0b92bd3226b10c6cf2651914@airmail.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141222001136.GA10165@savin.petertodd.org>

On 2014-12-22 00:11, Peter Todd wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 09:48:01AM -0500, Peter Todd wrote:
> The classic "proof-of-publication" system is to embed opaque data (as
> far as bitcoin miners are concerned) in transactions using OP_RETURN.
> A significance of establishing "proof-of-publication" as a universal
> underlying primitive is that this OP_RETURN trick is then sufficient
> for anything you might want. But part of what Bitcoin provides is
> indexing and validation/exclusion, and this is important for
> supporting efficient anti-replay proofs. Proof-of-(non)-publication
> alone isn't sufficient for this.

Are we going to get an answer to this or Adam Back's critique? Doesn't 
sound like this so-called "proof-of-publication" actually works 
according to the experts. Is it an concept anyone but Peter Todd 
actually believes in?



  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-06 11:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-12  9:05 [Bitcoin-development] Setting the record straight on Proof-of-Publication Peter Todd
2014-12-12 12:25 ` Gareth Williams
2014-12-12 17:04   ` Alex Mizrahi
     [not found]     ` <CAOG=w-v3qjG3zd_WhfFU-OGnsHZEuYvY82eL4GqcdgY6np5bvA@mail.gmail.com>
2014-12-12 17:50       ` Alex Mizrahi
2014-12-13 13:32         ` Gareth Williams
2014-12-15  4:52           ` Peter Todd
2014-12-17 11:55             ` Gareth Williams
2014-12-21  6:12               ` Peter Todd
2014-12-15  4:17         ` Peter Todd
2014-12-12 13:41 ` odinn
2014-12-12 14:17   ` Justus Ranvier
2014-12-15  4:59   ` Peter Todd
2014-12-17  1:16     ` odinn
2014-12-20 14:48 ` [Bitcoin-development] The relationship between Proof-of-Publication and Anti-Replay Oracles Peter Todd
     [not found]   ` <CAOG=w-vrHPY1aCNndmoW9QyCh9XnWyv8uZn2PyjZ6rNg2MoSSw@mail.gmail.com>
2014-12-21  5:52     ` Peter Todd
     [not found]       ` <CAOG=w-tZke--6OsqNjJhE9SOdCwdZYZM8iz1VBTFziegt9UZWw@mail.gmail.com>
2014-12-21  7:01         ` Peter Todd
     [not found]           ` <CAOG=w-s1_VXJAKxBpMOK=B50qnHjxSe4J=vwwSfFPRz0_Cb9rA@mail.gmail.com>
2014-12-21 15:32             ` Peter Todd
2014-12-21 11:25       ` Jorge Timón
2014-12-21 16:07         ` Peter Todd
2014-12-21 19:39           ` Jorge Timón
2014-12-21 10:01   ` Adam Back
2014-12-21 15:29     ` Peter Todd
2014-12-21 13:49   ` paul snow
2014-12-21 15:22     ` Peter Todd
2014-12-21 15:41       ` paul snow
2014-12-22  0:11   ` Peter Todd
2015-01-06 11:03     ` joliver [this message]
2014-12-22 20:05   ` Adam Back

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