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From: "Clément Elbaz" <clem.ds@gmail.com>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Getting trusted metrics from the block chain in an untrusted environment ?
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 20:44:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP63atZ=-Wd++nuL_Gf-wnT768w3wHhxsA+KgVY-S_C2+1QRLw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Some more thoughts :

If no such project exist yet, I thought it could work with an alternate,
small and fixed-length 'metric request block chain' of some sort.

It would temporarily stores structures defined as [metric request | current
block number when request was made | hash of the response] instead of
financial transactions.

These structures are verifiable so it could work the same way as a regular
financial blochchain.

It should not be part of the main Bitcoin protocol but could be a plugin
interacting with the data managed by the fullnode bitcoin software.

Also, metrics requests can be expensive to compute and validate, so it
would make sense to pay a fee everytime you ask one.

Does any of this makes any sense to you ?

Thanks,

Clément

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-08 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-08 19:38 [Bitcoin-development] Getting trusted metrics from the block chain in an untrusted environment ? Clément Elbaz
2014-01-08 19:44 ` Clément Elbaz [this message]
2014-01-08 22:29   ` Clément Elbaz
2014-01-09 17:46   ` Clément Elbaz
2014-01-09 14:03 ` Rob Golding

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