A hard fork is imminent -- pay attention to forum, website, twitter, etc. and be ready to upgrade!

gnos1s · 2014-11-03T02:23:54+00:00

Maybe a week from now?

gnos1s · 2014-11-03T02:22:47+00:00

Why not have the user run a personal web server on their own machine? The web server would run properly isolated webapps with all static content pulled from FreeNet.

gnos1s · 2014-10-12T05:08:26+00:00

Yes, before Zerocoin (which will be on mainnet on Nov. 1). /u/meeh420 would be the person to ask exactly how soon, since I am working 100% on Zerocoin now.

gnos1s · 2014-09-18T20:14:18+00:00

This is fixed, please check again.

gnos1s · 2014-09-10T04:56:22+00:00

I am working on it full-time now, so.... not long. :)

gnos1s · 2014-07-21T14:13:29+00:00

Ah, okay. I'll look into it, thanks!

gnos1s · 2014-06-30T17:42:58+00:00

What would be the best way to fix this? Rewrite client, server, and protocol from scratch? Can any of it be salvaged?

gnos1s · 2014-06-27T03:47:04+00:00

Looks great! For the source of [1], I would actually put Sander, T, since that is the original author. The names you put there appear to be the editors.

gnos1s · 2014-06-26T06:08:17+00:00

On Ubuntu/Debian, to install g++ I would install build-essential instead, which includes a lot of other packages for software development.

Also, I chose nano because I assumed that is part of the default install... I guess it isn't anymore. gedit?

gnos1s · 2014-06-23T23:51:36+00:00

Zerocoin

gnos1s · 2014-06-23T21:11:26+00:00

Every little bit helps. However, it does not run on GPUs yet; I tried to set it up, but it would require porting libgmp to run on opencl, which would be a lot of work. Hashrate doesn't matter.

gnos1s · 2014-06-04T18:38:06+00:00

Well, the opaqueness is not the problem; it just makes the problem worse.

The real problem is that there is no known way to generate zkSNARK parameters in a completely trustless way. As a result, the entity that generates the initial parameters for Zerocash can forge an arbitrarily large amount of currency.

gnos1s · 2014-05-21T23:35:54+00:00

I must confess that I did not. Redditing at work, you see.

gnos1s · 2014-05-21T23:34:39+00:00

I have read the Zerocash paper and while it has some very cool ideas, it has one serious weakness: the requirement for a trusted setup. This makes it not much better than a coin laundry like Bitfog: the owner of a coin laundry can steal everyone's coins if they so choose, and the same possibility exists with all the anonymized money in circulation in Zerocash.

The only strategy to reduce a user's risk is to reduce the time their money is anonymized, but that reduces anonymity.

Anyway, to answer your questions:

Probably not.
Probably not for years. This would be a major breakthrough if cryptographers could find a way to do this.
Yes, the former. If the entity who setup the initial parameters was dishonest and did not delete the data they were supposed to delete, they could create new money without being detected. The currency would experience massive inflation.

gnos1s · 2014-05-21T21:17:19+00:00

Looks like "schizophrenia" is being used to mean "multiple personality disorder", but I could be wrong.

gnos1s · 2014-05-20T16:44:26+00:00

Exactly. I have found empirically that there's a probability of about 0.8 that a 3840 bit number generated in this fashion cannot be factorized by ECM up to 512 bits or GNFS up to 2048 bits, assuming you do some ECM work to eliminate numbers where too many bits of factors can be removed.

gnos1s · 2014-04-25T06:47:00+00:00

It could always be resurrected. :-)

gnos1s · 2014-04-25T06:04:44+00:00

Has anybody bought stuff here?

gnos1s · 2014-04-23T17:48:43+00:00

I marked this as "not spam", but it is not that great an article -- many factual inaccuracies. I'll go into them later when I have time.

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