[bitcoin-dev] Segregated witnesses and validationless mining

2015-12-22 Thread Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev
# Summary 1) Segregated witnesses separates transaction information about what coins were transferred from the information proving those transfers were legitimate. 2) In its current form, segregated witnesses makes validationless mining easier and more profitable than the status quo,

[bitcoin-dev] Weekly developer meetings over holidays

2015-12-22 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
Next two weekly developer meetings would fall on: - Thursday December 24th - Thursday December 31th In my timezone they're xmas eve and new year's eve respectively, so at least I won't be there, and I'm sure they're inconvenient for most people. So: let's have a two week hiatus, and continue