Re: [Bitcoin-development] Concerns Regarding Threats by a Developer to Remove Commit Access from Other Developers

2015-06-18 Thread Alex Morcos
, Alex Morcos mor...@gmail.com wrote: Let me take a pass at explaining how I see this. 1) Code changes to Bitcoin Core that don't change consensus: Wladimir is the decider but he works under a process that is well understood by developers on the project in which he takes under reasonable

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Concerns Regarding Threats by a Developer to Remove Commit Access from Other Developers

2015-06-18 Thread Alex Morcos
Let me take a pass at explaining how I see this. 1) Code changes to Bitcoin Core that don't change consensus: Wladimir is the decider but he works under a process that is well understood by developers on the project in which he takes under reasonable consideration other technical opinions and

Re: [Bitcoin-development] questions about bitcoin-XT code fork non-consensus hard-fork

2015-06-15 Thread Alex Morcos
Aaron, My understanding is that Gavin and Mike are proceeding with the XT fork, I hope that understanding is wrong. As for improving the non-consensus code to handle full blocks more gracefully. This is something I'm very interested in, block size increase or not. Perhaps I shouldn't hijack

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Block Size Increase

2015-05-07 Thread Alex Morcos
That strikes me as a dangerous path forward. I don't actually think there is anything wrong with this: everybody eventually gets tired of arguing angels-dancing-on-the-head-of-a-pin, and we're left with the status quo What gives Bitcoin value aren't its technical merits but the fact that people

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [softfork proposal] Strict DER signatures

2015-02-03 Thread Alex Morcos
Could we see a PR that adds it to BIP 66? Perhaps we'd all agree quickly that its so simple we can just add it... In either case it doesn't seem strictly necessary to me that it was non-standard before it becomes a soft-fork... On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 7:00 AM, Wladimir laa...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Reworking the policy estimation code (fee estimates)

2014-10-28 Thread Alex Morcos
Oh in just a couple of blocks, it'll give you a somewhat reasonable estimate for asking about every confirmation count other than 1, but it could take several hours for it to have enough data points to give you a good estimate for getting confirmed in one block (because the prevalent feerate is

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Reworking the policy estimation code (fee estimates)

2014-10-28 Thread Alex Morcos
significantly lower because there are so many fewer transactions confirmed because of priorities. I'm certainly open to tuning some of these variables. On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Alex Morcos mor...@gmail.com wrote: Oh in just a couple of blocks, it'll give you a somewhat reasonable estimate

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Reworking the policy estimation code (fee estimates)

2014-10-28 Thread Alex Morcos
to see if it even made sense to make a PR for this or this isn't the way we wanted to go about it. On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Gavin Andresen gavinandre...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Alex Morcos mor...@gmail.com wrote: Do you think it would make sense to make that 90

[Bitcoin-development] Reworking the policy estimation code (fee estimates)

2014-10-27 Thread Alex Morcos
I've been playing around with the code for estimating fees and found a few issues with the existing code. I think this will address several observations that the estimates returned by the existing code appear to be too high. For instance see @cozz in Issue 4866

Re: [Bitcoin-development] moving the default display to mbtc

2014-03-14 Thread Alex Morcos
I think Mark makes some good arguments. I realize this would only add to the confusion, but... What if we did relabel 100 satoshis to be some new kind of unit (bit or whatever else), with a proper 3 letter code, and then from a user standpoint, where people are using mBTC, they could switch to

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [RFC] [BIP proposal] Dealing with malleability

2014-02-12 Thread Alex Morcos
I apologize if this has been discussed many times before. As a long term solution to malleable transactions, wouldn't it be possible to modify the signatures to be of the entire transaction. Why do you have to zero out the inputs? I can see that this would be a hard fork, and maybe it would be