Re: [bitcoin-dev] "Compressed" headers stream

2017-08-28 Thread Greg Sanders via bitcoin-dev
Well, if anything my question may bolster your use-case. If there's a heavier chain that is invalid, I kind of doubt it matters for timestamping reasons. /digression On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 12:25 PM, Riccardo Casatta < riccardo.casa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2017-08-28 18:13 GMT+02:00 Greg

Re: [bitcoin-dev] "Compressed" headers stream

2017-08-28 Thread Greg Sanders via bitcoin-dev
Is there any reason to believe that you need Bitcoin "full security" at all for timestamping? On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Riccardo Casatta via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > the Bitcoin headers are probably the most condensed and important

Re: [bitcoin-dev] [BIP Proposal] Partially Signed Bitcoin Transaction (PSBT) format

2017-08-22 Thread Greg Sanders via bitcoin-dev
random_hash_connected_to_A` by `H(A || x) )` On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Jochen Hoenicke <hoeni...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 21.08.2017 20:12, Greg Sanders via bitcoin-dev wrote: > > To fix this I consulted with andytoshi and got something we think works > > for both cases: > > &

Re: [bitcoin-dev] [BIP Proposal] Partially Signed Bitcoin Transaction (PSBT) format

2017-08-21 Thread Greg Sanders via bitcoin-dev
Some related thoughts and suggestion for an extension that kanzure suggested I post here: Hardware Wallet attacks by input ownership omission and fix -- So a while back I realized that to have HW wallets do safe

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Network-layer attacks

2017-05-09 Thread Greg Sanders via bitcoin-dev
See https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0150.mediawiki and https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0151.mediawiki On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Raystonn . via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > This study was released last week, detailing some

Re: [bitcoin-dev] I do not support the BIP 148 UASF

2017-04-15 Thread Greg Sanders via bitcoin-dev
> Besides that, I also just don't believe that UASF itself as a method to activate softforks is a good choice. The only two reliable signals we have for this purpose in Bitcoin are block height (flag day) and standard miner signaling, as every other metric can be falsified or gamed. UASF can be

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Using a storage engine without UTXO-index

2017-04-07 Thread Greg Sanders via bitcoin-dev
Interesting work. I was wondering if you could tell us what specs for the machine being used as preliminary benchmark is here: https://bitcrust.org/results ? I'd be interested to also see comparisons with 0.14 which has some improvements for script validation with more cores. On Fri, Apr 7,

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Extension block proposal by Jeffrey et al

2017-04-05 Thread Greg Sanders via bitcoin-dev
I'd appreciate the authors chiming in, but I read the PASDA differently: 1) If a transaction is mined with a certain bit set, it reserves 700 bytes for that particular block. 2) In that space, 2 transactions may happen: a) First, a transaction penalizing the "parent" transaction for fraud by

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP draft: Extended block header hardfork

2017-04-04 Thread Greg Sanders via bitcoin-dev
That's BIP30, he linked BIP34: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/validation.cpp#L3004 On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 11:32 AM, Tom Zander via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > Can you tell me where it is enforced? > > The only place I found was here; >

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Three hardfork-related BIPs

2017-01-27 Thread Greg Sanders via bitcoin-dev
Note that the 4MB number comes from a single network metric. Quotes directly from the paper in question: http://fc16.ifca.ai/bitcoin/papers/CDE+16.pdf >Our results hinge on the key metric of effective throughput in the overlay network, which we define here as which blocks propagate within an

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Transaction Replacement by Fee

2017-01-12 Thread Greg Sanders via bitcoin-dev
BIP125 is the standard way to signal: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0125.mediawiki Should explain everything you need. On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 9:02 AM, Police Terror via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > Hello, > > Where can I find the rules on

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