Re: [bitcoin-dev] Small Nodes: A Better Alternative to Pruned Nodes

2017-04-17 Thread Danny Thorpe via bitcoin-dev
1TB HDD is now available for under $40 USD. How is the 100GB storage requirement preventing anyone from setting up full nodes? On Apr 16, 2017 11:55 PM, "David Vorick via bitcoin-dev" < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > *Rationale:* > > A node that stores the full blockchain (I

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Clearing up some misconceptions about full nodes

2016-02-12 Thread Danny Thorpe via bitcoin-dev
"With a very powerful "Desktop" machine bitcoin-qt dominates CPU/GPU resources." That doesn't match my experience. System responsiveness / user experience can suffer when running bitcoin-qt on a spinning hard disk. Disk I/O load will cause the whole system to grind and severely disrupt the user

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Forget dormant UTXOs without confiscating bitcoin

2015-12-13 Thread Danny Thorpe via bitcoin-dev
What is the current behavior / cost that this proposal is trying to avoid? Are ancient utxos required to be kept in memory always in a fully validating node, or can ancient utxos get pushed out of memory like a normal LRU caching db? Thanks, -Danny On Dec 12, 2015 1:55 PM, "jl2012--- via

Re: [bitcoin-dev] [BIP] Normalized transaction IDs

2015-10-21 Thread Danny Thorpe via bitcoin-dev
A signer modifying the order of inputs or changing outputs when "re-signing" a transaction (which already has dependent child transactions spending its outputs) seems like quite a different hazard than a malicious third party modifying a transaction in the mempool by twiddling opcodes in the

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Proposed new policy for transactions that depend on other unconfirmed transactions

2015-10-05 Thread Danny Thorpe via bitcoin-dev
What does "package" mean here? When you say 25 txs, does that mean maximum linked chain depth, or total number of dependent transactions regardless of chain depth? Thanks, -Danny On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Alex Morcos via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: >

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Proposal to add the bitcoin symbol to Unicode

2015-09-08 Thread Danny Thorpe via bitcoin-dev
What of this prior effort, proposing B-with-horizontal-bar (Ƀ)? http://bitcoinsymbol.org/ They argue that B-with-2-vertical-bars is easily confused with the Thai Bhat currency symbol, which is a B with a single vertical bar. I'm not terribly fond of the B-with-horizontal-bar as a symbol, but it

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Proposed new policy for transactions that depend on other unconfirmed transactions

2015-08-21 Thread Danny Thorpe via bitcoin-dev
The limits Alex proposed are generous (bordering on obscene!), but dropping that down to allowing only two levels of chained unconfirmed transactions is too tight. Use case: Brokered asset transfers may require sets of transactions with a dependency tree depth of 3 to be published together. ( N

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin is an experiment. Why don't we have an experimental hardfork?

2015-08-18 Thread Danny Thorpe via bitcoin-dev
amounts to “hey guys, let’s install the new version” On Aug 18, 2015, at 1:48 PM, Danny Thorpe via bitcoin-dev bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org wrote: Deploying experimental code onto the live bitcoin blockchain seems unnecessarily risky. Why not deploy a blocksize limit experiment for long

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin is an experiment. Why don't we have an experimental hardfork?

2015-08-18 Thread Danny Thorpe via bitcoin-dev
wrote: Problem is if you know most of the people running the testnet personally (as is pretty much the case with many current testnets) then the deployment amounts to “hey guys, let’s install the new version” On Aug 18, 2015, at 1:48 PM, Danny Thorpe via bitcoin-dev bitcoin-dev

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Dynamically Controlled Bitcoin Block Size Max Cap

2015-08-18 Thread Danny Thorpe via bitcoin-dev
I like the simplicity of this approach. Demand driven response. Is there really a need to reduce the max block size at all? It is just a maximum limit, not a required size for every block. If a seasonal transaction surge bumps the max block size limit up a notch, what harm is there in leaving

[bitcoin-dev] TestNet block starved?

2015-08-14 Thread Danny Thorpe via bitcoin-dev
Any idea what's going on with TestNet? No blocks for nearly 2 hours now, according to multiple block explorers (blockr.io, my own bitcoin node, etc). Prior to the last block (530516), there were a lot of blocks with zero transactions and only an occasional block with a ton of txs. Any info?