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About Bitcoin Foundation: Who is Lindsay Holland w/ $160k salary - $13k/month Economics
Secretary work?Lindsay WAS the Foundation at the beginning, and did EVERYTHING (…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | April 06, 2015, 05:30:39 PM |
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Bitcoin server - set minimum transaction fee Development & Technical Discussion
Hello fellows!I'm actually running bitcoind server to receive and send transacti…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | April 03, 2015, 03:52:54 PM |
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Bitcoin 20MB Fork Bitcoin Discussion
Finally a reasonable question:Gavin, could you please explain the reason behind…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | March 17, 2015, 12:49:42 PM |
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Bitcoin 20MB Fork Bitcoin Discussion
Gavin gets it wrong. Big deal.You know, there's a reason in business, why it's u…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | March 17, 2015, 09:12:59 AM |
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Bitcoin 20MB Fork Bitcoin Discussion
Let's put a bullet in the head of this argument once and for all.If people drive…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | March 11, 2015, 12:50:44 PM |
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Slowing down block propagation Development & Technical Discussion
Miner profit in fiat currency = number of transactions * average transaction fee…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | March 07, 2015, 01:15:01 PM |
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Slowing down block propagation Development & Technical Discussion
How do TX relayers get paid?Why do we need transaction relayers? What vital func…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | March 07, 2015, 09:12:39 AM |
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Slowing down block propagation Development & Technical Discussion
i am nearly convinced now that a big block size together with 1BLT is a threat f…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | March 05, 2015, 04:18:27 PM |
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Number of m-of-n ouputs per transaction Development & Technical Discussion
... I managed to be wrong twice: I forgot about the AreInputsStandard check for…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | February 26, 2015, 04:53:11 PM |
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Number of m-of-n ouputs per transaction Development & Technical Discussion
Very nice work, DeathAndTaxes.The 0.10 release makes almost all P2SH Script form…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | February 25, 2015, 12:20:15 PM |
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Are New Bitcoin Releases Going to Take Longer & Longer to Adopt by Majority? Development & Technical Discussion
I think it will depend on the release.Adoption of 0.10.0 is looking really good:…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | February 19, 2015, 02:05:59 PM |
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Individual Block Difficulty Based on Block Size Development & Technical Discussion
I think there's a large amount of cargo culting going on regarding the hash rate…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | February 19, 2015, 12:06:47 PM |
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Individual Block Difficulty Based on Block Size Development & Technical Discussion
Interesting idea, but I'm afraid I disagree with your premise.There is no traged…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | February 17, 2015, 03:19:02 PM |
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Bitcoin 20MB Fork Bitcoin Discussion
This is where my conversation with Gavin fell apart. He was not able to acknowl…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | February 17, 2015, 01:50:50 PM |
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Bitcoin 20MB Fork Bitcoin Discussion
If I ever go insane and suggest increasing the 21 million coin limit, please put…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | February 05, 2015, 08:34:07 PM |
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Bitcoin 20MB Fork Bitcoin Discussion
What's the problem with paying 10 bucks instead of 10 cents to securely transfer…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | February 01, 2015, 06:35:10 PM |
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Bitcoin 20MB Fork Bitcoin Discussion
It's not just connection speed that will prevent normal people from running Bitc…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | January 30, 2015, 10:12:28 PM |
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Fake block timestamps can cause a temporary fork? Development & Technical Discussion
Why would a miner want only half the network to build on their block?That makes…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | January 19, 2015, 06:12:00 PM |
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Is provoking a fork on purpose a good thing ? Development & Technical Discussion
Imagine that you discover a fork condition between V1 and V2 of bitcoin core.Sur…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | January 17, 2015, 05:04:02 PM |
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Fake block timestamps can cause a temporary fork? Development & Technical Discussion
Why would a miner want only half the network to build on their block?That makes…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | January 17, 2015, 04:59:06 PM |
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Is the security of the trusted root cert the weak link in BIP-70? Development & Technical Discussion
True, in that case root certificates aren't the weak link, but I can think of si…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | January 16, 2015, 10:42:42 AM |
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Discussion on the Block Size Bitcoin Discussion
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=815712.0;allThere are other threads goin…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | January 14, 2015, 03:27:40 PM |
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Is the security of the trusted root cert the weak link in BIP-70? Development & Technical Discussion
If your system is compromised, and you are using a single-signature wallet, then…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | January 14, 2015, 02:22:53 PM |
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Gavin Andresen on the front page of the FT Bitcoin Discussion
I applaud him for his intentions and honesty but I would suggest this is going t…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | January 14, 2015, 12:37:01 PM |
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Gavin Andresen on the front page of the FT Bitcoin Discussion
The ideal message should imo be "Give bitcoin a try, but don't put too much mone…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | January 12, 2015, 11:55:40 AM |
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What is latest good practice to store data in a transaction Development & Technical Discussion
Three important points to consider about OP_RETURN:1) A transaction can only hav…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | January 07, 2015, 09:54:43 AM |
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Bitcoin Foundation Election Bitcoin Discussion
RE: can't wrap your head around what the Bitcoin Foundation does:It is in big le…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | December 29, 2014, 04:38:52 PM |
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Gavin will visit the Council on Foreign Relations Bitcoin Discussion
You're right. That was Gavin-bait. Well David Rabahy it's been six months and st…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | December 12, 2014, 03:41:39 PM |
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man sentenced to 4 years for illegal bitcoin operation Bitcoin Discussion
why is that illegal to run bitcoin exchange? its not real moneyIt's being exchan…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | December 10, 2014, 03:03:02 PM |
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crypto software - writing the grotty bits. Development & Technical Discussion
Excellent advice.I'd add: you never have infinite time, so you will have to prio…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | December 03, 2014, 08:45:50 AM |
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O(1) block propagation Development & Technical Discussion
If you want to work on IBLT stuff...... start with Matt's fast-relay code: https…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | November 20, 2014, 03:45:23 PM |
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Gavin Andresen Proposes Bitcoin Hard Fork to Address Network Scalability Bitcoin Discussion
As best I can tell there is no ability or desire to include this level of rigor…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | November 17, 2014, 01:09:44 PM |
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Gavin Andresen Proposes Bitcoin Hard Fork to Address Network Scalability Bitcoin Discussion
It seems Bitcoin community can't reach consensus on this issue, a lot of people…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | November 17, 2014, 11:59:28 AM |
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Economics of the blocksize limit Economics
If the block size is increased such that there is enough room for all transactio…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | November 16, 2014, 02:41:37 PM |
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Any alternative to storing all the transactions? Development & Technical Discussion
See https://bitcoinfoundation.org/2014/10/a-scalability-roadmap/
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | November 16, 2014, 02:32:36 PM |
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Funding network security in the future Development & Technical Discussion
You are wrong.Example that should make it clear....Wait... no... that example is…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | November 12, 2014, 07:23:02 PM |
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Funding network security in the future Development & Technical Discussion
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this an issue right now? Assuming that…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | November 12, 2014, 01:34:36 PM |
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DO NOT GIVE THE GOVERNMENT ANY INFORMATION ABOUT BITCOIN Bitcoin Discussion
OP does have a point, Satoshi did walk away the moment Gavin accepted the invita…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | November 10, 2014, 01:26:48 PM |
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Good news! Gavin Andresen: I think everybody should switch to talking in "bits" Bitcoin Discussion
If "bits" continues to gain in popularity and support, then my support will even…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | November 04, 2014, 09:50:43 AM |
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DO NOT GIVE THE GOVERNMENT ANY INFORMATION ABOUT BITCOIN Bitcoin Discussion
OP does have a point, Satoshi did walk away the moment Gavin accepted the invita…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | November 04, 2014, 09:45:50 AM |
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Testnet specific code being exploited Development & Technical Discussion
Looks like the "keep testnet mining" difficulty 1 code needs to be revisited:"pa…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | November 03, 2014, 03:55:10 PM |
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Funding network security in the future Development & Technical Discussion
I couldn't resist peeking at the literature; the first hit on a google search fo…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | November 02, 2014, 08:55:55 AM |
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Why blockchains might want to consider using AT "Turing complete" txs Bitcoin Discussion
...or other facilities which are more obvious when you understand the difference…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | November 01, 2014, 06:59:08 PM |
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Funding network security in the future Development & Technical Discussion
And from this, we derive how we should fund this cost using tx fees. We want to…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | November 01, 2014, 06:30:31 PM |
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Funding network security in the future Development & Technical Discussion
This is petra scandali and it does matter.In decentralized systems every node ha…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 28, 2014, 10:53:19 AM |
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Bitcoin over tor [vulnerabilities] Development & Technical Discussion
You can mitigate the attacks described in the paper by running bitcoind with mor…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 28, 2014, 10:24:59 AM |
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Funding network security in the future Development & Technical Discussion
First method costs you 10000 kWh energy and gives you 99.99% clear water.Second…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 28, 2014, 10:15:43 AM |
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Funding network security in the future Development & Technical Discussion
There was a particularly surprising quote from Gavin in the original thread, whi…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 28, 2014, 09:39:00 AM |
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Gavin Andresen Proposes Bitcoin Hard Fork to Address Network Scalability Bitcoin Discussion
These guys making sidechains are extremely vested in bitcoin. I am sure they al…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 27, 2014, 08:41:23 AM |
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O(1) block propagation Development & Technical Discussion
RE: O(1) versus O(some-function-of-total-number-of-transactions):Yes, it will de…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 27, 2014, 08:27:22 AM |
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Increasing the block size is a good idea; 50%/year is probably too aggressive Development & Technical Discussion
Are you simply unaware of the other ways scalability is limited and only focused…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 23, 2014, 09:30:20 AM |
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Increasing the block size is a good idea; 50%/year is probably too aggressive Development & Technical Discussion
Yes, I think Bitcoin can surpass this. There are other problems with the way th…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 23, 2014, 09:20:48 AM |
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Increasing the block size is a good idea; 50%/year is probably too aggressive Development & Technical Discussion
I continue to maintain that market forces can rightsize MAX_BLOCK_SIZE if an alg…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 23, 2014, 08:50:34 AM |
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Gavin Andresen Proposes Bitcoin Hard Fork to Address Network Scalability Bitcoin Discussion
The lead dev works exclusively for big business.Please stop trolling. I think wh…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 20, 2014, 08:22:21 AM |
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Gavin Andresen Proposes Bitcoin Hard Fork to Address Network Scalability Bitcoin Discussion
... I think the disagreement is what effects both not raising the limit and rais…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 19, 2014, 09:57:26 AM |
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Increasing the block size is a good idea; 50%/year is probably too aggressive Development & Technical Discussion
By including the coinbase fee (or maybe a square or other root of it) we would c…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 19, 2014, 09:49:09 AM |
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Gavin Andresen Proposes Bitcoin Hard Fork to Address Network Scalability Bitcoin Discussion
Has this actually been set in stone or is Gavin just pondering ideas?I am trying…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 19, 2014, 09:39:26 AM |
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Increasing the block size is a good idea; 50%/year is probably too aggressive Development & Technical Discussion
I happen to think we can do better than Gavin's idea. I like the idea of trying…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 18, 2014, 10:16:46 AM |
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Bitcoin Core 0.9.3 has been released Bitcoin Discussion
I really don't have experience with those offline wallets but if somehow my PC g…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 17, 2014, 11:55:48 AM |
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Why blockchains might want to consider using AT "Turing complete" txs Bitcoin Discussion
The timestamp is not intended to be an *actual timestamp* but instead one that i…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 17, 2014, 11:48:06 AM |
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Gavin Andresen Proposes Bitcoin Hard Fork to Address Network Scalability Bitcoin Discussion
The real question is do you think it is feasible to do this before the "hard-for…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 17, 2014, 11:15:33 AM |
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Why blockchains might want to consider using AT "Turing complete" txs Bitcoin Discussion
I'm confused. In the lottery example:Quoteget timestamp for @txid and store in @…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 17, 2014, 11:14:11 AM |
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Gavin Andresen Proposes Bitcoin Hard Fork to Address Network Scalability Bitcoin Discussion
...basically the blocks just contain the txids - which can be matched with those…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 17, 2014, 11:02:17 AM |
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Increasing the block size is a good idea; 50%/year is probably too aggressive Development & Technical Discussion
Designing something to work and designing to not fail are entirely different end…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 16, 2014, 04:50:58 PM |
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Increasing the block size is a good idea; 50%/year is probably too aggressive Development & Technical Discussion
Of course one can say, let's put it 50% per year until the bandwidth stops growi…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 15, 2014, 01:34:45 PM |
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A Scalability Roadmap Development & Technical Discussion
I propose the following rule to determine the block size limit, once the block r…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 14, 2014, 05:12:07 PM |
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Increasing the block size is a good idea; 50%/year is probably too aggressive Development & Technical Discussion
why not linear growth, like +n MB per block halving, or quadratic like +n MB pe…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 14, 2014, 05:07:23 PM |
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Message to devs from merchant Development & Technical Discussion
You guys say that hard drives are cheap but you still have to scan the block cha…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 14, 2014, 10:47:59 AM |
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Increasing the block size is a good idea; 50%/year is probably too aggressive Development & Technical Discussion
No comment on this?QuoteOne example of a better way would be to use a sliding wi…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 14, 2014, 10:11:15 AM |
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Increasing the block size is a good idea; 50%/year is probably too aggressive Development & Technical Discussion
It also may be contrary to the eventual goal of usage driven mining, where trans…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 13, 2014, 02:05:00 PM |
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A Scalability Roadmap Development & Technical Discussion
Yeah, 40% of a 250 GB connection works out to about 23 MB depending on how you d…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 09, 2014, 05:14:22 PM |
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A Scalability Roadmap Development & Technical Discussion
An extremely large block size would mess up the economics of mining eventually.I…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 09, 2014, 02:51:30 PM |
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A Scalability Roadmap Development & Technical Discussion
Lowering the limit afterward wouldn't be a soft-forking change if the majority o…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 08, 2014, 12:36:07 PM |
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A Scalability Roadmap Development & Technical Discussion
Is Gavin saying this should grow at 50% per year because bandwidth has been incr…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 06, 2014, 01:25:02 PM |
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Adding a feature to decline dust transactions Development & Technical Discussion
That could be a feature of the wallet: do not to display any unconfirmed (or ev…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | October 04, 2014, 12:00:07 PM |
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It's about time to turn off PoW mining Bitcoin Discussion
I am not the best person to discuss the technical details here, but how do you e…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | September 17, 2014, 10:56:49 AM |
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It's about time to turn off PoW mining Bitcoin Discussion
Is there a rebuttal from the PoS crowd to this: https://download.wpsoftware.net…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | September 17, 2014, 10:23:42 AM |
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DDoS attack on Bitcoin.org Bitcoin Discussion
Probably just some anti-Foundation skiddie who saw this: https://bitcoinfoundat…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | September 17, 2014, 10:11:26 AM |
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Instructing a node to disconnect from a specific peer via RPC Development & Technical Discussion
I needed that, so hacked together a disconnectpeer RPC call: https://github.com…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | September 15, 2014, 07:29:24 AM |
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Energy efficiency. Development & Technical Discussion
Thaddeus Dryja's "proof of idle" idea hasn't been getting enough attention. See…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | September 10, 2014, 11:51:42 AM |
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[ANN] Tip4Commit.com - support opensource projects, contribute and earn bitcoins Service Announcements
I think we're seeing some people submitting lots of tiny, trivial commits -- per…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | September 09, 2014, 11:41:40 AM |
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Share your ideas on what to replace the 1 MB block size limit with Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteEdit: With respect to CryptoNote and Monero, I do see merit in the argument…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | August 21, 2014, 09:27:35 AM |
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[2014-08-10] Bitcoin Suspected to Be NSA or CIA Project Press
It is absolutely true! I heard the main guy even visited the NSA's headquarters…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | August 12, 2014, 07:16:22 PM |
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O(1) block propagation Development & Technical Discussion
Block re-orgs need some thought.If I have chain A-B-C, and get IBLT's for an alt…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | August 12, 2014, 09:21:03 AM |
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Possible “reasons” for the transaction fee and possible price implications Development & Technical Discussion
Can't somebody build a web-service that detects when transactions enter it's mem…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | July 09, 2014, 12:57:42 PM |
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Possible “reasons” for the transaction fee and possible price implications Development & Technical Discussion
It's fairly easy to manipulate actually; sybil attacks are not that hard to do.…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | July 04, 2014, 12:09:02 PM |
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Possible “reasons” for the transaction fee and possible price implications Development & Technical Discussion
Smart (dynamic, floating) fees for the reference implementation wallet was pulle…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | July 03, 2014, 07:07:43 PM |
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Faster blocks vs bigger blocks Development & Technical Discussion
It seems to me having miners share 'near-miss' blocks with each other (and the r…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | July 03, 2014, 09:56:20 AM |
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[ANNOUNCE] Bitcoin Testing Project Project Development
Over 50 BTC in donations with no fundraising effort-- thanks everyone who has do…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | May 10, 2012, 05:27:02 PM |
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[ANNOUNCE] Bitcoin Testing Project Project Development
I think most of what I'll be able to do is bug reporting and fundraising. Let me…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | May 07, 2012, 03:40:45 PM |
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Multiplicity of addresses in default account when using 'sendtoaddress' Development & Technical Discussion
The best way to understand reference implementation accounts is to think of bitc…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | June 27, 2014, 11:42:09 AM |
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New Paper: Deanonymisation of clients in Bitcoin P2P network Development & Technical Discussion
We are currently working on a countermeasure. In particular we wonder howreduci…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | June 24, 2014, 01:22:00 PM |
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Cex.io: the largest Bitcoin cloud mining service, not a profitable investment Economics
I haven't been paying to the whole "cloud hashing" thing, but it seems to me a g…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | June 16, 2014, 10:18:07 AM |
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Bit-thereum Development & Technical Discussion
It does seem to be the case that building things that work in the real world, no…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | June 14, 2014, 10:46:20 AM |
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bitcoin-qt/bitcoind - Calculating raw transaction fees! Development & Technical Discussion
New 'estimatefee' and 'estimatepriority' RPC commands were just pulled into Bitc…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | June 09, 2014, 11:55:25 AM |
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Why not automatically apply the TX fee to ANY transaction by default? Development & Technical Discussion
My rationale though is that we shouldn't need to do this by hand. It should be d…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | June 02, 2014, 11:01:51 AM |
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Myth: the Payment Protocol is bad for privacy Development & Technical Discussion
There's a real debate to be had; name calling just makes it impossible.That is l…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | June 02, 2014, 10:54:25 AM |
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Myth: the Payment Protocol is bad for privacy Development & Technical Discussion
In order to acquire a certificate (which you need to sign the payment requests w…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | June 02, 2014, 09:56:06 AM |
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Why not automatically apply the TX fee to ANY transaction by default? Development & Technical Discussion
See https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4250 and https://github.com/bitcoin/…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | June 01, 2014, 06:10:59 PM |
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GitianVMs gavin password Development & Technical Discussion
Login as ubuntu, password "ubuntu"I think, if I remember correctly.Wait... no, m…
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n/a | Gavin Andresen | June 01, 2014, 06:04:03 PM |
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