Re: [Bitcoin-development] moving the default display to mbtc

2014-03-13 Thread Gary Rowe
The MultiBit HD view is that this is a locale-sensitive presentation issue. As a result we offer a simple configuration panel giving pretty much every possible combination: icon, m+icon, μ+icon, BTC, mBTC, μBTC, XBT, mXBT, μXBT, sat along with settings for leading/trailing symbol, commas,

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [RFC] Proposal: Base58 encoded HD Wallet root key with optional encryption

2014-03-12 Thread Gary Rowe
Jean-Paul, it may be worth noting that the BIP39 word list is integrated into Bitcoinj so will likely become the de facto standard for Android, Trezor web and several desktop wallets. Anyone deviating from that word list would likely find themselves in an isolated pocket. Regarding the timestamp,

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Multisign payment protocol?

2014-03-11 Thread Gary Rowe
Speaking from the MultiBit perspective, all future protocol development (with the exception of critical security and network compatibility fixes) will be put into a HD wallet. Over time we want to see MultiBit Classic gracefully retire and be fully superseded. Right now, HD is not out there but

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP0039: Final call

2014-01-21 Thread Gary Rowe
MultiBit here. At least Trezor and bitcoinj (Multibit) seems to be going in this way, which is 100% of clients which expressed interest in bip39 :-). slush We'll be using the BIP39 implementation present in Bitcoinj as slush says. Proper Unicode handling is a serious issue however. You don't

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Stealth Addresses

2014-01-15 Thread Gary Rowe
I like reusable address. It is very clear what the intended purpose is and gives a subtle hint that other types of address should not be re-used. On 16 January 2014 00:44, Eric Martindale e...@ericmartindale.com wrote: One variation of this, recycled address, might avert misconceptions that

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Move authorative source for BIPs to git repository

2013-12-05 Thread Gary Rowe
Personally, I would be more inclined to submit and work on a BIP if it was in GitHub. It's a regular home from home for me now. On 5 December 2013 14:43, Jeff Garzik jgar...@bitpay.com wrote: This entire discussion is recycled. Please review the previous discussion, before asking the same

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: MultiBit as default desktop client on bitcoin.org

2013-06-30 Thread Gary Rowe
I've beefed up the supporting documentation for the website to make it more accessible for developers who wish to contribute. It's a Java application serving HTML. It can be found here: https://github.com/jim618/multibit-website On 30 June 2013 16:19, Jim jim...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: Yeah

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol Proposal: Invoices/Payments/Receipts

2012-12-17 Thread Gary Rowe
I've been following this thread closely, and Mike is correct here - protocol buffers is definitely the way to go. On 17 December 2012 09:19, Mike Hearn m...@plan99.net wrote: Can we please drop the binary vs text issue? We have been around it millions of times already. There are no compelling

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Roadmap to getting users onto SPV clients

2012-12-05 Thread Gary Rowe
I would like to chime on on the user experience of the SPV client (in particular MultiBit). Without exception, everyone that I have introduced Bitcoin (which is a lot of people) have expected an instant-on experience. It has to clobber PayPal and credit cards or people won't give it a second

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Testing Project

2012-09-25 Thread Gary Rowe
This is definitely worth doing and I wish you every encouragement. For my part I'm working on a different area of the Bitcoin ecosystem and that is taking up all my time so I can only cheer you on from the sidelines. On 25 September 2012 21:49, Daniel F nanot...@gmail.com wrote: on 09/25/2012

Re: [Bitcoin-development] The Bitcoin Testing Project

2012-08-02 Thread Gary Rowe
Hi Steve, This looks like a good idea to me. The test suites could act similarly to the 100% Pure Java approach that successfully fended off a lot of corrupting influences to Java over the years. Maybe it's worth putting together a small starter suite of tests and showing them to the community

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Accepting broken QRcodes

2012-07-16 Thread Gary Rowe
Is it worth having a few more people email Ben to ask him politely to fall into line with the BIP? No point encouraging broken windows by not speaking out. On 16 July 2012 09:16, Andreas Schildbach andr...@schildbach.de wrote: I asked Ben to fix this (social networks don't parse QRcodes after

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Accepting broken QRcodes

2012-07-16 Thread Gary Rowe
AM, Gary Rowe g.r...@froot.co.uk wrote: Is it worth having a few more people email Ben to ask him politely to fall into line with the BIP? No point encouraging broken windows by not speaking out. On 16 July 2012 09:16, Andreas Schildbach andr...@schildbach.de wrote: I asked Ben to fix

Re: [Bitcoin-development] new bitcoin.org clients page

2012-05-02 Thread Gary Rowe
How about keeping it simple? Bitcoin-Qt * Requires the entire blockchain * Standalone client * Designed for continuous operation * Available for Windows, Mac, Linux with installer * Developed in C * Website: https://bitcoin.org MultiBit * Requires a reduced blockchain * Standalone client *

Re: [Bitcoin-development] new bitcoin.org clients page

2012-05-02 Thread Gary Rowe
with that description? I will check with ThomasV about Electrum. From: Gary Rowe g.r...@froot.co.uk To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, May 2, 2012 8:34 PM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] new

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Announcing the IFEX Project

2012-04-13 Thread Gary Rowe
Hi Walter, This could be of interest to the XChange project. See GitHub: https://github.com/timmolter/XChange The aim of this project is to provide a unifed API for applications to access financial exchanges. At present it supports Bitcoin exchanges (MtGox and Intersango are the primary focus

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 20 Rejected, process for BIP 21N

2012-02-02 Thread Gary Rowe
BlueMatt, did the BIP0021 Wiki entry for req: to req- get updated? I'm looking there now and it seems to be still at req: -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 20 Rejected, process for BIP 21N

2012-01-31 Thread Gary Rowe
Shudder. :-) On 31 January 2012 15:02, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Gary Rowe g.r...@froot.co.uk wrote: One never uses doubles or floats for money. Lots and lots of people do. Go place a sell order on mtgox

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 20 Rejected, process for BIP 21N

2012-01-31 Thread Gary Rowe
Andreas has a good point. See RFC 3986 on URI schemes: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#page-12 The colon is a reserved general delimiter (similar in use to the / in a typical URL, but applies to URNs etc). As suggested, we get req:something being changed to one of the unreserved characters

[Bitcoin-development] BIP 21 (modification BIP 20)

2012-01-30 Thread Gary Rowe
an ISO8601 formatted date/time in UTC (e.g. 2000-01-01T23:59:59Z). This would allow merchants to issue Bitcoin URIs that would expose them to a currency/inventory risk for a defined period of time. Kind regards, Gary Rowe PS First post to this list