From: Dennison Bertram <dennison@dennisonbertram•com>
To: Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr•org>
Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net"
<bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] is there a way to do bitcoin-staging?
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:43:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D357C141-129A-4FA3-8054-D16D2D77FD83@dennisonbertram.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201306150157.07228.luke@dashjr.org>
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That is true, but someone is already running it as a service on the blockchain itself. See:
https://www.proofofexistence.com/
You can imagine similar services cropping up for things like torrents, sending btc tweets, etc. While I am not saying these things are particularly refined ideas in and of themselves, people should have an opportunity to play with them, and better testnet.
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On Jun 15, 2013, at 3:57 AM, "Luke-Jr" <luke@dashjr•org> wrote:
> Timestamping ("proof of existence") doesn't need a coin at all. Just collect
> all the hashes you need timestamped into a PoE merkle tree and add that to the
> merged mining MT. It's pretty simple and straightforward, just needs someone
> to implement it.
>
> On Saturday, June 15, 2013 12:09:09 AM Dennison Bertram wrote:
>> Have your seen 'proof of existence'? It's basically a bitcoin notary
>> service that proves a document existed before it gets inserted into the
>> blockchain. While a good idea- you could argue that it's blockchain spam
>> as well- especially if one were to adapt it to high volumes in the future
>> for notarizing permanently things like tweets (for example) or combining
>> it with something like colored coins. These are great ideas, but maybe
>> better suited to a proto bitcoin without needing to fashion a brand new
>> coin.
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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
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 [this message]
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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