Re: [Bitcoin-development] is there a way to do bitcoin-staging?

2013-06-15 Thread Dennison Bertram
That is true, but someone is already running it as a service on the blockchain itself. See: https://www.proofofexistence.com/ You can imagine similar services cropping up for things like torrents, sending btc tweets, etc. While I am not saying these things are particularly refined ideas in

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin addresses -- opaque or not

2013-06-15 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 11 June 2013 17:29, Luke-Jr l...@dashjr.org wrote: On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 1:11:33 PM Melvin Carvalho wrote: For the sake of argument let's say that opaque means that you can tell nothing about the address by examining the characters. This is true or false based on CONTEXT.

Re: [Bitcoin-development] is there a way to do bitcoin-staging?

2013-06-15 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 19 May 2013 15:23, Adam Back a...@cypherspace.org wrote: Is there a way to experiment with new features - eg committed coins - that doesnt involve an altcoin in the conventional sense, and also doesnt impose a big testing burden on bitcoin main which is a security and testing risk? eg

Re: [Bitcoin-development] is there a way to do bitcoin-staging?

2013-06-15 Thread Dennison Bertram
Why use ripple and not just use the testnet? The advantageous of allowing testnet to be used as an alt-coin are That Non standard transactions can be tested in a pseudo live environment where because the coins have some nominal value people are incentivized to try and steal and come up with

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: Vote on the blocksize limit with proof-of-stake voting

2013-06-15 Thread John Dillon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Peter Todd p...@petertodd.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 01:25:05PM -0400, Alan Reiner wrote: to sign votes. Not only that, but it would require them to reveal their public key, which while isn't technically