Re: [Bitcoin-development] questions about bitcoin-XT code fork non-consensus hard-fork

2015-06-16 Thread Pindar Wong
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 2:03 AM, Adam Back a...@cypherspace.org wrote: Hi Mike Well thank you for replying openly on this topic, its helpful. I apologise in advance if this gets quite to the point and at times blunt, but transparency is important, and we owe it to the users who see Bitcoin

Re: [Bitcoin-development] questions about bitcoin-XT code fork non-consensus hard-fork

2015-06-16 Thread Pindar Wong
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Peter Todd p...@petertodd.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 08:33:31PM +0800, Pindar Wong wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 2:03 AM, Adam Back a...@cypherspace.org wrote: Dear Adam, All: At the community's convenience, it would be an honour to arrange

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Various block size proposals

2015-06-12 Thread Pindar Wong
Thanks Bryan for collating these links in one great list. This is very helpful and thanks for sharing it. Feel free to fork https://github.com/EthanHeilman/BlockSizeDebate edit to add the list of proposals and create a pull request to Ethan. There's also a miningconsensus.slack.com group to have

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Meta suggestions for this block size debate

2015-06-06 Thread Pindar Wong
and what isn't, as I don't have as low-level an understanding as I'd like. I don't feel qualified. On Jun 6, 2015 2:34 AM, Pindar Wong pindar.w...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Gabe. https://github.com/gappleto97/BlockSizeDebate github's reachable via vpn. p. On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 2:28 PM, gabe

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Meta suggestions for this block size debate

2015-06-06 Thread Pindar Wong
in this email chain. I'll be getting home tomorrow, so I should be able to start back up on this. A few days from now we should throw this on /r/Bitcoin so we can get some more public comment on it. They already gave me a few leads to chase. On Jun 5, 2015 11:34 PM, Pindar Wong pindar.w...@gmail.com

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Meta suggestions for this block size debate

2015-06-05 Thread Pindar Wong
Gabe, Did you ever get an answer to this? Ill have some time tomorrow to be able to help with some work on this and will need to do it myself anyways since I'm not sure I understand the nuances, where bitcoin XT fits into the scheme of things (or not) etc. I would have thought that there would

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Max Block Size: Simple Voting Procedure

2015-06-02 Thread Pindar Wong
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Stephen Morse stephencalebmo...@gmail.com wrote: Pindar, yes and it's a good idea to separate the hard/soft fork upgrades. The point being here is that we're also establishing a process for the community to self-determine the way forward in a transparent and

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: Block Size Increase Requirements

2015-06-01 Thread Pindar Wong
I think it would be helpful if we could all *chill* and focus on the solid engineering necessary to make Bitcoin succeed. p. On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Chun Wang 1240...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Mike Hearn m...@plan99.net wrote: Whilst it would be nice if miners

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: Block Size Increase Requirements

2015-06-01 Thread Pindar Wong
Two very valid and important points. Thank you for making these observations Peter. p. On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Peter Todd p...@petertodd.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 06:42:05PM +0800, Pindar Wong wrote: On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Mike Hearn m...@plan99.net wrote

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: Block Size Increase Requirements

2015-05-31 Thread Pindar Wong
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Ricardo Filipe ricardojdfil...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-06-01 0:40 GMT+01:00 Pindar Wong pindar.w...@gmail.com: On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Ricardo Filipe ricardojdfil...@gmail.com wrote: He also said that the equation for miners has many variables

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP for standard multi-signature P2SH addresses

2015-03-11 Thread Pindar Wong
Hi, Perhaps at some point consider introducing something akin to a 'Bitcoin-Draft' (BD) status with some autoexpiry period? I understand that the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) http://www.ietf.org has the concept of 'Internet Drafts (ID) http://www.ietf.org/ietf-ftp/1id-guidelines.txt

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP for standard multi-signature P2SH addresses

2015-03-11 Thread Pindar Wong
11, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Pindar Wong pindar.w...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps at some point consider introducing something akin to a 'Bitcoin-Draft' (BD) status with some autoexpiry period? I understand that the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has the concept of 'Internet Drafts (ID

Re: [Bitcoin-development] New paper: Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies

2015-03-08 Thread Pindar Wong
*Spendid* work Andrew (and all the other authors). Well done. This is a timely paper that deserves significantly wider circulation and comment. FWIW, Joichi Ito, from the MIT media Lab, made reference to your work during yesterday's MIT Bitcoin Expo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIgjogLipvk[@