On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 12:42:30AM +, Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> The alert system was a centralized facility to allow trusted parties
> to send messages to be displayed in wallet software (and, very early
> on, actually remotely trigger the software to stop transacting).
>
> It h
On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 01:48:40AM +, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 12:58 AM, Peter Todd wrote:
> > Good to do this sooner rather than later, as alert propagation on the P2P
> > network is going to continue to get less reliable as nodes upgrade to
> > software
>
> Yes, thi
On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 12:58 AM, Peter Todd wrote:
> Good to do this sooner rather than later, as alert propagation on the P2P
> network is going to continue to get less reliable as nodes upgrade to software
Yes, this was one of my motivations for doing this soon.
It would only require about 2
ACK
Armory used to contain code for handling these alerts but that was
removed after the PR removing alerts from Bitcoin Core was merged.
On 9/9/2016 8:42 PM, Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> The alert system was a centralized facility to allow trusted parties
> to send messages to be di
ACK
libbitcoin defines the message and includes the public key but only for
completeness and reference purposes. It has never been used in the node.
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> On Sep 9, 2016, at 5:42 PM, Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev
> wrote:
>
> The alert system was a centralized facility to allow trusted parti
On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 12:42:30AM +, Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> The alert system was a centralized facility to allow trusted parties
> to send messages to be displayed in wallet software (and, very early
> on, actually remotely trigger the software to stop transacting).
> One
The alert system was a centralized facility to allow trusted parties
to send messages to be displayed in wallet software (and, very early
on, actually remotely trigger the software to stop transacting).
It has been removed completely in Bitcoin Core after being disabled for a while.
While the sys
