Re: [Bitcoin-development] replace-by-fee v0.10.0rc4

2015-03-01 Thread Neil Fincham
> Seems like a good deal, what am I missing? The disruption caused to every other user or the bitcoin network. Transactions unconfirmed, history is rewritten, the poor Byzantine General who sent his soldiers off to battle finds out that his scouts have been paid to change their reports. Neil

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: death by halving

2014-10-28 Thread Neil
Economically a halving is almost the same as a halving in price (as fees take up more of the pie, less so). Coincidentally the price has halved since early July to mid-October, and we've not even seen difficulty fall yet. I don't think there's much to

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Abusive and broken bitcoin seeders

2014-07-30 Thread Neil Fincham
future (I just don't know how yet). We could start by dropping connections that send incorrect information (IP addresses of 0.0.0.0 or our own IP). Neil On 31 July 2014 01:57, Pieter Wuille wrote: > At least my crawler (bitcoin-seeder:0.01) software shouldn't reconnect > mor

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Building BDB on MingW

2014-07-14 Thread neil
got same error, did you manage to fix this? -- Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck® Code Sight™ - the same software t

Re: [Bitcoin-development] smart contracts -- possible use case? yes or no?

2013-09-28 Thread Neil Fincham
I subscribe to this list so I can keep up-to date with bitcoin development, can we keep philosophy and tax evasion out of it? Neil On 29 September 2013 09:15, wrote: > > But the regulatory environment in many geographical regions in > > uncertain. Do we need to pay capital ga