Re: [Bitcoin-development] The Bitcoin Node Market

2015-06-15 Thread Kevin Greene
Would SPV wallets have to pay to connect to the network too? From the user's perspective, it would be somewhat upsetting (and confusing) to see your balance slowly draining every time you open your wallet app. It would also tie up outputs every time you open up your wallet. You may go to pay for

Re: [Bitcoin-development] The Bitcoin Node Market

2015-06-15 Thread Kevin Greene
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 8:41 PM, Luke Dashjr l...@dashjr.org wrote: On Tuesday, June 16, 2015 3:30:44 AM Kevin Greene wrote: Would SPV wallets have to pay to connect to the network too? From the user's perspective, it would be somewhat upsetting (and confusing) to see your balance slowly

Re: [Bitcoin-development] The Bitcoin Node Market

2015-06-15 Thread Kevin Greene
? They wouldn't be able to sync the blockchain. Even if the wallet has a balance, how would the wallet be able to see that it has UTXO's without the ability to sync with the network for free? On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 8:49 PM, Kevin Greene kgree...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 8:41 PM, Luke

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Zero-Conf for Full Node Discovery

2015-05-25 Thread Kevin Greene
This is something you actually don't want. In order to make it as difficult as possible for an attacker to perform a sybil attack, you want to choose a set of peers that is as diverse, and unpredictable as possible. On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 9:37 PM, Matt Whitlock b...@mattwhitlock.name wrote:

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Zero-Conf for Full Node Discovery

2015-05-25 Thread Kevin Greene
. On Monday, 25 May 2015, at 9:46 pm, Kevin Greene wrote: This is something you actually don't want. In order to make it as difficult as possible for an attacker to perform a sybil attack, you want to choose a set of peers that is as diverse, and unpredictable as possible. On Mon, May 25

Re: [Bitcoin-development] New release of replace-by-fee for Bitcoin Core v0.10.1

2015-05-04 Thread Kevin Greene
I feel compelled to re-share Mike Hearn's counter-argument *against * replace-by-fee: https://medium.com/@octskyward/replace-by-fee-43edd9a1dd6d Please carefully consider the effects of replace-by-fee before applying Peter's patch. On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 9:36 PM, Peter Todd p...@petertodd.org

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Useless Address attack?

2015-03-04 Thread Kevin Greene
Bitcoind protects against this by storing the addresses it has learned about in buckets. The bucket an address is stored in is chosen based on the IP of the peer that advertised the addr message, and the address in the addr message itself. The idea is that the bucketing is done in a randomized way

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Useless Address attack?

2015-03-04 Thread Kevin Greene
Also (I am fuzzy on the details for this), Bitcoind will detect when a node is misbehaving and (I believe) it will blacklist misbehaving nodes for a period of time so it doesn't continually keep trying to connect to tarpit nodes, for example. On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Kevin Greene kgree

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BlockPow: A Practical Proposal to prevent mining pools AND reduce payoff variance:

2014-06-19 Thread Kevin
mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development Why do you want to punish pools? -- Kevin -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Lets discuss what to do if SHA256d is actually broken

2014-06-03 Thread Kevin
am not sure much could be done. That's just me. -- Kevin -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Error handling in payment protocol (BIP-0070 and BIP-0072)

2014-04-27 Thread Kevin Greene
Keep in mind that links don't always come embedded in html. Think of native mobile apps. On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Ross Nicoll j...@jrn.me.uk wrote: I'd be very cautious of security implications of embedding files into the payment request. Even file formats one would presume safe,

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Coinbase reallocation to discourage Finney attacks

2014-04-23 Thread Kevin
? -- Kevin -- Start Your Social Network Today - Download eXo Platform Build your Enterprise Intranet with eXo Platform Software Java Based Open Source Intranet - Social, Extensible, Cloud Ready Get Started Now And Turn Your

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Warning message when running wallet in Windows XP (or drop support?)

2014-04-16 Thread Kevin
get to the bottom of this. Should we assume that xp is not secure enough? What is this warning? Who is issuing this warning? -- Kevin -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Warning message when running wallet in Windows XP (or drop support?)

2014-04-16 Thread Kevin
On 4/16/2014 11:28 AM, Wladimir wrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Pieter Wuille pieter.wui...@gmail.com mailto:pieter.wui...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Kevin kevinsisco61...@gmail.com mailto:kevinsisco61...@gmail.com wrote: I think we should get

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Warning message when running wallet in Windows XP (or drop support?)

2014-04-16 Thread Kevin
On Apr 16, 2014, at 8:42 PM, Roy Badami r...@gnomon.org.uk wrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 05:20:41PM +0200, Pieter Wuille wrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Kevin kevinsisco61...@gmail.com wrote: I think we should get to the bottom of this. Should we assume that xp is not secure enough

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoind-in-background mode for SPV wallets

2014-04-09 Thread Kevin
personally like the ida. Are you talking about a flag that could toggle this in the background mode or recoding for in the background use? -- Kevin -- Put Bad Developers to Shame Dominate Development with Jenkins

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Okay, time to bring up bitcoin/bitcoin

2014-04-02 Thread Kevin
On 4/2/2014 9:08 AM, Jeff Garzik wrote: At first, this is a poor choice of URL. But it really looks like a phishing attempt that no one should visit. On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Kevin kevinsisco61...@gmail.com wrote: I've sat on this for some time after starting this. I have forked

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Okay, time to bring up bitcoin/bitcoin

2014-04-02 Thread Kevin
On 4/2/2014 11:13 AM, Laszlo Hanyecz wrote: Maybe this site serves up exploits selectively? I'm guessing most people are getting the 'domain for sale' but whoever is the target probably gets something special? On Apr 2, 2014, at 2:53 PM, Kevin kevinsisco61...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/2/2014

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Okay, time to bring up bitcoin/bitcoin

2014-04-02 Thread Kevin
On 4/2/2014 11:45 AM, Ricardo Filipe wrote: Kevin, the thing is you gave us a bad link... what is the correct URL of your project? 2014-04-02 16:30 GMT+01:00 Kevin kevinsisco61...@gmail.com: On 4/2/2014 11:13 AM, Laszlo Hanyecz wrote: Maybe this site serves up exploits selectively? I'm

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Okay, time to bring up bitcoin/bitcoin

2014-04-02 Thread Kevin
On 4/2/2014 12:55 PM, Jud wrote: Looks like Kevin was probably trying to point us to his fork for comments: https://github.com/kjsisco/bitcoin/tree/patch-1 -- Jud On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Laszlo Hanyecz wrote: Maybe he has a fork on the real github.com http://github.com

[Bitcoin-development] Okay, time to bring up bitcoin/bitcoin

2014-04-01 Thread Kevin
at it, and let's have an open dialog about it. I want to know the good, the bad, and the ugly! -- Kevin -- ___ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Bitcoin-development] New side channel attack that can recover Bitcoin keys

2014-03-05 Thread Kevin
@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development How can we patch this issue? -- Kevin -- Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you

[Bitcoin-development] Process for getting a patch aproved?

2014-03-05 Thread Kevin
Hello. How would I submit a patch? Could it be sent through the list as an attachment? -- Kevin -- Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free

[Bitcoin-development] New to this list

2014-03-02 Thread Kevin
Hello. I am a developer and I wish to contribute to bitcoin. Where is the best place to start? -- Kevin -- Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP70 extension to allow for identity delegation

2014-03-01 Thread Kevin Greene
Another example use-case to back up devrandom's point is using a twitter handle as the merchant name. In that example, a 3rd party service hosts and signs the PaymentRequest, but when someone opens that PaymentRequest in their wallet, they should know that they are paying the specified twitter

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Extension for BIP-0070 to support recurring payments

2014-02-12 Thread Kevin Greene
: Hi Kevin, On Feb 11, 2014, at 2:00 AM, Kevin Greene kgree...@gmail.com wrote: Figured I would have a crack at reviewing this since Mike is out for a bit. It was great running into you guys at the bitcoin fair in SF! Small world :) Indeed! It was great meeting you! It's always nice to meet

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Extension for BIP-0070 to support recurring payments

2014-02-11 Thread Kevin Greene
Figured I would have a crack at reviewing this since Mike is out for a bit. It was great running into you guys at the bitcoin fair in SF! Small world :) I like how simple this is. You just give it an url to fetch the next payment request and a date to fetch it. What should happen if the client

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Extension for BIP-0070 to support recurring payments

2014-02-11 Thread Kevin Greene
Sending this again and truncating since apparently the message body was too long. Thanks for humoring my questions! I think reporting such errors to the wallet would make complete sense. However i am not clear why we would a separate url for that? Hmm, thinking about this more, adding a simple

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP70: PaymentACK semantics

2014-01-27 Thread Kevin Greene
+1 for an error field. Should the wallet broadcast the transaction to the bitcoin network when it receives an ACK, or always assume that the merchant server will do that? On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Mike Hearn m...@plan99.net wrote: At the moment there's no way to distinguish between a

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP70: PaymentACK semantics

2014-01-27 Thread Kevin Greene
27, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Pieter Wuille pieter.wui...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:03 PM, Kevin Greene kgree...@gmail.com wrote: +1 for an error field. Agree, I think we need a way for client applications to interpret the response. Should the wallet broadcast the transaction

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Extension for BIP-0070 to support recurring payments

2014-01-27 Thread Kevin Greene
+1 to the idea of recurring payment requests. Perhaps one way to realize this would be to add an optional URL to the PaymentRequest object where the next PaymentRequest can be fetched and the date at which the merchant expects the next payment. On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Stephane Brossier