[bitcoin-dev] [BIP Draft] A modest proposal to increase maximum transactions per block without requiring a hardfork

2016-01-17 Thread Robert Grosse via bitcoin-dev
Summary: This describes a new transaction format which allows most transactions to take up less space (and thus fit more per block) and a method to implement it requiring only a (non generalized) softfork. = Compressed transactions = This format is designed to allow the majority of transactions

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 release candidate 1 available

2016-01-17 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Binaries for bitcoin Core version 0.12.0rc1 are available from: https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.12.0/test/ Source code can be found on github under the signed tag https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/v0.12.0rc1 This is a