Re:How porn links and Ben Bernanke snuck into Bitcoin's code
by tlrobinson on Friday May 03, 2013 @12:05AM
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If I understand correctly, these people are using special software to encode data in transactions, namely the output addresses. You can only embed arbitrary data in blocks if you're able to mine a block (like Satoshi's headline in the genesis block and Dan Kaminsky's Ben Bernake ASCII art), otherwise you need to encode it in the transaction data.
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Re:How porn links and Ben Bernanke snuck into Bitcoin's code
by rlpb on Friday May 03, 2013 @05:11AM
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Anyone sending Bitcoin can add arbitrary data in his transaction; no need to be a miner: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script#Transaction_with_a_message
Re:How porn links and Ben Bernanke snuck into Bitcoin's code
by ZeroCoin on Friday May 03, 2013 @12:59AM
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Well then all of the worries about this child-porn being in the blockchain are warrantless.
You could create a link to child-porn from this very comment I just posted using the right cipher. I am sure of it.
Re:How porn links and Ben Bernanke snuck into Bitcoin's code
by gizmo686 on Friday May 03, 2013 @01:05AM
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What if A) your comment was preserved as a part of the block-chain that could not be removed without doing serious damage to bitcoin. And B) the cipher you are using is a publicly known cipher recognized as the standard way of encoding data into the block-chain.