Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP16/17 replacement

2012-02-01 Thread Andy Parkins
On 2012 January 31 Tuesday, Gregory Maxwell wrote: I think you've been deceived by people who have some interest in promoting this as some sort of big controversy, or perhaps just confused by the general level of noise. Well that's good that there is no real problem. It does not, in fact—

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP16/17 replacement

2012-02-01 Thread Andy Parkins
On 2012 January 31 Tuesday, Luke-Jr wrote: Both BIP 16 and 17 are backward compatible enough that people can continue to use the old clients with each other. An upgrade is only required to send to (or create/receive on) the new 3...-form addresses. That being Is that true? (I'm happy to be

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP16/17 replacement

2012-02-01 Thread Pieter Wuille
Op 1 feb. 2012 10:48 schreef Andy Parkins andypark...@gmail.com het volgende: On 2012 January 31 Tuesday, Luke-Jr wrote: Both BIP 16 and 17 are backward compatible enough that people can continue to use the old clients with each other. An upgrade is only required to send to (or

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP16/17 replacement

2012-02-01 Thread Andy Parkins
On 2012 February 01 Wednesday, Pieter Wuille wrote: old clients won't they? They don't pass IsStandard(). IsStandard() is for accepting transactions into the memory pool. Non-standard transactions are verified just fine when they are in the block chain. Ah. My misunderstanding then.

[Bitcoin-development] BIP16/17 replacement

2012-01-31 Thread Andy Parkins
Hello, Gulp. Am a little nervous about wading into this swamp. However, it seems to me that the debate has veered into the personal and away from the technical. Surely if there are objections to both suggestions, that another solution might be better? The answer doesn't have to be A or B,

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP16/17 replacement

2012-01-31 Thread Andy Parkins
On 2012 January 31 Tuesday, Luke-Jr wrote: I'm not aware of any remaining *tangible* objections to BIP 17 at this point (Gavin seems concerned over a theoretical risk-that-nobody-has-thought-of), but if there's a better solution, I'm perfectly fine Withdrawing BIP 17 to support it. I imagine

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP16/17 replacement

2012-01-31 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Andy Parkins andypark...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Gulp.  Am a little nervous about wading into this swamp.  However, it seems to me that the debate has veered into the personal and away from the I think you've been deceived by people who have some interest in