Re: [bitcoin-dev] Pre BIP: Solving for spam and other abuse with an HTLB

2019-03-18 Thread ZmnSCPxj via bitcoin-dev
Good morning Alistair, Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, March 18, 2019 4:27 AM, Alistair Mann via bitcoin-dev wrote: > This update collects community feedback on my HTLB Pre-BIP > > As reminder, I'm suggesting a BIP for a hitherto poorly

[bitcoin-dev] Notice: List Infrastructure Migration

2019-03-18 Thread Warren Togami Jr. via bitcoin-dev
Be advised that starting this week bitcoin-dev, lightning-dev and other Bitcoin-oriented lists currently still active at https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo will begin migration to the Linux Foundation's new list infrastructure operated by groups.io. You may continue to use these

[bitcoin-dev] Payjoin privacy with the receiver of the transaction

2019-03-18 Thread Kenshiro [] via bitcoin-dev
Hi, I think Payjoin can be a very good privacy solution for Bitcoin, but I have a question about it: - If a user has 1 BTC in a single address and make a payjoin payment to other person of 0.1 BTC using that address as input, the other person can see in a blockchain explorer the change

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Pre BIP: Solving for spam and other abuse with an HTLB

2019-03-18 Thread ZmnSCPxj via bitcoin-dev
Funding Transaction Pattern is how I name it; I am unaware if this pattern has been named before. I know gmax created Taproot precisely as an optimization of this pattern, so I presume he is aware of it, and might know a proper name for such. It is massively ambiguous to call it "gmax technique"

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Pre BIP: Solving for spam and other abuse with an HTLB

2019-03-18 Thread Alistair Mann via bitcoin-dev
This update collects community feedback on my HTLB Pre-BIP As reminder, I'm suggesting a BIP for a hitherto poorly supported class of transactions: "Good Behaviour Bonds". 1. On this mailing list: ZmnSCPxj notes HTLB over HTLC can improve privacy by obscuring whether a transaction is, in fact,

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Pre BIP: Solving for spam and other abuse with an HTLB

2019-03-18 Thread Alistair Mann via bitcoin-dev
Many thanks for your thoughts, ZmnSCPxj. > I believe there is indeed an important usecase for HTLB over HTLC, which is > to improve the anonymity set. An HTLB over HTLC would be indistinguishable > onchain from other uses of HTLC; assuming that HTLCs have other uses, this > is a (small?) plus to

[bitcoin-core-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.18.0 release candidate 2 available

2019-03-18 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-core-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Binaries for bitcoin Core version 0.18.0rc2 are available from: https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.18.0/test.rc2/ Source code can be found in git under the signed tag https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/v0.18.0rc2 This is a