Questions tagged [open-assets]

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How can SPV nodes trust received Open Assets?

I was reading over the specification for the Open Assets (colored coins) protocol. It seems that keeping track of Asset ownership requires looking up the scriptPubKey for each input in a transaction, and possibly even recursively looking up the…
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What happens to unclaimed Open Assets (colored coins) asset quantity units?

I'm trying to understand the Open Assets transaction example given here. Everything makes sense, more or less, until the end of the description: Output 6 receives the first 3 units of input 5. Input 5 has the asset ID A2 so the asset ID A2 is…
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After using openassets issue_asset() , the asset quantity is 0

I am using openassets protocol issue_asset() function. After using the function, i call list_unspent(). The asset quantity field is all zero (see below). It means the issue_asset() function does not generate any assets. I have checked the return…
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What is an «open Ponzi scheme»?

I recently read that Nassim N. Taleb thinks that Bitcoin is an open Ponzi scheme. An influental and intelligent person like him surely doesn't say something without thinking about it first. Therefore I asked myself what he means with that term. In…
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How to read the asset quantity list of open asset protocol?

I'm studying open asset protocol, however I have no idea how to read asset quantity list. The Open Assets Protocol documentation tells that data in marker output 0xac 0x02 0x00 0xe5 0x8e 0x26 means The asset quantity list: …
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