Re: [Bitcoin-development] [RFC] BIP 14 - Protocol Version and User Agent

2011-11-12 Thread Mike Hearn
Looks pretty reasonable to me. If Gavin changes the mainline client to use this format I'll change BitcoinJ as well. It'll need a bit of API work so clients are sure to set it up properly. On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Amir Taaki wrote: > Hi, > > https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0014 > > Thank

Re: [Bitcoin-development] multisig, op_eval and lock_time/sequence...

2011-11-12 Thread Mike Hearn
Sure, of course, as long as it's clearly labelled as just your thoughts, no issues. For dispute mediation the way I'd start is playing around with some UI design stuff and a toy protocol underneath. Once the process is smooth from the users POV (no seeing binary blobs disguised as text) then it sh

Re: [Bitcoin-development] multisig, op_eval and lock_time/sequence...

2011-11-12 Thread Alan Reiner
Fair enough. I'm not expecting anyone to just suddenly adopt BIP 0010 just because I published it to the wiki. I put it there to get feedback on what it might be missing, and maybe we can converge on a good preliminary solution. Then update it as we start playing with it and find more featur

Re: [Bitcoin-development] multisig, op_eval and lock_time/sequence...

2011-11-12 Thread Mike Hearn
BIPs are either "standards track" (affects everyone, represents consensus), "informational" (ie basically just summarizing the authors viewpoints on things) or "process". My point is you can't have a credible standards track BIP until something has been implemented end to end. I don't think it's a

Re: [Bitcoin-development] multisig, op_eval and lock_time/sequence...

2011-11-12 Thread Alan Reiner
Maybe I'm new to this, but this doesn't make any sense. I thought the point of the BIP was to collaborate to come up with a good solution. That's exactly what I want to do before I implement it in my software. After all, they are "Bitcoin Improvement *Proposals*." It seems like EXACTLY what

Re: [Bitcoin-development] multisig, op_eval and lock_time/sequence...

2011-11-12 Thread Mike Hearn
Please don't create BIPs that don't have any actual implementation behind them. Design discussion is fine but the mailing list works for that. If I were going to implement escrow transactions in BitCoinJ it would not matter what was written here. I'd just implement the design I thought made sense.