{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1wccnjljxnarlx564vuc37hmuzuffurljevjnmuq4u0vjmh7e933sn3hnuq","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1wccnjljxnarlx564vuc37hmuzuffurljevjnmuq4u0vjmh7e933sn3hnuq","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2014-03-27\n📝 Original message:On 03/27/2014 08:09 AM, Tamas Blummer wrote:\n\u003e A notable suggestion was to instead of building a directory of magic numbers (like 0 for Bitcoin, 1 for Litecoin etc) use a hash of the word \"Bitcoin\", \"Litecoin\", \"Dogecoin\", so collosion is unlikely and\n\u003e cetral directory is not needed.\n\nNice idea, but keep in mind that you are hashing into 2^32 space, so\ncollisions will occur, unfortunately and we'll end up with directory\nagain :-/\n\nEven if they did not occur you would need to keep up the registry of\nnames anyway (is it Peercoin or PPCoin, Testnet or TestNet ...)?\n\n-- \nBest Regards / S pozdravom,\n\nPavol Rusnak \u003cstick at gk2.sk\u003e"}