[Bitcoin-development] Announcing the Statoshi fork

2014-05-07 Thread Jameson Lopp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In order to gain more insight into what messages and requests a node is processing, I've created a Bitcoin Core fork that outputs statistics to StatsD. I hope that some of you will find this interesting and potentially useful. http://coinchomp.com/2

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Announcing the Statoshi fork

2014-05-07 Thread Jameson Lopp
h the installer? - - Jameson On 05/07/2014 03:46 PM, Wladimir wrote: > On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Jameson Lopp wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> In order to gain more insight into what messages and requests a node is >> processin

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Announcing the Statoshi fork

2014-05-07 Thread Jameson Lopp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I completely agree that this setup is far too difficult to reasonably expect anyone to implement it. You're correct that we could run a single StatsD daemon and have quite a few nodes sending statistics to it - this is really what StatsD was designe

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Announcing the Statoshi fork

2014-05-07 Thread Jameson Lopp
ffect the node's performance. - - Jameson On 05/07/2014 04:18 PM, Wladimir wrote: > On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Jameson Lopp wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I agree that it would be awesome to offer these types of stats with

[Bitcoin-development] statoshi.info is now live

2014-05-11 Thread Jameson Lopp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Since it seems unlikely that we'll be able to ship an integrated stats / monitoring feature in the short term, I went ahead and set up a public Statoshi instance and threw a nicer interface on top of it. http://statoshi.info You can also view the r

Re: [Bitcoin-development] statoshi.info is now live

2014-05-14 Thread Jameson Lopp
> Great graphs, and these are just brainstorms for future ideas :) > > Josh Lehan > > Sent from my iPad > >> On May 13, 2014, at 4:43, Wladimir wrote: >> >> Hello Jameson, >> >>> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Jameson Lopp >>> wr

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

2014-07-31 Thread Jameson Lopp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I may be able to provide some insight regarding request volume / abuse via my public node at http://statoshi.info My node receives a 'getaddr' request about every 50 seconds: http://i.imgur.com/XEpnWfG.png In terms of the 'addr' messages that it se

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

2014-10-12 Thread Jameson Lopp
Great work, Pieter. I've been spooling up several nodes per week lately and can testify that stalled downloads during initial syncing are a pain. I usually forgo bootstrapping on VPSes because I don't want to have to adjust the disk space allocation. With headers-first I'm saturating my home ca

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Running a full node

2014-11-08 Thread Jameson Lopp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I host charts of my node's system metrics at http://statoshi.info/#/dashboard/db/system-metrics Note that the CPU spikes are abnormal as I'm making automated RPC calls to query the UTXO set. My node's bandwidth usage chart can be found at http://s

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Request for comments on hybrid PoW/PoS enhancement for Bitcoin

2015-02-25 Thread Jameson Lopp
This is an interesting idea from the standpoint of trying to incentivize people to run nodes, though from a high level it seems to just be adding complexity to the current process by which nodes 'endorse' blocks. When a node receives and validates a block it then informs its peers of the new invent

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposed alternatives to the 20MB step

2015-06-01 Thread Jameson Lopp
The overlapping consensus mechanisms between the Core Developers, the miners, the block chain based businesses, and the end users make it such that the very definition of Bitcoin is not just what any single one of those groups comes to a consensus about. We must ALL be in consensus about just what

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Remove Us Please

2015-06-19 Thread Jameson Lopp
You are free to remove yourself; the URL is at the bottom of every email: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Gigas Gaming Inc. < corpor...@gigasgaming.com> wrote: > This is no longer a mailing list, this is a chatroom. > Please remov

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Remove Us Please

2015-06-19 Thread Jameson Lopp
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Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP proposal - patch to raise selfish mining threshold.

2013-11-05 Thread Jameson Lopp
closing it privately to the core developers? Apologies if you did disclose it privately in the past; I've seen no mention of it. -- Jameson Lopp Software Engineer Bronto Software On 11/05/2013 01:58 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Alessandro Parisi > wrot

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Monetary Authority for Bitcoin

2013-12-09 Thread Jameson Lopp
tcoin or the miner could choose, how this works is not something I'm personally focused on." Yeah... you can't just gloss over a little detail like that. There must be consensus between the miners, otherwise a solved block will be rejected by a miner's peers. -- Jameson Lopp

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Popularity based mining (variable block reward)

2013-12-10 Thread Jameson Lopp
"no reliance on external data" ... "depending on various factors (coin valuation/exchange rate" ಠ_ಠ -- Jameson Lopp Software Engineer Bronto Software On 12/10/2013 11:23 AM, Jan Kučera wrote: > Basically there would be no reliance on external data as the network itself &

Re: [Bitcoin-development] MtGox blames bitcoin

2014-02-10 Thread Jameson Lopp
You have plenty of good points, but they are not relevant to this mailing list. I suggest you take them 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: >&g

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

2014-04-07 Thread Jameson Lopp
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one concerned about the consistent dropping of nodes. Though I think that the fundamental question should be: how many nodes do we really need? Obviously more is better, but it's difficult to say how concerned we should be without more information. I posted

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

2014-04-07 Thread Jameson Lopp
On 04/07/2014 08:26 AM, Pieter Wuille wrote: > In my opinion, the number of full nodes doesn't matter (as long as > it's enough to satisfy demand by other nodes). I agree, but if we don't quantify "demand" then we are practically blind. What is the plan? To wait until SPV clients start lagging /

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

2014-04-07 Thread Jameson Lopp
The Bitnodes project updated their counting algorithm a month or so ago. It used to be slower and less accurate - prior to their update, it was reporting in excess of 100,000 nodes. - Jameson On 04/07/2014 09:53 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 6:50 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote

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

2014-04-07 Thread Jameson Lopp
I would point to bandwidth as the most important issue to the casual user who runs a node at home. Few casual users have the know-how to set up QoS rules and thus become quite annoyed when their Internet connection is discernibly slowed. - Jameson On 04/07/2014 11:53 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Update alert false positives

2014-04-19 Thread Jameson Lopp
Looks like Matt just pushed out new builds to the Ubuntu PPA, so this issue should resolve itself shortly. - Jameson On 04/19/2014 05:39 PM, patrick wrote: > The alert system filters based on the clients version number. > > The ubuntu bitcoin ppa is dynamically linked to openssl unlike the > b

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

2014-04-30 Thread Jameson Lopp
Perhaps I missed it somewhere, but I don't recall it ever being a goal of Bitcoin to act as a stable long-term store of value. - Jameson On 04/30/2014 01:06 PM, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 11:00:06PM +1000, Gareth Williams wrote: >> On 30/04/14 00:13, Mike Hearn wrote: >>>