Re: [Bitcoin-development] Pubkey addresses

2011-12-17 Thread Luke-Jr
I propose that full public key addresses be required to be compact (length 33), and use version 21 (begins with '4', and is redundant with ver 20 for 20- byte data). Any reason this wouldn't be workable? -- Learn Windows

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Protocol extensions

2011-12-17 Thread Jordan Mack
While using DHT for storage of the block chain is an intriguing concept, I do not see how it is feasible. As Gavin noted, DHT is a system that is difficult to impossible to guarantee against data loss or manipulation. Even if we found a way to store the block chain in DHT, how would

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Protocol extensions

2011-12-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Jordan Mack jordanm...@parhelic.com wrote: While using DHT for storage of the block chain is an intriguing concept, I do not see how it is feasible. As Gavin noted, DHT is a system that is difficult to impossible to guarantee against data loss or manipulation.