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* Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or "If We Do Nothing" Analysis
@ 2015-07-25  2:23 Dave Scotese
  2015-07-25 11:19 ` Slurms MacKenzie
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 16+ messages in thread
From: Dave Scotese @ 2015-07-25  2:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: bitcoin-dev

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Incentivize investigations for public consumption.  The people on this list
are the ones who probably care the most.

When I looked up that IP address, the Whois info names "OVH" and "Octave
Klaba" (who founded OVH, according to Wikipedia) as the owner.  "
blockchain.info" appears in the HTML header as retrieved by the
"Anti-Hacker Alliance" (
http://anti-hacker-alliance.com/index.php?details=37.187.136.15).
Blockchain.info itself returns IP addresses managed by CloudFlare whenever
I try it.

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Slurms MacKenzie via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> They do not run anything but BitcoinJ (evidenced by them blindly following
> invalid chains), so no proper consensus checking going on here at all.
> Connected to my nodes is a bad peer (doesn’t relay inventory but downloads
> everything) from 37.187.136.15, with the user agent
> /BitcoinJ:0.12SNAPHOT/Satoshi:0.2.0/ which is owned by blockchain.info.
> You can also submit an invalid transaction through their /pushtx interface
> and get a mixture of noise and BitcoinJ error messages out of it as well.
>
> If even the people who have to their claim hundreds of thousands of
> wallets are relying on their security don’t bother running even a single
> node to sanity check against, who are we really going to expect people to
> in the future if the load goes 8x, 16x, 32x higher? Like CoinBase and
> others, these are the companies which are claimed will be the ones
> supporting the network with ludicrous sized blocks because they have a
> financial incentive to.
>
> Well, they don't even do it now when it could be achieved with a $5 VPS.
>
>
> > Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 at 8:43 PM
> > From: "Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev" <
> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
> > To: "Thomas Zander" <thomas@thomaszander.se>
> > Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
> > Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or "If We Do Nothing"
> Analysis
> > We can test the fact that blockchain.info's wallet and block explorer
> > has behaved in a way consistent with not running a full node - they have
> > shown invalid data that any full node would reject on multiple
> > occasions, most recently invalid confirmations during the BIP66 fork.
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* [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or "If We Do Nothing" Analysis
@ 2015-07-24  2:57 Dave Scotese
  2015-07-24  3:37 ` Slurms MacKenzie
  2015-07-24 15:40 ` Milly Bitcoin
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Dave Scotese @ 2015-07-24  2:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: bitcoin-dev

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I used Google to establish that there is not already a post from 2015 that
mentions "roadmap" in the subject line.  Such would be a good skeleton for
anyone new to the list (like me).

1. Increase the 7 Tx per second - by increasing block size.

2. Do something about the trend toward centralization.  This is really two
issues in my mind:
A) Mining is falling to an ever shrinking number of businesses with the
infrastructure to run a datacenter.
B) The protocol as it is will soon make common computing machines
inadequate for running full nodes, and as a result they will not be able to
contribute to the ecosystem in meaningful ways.

Feel free to copy and then remove or alter any of that.

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2015-07-24  2:57 Dave Scotese
2015-07-24  3:37 ` Slurms MacKenzie
2015-07-24 11:38   ` Mike Hearn
2015-07-24 14:09     ` Adam Back
2015-07-24 15:22       ` Simon Liu
2015-07-24 17:40       ` Peter Todd
2015-07-24 20:28         ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-24 20:31           ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-24 15:08     ` Dave Scotese
2015-07-24 13:39   ` Thomas Zander
2015-07-24 17:43     ` Peter Todd
2015-07-24 20:23       ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-24 21:12       ` Slurms MacKenzie
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