[Bitcoin-development] RFC: MERGE transaction/script/process for forked chains

2013-12-17 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
I want to get some feedback.. I've used distributed version control systems for a long time, and the most useful feature is to be able to merge two different forks. So what's the equivalent of this for Bitcoin or other crypto-currencies? Let's suppose that me and my friends get 'islanded' from

Re: [Bitcoin-development] RFC: MERGE transaction/script/process for forked chains

2013-12-17 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 02:48:14PM -0800, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Troy Benjegerdes ho...@hozed.org wrote: I want to get some feedback.. I've used distributed version control systems for a long time, and the most useful feature is to be able to merge two

[Bitcoin-development] Payment processors that support testnet?

2013-12-20 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
Are there any bitcoin to fiat currency processors (like bitpay, coinbase, etc) that allow testing using the bitcoin testnet? It seems most of the credit card payment processor apis have features to allow developers to do testing without 'real money', what's the equivalent of this for bitcoin

Re: [Bitcoin-development] unlinakble static address? spv-privacy (Re: Stealth Addresses)

2014-01-16 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
But I think it's great people can choose how to trade privacy for computation/bandwidth however they want, and services can compete to offer monitoring for 0+ bit prefixes. Its not a decision with user localised effect. If most users use it with parameters giving high elimination

Re: [Bitcoin-development] unlinakble static address? spv-privacy (Re: Stealth Addresses)

2014-01-18 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 05:32:31PM -0800, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Jeremy Spilman jer...@taplink.co wrote: Choosing how many bits to put in the prefix may be difficult, particularly if transaction load changes dramatically over time. 0 or 1 bits may be just

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Embedded consensus system upgrade procedures

2014-02-09 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 05:25:41PM +, Luke-Jr wrote: On Sunday, February 09, 2014 5:12:14 PM Peter Todd wrote: We have an embedded consensus system and we want to be able to upgrade it with new rules. This asserts a central authority and gives developers too much power. I don't quite

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Embedded consensus system upgrade procedures

2014-02-09 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
The only 'assertion' of central authority here is people who download and run the code and submit to whatever the code asserts they are supposed to do. At least with the 'central authority' of the big-business bitcoin developer cabal I can read the code before I submit to it's

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Malleability and MtGox's announcement

2014-02-10 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
Okay, why the everloving FUCK is there not someone on this list with a @mtgox.com address talking about this? I started using bitcoin because I could audit the code, and when the developer cabal does stuff 'off-list' what you do is hand over market manipulation power to the selected cabal of

Re: [Bitcoin-development] MtGox blames bitcoin

2014-02-10 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 03:40:03PM +0100, Isidor Zeuner wrote: What is the official response from the Bitcoin Core developers about MtGox's assertion that their problems are due to a fault of bitcoin, as opposed to a fault of their own? The technical analysis preluding this mess, was

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Malleability and MtGox's announcement

2014-02-10 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
on public display since day 1. I'm not sure what critical information you think secret cabals are keeping from you. On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Troy Benjegerdes ho...@hozed.org wrote: Okay, why the everloving FUCK is there not someone on this list with a @mtgox.com address talking about

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Malleability and MtGox's announcement

2014-02-10 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
code. If you feel wronged as a customer, sue them. Otherwise, they have no obligation to you. I believe you are barking up the wrong tree. Respectfully, Nick On February 10, 2014 10:14:02 AM CST, Troy Benjegerdes ho...@hozed.org wrote: Okay, why the everloving FUCK

Re: [Bitcoin-development] MtGox blames bitcoin

2014-02-10 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 08:45:03AM -0800, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Troy Benjegerdes ho...@hozed.org wrote: Name me one single person with commit access to the bitcoin github repository who is *independent* of any venture capital or other 'investment

Re: [Bitcoin-development] MtGox blames bitcoin

2014-02-10 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
elsewhere. -- Jameson Lopp Software Engineer Bronto Software, Inc On 02/10/2014 01:25 PM, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 08:45:03AM -0800, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Troy Benjegerdes ho...@hozed.org wrote: Name me one single person with commit

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Decentralized digital asset exchange with honest pricing and market depth

2014-02-11 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
Is there any code that does this? I would like to develop a multicoin-qt wallet that runs on two blockchains from one binary, and allows trading using this mechanism between the two chains. On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 02:32:47PM -0500, Peter Todd wrote: On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 03:44:34PM -0500,

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Decentralized digital asset exchange with honest pricing and market depth

2014-02-16 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:21:59AM -0500, Peter Todd wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:59:19AM -0600, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: Is there any code that does this? I would like to develop a multicoin-qt wallet that runs on two blockchains from one binary, and allows trading using this mechanism

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fee drop

2014-02-27 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
instead of just the guys paying for the attack. The real killer feature of Bitcoin is that we can learn from it's mistakes (and bitcoin can learn from the copycatcoins), instead of one-size-fits all fiat. -- Troy

Re: [Bitcoin-development] On OP_RETURN in upcoming 0.9 release

2014-02-27 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
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Re: [Bitcoin-development] Decentralized digital asset exchange with honest pricing and market depth

2014-03-01 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
. Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' ho...@hozed.org 7 elements earth::water::air::fire::mind::spirit::soulgrid.coop Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel, nor try buy a hacker who makes money by the megahash

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Decentralized digital asset exchange with honest pricing and market depth

2014-03-02 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
far off-topic for this mailing list. On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Troy Benjegerdes ho...@hozed.org wrote: You can make the same argument against Bitcoin itself you know... A Bitmessage-like network would be trivial to front-run via a sybil attack. It's the fundemental problem

Re: [Bitcoin-development] moving the default display to mbtc

2014-03-13 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 04:50:14PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Jeff Garzik jgar...@bitpay.com wrote: Such hand-wavy, data-free logic is precisely why community coordination is preferred to random apps making random decisions in this manner. That ship

Re: [Bitcoin-development] moving the default display to mbtc

2014-03-13 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
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Re: [Bitcoin-development] Handling miner adoption gracefully for embedded consensus systems via double-spending/replace-by-fee

2014-03-22 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
plenty of time to evaluate the market risk they face from the 40 byte limit, and put some pressure to implement some of the alternatives Todd proposes. -- Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' ho

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fake PGP key for Gavin

2014-03-23 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
managers with PGP instead of pre- compromised X.509 nonsense. https://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt -- Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' ho...@hozed.org 7 elements earth::water::air::fire

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Handling miner adoption gracefully for embedded consensus systems via double-spending/replace-by-fee

2014-03-23 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 03:08:25PM -0400, Peter Todd wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 10:08:36AM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 04:47:02AM -0400, Peter Todd wrote: There's been a lot of recent hoopla over proof-of-publication, with the OP_RETURN data length getting

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Handling miner adoption gracefully for embedded consensus systems via double-spending/replace-by-fee

2014-03-24 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
. But not here. On 03/23/2014 04:17 PM, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: I find it very irresponsible for Bitcoiners to on one hand extol the virtues of distributed systems and then in the same message claim any discussion about alternate chains as 'off-topic'. If bitcoin-core is for *distributed systems

Re: [Bitcoin-development] New side channel attack that can recover Bitcoin keys

2014-03-25 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
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Re: [Bitcoin-development] Tree-chains preliminary summary

2014-03-25 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development -- Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' ho...@hozed.org 7 elements earth::water::air::fire::mind::spirit::soulgrid.coop Never pick a fight

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Tree-chains preliminary summary

2014-03-25 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 08:40:40PM +, Ricardo Filipe wrote: 2014-03-25 13:49 GMT+00:00 Peter Todd p...@petertodd.org: On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 08:45:00AM -0400, Gavin Andresen wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Peter Todd p...@petertodd.org wrote: Bitcoin doesn't scale. There's a

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Handling miner adoption gracefully for embedded consensus systems via double-spending/replace-by-fee

2014-03-25 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 01:57:14PM -0700, Mark Friedenbach wrote: On 03/24/2014 01:34 PM, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: I'm here because I want to sell corn for bitcoin, and I believe it will be more profitable for me to do that with a bitcoin-blockchain-based system in which I have

Re: [Bitcoin-development] New BIP32 structure

2014-03-26 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
on this list at mere thought of such heresy. -- Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' ho...@hozed.org 7 elements earth::water::air::fire::mind::spirit::soulgrid.coop Never pick

Re: [Bitcoin-development] New BIP32 structure

2014-03-27 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
me here, it's because I found a better mailing list, or a got a contract to develop and ECDSA cracker, in which case you probably won't hear from me again until I have a talk at DEFCON showing it off. -- Troy Benjegerdes

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Tree-chains preliminary summary

2014-03-28 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
. -- Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' ho...@hozed.org 7 elements earth::water::air::fire::mind::spirit::soulgrid.coop Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel, nor try buy

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Why are we bleeding nodes?

2014-04-07 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
-- Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' ho...@hozed.org 7 elements earth::water::air::fire::mind::spirit::soulgrid.coop Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel, nor try buy a hacker

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Draft BIP for seamless website authentication using Bitcoin address

2014-04-07 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
-- Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' ho...@hozed.org 7 elements earth::water::air::fire::mind::spirit::soulgrid.coop Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel, nor try buy a hacker who makes money

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proof-of-Stake branch?

2014-04-25 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
, test and document PoS, while exploring its vulnerabilities and fixing them in a transparent fashion. Thanks for taking a bit of your time to read this message. -- Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Coinbase reallocation to discourage Finney attacks

2014-04-30 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
sense? You've got to deal with politics, one way or another. -- Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' ho...@hozed.org 7 elements earth::water::air::fire::mind::spirit::soulgrid.coop

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Time

2014-07-28 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
. -- Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' ho...@hozed.org 7 elements earth::water::air::fire::mind::spirit::soulgrid.coop Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel, nor

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Miners MiTM

2014-08-09 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 11:45:44PM +, Luke Dashjr wrote: On Thursday, August 07, 2014 11:02:21 PM Pedro Worcel wrote: Hi there, I was wondering if you guys have come across this article: http://www.wired.com/2014/08/isp-bitcoin-theft/ The TL;DR is that somebody is abusing the

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Miners MiTM

2014-08-09 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 11:42:52AM +0200, Mike Hearn wrote: AFAIK the only protection is SSL + certificate validation on client side. However certificate revocation and updates in miners are pain in the ass, that's why majority of pools (mine including) don't want to play with that...

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Reconsidering github

2014-08-19 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
. -- Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' ho...@hozed.org 7 elements earth::water::air::fire::mind::spirit::soulgrid.coop Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Reconsidering github

2014-08-23 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 08:24:33AM +0200, Wladimir wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 3:26 AM, Troy Benjegerdes ho...@hozed.org wrote: If bitcoin wants to become irrelevant, then by all means, continue to depend on github and all the unknown attack surface it exposes. Those of us that do

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Reconsidering github

2014-08-23 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
. -- Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' ho...@hozed.org 7 elements earth::water::air::fire::mind::spirit::soulgrid.coop Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel, nor try buy a hacker who makes

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Reconsidering github

2014-08-23 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
sense. -- Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' ho...@hozed.org 7 elements earth::water::air::fire::mind::spirit::soulgrid.coop Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: Encrypt bitcoin messages

2014-08-23 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development -- Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' ho...@hozed.org 7 elements earth::water::air::fire::mind::spirit::soulgrid.coop Never pick a fight

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Reconsidering github

2014-08-23 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 10:32:15AM -0400, Peter Todd wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 01:17:01AM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: This is why I clone git to mercurial, which is generally designed around the assumption that history is immutable. You can't rewrite blockchain history, and we

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: Encrypt bitcoin messages

2014-08-23 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 04:50:30PM +, Justus Ranvier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/23/2014 04:17 PM, xor wrote: On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 07:40:39 PM Jeff Garzik wrote: Encryption is of little value if you may deduce the same information by observing

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Open development processes and reddit charms

2014-12-16 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
Thank you Jeff. Having looked at a lot of linux code, and now a lot of bitcoin code, the biggest long-term systemic risk I see is that Bitcoin has is the lack of code janitors. The problem is that janitoring was *disruptive* for non-x86 linux architectures when it first got going, and it's

Re: [Bitcoin-development] replace-by-fee v0.10.0rc4

2015-02-15 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
/listinfo/bitcoin-development -- Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' ho...@hozed.org 7 elements earth::water::air::fire::mind::spirit::soulgrid.coop Never pick a fight

Re: [Bitcoin-development] replace-by-fee v0.10.0rc4

2015-02-15 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 09:27:22AM +0100, Tamas Blummer wrote: On Feb 12, 2015, at 9:16 AM, Alex Mizrahi alex.mizr...@gmail.com wrote: Why don't you use getrawmempool RPC call to synchronize mempool contents? Since RPC interface does not scale to serve a multi user service. In

Re: [Bitcoin-development] replace-by-fee v0.10.0rc4

2015-03-01 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
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Re: [Bitcoin-development] replace-by-fee v0.10.0rc4

2015-03-01 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
Benjegerdes ho...@hozed.org wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 11:40:24PM +0200, Adam Gibson wrote: On 02/15/2015 11:25 PM, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: Most money/payment systems include some method to reverse or undo payments made in error. In these systems, the longer settlement