Re: [bitcoin-dev] Block compression

2017-11-27 Thread Marco Pontello via bitcoin-dev
Hi Jeff! On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 3:11 AM, Jeff Johnson via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > Raw block > 998,198 bytes > > Gzip > 521,212 bytes (52% ratio) > (needs 2MB to decompress). > I don't know how you got that raw block, but it seems a bit odd. If you look at

Re: [bitcoin-dev] request BIP number for: "Support for Datastream Compression"

2015-11-11 Thread Marco Pontello via bitcoin-dev
A random thought: aren't most communication over a data link already compressed, at some point? When I used a modem, we had the V.42bis protocol. Now, nearly all ADSL connections using PPPoE, surely are. And so on. I'm not sure another level of generic, data agnostic kind of compression will really

Re: [bitcoin-dev] RFC - BIP: URI scheme for Blockchain exploration

2015-11-14 Thread Marco Pontello via bitcoin-dev
Hi! To anyone that followed the discussion (from some time ago) about the proposed new URI for Blockchain references / exploration, I just wanted to point out that I have collected the feedback provided, reworked the text, put the BIP on GitHub and created a pull request: https://github.com/Marco

Re: [bitcoin-dev] RFC - BIP: URI scheme for Blockchain exploration

2015-11-15 Thread Marco Pontello via bitcoin-dev
ough the BIP draft and left a few of comments, but I really > like its simplicity and focus. Good work! > > On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 3:14 AM, Marco Pontello via bitcoin-dev > wrote: > > Hi! > > > > To anyone that followed the discussion (from some time ago) about the >

Re: [bitcoin-dev] RFC - BIP: URI scheme for Blockchain exploration

2015-11-16 Thread Marco Pontello via bitcoin-dev
ally thank you for > >> using the genesis block hash as the unique chain ID. > >> > >> I wen't through the BIP draft and left a few of comments, but I really > >> like its simplicity and focus. Good work! > >> > >> On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 3:1

Re: [bitcoin-dev] RFC - BIP: URI scheme for Blockchain exploration

2015-11-18 Thread Marco Pontello via bitcoin-dev
with the genesis blocks hashs, in a way that doesn't need to be > changed, > >> > maybe... > >> > > >> > Now the main change would be to put in a proper BIP number! :) > >> > > >> > On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Jorge Timó

[bitcoin-dev] BIP numbers

2015-12-31 Thread Marco Pontello via bitcoin-dev
Sorry to ask again but... what's up with the BIP number assignments? I thought that it was just more or less a formality, to avoid conflicts and BIP spamming. And that would be perfectly fine. But since I see that it's a process that can take months (just looking at the PR request list), it seems t

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Making AsicBoost irrelevant

2016-05-10 Thread Marco Pontello via bitcoin-dev
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 8:57 PM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > As part of the hard-fork proposed in the HK agreement(1) we'd like to make > the > patented AsicBoost optimisation useless, and hopefully make further similar > optimizations useless as we

[bitcoin-dev] RFC - BIP: URI scheme for Blockchain exploration

2015-08-29 Thread Marco Pontello via bitcoin-dev
Hi! My first post here, hope I'm following the right conventions. I had this humble idea for a while, so I thought to go ahead and propose it. BIP: XX Title: URI scheme for Blockchain exploration Author: Marco Pontello Status: Draft Type: Standards Track Created: 29 August 2015 Abstract

Re: [bitcoin-dev] RFC - BIP: URI scheme for Blockchain exploration

2015-09-01 Thread Marco Pontello via bitcoin-dev
That surely make sense. A URI like that perfectly readable, unambiguous and simple enough. And nice to see a Wallet developer showing interest for this! :) On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 8:07 PM, Andreas Schildbach via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On 08/29/2015 06:31 PM

Re: [bitcoin-dev] RFC - BIP: URI scheme for Blockchain exploration

2015-09-01 Thread Marco Pontello via bitcoin-dev
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Jorge Timón < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > I would really prefer chain= over network= > By chainID I mean the hash of the genesis block, see > > https://github.com/jtimon/bitcoin/commit/3191d5e8e75687a27cf466b7a4c70bdc04809d39 > I'm completely

Re: [bitcoin-dev] RFC - BIP: URI scheme for Blockchain exploration

2015-09-01 Thread Marco Pontello via bitcoin-dev
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Richard Moore wrote: > Yes! Good point, network should be encoded. Not sure I like this format > yet, but what if it was part of the authority, like block:testnet. Like > http uses port 80 by default, you could have block by default refer to > block:mainnet. > > E

Re: [bitcoin-dev] RFC - BIP: URI scheme for Blockchain exploration

2015-09-01 Thread Marco Pontello via bitcoin-dev
I see your point. But I personally like that the chain part could be optional, given that the vast majority of the references in the end will be to Bitcoin main net. On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:16 PM, Matt Whitlock wrote: > Isn't this all backward? The "authority" component of the URL should > ide

Re: [bitcoin-dev] RFC - BIP: URI scheme for Blockchain exploration

2015-09-01 Thread Marco Pontello via bitcoin-dev
Oh, my bad! Right, sounds pretty good to me then. On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:42 PM, Matt Whitlock wrote: > The authority part in a URI is optional. > > > blockchain:/tx/ca26cedeb9cbc94e030891578e0d2b688a28902114f6ad2f24ecd3918f76c17f > > Notice the lack of a double-slash. > > > On Tuesday, 1 Sept

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Proposed minor change to BIP 01 to use a PR for request assignment

2015-09-03 Thread Marco Pontello via bitcoin-dev
None that I can see. In fact I was just about to ask for some details about this part of the process, so this come just at the right time. On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:18 AM, Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > The process in BIP01 was written when we use