Re: [Bitcoin-development] btc name server

2013-08-02 Thread Jay F
Namecoin already has an id/ and a/ (alias) namespace for such use: { "name" : "id/pichler", "value" : "\"BM-GtK6TiTtVo9toGVdk2zy3t4jGXZyZeMH\"", "expires_in" : 29397 }, { "name" : "id/pigeons", "value" : "{ bitcoin: 1BekNv7ezkx8eAjdkrUta2BTp9bbxU9LGG, bitmessage: BM-opfhTsUKdTezPiWFHxRQtM1ZMDvj

Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.8.2rc1 - testnet datadir behavior changed

2013-05-11 Thread Jay F
On 5/10/2013 8:39 AM, Gavin Andresen wrote: > Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.2 release candidate 1 is now available from: >http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.2/test/ > Testnet glitch, something broke... Fired up 0.8.2rc, and where's the coins? Where's the blocks?

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Service bits for pruned nodes

2013-04-28 Thread Jay F
On 4/28/2013 8:55 PM, Peter Todd wrote: > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 03:48:18AM +, John Dillon wrote: >> We can build this stuff incrementally I'll agree. It won't be the case that >> one >> in a thousand nodes serve up the part of the chain you need overnight. So >> many >> I am over engineerin

Re: [Bitcoin-development] On-going data spam

2013-04-09 Thread Jay F
On 4/9/2013 4:09 AM, Peter Todd wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 12:42:12PM +0200, Mike Hearn wrote: >> hack by changing the protocol. Nodes can serve up blocks encrypted under a >> random key. You only get the key when you finish the download. A blacklist > NAK > > Makes bringing up a new node dep

Re: [Bitcoin-development] A bitcoin UDP P2P protocol extension

2013-03-23 Thread Jay F
My first concern was that I and about everyone else only has TCP/UDP port forwarding, but at least for the first: UDT uses UDP to transfer bulk data with its own reliability control and congestion control mechanisms. Multiple UDT flows can share a single UDP port, thus a firewall can open only

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Warning: many 0.7 nodes break on large number of tx/block; fork risk

2013-03-12 Thread Jay F
On 3/12/2013 5:18 AM, Jorge Timón wrote: > A related question...some people mentioned yesterday on #bitcoin-dev > that 0.5 appeared to be compatible with 0.8. > Was that only for the "fatal block" and would have forked 0.8 later > too or is it something else? > I'm having a hard time understanding