Re: [Bitcoin-development] Blockchain as root CA for payment protocol

2013-02-09 Thread Luke-Jr
On Saturday, February 09, 2013 2:33:25 PM Timo Hanke wrote: > > Why don't you use namecoin or another alt-chain for this? > > Because namcoin tries to solve a different problem, DNS, whereas I want > to establish an identity for a payment protocol. What is the technical difference here? Namecoin

[Bitcoin-development] Version 0.8.0rc1 ready for testing

2013-02-09 Thread Gavin Andresen
Bitcoin version 0.8.0 release candidate 1 is now available from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.0/test This is a major release designed to improve performance and handle the increasing volume of transactions on the network. Please report bugs using the issue t

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Blockchain as root CA for payment protocol

2013-02-09 Thread Timo Hanke
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 06:01:08AM -0500, Peter Todd wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 11:03:54AM +0100, Timo Hanke wrote: > > First, we have drafted a quite general specification for bitcoin > > certificates (protobuf messages) that allow for a variety of payment > > protocols (e.g. static as wel

Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.8.0rc1 status

2013-02-09 Thread Robert Backhaus
I have done test builds on FreeBSD. Clean builds using gcc and clang, building both the qt gui and the command line daemon, and the tests run clean as well. The qt gui runs, and cleanly reindexed and caught up. I have no problems to report. I am not doing any adjustments apart from applying the n