Before clicking the link I thought the poll had been created to vote on inviting Zhang Ziyi...

Any idea on the promotion with her? There is a Ziyi's fans weibo(Chinese twitter): http://weibo.com/zhangziyitieba , so firstly let the fans know Nxt
 

I can't even dream about this!

In April. Till that time I'm very busy...

Anyone here with math background who can help with Reed-Solomon codes problem?

It's needed for the New Address Format: https://forums.nxtcrypto.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=524

Original ricot's idea was to use RS codes to auto-correct typos to get superficial, but cool advantage over bitcoin addresses.

But it seems there is a problem. We know that with parity = 4 the algorithm can reliably detect up to 4 errors or correct up to 2.

What isn't mentioned is that those choices seem to be exclusive. You can either detect 4 errors for sure and get general 1/million collision probability (we use 20-bit redundancy) OR you can try to correct errors.

In almost quantum-physics-style weirdness, if you try to correct errors, you cannot use the previous check anymore!

And error correction fails miserably if there are more than 2 errors: it cannot detect that there are more. So it corrects into an incorrect address and there seems to be no way to verify this.

To put it in layman’s terms: you make more than 2 typos and you will almost certainly lose your money. This is unacceptable.

So can anyone either confirm this behavior or tell me what I am missing?

CFB, can you elaborate on a comment you made regarding wall street traders testing the trading system in a few weeks? what's been arranged on that front?

I will repeat my idea again as a solution for AM to make it easier to send AM while saving us from spam.


You charge 1 nxt as messaging fee to send AM to an account but allow the sender to resend any amount of messages he wants to that same account within 1440 blocks.

1440 blocks after the 1st msg he has to pay 1 nxt msg fee to send AM again.

If he wants to send to a NEW account he must pay 1 nxt msg to send AM to this NEW account.  After paying this 1 nxt fee he can send any amount of messages to this NEW account for 1440 blocks.


WHY THIS IS GOOD:  

It allows you to freely communicate to another account but saves us from spam because its quite stupid to spam the same account & if you want to spam all accounts you have to still pay 1 nxt per msg.

  

Better would be if you can only send messages again after the recipient replies to you. Not before.

Also, this still results in big blockchain.

This also doesn't really stop spam since the situation is the same if you implement this or not; the spammer will have to pay 1 nxt per message (to diff accounts) in each scenario