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: > > > >

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Capacity increases for the Bitcoin system.

2016-01-18 Thread Anthony Towns via bitcoin-dev
TLDR: 1.7MB effective block size is a better estimate than 1.6MB for p2pkh with segwit. 2MB for 2/2 multisig still seems accurate. Additional post-segwit soft forked script improvements can improve the effective block size for p2pkh txns from 1.7MB to 1.9MB, and for 2/2 multisig from

Re: [bitcoin-dev] [BIP/Draft] BIP Acceptance Process

2016-01-18 Thread Luke Dashjr via bitcoin-dev
On Saturday, September 05, 2015 9:19:51 PM Andy Chase wrote: > Okay for sure yeah writing another proposal that reflects the current state > of affairs as people see it might provide some interesting perspective on > this proposal. I would welcome that. Are you saying your proposal is

[bitcoin-dev] What is OpenSSL still used for?

2016-01-18 Thread Andrew C via bitcoin-dev
In the release notes for 0.12, it says that we have moved from using OpenSSL to libsecp256k1 for signature validation. So what else is it being used for that we need to keep it as a dependency? Thanks, Andrew ___ bitcoin-dev mailing list

Re: [bitcoin-dev] What is OpenSSL still used for?

2016-01-18 Thread Ethan Heilman via bitcoin-dev
I believe libsecp256k1 just performs Elliptic Curve operations required by Bitcoin. OpenSSL is used for all other crypto. For instance the PRNG appears to be OpenSSL: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/random.h On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 8:39 PM, Andrew C via bitcoin-dev