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by edsouza 3407 days ago
I rather actually see a real comment if there is no time to create a unit test.

Why does changing ZQ_PEDERSEN to ZQ_WILLIAMSON fix the bug?

Having meaningful named constants would make much more sense.

Edit: On full view of the code, the bug could be avoid if they broke out the if <demoninationX> blocks into their own function, and to prevent "typo" errors, it would be good to have a local variable named current_demoniation = demoniationX, and then reference that local variable instead of referencing the constant everytime.

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Apparently those are names for 50 and 100 BTC.

From this presentation[1] or the source code[2]:

    1 Lovelace = 1 Bitcoin
    1 Goldwasser = 10 Bitcoin
    1 Rackoff = 25 Bitcoin
    1 Pedersen = 50 Bitcoin
    1 Williamson = 100 Bitcoin
But yes, those are meaningless names in themselves. Metric prefixes like "hectobitcoin" would be better.

[1]: https://sar.informatik.hu-berlin.de/teaching/2013-w/2013-w%2... [2]: https://github.com/Zerocoin/libzerocoin/blob/master/Coin.h#L...