Re: [Bitcoin-development] Is this a safe thing to be doing with ECC addition? (Oracle protocol)

2014-03-03 Thread Odinn Cyberguerrilla
Nothing is safe. Take risks. Engage one trouble at a time. Perform unexpected actions. Observe the results. Rinse and repeat. Ignore the lions. They too shall pass. "Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a crimin

[Bitcoin-development] Is this a safe thing to be doing with ECC addition? (Oracle protocol)

2014-03-03 Thread Edmund Edgar
Some people may have seen my service Reality Keys, which can perform a role a bit like an External State Oracle as described previously by Mike Hearn and others. (I like to think of it as a Certificate Authority for propositions, doing for facts what Verisign do for identities.) You register a poss

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Procedure for non-tech contributions

2014-03-03 Thread Mike Hearn
Hey Tom, Thanks for getting involved! It's great to see someone who would like to focus on docs. One project I've been thinking about recently is a "Bitcoin Developer Network" subsection of our website. Right now bitcoin.org is entirely consumer focused. And as you noted, the wiki is undergoing s

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Procedure for non-tech contributions

2014-03-03 Thread Tom Geller
On Mar 3, 2014, at 2:13 PM, Tom Geller wrote: > FYI, I made my edits to the release notes of 0.9.0rc2; the pull request is at > https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3787. I gladly welcome corrections as > needed. It failed testing. I assume I'll get emails as others add comments; please con

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Procedure for non-tech contributions

2014-03-03 Thread Tom Geller
FYI, I made my edits to the release notes of 0.9.0rc2; the pull request is at https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3787. I gladly welcome corrections as needed. First contribution! :) Cheers, --- Tom Geller * Oberlin, Ohio * 415-317-1805 Writer/Presenter * http://ww

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Procedure for non-tech contributions

2014-03-03 Thread Tom Geller
Thanks to everyone with advice re: editing text on github, and Mt. Gox' control of the wiki. Regarding the latter, "SerajewelKS" and "gmaxwell" in IRC/bitcoin confirmed that fixes are underway, but didn't give specifics. I'll wait. Regarding text editing, special thanks to Wladimir for the simpl

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol Hash Comments

2014-03-03 Thread Drak
On 2 March 2014 10:39, Mike Hearn wrote: > I'm just repeating the rationale Gavin gave me for adding this to the spec > last year when he was implementing it. Perhaps it only applied to some > versions of PHP or something like that. > OK, but certainly now, SHA-2 is available as standard in PHP

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Procedure for non-tech contributions

2014-03-03 Thread Odinn Cyberguerrilla
Hi, you may want to check this out: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1rh2h0/developers_core_developers_contributors/ Cheers, -Odinn http://abis.io > Hey, folks. Sorry if this is documented somewhere -- if so, just point me > at it. I couldn't find it, though. > > I'm a (non-developer)

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Procedure for non-tech contributions

2014-03-03 Thread Wladimir
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Tom Geller wrote: > Anyway, this particular solution doesn't appear to be possible in this > case, as the file isn't at > https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/0.9.0/doc/release-notes , and I > don't believe I could copy it to the repository without going the wh