Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP - Dead Man's Switch

2017-12-11 Thread Douglas Roark via bitcoin-dev
With all due respect, this isn't a BIP. It's idle speculation regarding what one person considers to be a problem and others may not. Please read https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0001.mediawiki and try again. Among other things: - Convince us this is a real issue, and that your data

Re: [bitcoin-dev] A DNS-like decentralized mapping for wallet addresses?

2017-11-30 Thread Douglas Roark via bitcoin-dev
On 2017/11/30 14:20, mandar mulherkar via bitcoin-dev wrote: > I was wondering in terms of mass adoption, instead of long wallet > addresses, maybe there should be a DNS-like decentralized mapping > service to provide a user@crypto address? A few years ago, I was part of an effort with Armory and

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Hard fork proposal from last week's meeting

2017-03-28 Thread Douglas Roark via bitcoin-dev
On 2017/3/28 10:31, Wang Chun via bitcoin-dev wrote: > The basic idea is, let's stop the debate for whether we should upgrade > to 2MB, 8MB or 32MiB. 32MiB is well above any proposals' upper limit, > so any final decision would be a soft fork to this already deployed > release. If by 2020, we still

[bitcoin-dev] Python test suite failures (was Re: Planned Obsolescence)

2016-12-18 Thread Douglas Roark via bitcoin-dev
On 2016/12/18 12:07, Alice Wonder via bitcoin-dev wrote: > I almost did not update to 0.13.0 because the test suite was failing due > to python errors. How to fix them was posted on bitcointalk. > > 0.13.1 came with new python errors in the test suite. So I just said > fuck it. > > When the test

Re: [bitcoin-dev] The Soft Fork Deception

2016-10-27 Thread Douglas Roark via bitcoin-dev
Am attempting to move this over to bitcoin-discuss, as this (IMO) isn't appropriate for dev and is borderline trolling. I won't be replying on dev beyond this reply. I'll also try to keep this reply technical in nature. (If this continues on discuss, no promises. :) ) On 2016/10/27 08:38, Andrew v

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Start time for BIP141 (segwit)

2016-10-16 Thread Douglas Roark via bitcoin-dev
Before getting to my reply to Tom's message, I forgot to give my thoughts on the Nov. 15 date. I think it's a reasonable date. With various holidays coming up in the West, it's probably best to get the word out now so that work can progress before some people get sucked into family obligations and

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Start time for BIP141 (segwit)

2016-10-16 Thread Douglas Roark via bitcoin-dev
On 2016/10/16 09:35, Gavin Andresen via bitcoin-dev wrote: > I asked a lot of businesses and individuals how long it would take them > to upgrade to a new release over the last year or two. > > Nobody said it would take them more than two weeks. > > If somebody is running their own validation cod

Re: [bitcoin-dev] What is OpenSSL still used for?

2016-01-20 Thread Douglas Roark via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2016/1/18 19:58, Ethan Heilman via bitcoin-dev wrote: > I believe libsecp256k1 just performs Elliptic Curve operations > required by Bitcoin. OpenSSL is used for all other crypto. The exact answer, as I understand it, is a bit more nuanced. In p

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Capacity increases for the Bitcoin system.

2015-12-20 Thread Douglas Roark via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2015/12/20 20:50, Mark Friedenbach via bitcoin-dev wrote: > I am fully in support of the plan laid out in "Capacity increases > for the bitcoin system". > > This plan provides real benefit to the ecosystem in solving a > number of longstanding

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Segregated witness softfork with moderate adoption has very small block size effect

2015-12-19 Thread Douglas Roark via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2015/12/19 08:49, jl2012 via bitcoin-dev wrote: > P2SH has been introduced for 3.5 years and only about 10% of > bitcoin is stored this way (I can't find proportion of existing > P2SH address). A 1-year adoption rate of 40% for segwit is clearly >

Re: [bitcoin-dev] [patch] Switching Bitcoin Core to sqlite db

2015-10-26 Thread Douglas Roark via bitcoin-dev
On 2015/10/23 03:30, Tom Zander via bitcoin-dev wrote: > On Thursday 22 Oct 2015 17:26:42 Jeff Garzik via bitcoin-dev wrote: >> It was noted that leveldb is unmaintained, and this is part of researching >> alternatives that are maintained and reliable. > > Apart from it being unmaintained, any lin

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Proposed minor change to BIP 01 to use a PR for request assignment

2015-09-04 Thread Douglas Roark via bitcoin-dev
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