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      Kevlar Spammer last edited by

      So. Looks like the best way to publish is to create the raw transaction using the QT client JSON RPC.

      I think that makes the most sense for now. That way people can run their own wallet and the Link software, and publish using the coins in their existing wallet. Later I’m sure people will write hosted web services for this where you can send your coins to publish things.

      The raw transaction API is here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Raw_Transactions

      I’ll work on it more tomorrow.

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        A Former User last edited by

        I know all I can provide is moral support, but you go rest man… Your doing something quite amazing indeed.

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          zerodrama Regular Member last edited by

          Module definition for Link is up. Kevlar, sent you a pull request. I’m going to add FLUX next. Let me know if anything is unclear.

          Calem, srsly this is amazing what he’s set up. It has allowed me to get all my ideas organized. I can build on top of Link using the Link format and protocol.

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            A Former User last edited by

            I’m gonna have to take the time to fully comprehend whats going on here, but from what I understand, this is something that A. No other coin is yet to do and B. Takes full advantage of the open-source aspect of cyrpto’s. Sounds like a wikileaks wet dream.

            When I have time I’ll try to understand in greater detail. But yeah. I am so 100% behind this project… It’s what is going to make feathercoin more then just a currency.

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              Tuck Fheman last edited by

              [quote name=“Calem” post=“42412” timestamp=“1386669487”]
              I’m gonna have to take the time to fully comprehend whats going on here, but from what I understand, this is something that A. No other coin is yet to do and B. Takes full advantage of the open-source aspect of cyrpto’s. Sounds like a wikileaks wet dream.

              When I have time I’ll try to understand in greater detail. But yeah. I am so 100% behind this project… It’s what is going to make feathercoin more then just a currency.
              [/quote]

              It’s a searchable digital library, a movie theater, a music store, a software thrift shop [glow=red,2,300]and more[/glow] all wrapped up for your convenience into a blockchain that never closes it’s worldwide locations … and it’s all right in your info-box you already use every day.

              Probably not the best way to market it though.

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                HopeStillFlies Regular Member last edited by

                [quote name=“Tuck Fheman” post=“42703” timestamp=“1386708968”]
                Probably not the best way to market it though.
                [/quote]I always favor the “anti-censorship freedom fighter” angle.

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                • zerodrama
                  zerodrama Regular Member last edited by

                  [quote name=“Tuck Fheman” post=“42703” timestamp=“1386708968”]
                  [quote author=Calem link=topic=5558.msg42412#msg42412 date=1386669487]
                  I’m gonna have to take the time to fully comprehend whats going on here, but from what I understand, this is something that A. No other coin is yet to do and B. Takes full advantage of the open-source aspect of cyrpto’s. Sounds like a wikileaks wet dream.

                  When I have time I’ll try to understand in greater detail. But yeah. I am so 100% behind this project… It’s what is going to make feathercoin more then just a currency.
                  [/quote]

                  It’s a searchable digital library, a movie theater, a music store, a software thrift shop and more all wrapped up for your convenience into a blockchain that never closes it’s worldwide locations … and it’s all right in your info-box you already use every day.

                  Probably not the best way to market it though.
                  [/quote]

                  PFFT. This is just the Link protocol in its current use. Kevlar’s backbone protocol is far more powerful than I think he realizes. He deserves every feather he gets and I’ll show you guys just what he’s done.

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                    Kevlar Spammer last edited by

                    [quote name=“zerodrama” post=“42715” timestamp=“1386710204”]
                    [quote author=Tuck Fheman link=topic=5558.msg42703#msg42703 date=1386708968]
                    [quote author=Calem link=topic=5558.msg42412#msg42412 date=1386669487]
                    I’m gonna have to take the time to fully comprehend whats going on here, but from what I understand, this is something that A. No other coin is yet to do and B. Takes full advantage of the open-source aspect of cyrpto’s. Sounds like a wikileaks wet dream.

                    When I have time I’ll try to understand in greater detail. But yeah. I am so 100% behind this project… It’s what is going to make feathercoin more then just a currency.
                    [/quote]

                    It’s a searchable digital library, a movie theater, a music store, a software thrift shop and more all wrapped up for your convenience into a blockchain that never closes it’s worldwide locations … and it’s all right in your info-box you already use every day.

                    Probably not the best way to market it though.
                    [/quote]

                    PFFT. This is just the Link protocol in its current use. Kevlar’s backbone protocol is far more powerful than I think he realizes. He deserves every feather he gets and I’ll show you guys just what he’s done.
                    [/quote]

                    Well, I’d like to think I have some idea of the direction this can go. By layering a protocol on top of the blockchain, the blockchain as an abstract concept becomes a concrete platform for launching new technologies. The current attempt I’m working on aims to transform every coin out there, present and future, into a content delivery mechanism for data, a searchable index for meta-data, a record of account for anything (not just currency), but it does so by literally transforming the blockchain into programmable framework that can be freely modified and adapted to whatever the user desires. The directions it can be taken from there are limited by imagination… how would you like to reprogram your blockchain today?

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                      Tuck Fheman last edited by

                      [quote name=“Kevlar” post=“42724” timestamp=“1386711867”]
                      a content delivery mechanism for data, a searchable index for meta-data, a record of account for anything (not just currency), but it does so by literally transforming the blockchain into programmable framework that can be freely modified and adapted to whatever the user desires. The directions it can be taken from there are limited by imagination… how would you like to reprogram your blockchain today?
                      [/quote]

                      [img width=200]http://blog.chron.com/tubular/files/2011/09/boom-gif.gif[/img]

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                      • zerodrama
                        zerodrama Regular Member last edited by

                        [quote name=“Kevlar” post=“42724” timestamp=“1386711867”]
                        Well, I’d like to think I have some idea of the direction this can go. By layering a protocol on top of the blockchain, the blockchain as an abstract concept becomes a concrete platform for launching new technologies. The current attempt I’m working on aims to transform every coin out there, present and future, into a content delivery mechanism for data, a searchable index for meta-data, a record of account for anything (not just currency), but it does so by literally transforming the blockchain into programmable framework that can be freely modified and adapted to whatever the user desires. The directions it can be taken from there are limited by imagination… how would you like to reprogram your blockchain today?
                        [/quote]

                        What Kevlar said, squared.

                        I’ve got a few insane ideas: like tracking limited time currencies, meta transactions representing transactions in microchains, tracking everything from post office shipments to genetic programming for software, to genetic experiments with cake recipes.

                        Kevlar, you opened up a shitstorm.

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                          Nixxle last edited by

                          From over here [url=http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php/topic,5663.30.html]http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php/topic,5663.30.html[/url]

                          Is it possible for someone to load a virus into the blockchain, such that if you download these torrents, you could really be getting an infected file?

                          Tuck replied with this:

                          "The blockchain is the virus (that will destroy government controlled money). ;)

                          Any source file linked to within the blockchain could be infected, as it could be right now not linked to within the blockchain.

                          I’m going to assume the answer to the question, “is it possible for someone to load a virus into the blockchain”, would be yes because I can’t think of a reason why you couldn’t. However, I’m awaiting Kevlar or zerodrama’s far more technically accurate answer. Perhaps I’m wrong."

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                          • zerodrama
                            zerodrama Regular Member last edited by

                            [quote name=“Tuck Fheman” post=“42764” timestamp=“1386716510”]
                            I’m going to assume the answer to the question, “is it possible for someone to load a virus into the blockchain”, would be yes because I can’t think of a reason why you couldn’t. However, I’m awaiting Kevlar or zerodrama’s far more technically accurate answer. Perhaps I’m wrong.
                            [/quote]

                            Viruses/trojans/spyware are harmless until you run them. All these are at this point is the torrents (the table of contents of chunks of data). So no it can’t infect your computer by having it on the blockchain.

                            Using a torrent is like using a link or an index.

                            You should however be careful not to run every random thing that comes along.

                            I’d also suggest that we could have seed addresses so that people might choose to send torrents to addresses and receive the coins that were spent creating the addresses. I’ll think about designing this.

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                              Kevlar Spammer last edited by

                              [quote name=“zerodrama” post=“42755” timestamp=“1386715047”]
                              [quote author=Kevlar link=topic=5558.msg42724#msg42724 date=1386711867]
                              Well, I’d like to think I have some idea of the direction this can go. By layering a protocol on top of the blockchain, the blockchain as an abstract concept becomes a concrete platform for launching new technologies. The current attempt I’m working on aims to transform every coin out there, present and future, into a content delivery mechanism for data, a searchable index for meta-data, a record of account for anything (not just currency), but it does so by literally transforming the blockchain into programmable framework that can be freely modified and adapted to whatever the user desires. The directions it can be taken from there are limited by imagination… how would you like to reprogram your blockchain today?
                              [/quote]

                              What Kevlar said, squared.

                              I’ve got a few insane ideas: like tracking limited time currencies, meta transactions representing transactions in microchains, tracking everything from post office shipments to genetic programming for software, to genetic experiments with cake recipes.

                              Kevlar, you opened up a shitstorm.
                              [/quote]

                              Yo, dawg! I hear you like blockchains… so I embedded a blockchain in your blockchain, so you can meta while you meta!

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                                mnstrcck last edited by

                                Kevlar,

                                Awesome work. I’m very excited for this project.
                                If you need help with designing the UI, let me know!

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                                  A Former User last edited by

                                  [quote name=“Kevlar” post=“42776” timestamp=“1386717642”]
                                  Yo, dawg! I hear you like blockchains… so I embedded a blockchain in your blockchain, so you can meta while you meta!
                                  [/quote]

                                  XD

                                  Permission to make this into a meme.

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                                    Kevlar Spammer last edited by

                                    [quote name=“mnstrcck” post=“42864” timestamp=“1386742285”]
                                    Kevlar,

                                    Awesome work. I’m very excited for this project.
                                    If you need help with designing the UI, let me know!
                                    [/quote]

                                    [quote author=Calem link=topic=5558.msg42869#msg42869 date=1386742918]
                                    Permission to make this into a meme.
                                    [/quote]

                                    I do, and I will. You’ll be the first on my list!

                                    [quote author=Calem link=topic=5558.msg42869#msg42869 date=1386742918]
                                    [quote author=Kevlar link=topic=5558.msg42776#msg42776 date=1386717642]
                                    Yo, dawg! I hear you like blockchains… so I embedded a blockchain in your blockchain, so you can meta while you meta!
                                    [/quote]

                                    XD

                                    Permission to make this into a meme.
                                    [/quote]

                                    Permission granted!

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                                      Kevlar Spammer last edited by

                                      So I spent the evening changing over the code to coffeescript. LOVE that language. So much easier to read and write. All the work is up on git. ‘npm install -g coffee-script’ to get going. I’ve still not gotten to read Modules.md from ZD, but I will tomorrow.

                                      I’ve gotten about half of the encoder/decoder up to the spec. It’s doing SHA256 correctly on payloads, and payload attachments are returned as buffers on the decoder. The encoding and decoding functions are in place, the op codes are in, but the encoder doesn’t encode everything yet, and decoder objects don’t yet support all the opcodes that can be encoded.

                                      I still need to move all of this to a library that exports so other people can use it. That and make it an NPM module.

                                      I found node-bitcoin for talking to the QT feathercoin client, going to use that. ‘npm install bitcoin’.

                                      The plan is to make the QT client make the raw transactions, so all that remains is to get the unspent outputs and do the math on what’s being sent and make the change accordingly. Shouldn’t be terrible, but I won’t get to it until the weekend, because I’m trying to get the encoder/decoder all up to the spec and get it into a proper node library/npm package.

                                      Progress is steady. Every night I get a little more done. Hopefully by tomorrow the encoder/decoder will be at 80% so I can move on to transaction building over the weekend. Onward and upward.

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                                        Tuck Fheman last edited by

                                        [quote name=“Kevlar” post=“42924” timestamp=“1386754878”]
                                        Progress is steady. Every night I get a little more done. Hopefully by tomorrow the encoder/decoder will be at 80% so I can move on to transaction building over the weekend. Onward and upward.
                                        [/quote]

                                        Thanks for doing this for everyone in the world Kevlar!

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                                          Nixxle last edited by

                                          [quote name=“Tuck Fheman” post=“43168” timestamp=“1386795518”]
                                          [quote author=Kevlar link=topic=5558.msg42924#msg42924 date=1386754878]
                                          Progress is steady. Every night I get a little more done. Hopefully by tomorrow the encoder/decoder will be at 80% so I can move on to transaction building over the weekend. Onward and upward.
                                          [/quote]

                                          Thanks for doing this for everyone in the world Kevlar!
                                          [/quote]

                                          Here here!

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                                            HopeStillFlies Regular Member last edited by

                                            [url=http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-docks-in-peru-new-system-will-make-domains-irrelevant-131212/]http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-docks-in-peru-new-system-will-make-domains-irrelevant-131212/[/url]

                                            Think they’re monitoring the work?

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