Re: [bitcoin-dev] A Small Modification to Segwit

2017-04-11 Thread Staf Verhaegen via bitcoin-dev
g via bitcoin-dev schreef op ma 10-04-2017 om 20:39 [-0600]: > > However, we need to consider the environmental impact of mining, which > currently consumes a quite exorbitant amount of energy. Any ideas on > this front? Everything is relative. Some months ago I did some investigation and Bitcoi

Re: [bitcoin-dev] High fees / centralization

2017-04-02 Thread Staf Verhaegen via bitcoin-dev
Jared Lee Richardson via bitcoin-dev schreef op do 30-03-2017 om 19:01 [-0700]: > That would be blockchain sharding. > > Would be amazing if someone could figure out how to do it trustlessly. > So far I'm not convinced it is possible to resolve the conflicts > between the shards and commit transac

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

2017-04-02 Thread Staf Verhaegen via bitcoin-dev
Jared Lee Richardson via bitcoin-dev schreef op wo 29-03-2017 om 12:10 [-0700]: > The proportion of users believing in microtransactions for all is also > larger than 5%, In order to evaluate this statement the definition of microtransaction has to be defined. I guess there will also be no consens

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

2017-04-02 Thread Staf Verhaegen via bitcoin-dev
Jared Lee Richardson via bitcoin-dev schreef op wo 29-03-2017 om 12:07 [-0700]: > > It is all very unhealthy for Bitcoin. Both sides need to accept that > microtransactions from all humans cannot go on-chain, and that never > increasing the blocksize doesn't mean millions of home users will run

Re: [bitcoin-dev] [Pre-BIP] Community Consensus Voting System

2017-02-11 Thread Staf Verhaegen via bitcoin-dev
Chris Priest via bitcoin-dev schreef op vr 03-02-2017 om 16:57 [-0800]: > Personally I think once the blocksize arguments are solved, there will > be no more contentious changes for this voting system to deal with. > What other contentious issues have come up in the past 3 years or so > that wasn't

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

2017-02-11 Thread Staf Verhaegen via bitcoin-dev
Eric Voskuil via bitcoin-dev schreef op zo 29-01-2017 om 11:37 [-0800]: > > On Jan 29, 2017, at 11:15 AM, Tom Harding via bitcoin-dev > > wrote: > > > >> On 1/28/2017 10:29 AM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote: > >> a world of nodes in large datacenters is a world where it's very easy > >> to fo