Re: [Bitcoin-development] Does anyone have anything at all signed by Satoshi's PGP key?

2014-09-15 Thread Thomas Zander
matter) key without seeing that person in real life, verifying their identity etc. I think that kind of disqualifies pgp for identity purposes wrt Satoshi :-) -- Thomas Zander -- Want excitement? Manually upgrad

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Does anyone have anything at all signed by Satoshi's PGP key?

2014-09-15 Thread Thomas Zander
overnmental clearance of credential without in-person > vetting. Ask them if they accept your behavioral signature. > > I know there is a lot of PGP hating these days but this comment doesn't > necessarily apply to every situation. > > On Sep 15, 2014, at 9:08 AM, Jeff

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Does anyone have anything at all signed by Satoshi's PGP key?

2014-09-15 Thread Thomas Zander
On Monday 15. September 2014 11.51.35 Matt Whitlock wrote: > If you were merely attaching your public key to them, then the email server > could have been systematically replacing your public key with some other > public key, The beauty of publicly archived mailinglists make it impossible to get

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Something people are forgetting about the Gentoo / Luke-jr censorship issue

2014-10-10 Thread Thomas Zander
On Friday 10. October 2014 19.26.49 Mike Hearn wrote: > I'm sure this suggestion will go down like a lead balloon, but Bitcoin Core > is not the first project that's had issues with Linux distros silently > modifying their software as they package it. And so far its been near impossible for those

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Malleable booleans

2014-10-14 Thread Thomas Zander
ool == true) else if (myBool == false) and neither of them will hit. > I > would like to change BIP62 to also state that interpreted booleans > must be of minimal encoded size (in addition to numbers). What about rejecting a script where a bool is not explicitly

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP process

2014-10-16 Thread Thomas Zander
process was handled cleanly there is a very small chance of it being down-voted so an actual vote may not be needed (its hard to decide who gets a vote..). You obviously need a deadline for this and afterwards you mark the proposal final. Or yo

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP process

2014-10-16 Thread Thomas Zander
th everyone that uses the standards properly. Naturally, if an old version fails to function with Yahoo, I'm all for finding a different provider. Thats what open platforms, like Mailman, are about. -- Thomas Zander --

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP process

2014-10-19 Thread Thomas Zander
On Sunday 19. October 2014 09.17.51 xor wrote: > I joined the list when Bitcoin was already in the 10-billions of market > capitalization, and it actually really surprised me how low the traffic is > here given the importance of Bitcoin. I gather that actual code changes to bitcoin-core and natu

Re: [Bitcoin-development] death by halving

2014-10-25 Thread Thomas Zander
On Saturday 25. October 2014 21.06.32 Alex Mizrahi wrote: > If miner's income margin are less than 50% (which is a healthy situation > when mining hardware is readily available), we might experience > catastrophic loss of hashpower (and, more importantly, catastrophic loss of > security) after rewa

Re: [Bitcoin-development] death by halving

2014-10-25 Thread Thomas Zander
On Saturday 25. October 2014 13.27.30 Adam Back wrote: > - alternatively you might say why not 1/100th reward reduction per 2 > week period rather than 1/2 every 4 years, a difficulty retarget could > be a convenient point to do that. mining equipment has a much shorter lifetime than 4 years, so t

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DS Deprecation Window

2014-10-27 Thread Thomas Zander
On Monday 27. October 2014 19.26.48 Tom Harding wrote: > Miner has to be very careful including a double-spend in his block -- he > hopes: How does it help the zero-confirmation to not include a payment? Doesn't that just mean that if I send a double spend that neither of the payments will be m

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: death by halving

2014-10-28 Thread Thomas Zander
On Tuesday 28. October 2014 22.44.50 Ferdinando M. Ametrano wrote: > It amazes me that basic economic considerations seems completely lost here, > especially when it comes to mining. Please don't confuse people dismissing your thoughts with dismissing the basic economic considerations. The fact o

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Running a full node

2014-11-06 Thread Thomas Zander
out setting > up a full node. But I'd like to know what storage, RAM and bandwidth > resources are needed. I guess that the problem is not the CPU. There is a stats script running on this node; http://213.165.91.169/ more peoples opinions; https:

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Cartographer

2014-12-29 Thread Thomas Zander
On Sunday 28. December 2014 18.25.29 Mike Hearn wrote: > Lately we have been bumping up against the limitations of DNS as a protocol > for learning about the p2p network. Can you explain further where limitations and problems were hit? -- Thomas

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Cartographer

2014-12-29 Thread Thomas Zander
e line, its unacceptable behavior in any collaborative group. Please be respectful and avoid ad-hominem attacks. -- Thomas Zander -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored b

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Block Size Increase

2015-05-08 Thread Thomas Zander
trivial) data-flow economy and compares it with the zero-reward situation decades from now. Its comparing two things that will never exist at the same time (unless Bitcoin fails). -- Thomas Zander -- One dashboard fo