Quote from: jakub on September 24, 2015, 05:37:13 pm

That's where the low number of witnesses helps us: it's much easier to verify that 17 witnesses are unique than to verify that 51 witnesses are unique.

If they are anonymous, it's impossible to verify uniqueness.

Well, that's the thing, and to BM's point about choosing the witnesses. The location/servers/etc. can be in anonymous locations with anonymous IPs but the actual witnesses should at least be known to the Delegates.

Once the platform scales to beyond what can be run on a $100 dedicated server it's going to be pretty hard for a witness to stay hidden and still provide good service and confidence to the shareholders. Perhaps some mix of anonymous and known witnesses where 75% need to be known in a network of trust.

PEBKAC?

Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair - the usual source of my bugs.

The CLI wallet format is not compatible with the GUI import format.  There is not currently an easy way to migrate from one wallet to the other.

Understood, thank you.

Changes to graphene-ui work great

I am already at the second one 
Tell me if you are able to spam

Works great!!

Nice to see these scripts surfacing .

I'm getting the following error. I can correct on my side but was wondering if perhaps a commit is missing?

node bin/flood.js riverhead james ws://192.168.1.11:8090 10

ERROR 10 assert_exception: Assert Exception
itr != _by_name.end(): no method with name 'transfer'


BitShares may be be doing things more efficiently than Bitcoin, but I'm struggling to see how a big actor will have any problem whatsoever taking down 17 witnesses running on 300$ a month. Now I'm not a hacker or security expert, but I've seen how something so small as the newly set up Norwegian Pirate Party DNS server (combatting Pirate Bay censorship) may quickly find itself under heavy DDOS fire. Why would something like this not pose a danger to the BitShares network, with our portfolio of powerful enemies?

A delegate can move their block signing node to any computer under their control connected to the internet in a matter of seconds. This makes a DDOS attack nearly impossible.

In detail:
1) You notice your node is missing blocks and can't log in to your server due to DDOS
2) Connect to another computer you control, update_witness with new signing key

This allows your new witness to sign blocks and prevents your old witness, in the event the DDOS is not a complete shutout or ends, from double signing.

I'd like to ignore blazin8888 because he does nothing but troll about the price.  First bull trolling saying he would buy hundreds of btc and now bear trolling.

Ya, he needs to work on his technique .

You may laugh at the Bitcoin crowd, but they know what it means to be under attack.

And they are OK with this? https://blockchain.info/pools

Seems like 6 "witnesses" sign more than 50% of BTC blocks.