[Bitcoin-development] Introducing BitcoinKit.framework

2013-07-15 Thread Wendell
Hub issues and this Bitcointalk thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=256583.msg2733523 A sample GUI app is also included: http://imgur.com/FzqA00X Cheers everyone! -Wendell signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP usi

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Introducing BitcoinKit.framework

2013-07-15 Thread Wendell
Hi Mike, You are absolutely right about the synchronize time, it's one of our main frustration points right now and we clearly won't deliver the kind of user experience we want, without fixing this. Actually we were thinking of extending Jeff Garzik's picocoin as time permits, but the plan is f

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Introducing BitcoinKit.framework

2013-07-16 Thread Wendell
et my head around it. I'm super interested in all of these possibilities (including micro-stripped-VMs and transpilation), but would simply like to encourage the proliferation of _options_ whenever possible. -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive On Jul 16, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Mike H

[Bitcoin-development] SPV bitcoind? (was: Introducing BitcoinKit.framework)

2013-07-16 Thread Wendell
ty in SPV options seems like the right way to go. Time-permitting, I would really appreciate feedback from knowledgable parties about the possible approaches to an SPV bitcoind. We at Hive ideally want to see something that could one be merge into master, rather than a fork. -wendell grabhiv

Re: [Bitcoin-development] SPV bitcoind? (was: Introducing BitcoinKit.framework)

2013-07-17 Thread Wendell
Peter, This sounds like a _very_ good idea for a desktop client, and probably acceptable to users so long as we take available disk space into consideration, and only ever use a fraction of it. Will you implement this? -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive On Jul 17, 2013, at 12:58

Re: [Bitcoin-development] SPV bitcoind? (was: Introducing BitcoinKit.framework)

2013-07-17 Thread Wendell
"The libcoin/bitcoind client downloads the entire block chain 3.5 times faster than the bitcoin/bitcoind client. This is less than 90 minutes on a modern laptop!" Good lord Michael, I wish we had known about libcoin a month ago! -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive On Ju

Re: [Bitcoin-development] SPV bitcoind? (was: Introducing BitcoinKit.framework)

2013-07-18 Thread Wendell
Heh, will do. If you have less confidence in your programming skills perhaps its best if you write documentation and we bring in someone else to do the heavy lifting? Maybe Eric Lombrozo would be interested in this, for example... -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive On Jul 18, 2013

[Bitcoin-development] Endianness (was: Linux packaging letter)

2013-07-23 Thread Wendell
Forking for curiosity's sake: Is there a substantial barrier to endian independence in the Bitcoin codebase? -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive On Jul 24, 2013, at 3:45 AM, Douglas Huff wrote: > The fact that you're even trying to package and/or at some point have &

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BitMail - p2p Email 0.1. beta

2013-07-30 Thread Wendell
Can you explain this process for those of us not too familiar with TPM chips? -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Jul 30, 2013, at 10:40 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: > As a testament to the seriousness with which Pond takes forward security, it > can use the NVRA

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Tor and Bitcoin

2013-07-30 Thread Wendell
I suppose it isn't quite what you're talking about but we did push this out today: Tor.framework, for Cocoa developers, similar to our BitcoinKit: https://github.com/grabhive/Tor.framework -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Jul 30, 2013, at 4:01 PM, J

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Tor and Bitcoin

2013-07-30 Thread Wendell
Thank you Peter. Does this advice apply equally to both full and SPV nodes? At this point I'm merely curious, since we don't have the option to run bitcoinj over Tor right now anyway. -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Jul 30, 2013, at 8:30 PM, Peter

[Bitcoin-development] Safe auto-updating

2013-08-05 Thread Wendell
the idea of placing one server behind a Tor hidden service, whose only function is to output a checksum of the update package. The theory is that if it is well-secured, it will at least be immune to tampering at the physical hosting level. Any thoughts or advice about any of this? -wendell

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Safe auto-updating

2013-08-07 Thread Wendell
to make strong > absent a jamming proof network). -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Aug 5, 2013, at 7:49 PM, Peter Todd wrote: > Gregory Maxwell had some good ideas along these lines at the san jose > conference. Extending gitian with these kinds of features woul

[Bitcoin-development] SPV client in pure JavaScript?

2013-08-09 Thread Wendell
vehicle? -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Idea for new payment protocol PKI

2013-08-09 Thread Wendell
interested in exploring this further. -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Aug 9, 2013, at 1:43 PM, Mike Hearn wrote: > This is just me making notes for myself, I'm not seriously suggesting this be > implemented any time soon. > > Mozilla Persona is an

Re: [Bitcoin-development] SPV client in pure JavaScript?

2013-08-09 Thread Wendell
ncerns you expressed? -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Aug 9, 2013, at 1:48 PM, Mike Hearn wrote: > JavaScript is turing complete so of course it can be done. The real question > you're asking is, can it be done in a web app? I think the answer is I

Re: [Bitcoin-development] SPV client in pure JavaScript?

2013-08-09 Thread Wendell
be made to work within the context of the more limited API, this certainly seems like an interesting, user-friendly way to distribute a Bitcoin wallet! -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Aug 9, 2013, at 2:14 PM, Mike Hearn wrote: > Oh, I forgot to make it c

Re: [Bitcoin-development] SPV client in pure JavaScript?

2013-08-09 Thread Wendell
No, it's not -- but that's certainly very cool to see Jeff. How is BitPay going to put this to use? -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Aug 9, 2013, at 3:08 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Certainly. BitPay is working on such a wallet: > https://github.c

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BitMail.sf.net - encrypted p2p email

2013-08-09 Thread Wendell
Jesus, please stop this. :( -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Aug 9, 2013, at 9:01 PM, Randolph D. wrote: > anyone tested the secure encrypted p2p email: http://bitmail.sf.net > > SVN here: > > svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/spot-on/cod

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Version 0.9 goals

2013-08-15 Thread Wendell
Bitcoin Store will also be game to hit the ground running. I'll ask them. -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Aug 15, 2013, at 10:09 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: > Pieter, Matt and I also agreed that for maximum impact we should really try > to ship payment protocol su

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bloom io attack effectiveness

2013-08-19 Thread Wendell
issed, please send them over. Maybe you should open that topic back up in its own thread, so we can bring it back into view? -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Aug 19, 2013, at 4:53 AM, John Dillon wrote: > So tell us how is your "vision" of 10,000 big bee

[Bitcoin-development] An "app store" and non-network transaction fees

2013-09-04 Thread Wendell
although to be honest we would prefer to support the network more via something like Peter Todd's partial UTXO sets idea (hint hint, anyone?). We will be at the conference in Amsterdam on the 27th of this month if any of you want to meet and discuss. Thanks for your time, -wendell grabhi

[Bitcoin-development] Social network integration (brainstorm)

2013-09-05 Thread Wendell
27;m opening this thread to other such ideas in case anyone else wants to discuss it. Our motivation is making Bitcoin easier to use, and we suspect that even imperfect social network support will move us closer to that goal. -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 >

Re: [Bitcoin-development] An "app store" and non-network transaction fees

2013-09-05 Thread Wendell
Hey Mike! On Sep 5, 2013, at 10:26 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: > It might be simpler to not think of it as an app store, but rather see it as > a set of affiliate schemes. To get placed into the apps section you can say > that the business must have an affiliate scheme in place (i.e. open to more > t

Re: [Bitcoin-development] An "app store" and non-network transaction fees

2013-09-05 Thread Wendell
On Sep 5, 2013, at 12:14 PM, Mike Hearn wrote: > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Wendell wrote: >> Funny you should mention it! I just mocked this idea up last week, though I >> assumed a cruder system of "voting" to an address that corresponds to a >> feature

[Bitcoin-development] Simple contacts exchange (was: Social network integration (brainstorm))

2013-09-06 Thread Wendell
into giving data, or otherwise altering our system to store it. Any thoughts about this? -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Simple contacts exchange (was: Social network integration (brainstorm))

2013-09-09 Thread Wendell
OK, I was under the impression that this was mostly developed for merchants. I've seen some discussion here that seemed to suggest it requiring some non-trivial (for an end user) steps like getting a CA-signed certificate. -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Simple contacts exchange (was: Social network integration (brainstorm))

2013-09-16 Thread Wendell
Any other thoughts? I would love to do this without using any servers at all ("serverless keyserver", anyone?), but I am not quite sure how. -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Sep 7, 2013, at 12:47 AM, Eric Lombrozo wrote: > Why not just use the transac

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Simple contacts exchange (was: Social network integration (brainstorm))

2013-09-17 Thread Wendell
out a transaction beyond the scope of Bitcoin itself (a name, perhaps a small photo, etc) in order to increase usability. This will be my last post here on the topic except to reply in case anyone else contributes. -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Sep 16, 2013, at

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Simple contacts exchange (was: Social network integration (brainstorm))

2013-09-17 Thread Wendell
x27;m still not sure that I understand _why_ signed certificates are even required. Isn't that likely be an obstacle to adoption for use cases like this? -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Sep 17, 2013, at 12:03 PM, Mike Hearn wrote: > You can prove owners

[Bitcoin-development] Introducing Hive, a new wallet for Mac OS X

2013-09-28 Thread Wendell
everyone at Bitcoin Europe 2013 for the feedback and moral support! -wendell PS- If you're interested in including an app for your Bitcoin-supporting service in Hive, please be in touch! grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 signature.asc Description: Message signed with Op

Re: [Bitcoin-development] An "app store" and non-network transaction fees

2013-10-18 Thread Wendell
We've gone ahead and pushed a v1 API for this idea: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=313352 No fees yet, just the basics. -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Sep 5, 2013, at 10:26 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: > Hey Wendell, > > Interesting idea

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Extending the Payment Protocol with vCards

2013-11-12 Thread Wendell
Hi Mike, It seems to me there is some confusion about this. Taylor's talking about a standard way to pass around data; the end user would never be exposed to something like a "vCard". That vCard's existence itself would in fact be very temporary. -wendell grabhi

Re: [Bitcoin-development] moving the default display to mbtc

2013-11-17 Thread Wendell
We're with uBTC too. Been waiting for the signal to do this, let's do it right after the fee system is improved. -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/hivewallet | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Nov 15, 2013, at 6:03 AM, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Go straight to uBTC. Humans and existing computer s

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DarkWallet Best Practices

2013-12-19 Thread Wendell
Amazingly thorough, Peter. Thanks so much! -wendell hivewallet.com | twitter.com/hivewallet | pgp: B7179FA88C498718 On Dec 19, 2013, at 8:17 AM, Peter Todd wrote: > Here's my draft. I don't claim this to be "official", but I think this > should represent the cons

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Happy new year!

2014-01-01 Thread Wendell
Same here. I feel incredibly lucky to know some of you, and to be able to contribute in some small way to what this is ultimately becoming. It's been an amazing ride, and I'm pretty sure that 2014 is going to totally blow our minds. -wendell hivewallet.com | twitter.com/hivewa

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

2014-04-09 Thread Wendell
://github.com/hivewallet/hive-android -wendell hivewallet.com | twitter.com/hivewallet | pgp 0x8C498718 twitter.com/bitcoinbookclub | campbitcoin.hivewallet.com On Apr 7, 2014, at 9:15 PM, Eric Martindale wrote: > We need to make it so mind-numbingly simple to "run Bitcoin correctly"