Re: [Bitcoin-development] multisig, op_eval and lock_time/sequence...

2011-11-12 Thread Mike Hearn
BIPs are either standards track (affects everyone, represents consensus), informational (ie basically just summarizing the authors viewpoints on things) or process. My point is you can't have a credible standards track BIP until something has been implemented end to end. I don't think it's a good

Re: [Bitcoin-development] multisig, op_eval and lock_time/sequence...

2011-11-12 Thread Mike Hearn
Sure, of course, as long as it's clearly labelled as just your thoughts, no issues. For dispute mediation the way I'd start is playing around with some UI design stuff and a toy protocol underneath. Once the process is smooth from the users POV (no seeing binary blobs disguised as text) then it

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [RFC] BIP 14 - Protocol Version and User Agent

2011-11-12 Thread Mike Hearn
Looks pretty reasonable to me. If Gavin changes the mainline client to use this format I'll change BitcoinJ as well. It'll need a bit of API work so clients are sure to set it up properly. On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Amir Taaki zgen...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi,