[Bitcoin-development] Hosting of compiled bitcoin client

2012-10-14 Thread Kyle Henderson
Hi team, Given that sourceforge has shown to restrict access to a number of countries at the request of the USA, would hosting of the compiled client on https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/downloads be an alternative that would be considered? It seems like a logical alternative to me that requires

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

2012-01-16 Thread Kyle Henderson
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > There are always issues that raise ire and moral outrage. I would > rather that bitcoin.org stay apolitical -- our users will appreciate > this in the long run. > > Agreed :) For those that believe one particularly noisy country in the No

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Protocol extensions

2011-12-20 Thread Kyle Henderson
> Developers could even choose to integrate Tor functionality into the > client itself at some point. > The "satoshi" bitcoin client already supports use over TOR with the proxy option - I think this was something Satoshi made regular use of. ---

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

2011-12-15 Thread Kyle Henderson
This is the first proposal I've seen regarding mapping something like user@host that actually makes sense to me. Bitcoin itself is decentralised by design, in my opinion it seems obvious that it needs to continue to maintain this feature. On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:59 AM, theymos wrote: > Bitco

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

2011-12-14 Thread Kyle Henderson
Just so we're clear, what is the need for HTTP at all? A query for a string and an answer can all be handled via DNS. On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Zell Faze wrote: > Could we combine this proposal and the HTTPS proposal? > > The DNSSEC TXT record could give instructions on how to query an H