Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP Proposal - Address Paste Improvement

2018-11-07 Thread Andreas Schildbach via bitcoin-dev
Copying addresses to the clipboard should be discouraged, rather than supported. It is an inherently insecure mechanism. Regardless of the OS used, any application can monitor the clipboard for Bitcoin addresses and replace any address with their own, usually without any specific permission or

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Considering starting a toy full-node implementation. Any advice?

2018-11-07 Thread John C. Vernaleo via bitcoin-dev
One point on the dataset issue that I learned early on in the btcd days: you will be downloading the blockchain over and over again and that is not good for an ssd or even worse an sd card. I broke more than one sd card making sure btcd worked on a raspberry pi.

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Considering starting a toy full-node implementation. Any advice?

2018-11-07 Thread Артём Литвинович via bitcoin-dev
Hi there. Been there, done that. -Don't try to set big goals at once. Start small and aim for small steps, i.e. by connecting to nodes, then getting some data from them, then downloading blocks, then parsing blocks, then building an UTXO set, etc. My first long term goal was to simply compute

[bitcoin-dev] BIP Proposal - Address Paste Improvement

2018-11-07 Thread Adam Ficsor via bitcoin-dev
BIP: ? Layer: Applications Title: Address Paste Improvement Author: nopara73 , David Molnar < molnardavi...@gmail.com> Type: Standard Track Created: 2018-11-07 Abstract. End-users often copy-paste addresses. This BIP aims to facilitate the user experience regarding this process. Motivation. Some