Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP-12, 16, 17

2012-01-30 Thread Andy Parkins
On 2012 January 28 Saturday, Michael Gronager wrote: > If we want more information in a bitcoin address we could just as well > cannibalize it from the checksum - today it is 4 bytes (1 to 4mia) it > could be 2 or 3 bytes (1 to 65k or 16M) and that would not break the > current meaning of the netw

[Bitcoin-development] BIP-12, 16, 17

2012-01-28 Thread Michael Gronager
Dear Bitcoiners, I have been following some of the debate on the various BIP suggestions for enabling e.g. multisignature transactions. ( First a little rant - it seems like the discussion takes place in at least 5 different forums plus the IRC, this is so annoying. Please keep the discussion a