Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin-development Digest, Vol 45, Issue 37

2015-02-11 Thread Joshua
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[Bitcoin-development] replace-by-fee v0.10.0rc4

2015-02-11 Thread Peter Todd
My replace-by-fee patch is now available for the v0.10.0rc4 release: https://github.com/petertodd/bitcoin/tree/replace-by-fee-v0.10.0rc4 Along with demo scripts of the functionality: https://github.com/petertodd/replace-by-fee-tools New to this version is a comprehensive set of

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

2015-02-11 Thread Tamas Blummer
Peter, An important use of the core is being border router to proprietary software, that is usually indexing the block chain and mempool. That software is also assuming that double spends are not relayed by the core. To remain useful as border router, the replace-by-fee patched core should

[Bitcoin-development] Proposal: Requiring a miner's signature in the block header

2015-02-11 Thread Hector Chu
A proposal for stemming the tide of mining centralisation -- Requiring a miner's signature in the block header (the whole of which is hashed), and paying out coinbase to the miner's public key. Please comment on whether this idea is feasible, has been thought of before, etc., etc. Thank you.

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: Requiring a miner's signature in the block header

2015-02-11 Thread Natanael
Den 11 feb 2015 09:55 skrev Hector Chu hector...@gmail.com: A proposal for stemming the tide of mining centralisation -- Requiring a miner's signature in the block header (the whole of which is hashed), and paying out coinbase to the miner's public key. Please comment on whether this idea is

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: Requiring a miner's signature in the block header

2015-02-11 Thread Mike Hearn
If you're interested in working on mining decentralisation, chipping away at getblocktemplate support would be a better path forward. It's possible to have decentralised pooled mining - I know it sounds like a contradiction but it's not. I wrote about some of the things that can be done in this

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

2015-02-11 Thread Peter Todd
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 08:23:29AM +0100, Tamas Blummer wrote: Peter, An important use of the core is being border router to proprietary software, that is usually indexing the block chain and mempool. That software is also assuming that double spends are not relayed by the core. To