Re: [Bitcoin-development] Procedure for non-tech contributions
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Tom Geller t...@tomgeller.com wrote: Anyway, this particular solution doesn't appear to be possible in this case, as the file isn't at https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/0.9.0/doc/release-notes , and I don't believe I could copy it to the repository without going the whole git route. Suggestions welcome, here or privately. It's not entirely trivial as you have to make sure you're editing on the 0.9 branch not the master branch, but can be done like this: - Go to https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/0.9.0/doc/release-notes.md - Click edit - Make your changes and add a commit message describing the change, usually something like 'doc: Add missing foowidget to release notes'. Wladimir -- Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
Re: [Bitcoin-development] Procedure for non-tech contributions
Hey Tom, Thanks for getting involved! It's great to see someone who would like to focus on docs. One project I've been thinking about recently is a Bitcoin Developer Network subsection of our website. Right now bitcoin.org is entirely consumer focused. And as you noted, the wiki is undergoing some kind of heart attack - it's not an ideal medium for professional docs anyway. So it's too hard to learn how to work with Bitcoin as a developer, and we could really benefit from professionally curated web content. We have a great web dev in the form of Saivann, who recently got some sponsorship from the Foundation to spend time on the website, so I'm hoping that if we find people to produce the content then he can with the visual design and we could create something really special. If you're interested in this let me know. On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Tom Geller t...@tomgeller.com wrote: On Mar 3, 2014, at 2:13 PM, Tom Geller wrote: FYI, I made my edits to the release notes of 0.9.0rc2; the pull request is at https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3787. I gladly welcome corrections as needed. It failed testing. I assume I'll get emails as others add comments; please contact me privately if it doesn't, and you're willing to help this n00b. Thanks, --- Tom Geller * Oberlin, Ohio * 415-317-1805 Writer/Presenter * http://www.tomgeller.com articles, marketing, videos, user guides, books -- Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development -- Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
[Bitcoin-development] Is this a safe thing to be doing with ECC addition? (Oracle protocol)
Some people may have seen my service Reality Keys, which can perform a role a bit like an External State Oracle as described previously by Mike Hearn and others. (I like to think of it as a Certificate Authority for propositions, doing for facts what Verisign do for identities.) You register a possible outcome with us, we publish a public key for yes and another for no, and once the outcome happens or fails to happen, we publish the appropriate private key. A few people have been asking for advice on the best way to use our keys to make m-of-n contracts, where each party locks up their stake in a transaction, then the winner gets their private key from Reality Keys and uses it to release the funds. Peter Todd suggested what seems like a very nice way to do this without needing non-standard transactions or refund transactions. I've had a go at implementing it and it seems to work, but I don't know enough about this to distinguish the ECC bit of it from magic, so I'm wondering if people who do understand it could comment on whether it's a safe thing to be doing. What I'm trying to do here is to combine the public key of each party with the public key of the outcome they're representing, eg I make a public key with: alice-pub + reality-key-yes-pub ...and another with: bob-pub + reality-key-no-pub That goes into a 1/2 P2SH address (in the simplest possible case), which is spendable by one of Alice or Bob after the outcome occurs with either: alice-priv + reality-key-yes-priv ...or bob-priv + reality-key-no-priv I'm making the transaction with add_pubkeys, then spending it with add_privkeys, both from: https://github.com/vbuterin/pybitcointools/blob/master/pybitcointools/main.py#L173 What's worrying my superstitious mind is that knowing reality-key-no-pub before he has to produce bob-pub, I'm wondering if there's something Bob could do with bob-pub to intentionally weaken the resulting (bob-pub + reality-key-no-pub) so that he could sign a transaction with it without needing to know reality-key-no-priv. My example script (and specifically the bit that's scaring me) is here: https://github.com/edmundedgar/realitykeys-examples/blob/master/realitykeysdemo.py#L247 PS. I hope I'm not too far off-topic. Peter Todd suggested it might be worth talking about here as it potentially has implications for other protocols. If people prefer to respond at bitcointalk instead, we've been discussing it here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=260898.60 -- Edmund Edgar Founder, Social Minds Inc (KK) Twitter: @edmundedgar Linked In: edmundedgar Skype: edmundedgar http://www.socialminds.jp Reality Keys @realitykeys e...@realitykeys.com https://www.realitykeys.com -- Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
Re: [Bitcoin-development] Is this a safe thing to be doing with ECC addition? (Oracle protocol)
Nothing is safe. Take risks. Engage one trouble at a time. Perform unexpected actions. Observe the results. Rinse and repeat. Ignore the lions. They too shall pass. Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose. Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom. -- Miyamoto Musashi (Niten Ichi-ryū) Some people may have seen my service Reality Keys, which can perform a role a bit like an External State Oracle as described previously by Mike Hearn and others. (I like to think of it as a Certificate Authority for propositions, doing for facts what Verisign do for identities.) You register a possible outcome with us, we publish a public key for yes and another for no, and once the outcome happens or fails to happen, we publish the appropriate private key. A few people have been asking for advice on the best way to use our keys to make m-of-n contracts, where each party locks up their stake in a transaction, then the winner gets their private key from Reality Keys and uses it to release the funds. Peter Todd suggested what seems like a very nice way to do this without needing non-standard transactions or refund transactions. I've had a go at implementing it and it seems to work, but I don't know enough about this to distinguish the ECC bit of it from magic, so I'm wondering if people who do understand it could comment on whether it's a safe thing to be doing. What I'm trying to do here is to combine the public key of each party with the public key of the outcome they're representing, eg I make a public key with: alice-pub + reality-key-yes-pub ...and another with: bob-pub + reality-key-no-pub That goes into a 1/2 P2SH address (in the simplest possible case), which is spendable by one of Alice or Bob after the outcome occurs with either: alice-priv + reality-key-yes-priv ...or bob-priv + reality-key-no-priv I'm making the transaction with add_pubkeys, then spending it with add_privkeys, both from: https://github.com/vbuterin/pybitcointools/blob/master/pybitcointools/main.py#L173 What's worrying my superstitious mind is that knowing reality-key-no-pub before he has to produce bob-pub, I'm wondering if there's something Bob could do with bob-pub to intentionally weaken the resulting (bob-pub + reality-key-no-pub) so that he could sign a transaction with it without needing to know reality-key-no-priv. My example script (and specifically the bit that's scaring me) is here: https://github.com/edmundedgar/realitykeys-examples/blob/master/realitykeysdemo.py#L247 PS. I hope I'm not too far off-topic. Peter Todd suggested it might be worth talking about here as it potentially has implications for other protocols. If people prefer to respond at bitcointalk instead, we've been discussing it here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=260898.60 -- Edmund Edgar Founder, Social Minds Inc (KK) Twitter: @edmundedgar Linked In: edmundedgar Skype: edmundedgar http://www.socialminds.jp Reality Keys @realitykeys e...@realitykeys.com https://www.realitykeys.com -- Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development -- Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
