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821  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: [FORK FORK] Bitcoin fork "No Forced TX Fee" v0.7.1 avaiable on: November 04, 2012, 05:11:09 PM
2012-11-04 Update:

NFTF - versions 0.7.0 & 0.7.1 released.

Fresh tags - nftf-v0.7.0, nftf-v0.7.1 are avaiable for download.
https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tags

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BTW, since i got bored, here is a picture of grandma roaming the skies on a dolphin (which is kind of not related to the topic, but who cares):
822  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: We need to split up the Satoshi client on: October 31, 2012, 12:56:49 PM
I feel the minimal separation which would be desirable is to split current client into hardened transaction server and move the wallet, addressbook, GUI etc. into thin light client.

For example, why would a small office of 10 people willing to use Bitcoin have each of its computer to download blockchain and keep up to date? The solution is to setup just single instance of local transaction server (all time up) and connect the GUI client (using RPC calls or Stratum) to this transaction server.

I think the developers are already aiming for something like this.
Bitcoind is already kind of separate from the GUI, and interfaces can be made around it using XMLRPC API or command line. And I support this.

But the OP meant a much deeper split of the Bitcoin clients into 3-4 or even more elements. This is what i oppose, because it creates unnecessary complexity.
823  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Patching The Bitcoin Client To Make It More Anonymous on: October 31, 2012, 09:40:45 AM
Actually, if people really want to increase privacy, it's better to do more linkage... I believe it was coingenuity (if not him, copumpkin) who proposed a group of p2p nodes building a collective transaction with all their inputs and outputs combined and everyone signing it. This not only saves space in the blockchain and other nice benefits like that, it also means the assumption that all sources are the same is broken and improves privacy.

Wouldn't that be like one-order-of-magnitude more complicated ?

Also, why not use both solutions (collective transaction & coin selection) as they are not exclusive ?
824  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Patching The Bitcoin Client To Make It More Anonymous on: October 30, 2012, 01:21:41 PM
Even if that is possible, it will be far more convenient (and less time consuming) if it would be integrated in the mainline client.

Well I am pretty sure I will be playing around with the raw tx stuff soon (probably using brainwallet.org to make it easier). So hopefully I'll have something positive to report about using it down the track. Smiley


You would basically have to write an advanced script or a frontend for bitcoind which would use this feature.

Anyway, it's complicated, not everybody has time for this and you don't have certanity that you did it properly. I would probably write my own script if that was easy enough.
825  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Patching The Bitcoin Client To Make It More Anonymous on: October 30, 2012, 11:52:29 AM
* WKWTAD people = People Who Know What They Are Doing

And those people can't use the raw tx API (even with the help of brainwallet.org)?

Even if that is possible, it will be far more convenient (and less time consuming) if it would be integrated in the mainline client.
826  Bitcoin / Press / Re: 2012-10-30 The Economic Times (Reuters) - BTC Could Tarnish Central Banks' Image on: October 30, 2012, 10:17:51 AM
It begins.

My exact thought when I saw the title of this thread.

827  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Patching The Bitcoin Client To Make It More Anonymous on: October 30, 2012, 10:12:18 AM
Certainly I doubt it will ever be a feature that Gavin's grandmother will be asking for. Smiley

Well it's not necessary for normal usage and probably won't be used by 99% Bitcoin users, but it is a very important feature still for the uber-geek/cryptoanarchist/other WKWTAD* people.

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* WKWTAD people = People Who Know What They Are Doing
828  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Patching The Bitcoin Client To Make It More Anonymous on: October 30, 2012, 08:31:50 AM
Any updates on the topic ? Is anybody working on it ?
829  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: We need to split up the Satoshi client on: October 28, 2012, 11:20:29 AM
I don't think we need to split the Satoshi client. One should ve very careful when it comes to designing advanced multi-layered, multi-component applications when there is no clear need.

Stallman tried something like that called "microkernel architecture" with GNU HURD, and see how it ended up. Linus torvalds went the other way, and designed monolithic kernel with attachable modules instead. And look how it worked out: Linux is the most popular, the most advanced and the most scallable operating system on the planet, and is used now almost everywhere, except on the desktop.

In THEORY, microkernel architecture with separate independent layers/modules for every function of the system is very neat conception, but in practice it produces incredible amount of communication, latency and compatibility problems.

There is a history lesson to be learned from this: "Keep it simple, stupid!"
830  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: cbitcoin - Bitcoin implementation in C. Currently in development. on: October 24, 2012, 10:02:44 PM
Thank you for that comment. I will likely use a dual license with the GPL.

Awesome.

Here is standard-issue gift centipede cat for you:



Thank you. When should I expect it in the post?

You don't expect centipede cat.
The centipede cat expects you.
831  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: cbitcoin - Bitcoin implementation in C. Currently in development. on: October 23, 2012, 02:37:25 PM
Thank you for that comment. I will likely use a dual license with the GPL.

Awesome.

Here is standard-issue gift centipede cat for you:

832  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: [ANN] Bitcoin Foundation on: October 22, 2012, 11:28:32 AM
(...) blah blah (...)

Also, why the hell do you keep changing your avatar randomly ?

A psychiatrist would probably suspect that you have some kind of mental disorder as you are so unstable that you cannot decide what avatar will reflect you best.
833  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: [ANN] Bitcoin Foundation on: October 22, 2012, 08:48:19 AM
If the Foundation is seeking registration as some form of non-profit, then it's likely that voting procedures are outlined by law and that they can't just make them up themselves (here, votes by the membership of non-profits must be overseen by officers of the Electoral Commission who check that members were financial, that the required quorum was met, and that the required formal procedures such as notice, proposers and seconders etc were followed).

Why they chose Washington DC as the location, the most oppressive, regulated shithole in the world, is beyond me. Oh wait, it isn't because I am sure the original intentions were to get Bitcoin regulated.

If you are saying that Washington DC is regulated, then you have no fucking idea what the word "regulated" means.

Come to the UE. We have laws here that specify the exact curvature a banana must have to be allowed on the market. They also tell us how much milk, cheese and sugar we can produce. That is **regulated**.
834  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Patching The Bitcoin Client To Make It More Anonymous on: October 13, 2012, 10:58:52 PM
Gavin, if we, those who are interested in this function, provide our interest by donations to you or other developer, is there a chance that you will make this patch happen sooner?

+5 BTC

I join the question and pledge 5 BTC if anybody would want to finish it sooner.

835  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: If you want to know why I hate the dev team and how they treat Bitcoin... on: October 12, 2012, 10:41:23 AM
Messias complexes usually end in the mental hospital.

Unfortunately, as the ones wearing badges which say "Doctor"

http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_harford.html

Apparently the "god complex" issue applies to this subject very well. We can either act on proposed solutions by a central authority and trust that authority or we can improve through trial-and-error with various solutions.

There still is one concept you simply can't grasp:

What you said above is not how open source projects work. In open source world, once most of people don't like the decision of the "central authority", they make a fork, and majority starts using the fork.

Examples are many. Gnome 3 -> Mate, MySQL -> MariaDB/Percona, OpenOffice -> LibreOffice. This really works.

And I am not even mentioning completely alternative (not forked) projects...
836  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: [BETA] Bitcoin blockchain torrent on: October 12, 2012, 08:09:34 AM
At last, finally somebody made bootstrapping Bitcoin easier.

It was a major pain in the ass for people running full BTC client.
837  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: High Efficiency FPGA & ASIC Bitcoin Mining Devices https://BTCFPGA.com on: October 08, 2012, 10:51:15 AM
@Tom => just to let you know
www.BTCFPGA.com
www.BitcoinASIC.com

  "This Account Has Been Suspended"

again ...

What kind of "again" ?
I hope not "suspicious activity again" or "we get scammed again".
838  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Miners operate the majority of Bitcoin nodes. on: October 07, 2012, 02:20:40 AM
Suppose they figured out that bitcoin was going to replace current monies in time to do something about it, maybe they would buy bitcoins and enjoy continuing to be wealthy.

...and lose "undisputable elite" status to the early adopters ? Is any power&money-hungry-bastard ever going to accept this ?



839  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Miners operate the majority of Bitcoin nodes. on: October 07, 2012, 01:57:42 AM
Do what you want. No one is forcing you to do anything.

Most miners use a mining pool. Most miners don't run a full node, as this is not required for pooled mining. So thousands of miners could be relying on tens of nodes.

I want a healthy robust network that is capable of withstanding various attacks. I run a node on every computer that I have access to.

Isn't the most threatening attack one of 51% of the computing power confirming most of the blocks?

They will attack bitcoin economically not with overpowering mining force.

That is quite logical, indeed.

They will not risk attacking using weapons they are not experienced with, but with the ones they handle well. They will keep using their usual methods, slightly modified for specifics of the Bitcoin economy.
840  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Miners operate the majority of Bitcoin nodes. on: October 07, 2012, 01:17:36 AM
More coins = more power. If we have most of the coins, there are endless number of ways we can destroy the mainstream version, while forking and promoting the new, better version.

I'd like to think that this community can successfully fend off evil intent, but our track record is poor in that regard.  I doubt we can coordinate a full-on currency war.

Of course we can.
When you leave people no choice, they do the only thing they can - fight.

A proper incentive is required for everything. For example, when all your wealth, well being and even survival is dependant upon doing a thing, you will do the thing.

We can't even cohesively go after a couple of blatant scammers, so

Because these scammers aren't a danger against Bitcoin in general, but danger only to people who believe in magical 7% a week profits.
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