Re: [Bitcoin-development] Is there a way to estimate the maximum number of transactions per minute Bitcoin can handle as it is today?

2015-01-30 Thread Nick Simpson
This has been discussed before. I believe most people don't expect Bitcoin to replace all of the various methods of payment. Scalability is always a concern, just not to the level of Alipay this year (or the next or the next for that matter.) Nick On Jan 30, 2015 7:08 PM, Angel Leon

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Cooperative Proof-of-Stake whitpaper

2014-05-20 Thread Nick Simpson
Referring to the subsidy for miners as wasting it on miners isn't going to garner you much favor. On May 20, 2014 11:12:53 AM CDT, Stephen Reed stephenr...@yahoo.com wrote: I completed a whitepaper for Bitcoin a proof-of-stake version which uses a single nomadic verifiable mint agent and

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-16 Thread Nick Simpson
Luke's server has been having issues with ipv4 routing lately anyway, even ignoring any DNS issues. Nick On May 16, 2014 12:17:17 PM CDT, Rob Golding rob.gold...@astutium.com wrote: dnsseed.bitcoin.dashjr.org SERVFAIL, tried multiple ISPs dnsseed.bitcoin.dashjr.org. 60 IN NS

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Malleability and MtGox's announcement

2014-02-10 Thread Nick Simpson
You must be new here. MtGox very rarely comments on things like this publicly, outside of irc or their website. Second, MtGox problem is a MtGox problem. You have no right to demand access to their private code. If you feel wronged as a customer, sue them. Otherwise, they have no obligation

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: MultiBit as default desktop client on bitcoin.org

2013-07-09 Thread Nick Simpson
What about something like Cloudflare? Transparent to most and it'd help with your bandwidth issues. Mike Hearn m...@plan99.net wrote: That's true - we could serve new users off our own servers and auto updates off SF.net mirrors, potentially. On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Daniel F

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: MultiBit as default desktop client on bitcoin.org

2013-07-09 Thread Nick Simpson
Not any more than sourceforge or github.. None of these solutions are replacements, but rather only supplements to self hosted files. Jeff Garzik jgar...@bitpay.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Nick Simpson n...@mynicknet.com wrote: What about something like Cloudflare? Transparent