Re: [Bitcoin-development] Gavin's post-0.9 TODO list...

2013-08-19 Thread Mark Friedenbach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/18/13 8:09 PM, John Dillon wrote: On the other hand, a tx with some txin proofs can be safely relayed by SPV nodes, an interesting concept. Do the UTXO commitment people have keeping proof size small in mind? More than a kilobyte, probably

[Bitcoin-development] CoinWitness: Really Really ultimate blockchain compression

2013-08-19 Thread Gregory Maxwell
I've posted a somewhat blue-skies idea on troll^wBitcointalk that some here might find interesting: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=277389.0 -- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Gavin's post-0.9 TODO list...

2013-08-19 Thread Mike Hearn
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:09 AM, John Dillon john.dillon...@googlemail.comwrote: Here's another question for you Mike: So does bitcoinj have any protections against peers flooding you with useless garbage? It'd be easy to rack up a user's data bill for instance by just creating junk

[Bitcoin-development] Proposal: remove getwork RPC from bitcoind

2013-08-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Pull request https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/2905 proposes to remove getwork RPC from bitcoind: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Getwork On mainnet, almost everybody uses a pool (and therefore, not getwork directly to bitcoind). Those few who solo mine use a pool server to talk to bitcoind via

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: remove getwork RPC from bitcoind

2013-08-19 Thread Pieter Wuille
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Frank F frank...@gmail.com wrote: I strongly object to removing the only mechanism that allows anyone to say that bitcoin is p2p, in the truest sense of the word. Moves like this that favor only the pool operators and private mining interests are signs that

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: remove getwork RPC from bitcoind

2013-08-19 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Frank F frank...@gmail.com wrote: If there are technical problems with getwork, maybe they should be addressed and fixed instead of outright abandoned. They have been, resulting in a replacement called getblocktemplate which (presumably) almost everyone talking

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: remove getwork RPC from bitcoind

2013-08-19 Thread Warren Togami Jr.
FWIW, Litecoin 0.8.x entirely removed the internal miner and we warned people that getwork will be removed in the next major version. Pooler's CPU minerd which supports both sha256d and scrypt recently grew stratum support. Perhaps he could be convinced to add GBT support too, which would help

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: remove getwork RPC from bitcoind

2013-08-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Warren Togami Jr. wtog...@gmail.com wrote: FWIW, Litecoin 0.8.x entirely removed the internal miner and we warned people that getwork will be removed in the next major version. Pooler's CPU minerd which supports both sha256d and scrypt recently grew stratum

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: remove getwork RPC from bitcoind

2013-08-19 Thread Jorge Timón
Removing getwork and the old miner and packaging a better miner seems the best solution for the reasons already mentioned. Not directly related, but this remembered me that we planned to remove the accounting features on freicoin. We don't want to adapt them for demurrage and we think business

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: remove getwork RPC from bitcoind

2013-08-19 Thread Andreas Schildbach
On 08/19/2013 10:34 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote: FWIW, Litecoin 0.8.x entirely removed the internal miner and we warned people that getwork will be removed in the next major version. Pooler's CPU minerd which supports both sha256d and scrypt recently grew stratum support. Perhaps he could be

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol: BIP 70, 71, 72

2013-08-19 Thread Gavin Andresen
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Andreas Petersson andr...@petersson.atwrote: I was just reviewing the integration work to integrate the Payment Protocol into our products. Is there any notion of a standardized invoice serialisation? If i pay for two Burgers and one Club Mate, how would my