Re: [Bitcoin-development] Scaling at the end user level

2012-02-07 Thread grarpamp
> I never did track down this exact issue but it's an artificial > slowdown.. meaning compression and whatever else wouldn't help much. I meant for anyone who wanted to distribute the dataset as a project. > It has something to do with the database file locking and flushing.. > on some systems I'

[Bitcoin-development] Scaling at the end user level

2012-02-07 Thread grarpamp
A freshly deployed client on an old p4 has been idly crunching away at building and verifying the initial chain for about a week now. It should be done in a day or two. This seems rather untenable for new users. Have any groups published proposals for distributing a weekly precomputed bootstrap cha

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Version 0.6 release candidate 1 plan

2012-02-07 Thread Gavin Andresen
> Do you have an alternative solution to the > problem of green addresses spamming the blockchain? Sure, here's one: Green address provider give a REST-ful API, that provides the following functionality: + Give transaction ID and credentials, request that the transaction be declared "green" (s

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Version 0.6 release candidate 1 plan

2012-02-07 Thread Luke-Jr
On Tuesday, February 07, 2012 10:04:36 AM Luke-Jr wrote: > On Monday, February 06, 2012 10:54:25 AM Luke-Jr wrote: > > > 769 : Make transactions with extra data in scriptSig non-standard > > > > If this affects relaying, it will significantly harm the ability to > > replace the current spammy "gre

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Version 0.6 release candidate 1 plan

2012-02-07 Thread Luke-Jr
On Monday, February 06, 2012 10:54:25 AM Luke-Jr wrote: > > 769 : Make transactions with extra data in scriptSig non-standard > > If this affects relaying, it will significantly harm the ability to replace > the current spammy "green address" scheme with a sensible extra signature > system. On the

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Multisignature transaction support in the GUI

2012-02-07 Thread Aidan Thornton
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Wladimir wrote: > Change BitcoinAddressValidator::MaxAddressLength to 35 > The addresses are validated with walletmodel->validateAddress which in turn > calls CBitcoinAddress addressParsed(addr) and then isValid(). Does this work > for the new addresses? Should do