Title: 2013-08-07 Bitcoin upgrade aims for smoother e-commerce Post by: zakoliverz on August 08, 2013, 09:13:43 AM http://www.pcworld.com/article/2046182/bitcoin-upgrade-aims-for-smoother-ecommerce.html
"This payment protocol represents a major advance in security and usability," said Jeff Garzik, senior software engineer at BitPay, an Atlanta-based company that builds Bitcoin software tools. Title: Re: 2013-08-07 Bitcoin upgrade aims for smoother e-commerce Post by: solex on August 08, 2013, 10:28:35 AM I'm looking forward to seeing these changes in action. Hope they make the 0.9 version.
Title: Re: 2013-08-07 Bitcoin upgrade aims for smoother e-commerce Post by: Mike Hearn on August 08, 2013, 10:42:08 AM The journalist asked me for some things the payment protocol would allow. Here's the list I came up with:
There are certainly other use cases I didn't think of or forgot about. Title: Re: 2013-08-07 Bitcoin upgrade aims for smoother e-commerce Post by: Itcher on August 08, 2013, 11:20:37 AM Sounds great. Do you know when the new version will be implemented?
Title: Re: 2013-08-07 Bitcoin upgrade aims for smoother e-commerce Post by: Raoul Duke on August 08, 2013, 11:24:55 AM Better tipping support? Social network integration? Really? ::)
There is no real work to do? Like avoiding that shitty leveldb from becoming corrupt every day and needing a full reindex? Don't get me wrong. You guys do an awesome job, but what good will those "features for the regular user" do when "regular users" can't even use Bitcoin-qt(or any other full client) to begin with? Title: Re: 2013-08-07 Bitcoin upgrade aims for smoother e-commerce Post by: Mike Hearn on August 08, 2013, 11:37:59 AM It's just a list of ideas for the future, not an announcement that they're actually going to be worked on.
LevelDB should not become corrupt every day, for sure, and for many people it's rock solid. Are you on a Mac, by any chance? Title: Re: 2013-08-07 Bitcoin upgrade aims for smoother e-commerce Post by: Raoul Duke on August 08, 2013, 11:46:21 AM It's just a list of ideas for the future, not an announcement that they're actually going to be worked on. Oh lol I guess I need to re-read the article more slowly, cause i really got the impression you guys were already working on implementing them for the 0.9 release. Quote Are you on a Mac, by any chance? Nope. Laptop PC's. All of them using Ubuntu. One Acer, one Asus and one HP. I've already given up of using Bitcoin-qt at home. Got tired of getting scared every time I closed the client. Using Electrum for now. Title: Re: 2013-08-07 Bitcoin upgrade aims for smoother e-commerce Post by: Mike Hearn on August 08, 2013, 12:50:03 PM The article talks about the payment protocol v1, which has only one or two features. The list is for things that could be added later.
We've seen that in some cases LevelDB and power management/suspend/resume don't seem to be interacting well, although given that LevelDB doesn't do anything particularly exotic with the file system it seems like any such corruption issues might be more OS related than Bitcoin related. You probably don't have many other apps that are constantly reading/writing to the filesystem in quite the same way. Title: Re: 2013-08-07 Bitcoin upgrade aims for smoother e-commerce Post by: Raoul Duke on August 08, 2013, 02:23:03 PM The article talks about the payment protocol v1, which has only one or two features. The list is for things that could be added later. We've seen that in some cases LevelDB and power management/suspend/resume don't seem to be interacting well, although given that LevelDB doesn't do anything particularly exotic with the file system it seems like any such corruption issues might be more OS related than Bitcoin related. You probably don't have many other apps that are constantly reading/writing to the filesystem in quite the same way. I would be very glad if there was a command that allowed to reindex after block X in which X is any block number given by the user. Title: Re: 2013-08-07 Bitcoin upgrade aims for smoother e-commerce Post by: brishtiteveja on January 14, 2014, 06:49:10 AM Hi Mike,
I am a network researcher from Japan. These ideas are quite fascinating. I can imagine a whole series of apps coming next in Apple and android stores implementing these. Specially the less-interaction coffee consumption idea is awesome. And social identity recognition are also obvious to happen. Can't wait to see these coming. It's going to be a crypto ride. Title: Re: 2013-08-07 Bitcoin upgrade aims for smoother e-commerce Post by: Mike Hearn on January 14, 2014, 05:10:27 PM Glad you found it interesting!
Title: Re: 2013-08-07 Bitcoin upgrade aims for smoother e-commerce Post by: brishtiteveja on January 31, 2014, 09:21:33 PM Glad you found it interesting! Yeah.. Keep giving more ... Title: Re: 2013-08-07 Bitcoin upgrade aims for smoother e-commerce Post by: zeetubes on February 01, 2014, 03:35:58 AM Great work. I'm in malaysia at the moment and I'm planning a quick trip to china. I would happily pay for the whole thing (taxis, flights, hotels, meals, and yes, lots of coffee :>) with bitcoins, but for now it's not really practical. These are still early days. I guess it's a case of I need more patience, and I need it RIGHT NOW!!! :)
Title: Re: 2013-08-07 Bitcoin upgrade aims for smoother e-commerce Post by: enquirer on February 03, 2014, 07:02:10 AM it seems like any such corruption issues might be more OS related than Bitcoin related <TROLL MODE> Just use normal OS (Windows) </TROLL MODE] Title: Re: 2013-08-07 Bitcoin upgrade aims for smoother e-commerce Post by: Mike Hearn on February 03, 2014, 01:20:38 PM We gave up on mmap on OS X, it was too broken. The latest versions should be stable on Mac's now.
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