Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposed alternatives to the 20MB step function

2015-05-19 Thread Tier Nolan
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 2:42 AM, Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au wrote: OK. Be nice if these were cleaned up, but I guess it's a sunk cost. Yeah. On the plus side, as people spend their money, old UTXOs would be used up and then they would be included in the cost function. It is only

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP] Normalized Transaction IDs

2015-05-19 Thread Christian Decker
Thanks Stephen, I hadn't thought about BIP 34 and we need to address this in both proposals. If we can avoid it I'd like not to have one transaction hashed one way and other transactions in another way. Since BIP 34 explicitly uses the scriptSig to make the coinbase transaction unique, simply

[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.9.5 release candidate 1 tagged

2015-05-19 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan
Hello, I've just tagged release candidate 1 for 0.9.5 (tag `v0.9.5rc1`). The reason for this backport release is to make BIP66 available on the 0.9 branch. This has been requested by a few users, mostly miners. Full (preliminary) release notes can be found at:

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP] Normalized Transaction IDs

2015-05-19 Thread Tier Nolan
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:28 AM, Christian Decker decker.christ...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Stephen, I hadn't thought about BIP 34 and we need to address this in both proposals. If we can avoid it I'd like not to have one transaction hashed one way and other transactions in another way. The

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP] Normalized Transaction IDs

2015-05-19 Thread Christian Decker
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:16 AM Tier Nolan tier.no...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:28 AM, Christian Decker decker.christ...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Stephen, I hadn't thought about BIP 34 and we need to address this in both proposals. If we can avoid it I'd like not to have

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Open Bitcoin Privacy Project Spring 2015 Report

2015-05-19 Thread Jonas Schnelli
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Re: [Bitcoin-development] Open Bitcoin Privacy Project Spring 2015 Report

2015-05-19 Thread Jonas Schnelli
Am 18.05.2015 um 23:57 schrieb Justus Ranvier jus...@openbitcoinprivacyproject.org mailto:jus...@openbitcoinprivacyproject.org: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Replying to the list because this is a common question. We rated as many wallets as we could based on the

[Bitcoin-development] Scaling Bitcoin with Subchains

2015-05-19 Thread Andrew
Hi I briefly mentioned something about this on the bitcoin-dev IRC room. In general, it seems experts (like sipa i.e. Pieter) are against using sidechains as a way of scaling. As I only have a high level understanding of the Bitcoin protocol, I cannot be sure if what I want to do is actually

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP] Normalized Transaction IDs

2015-05-19 Thread Stephen Morse
An option would be that the height is included in the scriptSig for all transactions, but for non-coinbase transctions, the height used is zero. No need to add an extra field to the transaction just to include the height. We can just add a rule that the height specified in the scriptSig in

[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.10.2 released

2015-05-19 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan
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Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.10.2 released

2015-05-19 Thread Wladimir
Bitcoin Core version 0.10.2 is now available from: https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.10.2/ The distribution is also available as torrent: https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.10.2/bitcoin-0.10.2.torrent

[Bitcoin-development] ChainDB Whitepaper

2015-05-19 Thread Eric Martindale
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello all, BitPay has just released our first whitepaper on ChainDB, a new peer-to-peer database system backed by the Bitcoin blockchain. This paper outlines our intended consensus mechanism, proof of fee. Please take a look at the paper here:

[Bitcoin-development] Regtest Consensus Forking Behavior Introduced in Bitcoin Core in May 2014

2015-05-19 Thread Dave Collins
Hello All, Josh Rickmar and I discovered a subtle consensus change in Bitcoin Core which causes forking behavior on regtest. Luckily it does not affect mainnet or testnet, however it does mean that regtest difficulty retargetting is broken. I've made a post to the bitcointalk forums at