Re: [bitcoin-dev] Suggestion for a universal bitcoin value scale

2018-08-20 Thread Ryan Havar via bitcoin-dev
I think you have correctly identified dealing with small amounts while working in the "bitcoin" denomination as a major pain point, and I will go as far as agreeing that a standard color coding would help people eyeball what 0.11 BTC means if they were used to seeing the same color pallet.

[bitcoin-dev] Getting around to fixing the timewarp attack.

2018-08-20 Thread Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev
Since 2012 (IIRC) we've known that Bitcoin's non-overlapping difficulty calculation was vulnerable to gaming with inaccurate timestamps to massively increase the rate of block production beyond the system's intentional design. It can be fixed with a soft-fork that further constraints block