Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 release candidate 1 available

2016-01-25 Thread xor--- via bitcoin-dev
On Monday, January 25, 2016 04:05:59 PM Wladimir J. van der Laan wrote: > I don't have time to work on the release notes right now, but if someone > else wants to contribute that'd be awesome. I cooked my first pull request to resolve this: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7416 Thanks for

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Three Month bitcoin-dev Moderation Review

2016-01-23 Thread xor--- via bitcoin-dev
On Thursday, January 21, 2016 03:14:47 PM Rusty Russell wrote: > +1s here means simpling say "+1" or "me too" that carries no additional > information. ie. if you like an idea, that's great, but it's not worth > interruping the entire list for. > > If you say "I prefer proposal X over Y because

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Three Month bitcoin-dev Moderation Review

2016-01-20 Thread xor--- via bitcoin-dev
On Thursday, January 21, 2016 11:20:46 AM Rusty Russell via bitcoin-dev wrote: > So, what should moderation look like from now on? The original mail which announced moderation contains this rule: > - Generally discouraged: [...], +1s, [...] I assume "+1s" means statements such as "I agree with

[bitcoin-dev] "Subsidy fraud" ?

2015-12-09 Thread xor via bitcoin-dev
Pieter Wuille mentions "subsidy fraud" in his recent talk: https://youtu.be/fst1IK_mrng?t=57m2s I was unable to google what this is, and the Bitcoin Wiki also does not seem to explain it. If this is a well-known problem, perhaps it would be a good idea to explain it somewhere? signature.asc

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Contradiction in BIP65 text?

2015-11-14 Thread xor via bitcoin-dev
On Friday, November 13, 2015 09:53:57 PM Gregory Maxwell wrote: > The first text is explaining nlocktime without BIP65 in order to > explain the reason for having BIP65. Thanks. I would recommend changing the BIP65 to clarify what you just said, this clearly is the missing piece of information

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Contradiction in BIP65 text?

2015-11-14 Thread xor via bitcoin-dev
On Friday, November 13, 2015 06:58:07 PM Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 4:48 PM, xor via bitcoin-dev < > > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > This clearly says that funds can be frozen. > > Can the BIP65-thing be

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Mailing List Moderation Now Active.

2015-10-27 Thread xor via bitcoin-dev
On Thursday, October 22, 2015 11:59:11 AM Rusty Russell via bitcoin-dev wrote: > - All rejected posts will be forwarded to a list for public viewing: > https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev-moderation/ They are not readable, they all say: > An embedded message was scrubbed...

[bitcoin-dev] Analyzing mathematical / scientific sanity of XT's foundation (BIP101)

2015-08-20 Thread xor via bitcoin-dev
Hello, For sake of peace, I wanted to give a chance to XT's block size growth efforts by actually *reading* BIP101 [1] which seems to be their specification. Thus, please read this mail as something which aims to establish peaceful cooperation between the non-XT and XT community; not as

[bitcoin-dev] Humans constantly arguing about bsize proves that computers should decide

2015-08-16 Thread xor via bitcoin-dev
Hey folks, so you've been stressed with arguing about what to do with the block size for months now :( Why not realize that the unfruitful permanent need for administrators to tweak a magical, god-given (= Satoshi-given) constant is a *strong* indicator for something which should be delegated