Re: [Bitcoin-development] My thoughts on the viability of the Factom token

2015-03-19 Thread Brian Deery
Greetings mailing list. Not sure that this content is 100% appropriate here, but Peter Todd invited me to post this for archival purposes. The original thread has been removed from the search results, but is still up here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2z9k5p/factom_announces_launch_da

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Improving resistance to transaction origination harvesting

2015-03-19 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 11:26:10AM -0500, Justus Ranvier wrote: > > Allow Bitcoin nodes to create authenticated connections with trusted > peers via CurveCP [2]. Nodes that have at least one CurveCP peer only > broadcast their transactions to those peers. The user would have to select trusted pee

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Relative CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY (was CLTV proposal)

2015-03-19 Thread Zooko Wilcox-OHearn
I'm in favor of relative CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY, but I don't have a very specific reason. I just have a vague worry that there can be "race conditions" in which a txn with an absolute CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY goes into the blockchain later than one of its signers expected that it would, and therefore there