Re: [Bitcoin-development] Enforcing inflation rules for SPV clients

2012-06-25 Thread Mike Hearn
Link? It was a private conversation for some reason. I also proposed this on this list (see the response in the tree datastructures thread) along with more elaboration on IRC. Ah OK. I wasn't paying much attention to those threads.

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Enforcing inflation rules for SPV clients

2012-06-25 Thread Daniel Lidstrom
Here's the conversation I had with Mike that Gregory requested a link to: Thanks! Bad or hacked client devs is indeed a huge, worrying problem. The official client is addressing this with a system called gitian, where multiple

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Enforcing inflation rules for SPV clients

2012-06-24 Thread Stefan Thomas
Very interesting for you to bring this up. I had a similar idea for a totally different use case. Greg recently pointed out an interesting dilemma saying that (significantly) larger blocks would lead to centralization. So I've been working on a design for a decentralized pool that can handle

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Enforcing inflation rules for SPV clients

2012-06-24 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Mike Hearn m...@plan99.net wrote: d'aniel made a good proposal - having good nodes broadcast announcements when they detect a rule that breaks the rules, along with a proof that it did so. Checking the proof might be very Link? I also proposed this on this