Re: [Bitcoin-development] Block Size Increase

2015-05-08 Thread Thomas Zander
and compares it with the zero-reward situation decades from now. Its comparing two things that will never exist at the same time (unless Bitcoin fails). -- Thomas Zander -- One dashboard for servers and applications across

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Cartographer

2014-12-29 Thread Thomas Zander
On Sunday 28. December 2014 18.25.29 Mike Hearn wrote: Lately we have been bumping up against the limitations of DNS as a protocol for learning about the p2p network. Can you explain further where limitations and problems were hit? -- Thomas Zander

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Cartographer

2014-12-29 Thread Thomas Zander
unacceptable behavior in any collaborative group. Please be respectful and avoid ad-hominem attacks. -- Thomas Zander -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Running a full node

2014-11-06 Thread Thomas Zander
, RAM and bandwidth resources are needed. I guess that the problem is not the CPU. There is a stats script running on this node; http://213.165.91.169/ more peoples opinions; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=760094.0 -- Thomas Zander

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DS Deprecation Window

2014-10-28 Thread Thomas Zander
On Monday 27. October 2014 19.26.48 Tom Harding wrote: Miner has to be very careful including a double-spend in his block -- he hopes: How does it help the zero-confirmation to not include a payment? Doesn't that just mean that if I send a double spend that neither of the payments will be

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

2014-10-28 Thread Thomas Zander
On Tuesday 28. October 2014 22.44.50 Ferdinando M. Ametrano wrote: It amazes me that basic economic considerations seems completely lost here, especially when it comes to mining. Please don't confuse people dismissing your thoughts with dismissing the basic economic considerations. The fact of

Re: [Bitcoin-development] death by halving

2014-10-25 Thread Thomas Zander
On Saturday 25. October 2014 21.06.32 Alex Mizrahi wrote: If miner's income margin are less than 50% (which is a healthy situation when mining hardware is readily available), we might experience catastrophic loss of hashpower (and, more importantly, catastrophic loss of security) after reward

Re: [Bitcoin-development] death by halving

2014-10-25 Thread Thomas Zander
On Saturday 25. October 2014 13.27.30 Adam Back wrote: - alternatively you might say why not 1/100th reward reduction per 2 week period rather than 1/2 every 4 years, a difficulty retarget could be a convenient point to do that. mining equipment has a much shorter lifetime than 4 years, so the

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP process

2014-10-19 Thread Thomas Zander
On Sunday 19. October 2014 09.17.51 xor wrote: I joined the list when Bitcoin was already in the 10-billions of market capitalization, and it actually really surprised me how low the traffic is here given the importance of Bitcoin. I gather that actual code changes to bitcoin-core and

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP process

2014-10-16 Thread Thomas Zander
of it being down-voted so an actual vote may not be needed (its hard to decide who gets a vote..). You obviously need a deadline for this and afterwards you mark the proposal final. Or you close it as needs more work. -- Thomas Zander

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP process

2014-10-16 Thread Thomas Zander
the standards properly. Naturally, if an old version fails to function with Yahoo, I'm all for finding a different provider. Thats what open platforms, like Mailman, are about. -- Thomas Zander -- Comprehensive Server

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Malleable booleans

2014-10-14 Thread Thomas Zander
if (myBool == false) and neither of them will hit. I would like to change BIP62 to also state that interpreted booleans must be of minimal encoded size (in addition to numbers). What about rejecting a script where a bool is not explicitly zero or one? -- Thomas Zander

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Does anyone have anything at all signed by Satoshi's PGP key?

2014-09-15 Thread Thomas Zander
On Monday 15. September 2014 11.51.35 Matt Whitlock wrote: If you were merely attaching your public key to them, then the email server could have been systematically replacing your public key with some other public key, The beauty of publicly archived mailinglists make it impossible to get