Re: [Bitcoin-development] bitcoin.org - remove hackathon

2012-07-17 Thread Andreas Petersson
Am 17.07.2012 11:17, schrieb Amir Taaki: Like I really do not wish to sell a speaker slot, but if I have to (to pay the bills) then it will be obvious due to scheduling and disclaimers that speakers are sponsors. Personally, i really don't mind sponsored speakers. If they have somewhat

Re: [Bitcoin-development] New P2P commands for diagnostics, SPV clients

2012-07-23 Thread Andreas Petersson
Some concerns regarding Bloom Filters. I talked with Stefan Thomas on the Hackathon Berlin about this. I tried to follow the discussion closely but i have not taken a look at the code yet (is there already an implementation?) so please correct me if i got something wrong. The way the Bloom

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Scalability issues

2012-07-27 Thread Andreas Petersson
I propose a pragmatic solution: Try running the Multibit client. i am not sure if the linux/java based installer would work,so maybe you have to build it from source. I tried it out is really fast compared to bitcoin-qt. after install it took me 15 seconds to get updated and running. Importing

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Chain dust mitigation: Demurrage based Chain Vacuuming

2012-12-03 Thread Andreas Petersson
These discussed features are all useful but quite contradicting. I imagine that a user will be able to switch between different coin selection policies minimize fees,max privacy,defragmentation,i don't care and even switch between them for individual sends.

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol Proposal: Invoices/Payments/Receipts

2012-12-05 Thread Andreas Petersson
During/before the Payment Request there should be a method to exchange the public keys to be able to generate a common multisig address. Should this be handled in a different protocol, or be included in this spec? Or is there a method for the customer to verify that the specified BIP16 Output

Re: [Bitcoin-development] is there a way to do bitcoin-staging?

2013-06-14 Thread Andreas Petersson
my initial idea (not sure if it is good) was to have an asymetric market. lets say you want to create altcoin ALC. ALC are merge-mined with btc, though without block reward. to create 1 ALC you have two choices: destroy 1 BTC, or buy 1 ALC for a floating amount from an exchange. in my book, this

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: MultiBit as default desktop client on bitcoin.org

2013-07-09 Thread Andreas Petersson
It particulary worries me that a lot of sites hand over their SSL private keys to Cloudflare, and they are located in prism land. Cloudflare is rapidly becoming a bitcoin community SPOF. -- See everything from the

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP0039 Mnemonic code for generating deterministic keys

2013-09-11 Thread Andreas Petersson
This an excellent idea, because i proposed the same thing previously. these bip 39 mnemonics are IMO too hard to remember. using NLP we could generate a gramatically correct sentence out of 128 completely random bits which is possible to remember. information could be encoded in the selection of

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Making fee estimation better

2013-10-25 Thread Andreas Petersson
in a setting where the user signs a transaction created offline, transmitted via Bluetooth via a one-way broadcast? does it transmit all 3 tx to the receiver and just hopes they he will do the right thing? On 10/25/13 5:02 AM, Andreas Petersson wrote: Worth thinking about the whole ecosystem

[Bitcoin-development] Temporary fee fix

2013-12-05 Thread Andreas Petersson
I know we should all be brainstorming and working on a new fee market. But fact is, it will still take some time and in the meantime users will continue to shout insults at us for the high fixed fee of 0,1 mBtc. Even banks sometimes have less fees. (1 of 5 Play Store reviews of Mycelium seem to

Re: [Bitcoin-development] On OP_RETURN in upcoming 0.9 release

2014-02-24 Thread Andreas Petersson
Regarding 80 bytes vs smaller: The objectives should be that if you are determined to put some extra data in the blockchain, OP_RETURN should be the superior alternative. if a user can include more data with less fees using a multisig TX, then this will happen. eventually dust-limit rules will

Re: [Bitcoin-development] F2Pool has enabled full replace-by-fee

2015-06-19 Thread Andreas Petersson
I have some experience here. If you are seriously suggesting these measures, you might as well kill retail transactions altogether. In practice, if a retail place starts to accept bitcoin they have a similar situation as with cash, only that the fraud potential is much lower. (e.g. 100-dollar

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Alternate HD path structure: BIP, blog, or wat?

2015-06-19 Thread Andreas Petersson
m/##'/0'/99'/0' where 99 is the identifier for, say, counterparty What is stopping you from using m/44'/9'/a'/c/i as descibed here: http://doc.satoshilabs.com/slips/slip-0044.html to avoid having an internal mapping from 9'- 0' to find out what blockchain to query, this sounds like it should