[bitcoin-dev] BIP Proposal: Rate Limiting with server specified Proof of Work challenges

Hello, I am proposing a new feature for rate limiting purposes where nodes can make and solve arbitrary PoW challenges in return for connection slots (to be expanded to cover e.g. bloom filters or other DoS risky services). The BIP currently includes two proofs of work (sha256 and cuckoo-cycle)

Re: [bitcoin-dev] A BIP proposal for segwit addresses

On Sun, May 07, 2017 at 02:39:14PM -0700, Pieter Wuille via bitcoin-dev wrote: > > I don't understand your comment about non-english speaking users. > Obviously they cannot voice-communicate at all with only-english-speaking > users, so there is no need to communicate voice-communicate addresses >

Re: [bitcoin-dev] A BIP proposal for segwit addresses

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Pieter Wuille wrote: > Hello everyone, > > You can find the text here: > https://github.com/sipa/bech32/blob/master/bip-witaddr.mediawiki > Responding to a few comments: By Andreas Schildbach: > I'm not convinced that transmitting

[bitcoin-dev] Generalized versionbits BIP requesting number assignment

Hola, I've submitted the generalized versionbits specification for BIP number assignment: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/532 Your feedback and comments welcome. The spec has been updated to include a link to the reference implementation. I hope to find time soon to produce a similar