Re: [bitcoin-dev] Services bit for xthin blocks

2016-03-09 Thread Tier Nolan via bitcoin-dev
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 6:11 PM, G. Andrew Stone via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > Thanks for your offer Luke, but we are happy with our own process and, > regardless of historical provenance, see this mailing list and the BIP > process as very Core specific for reas

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Services bit for xthin blocks

2016-03-09 Thread G. Andrew Stone via bitcoin-dev
Thanks for your offer Luke, but we are happy with our own process and, regardless of historical provenance, see this mailing list and the BIP process as very Core specific for reasons that are too numerous to describe here but should be obvious to anyone who has been aware of the last year of Bitco

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Services bit for xthin blocks

2016-03-08 Thread Luke Dashjr via bitcoin-dev
On Tuesday, March 08, 2016 2:35:21 AM G. Andrew Stone via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Not an unreasonable request, however while I personally respect the many > great accomplishments of individual engineers loosely affiliated with > "Core", Bitcoin Unlimited has our own process for documentation and > dis

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Services bit for xthin blocks

2016-03-07 Thread dagurval via bitcoin-dev
Hi, > Does this functionality change peer selection? This bit will be used for selecting outgoing peers in Bitcoin XT. On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 8:06 PM, G. Andrew Stone via bitcoin-de

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Services bit for xthin blocks

2016-03-07 Thread Dave Scotese via bitcoin-dev
I think a BIP is a good idea, but rather than making such a specific proposal as "Let's use bit 4 to indicate communication of thin blocks," how about a more general one like "Let's use bit(s?) 4(-5?) as user-agent specific service bits so that if you customize your user-agent string, you can use t

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Services bit for xthin blocks

2016-03-07 Thread Tier Nolan via bitcoin-dev
These are the relevant info BIPs. NODE_GETUTXO https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0064.mediawiki NODE_BLOOM: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0111.mediawiki The relevant code is here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/protocol.h#L228 The NODE_GETUTXO

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Services bit for xthin blocks

2016-03-07 Thread G. Andrew Stone via bitcoin-dev
Included at the bottom of this mail is a BIP concerning our impending use of a particular services bit. I am making a good-faith effort to notify the community of this use and follow the BIP submission rules with a correctly formatted BIP sent to Luke jr. He has informed me that such a BIP should

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Services bit for xthin blocks

2016-03-07 Thread Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev
On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 8:06 PM, G. Andrew Stone via bitcoin-dev wrote: > The Bitcoin Unlimited client needs a services bit to indicate that the node > is capable of communicating thin blocks. We propose to use bit 4 as AFAIK > bit 3 is already earmarked for Segregated Witness. Does this function

[bitcoin-dev] Services bit for xthin blocks

2016-03-07 Thread G. Andrew Stone via bitcoin-dev
The Bitcoin Unlimited client needs a services bit to indicate that the node is capable of communicating thin blocks. We propose to use bit 4 as AFAIK bit 3 is already earmarked for Segregated Witness. Andrew ___ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@list