Re: [Bitcoin-development] Cut-through propagation of blocks

2014-05-24 Thread Bernd Jendrissek
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 5:57 AM, Ashley Holman wrote: > * As far as I can tell, this shouldn't change any game theory or incentives > because nodes still receive blocks exactly as they do now, just sooner. The > difference is, invalid blocks that meet the PoW will be broadcast to > everyone, but

Re: [Bitcoin-development] patents...

2014-05-19 Thread Bernd Jendrissek
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Mike Hearn wrote: > Most companies (Google certainly included) have therefore banned their staff > from reading patents, Bitcoin is not Google though, and applying the same patent protocols to Bitcoin as in Google is drawing a false equivalence between the two. Go

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Fee Formula Proposal

2014-05-13 Thread Bernd Jendrissek
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 3:21 AM, Peter Grigor wrote: > This was originally submitted to the bitcoin github issue manager. I'm > re-posting here. > > I propose the transaction fee should be calculated from a percentage of the > input amount divided by the confirmations of the input multiplied by th

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP70 proposed changes

2014-02-18 Thread Bernd Jendrissek
[Ick, resending to list due to From: snafu] On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:47 PM, Peter Todd wrote: > What specifically do you dislike about X.509? The technical standard or > the infrastructure around it? (IE the centralized authorities) I'm not the one who was complaining, but what I dislike is th