[Bitcoin-development] Removing transaction data from blocks

2015-05-08 Thread Arne Brutschy
Hello, At DevCore London, Gavin mentioned the idea that we could get rid of sending full blocks. Instead, newly minted blocks would only be distributed as block headers plus all hashes of the transactions included in the block. The assumption would be that nodes have already the majority of th

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

2014-04-20 Thread Arne Brutschy
prefixes correctly or learning 3 > syllable words that (to them) have no instantly apparent relationship > to Bitcoin. > > Mike > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 20, 2014, at 11:44 AM, "Arne Brutschy" > wrote: > >>> I propose that users are offered a pre

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

2014-04-20 Thread Arne Brutschy
Hello, > While SI units are great for people well versed in them, there is a > very good reason people aren't asking for 100 micro dollars in change. > The average person is not going to be confident that the prefix they > are using is the correct one, people WILL send 1000x more or less than > in

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Why are we bleeding nodes?

2014-04-07 Thread Arne Brutschy
> The bottleneck is not bulk disk space, but rather IOPS. Exactly. I stopped running a full node on both of my desktops machines in the last month. Both systems were simply becoming very noticeable (=unbearably) sluggish. I am also running dedicated nodes, which are fine, but on a desktop latency