Re: [Bitcoin-development] bits: Unit of account

2014-05-04 Thread Aaron Voisine
Bit by bit, it's become clear that it's a bit much to worry even a little bit that overloading the word bit would be every bit as bad as a two bit horse with the bit between it's teeth that bit the hand that feeds it, or a drill bit broken to bits after just a bit of use. Aaron There's no trick

Re: [Bitcoin-development] bits: Unit of account

2014-05-04 Thread Un Ix
+1(bit) for your bit on bits. On 4/05/2014, at 2:18 pm, Aaron Voisine vois...@gmail.com wrote: Bit by bit, it's become clear that it's a bit much to worry even a little bit that overloading the word bit would be every bit as bad as a two bit horse with the bit between it's teeth that bit

Re: [Bitcoin-development] bits: Unit of account

2014-05-04 Thread Wladimir
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Aaron Voisine vois...@gmail.com wrote: Bit by bit, it's become clear that it's a bit much to worry even a little bit that overloading the word bit would be every bit as bad as a two bit horse with the bit between it's teeth that bit the hand that feeds it, or a

Re: [Bitcoin-development] bits: Unit of account

2014-05-04 Thread Tamas Blummer
Wladimir, what is missing is a decision to pull for the reference client. Or did I missed that bit? signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated

Re: [Bitcoin-development] bits: Unit of account

2014-05-04 Thread Wladimir
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Tamas Blummer ta...@bitsofproof.com wrote: Wladimir, what is missing is a decision to pull for the reference client. Or did I missed that bit? No opinion - we'll follow whatever the rest does. Wladimir

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bug with handing of OP_RETURN?

2014-05-04 Thread Flavien Charlon
Thanks, that makes sense, just wanted to make sure this what the problem was. On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Jeff Garzik jgar...@bitpay.com wrote: On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Flavien Charlon flavien.char...@coinprism.com wrote: Outputs are above dust, inputs are not spent. OP_RETURN is

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bug with handing of OP_RETURN?

2014-05-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Mark Friedenbach m...@monetize.io wrote: Is it more complex? The current implementation using template matching seems more complex than `if script.vch[0] == OP_RETURN script.vch.size() 42` Not much more complex. The template matches a two-chunk script with

Re: [Bitcoin-development] bits: Unit of account

2014-05-04 Thread Mike Caldwell
I will drink to that! Bitte ein Bit! (A Bit please - aka Bitburger Beer) Mike Sent from my iPhone On May 4, 2014, at 12:17 AM, Aaron Voisine vois...@gmail.com wrote: Bit by bit, it's become clear that it's a bit much to worry even a little bit that overloading the word bit would be every

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal for extra nonce in block header

2014-05-04 Thread Timo Hanke
If changing the structure of the block header, wouldnt you also need to increment the version number to 3? No, in this case I don't think so. Incrementing the version number has two purposes: 1. inform old clients that something new is going on 2. be able to phase out old version numbers and

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal for extra nonce in block header

2014-05-04 Thread Mike Hearn
Although I agree 32 bits for a version is overkill, I really don't like the idea of you simply ignoring the protocol spec to try and reduce your own costs. Especially because in future we should make unknown versions a validation rule, so we can easily trigger hard forks. If this change was

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal for extra nonce in block header

2014-05-04 Thread Timo Hanke
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 02:38:06AM -0700, Mark Friedenbach wrote: I'm not convinced of the necessity of this idea in general, but if it were to be implemented I would recommend serializing the nVersion field as a VarInt (Pieter Wuille's multi-byte serialization format) and using the remaining

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal for extra nonce in block header

2014-05-04 Thread Timo Hanke
On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 05:26:06PM +0200, Mike Hearn wrote: Although I agree 32 bits for a version is overkill, I really don't like the idea of you simply ignoring the protocol spec to try and reduce your own costs. The purpose of the proposal is to change the protocol spec, not to ignore it.

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

2014-05-04 Thread Tier Nolan
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: For the non-error-coded case I believe nodes with random spans of blocks works out asymptotically to the same failure rates as random. If each block is really 512 blocks in sequence, then each slot is more likely to