Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP to improve the availability of blocks

2012-04-30 Thread Zell Faze
Although quite true, I actually agree though that there should be some sort of checksum for the blocks. Bandwidth may not be a bottleneck now (or ever), but it may be at some point. This change will help Bitcoin scale. "It stopped being just a website a long time ago.

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Alternative to OP_EVAL

2011-12-31 Thread Zell Faze
I agree with Joel. I think someone brought this up earlier as well. Most OP_EVAL transactions won't be complex enough to require more than a few loops. --Zell "It stopped being just a website a long time ago. For many of us, most of us, Wikipedia has become an indisp

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Protocol extensions

2011-12-24 Thread Zell Faze
not to trust a particular node. --Zell Faze --- On Thu, 12/22/11, Andy Parkins wrote: > From: Andy Parkins > Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Protocol extensions > To: "Joel Joonatan Kaartinen" > Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Thursday, December

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: [BIP 15] Aliases

2011-12-14 Thread Zell Faze
pment] Fwd: [BIP 15] Aliases To: "Zell Faze" Cc: "Luke-Jr" , "Rick Wesson" , bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 11:56 PM Just so we're clear, what is the need for HTTP at all? A query for a string and an answer can all b

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: [BIP 15] Aliases

2011-12-14 Thread Zell Faze
Could we combine this proposal and the HTTPS proposal? The DNSSEC TXT record could give instructions on how to query an HTTPS server to get the address. Then we get the dynamism of HTTPS without having a rigid URL scheme for querying the server along with the advantages of DNSSEC. --- On Wed,

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP 15] Aliases

2011-12-12 Thread Zell Faze
I agree with Luke-Jr. We need to try to find a decentralized solution if we are going to implement BIP 15. Bitcoin needs to remain decentralized in every aspect of the protocol or we lose its greatest strength. I feel like the HTTPS idea would be a great idea for a client feature, but not rea