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

2016-01-25 Thread Jonas Schnelli via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 > Why is the minimum storage quota of 550 MiB necessary for pruning > nodes if the block data is not served to other nodes ? Could the > client just do transaction verification and transaction relaying > and only keep the block(s) being verified on

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

2016-01-25 Thread Simon Selitsky via bitcoin-dev
>> Block data that is stored can be used by other software, or potentially be >> served to other nodes. The latter is not implemented at the moment - it >> would require a change to the P2P protocol, thus right now pruning nodes >> don't serve block data at all. Why is the minimum storage quota

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

2016-01-25 Thread xor--- via bitcoin-dev
On Monday, January 25, 2016 04:05:59 PM Wladimir J. van der Laan wrote: > I don't have time to work on the release notes right now, but if someone > else wants to contribute that'd be awesome. I cooked my first pull request to resolve this: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7416 Thanks for

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

2016-01-25 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
> > So I'm interested whether this limitation has been lifted, and the whole > feature is considered as finished. Yes, it's exactly that limitation that has been lifted! > If yes, I would highly recommend advertising it in the new release notes - as > said, the disk space reduction is a big

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

2016-01-18 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 11:57:28PM +0100, xor--- via bitcoin-dev wrote: > On Sunday, January 17, 2016 11:08:08 AM Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin- > dev wrote: > > Preliminary release notes for the release can be found here: > > > >

[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