Re: [bitcoin-dev] A Modified Version of Luke-jr's Block Size BIP

2017-02-07 Thread t. khan via bitcoin-dev
On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Luke Dashjr wrote: > On Monday, February 06, 2017 6:19:43 PM you wrote: > > >My BIP draft didn't make progress because the community opposes any > block > > >size increase hardfork ever. > > > > Luke, how do you know the community opposes that? Specifically, how di

Re: [bitcoin-dev] A Modified Version of Luke-jr's Block Size BIP

2017-02-07 Thread t. khan via bitcoin-dev
>My BIP draft didn't make progress because the community opposes any block size >increase hardfork ever. Luke, how do you know the community opposes that? Specifically, how did you come to this conclusion? >Your version doesn't address the current block size >issues (ie, the blocks being too larg

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Three hardfork-related BIPs

2017-02-07 Thread Eric Voskuil via bitcoin-dev
The semantics of a necessarily secure and private client-server protocol differ from that of a necessarily distributed and public P2P protocol. I realize you refer to the C/S as a distinct API, but this point is worthy of clarification and emphasis. The introduction of client-server sub-protoco

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Three hardfork-related BIPs

2017-02-07 Thread netkn0t (marcus) via bitcoin-dev
On 27.01.2017 20:03, Luke Dashjr via bitcoin-dev wrote: Assume as a premise (despite your apparent disagreement below) that for Bitcoin to function, a supermajority of economic activity needs to be verified using full nodes operated by the recipient. Evidence suggests that at this current time,

[bitcoin-dev] Fw: Transaction signalling through output address hashing

2017-02-07 Thread John Hardy via bitcoin-dev
Probabilistic collisions, while present, would be statistically insignificant at 4 chars length. Implementation by wallets would just require a loop of their existing address generation until a match is found, trivial to implement. Wallets could provide a dropdown which shows the most commonly