Re: [Bitcoin-development] Dedicated server for bitcoin.org, your thoughts?

2014-01-01 Thread Mike Hearn
> > Oh, it did? When was that? I must have missed this excitement :) >> > I would be very interested to learn more about this. It seems the steady state load on the site is not very high: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/287 (Saivann ran Google Analytics on the site for a little while

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Happy new year!

2014-01-01 Thread Gary Rowe
Happy New Year to all the good people out there working hard to make Bitcoin better than ever before. Thank you! On 1 January 2014 19:25, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > > > > On 1 January 2014 19:33, Mike Hearn wrote: > >> Bitcoin had an incredible year in 2013, and I very much enjoyed working >> w

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Happy new year!

2014-01-01 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 1 January 2014 19:33, Mike Hearn wrote: > Bitcoin had an incredible year in 2013, and I very much enjoyed working > with and meeting you all. > > I'm very much looking forward to some of the upgrades coming in 2014. > Though a lot happened in the general community, last year was kind of quiet

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Happy new year!

2014-01-01 Thread Wendell
Same here. I feel incredibly lucky to know some of you, and to be able to contribute in some small way to what this is ultimately becoming. It's been an amazing ride, and I'm pretty sure that 2014 is going to totally blow our minds. -wendell hivewallet.com | twitter.com/hivewallet | pgp: B7179

[Bitcoin-development] Happy new year!

2014-01-01 Thread Mike Hearn
Bitcoin had an incredible year in 2013, and I very much enjoyed working with and meeting you all. I'm very much looking forward to some of the upgrades coming in 2014. Though a lot happened in the general community, last year was kind of quiet with respect to the core software. I'm hoping this yea

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Dedicated server for bitcoin.org, your thoughts?

2014-01-01 Thread Mike Hearn
That seems overly complicated, there's no need for the Bitcoin protocol to be involved. Deterministic builds with threshold signed updates are a problem the entire crypto community is now interested in solving - any solution should be generic. Really all you need is an update engine that allows a

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Dedicated server for bitcoin.org, your thoughts?

2014-01-01 Thread Wladimir
> > In any case, I think wallet users want to know when an upgrade is > available, and ability to click an 'update' button get a binary they can > trust. It's not a problem unique to bitcoind, deterministic builds are > awesome, but I don't think fully solve it. > Deterministic builds are one part

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Dedicated server for bitcoin.org, your thoughts?

2014-01-01 Thread Jeremy Spilman
So I looked into gitian, the first thing I noticed was the hashes that people were signing, for example: https://github.com/bitcoin/gitian.sigs/blob/master/0.8.6-win32/gavinandresen/bitcoin-build.assert don't match the hash of the file 'bitcoin-0.8.6-win32-setup.exe' actually hosted by s