Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP: Custodial Identities

2014-08-20 Thread 21E14
, and there will probably always be users willing to live outside of the BCI address space. On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:23 PM, 21E14 21x...@gmail.com wrote: As suggested before submitting a BIP, I am sending this to the mailing list. Bitcoin is often described as “the currency of the Internet”, “the TCP/IP of money

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Request for review/testing: headers-first synchronization in Bitcoin Core

2014-10-13 Thread 21E14
When forgoing bootstrapping due to disk space constraints, you, and the network, are likely better off -reindex-ing from current blk000??.dat files. Which brings up an interesting point: The improvements related to the headers first approach are likely to increase, how ever marginally, the

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Open development processes and reddit charms

2014-12-17 Thread 21E14
I'll pick up where you left off, Jeff. The thought process behind the Bitcoin Core threading model, platform support, libification, dependency management, core data structures, DoS mitigation, script evolution, scalability roadmap... just to scratch the surface, is likely never going to be

[Bitcoin-development] Why Bitcoin is and isn't like the Internet

2015-01-20 Thread 21E14
This is a response to a wonderfully insightful recent post by Joichi Ito, the Director of the MIT Media Lab. In it, Dr. Ito, notably a former Board Member of ICANN, offered his thoughts on Why Bitcoin is and isn't like the Internet and asked a most pertinent question: Whether there is an ICANN

Re: [Bitcoin-development] A look back and a look forward

2015-01-09 Thread 21E14
I think the observation about Target vs Bitcoin exchanges is a sharp one, but I'm not sure how your proposal helps. You say it's an optional identity layer, but obviously any thief is going to opt out of being identified. Let me translate it to this year's vocabulary. Think of BCIs as a

[Bitcoin-development] A look back and a look forward

2015-01-08 Thread 21E14
Alex Daley recently stated that one of the problems with Bitcoin is that it takes us backwards in the transaction chain. Suddenly, you're dealing with something that's much more cash-like. If Target had been hacked, and instead of using credit-cards, what was stolen from them were actually

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Block Size Increase

2015-05-07 Thread 21E14
I am more fazed by PR 5288 and PR 5925 not getting merged in, than by this thread. So, casting my ballot in favor of the block size increase. Clearly, we're still rehearsing proper discourse, and that ain't gonna get fixed here and now. On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Matt Corallo