From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.191] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-3.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1VzO79-00053E-5i for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 10:05:55 +0000 Received: from mail-lb0-f173.google.com ([209.85.217.173]) by sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1VzO77-0008No-88 for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 10:05:55 +0000 Received: by mail-lb0-f173.google.com with SMTP id z5so8655351lbh.4 for ; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 02:05:46 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=8WKWrPEJpD17NZp8fOMWCt2f99c5qommfxp9IZLPrLQ=; b=SPxa9ujgpJ/vibZzHZfa/hFUtPklpf1aQGyLKdceANhJJhQ6Nyac3GP/LGEmvAw2L+ RRlyUVtLrH/T8/7WaSfF8uNzLEzXObzcpcXkyAHDHnzDy9XMy7nni7V63sEeoyjoOM19 Z30xVxXNFTPJ6nn9Kdp1YbZOyT9uKk5zFSYWtR8e8h4EtB27kqr/Jt64uyrpLKcxCU67 2sGjExpxsju+4rNJHRznZxcI3tWdli0wYTP4OO0N5Cm0mIiF/7hdUXPVzvYtxAAbzW1R rGXIRyxfvDFhh4mXqEX2UE2pooc8j5bOUPR691y/QDfyoHHstSN+fw10Lp9/GpWxI7CS s+BA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQniVy2QQ6P9IrU3G58KE6/nIwD3IzhqC4InqBjCRWVUf1fOt7yGvkCRtFeMxHL5fo0eyAFH MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.168.131 with SMTP id zw3mr133388lbb.85.1388829946478; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 02:05:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.112.74.71 with HTTP; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 02:05:46 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [85.53.148.187] In-Reply-To: References: <20131230232225.GA10594@tilt> <201312310114.05600.luke@dashjr.org> <9aaa913f73f45db41d94d93d02eed3fa@astutium.com> Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 11:05:46 +0100 Message-ID: From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Tim=F3n?= To: David Vorick Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. X-Headers-End: 1VzO77-0008No-88 Cc: Bitcoin Dev Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Merge mining X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 10:05:55 -0000 On 1/4/14, David Vorick 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...