Re: [Bitcoin-development] Handling miner adoption gracefully for embedded consensus systems via double-spending/replace-by-fee

2014-03-24 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
I think that's fair, so long as we limit bitcoin-development discussion to issues that are relevant to the owners of the hashrate and companies that pay developer salaries. What I'm asking for is some honesty that Bitcoin is a centralized system and to stop arguing technical points on the altar

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fake PGP key for Gavin

2014-03-24 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/23/2014 03:12 PM, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: I find it more likely that fake PGP keys are from corporate industrial espionage and/or organized crime outfits. Intelligence agencies will stick to compromised X509, network cards, and binary

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Handling miner adoption gracefully for embedded consensus systems via double-spending/replace-by-fee

2014-03-24 Thread Mark Friedenbach
On 03/24/2014 01:34 PM, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: I'm here because I want to sell corn for bitcoin, and I believe it will be more profitable for me to do that with a bitcoin-blockchain-based system in which I have the capability to audit the code that executes the trade. A discussion over such a

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Handling miner adoption gracefully for embedded consensus systems via double-spending/replace-by-fee

2014-03-24 Thread Luke-Jr
On Saturday, March 22, 2014 8:47:02 AM Peter Todd wrote: To make a long story short, it was soon suggested that Bitcoin Core be forked - the software, not the protocol - and miners encouraged to support it. There's been at least one public miner-oriented fork of Bitcoin Core since 0.7 or