Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Cooperative Proof-of-Stake whitpaper

2014-05-21 Thread Odinn Cyberguerrilla
I completed a whitepaper for Bitcoin a proof-of-stake version which uses a single nomadic verifiable mint agent and distributed replication of a single blockchain by compensated full nodes to achieve 6-hop, sub-second transaction acknowledgement times. Plus it pays dividends to holders

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-21 Thread Alex Kotenko
okay, I've set it up with bind forwarding requests to two dnsseeds running on separate ports. Though I see a problem with testnet DNS seed itself. It runs, but somehow it only returns one IP address. Exactly same DNS seeder looking for mainnet nodes is working fine. You can reach seeds through

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-21 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Great, thanks for this contribution! Do you plan to have your seeds reachable on port 53 eventually? Currently bitcoinj cannot deal with nonstandard ports I think. On 05/21/2014 11:23 AM, Alex Kotenko wrote: okay, I've set it up with bind forwarding requests to two dnsseeds running on

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-21 Thread Alex Kotenko
Misunderstanding. Both seeds are available on port 53 via BIND forwarding. Just also each DNS seed is available separately on it's own port. Best regards, Alex Kotenko 2014-05-21 12:03 GMT+01:00 Andreas Schildbach andr...@schildbach.de: Great, thanks for this contribution! Do you plan to

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds unstable

2014-05-21 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Hmmm, not for me: $ nslookup bitcoin-seed.alexykot.me Server: 127.0.1.1 Address:127.0.1.1#53 ** server can't find bitcoin-seed.alexykot.me: SERVFAIL $ nslookup testnet-seed.alexykot.me Server: 127.0.1.1 Address:127.0.1.1#53 ** server can't find

[Bitcoin-development] PSA: Please sign your git commits

2014-05-21 Thread Wladimir
Hello all, When you're contributing to Bitcoin Core development please sign your git commits. This is easy to do and will help in assuring the integrity of the tree. How to sign your commits? -- Provide the `-S` flag (or `--gpg-sign`) to git commit when

[Bitcoin-development] PSA: Extending BIP 70 / payment protocol

2014-05-21 Thread Jeff Garzik
Please put any payment protocol extensions into a new draft BIP. BIP 70 should not be updated continuously. Mimic the IETF, where new RFCs are produced as protocols are extended. Once published, an IETF RFC is considered static. That said, I think it is OK to be smart, and break the static

Re: [Bitcoin-development] PSA: Please sign your git commits

2014-05-21 Thread Wladimir
Hello Chris, On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Chris Beams ch...@beams.io wrote: I'm personally happy to comply with this for any future commits, but wonder if you've considered the arguments against commit signing [1]? Note especially the reference therein to Linus' original negative opinion

Re: [Bitcoin-development] PSA: Please sign your git commits

2014-05-21 Thread David A. Harding
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 06:39:44PM +0200, Chris Beams wrote: I [was] searching for a way to enable signing by default [...] Unfortunately, there isn't one, meaning it's likely that most folks will forget to do this most of the time. For all of my projects, I now I put this script in

Re: [Bitcoin-development] PSA: Please sign your git commits

2014-05-21 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Mark Friedenbach m...@monetize.io wrote: Honest question: what would signed commits do to help us here anyway? What's the problem being solved? Unfortunately git places signatures in the history itself, so it's not like we could use easily use signatures to

Re: [Bitcoin-development] PSA: Please sign your git commits

2014-05-21 Thread Chris Beams
On May 21, 2014, at 10:25 PM, David A. Harding d...@dtrt.org wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 06:39:44PM +0200, Chris Beams wrote: I [was] searching for a way to enable signing by default [...] Unfortunately, there isn't one, meaning it's likely that most folks will forget to do this most of

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core Nightly Builds

2014-05-21 Thread Warren Togami Jr.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=571414.0 Thanks to the efforts of Cory Fields, Bitcoin Core now has deterministic builds for MacOS X. The nightly builder now has Windows, Linux and MacOS X test builds available for download. Warren On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Warren Togami Jr.