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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@exmulti.com>
To: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] UUID to identify chains (payment protocol and elsewhere)
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 10:07:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+8xBpf04mMER7r-qh40EVbd_Q2pHnf=UMAAOWOhb0dnt_OHww@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKaEYh+eYEApCnbLPZ12RW1XO41epTR4R_nqxM9c3GFHPDEQig@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Melvin Carvalho
<melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
> Some out of band algo/hash could work so long as there was a one to one
> relationship between the described object and the UUID.  In this case the
> gensis block may not uniquely identify a coin.

What does this mean?  It seems extremely unlikely that two different
genesis blocks will have the same hash.

-- 
Jeff Garzik
exMULTI, Inc.
jgarzik@exmulti.com



  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-22 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-20 23:59 [Bitcoin-development] UUID to identify chains (payment protocol and elsewhere) Mark Friedenbach
2013-05-21  2:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2013-05-21  3:30   ` Mike Hearn
2013-05-21  4:00   ` Mark Friedenbach
2013-05-21  4:04 ` Luke-Jr
2013-05-22 10:27 ` Melvin Carvalho
2013-05-22 14:07   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2013-05-22 14:12     ` Melvin Carvalho
2013-05-22 14:20       ` Jeff Garzik
2013-05-22 14:29         ` Luke-Jr
2013-05-22 14:55           ` Jeff Garzik
2013-05-22 15:59             ` Gavin Andresen

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