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

2015-05-08 Thread Clément Elbaz
Matt : I think proposal #1 and #3 are a lot better than #2, and #1 is my favorite. I see two problems with proposal #2. The first problem with proposal #2 is that, as we see in democracies, there is often a mismatch between the people conscious vote and these same people behavior. Relying on an

Re: [Bitcoin-development] The difficulty of writing consensus critical code: the SIGHASH_SINGLE bug

2014-11-07 Thread Clément Elbaz
Thinking out loud here : would it make sense to separate the consensus code into some kind of Bitcoin Kernel (similar to the Linux Kernel) project that could be used by anyone ? Bitcoin Core (and any other application wishing to do so) could be based on it. The kernel would just contain the

[Bitcoin-development] Getting trusted metrics from the block chain in an untrusted environment ?

2014-01-08 Thread Clément Elbaz
Bitcoin node to compute some 'metric request' on my behalf and having the result of that metric request validated by the network. Is there any available or work-in-progress projects that would come close to this need ? Or should I do it myself ? :-) Thank you all, Clément Elbaz

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Getting trusted metrics from the block chain in an untrusted environment ?

2014-01-08 Thread Clément Elbaz
Some more thoughts : If no such project exist yet, I thought it could work with an alternate, small and fixed-length 'metric request block chain' of some sort. It would temporarily stores structures defined as [metric request | current block number when request was made | hash of the response]