Re: [Bitcoin-development] [softfork proposal] Strict DER signatures

2015-02-06 Thread Pieter Wuille
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: >> I'd like to request a BIP number for this. > > Sure. BIP0066. Four implementations exist now: * for master: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/5713 (merged) * for 0.10.0: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/5714 (merged, and inc

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Two Proposed BIPs - Bluetooth Communication and bitcoin: URI Scheme Improvements

2015-02-06 Thread Peter D. Gray
I think the Bitcoin community needs a good person-to-person payment protocol for BLE simply because Bluetooth LE is effectively peer-to-peer. Unlike NFC or conventional Bluetooth, a $5 micro can be either the master or slave and talk directly to other $5 micros nearby. [ASIDE... BLE is also the f

Re: [Bitcoin-development] determining change addresses using the least significant digits

2015-02-06 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Isidor Zeuner wrote: > Hi there, > > traditionally, the Bitcoin client strives to hide which output > addresses are change addresses going back to the payer. However, > especially with today's dynamically calculated miner fees, this > may often be ineffective: > > A

Re: [Bitcoin-development] determining change addresses using the least significant digits

2015-02-06 Thread Justus Ranvier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/06/2015 03:08 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Yes. You can certainly add additional inputs and outputs -- and as > such you can increase privacy and defrag your wallet at the same > time. A lot could be done to make regular spends resemble CoinJoin

Re: [Bitcoin-development] determining change addresses using the least significant digits

2015-02-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
Yes. You can certainly add additional inputs and outputs -- and as such you can increase privacy and defrag your wallet at the same time. On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 2:11 AM, Wladimir wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Isidor Zeuner > wrote: > > > A possible approach to handle this issue wou

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Two Proposed BIPs - Bluetooth Communication and bitcoin: URI Scheme Improvements

2015-02-06 Thread Mike Hearn
> > verification using breadwallet on apple is much faster (<1s) than HTTPS > payment request on bitcoin wallet on android (apparently apple has a > significantly more optimized signature verification algorithm). Probably on Android it's being verified in Java instead of C++. Some Android APIs ar

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Two Proposed BIPs - Bluetooth Communication and bitcoin: URI Scheme Improvements

2015-02-06 Thread Mike Hearn
BLE meets a different use case than regular Bluetooth. BLE is designed to allow always-on broadcast "beacons" which are conceptually similar to NFC tags, with very low power requirements. The tradeoff for this ultra-low power consumption and always on nature is the same as with NFC tags: you get ve

Re: [Bitcoin-development] determining change addresses using the least significant digits

2015-02-06 Thread Wladimir
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Isidor Zeuner wrote: > A possible approach to handle this issue would be to add a randomized > offset amount to the payment amount. This offset amount can be small > in comparison to the payment amount. > > Any thoughts? Adding/subtracting a randomized offset amou

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.10.0rc4 tagged

2015-02-06 Thread Wladimir
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Wladimir wrote: > FYI, I've just tagged v0.10rc4, and pushed my signatures to the > gitian.sigs repository. > > Please start your gitian builders! Thanks to the extremely quick response (a whopping 9 gitian builders already!), the executables and tarball for rc4 h

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal for P2P Wireless (Bluetooth LE) transfer of Payment URI

2015-02-06 Thread Eric Voskuil
On 02/06/2015 12:59 AM, Roy Badami wrote: >> In this case there is no need for P2P communication, just pay to an >> address you already have for the other party. If you want to avoid >> address reuse, use stealth addressing. >> >> But yes, if you don't have a stealth address for the other party you

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal for P2P Wireless (Bluetooth LE) transfer of Payment URI

2015-02-06 Thread MⒶrtin HⒶboⓋštiak
2015-02-06 2:29 GMT+01:00 Eric Voskuil : > On 02/05/2015 04:36 PM, Martin Habovštiak wrote: >> I believe, we are still talking about transactions of physical >> people in physical world. So yes, it's proximity based - people >> tell the words by mouth. :) > > Notice from my original comment: >

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Two Proposed BIPs - Bluetooth Communication and bitcoin: URI Scheme Improvements

2015-02-06 Thread Eric Voskuil
On 02/06/2015 12:40 AM, Andreas Schildbach wrote: > On 02/06/2015 01:36 AM, Eric Voskuil wrote: > >> The main advantage of BLE over BT is that it uses much less power, with >> a trade-off in lower bandwidth (100 kbps vs. 2 mbps). The BLE range can >> be even greater and connection latency lower th

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal for P2P Wireless (Bluetooth LE) transfer of Payment URI

2015-02-06 Thread Roy Badami
> In this case there is no need for P2P communication, just pay to an > address you already have for the other party. If you want to avoid > address reuse, use stealth addressing. > > But yes, if you don't have a stealth address for the other party you can > certainly communicate in private as pee

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Two Proposed BIPs - Bluetooth Communication and bitcoin: URI Scheme Improvements

2015-02-06 Thread Andreas Schildbach
On 02/06/2015 02:40 AM, Andy Schroder wrote: > Where is a more appropriate place to discuss the other issues you have > at length? What's wrong with this mailing list? -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. Th

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Two Proposed BIPs - Bluetooth Communication and bitcoin: URI Scheme Improvements

2015-02-06 Thread Andreas Schildbach
On 02/06/2015 01:36 AM, Eric Voskuil wrote: > The main advantage of BLE over BT is that it uses much less power, with > a trade-off in lower bandwidth (100 kbps vs. 2 mbps). The BLE range can > be even greater and connection latency lower than BT. For payment > purposes the lower bandwidth isn't m