THIS DAY IN BITCOIN HISTORY
August 7
5 of Satoshi’s emails and forum posts are dated August 7 (2010), quoted from the original sources.
What Satoshi wrote on August 7.
Here's an outline of the kind of escrow transaction that's possible in software. This is not implemented and I probably won't have time to implement it soon, but just to let you know what's possible. The basic escrow:…
Re: 4 hashes parallel on SSE2 CPUs for 0.3.6Quote from: impossible7 on August 06, 2010, 11:37:20 AM CRITICAL_BLOCK is a macro that contains a for loop. The assertion failure indicates that break has been called inside the body of the loop. The only break statem…
Re: A proposal for a semi-automated Escrow mechanismQuote from: jgarzik on August 05, 2010, 07:00:30 PM Due to that recourse, it is unlikely to be used as an escrow mechanism Really? Do you think people won't be able to understand the benefit? (If your response is an a…
Re: Bitcoin minting is thermodynamically perverseIt's the same situation as gold and gold mining. The marginal cost of gold mining tends to stay near the price of gold. Gold mining is a waste, but that waste is far less than the utility of having gold available as a…
Re: latency and localityOnce you get away from a system where each node's influence is proportional to their CPU power, then what else do you use to determine who is (approximately) one person?
The price of .com registrations is lower than it should be, therefore any good name you might think of is always already taken by some domain name speculator. Fortunately, it's standard for open source projects t…Read the full quotes ↗
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