Re: [Bitcoin-development] About the small number of bitcoin nodes

2014-06-30 Thread Wladimir
> - Create a "grafical interface" for bitcoind on Linux servers: > Create a command, for example "bitcoind show" that shows a nice summary in > your Terminal (Console) with all the data that a node administrator wants to > know. > When I say "grafical interface" I mean like "top" command, an interf

Re: [Bitcoin-development] About the small number of bitcoin nodes

2014-05-19 Thread Scott Howard
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 3:11 AM, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Raúl Martínez wrote: >> - bitcoind and Bitcoin Core should be in Linux repos: > > Agreed with conditions: > 1) The distro MUST let bitcoin devs dictate which dependent libs are > shipped with / built statically

Re: [Bitcoin-development] About the small number of bitcoin nodes

2014-05-19 Thread Mike Hearn
> > (sure - there are tricks to limit rates anyway, like the script in > contrib/qos, but to have it generally available the block download > needs to be more robust first) One thing we could consider as a short term solution (if headers first+parallel downloading will take a while, which seems p

Re: [Bitcoin-development] About the small number of bitcoin nodes

2014-05-19 Thread Wladimir
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Bjørn Øivind Bjørnsen wrote: > On 18/05/14 19:43, Raúl Martínez wrote: >> > > As an interested party not intimately familiar with the bitcoin codebase > who also spent some time setting up a node a while ago, I would like to > add one thing to the above list - ne

Re: [Bitcoin-development] About the small number of bitcoin nodes

2014-05-19 Thread Mike Hearn
> > Does this mean that you can currently actively hurt the network by > adding a node with a very slow upstream / downstream? Well, I guess "hurting" the network is perhaps a bit dramatic. There are already lots of ways the download process can go wrong and take days. Using the torrent is much f

Re: [Bitcoin-development] About the small number of bitcoin nodes

2014-05-19 Thread Bjørn Øivind Bjørnsen
On 19/05/14 14:15, Mike Hearn wrote: > As an interested party not intimately familiar with the bitcoin codebase > who also spent some time setting up a node a while ago, I would like to > add one thing to the above list - network rate limiting. > > > The problem is that this is easier

Re: [Bitcoin-development] About the small number of bitcoin nodes

2014-05-19 Thread Mike Hearn
> > As an interested party not intimately familiar with the bitcoin codebase > who also spent some time setting up a node a while ago, I would like to > add one thing to the above list - network rate limiting. The problem is that this is easier said than done. Bitcoin Core won't notice a remote p

Re: [Bitcoin-development] About the small number of bitcoin nodes

2014-05-19 Thread Felipe Micaroni Lalli
Is the small number of bitcoin nodes a concern? If yes, why? What kind of attack can the network suffer? And where can we find statistical information about the full nodes running? I guess the only effective incentive to keep a node running would be financial. A kind of proof of stake would be

Re: [Bitcoin-development] About the small number of bitcoin nodes

2014-05-19 Thread Wladimir
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Wladimir wrote: > > Some hacking with ncurses could quickly make a decent tool here. It > could be packaged with bitcoin itself but that's not necessary. For > example Tor has the tool 'arm' which is a separate package. Regarding tor-arm, here are some screenshot

Re: [Bitcoin-development] About the small number of bitcoin nodes

2014-05-19 Thread Bjørn Øivind Bjørnsen
On 18/05/14 19:43, Raúl Martínez wrote: > About the small number of bitcoin nodes: > Hi, I read the message that Mike Hearn sent to this mailing list some > days ago (2014-04-07 11:34:43) related to the number of bitcoin full nodes. > > As an owner of two Bitcoin Nodes, one in my home computer and

Re: [Bitcoin-development] About the small number of bitcoin nodes

2014-05-19 Thread Wladimir
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Raúl Martínez wrote: > About the small number of bitcoin nodes: > Hi, I read the message that Mike Hearn sent to this mailing list some days > ago (2014-04-07 11:34:43) related to the number of bitcoin full nodes. > > As an owner of two Bitcoin Nodes, one in my hom

Re: [Bitcoin-development] About the small number of bitcoin nodes

2014-05-19 Thread Justus Ranvier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/19/2014 09:11 AM, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Meh. I like example configs, perhaps tuned by the distro. If the > distro (_not_ Bitcoin Core upstream) chooses to install a > bitcoin.conf in the proper location, that's up to them. > > >> - bitcoind a

Re: [Bitcoin-development] About the small number of bitcoin nodes

2014-05-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Raúl Martínez wrote: > - Allow users to view the bandwith used by Bitcoin Core: +1 for the sake of transparency HOWEVER, the impact on this feature RE user population is unpredictable. Users may see bigger than expected numbers, and switch off their node. > -

[Bitcoin-development] About the small number of bitcoin nodes

2014-05-18 Thread Raúl Martínez
About the small number of bitcoin nodes: Hi, I read the message that Mike Hearn sent to this mailing list some days ago (2014-04-07 11:34:43) related to the number of bitcoin full nodes. As an owner of two Bitcoin Nodes, one in my home computer and one in a dedicated server, I believe I can contri

[Bitcoin-development] About the small number of bitcoin nodes

2014-05-18 Thread Raúl Martínez
About the small number of bitcoin nodes: Hi, I read the message that Mike Hearn sent to this mailing list some days ago (2014-04-07 11:34:43) related to the number of bitcoin full nodes. As an owner of two Bitcoin Nodes, one in my home computer and one in a dedicated server, I believe I can contri