Re: [bitcoin-dev] testing bitcoin nodes

2019-08-21 Thread Alexander Leishman via bitcoin-dev
Hey Niels, I'm no expert on bitcoind tests, but maybe these bits of information can help you get started: The steps to build bitcoind typically involve running: ./autogen.sh ./configure make make install When you run autogen, the autoreconf

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BLS library released

2018-08-03 Thread Alexander Leishman via bitcoin-dev
Awesome! Haven’t had the chance to run it myself yet, so curious what benchmarks you are getting? Best, Alex > On Aug 3, 2018, at 14:22, Bram Cohen via bitcoin-dev > wrote: > > BLS signatures have the same aggregation feature as Schnorr signatures but > even better because the aggregation

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Miner dilution attack on Bitcoin - is that something plausible?

2018-06-19 Thread Alexander Leishman via bitcoin-dev
Well miners already regularly mine empty blocks. However, it is usually in the economic interest of the miners to collect transaction fees. This incentive should hopefully be enough to prevent miners from choosing to produce many empty blocks. If a nation state attacker decides to allocate