Re: [Bitcoin-development] RIP Hal Finney

2014-08-29 Thread Oliver Egginger
Am 28.08.2014 um 22:21 schrieb Matt Corallo: > I'm sure many of you have already seen this, but Hal Finney passed away > on Tuesday. No, I have not noticed yet. I did not know him personally, but it still makes me sad now. Last year he wrote on Bitcoin Talk in a thought-provoking way about his dis

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP process

2014-10-16 Thread Oliver Egginger
15.10.2014 at 20:13 Mike Hearn wrote: > For a project that is based on digital signatures, it's really > bad that the mailing list is incompatible with Yahoo's "mail signatures > must be valid" policy. # Mailman: Do not break existing DKIM signatures DEFAULT_SUBJECT_PREFIX = "" DEFAULT_MSG_HEADER

Re: [Bitcoin-development] bitcoind as a library

2014-11-28 Thread Oliver Egginger
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Wladimir wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Mem Wallet wrote: > >> Is there an intention that the various internal libraries could/should >> be strengthened and heirachicalized such that they would be suitable for >> 3rd party development of bitcoin relate

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Block Size Increase

2015-05-13 Thread Oliver Egginger
08.05.2015 at 5:49 Jeff Garzik wrote: > To repeat, the very first point in my email reply was: "Agree that 7 tps > is too low" For interbank trading that would maybe enough but I don't know. I'm not a developer but as a (former) user and computer scientist I'm also asking myself what is the cor

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: Block Size Increase Requirements

2015-06-01 Thread Oliver Egginger
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Gavin Andresen wrote: > What do other people think? Would starting at a max of 8 or 4 get > consensus? Scaling up a little less than Nielsen's Law of Internet > Bandwidth predicts for the next 20 years? (I think predictability is > REALLY important). > > I chose

[Bitcoin-development] DOS-Attacks on bitcoin-client?

2013-04-07 Thread Oliver Egginger
Hello, I'm using your bitcoin-qt client (version 0.8.1). Normally everything is working pretty fine, but sometimes it seems that other nodes produce an enormous amount of traffic. I have not had the time to investigate thoroughly yet. I only have briefly viewed with tshark. So far I have just

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DOS-Attacks on bitcoin-client?

2013-04-07 Thread Oliver Egginger
Am 07.04.2013 17:22, schrieb Scott Howard: > Many new users have started using the reference client which downloads > the whole blockchain from peers. Yes I have made a clean start because of the the new database structure. > There currently isn't a throttling > mechanism [1] so it's possible to

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Malleability and MtGox's announcement

2014-02-10 Thread Oliver Egginger
Am 10.02.2014 13:28, schrieb Pieter Wuille: > Hi all, > > I was a bit surprised to see MtGox's announcement. The malleability of > transactions was known for years already (see for example the wiki > article on it, https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_Malleability it, > or mails on this list fro

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fake PGP key for Gavin

2014-03-22 Thread Oliver Egginger
Am 22.03.2014 18:03, schrieb Mike Hearn: > In case you didn't see this yet, > > http://gavintech.blogspot.ch/2014/03/it-aint-me-ive-got-pgp-imposter.html > > If you're using PGP to verify Bitcoin downloads, it's very important > that you check you are using the right key. Someone seems to be crea

[Bitcoin-development] Ubuntu LTS Packaging?

2014-04-12 Thread Oliver Egginger
Hello, so far, nothing yet? See: https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/ I'm developing currently a LiveCD for hot/cold wallet management on Ubuntu LTS basis. For critical vulnerabilities I have to provide timely updates. I have now decided to maintain my own repository for this project. If there are be

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Ubuntu LTS Packaging?

2014-04-12 Thread Oliver Egginger
Am 12.04.2014 17:34, schrieb Matt Corallo: > Hmm? It's up to date... 0.9.1 doesn't change anything for > dynamically-linked-to-openssl builds. > Okay, my mistake. Sorry to trouble you, but good to know that you are here. regards Oliver --

[Bitcoin-development] Update alert false positives

2014-04-19 Thread Oliver Egginger
Hello, bitcoin-qt produces on many systems an unnecessary alert: "URGENT: Upgrade required: see https://www.bitcoin.org/heartbleed"; Especially the stable channel is affected: https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/bitcoin This is a bit frightening for normal users. I think the best would be

Re: [Bitcoin-development] "bits": Unit of account

2014-04-20 Thread Oliver Egginger
Hello, just my two 'cents': Terms arises by itself. Just as most people speak of coins when they mean bitcoins. I do not see that bitcoin is currently in common use except for speculation. Therefore no term for smaller units has established yet. No problem in my eyes. Time will tell. - oliver