Re: [Bitcoin-development] On Rewriting Bitcoin (was Re: [Libbitcoin] Satoshi client: is a fork past 0.10 possible?)

2015-02-15 Thread Peter Todd
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 11:04:49AM -0800, Adam Back wrote: Strongly with Peter on this. That its highly complex to maintain strict consensus between bitcoin versions, does not justify consensus rewrite experiments; it tells you that the risk is exponentially worse and people should use and

Re: [Bitcoin-development] On Rewriting Bitcoin (was Re: [Libbitcoin] Satoshi client: is a fork past 0.10 possible?)

2015-02-15 Thread Peter Todd
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 06:13:06PM +0100, Tamas Blummer wrote: On Feb 15, 2015, at 6:02 PM, Peter Todd p...@petertodd.org wrote: Yes you are dicking around. I thought I was clear, that I am using Bitcoin Core as border router talking to its P2P interface. Ah, sorry, that wasn't clear to

Re: [Bitcoin-development] On Rewriting Bitcoin (was Re: [Libbitcoin] Satoshi client: is a fork past 0.10 possible?)

2015-02-15 Thread Peter Todd
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 03:23:47PM +0100, Tamas Blummer wrote: Peter, You did not address me but libbitcoin. Since our story and your evaluation is probably similar, I chime in. On Feb 14, 2015, at 2:13 PM, Peter Todd p...@petertodd.org wrote: So stop wasting your time. Help get the

Re: [Bitcoin-development] On Rewriting Bitcoin (was Re: [Libbitcoin] Satoshi client: is a fork past 0.10 possible?)

2015-02-15 Thread Tamas Blummer
On Feb 15, 2015, at 6:02 PM, Peter Todd p...@petertodd.org wrote: Yes you are dicking around. I thought I was clear, that I am using Bitcoin Core as border router talking to its P2P interface. The reimplementation of consensus code helped me to deeply understand the protocol, aids debugging

[Bitcoin-development] P2P tests: peers.dat's requested

2015-02-15 Thread Ethan Heilman
Hi All, I am currently running some tests on the peering system in Bitcoind for a research paper. We hope to develop improvements which we can share with the community. A wide diversity of real peers.dat files would be very helpful. If you are willing, please email me your peers.dat. Thanks,

Re: [Bitcoin-development] replace-by-fee v0.10.0rc4

2015-02-15 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:27:53AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Repeating past statements, it is acknowledged that Peter's scorched earth replace-by-fee proposal is aptly named, and would be widely anti-social on the current network. At a high level, we can see that this thread is contentious

Re: [Bitcoin-development] replace-by-fee v0.10.0rc4

2015-02-15 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 09:27:22AM +0100, Tamas Blummer wrote: On Feb 12, 2015, at 9:16 AM, Alex Mizrahi alex.mizr...@gmail.com wrote: Why don't you use getrawmempool RPC call to synchronize mempool contents? Since RPC interface does not scale to serve a multi user service. In