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The platform employs advanced pattern recognition methodologies and real-time online learning to mine pseudonymous data with sparse features. Instead of needing only one signature or key to make a transaction, the user can setup a multi-sig wallet that requires the signature from two of three keys before a transaction is finalized and broadcasted to the network. Sig3 is an independent, third-party automated cosigner.
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Blockverify offers a blockchain-based, anti-counterfeit solution that can be applied to pharmaceuticals, luxury items, electronics and diamonds. With Blockverify companies can create their own register of products and monitor the supply chains. But doing so is subject to a few significant caveats. But other times these restrictions are too limiting and we must search for an alternative approach. Whilst this does not allow you to send micropayments at high speed to different recipients each time, many applications can fit within this framework - typically anything that involves micro-billing for a metered service.
It works in two stages. Firstly, some value is locked up with a multi-signature transaction that places it under the control of both parties. The parties collaborate to create a signed refund transaction that spends all the value back to the client, but is time locked using the nLockTime feature of the Bitcoin protocol. If the server halts at any point in the protocol, the client can always get their money back.
Once the refund transaction has been obtained by the client, it transmits the multi-signature contract to the server which then signs it and broadcasts it, thus locking in the money and opening the channel. To make a payment the client prepares and signs a new copy of the refund transaction that refunds slightly less money than before.
The signature is sent to the server, which then verifies the signature is correct and stores it. The signature uses fairly lax SIGHASH modes so the server has a lot of leeway to modify the refund transaction as it wishes, but normally it will just add an output that sends back to its own wallet. In this way once the payment channel is established, a micropayment can be made with just one signature operation by the client and one verify by the server.
Eventually the client will decide that it is done. At this point it sends a message to the server asking it to close the channel. The server then signs the final version of the contract with its own key and broadcasts it, resulting in the final state of the channel being confirmed in the block chain. As you can see, because the refund transaction lets the client take back all its money if the channel is still in use as it approaches the expiry time, the server must close the channel and a new one must be built from scratch.
The API will provide a series of objects that implement the client and server parts of the above arrangement. Normally though you want to serialize these state machine transitions into byte arrays, ready for network transmission. Also, you want to persist that state machine to disk such that you can resume micropayments across application restarts or network connectivity interruptions. They construct the state machines, serialize the transitions to protocol buffer based messages, and use a wallet extension see third point to ensure data on the channel is stored inside the wallet file.
The protocol requires certain actions to be taken at certain times, where time is defined by the time fields in the block chain.
Often the micropayment protocol will be embedded inside another protocol. But if you want it to run standalone e. Although this may seem like a lot of objects, the abstractions have a purpose. Imagine building a protocol that lets you pay for not seeing display ads on the web by making private micropayments to ad networks at the time the ad is going to be served. A separate TCP connection is probably not the right tool to be used here.
Instead it would make more sense to extend HTTP with some special headers and link the browser to your wallet app, so the micropayments protocol flows over those inline HTTP headers. All these use cases are possible. They are Java objects implementing a specific interface and the payment channels code provides an extension so channel state can be saved automatically. All apps that use micropayment channels need to do this. The reason is so that as a channel approaches its expiry time, the server knows to close it and broadcast the final state before the client has a chance to use its refund transaction.
Once we have brought up our connections to the Bitcoin network and synced the chain, we bind and start the server object. We give a timeout that is used for network communications this is distinct from the max lifetime of the channel, which is currently hard coded. Once we have the channelId, we can query the wallet extension that we created earlier to get the canonical state object, which we can get more detailed information about the channel from.
For most use cases, this is likely not necessary, as the wallet extension deals with channel expiration for you and channel maximum value is not a particularly useful statistic a minimum is already specified in the server listener constructor, which most clients will default to. This might resume a previous payment channel if we have one available with the same channel ID.
The channel ID is just an opaque string that is sent as a hash to the server. In this case we set it to be the hostname, so talking to the same server will always use the same channel even if both sides are restarted or their IP address changes. We can of course chain these futures together with others and do all the usual operations on them. To build a payment channel you have to choose a few parameters, notably, how much money you should lock up.
And now moving on to the real stuff If you send too many transactions too fast, they will get down-prioritised or not relayed by various anti flooding algorithms built into the Bitcoin network. There is a minimum amount of value a single transaction can send, determined by the number of bytes required to send and claim it along with the fees charged. Choosing channel parameters To build a payment channel you have to choose a few parameters, notably, how much money you should lock up.