[bitcoin-dev] Message signing (again)

2020-10-01 Thread Karl-Johan Alm via bitcoin-dev
Hello, I have updated the signmessage proposal (BIP-322) to use the same approach as signet uses, which brings out of the box support for psbt and such, and removes the need for a custom signer and validator (well, sort of anyway). In the process, I've also replaced the concatenation approach

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Floating-Point Nakamoto Consensus

2020-10-01 Thread ZmnSCPxj via bitcoin-dev
Good morning Mike, That is better than implied name-calling and refusing to lay out your argument in detail. It is still sub-optimal since you are still being insulting by labeling me as "reactionary", when you could have just laid out the exact same argument ***in the first place*** without

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Floating-Point Nakamoto Consensus

2020-10-01 Thread Mike Brooks via bitcoin-dev
ZmnSCPxj, The growing tare in growing disagreement continues to divide mining capacity while the network waits for formation of future blocks - you'll never get to complete consensus unless three is a way to avoid ambiguity in disagreement, which you have not addressed. The topic of my

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Floating-Point Nakamoto Consensus

2020-10-01 Thread Larry Ruane via bitcoin-dev
Hello Mike and others, I just want to plug the open-source POW network mining simulator I recently wrote: https://github.com/LarryRuane/minesim It simulates Bitcoin's existing POW (of course), but probably would be easy to modify to correspond to variations such as the one being proposed here.

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Floating-Point Nakamoto Consensus

2020-10-01 Thread Mike Brooks via bitcoin-dev
Hey Larry, Great project, and great youtube video. Expect a PR from me. ... If you actively ping nodes that are running a weaker block, you could inform them of the new block, there could be a mechanism to eradicate dissent. -Mike On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 9:43 AM Larry Ruane wrote: > Hello