Hi,
Given recent discussions around possible cracks to RSA, ECDSA and even sha256
we have been looking at possible options for hardening Bitcoin against those
potential attack vectors. While most consider it a low priority, IMO it is
better to discuss this issue than ignore it especially given
> On 3/17/18, someone posted on the Lightning-dev list, "Can I try
> Lightning without running a fully-fledged bitcoin block chain? (Yubin
> Ruan)." The inquirer was asking because he didn't have much space to
> store the entire blockchain on his laptop.
>
> I replied:
>
> "Developers,
>
> On
On Thu, February 11, 2016 8:15 am, Chris Belcher via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> I've been asked to post this to this mailing list too. It's time to
> clear up some misconceptions floating around about full nodes.
>
> === Myth: There are only about 5500 full nodes worldwide ===
>
> This number comes
On Wed, February 10, 2016 5:14 pm, David Vorick via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>> I love seeing data! I was considering 0.10 nodes as 'unmaintained'
> because it has been a long time since the 0.11 release.
>
> https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-p2p/bitcoin-qt
>
> The Gentoo package manager still
