Pavol Rusnak [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-03-27 📝 Original message:On 03/27/2014 08:09 AM, ...

📅 Original date posted:2014-03-27
📝 Original message:On 03/27/2014 08:09 AM, Tamas Blummer 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.

Nice idea, but keep in mind that you are hashing into 2^32 space, so
collisions will occur, unfortunately and we'll end up with directory
again :-/

Even if they did not occur you would need to keep up the registry of
names anyway (is it Peercoin or PPCoin, Testnet or TestNet ...)?

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Best Regards / S pozdravom,

Pavol Rusnak <stick at gk2.sk>