Re: [Bitcoin-development] Concerns Regarding Threats by a Developer to Remove Commit Access from Other Developers

2015-06-18 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan
is better posted as a new thread, not as a deep reply to an existing topic. Wladimir -- ___ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net htt

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Concerns Regarding Threats by a Developer to Remove Commit Access from Other Developers

2015-06-18 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan
and grammar corrections. It is not specifically adapted to Bitcoin, and doesn't make a distinction between for example, consensus changes and non-consensus changes. So that's up to someone to do. You seem to be enthousiastic about it, so go ahead. Wladimir ---

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Concerns Regarding Threats by a Developer to Remove Commit Access from Other Developers

2015-06-18 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 03:49:06PM +0200, Mike Hearn wrote: > One reason I keep banging on about *process* and how Wladimir needs to be > The Decider is that the current attempt at "process" is so vague, not only > is it unexplain

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Concerns Regarding Threats by a Developer to Remove Commit Access from Other Developers

2015-06-18 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 02:29:42PM +0200, Pieter Wuille wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Wladimir J. van der Laan > wrote: > > > Like in any open source project there is lots of decision making ability > > for code

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Concerns Regarding Threats by a Developer to Remove Commit Access from Other Developers

2015-06-18 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 01:14:09PM +0200, Wladimir J. van der Laan wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 12:00:17PM +0200, Mike Hearn wrote: > > > Core is in the weird position where there's no decision making ability at > >

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Concerns Regarding Threats by a Developer to Remove Commit Access from Other Developers

2015-06-18 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 12:00:17PM +0200, Mike Hearn wrote: > Core is in the weird position where there's no decision making ability at > all, because anyone who shows up and shouts enough can generate > 'controversy', the

[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin core 0.11.0 release candidate 2 available

2015-06-18 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan
n build process, Wladimir -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJVgoeFAAoJEHSBCwEjRsmmkggH/3jyzuPXDpUpCpfzyDZDW4CO GRqIZwCa8vY9Gv9T0mX5jLXOfXpPAMyzWnCz2Eqh0hRLHK8WzObPqdX+3KLaaoO/ rOroDCG7AUZB4GaodSZURqJm8RmnNtWNckK7GBwXbZ7qNZrkp

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

2015-06-11 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan
that *don't* like sourceforge's web archive UI there are some other options via gmane: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bitcoin.devel Wladimir -- ___ B

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

2015-06-10 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan
ioned in Bitcon Core release announcements for a long time. No opinion on the mailing list. Though I think it's less urgent. The issue of moving the mailinglist has come up before a few times and people can't agree where to

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [RFC] Canonical input and output ordering in transactions

2015-06-06 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan
ation can't be used either. This is posed as an alternative to randomization. So in that regard, the proposal still makes sense. I think this move to verifyable, deterministic methods where possible

[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin core 0.11.0 release candidate 1 available

2015-06-05 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan
tcoin/blob/0.11/doc/release-notes.md Thanks to everyone that participated in development or in the gitian build process, Wladimir -- ___ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitc

[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.9.5 released

2015-05-24 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan
ogic - `8438074` build: fix dynamic boost check when --with-boost= is used Credits Thanks to who contributed to this release, at least: - 21E14 - Alex Morcos - Cory Fields - Gregory Maxwell - Pieter Wuille - Wladimir J. van der Laan As well as everyone that helped translating on [T

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.10.2 released

2015-05-19 Thread Wladimir
one who directly contributed to this release: - Cory Fields - Gregory Maxwell - Jonas Schnelli - Wladimir J. van der Laan And all those who contributed additional code review and/or security research: - dexX7 - Pieter Wuille - vayvanne As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](htt

[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.10.2 released

2015-05-19 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan
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[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.9.5 release candidate 1 tagged

2015-05-19 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan
o the release process for 0.10 or master will not work) Wladimir -- One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance me

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.10.2 release candidate 1 available

2015-05-14 Thread Wladimir
The subject should obviously be "Bitcoin Core 0.10.2 release candidate 1 available", not the other way around, -- One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring s

[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.10.1 release candidate 2 available

2015-05-14 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan
Binaries for bitcoin Core version 0.10.2rc1 are now available from: https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.10.2/test Source code can be found on github under the signed tag https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/v0.10.2rc1 This is a release candidate for a minor version release, with mainly a fix for

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin core 0.11 planning

2015-05-11 Thread Wladimir
A reminder - feature freeze and string freeze is coming up this Friday the 15th. Let me know if your pull request is ready to be merged before then, Wladimir On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Wladimir J. van der Laan wrote: > Hello all, > > The release window for 0.11 is nearing, I&

[Bitcoin-development] Fwd: Bitcoin core 0.11 planning

2015-05-11 Thread Wladimir
we can easily > do them in minor releases too. Agree here - there is no need to time consensus changes with a major release, as they need to be ported back to older releases anyhow. (I don't really classify them as software features, but properties of the underlying system that we

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Block Size Increase

2015-05-07 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan
own "bank" without special investment in connectivity and computing hardware. Also the politics aspect (at some point it becomes a question of who decides for who? who is excluded? all those human decisions...) of this I don't like in the least. Possibly unavoidable at some po

[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin core 0.11 planning

2015-04-28 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan
e for last-minute critical issues to interfere with the planning. The release will not be held up for features, though, and anything that will not make it to 0.11 will be postponed to next release scheduled for end of the year.

[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.10.1 released

2015-04-26 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan
lization: set fallback locale as environment variable Credits === Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release: - Alex Morcos - Cory Fields - dexX7 - fsb4000 - Gavin Andresen - Gregory Maxwell - Ivan Pustogarov - Jonas Schnelli - Matt Corallo - mrbandrews - Pieter Wuille

[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.10.1 release candidate 3 available

2015-04-21 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan
) release notes for 0.10.1 can be found at https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.10.1rc3/doc/release-notes.md Thanks to everyone that participated in development or in the gitian build process. I sincerely hope that this can be the final release candidate for 0.

[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.10.1 release candidate 1 available

2015-04-02 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan
tize command strings before logging them. Credits === Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release: - Alex Morcos - Cory Fields - dexX7 - fsb4000 - Gregory Maxwell - Ivan Pustogarov - Jonas Schnelli - Pieter Wuille - Ruben de Vries - Suhas Daftuar - Wladimir J. van der Laan As well as ever

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Improving resistance to transaction origination harvesting

2015-03-19 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan
e connections. This could even work if the normal node functionality does not go through Tor - although then one'd have to be even more careful about any kind of residual fingerprinting or timing attacks. Wladimir

Re: [Bitcoin-development] bloom filtering, privacy

2015-02-20 Thread Wladimir
that is so bad in practice, after all the % of blocks that will have transactions for a given wallet will generally be low, so the block size is amortized in a way. Of course, if the block size would be increased t

[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.10.0 released

2015-02-16 Thread Wladimir
Luke Dashjr - Mark Friedenbach - Mathy Vanvoorden - Matt Corallo - Matthew Bogosian - Micha - Michael Ford - Mike Hearn - mrbandrews - mruddy - ntrgn - Otto Allmendinger - paveljanik - Pavel Vasin - Peter Todd - phantomcircuit - Philip Kaufmann - Pieter Wuille - pryds - randy-waterhouse - R E Broadley - Ro

[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.10.0 final was tagged

2015-02-13 Thread Wladimir
with a release announcement until there are >3 builders and the binaries have been uploaded. Cheers, Wladimir -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed i

Re: [Bitcoin-development] determining change addresses using the least significant digits

2015-02-06 Thread Wladimir
amounts, which still make sense, and he wrote about them here: https://medium.com/@octskyward/merge-avoidance-7f95a386692f Wladimir -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Inte

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.10.0rc4 tagged

2015-02-06 Thread Wladimir
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Wladimir wrote: > FYI, I've just tagged v0.10rc4, and pushed my signatures to the > gitian.sigs repository. > > Please start your gitian builders! Thanks to the extremely quick response (a whopping 9 gitian builders already!), the executables an

[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.10.0rc4 tagged

2015-02-05 Thread Wladimir
reEncoding() - ed4206a fix crash: CoinControl "space" bug - 58259ad qt: fix broken unicode chars on osx 10.10 - aaf55d2 186a517 Add a -rpckeepalive option to disable RPC use of HTTP persistent connections. Hopefully this will be the last release candidate before the 0.10 fina

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [softfork proposal] Strict DER signatures

2015-02-03 Thread Wladimir
change that's obviously softforking. Is > anyone opposed to doing so at this stage? Not opposed, but is kind of late for 0.10, I had hoped to tag rc4 today. Wladimir -- Dive into the World of Parallel Progr

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Export format for xpub

2015-02-02 Thread Wladimir
andment to BIP32. Excluding small language errors and clarifications in examples, BIPs are not changed after the fact. Wladimir-- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.9.4 not on bitcoin.org?

2015-02-01 Thread Wladimir
elease? > Sounds dangerous to me. Again, there hasn't been any 0.9.4 release, neither a release candidate or anything else. Testing and such should be focused on the 0.10 release candidates. Wladimir -- Dive in

Re: [Bitcoin-development] var_int ambiguous serialization consequences

2015-02-01 Thread Wladimir
is already of interest if applying size limit to a block, since > transaction count is var_int but is not part of the hashed header or the > merkle tree. Are you sure that this is a current concern? Non-canonical CompactSizes are forbidden - in serialize.h this is flagged in ReadCo

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Is there a way to estimate the maximum number of transactions per minute Bitcoin can handle as it is today?

2015-01-31 Thread Wladimir
scaling up the block size will get some leeway in the short term, but I believe a future scalable payment system based on bitcoin will be mostly based on off-blockchain transactions (in some form) or that there will be a hierarchical or subdivided system (e.g. temporary or per-locale

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP70: why Google Protocol Buffers for encoding?

2015-01-28 Thread Wladimir
languages. Though JSON parsers are much more diverse, which people using Bitcoin Core's RPC have bumped into e.g. some have some problems handling large numbers. Something you wouldn't expect using a straightforward binary format. There&#x

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [softfork proposal] Strict DER signatures

2015-01-27 Thread Wladimir
I > think you've addressed Progress information for the list: there is now a pull request implementing the strict DER verification behavior, as well as the deployment specified in BIP66 for Bitcoin Core. It needs your review and testing: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/5713 Wladimir

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [ANN] 0.10.0rc3 has been tagged

2015-01-13 Thread Wladimir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Wladimir wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Wladimir wrote: > > If you build from source, and have already built rc2, there is no > reason to build rc3. 0.10.0rc3 executables have been uploa

[Bitcoin-development] [ANN] 0.10.0rc2 has been tagged

2015-01-12 Thread Wladimir
I've just tagged 0.10.0rc2 in git. To fetch, build, and test (see also doc/build-*.md): ``` git clone -b v0.10.0rc2 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git bitcoin-0.10 cd bitcoin-0.10 ./autogen.sh ./configure make make check ``` Note: This includes the changes required for interoperability with O

Re: [Bitcoin-development] OpenSSL 1.0.0p / 1.0.1k incompatible, causes blockchain rejection.

2015-01-12 Thread Wladimir
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Ivan Jelincic wrote: > Is openssl1.0.1j unaffected? Yes. It concerns CVE-2014-8275. Which in https://www.openssl.org/news/openssl-1.0.1-notes.html is under: Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1j and OpenSSL 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015] Wladi

Re: [Bitcoin-development] OpenSSL 1.0.0p / 1.0.1k incompatible, causes blockchain rejection.

2015-01-10 Thread Wladimir
itcoin/bitcoin.git bitcoin-0.10 cd bitcoin-0.10/src ./autogen.sh ./configure make make check ``` Wladimir -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnershi

[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin 0.10.0c1 available for download

2014-12-27 Thread Wladimir
: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues Cheers, Wladimir -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all

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

2014-12-17 Thread Wladimir
> I don't care which tabbing style or column width you pick, but **pick one**, > and enforce it across the entire codebase. See https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/5387 Wladimir -- Download BIRT iHub F

Re: [Bitcoin-development] ACK NACK utACK "Concept ACK"

2014-12-17 Thread Wladimir
at (but didn't even mention it here!) https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/5468 Wladimir -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Rep

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Recent EvalScript() changes mean CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY can't be merged

2014-12-15 Thread Wladimir
7;ve tried to keep the amount of unnecessary refactoring down, but some is unfortunately unavoidable. I'm sure we can find a way to rebase CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY so that it can land in 0.11. Wladimir -- Download BIRT iHub F-

Re: [Bitcoin-development] ACK NACK utACK "Concept ACK"

2014-12-10 Thread Wladimir
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 6:47 AM, Wladimir wrote: > Abbreviations: > > Concept ACK -> agree with the idea and overall direction, but haven't > reviewed the code changes nor tested it > utACK -> reviewed the code changes, but did not put it through any testing > Te

Re: [Bitcoin-development] ACK NACK utACK "Concept ACK"

2014-12-09 Thread Wladimir
I tend to only use bare "ACK" if there is nothing to test in the first place, for example for documentation changes. Wladimir On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Matt Corallo wrote: > Also utACK ("untested ack") and "tested ack" when people are being explicit. > &g

Re: [Bitcoin-development] bitcoind as a library

2014-11-27 Thread Wladimir
this purpose better. See for example https://github.com/bitcoin/libbase58 for base58 processing. Wladimir -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Busi

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Deanonymisation of clients in Bitcoin P2P network paper

2014-11-27 Thread Wladimir
-SPV wallets which don't inherently leak any information about their addresses) There was a pull request about this for Bitcoin Core one, maybe I closed it unfairly https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/4564 . Wladimir --

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Increasing the OP_RETURN maximum payload size

2014-11-17 Thread Wladimir
ncode everything into addresses such as now used by cryptograffiti) Wladimir -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with

[Bitcoin-development] [ann] Live Bitcoin Core commits on #bitcoin-commits

2014-11-13 Thread Wladimir
All, As of now you can join #bitcoin-commits on freenode to be notified of commits to the bitcoin/bitcoin repository. Thanks to Luke-Jr for telling me how to set this up. Regards, Wladimir -- Comprehensive Server

Re: [Bitcoin-development] The difficulty of writing consensus critical code: the SIGHASH_SINGLE bug

2014-11-07 Thread Wladimir
ion. First with a script verification library in 0.10, which will be extended to other parts of the consensus by 0.11 and after that. Wladimir -- ___ Bitcoin-development mailing

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bug in genbuild.sh ?

2014-11-03 Thread Wladimir
gt; # clean 'dirty' status of touched files that haven't been modified > git diff >/dev/null 2>/dev/null ACK FYI there's an issue for this on github: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/5141 , but Rebroad's solution contains a new error. Will

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.10 release schedule

2014-10-27 Thread Wladimir
s indexes. Although that could be part of the standard if it allows implementations to support just a subset. Anyhow - please coordinate this with Jeff Garzik, it's better to work together here. Wladimir -- _

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.10 release schedule

2014-10-27 Thread Wladimir
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Luke Dashjr wrote: > On Sunday, October 26, 2014 7:57:12 AM Wladimir wrote: >> Let me know if there is anything else you think is ready (and not too >> risky) to be in 0.10. > > At the very least, we need: > #5106 Bugfix: subm

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.10 release schedule

2014-10-26 Thread Wladimir
ll/3959 - https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4250 Wladimir -- ___ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development

[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.10 release schedule

2014-10-26 Thread Wladimir
seems to be a preference to switch to a fixed (instead of feature-based) 6-month major release schedule, ie - July 2015: 0.11.0 (or whatever N+1 release is called) - January 2016: 0.12.0 (or whatever N+2 release is called) - July 2016: 0.13.0 (or whatev

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP process

2014-10-19 Thread Wladimir
tive clients to not subscribe to this list, even though they *should* follow BIP discussion otherwise it makes no sense to have a process in the first place. Wladimir -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monito

Re: [Bitcoin-development] About watch-only addresses

2014-10-18 Thread Wladimir
ms when they appear), so it's best to build it yourself if you're going to test day-to-day development versions. Wladimir -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Ge

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposed BIP status changes

2014-10-15 Thread Wladimir
> > Shouldn't we be doing this in a GitHub PR rather than spamming up the ML? Not really. BIP changes should be discussed on the mailing list, that's the way to get community consensus (as specified in

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP process

2014-10-15 Thread Wladimir
with people failing to comment on things, > not even "I looked at this and have no opinion", which is really > obstructing things. Well - the only way to avoid that is to set a reasonable deadline, after which there is a default decision. You'd hope

[Bitcoin-development] Proposed BIP status changes

2014-10-15 Thread Wladimir
(Pong Message) - BIP 34 (Block v2, Height in coinbase) - BIP 35 (mempool message) - BIP 37 (Bloom filtering) Let me know if you (don't) agree. Wladimir -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 se

[Bitcoin-development] BIP process

2014-10-15 Thread Wladimir
, but it is critical that everyone writing a Bitcoin node or client is up-to-date with proposals and can comment on them. Wladimir -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerte

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Malleable booleans

2014-10-14 Thread Wladimir
Prints 'It is true'. You can also use bool(something) as equivalent of `x != 0`; as in `assert(bool(2) == true);`. Wladimir -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Request for review/testing: headers-first synchronization in Bitcoin Core

2014-10-12 Thread Wladimir
ink so? Orphan blocks are blocks whose parent is not known. In the case of a reorganization the client 'jumps' to a new best chain, for this to happen the original tip and the new best tip and all their parents m

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP draft] CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY - Prevent a txout from being spent until an expiration time

2014-10-08 Thread Wladimir
it some time to stabilize with a feature freeze, then do a release before the end of the year. So 0.11, in say 6 months, would be soonest. Wladimir -- Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achi

Re: [Bitcoin-development] bitcoinj 0.12

2014-10-03 Thread Wladimir
, BlueMatt’s relay network, bitpos, countless alt coin wallets, > for academic research projects and much more. Congrats on the release! Wladimir -- Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achi

[Bitcoin-development] [ann] Bitcoin Core 0.9.3 has been released

2014-09-27 Thread Wladimir
ase: - Andrew Poelstra - Cory Fields - Gavin Andresen - Jeff Garzik - Johnathan Corgan - Julian Haight - Michael Ford - Pavel Vasin - Peter Todd - phantomcircuit - Pieter Wuille - Rose Toomey - Ruben Dario Ponticelli - shshshsh - Trevin Hofmann - Warren Togami - Wladimir J. van der Laan - Zak Wilcox A

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [ann] Bitcoin Core 0.9.3 rc2 is available for download

2014-09-18 Thread Wladimir
=` options for control over the maximum orphan counts Wladimir -- Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. http

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP72 amendment proposal

2014-09-13 Thread Wladimir
ment request matches the URI. So *if* you communicate the URI by secure means, this authenticates the associated payment request as well, even if fetched by insecure means (such as http:...) itself. Wladimir -- Want exciteme

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP72 amendment proposal

2014-09-12 Thread Wladimir
usecases. When these apps read a > matching hash, they need not compare any of the other fields. Sounds like a good idea to me. I had no idea that some clients were comparing addresses and amounts in the URI with the payment request for security, that seems like

[Bitcoin-development] Testing and reviewing requested for work on Bitcoin Core wallet

2014-09-01 Thread Wladimir
(..) https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4805 Wladimir -- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ ___ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-d

[Bitcoin-development] [ann] Bitcoin Core 0.9.3 rc1 is available for download

2014-08-28 Thread Wladimir
rms Credits Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release: - Andrew Poelstra - Cory Fields - Jeff Garzik - Johnathan Corgan - Julian Haight - Michael Ford - Pavel Vasin - Peter Todd - Pieter Wuille - Rose Toomey - Ruben Dario Ponticelli - Trevin Hofmann - Wladimir J. van der Laan

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Reconsidering github

2014-08-23 Thread Wladimir
eyes on the code overall than would be when requiring *everyone* to use local tools. It's easy to let paranoia get in the way of actual effectiveness. Wladimir -- Slashdot TV. V

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Reconsidering github

2014-08-19 Thread Wladimir
tives. So that means you're volunteering to run a web-accessible mirror of the bitcoin repositories? Wladimir -- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. ht

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Reconsidering github

2014-08-19 Thread Wladimir
I don't see the point of this, sorry. Wladimir -- ___ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: Outbound connections rotation

2014-08-18 Thread Wladimir
dcast the transaction, wait a bit, pick a new node, broadcast the transaction until it is comes back through one of the other peers. Separating the transaction broadcasting (of the wallet) from, for example, the nodes used to request blocks from could make sense. Maybe doubly so if bloom filt

Re: [Bitcoin-development] What is the danger if bitcoind startted with -flushwallet=false ?

2014-08-13 Thread Wladimir
t bitcoind BerkeleyDB will have to process log files. There is a non-zero chance that this will fail and manual recovery is needed. As the wallet is usually critical, it is unwise to disable that option. Wladimir ---

Re: [Bitcoin-development] NODE_EXT_SERVICES and advertising related services

2014-08-08 Thread Wladimir
e outside and the interface to the inside should be well-separated. I'd be OK with such an idea if bitcoind listens on a separate port for connections from plugins, a port that cannot be used for normal P2P traffic. This could also be a UNIX socket instead of

Re: [Bitcoin-development] NODE_EXT_SERVICES and advertising related services

2014-08-08 Thread Wladimir
the UTXO set which bitcoind already > has. An external plugin would have to recalculate it from scratch which > seems redundant. Well to play the devil's advocate, you could set it up to query the information back over RPC :-) But yeah, I didn't mean getutxos specifically, it has

Re: [Bitcoin-development] NODE_EXT_SERVICES and advertising related services

2014-08-08 Thread Wladimir
messages from ZeroMQ to certain P2P clients, is easy. Wladimir -- Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the s

Re: [Bitcoin-development] NODE_EXT_SERVICES and advertising related services

2014-08-08 Thread Wladimir
completely crazy as there are already plans to add zeromq as an optional dependency for notifications [1]. [1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4594 Wladimir -- Want fast and easy access to all the code in your e

Re: [Bitcoin-development] NODE_EXT_SERVICES and advertising related services

2014-08-08 Thread Wladimir
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Wladimir wrote: > On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Mike Hearn wrote: >>> He wants to use it to advertise services that are not part of the P2P >>> protocol itself, but run on a different port. Reserving services bits >>> for those i

Re: [Bitcoin-development] NODE_EXT_SERVICES and advertising related services

2014-08-08 Thread Wladimir
ch? Yes. The services bits are for advertising services on the P2P network. That's not open for discussion. Wladimir -- Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 l

Re: [Bitcoin-development] NODE_EXT_SERVICES and advertising related services

2014-08-08 Thread Wladimir
information, such as the port to connect on, for the auxilary service. Wladimir -- Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Cod

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Abusive and broken bitcoin seeders

2014-07-30 Thread Wladimir
> The version message helpfully tells me my own IP address but not theirs ;p Try -logips. Logging peer IPs was disabled by default after #3764. BTW I'm seeing the same abusive behavior. Who is running these? Why do the requests need to be so frequent?

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin development (testing & where to get Wallet code)

2014-07-30 Thread Wladimir
at the bitcoin core code and also the wallet > code (where is the initial starting point and then I could trace from there > ). If you want to work on Bitcoin Core, a Linux box (or VM) is the best development environment. Getting started building on WIndows or Mac is harder (but pos

[Bitcoin-development] Policy for DNS seeds

2014-07-21 Thread Wladimir
as well as posting on bitcoin-development. Behavior outside of these expectations may be reasonable in some situations but should be discussed in public in advance. See https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4566

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Squashing redundant tx data in blocks on the wire

2014-07-19 Thread Wladimir
unching on a certain block, instead of when it broadcasts it? So the peers are prepared, and the actual block broadcast is just the header + coinbase tx. Wladimir -- Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enter

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Small update to BIP 62

2014-07-18 Thread Wladimir
riptSig is a source of malleability, as there can be multiple sequences of opcodes that evaluate to the same result. Wladimir -- Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lin

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Small update to BIP 62

2014-07-18 Thread Wladimir
a good thing. Not even OpenSSL is guaranteed to be bug-for-bug compatible with its own prior versions forever, so better to strictly define what is allowed. Wladimir -- Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterp

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 38 NFC normalisation issue

2014-07-16 Thread Wladimir
ot of sense to me. Carriage returns, linefeeds, formfeeds, null characters, I see no valid reason to allow them and lots of reasons they could cause havoc. PILE OF POO or GRINNING CAT FACE WITH SMILING EYES should be allowed in this day and age

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin address TTL & key expiration?

2014-07-15 Thread Wladimir
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 4:19 AM, Wladimir wrote: > There are major gaps that the payment protocol doesn't cover. > > There are several deployed use cases where you are provided/request an > address, an API provides

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin address TTL & key expiration?

2014-07-15 Thread Wladimir
and deprecating the use of addresses is the best way forward, and not just for this reason. Wladimir -- Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a fre

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Protocol Specification

2014-07-14 Thread Wladimir
> As a loose description of the protocol for newbies it's an invaluable > resource and perhaps we should link to it from the developer guide. It has already been linked from the developer guide for quite a while, under Additional Resources

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Anyone still using SOCKS4?

2014-07-06 Thread Wladimir
art of this discussion. And SOCKS5 can do all of that just as well. But if you feel like contributing SOCKS4a support that's fine with me. Wladimir -- Open source business process management suite built on Java and E

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Anyone still using SOCKS4?

2014-07-04 Thread Wladimir
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Wladimir wrote: > If no one screams fire, we plan on removing support for it in the next > major release, for two reasons: > > - It would remove some crufty, hardly tested code paths > > - SOCKS5 offers better privacy as it allows DNS redire

Re: [Bitcoin-development] About the small number of bitcoin nodes

2014-06-30 Thread Wladimir
interface" I mean like "top" command, an interface made > out of characters in ASCII. FYI someone created this! It's still in the initial stages, I'm sure the author could use some help to grow this into a full-functional nod

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Plans to separate wallet from core

2014-06-24 Thread Wladimir
. Anything from 'GUI uses wallet as a library' (multibit, electrum, bitcoin core) to elaborate client-server protocols (btcd, coinvault?) are acceptable depending on the use case. Wladimir -- Open source busi

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