[bitcoin-dev] Braidpool: Proposal for a decentralised mining pool

2021-08-29 Thread pool2win via bitcoin-dev
We have been working on a peer to peer mining pool that overcomes the problems faced by P2Pool and enables building a futures market for hashrate.   The proposal can be found here: https://github.com/pool2win/braidpool/raw/main/proposal/proposal.pdf   The key features of the pool are:   1. Lower va

[bitcoin-dev] Using transaction version number in different projects

2021-08-29 Thread Prayank via bitcoin-dev
print('Hello, world!') I had asked related question on Bitcoin Stackexchange:  https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/108248/version-in-transaction Wanted to know if others think we should allow more numbers in transaction version by considering such transaction standard. I have shared an e

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Camouflage: A project dedicated to Hal Finney

2021-08-29 Thread Aymeric Vitte via bitcoin-dev
Hi, Maybe let's discuss the details privately since some might be off topic for this list, as a quick answer the discussion I linked to is about using the Tor protocol between bitcoin nodes piping the bitcoin protocol via node-Tor (not to be misunderstood with the Tor network again), nodes can be

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Human readable checksum (verification code) to avoid errors on BTC public addresses

2021-08-29 Thread Pieter Wuille via bitcoin-dev
On Saturday, August 28th, 2021 at 5:17 PM, ts via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Following up on my original proposal, I would like to get some more feedback > of the community > > to see if this could be realized at some point. Also, any recommendations as > to who to contact > > to get things rolling?

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Human readable checksum (verification code) to avoid errors on BTC public addresses

2021-08-29 Thread Pieter Wuille via bitcoin-dev
On Thursday, August 19th, 2021 at 1:02 PM, ts via bitcoin-dev wrote: > > In any case --- the last 5 characters of a bech32 string are already a > > human-readable 5-digit code, with fairly good properties, why is it not > > usable for this case? Side note: it's actually the last six character

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Using transaction version number in different projects

2021-08-29 Thread Pieter Wuille via bitcoin-dev
On Sunday, August 29th, 2021 at 5:32 AM, Prayank via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Wanted to know if others think we should allow more numbers in transaction > version by considering such transaction standard. I have shared an example > how transaction version can be used to bet on something that invol