Re: [Bitcoin-development] Presenting a BIP for Shamir's Secret Sharing of Bitcoin private keys

2014-04-03 Thread Nikita Schmidt
Matt Whitlock wrote: > Okay, you've convinced me. However, it looks like the consensus here is > that my BIP is unneeded, so I'm not sure it would be worth the effort > for me to improve it with your suggestions. I need your BIP. We are going to implement SSS and we'd rather stick with something

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Detailed gitian build guide

2014-04-03 Thread devrandom
On Thu, 2014-04-03 at 07:51 +0200, Wladimir wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 6:47 AM, devrandom > wrote: > Nice! > > I wonder how much of this could be scripted. > > > Everything, probably, using vmbuilder (and/or vagrant as Nick Simpson > suggests). But that's not the

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Presenting a BIP for Shamir's Secret Sharing of Bitcoin private keys

2014-04-03 Thread Matt Whitlock
On Thursday, 3 April 2014, at 4:41 pm, Nikita Schmidt wrote: > I agree with the recently mentioned suggestion to make non-essential > metadata, namely key fingerprint and degree (M), optional. Their > 4-byte and 1-byte fields can be added individually at an > implementation's discretion. During d

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Presenting a BIP for Shamir's Secret Sharing of Bitcoin private keys

2014-04-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Matt Whitlock wrote: > Okay, you've convinced me. However, it looks like the consensus here is that > my BIP is unneeded, so I'm not sure it would be worth the effort for me to > improve it with your suggestions. Discussion of whether you should or should not us

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Finite monetary supply for Bitcoin

2014-04-03 Thread kjj
Matt Whitlock wrote: > The creation date in your BIP header has the wrong format. It should be > 01-04-2014, per BIP 1. > At first, I thought this was a second April Fool's joke, but then I looked and saw that all of the BIPs really do use this format. As far as I can tell, we are using this in