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003 The Flipside Bitcoin News – BitPay 1M, Bitstamp Acc, KnCMiner DC, Gavin Andresen AMA, Sidechains – Video


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Bitcoin pegged sidechains whitepaper reveals new horizons for cryptocurrency

This last summer Adam Back, developer of the Bitcoin algorithm HashCash, and Austin Hill, founder anonymous networking and privacy technology company Zero-Knowledge Systems, teased the idea of Bitcoin sidechains: a mechanism for transferring Bitcoins to a separate-but-connected blockchain that can be used like an alt-currency but has its Proof of Work and value entangled with Bitcoin. This is done via a mechanism called pegging which means that the sidechains security and scarcity is tied directly to (backed by) Bitcoins blockchain.

Yesterday, the sidechain whitepaper was released [PDF] for the Bitcoin community to review. The list of authors includes a staggering number of coding luminaries: Adam Back, Matt Corallo, Luke Dashjr, Mark Friedenbach, Gregory Maxwell, Andrew Miller, Andrew Poelstra, Jorge Timn, and Pieter Wuille.

Black we already know. Maxwell and Wuille are Bitcoin core developers. Luke Dashjr is a regular contributor to bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt and maintains mining software. Corallo wrote the BitcoinJ Open Source Library.

For more information on sidechains, see todays Reddit AMA with Black, Maxwell, et al.

From the abstract of Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains:

We propose a new technology, pegged sidechains, which enables bitcoins and other ledger assets to be transferred between multiple blockchains. This gives users access to new and innovative cryptocurrency systems using the assets they already own. By reusing Bitcoins currency, these systems can more easily interoperate with each other and with Bitcoin, avoiding the liquidity shortages and market fluctuations associated with new currencies. Since sidechains are separate systems, technical and economic innovation is not hindered. Despite bidirectional transferability between Bitcoin and pegged sidechains, they are isolated: in the case of a cryptographic break (or malicious design) in a sidechain, the damage is entirely confined to the sidechain itself.

Since sidechains permit the construction of alternate blockchains that are backed by Bitcoin, it will open up the possibility for clients to allow for numerous different functionalities without the fragility of developing a brand new altcoin.

Alternate currencies (aka altcoins) are often produced to provide proof-of-concept or diverge an idea from Bitcoin. Some do this to try to produce a better Bitcoin, others to add functionality, or to develop totally different functionality (Namecoin), and yet others because of sheer whimsy (Dogecoin).

During todays Reddit AMA, Peter Wuille gave his thoughts on what he thinks sidechains will do for Bitcoin.

He believes that sidechains could provide [a] place to try out new ideas, and show their virtue to the community, before arguing they should be incorporated into Bitcoin proper (which would upgrade the security).

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Comets advance to finals behind potent offense

WRIGHT TWP. At 4-f0ot-11 and a half (dont forget the half), Daniella Callaghan admits most opponents arent particularly intimidated by her when she steps onto the field.

They dont expect me to do anything, the senior forward said. And then I just wiggle around them.

And scores goals.

Callaghan struck twice to help lead Crestwood into the District II Class AA Field Hockey Tournament final after topping Holy Redeemer 5-1 on Thursday afternoon.

The Comets will face Lake-Lehman, 1-0 winners over Wyoming Seminary, the defending state champions, on Oct. 28 as they look to defend their district title.

Crestwoods potent offense took a while to get going as the Redeemer defense, led by Alexis Lewis, blocked off passing lanes and jammed up passing opportunities.

It was the kind of Herculean effort that would be tough to last a full 60 minutes. It didnt. Elizabeth Dessoye broke through on a cross-body shot, assisted by Hannah Ackers, to the left-side of the box to give Crestwood an early 1-0 lead.

Callaghan scored the Comets second goal of the game off a corner at 5:52.

It seems like weve had a hard time defending corners all year long, especially here at the very end, Holy Redeemer head coach Juliann DeFalco said. In the Lehman game and here. It was a big deal. I thought we did a lot of nice things, however I think we had a hard time stopping them in the circle.

Trailing 2-0 heading into the second half, Redeemers Jen Ringsdorf looked to cut into the lead. On a breakaway down the left-side of the field, Ringsdorf had her eyes on a play at the box. But the speedy Crestwood defenders chased her down to add just enough pressure to disrupt her shot on goal.

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ACT Comets captain and Adelaide Strikers batsman Jono Dean dropped for Futures League match with Queensland

ACT Comets captain Jono Dean has been dropped for Monday's game against Queensland Photo: Matt Bedford

A disappointed ACT Comets captain Jono Dean admits his preparation for the Big Bash League has taken a blow with his shock omission.

The Adelaide Strikers opener has been sensationally dropped from a Comets side featuring just five players from the ACT grade competition for next Monday's opening Futures League game of the season against the Queensland second XI at Manuka Oval.

Former Ginninderra batsman David Dawson will skipper the Comets in his first game in nearly a decade after stints with Tasmania and NSW.

Matt Condon, Andrew Harriott, Daniel Magin, Nathan McAndrew and Mitch Phelps have also been included despite not playing in the ACT grade competition.

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Dean is the biggest casualty of the influx of players from country NSW as part of the agreement with Cricket ACT.

The 30-year-old burst on to the scene with a half-century for the PM's XI against the West Indies in January last year before earning a professional Twenty20 contract with the Strikers.

However, he has scored just 431 runs at an average of 28.73 for the Comets in the past two seasons in the Futures League to put his position in jeopardy.

"I'm disappointed, but the selectors made a decision so I can't argue with it," Dean said.

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Two Families Of Comets Found Around Nearby Beta Pictoris Star

October 23, 2014

Image Caption: This artists impression shows exocomets orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. Astronomers analyzing observations of nearly 500 individual comets made with the HARPS instrument at ESOs La Silla Observatory have discovered two families of exocomets around this nearby young star. The first consists of old exocomets that have made multiple passages near the star. The second family, shown in this illustration, consists of younger exocomets on the same orbit, which probably came from the recent breakup of one or more larger objects. Credit: ESO/L. Calada

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Biggest census ever of exocomets around Beta Pictoris

Beta Pictoris is a young star located about 63 light-years from the Sun. It is only about 20 million years old and is surrounded by a huge disc of material a very active young planetary system where gas and dust are produced by the evaporation of comets and the collisions of asteroids.

Flavien Kiefer (IAP/CNRS/UPMC), lead author of the new study sets the scene: Beta Pictoris is a very exciting target! The detailed observations of its exocomets give us clues to help understand what processes occur in this kind of young planetary system.

For almost 30 years astronomers have seen subtle changes in the light from Beta Pictoris that were thought to be caused by the passage of comets in front of the star itself. Comets are small bodies of a few kilometers in size, but they are rich in ices, which evaporate when they approach their star, producing gigantic tails of gas and dust that can absorb some of the light passing through them. The dim light from the exocomets is swamped by the light of the brilliant star so they cannot be imaged directly from Earth.

To study the Beta Pictoris exocomets, the team analyzed more than 1000 observations obtained between 2003 and 2011 with the HARPS instrument on the ESO 3.6-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile.

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The researchers selected a sample of 493 different exocomets. Some exocomets were observed several times and for a few hours. Careful analysis provided measurements of the speed and the size of the gas clouds. Some of the orbital properties of each of these exocomets, such as the shape and the orientation of the orbit and the distance to the star, could also be deduced.

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In a first, astronomers map comets around another star

PARIS Astronomers using an ultra-sensitive telescope in the Chilean desert said Wednesday they had mapped hundreds of comets orbiting a star 63 light-years from Earth.

The feat marks the most complete census of so-called exocomets, or comets in other solar systems, they said.

Comets shed ice, gas and dust as they near a star like our sun, creating one or more tails.

Astrophysicists are keen on them for other reasons.

Comets are believed to be ancient remnants left from the building of our solar system some 4.6 billion years ago.

Previous work has found that other stars, too, have comets.

But it has been extremely difficult to get a more detailed picture.

Comets are tiny relative to the size of their star, and their tail is swamped by the starlight, which makes it hard to identify them and calculate their orbit.

Reporting in the journal Nature, a French-led team pored over nearly 1,000 observations of a youthful star, Beta Pictoris, that were made over a period of eight years.

The images were taken with a highly sensitive instrument, HARPS, at the European Southern Observatorys La Silla facility in Chiles bone-dry Atacama desert.

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Fans Welcome Back Comets at Sold Out Home Opener

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Thousands welcomed back the Utica Comets at their sold out home opener Wednesday. It's the team's second year and they're already improving from year one. Alana LaFlore reports how venue improvements and a new roster means the Comets' future looks bright.

UTICA, N.Y. -- With five games now under their belt, the Comets are back. Last year's season began with a 10 game losing streak, but towards the end they turned it around.

"If we went three and seven we would have actually made the playoffs," said Michael Melioris, a Comets fan. "We're on a roll - we had a shut out this year."

After Wednesday's game against the Adirondack Flames, the Comets already have three wins. This year's roster has five first round draft picks and the new blood has been a big boost.

"You can see it right away, I mean there's more chemistry on the ice, a lot of the guys played together last year so you don't have to worry about that familiarity anymore," said Utica Comet communications director Mark Caswell, Jr.

Not only is the roster beefed up - the Aud has made improvements of its own. It added a members bar and suite over looking the ice and did other projects like paint jobs, installing new lighting, putting televisions to broadcast games in the concourse and infrastructure repairs. Improvements many hope trickle into the rest of the city.

"You have Tony's that opened up right in the back last year, it just catches on - the appearance of the city is shaping right up," said Melioris. "This is a Renaissance city, it's coming back - it's going to be a high tech city."

With fan support - the home opener was the Comets 18th sold out game - and a stronger start - the team hopes things will continue picking up.

Next month they'll play in the Toyota Frozen Dome Classic against the Syracuse Crunch - the first ever hockey game at the Carrier Dome.

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Comets and Markstrom Shutdown the Flames

October 22, 2014 - American Hockey League (AHL) Utica Comets The Utica Comets returned to the Utica Memorial Auditorium for the first home game of the 2014-15 season and blanked the Adirondack Flames with a final score of 3-0.

Jacob Markstrom was a big story heading into the game, and an even bigger one after the game finished. He stopped all 29 Adirondack shots, which led to his second shutout in three games with the Comets. Following tonight's game, he has played 172:33 minutes without letting a goal into the back of the net. The last goal scored on Markstrom was at the 7:27 mark of the first period of the Comets first game.

The Comets went almost the whole first period without scoring a goal but that all changed when Hunter Shinkaruk took advantage of a screen in front of Joni Ortio's net. Just after defenseman Sena Acolatse went to the box for a delay of game at 16:40 in the first, Shinkaruk snapped it in towards Ortio and scored his first goal of his professional career. Dustin Jeffrey and Travis Ehrhardt were credited with the assists.

After an uneventful second period, the Comets decided one was just not enough for the fans at The AUD. It didn't take long after the third period started for Nicklas Jensen to find himself wide open for a slot pass from Cal O'Reilly. Once Jensen had it on his stick, Ortio had little time to react as he buried on his glove side for his first goal of the year. Along with O'Reilly, Ryan Jones also notched an assist.

The goal that put the game away for the Comets was started as a giveaway by Adirondack at center ice as they tried to set up for a power play. Brandon DeFazio intercepted the pass and was left alone as he rushed in on the right side of Ortio to score an unassisted shorthanded goal on his short side.

The Comets power play continues to be a driving force and a main reason why they are keeping leads. They are now 18 for 18 on the penalty kill. The Comets power play went 1 for 7 on the night.

The Comets are back in action Friday night as they face the San Antonio Rampage at the Utica Memorial Auditorium at 7 p.m. EST. The Comets beat the Rampage 3-0 in San Antonio on October 17.All fans in attendance will receive a Comets magnetic schedule, courtesy of Assist2Sell.

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