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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@bitpay.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:09 AM, Tamas Blummer <tamas@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/
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<div dir=3D"ltr"><span style=3D"background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Don&#39;=
t most of these coins have a magic number already assigned that is unique? =
(<span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line=
-height:19.200000762939453px">0xD9B4BEF9</span><span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0=
,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px"=
>=A0for Bitcoin,=A0</span><span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-=
serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px">0x0709110B for Testn=
et,=A0</span><span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-si=
ze:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px">FBC0XB6DB for Litecoin, etc...). =
=A0This seems like a good candidate for identifying coins, and also support=
s Testnet cases well. =A0Maybe there are some alts without such a magic num=
ber that might prevent that?</span></span><div>
<span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-=
height:19.200000762939453px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span><=
/div><div><span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:=
13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">-A=
llen</span></div>
</div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Thu,=
 Mar 27, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Jeff Garzik <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mai=
lto:jgarzik@bitpay.com" target=3D"_blank">jgarzik@bitpay.com</a>&gt;</span>=
 wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=3D"">On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:09=
 AM, Tamas Blummer &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:tamas@bitsofproof.com">tamas@bitso=
fproof.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>

</div><div class=3D"">&gt; A notable suggestion was to instead of building =
a directory of magic numbers<br>
&gt; (like 0 for Bitcoin, 1 for Litecoin etc) use a hash of the word &quot;=
Bitcoin&quot;,<br>
&gt; &quot;Litecoin&quot;, &quot;Dogecoin&quot;, so collosion is unlikely a=
nd<br>
&gt; cetral directory is not needed.<br>
<br>
</div>+1 good idea<br>
<span class=3D"HOEnZb"><font color=3D"#888888"><br>
--<br>
Jeff Garzik<br>
Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist<br>
BitPay, Inc. =A0 =A0 =A0<a href=3D"https://bitpay.com/" target=3D"_blank">h=
ttps://bitpay.com/</a><br>
</font></span><div class=3D"HOEnZb"><div class=3D"h5"><br>
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