Re: [bitcoin-dev] Question regarding Confidential Transactions

On 2/10/2016 5:53 AM, Henning Kopp wrote: Hi Jeremy, My understanding of the paper is that the blinding factor would be included in the extra data which is incorporated into the ring signatures used in the range proof. Yep, that is a possibility. The blinding factor could be encrypted with

[bitcoin-dev] RFC for BIP: Best Practices for Heterogeneous Input Script Transactions

BIP: TBD Title: Best Practices for Heterogeneous Input Script Transactions Author: Kristov Atlas Status: Draft Type: Informational Created: 2016-02-10 # Abstract The privacy of Bitcoin users with respect to graph analysis is reduced when a transaction is

[bitcoin-dev] Clearing up some misconceptions about full nodes

I've been asked to post this to this mailing list too. It's time to clear up some misconceptions floating around about full nodes. === Myth: There are only about 5500 full nodes worldwide === This number comes from this and similar sites: https://bitnodes.21.co/ and it measured by trying to

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP proposal: Increase block size limit to 2 megabytes

On Wed, February 10, 2016 5:14 pm, David Vorick via bitcoin-dev wrote: >> I love seeing data! I was considering 0.10 nodes as 'unmaintained' > because it has been a long time since the 0.11 release. > > https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-p2p/bitcoin-qt > > The Gentoo package manager still

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP proposal: Increase block size limit to 2 megabytes

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 6:14 AM, David Vorick via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > I'm not clear on the utility of more nodes. Perhaps there is significant > concern about SPV nodes getting enough bandwidth or the network struggling > from the load? > It is