[bitcoin-dev] Unique node identifiers

2017-03-04 Thread John Hardy via bitcoin-dev
The discussion of UASF got me thinking about whether such a method might lead to sybil attacks, with new nodes created purely to inflate the node count for a particular implementation in an attempt at social engineering. I had an idea for an anonymous, opt-in, unique node identification mechani

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Currency/exchange rate information API

2017-03-04 Thread アルム カールヨハン via bitcoin-dev
I am surprised nothing like this exists already, so am all for the idea. Maybe I am misunderstanding, but I'm not sure you want to have thousand separators and other locale stuff in there. All currencies including USD are often shown in Swedish using space or dot as thousand separator and comma as

[bitcoin-dev] Currency/exchange rate information API

2017-03-04 Thread Luke Dashjr via bitcoin-dev
Investigating what it would take to add fiat currency information to Bitcoin Knots, I noticed Electrum currently has many implementations, one for each exchange rate provider, due to lack of a common format for such data. Therefore, I put together an initial draft of a BIP that could standardise