[bitcoin-dev] [BIP/Draft] BIP Realistic Acceptance Process

2015-09-06 Thread Andy Chase via bitcoin-dev
Mediawiki formatted documented: https://gist.github.com/andychase/dadbfbb145de934d8e1c —— Title: BIP Realistic Acceptance Process Author: Andy Chase Status: Draft Type: Process Created: 2015-09-06 Abstract The current process for accepting a BIP is not clearly d

[bitcoin-dev] python-bitcoinlib-v0.5.0rc1 - OpenSSL crashes on OSX and Arch Linux should be fixed

2015-09-06 Thread Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev
https://github.com/petertodd/python-bitcoinlib/tree/python-bitcoinlib-v0.5.0rc1 FWIW if you've been experienceing OpenSSL related crashes on OSX or Arch Linux this release should fix your issues. I don't have any way of testing this myself, so if I could get some confirmation that this new release

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Proposal to add the bitcoin symbol to Unicode

2015-09-06 Thread Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev
On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 07:11:27AM -0700, Ken Shirriff via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Use of the bitcoin symbol in text is inconvenient, because the bitcoin > symbol isn't in the Unicode standard. To fix this, I've written a proposal > to have the common B-with-vertical-bars bitcoin symbol added to Unico

Re: [bitcoin-dev] [BIP/Draft] BIP Acceptance Process

2015-09-06 Thread Andy Chase via bitcoin-dev
Dang you are right Thomas! I'm just pretty excited about this proposal and sparking a discussion on this issue. Here's some updates and thoughts: - Luke said: "BIPs wouldn't be recognised as such because nobody cares to meet the higher requirements" - Possibly true, but maybe not! I t