Re: [Bitcoin-development] New paper: Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies

2015-03-02 Thread Ricardo Filipe
As a researcher in a distributed systems group, it is awesome to see these papers flocking up that help convince the supervisors to pay more attention to blockchain technologies. thanks for keeping us up to speed. 2015-03-02 16:48 GMT+00:00 Andrew Miller : > We (Joseph Bonneau, myself Arvind Naray

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin at POS using BIP70, NFC and offline payments - implementer feedback

2015-03-02 Thread Eric Voskuil
On 02/26/2015 04:30 AM, Andreas Schildbach wrote: > On 02/24/2015 11:41 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: >> On 02/23/2015 04:10 PM, Eric Voskuil wrote: >>> Does this not also require the BT publication of the script for a P2SH >>> address? >> >> You mean if the URI you're serving is like this? >> >>bitcoi

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Electrum 2.0 has been tagged

2015-03-02 Thread Jim
Great to see Electrum 2.0 tagged ! It's been a long road I know. Congratulations to ThomasV and all the other Electrum contributors. :-) Jim -- http://bitcoin-solutions.co.uk On Mon, Mar 2, 2015, at 03:37 PM, Mike Hearn wrote: > Congrats Thomas! Glad to see Electrum 2 finally launch. > > >

[Bitcoin-development] New paper: Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies

2015-03-02 Thread Andrew Miller
We (Joseph Bonneau, myself Arvind Narayanan, Jeremy Clark, Ed Felten, Josh Kroll -- from Stanford, Maryland, Concordia, Princeton) have written a “systemization” paper about Bitcoin-related research. It’s going to appear in the Oakland security conference later this year (IEEE Security and Privacy)

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Electrum 2.0 has been tagged

2015-03-02 Thread Mike Hearn
Congrats Thomas! Glad to see Electrum 2 finally launch. > * New seed derivation method (not compatible with BIP39). Does this mean a "12 words" wallet created by Electrum won't work if imported into some other wallet that supports BIP39? Vice versa? This seems unfortunate. I guess if seeds are