[Bitcoin-development] First-Seen-Safe Replace-by-Fee patch against Bitcoin Core v0.10.2

2015-06-10 Thread Peter Todd
First-seen-safe Replace-by-Fee is now available as a patch against v0.10.2: https://github.com/petertodd/bitcoin/tree/first-seen-safe-rbf-v0.10.2 I've also had a pull-req against git HEAD open for a few weeks now: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6176#issuecomment-104877829 I've

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Is SourceForge still trustworthy enough to host this list?

2015-06-10 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:25:12AM +0200, xor wrote: http://www.howtogeek.com/218764/warning-don%E2%80%99t-download-software-from-sourceforge-if-you-can-help-it/ All our downloads (even old ones) have recently been deleted from sourceforge, for this reason. They haven't been mentioned in Bitcon

[Bitcoin-development] Is SourceForge still trustworthy enough to host this list?

2015-06-10 Thread xor
http://www.howtogeek.com/218764/warning-don%E2%80%99t-download-software-from-sourceforge-if-you-can-help-it/ TL;DR: In 2013, GIMP’s developers pulled the GIMP Windows downloads from SourceForge. SourceForge was full of misleading advertisements masquerading as “Download” buttons — something

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Is SourceForge still trustworthy enough to host this list?

2015-06-10 Thread Andy Schroder
Andy Schroder On 06/10/2015 03:20 PM, Peter Todd wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 03:12:02PM -0400, Andy Schroder wrote: Andy Schroder On 06/10/2015 03:03 PM, Peter Todd wrote: 4. Seems like digital signatures are always broken on messages because the list server slightly modifies them

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Is SourceForge still trustworthy enough to host this list?

2015-06-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Andy Schroder i...@andyschroder.com wrote: Hello, A couple of motivations for a mailing list switch: 1. Sometimes the mailing list delays delivery for 10 minutes to several days. 2. There are usually lots of ads at the footer of the messages.

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: SPV Fee Discovery mechanism

2015-06-10 Thread Peter Todd
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 02:00:27PM -0600, Nathan Wilcox wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Aaron Voisine vois...@gmail.com wrote: It could be done by agreeing on a data format and encoding it in an op_return output in the coinbase transaction. If it catches on it could later be

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: SPV Fee Discovery mechanism

2015-06-10 Thread Nathan Wilcox
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Aaron Voisine vois...@gmail.com wrote: It could be done by agreeing on a data format and encoding it in an op_return output in the coinbase transaction. If it catches on it could later be enforced with a soft fork. Sounds plausible, except SPV protocols would

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Is SourceForge still trustworthy enough to host this list?

2015-06-10 Thread Andy Schroder
Hello, Thanks for testing this clarifying things about PGP/MIME and I apologize for wasting your time with it. It looks like a SPAM filtering service I use is re-writing some parts of some plain text messages with some special/alternate encoding characters (not sure what it really is).

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Is SourceForge still trustworthy enough to host this list?

2015-06-10 Thread s7r
The mail list is public, so it's not like the data on it is somehow sensitive. Sourcefoge is fine, it has a nice web UI where you can browse the message and sort/order them as you want, etc. Why would you want to move to a paid solution? And why would you want users to have to pay per message?

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: SPV Fee Discovery mechanism

2015-06-10 Thread Aaron Voisine
The other complication is that this will tend to be a lagging indicator based on network congestion from the last time you connected. If we assume that transactions are being dropped in an unpredictable way when blocks are full, knowing the network congestion *right now* is critical, and even then

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: SPV Fee Discovery mechanism

2015-06-10 Thread Aaron Voisine
Sounds plausible, except SPV protocols would need to include this coinbase txn if it's going to help SPV clients. Yes you'd either need a way to add those transactions to the bloom filter, or add/modify a p2p message to request it specifically. when you mention Sybil attack, I don't quite

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Lexicographical Indexing of Transaction Inputs and Outputs

2015-06-10 Thread Kristov Atlas
Thanks for the feedback. I think I have reflected all of your requested changes in the latest version, in the BIP and sample code: https://github.com/kristovatlas/rfc/tree/master/bips -Kr On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Peter Todd p...@petertodd.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 06:53:54PM