Re: [bitcoin-dev] Speedy Trial

2022-03-31 Thread pushd via bitcoin-dev
> If that's really true then you're wasting my and everyone's time here. It isn't waste of time but important for everyone to understand different opinions about soft fork activations before moving to next soft fork. The reason I am not trying to convince you or others but sharing my opinion: h

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Speedy Trial

2022-03-31 Thread Billy Tetrud via bitcoin-dev
> I am not trying to convince you If that's really true then you're wasting my and everyone's time here. > Signaling period is a waste of time if mining pools that agreed on a soft fork earlier do politics They can and will do politics regardless of why misunderstandings about signaling. This i

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Speedy Trial

2022-03-31 Thread pushd via bitcoin-dev
> Why do you care what they think? Why does it matter if they misunderstand? I care about improving soft fork activation mechanism and shared one of the advantages that helps avoid misleading things. It matters because they are participants in this process. > If the people aren't imaginary, the

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Silent Payments – Non-interactive private payments with no on-chain overhead

2022-03-31 Thread Ruben Somsen via bitcoin-dev
Hi Billy, >i*X*G I believe you understand this now, but just to be clear, it's not possible to multiply a point by another point. At best you can take the x coordinate of i*X and multiply that by G. >all this assumes that a modulus operator is defined for elliptic curve points in a way that make

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Speedy Trial

2022-03-31 Thread Billy Tetrud via bitcoin-dev
> Many users, miners and exchanges still think its voting Why do you care what they think? Why does it matter if they misunderstand? > it is not an imaginary group of people If the people aren't imaginary, then its their importance that's imaginary. > One example of a mining pool This isn't e