I really didn't expected to see such a lie from Gavin. Other pools have at least 50% of hashing power, just Slush and BTCguild are 27% combined. How can I outhash all the network with my current 32% ? (according to blockchaininfo's pie chart)
Of course I can't veto any change. I respect Gavin for all his hard work for Bitcoin's future, but this post was really SHOCKING for me. Is it really him ?
May be he sees that at this moment only 2% of the network supports his proposal and this is the way he wants to push it - by forcing Deepbit into adopting /P2SH/ and then outhashing other miners with Deepbit's share.

I'm not supporting /P2SH/ at this moment exactly because I don't want to be single deciding force and vote against majority of other miners.
(of course I don't like this "hackish" proposal too, and there are shady rumors about reasons for Gavin to support it, but I will implement it if significant amount of other miners will)

Hello.
Do any of pledgers have any other opinion about if this solution meets requirements and should be awarded ? Looks like it does.

Slush and BTCguild are 2 guys holding 40+% of the votes. Not so much of a difference.

I have some different opinion on this matter :)

FUD is something like this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3889.msg713766#msg713766

I proposed implementation of plain miltisigs and long addresses first, and then working on a better solution for pay-to-script, while already having 2-factor auth and escrow services support.

Yes, I was thinking about this option too. But sadly most of my users don't have a clue about what P2SH is and what's the difference between those competing proposals. And their voting will be affected not by real properties of those solutions, but by PR on this forum.

P.S.: Remember that Deepbit was the first one to vote for OP_EVAL, which later turned out to be exploitable, buggy and not what devs wanted at all. Luckily no harm was done, but lesson learned. Thinking twice now.

We have cookies ! :)

Please don't spread FUD about this.
There are about 60% to 70% of miners who are not voting, excluding DeepBit. According to blockchaininfo's pie chart, currently only 2% of miners are voting for /P2SH/.
Of course I won't put my vote against the majority of other miners.

And I'm not "stopping the addition of new good features", I'm just being careful and care about the network. I'll accept any good solution for this problem.
Actually I proposed two-stage upgrade process since there are obviously no consensus between devs or miners, but no one cared to check the issue.

Do you remember exactly when this problem started ?
You can PM me your IP to check.

Pool's total hashrate didn't changed noticeable, so it should be something specific.

Averaging window is user-adjustable, it can be longer or shorter than 15 min.

This number shown on stats page is average pool's shares per block during last 24 hours, not total shares (it's explained there).

This measurement includes your personal luck, some part of pool's luck and a little bit of global network luck. It should not be used for precise calculations.

If you want it to be closer to reality, increase your averaging window to 40 or 60 minutes.

Nothing was changed. Sometimes we have a long round and sometimes there are too many transactions to include.
It's normal. You just need to wait until it gets confirmed if you see the transaction in your payments history.

Not worthless if your miner supports long polling. But not really profitable.
The average time to generate a share at 435 Khps is 2 hours, 44 minutes, and 33 seconds

I wonder if there will ever be a moment in time when most people will pay attention to HTTPS and related warnings in their browsers...

No.

But price drop can cause some hashrate decrease in next days.

Yes, the difference is that it's not guaranted to be always positive.

I'm not trying to say that it's worse, it's just not exactly the same.

1) There is no way to know for sure if it's more than 50% or not.
2) Exceeding 50% doesn't hurts my pool or my users, so there is no need for such countermeasures, especially when wast majority of bitcoin community do not care about that.

Actually it's not the same, it's SMPPS vs real PPS, AFAIK.

Some people think that this already happened more than once.
I believe that nothing bad will happen in this case and if someone else will gain >50% and do "bad things", the network will heal itself.

The community should either a) create a good monitoring service, b) develop something to prevent any bad things from happening when some entity is over 50%, c) stop complaining
because if a pool can be over 50%, then other miners can do this too, and then you won't be able to stop it.

Oh, so that's where bitcoin's central authority is :)

You are a bit wrong comparing apples and oranges. You don't know network's total hashrate, you can only know network's resulting "blocks per unit of time" speed.
It may be a 12 TH/s with a very bad luck, or the opposite. So if you are comparing network with some pools, you should compare same parameters, like that "blocks per unit of time" (which is almost useless because it's based on past luck).

What I'm trying to say is that deepbit's hashrate didn't changed dramatically in last days and I really doubt that only those who aren't mining in deepbit are leaving the network (which can explain such increase of pool's part if it was real), so this deviation is probably just caused by luck.

Congratulations for making it into the news :)
Looks like they think it's a new "official" firmware.

http://moneynews.ru/News/15648/

You didn't get my point.

For example, with smart (encrypting, non-wireless) cards a solution for online wallet payments will cost less than $1000 including the SDK, a couple of readers and some cards. With this one can start developing and produce a complete turnkey POS.

Now, how much $$ you need to start and set up a system with that keypad card ?

May be, but keypad cards are impossible to use with bitcoins at this moment, contrary to cheap mifare cards and equipment.

Also sadly wireless card can be used for instant payment only with the help of some online wallet service :(