Re: [Bitcoin-development] Why are we bleeding nodes?

2014-05-20 Thread bitcoingrant
Recently China has updated its firewall blocking bitcoin sites and pools. Whether this is simple blacklist or more sophisticated packet targeting is uncertain, however this update did spefically target VPN handshakes.   Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 at 1:07 PM From: Drak To: "Mike Hearn" Cc: 

[Bitcoin-development] Message Signing based authentication

2013-11-01 Thread bitcoingrant
Passwords are inefficient by design: frequently we hear news from Sony, Square Enix, Adobe, and various others about passwords being compromised, databases being copied and stolen. This story remains true in the Bitcoin space. In light of the recent Bitcointalk forum breach echoes an increasing

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Modularizing Bitcoin

2013-05-16 Thread bitcoingrant
our estimates: ~8000 - Original Message - From: Addy Yeow Sent: 05/16/13 06:27 AM To: bitcoingr...@gmx.com Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Modularizing Bitcoin > Such developments would significantly strengthen the system. Modularization > would make cancer attacks less likely and incr

[Bitcoin-development] Modularizing Bitcoin

2013-05-16 Thread bitcoingrant
One of the primary upcoming priorities for bitcoin’s infrastructure, beyond the bloom filter, will be the continued modularization of the system. Here at the Bitcoin Grant, we would like to jump start this development with a financial incentive and initiate an ongoing conversation on how we can w