[bitcoin-dev] Sign up for Taproot BIP review by October 30

2019-10-23 Thread Steve Lee via bitcoin-dev
Hello everyone, The schnorr/taproot/tapscript BIPs are ready for review at this point, and we want to get as much in-depth review from as broad a range of people as we can before we go further on implementation/deployment. Reviewing the BIPs is hard in two ways: not many people are familiar with

[bitcoin-dev] Taproot activation discussion

2020-07-12 Thread Steve Lee via bitcoin-dev
Hello all, A new Freenode IRC channel ##taproot-activation has been created for discussion about various activation proposals, community outreach, and general next steps to gain adoption. Feel free to engage, lurk, or ignore. Steve ___ bitcoin-dev

Re: [bitcoin-dev] activation mechanism considerations

2021-03-04 Thread Steve Lee via bitcoin-dev
+1 for calm and patience as we navigate the activation mechanism. On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 3:24 AM Melvin Carvalho via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 at 10:07, John Rand via bitcoin-dev < > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > >>

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund

2022-01-13 Thread Steve Lee via bitcoin-dev
o tackle before it becomes > an issue. > > Cheers, > > (a different) Alex > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 1:49 PM Steve Lee via bitcoin-dev < > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > >> I think the word "The" is important. The title of

[bitcoin-dev] Spiral is Hiring Bitcoin Wizards

2023-04-24 Thread Steve Lee via bitcoin-dev
Note: I checked with the moderators prior to posting this as normally job postings to this list would be frowned upon. I felt like it was appropriate in this case since (a) Spiral is 100% non-commercial FOSS bitcoin (b) many on this list would either be interested in this opportunity or know

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP for OP_VAULT

2023-03-30 Thread Steve Lee via bitcoin-dev
"want bitcoin to be money and money means different things for people in this world" I think we can all agree that a property of money is fungibility, and by its very definition NFTs are not fungible and thus not money. On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 4:56 PM alicexbt via bitcoin-dev <

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin ungibility and inscribed sats

2023-04-02 Thread Steve Lee via bitcoin-dev
"want bitcoin to be money and money means different things for people in this world" I interpreted your above statement to mean that to some people, inscriptions/NFTs are money. That is what I was responding to. On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 9:26 AM alicexbt wrote: > Hi Steve and Bitcoin

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core maintainers and communication on merge decisions

2023-05-10 Thread Steve Lee via bitcoin-dev
Isn't this as simple as anyone (in particular Core project contributors) can express their view in this PR? https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27604 On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 5:03 AM Bryan Bishop via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 12:36 PM

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core maintainers and communication on merge decisions

2023-05-10 Thread Steve Lee via bitcoin-dev
hael Folkson > Email: michaelfolkson at protonmail.com > GPG: A2CF5D71603C92010659818D2A75D601B23FEE0F > > Learn about Bitcoin: https://www.youtube.com/@portofbitcoin > > ------- Original Message --- > On Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 at 03:44, Steve Lee via bitcoin-dev < > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core maintainers and communication on merge decisions

2023-05-11 Thread Steve Lee via bitcoin-dev
kson >> Email: michaelfolkson at protonmail.com >> GPG: A2CF5D71603C92010659818D2A75D601B23FEE0F >> >> Learn about Bitcoin: https://www.youtube.com/@portofbitcoin >> >> --- Original Message --- >> On Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 at 03:44, Steve Lee via

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core maintainers and communication on merge decisions

2023-05-11 Thread Steve Lee via bitcoin-dev
I don't see any reason to be antagonistic in your responses. One piece of advice I'd offer to you and Michael is to consider whether your responses are effective. To persuade other people it takes more than making good points or being right, but you need to find a communication style and