rich1.0npub1xvnnyhz8e4eklaakjc9xgm5w8pzkuckt923uacz2cftqdqx23g7q3c5rqghttps://nostr.ae/npub1xvnnyhz8e4eklaakjc9xgm5w8pzkuckt923uacz2cftqdqx23g7q3c5rqgnjumphttps://nostr.ae📅 Original date posted:2014-03-27 📝 Original message:Don't most of these coins have a magic number already assigned that is unique? (0xD9B4BEF9 for Bitcoin, 0x0709110B for Testnet, FBC0XB6DB for Litecoin, etc...). This seems like a good candidate for identifying coins, and also supports Testnet cases well. Maybe there are some alts without such a magic number that might prevent that? -Allen On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik at bitpay.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:09 AM, Tamas Blummer <tamas at bitsofproof.com> > wrote: > > 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 > > cetral directory is not needed. > > +1 good idea > > -- > Jeff Garzik > Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist > BitPay, Inc. https://bitpay.com/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20140327/acb6e25e/attachment.html>