Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP39 word list

2013-10-22 Thread slush
I think this is a good idea; I just pushed new unit test test_similarity() to github which finds such similar words. Right now it identifies ~90 similar pairs in current wordlist, I'll update wordlist tomorrow to pass this test. slush On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 1:52 AM, jan wrote: > > I think avoi

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Revisiting the BIPS process, a proposal

2013-10-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
All that is good practice, but we should avoid adding burdensome process that might discourage BIP writing. Consider a distributed approach: if you feel a draft needs more sections or better language, submit a pull request yourself and help community-edit the document. On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 3:

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Revisiting the BIPS process, a proposal

2013-10-22 Thread Martin Sustrik
On 22/10/13 09:56, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Martin Sustrik wrote: >> There's also Security Considerations part in >> every RFC that is pretty relevant for Bitcoin. > > Which would say something interesting like "If the bitcoin network > implements inconsistent beh

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Revisiting the BIPS process, a proposal

2013-10-22 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Martin Sustrik wrote: > There's also Security Considerations part in > every RFC that is pretty relevant for Bitcoin. Which would say something interesting like "If the bitcoin network implements inconsistent behavior in the consensus critical parts of the protoc

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Revisiting the BIPS process, a proposal

2013-10-22 Thread Peter Todd
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 09:34:57AM +0200, Martin Sustrik wrote: > On 22/10/13 09:03, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Jean-Paul Kogelman > > wrote: > >> Have you seen: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification ? > > > > Take care, the information in the wiki is

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Revisiting the BIPS process, a proposal

2013-10-22 Thread Martin Sustrik
On 22/10/13 09:03, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Jean-Paul Kogelman > wrote: >> Have you seen: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification ? > > Take care, the information in the wiki is woefully incomplete. Imagine myself, with no prior knowledge of Bitcoin loo

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Revisiting the BIPS process, a proposal

2013-10-22 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Jean-Paul Kogelman wrote: > Have you seen: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification ? Take care, the information in the wiki is woefully incomplete. -- October Webinars: Code fo

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Revisiting the BIPS process, a proposal

2013-10-22 Thread Jean-Paul Kogelman
> I wanted to have a look at how the whole Bitcoin thing works recently. > Being a distributed application, I've searched for the protocol spec. > What I found were two wiki pages (Protocol & ProtocolRules) that looked > more like notes someone wrote down while implementing the application. >