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From: "Jorge Timón" <jtimon@monetize.io>
To: David Vorick <david.vorick@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Merge mining
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 11:05:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC1+kJNsSdpYE6c5qM7-UjG340p_FV8p22O4OMy8f=QgxK2DMA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFVRnyr+fikViQWgM0-dEoPD4HF2OGAh3EHaYK5mEskNhZ25Ag@mail.gmail.com>

On 1/4/14, David Vorick <david.vorick@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you have the resources to attack one of the bigger altcoins, you
> probably have a significant investment in the cryptocurrency space, and a
> significant interest in protecting it. Compromising even something like
> dogecoin would cause a lot of questions to be raised and likely drop the
> value of bitcoin as well as all the cryptocurrencies using the same work
> function as dogecoin.
>
> Right now, there's very little benefit to attacking a significant currency,
> because it would be very expensive and likely traumatize the whole system.
> Unless it's some power like the NSA, I don't think there's much to worry
> about.

The launch thread says it clear: "very scrypt, such random, much
profit, wow, many coin".
So it seems that Dogecoin doesn't use SHA256 like Bitcoin, but scrypt
like most of the other scamcoins.
Anyway, I don't see anything in your comment in favor or against
merged mining...



  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-04 10:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-29 18:53 [Bitcoin-development] Looking for GREAT C++ developer for exciting opportunity in bitcoin space Evan Duffield
2013-12-29 19:27 ` Matt Corallo
2013-12-30 23:22 ` Peter Todd
2013-12-31  1:14   ` Luke-Jr
2013-12-31  7:28     ` [Bitcoin-development] Merge mining Jeremy Spilman
2013-12-31  7:38       ` rob.golding
2014-01-04  8:49         ` David Vorick
2014-01-04 10:05           ` Jorge Timón [this message]
2014-01-04 10:08             ` David Vorick
2014-01-04 10:34               ` Jorge Timón
2014-01-01  4:53     ` [Bitcoin-development] The insecurity of merge-mining Peter Todd
2014-01-01  5:09       ` Luke-Jr
2014-01-01  5:25         ` Peter Todd
2014-01-03 19:14       ` Jorge Timón
2014-01-03 21:01         ` Peter Todd
2014-01-04  0:27           ` Jorge Timón
2014-01-06 15:44             ` Peter Todd
2014-01-09 17:19               ` Jorge Timón
2014-01-10 11:11                 ` Peter Todd
2014-01-10 11:25                   ` Peter Todd
2014-01-10 12:37                     ` Jorge Timón
2014-01-10 12:29                   ` Jorge Timón
2014-01-10 17:22                     ` Peter Todd
2014-01-10 18:50                       ` Jorge Timón
2014-01-03  5:11 ` [Bitcoin-development] Looking for GREAT C++ developer for exciting opportunity in bitcoin space Troy Benjegerdes

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