{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1xvnnyhz8e4eklaakjc9xgm5w8pzkuckt923uacz2cftqdqx23g7q3c5rqg","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1xvnnyhz8e4eklaakjc9xgm5w8pzkuckt923uacz2cftqdqx23g7q3c5rqg","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2014-03-27\n📝 Original message:Don't most of these coins have a magic number already assigned that is\nunique? (0xD9B4BEF9 for Bitcoin, 0x0709110B for Testnet, FBC0XB6DB for\nLitecoin, etc...).  This seems like a good candidate for identifying coins,\nand also supports Testnet cases well.  Maybe there are some alts without\nsuch a magic number that might prevent that?\n\n-Allen\n\n\nOn Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Jeff Garzik \u003cjgarzik at bitpay.com\u003e wrote:\n\n\u003e On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:09 AM, Tamas Blummer \u003ctamas at bitsofproof.com\u003e\n\u003e wrote:\n\u003e \u003e A notable suggestion was to instead of building a directory of magic\n\u003e numbers\n\u003e \u003e (like 0 for Bitcoin, 1 for Litecoin etc) use a hash of the word\n\u003e \"Bitcoin\",\n\u003e \u003e \"Litecoin\", \"Dogecoin\", so collosion is unlikely and\n\u003e \u003e cetral directory is not needed.\n\u003e\n\u003e +1 good idea\n\u003e\n\u003e --\n\u003e Jeff Garzik\n\u003e Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist\n\u003e BitPay, Inc.      https://bitpay.com/\n\u003e\n\u003e\n\u003e ------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\u003e _______________________________________________\n\u003e Bitcoin-development mailing list\n\u003e Bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net\n\u003e https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development\n\u003e\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20140327/acb6e25e/attachment.html\u003e"}