Re: [bitcoin-dev] An explanation and justification of the tail-call and MBV approach to MAST

2017-09-20 Thread Andreas M. Antonopoulos via bitcoin-dev
This was very helpful at least to me, thank you I've been struggling to follow the discussion of tail-call execution and understand the options for implementing MAST. This clarified everything. I can now follow the previous discussions. On Sep 20, 2017 18:56, "Mark Friedenbach via

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Emergency Deployment of SegWit as a partial mitigation of CVE-2017-9230

2017-05-26 Thread Andreas M. Antonopoulos via bitcoin-dev
I rarely post here, out of respect to the mailing list. But since my name was mentioned... I much prefer Gregory Maxwell's proposal to defuse covert ASICBOOST (only) with a segwit-like commitment to the coinbase which does not obligate miners to signal Segwit or implement Segwit, thus disarming

[bitcoin-dev] Request for Comments: Mastering Bitcoin 2nd Edition

2017-03-29 Thread Andreas M. Antonopoulos via bitcoin-dev
I'm requesting feedback and corrections for the second edition of "Mastering Bitcoin". Apologies if this is considered off-topic - it is only my second message to this list in 4 years and I think it is relevant because this book is the first source of information for many new bitcoin developers.