Re: [Bitcoin-development] is there a way to do bitcoin-staging?

2013-10-14 Thread Adam Back
Coming back to the staging idea, maybe this is a realistic model that could work. The objective being to provide a way for bitcoin to move to a live beta and stable being worked on in parallel like fedora vs RHEL or odd/even linux kernel versions. Development runs in parallel on bitcoin 1.x beta

Re: [Bitcoin-development] is there a way to do bitcoin-staging?

2013-10-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Adam Back wrote: > Its a live beta, meaning real value, real contracts. But we dont want it to > be an alt-coin with a floating value exactly, we want it to be bitcoin, but > the bleeding edge bitcoin so we want to respect the 21 million coin limit, > and allow co

Re: [Bitcoin-development] is there a way to do bitcoin-staging?

2013-10-14 Thread Michael Gronager
Hi Alan, What you describe in the ultimate blockchain compression I have already coded the authenticated datastructure part of in libcoin (https://github.com/libcoin/libcoin) - next step is to include a p2pool style mining, where a parallel chain serves several purposes: 1. to validate the root ha

Re: [Bitcoin-development] is there a way to do bitcoin-staging?

2013-10-14 Thread Alan Reiner
Michael, Very interesting that you have tackled that off the radar. I didn't know anyone else was working on anything similar. I'm sure you saw the recent Armory-funding announcement, so understandably I have other priorities in recent past and near future, but I think you should connect with Ma