Re: [Bitcoin-development] Deanonymisation of clients in Bitcoin P2P network paper

2015-01-22 Thread Mike Hearn
I hear that. But I don't see why mainstream wallets and wallets designed for crypto research should not share a common core. I think there was some misunderstanding. I was saying they *could and should* share common cores, so we are in agreement without realising it :) I also didn't mean to

[Bitcoin-development] Ensuring security of funds and preserving anonymity when using Bitcoin for e-commerce

2015-01-22 Thread Jonathan Brown
I wrote a blog post entitled Ensuring security of funds and preserving anonymity when using Bitcoin for e-commerce. I thought the readers of this list might be interested. http://jonathanpatrick.me/blog/bitcoin-ecommerce

[Bitcoin-development] Securing wallet on paper

2015-01-22 Thread U.Mutlu
I don't know yet the details of how a wallet looks like internally, but I think it should be possible to print the wallet incl. acct nbr out on classical paper (as base16 or base64 etc.) for filing it in a physical home or bank safe. Later, typing it from paper to a small converter program that

Re: [Bitcoin-development] IMPULSE: Instant Payments using the Bitcoin protocol

2015-01-22 Thread Tom Harding
On 1/17/2015 12:45 PM, Rune Kjær Svendsen wrote: PDF: http://impulse.is/impulse.pdf I'd love to hear this list's thoughts. Will success be defined by BitPay Payment Channels Accepted Here signs appearing in shop windows?

Re: [Bitcoin-development] IMPULSE: Instant Payments using the Bitcoin protocol

2015-01-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
The user experience is significantly more secure than today. Presumably the future supports many payment facilitators, including m-of-n oracles, and this is perfectly compatible with that. On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Tom Harding t...@thinlink.com wrote: On 1/17/2015 12:45 PM, Rune Kjær

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [softfork proposal] Strict DER signatures

2015-01-22 Thread Zooko Wilcox-OHearn
.Hi there. Thank you for your work on this. I've looked over https://gist.github.com/sipa/5d12c343746dad376c80 and https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin/commit/bipstrictder . I didn't actually audit the included reference implementation of IsValidSignatureEncoding(), and I didn't check whether the test

Re: [Bitcoin-development] IMPULSE: Instant Payments using the Bitcoin protocol

2015-01-22 Thread Justus Ranvier
On 01/17/2015 08:45 PM, Rune Kjær Svendsen wrote: Hi list Found this on reddit: http://impulse.is/ PDF: http://impulse.is/impulse.pdf I'd love to hear this list's thoughts. /runeks I'm concerned about the silence that always erupts whenever privacy-hostile products are proposed. --