Re: [Bitcoin-development] Remove Us Please

2015-06-19 Thread Brian Hoffman
damn he was just on the verge of solving the underlaying problem with Bitcoin and you interrupted his focus. On Jun 19, 2015, at 3:55 PM, John Bodeen john-bod...@uiowa.edu wrote: from their website, humorous bits highlighted October 14, 2014 In latest Hiatus new, the company has taken

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

2015-06-15 Thread Brian Hoffman
Who is actually planning to move to Bitcoin-XT if this happens? Just Gavin and Mike? On Jun 15, 2015, at 6:17 PM, Faiz Khan faizkha...@gmail.com wrote: I'm quite puzzled by the response myself, it doesn't seem to address some of the (more serious) concerns that Adam put out, the most

Re: [Bitcoin-development] PAPER: New algorithm for the discrete logarithm problem on elliptic curves

2015-04-07 Thread Brian Hoffman
That was easy. On Apr 7, 2015, at 5:49 PM, Jean-Paul Kogelman jeanpaulkogel...@me.com wrote: Ok, false alarm. :) Sorry for the spam. On Apr 07, 2015, at 02:37 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 9:32 PM, Jean-Paul Kogelman

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP70: why Google Protocol Buffers for encoding?

2015-01-19 Thread Brian Hoffman
Damn if SPKI had won out we would be parsing S-expressions instead of X.509 certificates. ASN.1 is not fun IMHO. On Jan 19, 2015, at 3:56 PM, Gavin Andresen ga...@bitcoinfoundation.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Mike Hearn m...@plan99.net wrote: OK, I guess we can boil this

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Does anyone have anything at all signed by Satoshi's PGP key?

2014-09-15 Thread Brian Hoffman
I would agree that the in person aspect of the WoT is frustrating, but to dismiss this as geek wanking is the pot calling the kettle. The value of in person vetting of identity is undeniable. Just because your risk acceptance is difference doesn't make it wanking. Please go see if you can get

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Does anyone have anything at all signed by Satoshi's PGP key?

2014-09-15 Thread Brian Hoffman
. _That_ is the relevant fingerprint. Governmental id is second class, can be forged or simply present a different individual from that who is online. PGP WoT wanking does not solve that problem at all. On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Brian Hoffman brianchoff...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Timed testing

2014-04-17 Thread Brian Hoffman
So my question to the community is, how invasive is this to bitcoin's source code? I'd say not very considering you have regression testing mode. On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Jorge Timón jti...@monetize.io wrote: I'm implementing a new testing mode that produces blocks periodically. You

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Chain pruning

2014-04-10 Thread Brian Hoffman
This is probably just noise, but what if nodes could compress and store earlier transaction sets (archive sets) and serve them up conditionally. So if there were let's say 100 archive sets of (10,000 blocks) you might have 5 open at any time when you're an active archive node while the others sit

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Chain pruning

2014-04-10 Thread Brian Hoffman
Looks like only about ~30% disk space savings so I see your point. Is there a critical reason why blocks couldn't be formed into superblocks that are chained together and nodes could serve a specific superblock, which could be pieced together from different nodes to get the full blockchain? This

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Chain pruning

2014-04-10 Thread Brian Hoffman
Okay...will let myself out now ;P On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Ricardo Filipe ricardojdfil...@gmail.comwrote: that's what blockchain pruning is all about :) 2014-04-10 17:47 GMT+01:00 Brian Hoffman brianchoff...@gmail.com: Looks like only about ~30% disk space savings so I see your

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Chain pruning

2014-04-10 Thread Brian Hoffman
*beneficial* thoughts in the future! On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Pieter Wuille pieter.wui...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Brian Hoffman brianchoff...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like only about ~30% disk space savings so I see your point. Is there a critical reason why blocks

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoind-in-background mode for SPV wallets

2014-04-09 Thread Brian Hoffman
How would this affect the user in terms of disk storage? They're going to get hammered on space constraints aren't they? If it's not required how likely are users to enable this? On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Wladimir laa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, This is primarily aimed at developers of