There seems to be a perception out there that Bitcoin is eventually
consistent. I wrote this post to describe why this perception is completely
false.
Bitcoin Guarantees Strong, not Eventual, Consistency
http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/03/01/bitcoin-guarantees-strong-not-eventual-consistency/
The following draft BIP proposes an update to the Payment Protocol.
Motivation:
The motivation for defining this extension to the BIP70 Payment Protocol is
to allow 2 parties to exchange payment information in a permissioned and
encrypted way such that wallet address communication can become a
Binaries for Bitcoin Knots version 0.12.0.knots20160226.rc1 are available from:
https://bitcoinknots.org/files/0.12.x/0.12.0.knots20160226/test/rc1/
Source code can be found on GitHub under the signed tag:
https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/tree/v0.12.0.knots20160226.rc1
This is a
Bitcoin Core is ready to move towards deployment of a soft fork which will
implement BIP's 68, 112, and 113.
BIP 68 - Relative lock-time using consensus-enforced sequence numbers -
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0068.mediawiki
BIP 112 - CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY -
It seems that MeetingBot was deactivated in #bitcoin-dev, so the
last two weeks the weekly developer meeting (Thursday 19:00-20:00 UTC)
was held in #bitcoin-core-dev.
Let's keep it at that.
Wladimir
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