Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIPable-idea: Consistent and better definition of the term 'address'

2019-10-10 Thread Lloyd Fournier via bitcoin-dev
Hi Thread, This may not be the most practical information, but there actually did exist an almost perfect analogy for Bitcoin addresses from the ancient world: From wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulla_(seal) "Transactions for trading needed to be accounted for efficiently, so the clay

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIPable-idea: Consistent and better definition of the term 'address'

2019-10-10 Thread Karl-Johan Alm via bitcoin-dev
I've proposed bitcoin invoice for awhile now. See https://twitter.com/kallewoof/status/1165841566105079808 I like bitcoin invoice address into bitcoin address as proposed by Chris. On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 12:45 AM Emil Engler via bitcoin-dev wrote: > > * Sorry if this mail was sent multiple

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Chain width expansion

2019-10-10 Thread Braydon Fuller via bitcoin-dev
On 10/4/19 4:31 PM, Tier Nolan via bitcoin-dev wrote > [..] At root, the requirement is that peers can prove their total chain POW. > [...] Indeed, it's currently necessary to receive all of the chain headers to determine. It would be interesting to have a succinct chainwork proof for all cases.

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIPable-idea: Consistent and better definition of the term 'address'

2019-10-10 Thread Emil Engler via bitcoin-dev
* Sorry if this mail was sent multiple times, my E-Mail client went crazy * Thanks for all your feedback. I came to the decision to write a BIP for this, even if it might not be implemented by many wallets, a standardization is never wrong and this would be the first step in the correct direction