[Bitcoin-development] Post-0.7.1 tree freeze for ultraprune

2012-10-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
Proposal: following 0.7.1 release, freeze the tree. Do not pull anything, until ultraprune is pulled (or rejected, but I think the latter is unlikely). Common sense exceptions still apply (critical bug fixes, etc.) Ultraprune does not need to be "perfect" to be pulled... this pull would occur a

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Electrum security model concerns

2012-10-10 Thread Mike Hearn
> I tried in IRC and got no response. These messages are copying the > only contact email address I could find. Forum private message may work better. > I think this is very hard because this matter is rapidly politicized. > There are some in the community who will instantly allege misconduct > w

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Electrum security model concerns

2012-10-10 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: > +gary > >> Electrum also has a daemon for merchants. > > Well, I suggest taking it up with Thomas directly. A thread here won't do > much. I tried in IRC and got no response. These messages are copying the only contact email address I could fi

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Electrum security model concerns

2012-10-10 Thread Gary Rowe
Just to chime in on the MultiBit Merchant aspect. The architecture is that MBM is a Java backend, but executes as a simple command line: java -jar mbm.jar server config.yml As Mike expects, MBM offers a RESTful API using HAL+JSON. It provides a comprehensive set of order and invoice processing, a

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Electrum security model concerns

2012-10-10 Thread Mike Hearn
+gary > Electrum also has a daemon for merchants. Well, I suggest taking it up with Thomas directly. A thread here won't do much. > Considering the dislike of > Java that exist reflexively in much of the non-java community and the > greater ease of deployment and the integration of type-2 split

[Bitcoin-development] Long stalling periods

2012-10-10 Thread Samuel Tardieu
Hi. I've removed by blockchain information and started redownloading it, on a fast connection, using the latest git version (tagged v0.7.1rc1), on a SSD disk. Everything goes very fast, except that a lot of duplicate blocks are processed. New blocks arrive quickly, then a lot of duplicates seem t