[Bitcoin-development] Do not use github issues on BIPs repository

2014-06-05 Thread Wladimir
Hello, I see that people have been filing issues on the Bitcoin Improvement Requests repository, https://github.com/bitcoin/bips. This is not how it is supposed to work -- BIP authors are not required to monitor the github issues, and it is not a good place to discuss in the first place. If you h

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Future Feature Proposal - getgist

2014-06-05 Thread Pieter Wuille
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Richard Moore wrote: > I was considering names like getcheckpoints() to use the terminology that > already seemed to be in place, but they were too long :) > > I have been using getheaders() in my thick client to quickly grab all the > headers before downloading the

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Future Feature Proposal - getgist

2014-06-05 Thread Richard Moore
I was considering names like getcheckpoints() to use the terminology that already seemed to be in place, but they were too long :) I have been using getheaders() in my thick client to quickly grab all the headers before downloading the full blocks since I can grab more at a time. Even with getb

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Future Feature Proposal - getgist

2014-06-05 Thread Mark Friedenbach
The correct approach here is header hash-tree commitments which enable compact (logarithmic) SPV proofs that elide nearly all intervening headers since the last checkpoint. You could then query the hash tree for references to any of the headers you actually need. See this message for details: htt