[Bitcoin-development] 0.6.x - detachdb in wrong place

2012-06-17 Thread grarpamp
Well, detachdb doesn't appear in the -\? help because it's stuffed under pnp, which is not set in my build. please fix for people, tx :) #ifdef USE_UPNP #if USE_UPNP -upnp\t + _(Use Universal Plug and Play to map the listening port (default: 1)) + \n + #else

Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.6.x - detachdb in wrong place

2012-06-17 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 5:22 AM, grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com wrote: Well, detachdb doesn't appear in the -\? help because it's stuffed under pnp, which is not set in my build. please fix for people, tx :) It isn't inside the ifdef in bitcoin git master. (For future reference this sort of

Re: [Bitcoin-development] After compressed pubkeys: hybrid pubkeys

2012-06-17 Thread Mike Hearn
* 0x04 [32-byte X coord] [32-byte Y coord]: uncompressed format * 0x06 [32-byte X coord] [32-byte Y coord]: hybrid format for even Y coords * 0x07 [32-byte X coord] [32-byte Y coord]: hybrid format for odd Y coords So what's the actual difference in format? Is there any at all, or it's just

Re: [Bitcoin-development] After compressed pubkeys: hybrid pubkeys

2012-06-17 Thread Wladimir
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Pieter Wuille pieter.wui...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 01:01:12PM +0200, Mike Hearn wrote: * 0x04 [32-byte X coord] [32-byte Y coord]: uncompressed format * 0x06 [32-byte X coord] [32-byte Y coord]: hybrid format for even Y coords * 0x07

[Bitcoin-development] Ultimate Blockchain Compression w/ trust-free lite nodes

2012-06-17 Thread Alan Reiner
All, With the flurry of discussion about blockchain compression, I thought it was time to put forward my final, most-advanced idea, into a single, well-thought-out, *illustrated*, forum post. Please check it out: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88208.0 This is a huge

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Ultimate Blockchain Compression w/ trust-free lite nodes

2012-06-17 Thread Peter Todd
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 02:39:28PM -0400, Alan Reiner wrote: All, With the flurry of discussion about blockchain compression, I thought it was time to put forward my final, most-advanced idea, into a single, well-thought-out, *illustrated*, forum post. Please check it out:

Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.6.x - detachdb in wrong place

2012-06-17 Thread grarpamp
It isn't inside the ifdef in bitcoin git master. Oh, hmm, well then, what is the difference or usage between these two repositories in regards to the project? Which one are the formal releases tagged (tbz's cut) in? Which one has the branches with the commits that will make it into the next

Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.6.x - detachdb in wrong place

2012-06-17 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 5:35 PM, grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com wrote: It isn't inside the ifdef in bitcoin git master. Oh, hmm, well then, what is the difference or usage between these two repositories in regards to the project? Which one are the formal releases tagged (tbz's cut) in? Which

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Ultimate Blockchain Compression w/ trust-free lite nodes

2012-06-17 Thread Alberto Torres
Hi, I did describe a very similar thing back in January (also illustrated, and, if I'm not mistaken, more simple and efficient to recalculate), and I wanted to do a prototype, but I have been very busy with other projects since then. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/User:DiThi/MTUT I just saw Gavin

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Ultimate Blockchain Compression w/ trust-free lite nodes

2012-06-17 Thread Alan Reiner
Hi Alberto, Your thread was part of the inspiration for the idea that I proposed. But as I read it more, I see that I originally misunderstood it (mistaking it for a simpler unspent-TxOut tree idea). Even after reading it, I'm not entirely clear how your proposal would work, but I see that

Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.6.x - detachdb in wrong place

2012-06-17 Thread Luke-Jr
On Sunday, June 17, 2012 11:04:42 PM grarpamp wrote: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin https://git.gitorious.org/bitcoin/bitcoind-stable The latter is Luke's backports of security and stability fixes to otherwise unmaintained old versions. Ah ok, coming from cvs/svn, it's a bit

Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.6.x - detachdb in wrong place

2012-06-17 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 7:04 PM, grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com wrote: Presumably the github/0.6.2 branch is safe for production? 0.6.2 is very widely used, more so than the other acceptably updated backports. What degree of caution about wallet eating should be made for those using

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposed new P2P command and response: getcmds, cmdlist

2012-06-17 Thread Mark Friedenbach
Sorry for the duplication Amir, I meant to send this to everyone: BitTorrent might be an example to look to here. It's a peer-to-peer network that has undergone many significant protocol upgrades over the years while maintaining compatibility. More recent clients have had the ability to expose