Re: [bitcoin-dev] Continuing the discussion about noinput / anyprevout

2019-10-02 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
Anthony Towns via bitcoin-dev wrote: [SNIP] > > My thinking at the moment (subject to change!) is: > > * anyprevout signatures make the address you're signing for less safe, >which may cause you to lose funds when additional coins are sent to >the same address; this can be avoided if han

Re: [bitcoin-dev] v3 onion services

2019-11-17 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
Mr. Lee Chiffre via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Right now bitcoin client core supports use of tor hidden service. It > supports v2 hidden service. I am in progress of creating a new bitcoin > node which will use v3 hidden service instead of v2. I am looking at > bitcoin core and btcd to use. Do any of the

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bip-0039/Wordlist - Romanian

2021-08-04 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
ic via bitcoin-dev wrote: Hi, On 4 Aug 2021, at 12:30, Justin Valceanu via bitcoin-dev wrote: I have created a new Romanian wordlist for Bip-0039; Requesting permission to push to github the attached modified files. Although I don’t think it ’s hard requirement, it would be great if the wo

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Boost Bitcoin circulation, Million Transactions Per Second with stronger privacy

2021-08-08 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
raymo via bitcoin-dev wrote: TL,DR: you were explained by ZmnSCPxj why this protocol will not work. The possibility for just one party to sign will not work. I will explain again why but in much more simpler description. Check out this simple transaction to learn more about how the system w

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Making Electrum more anonymous

2015-07-24 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
Hi, I think this would be too complicated in practice and you'd have to defend against many other types of attacks, including but not limited to Sybil attacks, misbehaving servers not responding to requests, misbehaving servers not forwarding requests, you'd need some kind of directory servers or

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Răspuns: Personal opinion on the fee market from a worried local trader

2015-07-29 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
We could care less about you selling your bitcoins or moving to something else. What we care more is keeping bitcoin a successful project which offers clear benefits to the world. I agree a fee market is good and needed, and transactions shouldn't be free ever, but users should also be able to tra

Re: [bitcoin-dev] trust

2015-08-08 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Interesting point of view Thomas! I agree that if we only think towards one single direction (treat trust as a super bad thing) we might miss some good features (or scalability levels) among the way. Benjamin: > Lightning assumes explicit trust and

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin XT 0.11A

2015-08-15 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
On 8/15/2015 8:02 PM, Mike Hearn via bitcoin-dev wrote: > > I say to all developers on this list: if you also feel that Core is no > longer serving the interests of Bitcoin users, come join us. We don't bite. > Bwhahahahahahahhahahahahah ___ bitcoin-de

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin XT 0.11A

2015-08-15 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
Fair enough, this is what open source is all about. Good things sometimes come out of controversial actions. I briefly read the manifesto, saw the migration plan, it is not that greedy and in theory it is possible to migrate safely with no (big) incidents. What seams a little bit unfair is that on

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin XT 0.11A

2015-08-19 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
Hello Jorge, Eric, With all this noise on the -dev mail list I had to implement application level filters so I can treat with priority posts from certain people, you are on that list. While I agree with your arguments, I think it is _very_ important to highlight some things. I am neither for the b

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin XT 0.11A

2015-08-20 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
On 8/20/2015 1:28 AM, Jorge Timón wrote: [snip] >> 3. If Bitcoin's value can be decreased (or Bitcoin as a project killed) >> just by 2 people forking the software and submitting a consensus rule to >> a vote, it means Bitcoin is dead already and it should be worthless! We >> can't go around and p

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIPS proposal for implementing AML-KYC in bitcoin

2015-08-27 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, Please stop with the nonsense. Bitcoin is a decentralized payment network. It operates globally, so neither jurisdiction can apply to it and have effects. It is the sole responsibility of all the users/businesses involved in Bitcoin to comply

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIPS proposal for implementing AML-KYC in bitcoin

2015-08-30 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 2^256 x _NO_ On 8/28/2015 5:00 AM, odinn via bitcoin-dev wrote: > No. > > On 08/27/2015 01:10 AM, prabhat via bitcoin-dev wrote: >> Hi, > >> I am proposing to create a AML-KYC module to control the network >> and also qualify use cases in OFAC co

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Your Gmaxwell exchange

2015-08-31 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Decentralization depends on the context and does not have a definition in a form that it was demanded... I can confirm we have people in our community which do understand decentralization, and quite good actually, just there is no definition if the f

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Let's kill Bitcoin Core and allow the green shoots of a garden of new implementations to grow from its fertile ashes

2015-09-01 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 That would be very wrong and cause a lot of problems and 'political chaos' without solving at least one (technical) problem in exchange. Bitcoin Core is a good quality code. It is open source and free. Anyone can contribute and submit small changes,

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Scaling Bitcoin conference micro-report

2015-09-20 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Nobody said anything about trusting the governments in the way such as you describe. No matter how much you want to disagree here, Mike Hearn is right on some aspects. He only said that bitcoin needs to have larger user base, more use cases, making

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Let's deploy BIP65 CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY!

2015-09-28 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 +1 I was actually waiting for this. It makes 'smart contracts' simpler and better from many points of view. Pete I don't see anything about RCLTV in BIP65, was that a separate BIP? Which one is it and are we also deploying it via IsSuperMajority()?

Re: [bitcoin-dev] CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY - We need more usecases to motivate the change

2015-10-04 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi aj, On 10/4/2015 11:35 AM, Anthony Towns via bitcoin-dev wrote: > On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 04:30:56PM +0200, Peter Todd via > bitcoin-dev wrote: >> So we need to make the case for two main things: 1) We have >> applications that need a relative (i

Re: [bitcoin-dev] This thread is not about the soft/hard fork technical debate

2015-10-05 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, First, this only makes reference to hard forks not to soft forks. This is very important because we are trying to apply a hard fork requirement to a soft fork procedure which obviously won't work. Your statement that 'all objections coming f

[bitcoin-dev] Lightning Network's effect on miner fees

2015-10-14 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, I am reading about the Lightning Network and the BIPs which need to be deployed until it can be fully functional. I have to say it's a neat solution to scale and have almost instant transactions in a peer 2 peer, distributed and trustless way

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Lightning Network's effect on miner fees

2015-10-14 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/14/2015 6:19 PM, Paul Sztorc wrote: > LN transactions are a substitute good for on-chain transactions. > > Therefore, demand for on-chain transactions will decrease as a > result of LN, meaning that fees will be lower than they would > otherwi

Re: [bitcoin-dev] [BIP] Normalized transaction IDs

2015-10-19 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
So what exactly is used to create the normalized txid (sha256 hash of what data)? I've read in the linked BIP draft that it will strip the 'malleable parts' but didn't understand what exactly will be used to calculate the normalized transactions ids and how will the change apply retro-active for th

Re: [bitcoin-dev] [BIP] Normalized transaction IDs

2015-11-05 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Right. Wallets are covering malleability in acceptable ways. Normal user to user payments aren't (or at least shouldn't be) affected by malleability. Problems appear in second level and third level malleability, when Alice sends txB to Bob which spe

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Forget dormant UTXOs without confiscating bitcoin

2015-12-20 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
What will be the actual effect over wallets? Say I have the private key for a dormant UTXO older than the consensus-critical maximum UTXO age. The UTXO is not part of the cache. So I setup a full node and import my old private key (wallet.dat). Will I even see the correct balance (where will it ge

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Even more proposed BIP extensions to BIP 0070

2016-06-23 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
On 6/23/2016 1:56 PM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote: >> >> I don’t know if you are opposed to organizations that have AML requirements >> from using the bitcoin blockchain, but if you aren’t, why wouldn’t you >> prefer an open source, open standards based solution to exclusionary, >> proprietar

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP clearing house addresses

2016-08-06 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
Hi, I can clearly see some advantages for such a feature, but it's kind of in conflict with Bitcoin's fundamental design. This design might be problematic when it comes to hacks/thefts, but it's what gives Bitcoin strength and make it differentiate from other currencies: * reversal of transaction

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Managing block size the same way we do difficulty (aka Block75)

2016-12-10 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
t. khan via bitcoin-dev wrote: > BIP Proposal - Managing Bitcoin’s block size the same way we do > difficulty (aka Block75) > > The every two-week adjustment of difficulty has proven to be a > reasonably effective and predictable way of managing how quickly blocks > are mined. Bitcoin needs a reas

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Managing block size the same way we do difficulty (aka Block75)

2016-12-11 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
t. khan wrote: > Miners 'gaming' the Block75 system - > There is no financial incentive for miners to attempt to game the > Block75 system. Even if it were attempted and assuming the goal was to > create bigger blocks, the maximum possible increase would be 25% over > the previous block size. And

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Managing block size the same way we do difficulty (aka Block75)

2016-12-11 Thread s7r via bitcoin-dev
Andrew Johnson wrote: > "You miss something obvious that makes this attack actually free of cost. > Nothing will "cost them more in transaction fees". A miner can create > thousands of transactions paying to himself, and not broadcast them to > the network, but hold them and include them in the blo