Re: [bitcoin-dev] [Bitcoin-development] BIP for Proof of Payment

2015-07-24 Thread Kalle Rosenbaum via bitcoin-dev
These BIPs have been assigned 120 and 121: 120: Proof of Payment 121: Proof of Payment URI scheme Regards, Kalle Den 24 jul 2015 08:27 skrev Kalle Rosenbaum ka...@rosenbaum.se: These BIPs have been assigned 120 and 121: 120: Proof of Payment 121: Proof of Payment URI scheme Regards,

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP 102 - kick the can down the road to 2MB

2015-07-24 Thread Slurms MacKenzie via bitcoin-dev
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 at 10:52 AM From: Thomas Zander via bitcoin-dev bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP 102 - kick the can down the road to 2MB The reference to bandwidth increases makes no sense, the

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP 102 - kick the can down the road to 2MB

2015-07-24 Thread Thomas Zander via bitcoin-dev
On Friday 17. July 2015 20.29.16 Luke Dashjr via bitcoin-dev wrote: We are unlikely to approach 1 MB of actual volume by November, so I would prefer to see the activation date on this moved later - maybe November 2016, if not 2017. It would also be an improvement to try to follow reasonably-

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or If We Do Nothing Analysis

2015-07-24 Thread Milly Bitcoin via bitcoin-dev
On 7/23/2015 10:57 PM, Dave Scotese via bitcoin-dev wrote: I used Google to establish that there is not already a post from 2015 that mentions roadmap in the subject line. Such would be a good skeleton for anyone new to the list (like me). Just a point about terminology: Roadmap - A plan of

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or If We Do Nothing Analysis

2015-07-24 Thread Dave Scotese via bitcoin-dev
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 4:38 AM, Mike Hearn he...@vinumeris.com wrote: It's worth noting that even massive companies with $30M USD of funding don't run a single Bitcoin Core node This has nothing to do with block sizes, and everything to do with Core not directly providing the services

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or If We Do Nothing Analysis

2015-07-24 Thread Eric Lombrozo via bitcoin-dev
On Jul 24, 2015, at 10:40 AM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 07:09:13AM -0700, Adam Back via bitcoin-dev wrote: (Claim of large bitcoin ecosystem companies without full nodes) this says to me rather we have a need for

Re: [bitcoin-dev] For discussion: limit transaction size to mitigate CVE-2013-2292

2015-07-24 Thread Gavin Andresen via bitcoin-dev
After thinking about it, implementing it, and doing some benchmarking, I'm convinced replacing the existing, messy, ad-hoc sigop-counting consensus rules is the right thing to do. The last two commits in this branch are an implementation:

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or If We Do Nothing Analysis

2015-07-24 Thread Eric Lombrozo via bitcoin-dev
Thanks for bringing up the CCSS, Adam and Peter. I was actually working on a post inviting everyone in this mailing list to come and participate…but you guys beat me to it. :) The CCSS is an open standard, born out of the belief that sharing the industry's best practices amongst each other and

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Making Electrum more anonymous

2015-07-24 Thread Slurms MacKenzie via bitcoin-dev
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 at 2:12 PM From: s7r via bitcoin-dev bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Making Electrum more anonymous Privacy concerned people should run their own Electrum server and make it accessible via

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or If We Do Nothing Analysis

2015-07-24 Thread Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 07:09:13AM -0700, Adam Back via bitcoin-dev wrote: (Claim of large bitcoin ecosystem companies without full nodes) this says to me rather we have a need for education: I run a full node myself (intermittently), just for my puny collection of bitcoins. If I ran a

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or If We Do Nothing Analysis

2015-07-24 Thread Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 03:39:08PM +0200, Thomas Zander via bitcoin-dev wrote: On Friday 24. July 2015 05.37.30 Slurms MacKenzie via bitcoin-dev wrote: It's worth noting that even massive companies with $30M USD of funding don't run a single Bitcoin Core node, I assume you mean that they

Re: [bitcoin-dev] bitcoin-dev Digest, Vol 2, Issue 95

2015-07-24 Thread Dave Scotese via bitcoin-dev
Alternatively I think instead of displaying a meaningless number we ought to go by a percentage (the double spend improbability) and go by 'confidence'. That is a great idea, and not too hard to implement. A bit of code can determine over the last N blocks, how many blocks that were at the

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core and hard forks

2015-07-24 Thread Tom Harding via bitcoin-dev
On 7/24/2015 2:24 AM, Jorge Timón wrote: Regarding increasing the exchange rate it would be really nice to just push a button and double bitcoin's price just before the next subsidy halving, but unfortunately that's something out of our control. Jorge, right now, from the activity on github,

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin, Perceptions, and Expectations

2015-07-24 Thread gb via bitcoin-dev
Validated - (seen on network) Settled/Cleared - 1 conf Finalised - 6 confs On Sat, 2015-07-25 at 00:37 +1000, Vincent Truong via bitcoin-dev wrote: Fast transactions Fast transactions implies it is slower than Visa, and Visa is 'instant' by comparison from the spender's POV. Bitcoin is

Re: [bitcoin-dev] For discussion: limit transaction size to mitigate CVE-2013-2292

2015-07-24 Thread odinn via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Interesting, so this basically would merge into an already existing BIP (Jeff Garzik's). However, it proposes some changes. OK CVE-2013-2292 is a severity thingy of high which is described as bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt 0.8.0 and earlier allow remote

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or If We Do Nothing Analysis

2015-07-24 Thread Mike Hearn via bitcoin-dev
It's worth noting that even massive companies with $30M USD of funding don't run a single Bitcoin Core node This has nothing to do with block sizes, and everything to do with Core not directly providing the services businesses actually want. The whole node count is falling because of block