So what exactly was the OP_RETURN bug anyway? I know it has something to
do with not executing the scriptSig and scriptPubKey separately
(https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=58579.msg691432#msg691432) but
commit 7f7f07 that you reference isn't in the tree, nor is 0.3.5 tagged.
It was
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
You misunderstand what BIP_0034 is doing— it's not gauging consensus,
it's making sure that the change is safe to enforce. This is a subtle
but important difference.
Sounds reasonable.
The change in BIP-34 doesn't
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Raph Frank raph...@gmail.com wrote:
Bitcoin is not a democracy— it quite intentionally uses the consensus
mechanism _only_ the one thing that nodes can not autonomously and
interdependently validate (the ordering of transactions).
So, how is max block size to
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.comwrote:
Since, in the long run,
Bitcoin can't meet its security and decenteralization promises without
blockspace scarcity to drive non-trivial fees and without scaling
limits to keep it decenteralized— it's not a change that
Jorge, thanks for bitcoinx tip, I didn't know about it and it's certainly
related. I'll have a closer look
Regarding Ripple, I tried it but as far as I can tell, it doesn't have any
contract enforcement (by technical means) built in.
On 11 February 2013 05:03, Jorge Timón jtimo...@gmail.com
Well, if it's even possible to trade across chains with Ripple (and
I don't know of any reason shouldn't be), you will have to wait to the
release of the full node (validator) code, for now only a javascript
web client is open sourced. But it seems they at least have plans for
contracts judging
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Stephen Pair step...@bitpay.com wrote:
If you've already validated the majority of transactions in a block, isn't
validating the block not all that compute intensive? Thus, it's really not
blocks that should be used to impose any sort of scarcity, but rather
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
I hope that should it become necessary to do so that correct path will
be obvious to everyone, otherwise there is a grave risk of undermining
the justification for the confidence in the immutability of any of the
rules
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
bunch of stuff
I understand your arguments, but don't agree with many of your conclusions.
The requirement for everyone to hear the history doesn't get talked
about much
One of the beauties of bitcoin is that the
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Stephen Pair step...@bitpay.com wrote:
One of the beauties of bitcoin is that the miners have a very strong
incentive to distribute as widely and as quickly as possible the blocks they
find...they also have a very strong incentive to hear about the blocks that
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Stephen Pair step...@bitpay.com wrote:
(by which I mean the fee or cost associated with the bandwidth and
validation that a transaction requires) with some amount of profit. This
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 09:44:11PM -0500, Stephen Pair wrote:
One of the beauties of bitcoin is that the miners have a very strong
incentive to distribute as widely and as quickly as possible the blocks
they find...they also have a very strong incentive to hear about the blocks
that others
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 05:02:39PM -0800, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
It's the year 2043— the Y2038 problem is behind us and everyone is
beginning to forget how terrible it turned out to be— By some amazing
chance Bitcoin still exists and is widely used. Off-chain system like
fidelity bonded
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