Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or If We Do Nothing Analysis

2015-07-25 Thread Slurms MacKenzie via bitcoin-dev
: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or If We Do Nothing Analysis When I looked up that IP address, the Whois info names OVH and Octave Klaba (who founded OVH, according to Wikipedia) as the owner.  blockchain.info[http://blockchain.info]; appears in the HTML header as retrieved by the Anti

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or If We Do Nothing Analysis

2015-07-24 Thread Milly Bitcoin via bitcoin-dev
On 7/23/2015 10:57 PM, Dave Scotese via bitcoin-dev wrote: I used Google to establish that there is not already a post from 2015 that mentions roadmap in the subject line. Such would be a good skeleton for anyone new to the list (like me). Just a point about terminology: Roadmap - A plan of

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or If We Do Nothing Analysis

2015-07-24 Thread Dave Scotese via bitcoin-dev
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 4:38 AM, Mike Hearn he...@vinumeris.com wrote: It's worth noting that even massive companies with $30M USD of funding don't run a single Bitcoin Core node This has nothing to do with block sizes, and everything to do with Core not directly providing the services

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or If We Do Nothing Analysis

2015-07-24 Thread Eric Lombrozo via bitcoin-dev
On Jul 24, 2015, at 10:40 AM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 07:09:13AM -0700, Adam Back via bitcoin-dev wrote: (Claim of large bitcoin ecosystem companies without full nodes) this says to me rather we have a need for

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or If We Do Nothing Analysis

2015-07-24 Thread Eric Lombrozo via bitcoin-dev
Thanks for bringing up the CCSS, Adam and Peter. I was actually working on a post inviting everyone in this mailing list to come and participate…but you guys beat me to it. :) The CCSS is an open standard, born out of the belief that sharing the industry's best practices amongst each other and

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or If We Do Nothing Analysis

2015-07-24 Thread Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 07:09:13AM -0700, Adam Back via bitcoin-dev wrote: (Claim of large bitcoin ecosystem companies without full nodes) this says to me rather we have a need for education: I run a full node myself (intermittently), just for my puny collection of bitcoins. If I ran a

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or If We Do Nothing Analysis

2015-07-24 Thread Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 03:39:08PM +0200, Thomas Zander via bitcoin-dev wrote: On Friday 24. July 2015 05.37.30 Slurms MacKenzie via bitcoin-dev wrote: It's worth noting that even massive companies with $30M USD of funding don't run a single Bitcoin Core node, I assume you mean that they

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or If We Do Nothing Analysis

2015-07-24 Thread Mike Hearn via bitcoin-dev
It's worth noting that even massive companies with $30M USD of funding don't run a single Bitcoin Core node This has nothing to do with block sizes, and everything to do with Core not directly providing the services businesses actually want. The whole node count is falling because of block

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or If We Do Nothing Analysis

2015-07-23 Thread Dave Scotese via bitcoin-dev
I used Google to establish that there is not already a post from 2015 that mentions roadmap in the subject line. Such would be a good skeleton for anyone new to the list (like me). 1. Increase the 7 Tx per second - by increasing block size. 2. Do something about the trend toward centralization.

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or If We Do Nothing Analysis

2015-07-23 Thread Slurms MacKenzie via bitcoin-dev
From: Dave Scotese via bitcoin-dev bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or If We Do Nothing Analysis B) The protocol as it is will soon make common computing machines inadequate for running full nodes