Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP0032

2013-05-27 Thread Amir Taaki
Yeah, I tried implementing it based on the document there and the code that is available in sipa's repo on GitHub but it's not enough. I'm waiting until there is an implementation of this concept before moving on it. From: Michael Gronager To: bitcoin-develop

[Bitcoin-development] message dissemination

2013-01-14 Thread Amir Taaki
cool paper: http://phys.org/news/2013-01-algorithm-message-dissemination-decentralized-networks.html#jCp -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much mo

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 32 HD wallets, accounts should be labels not numbers

2012-12-03 Thread Amir Taaki
prime field so we follow step 2.2.1 From: Pieter Wuille To: Amir Taaki Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" Sent: Monday, December 3, 2012 2:54 PM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 32 HD wallets, accounts should be labels not numbers

[Bitcoin-development] BIP 32 HD wallets, accounts should be labels not numbers

2012-12-03 Thread Amir Taaki
Can this be amended? I think it makes much more sense to allow people to input labels not numbers at this level. General category names for different accounts is much more human than numbers, and you can still use incrementing numbers if you prefer.

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 35: add mempool message

2012-08-16 Thread Amir Taaki
MSG_MEMTX solves the issue of not knowing whether a given inv is in response to a "mempool" command or not. I don't buy the argument that always sending a response "inv" makes things easier because code should always be able to handle misbehaviour from the remote node (ommiting the "inv"). Howe

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 35: add mempool message

2012-08-16 Thread Amir Taaki
My thoughts: The extension is simple. It's only really useful for the use-cases listed if the majority of nodes implement it. As I view the proposal, it is perfectly simple and uncomplicated. If it's implemented, then I suggest to just increment version and make it part of the protocol. On the

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 35: add mempool message

2012-08-16 Thread Amir Taaki
The format for "mempool" packet is missing. I'm guessing that it is an empty message, right? Might be good to add that. - Original Message - From: Jeff Garzik To: Bitcoin Development Cc: Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 6:32 PM Subject: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 35: add mempool messa

[Bitcoin-development] BIP 22 - getmemorypool

2012-07-30 Thread Amir Taaki
Hi, luke-jr wants me to split this BIP into 3 separate BIPs because he says that other devs felt it was too unfocused and covered too many topics. However this discussion took place on IRC, and I never saw any of it to ascertain what happened (BIP 1 says drafts should be evaluated on the mailin

Re: [Bitcoin-development] script tests - invalid script in script_valid.json?

2012-07-30 Thread Amir Taaki
Yep, I want to chip in and also express my gratitude for these useful tests. I sent a personal email to Gavin before. I plan to make some more complex tests by combining several of the simpler ones. - Original Message - From: Gavin Andresen To: Stefan Thomas Cc: bitcoin-development@l

Re: [Bitcoin-development] script tests - invalid script in script_valid.json?

2012-07-29 Thread Amir Taaki
, but upper bound exclusive, so 1 0 1 WITHIN is false. bool fValue = (bn2 <= bn1 && bn1 < bn3); https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/script.cpp#L854 On 7/29/2012 6:31 PM, Amir Taaki wrote: > Hi! > > Is this a valid script? > > ["1 0 1", &

[Bitcoin-development] script tests - invalid script in script_valid.json?

2012-07-29 Thread Amir Taaki
Hi! Is this a valid script? ["1 0 1", "WITHIN NOT"] The first value (1) is tested to make sure it is between the lower (0) and upper (1) value. This evaluates to true, placing on the stack a single byte of [01]. NOT then inverses this to a 0 byte false value of []. What am I missing here? Th

[Bitcoin-development] OP_RESEVERVED and IsPushOnly

2012-07-26 Thread Amir Taaki
Meh, probably harmless, but... As best I can tell, OP_RESERVED does absolutely nothing (a NOP). CScript::IsPushOnly(...) counts this as a push operation. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cov

[Bitcoin-development] Merge branch on github

2012-07-21 Thread Amir Taaki
Hey, https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/46 I tried to keep it professional, and non spammy. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscap

[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Conference: Call For Papers open

2012-07-18 Thread Amir Taaki
Hi, I'm opening the call for papers. It's about time to move forwards with this already. Sorry for the delays. Email proposals to gen...@bitcoin2012.com Speaker list: https://sites.google.com/a/bitcoin2012.com/homepage/speakers --

[Bitcoin-development] Electrum mailing list

2012-07-17 Thread Amir Taaki
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/electrum-discuss -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can res

Re: [Bitcoin-development] bitcoin.org - remove hackathon

2012-07-17 Thread Amir Taaki
held. - Original Message - From: Andreas Petersson To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 11:25 AM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] bitcoin.org - remove hackathon Am 17.07.2012 11:17, schrieb Amir Taaki: > Like I really do not wish to sell a speaker s

[Bitcoin-development] Berlin Hackathon

2012-07-17 Thread Amir Taaki
Video from the event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ2rb4pHH1g The Hackathon is over, thanks for all the participants and sponsors! I had loads of fun, and there were lots of great ideas flying around! Thanks especially to: - IN-Berlin, for providing the space to hold the hackathon! - Sponso

Re: [Bitcoin-development] bitcoin.org - remove hackathon

2012-07-17 Thread Amir Taaki
have to (to pay the bills) then it will be obvious due to scheduling and disclaimers that speakers are sponsors. - Original Message - From: Luke-Jr To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Jeff Garzik ; Amir Taaki Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 2:09 AM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-deve

[Bitcoin-development] bitcoin.org - remove hackathon

2012-07-15 Thread Amir Taaki
Hi, Can I remove the hackathon from bitcoin.org and put up the conference instead? -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and h

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Random order for clients page

2012-07-09 Thread Amir Taaki
lue colors). Making them search the entire page is inefficient and will just get worse once there are many clients on the page (and I think that's the goal). On 09.07.2012 17:54, Amir Taaki wrote: > Took me a while, but finally got it working. > > Entries on the clients page are randomly

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Random order for clients page

2012-07-09 Thread Amir Taaki
r Bitcoin-Qt which is against the wishes of gavin, sipa, jgarzik, and the long-term stated goal of bitcoin.org as a neutral resource for the community. - Original Message - From: Gregory Maxwell To: Amir Taaki Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" Sent: Monda

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Random order for clients page

2012-07-09 Thread Amir Taaki
fying. The argument that the other clients were not up to scratch held maybe a few months ago, but not now. - Original Message - From: Gregory Maxwell To: Amir Taaki Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" Sent: Monday, July 9, 2012 5:04 PM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin

[Bitcoin-development] Random order for clients page

2012-07-09 Thread Amir Taaki
Took me a while, but finally got it working. Entries on the clients page are randomly ordered when the page is generated. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/commit/6850fc8c83494d6ec415ea9d36fb98366373cc03 We should regenerate the page every 2 days. This gives fair exposure to all the client

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Wallet for Android

2012-07-09 Thread Amir Taaki
fresh. - Original Message - From: "m...@henricson.se" To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Sent: Monday, July 9, 2012 11:19 AM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Wallet for Android Sources are available here: http://code.google.com/p/bitcoin-wallet/ Mat

[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Wallet for Android

2012-07-09 Thread Amir Taaki
Hey, I just saw this added to the clients page. One of the conditions we set for that page was that all the clients must have the entire sourcecode available for review, and users should be able to run it from the sourcecode. Is the sourcecode for this client available for review? I couldn't fi

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 34: Block v2, Height in Coinbase

2012-07-06 Thread Amir Taaki
It would be nice if Bitcoin was engineered this way from the start. The amount of workarounds, special cases and code bloat to deal with the fact that txs are non-unique was a massive headache for me. From: Mark Friedenbach To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Bitcoin Devel

[Bitcoin-development] Berlin Bitcoin Hackathon

2012-06-21 Thread Amir Taaki
This is happening in Berlin if anyone is around: http://bitcoin-hackathon.com/ I am happy to host if space is needed. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposed new P2P command and response: getcmds, cmdlist

2012-06-17 Thread Amir Taaki
As the only person to have created and maintaining a full reimplementation of the Bitcoin protocol/standard, I do think Bitcoin is filled with arbitrary endianness and magic numbers. However it is a tiny and simple protocol. The big problem is not implementing the Bitcoin protocol, but the fact

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposed new P2P command and response: getcmds, cmdlist

2012-06-16 Thread Amir Taaki
> I'm just afraid that the currently simple P2P protocol will turn into a zoo of complicated (and potentially buggy/insecure) interactions. This is my biggest fear too. I would rather be extremely conservative in making any changes to the protocol unless absolutely needed. That includes the bl

Re: [Bitcoin-development] SatoshiDice and Near-term scalability

2012-06-15 Thread Amir Taaki
Did anyone try sending them an email asking them to stop or offering help to fix their site? What did they say? I'm sure they would try to be accomodating. - Original Message - From: Jonathan Warren To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 4:35 A

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposed new P2P command and response: getcmds, cmdlist

2012-06-15 Thread Amir Taaki
Introspection/command discovery is nice, but I would prefer it to be immediately done in the first version exchange so no assumptions as to how a network is operating need to be made. I like the idea of a flat list of commands. It might make sense to have "meta"-commands that alias to groups of

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Near-term scalability

2012-06-15 Thread Amir Taaki
uired a cumulative fee of XN BTC for N transactions before being accepted? - Original Message - From: Gregory Maxwell To: Amir Taaki Cc: Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 8:43 PM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Near-term scalability On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Amir Taaki wrote:

Re: [Bitcoin-development] New P2P commands for diagnostics, SPV clients

2012-06-15 Thread Amir Taaki
Why though? The bottleneck is not network traffic but disk space usage/blockchain validation time. - Original Message - From: Mike Hearn To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Bitcoin Development Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 3:43 PM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] New P2P commands for diagnostics, SP

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Near-term scalability

2012-06-15 Thread Amir Taaki
Forcing users to switch addresses per received payment to work around a bad fee system would be a braindead decision. You might love software and playing with web plugins, but not everyone does. Artists like Rap News can right now simply throw up an address and begin accepting donations. That's

[Bitcoin-development] Fw: Punishing empty blocks?

2012-05-28 Thread Amir Taaki
That's a cool idea. Very meta. From: Peter Vessenes To: Stefan Thomas Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 4:54 PM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Punishing empty blocks? One of the issues here though is that it would be

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 33 - Stratized Nodes

2012-05-16 Thread Amir Taaki
> 1) This is cool and useful (but see 3) > 2) This is significantly less secure than validating an entire blockchain; > it's certainly worth working out some use cases here in more detail than just > a sample conversation. More on this below > 3) What about discovery? Will a client now have the

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 33 - Stratized Nodes

2012-05-16 Thread Amir Taaki
bloom filter to make that part more efficient (although it's questionable if pushing this server side would be a good idea as it would now need to track an additional client state). From: Mike Hearn To: Amir Taaki Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourcefor

[Bitcoin-development] BIP 33 - Stratized Nodes

2012-05-16 Thread Amir Taaki
Hi, Please check out my proposal, https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0033 I want to use the existing Bitcoin protocol to provide this functionality in order to maintain compatibility. This proposal does not affect current Bitcoin clients, but allows the parallel system to operate alongside and som

[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin intro and talks in Berlin (11th May at 20:00)

2012-05-08 Thread Amir Taaki
c-base is holding a day on p2p technologies on the 11th. From 20:00 will be the section on Bitcoin. If you want to do a talk, then email me (gen...@riseup.net) and I’ll add you to the schedule. -- Live Security Virtual

Re: [Bitcoin-development] new bitcoin.org clients page

2012-05-02 Thread Amir Taaki
om/store/apps/details?id=de.schildbach.wallet&hl=en On 2 May 2012 20:25, Amir Taaki wrote: This is like the most annoying thing about email. Often with group emails, we'll be having a conversation then someone will click reply instead of group reply and the convo will go on for a while. Eventua

Re: [Bitcoin-development] new bitcoin.org clients page

2012-05-02 Thread Amir Taaki
This is like the most annoying thing about email. Often with group emails, we'll be having a conversation then someone will click reply instead of group reply and the convo will go on for a while. Eventually I'll realise the persons are missing and add them back in. On Yahoo mail (which I use f

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP to improve the availability of blocks

2012-04-30 Thread Amir Taaki
This is optimisation where it isn't needed. Bandwidth is not the bottleneck of the Bitcoin system. It is the immense time needed to validate the blockchain. And clients should never send blocks first. They always send an inv packet, then you request the block. It is a disruptive change and bring

Re: [Bitcoin-development] new bitcoin.org clients page

2012-04-30 Thread Amir Taaki
I was trying to give an even handed balanced overview of all the clients. For each client I was trying to empaphise a 'theme'. Bitcoin-Qt is stability. Armory is advanced. Electrum is convenient. MultiBit is ease of use. ____ From: Alan Reiner To: Amir Taaki

[Bitcoin-development] new bitcoin.org clients page

2012-04-30 Thread Amir Taaki
Check it :) https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/34 -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond

[Bitcoin-development] bitcoin.org luke-jr/multiclient branch

2012-04-29 Thread Amir Taaki
Hi, Can we pull this? It's been there for almost 20 days now. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/32 My comment: "As a first step, this should probably be pulled right away and then any improvements can be made after. Lets get the ball rolling rather than debating the colour of the bi

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Trusted identities

2012-04-26 Thread Amir Taaki
look at the first line of the if statement // Check for conflicts with in-memory transactions CTransaction* ptxOld = NULL; for (unsigned int i = 0; i < tx.vin.size(); i++) { COutPoint outpoint = tx.vin[i].prevout; if (mapNextTx.count(outpoint)) {   

[Bitcoin-development] AreInputsStandard() mistake

2012-04-24 Thread Amir Taaki
Hey, Only a small thing - I think the first check in that function should be an assert. There is a problem if that function is called a coinbase tx. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover al

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Adding request/reply id in messages

2012-04-12 Thread Amir Taaki
Jeff elaborated the problems very well, but I just want to add this: Your change is essentially relying (trusting) the server to track a piece of information (your state). Anytime you start depending on another node in some way, it is opening yourself up to be exploited. Nodes should be doing th

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Adding request/reply id in messages

2012-04-12 Thread Amir Taaki
This is a bad idea. The bitcoin protocol is (mostly) stateless. Stateless protocols are more secure. From: Pieter Wuille To: Gavin Andresen Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 5:01 PM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-developmen

[Bitcoin-development] Can I make a BIP 16 payment?

2012-04-01 Thread Amir Taaki
 Hey, Just wondering why no-one has made one yet. Is there a reason why? I want to test it out. -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure

[Bitcoin-development] BIP 16 changes (list inside)

2012-03-18 Thread Amir Taaki
Hi, Is this an accurate and precise summary of the changes needed for P2SH and BIP 16? == Block validation (starting with ProcessBlock) == * SigOpCount is now a LegacySigOpCount (CheckBlock) * Main body of AcceptBlock() and rest of ProcessBlock() is unchanged. * AddToBlockIndex() unchanged * So

[Bitcoin-development] BIP 18 (or not?)

2012-03-14 Thread Amir Taaki
Hi, luke-jr withdrew BIP 16 and put forwards support for BIP 17. So now there's a consensus to move forwards. However he submitted BIP 18 to me today. From looking it over, I'm not even sure the idea is tenable nor see the purpose when we are adopting BIP 17. Personally I'd rather not see a hi

[Bitcoin-development] JSON-RPC is BIP territory or not?

2012-03-02 Thread Amir Taaki
Hi, I got sent this BIP: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_DRAFT:_getmemorypool#JSON-RPC_Method:_getmemorypool What is your opinion on this? Is it BIP related? It is a implementation-specific non-bitcoin-protocol proposal. My understanding of BIPs is that they apply across bitcoin implementation

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Duplicate transactions vulnerability

2012-02-29 Thread Amir Taaki
I support BIP 30. I gave it a thought. The other ways of resolving this issue, all have various niggles. This is the best way. From: Pieter Wuille To: Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn Cc: Bitcoin Dev Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 4:47 PM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-dev

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Building BDB on MingW

2012-02-26 Thread Amir Taaki
g and there's lots of missing functions like strncasecmp, _strlwr, _fileno and swprintf. From: Wladimir To: Amir Taaki Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 7:18 AM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-developm

[Bitcoin-development] Building BDB on MingW

2012-02-24 Thread Amir Taaki
I followed the instructions from build-msw.txt and am getting the same issue from here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=45507.0 MSYS shell: cd /c/db-4.8.30.NC-mgw/build_unix sh ../dist/configure --enable-mingw --enable-cxx make $ make ./libtool --mode=compile gcc -c -I. -I../dist/..

[Bitcoin-development] BIP 21 accepted, new BIP 19

2012-02-05 Thread Amir Taaki
BIP 21 had broad consensus among the major implementations: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0021 BIP 19 is a document to propose adding a new payment type to the scripting system's template list. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0019 I haven't fully evaluated it completely but it seems solid. My o

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 20 Rejected, process for BIP 21N

2012-01-31 Thread Amir Taaki
's up to the people who are making this stuff to decide :) On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Amir Taaki wrote: BIP 20 really has no support among implementations such as Bitcoin-Qt, Electrum, MultiBit or Bitcoin-JS. As the most active and visible user facing GUI projects (all with some form o

[Bitcoin-development] BIP 20 Rejected, process for BIP 21N

2012-01-31 Thread Amir Taaki
BIP 20 really has no support among implementations such as Bitcoin-Qt, Electrum, MultiBit or Bitcoin-JS. As the most active and visible user facing GUI projects (all with some form of URI Scheme), their opinion carries the most weight. To a lesser degree Bitcoin-Qt has the large majority of user

[Bitcoin-development] BIP 21 (modification BIP 20)

2012-01-29 Thread Amir Taaki
Matt Corallo posted a modification of BIP 20 in an earlier email and I asked him if he wanted to become the champion of that BIP he submitted. It is a modification of BIP 20 sans the alternative non-decimal number stuff. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0021 Right now, I will ask the GUI client

[Bitcoin-development] All pre-BIP BIPs are not valid

2012-01-29 Thread Amir Taaki
Hi all, Luke Dashjr is telling me that BIP 20 was accepted as Final a year ago (before the BIP process existed). https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Improvement_Proposals I respectfully disagree. I find it nonsensical to have a BIP to have been accepted before the BIP process existed. My feeli

[Bitcoin-development] Controlled block generation in fuzzer for testing blockchain

2012-01-29 Thread Amir Taaki
I added the ability to do controlled generation of blocks to gavin's fuzzer https://github.com/genjix/bitcoin/tree/fuzzer bitcoind -daemon bitcoind setfuzzpreviousblock 0019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f bitcoind setgenerate true It will start hashing the block wi

[Bitcoin-development] Fw: Quote on BIP 16

2012-01-29 Thread Amir Taaki
too large for those 77 characters when encoded. That is the example quoted on the forums: 57HrrfEw6ZgRS58dygiHhfN7vVhaPaBE7HrrfEw6ZgRS58dygiHhfN7vVhaPaBiTE7vVhaPaBE7Hr Could it be a mistake? - Original Message - From: Gregory Maxwell To: Amir Taaki Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists.

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Quote on BIP 16

2012-01-28 Thread Amir Taaki
2 compressed pubkeys - Original Message - From: Amir Taaki To: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" Cc: Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 4:52 AM Subject: [Bitcoin-development] Quote on BIP 16 Gavin said: "Part of the controversy is whether really long bitcoin

[Bitcoin-development] Quote on BIP 16

2012-01-28 Thread Amir Taaki
Gavin said: "Part of the controversy is whether really long bitcoin addresses would work-- would it be OK if the new bitcoin addresses were really long and looked something like this:  57HrrfEw6ZgRS58dygiHhfN7vVhaPaBE7HrrfEw6ZgRS58dygiHhfN7vVhaPaBiTE7vVhaPaBE7Hr (or possibly even longer) I've a

[Bitcoin-development] BIP 0020: URI Scheme

2012-01-27 Thread Amir Taaki
BIP 0020 is the old URI scheme BIPisized. ATM it is Draft status. I do not know enough about the discussion back last year to know whether to move it to Accepted status or not. My feelings are that having a re-decision (even if it was accepted last year) is healthy since it makes no sense to ha

Re: [Bitcoin-development] GetBlocksToMaturity

2012-01-27 Thread Amir Taaki
chain ahead of everyone else or there might be a temporary network partition (islanding) that causes another fork to get built up, then when they rejoin, not everyone has 100 confirms... From: Amir Taaki To: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.ne

[Bitcoin-development] GetBlocksToMaturity

2012-01-27 Thread Amir Taaki
Why add 20 to COINBASE_MATURITY there? The underlying protocol accepts spent transactions at 100 (COINBASE_MATURITY) so this seems more like a measure to put people off spending until 120 confirms. If you are determined enough to hack your client, you can still spend before 120 but after 100.

[Bitcoin-development] Fuzzer?

2012-01-25 Thread Amir Taaki
Hey, I heard there is a fuzzer in the works? Where can I find more details of this? I'm going to write one for libbitcoin, but if one already exists then I'd rather build on and use that. Something simple like: - Set previous block hash, set current target - Start hashing - Connect and send to

Re: [Bitcoin-development] bitcoin.org SOPA/PIPA blackout

2012-01-16 Thread Amir Taaki
- Original Message - From: Jeff Garzik To: Amir Taaki Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] bitcoin.org SOPA/PIPA blackout On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Amir Taaki wrote: > How is this

[Bitcoin-development] bitcoin.org SOPA/PIPA blackout

2012-01-15 Thread Amir Taaki
How is this not the most important world issue right now? EVERYTHING is under threat. Go nuclear to show our nerd-rage. Everybody blank your personal sites too. Americans, take to the streets. World, go scream at the US embassy. -

[Bitcoin-development] IRC meeting Tuesday tomorrow 21:00 UTC

2012-01-09 Thread Amir Taaki
Hey, I made a list of things to ask about: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki//10_Jan_2012 Feel free to add things to the agenda. Those are just random things I wanted to discuss. -- Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Pull 748 pay to script hash

2012-01-07 Thread Amir Taaki
OK, here is one thing: what is the purpose behind counting the number of sig ops after you have executed the script in ConnectInputs? Seems like it would be too late then. - Original Message - From: Gavin Andresen To: Amir Taaki Cc: Bitcoin Dev Sent: Saturday, January 7, 2012 10:48

[Bitcoin-development] Pull 748 pay to script hash

2012-01-07 Thread Amir Taaki
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/748/files I'm reading a diff of a now defunct OP_EVAL proposal with the current pay to script hash one. It might be better for code review if the old pull is reverted and then this one re-requested. That will make it easier to see the real changes.

[Bitcoin-development] Meeting 10 Jan 2012 at 21:00 UTC

2012-01-04 Thread Amir Taaki
Hey, Will get around to that write-up. Here is the page for next Tuesday: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki//10_Jan_2012 Feel free to add talking/discussion points to the agenda. -- Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-

[Bitcoin-development] Meeting 21:00 UTC #bitcoin-dev Freenode IRC

2012-01-02 Thread Amir Taaki
weekly meeting. - Announced on forums/mailing lists. - Throughout the week talking points are added to the meeting page. After: - Log of discussion is posted online. - I will type an accessible summary for the community at large on http://bitcoinmedia.com/ - Next weekly meeting is scheduled. Amir Ta

[Bitcoin-development] version::addr_recv/addrMe does what?

2011-12-31 Thread Amir Taaki
Hi, What is the purpose for this field? Can I safely ignore it? Currently it isn't used and I can't imagine it being too useful. If you want to discover your own IP address from it, then that's ripe for abuse. Maybe it could be used in conjuction with your own IP lookup mechanism kind of how t

[Bitcoin-development] upnp isnt working

2011-12-30 Thread Amir Taaki
hey, so sipa/gmaxwell proposed on irc that maybe upnp is not working anymore but there isnt any way to test. well i made an alternate chain, and ran the daemon on my vps. sometimes it accepts connections, sometimes not. It's all very patchy. anyway just putting this out there ---

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP language on normative behavior

2011-12-20 Thread Amir Taaki
OK, give me a shout on IRC. It is a lot of work though, so be prepared. Bring bags of patience :) From: Luke-Jr To: Amir Taaki Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 1:07 AM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP language on normative behavior On Tuesday

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP language on normative behavior

2011-12-20 Thread Amir Taaki
A few weeks back I was in discussion with the IANA on getting a bitcoin URI accepted in the standard. As a prerequisite I had to read 5 huge documents. I did not end up writing that RFC. Skilled developers have even less time than I do. While this particular RFC is really nice for keeping ambig

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Protocol extensions

2011-12-18 Thread Amir Taaki
Has anyone considered 'snapshot' frames (blocks). Message to node: getsnapshot: hash Node responds with a 'block' message. Then the hash for that particular snapshot is hardcoded into the sourcecode. It would replace the checkpoints and use the last hash in that list. Validating blocks is pre

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP 15] Aliases

2011-12-16 Thread Amir Taaki
I think IBANs are not such a good idea. Note that as someone who has spent the last year of my life dealing with hundreds of bank transactions a day and interacting with the banking system (both on a technical, systematic and personnel level), the entire system is a gigantic mess. The banks are

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: [BIP 15] Aliases

2011-12-16 Thread Amir Taaki
You have to be seriously joking to call the bitcoin protocol elegant. A message based system over TCP with constantly changing endians that needs to lookup its own IP address on several websites is not elegant. It is functioning, not elegant. Also it is kind of dick to come guns blaring and sta

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP 15] Aliases

2011-12-15 Thread Amir Taaki
This is maybe the best idea. I added it: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0015#IP_Transactions Things I like about this: - IP transactions are useful, but have a security flaw. This mitigates their security problems. - The code for IP transactions is already in Satoshi client. If other clients wan

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: [BIP 15] Aliases

2011-12-13 Thread Amir Taaki
Maybe I wasn't clear enough in the document, but this is the intent with the HTTPS proposal. gen...@foo.org Contacts https://foo.org/bitcoin-alias/?handle=genjix and the system responds with a bitcoin address. Whether the system gives you a new address from a pool of addresses, or contacts the

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: [BIP 15] Aliases

2011-12-12 Thread Amir Taaki
to send 1 BTC. In our revised history, I simply send 1 BTC to brmlab BOOM. Club Mate - Original Message - From: Daniel F To: Amir Taaki Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 2:32 AM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: [BIP 15

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: [BIP 15] Aliases

2011-12-12 Thread Amir Taaki
> I'm confused about the problem we're trying to solve. I was in brmlab and wanted to pay 1 BTC for a Club Mate. They had on the wall a picture of their QR code and a bitcoin address. I don't own a mobile phone so the QR code is useless. Then I remembered FirstBits, went to my terminal and type

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP 15] Aliases

2011-12-12 Thread Amir Taaki
- Original Message ----- From: Amir Taaki To: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" Cc: Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 10:21 PM Subject: [BIP 15] Aliases I wrote this pre-draft: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0015 It's merely a starter for discussions. Aliases are a way to

[Bitcoin-development] [BIP 15] Aliases

2011-12-12 Thread Amir Taaki
I wrote this pre-draft: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0015 It's merely a starter for discussions. Aliases are a way to lookup bitcoin addresses so I can type gen...@genjix.net instead of 1jkddsjdskjwnk2j3kj232kjdkj

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [RFC] BIP 14 - Protocol Version and User Agent

2011-11-13 Thread Amir Taaki
Nice. I'll check with justmoon when I hopefully meet him at the conference. If all is OK, hopefully 0.6 will be the last protocol version bump for a while. From: Mike Hearn To: Amir Taaki Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net"

[Bitcoin-development] [RFC] BIP 14 - Protocol Version and User Agent

2011-11-10 Thread Amir Taaki
Hi, https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0014 Thanks to Gavin Andresen for proof reading and suggesting clarifications. Thanks to Patrick Strateman for suggesting the hierarchical format and pointing out some flaws of browser user-agents to me. The timeline is written in the past tense since BIPs ar

[Bitcoin-development] BIP 0001 now active

2011-11-10 Thread Amir Taaki
I put the status for BIP 0001 to active now. Let me know if there's any disagreements with this. I'm on Freenode under the nickname genjix -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-

[Bitcoin-development] subvertx - bitcoin command line utilities

2011-11-05 Thread Amir Taaki
Hey, Thought you might enjoy this/find it useful. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50994.0 Some tools for messing around with the network. -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Lock protocol version numbers

2011-11-05 Thread Amir Taaki
On Saturday, November 05, 2011 12:17:58 PM Christian Decker wrote: >> Sorry for shooting this approach down, but I'm against it. User-agent >> strings are an extremely bad idea as it would lead developers to start >> making communication choices depending on the client type. > This can be necessa

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Lock protocol version numbers

2011-11-05 Thread Amir Taaki
qt:0.4[Ubuntu Oneiric]/ From: Christian Decker To: Mike Hearn Cc: Amir Taaki ; "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" Sent: Saturday, November 5, 2011 2:45 PM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Lock protocol version numbers On BitDroid I stopped updatin

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Lock protocol version numbers

2011-11-02 Thread Amir Taaki
Cool thread. I enjoyed reading that :) Thanks for sharing. From: Christian Decker To: Amir Taaki Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 10:42 PM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Lock protocol version numb

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Lock protocol version numbers

2011-11-02 Thread Amir Taaki
ng it Satoshi is apt homage to the person who made the original client reference protocol. Satoshi BitcoinCommunityOriginal ... Take your pick. From: Luke-Jr To: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" Cc: Amir Taaki Sent: Wednesday, November 2

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Lock protocol version numbers

2011-11-02 Thread Amir Taaki
his with a sane protocol versioning scheme. If we're agreed then I'll start on that BIP. From: Gavin Andresen To: Amir Taaki Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 9:34 PM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Lock protocol version numbers Good idea. Sounds perf

[Bitcoin-development] Lock protocol version numbers

2011-11-02 Thread Amir Taaki
Hey, Can we lock the version numbers to be the protocol version (which changes rarely) and instead use the sub_version_num field + revision number for individual builds? Satoshi 0.4 BitcoinJava 120311 bitcoin-js 6 Like so. Otherwise we will have version bumping insanity :)

[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Wiki

2011-10-27 Thread Amir Taaki
Anybody know how to contact MT about getting it back online? I still haven't finished copy-editing the BIPs and need access to them since there's a new one to be added. -- The demand for IT networking professionals contin

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