Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 32.5

2013-08-20 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: I am wondering if we shouldn't have a BIP32 addendum which makes the following signing related recommendations: Looks like we're in the midst of another DSA duplicated K disaster. (Now, blockchain.info mywallet) I

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol: BIP 70, 71, 72

2013-08-20 Thread Mike Hearn
I think the confidence of the tx is not really the users concern anyway. They wrote it so they know it's valid. If the merchant disagrees for some reason then the user can find out, out of band when the goods/services are not delivered. On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Gavin Andresen

[Bitcoin-development] There will be a 0.8.4 release

2013-08-20 Thread Gavin Andresen
There have been a few not-quite-serious-enough-to-justify-a-release security fixes that, along with a couple of serious bugs, we think together DO justify a new 0.8.* release. So I just created a 0.8.4 branch, based on the 0.8.3 branch, and will be cherry-picking from the master branch. Planned

[Bitcoin-development] Making bitcoin traceability harder

2013-08-20 Thread Faré
Dear bitcoin developers, trading arbitrary amounts of bitcoins makes it easier to trace who does what just by observing the amounts being traded, and where the residual money ends up: e.g. you can identify that obviously, the recurrent user of address A sent 2.5 bitcoins to the recurrent user of