I'm reasonably sure I discussed this in the LTB podcast, but basically TFT's decision for a 1 minute block time was nonsensical. We don't know why he chose it, but it definitely wasn't based on any form of logic.

deleting the other post, this is its replacement.

ok here is the formula.

a = percentage of the total network hash rate controlled by attacker (expressed in decimal notation)
b = # of blocks
n = likelihood of discovering b # of blocks for a % of total network hashrate before anyone else

f(n)=a^(b-1)        (im sure this can be simplified but w/e it works)

So back to our 2 blockchains. If the attacker wants to double-spend and has 25% of the total network hashrate, than his chances of discovering 1 block are 25%. 2 blocks in a row is 12.5%.

1 0.250000

2 0.125000

3 0.062500

4 0.031250

5 0.015625

6 0.007812

7 0.003906

8 0.001953

9 0.000976

10 0.000488

and after 60 minutes like bitcoin satoshi client suggests with 1 minute blocks it would be 4.336808e-19.

So the point is that there is an inherent advantage to security resulting from fast blocks. As such the acceptable orphan rate would be a reasonable trade off. It wouldn't come from some effort to approach as close to 0 as you can. Once its too high of course single actors get a bigger advantage since they dont have to wait to start mining ontop of their own block. But the preferable trade off would probably be a higher orphan rate than most people think. You would have to develop some models to get a good idea, but probably 5% is totally reasonable.

hi
how can I change the directory
where to store the database?

I'm not sure if this has been discussed before?

OpenAlias is easy and user-friendly (once employed) but isn't there an inherent risk in abuse?

It would be trivial for a cracker to exploit it by changing the xmr recipient_address to one under his control. Another easy exploit is that pretty much any employee at the company which hosts your domain or subdomain can easily change the xmr recipient_address. That is especially handy if the nefarious part (for some reason) knows of large or recurring payments.

I'm pretty sure what you want to have is a provable way to burn funds right?
If so, you need the view key too, otherwise nobody can say "here guys, look I burned X", because there's nothing to look at (due to stealth addresses).

Who owns the address monero.org, someone is developing it

Are we thinking of starting a proof of burn (counterparty) style Monero 2.0?