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2023-06-07 01:40:07

🔖 Title: BitCoinJ v0.2
🏷️ Categories: Bitcoin-development, ANNOUNCE
👥 Authors:
• Jim Nguyen ( @npub1pkp…n3r2 )
• Mike Hearn ( @npub17ty…qgyd )
🗒️ Conversation Summary: BitcoinJ v0.2 has been released with new features including support for block chain re-orgs, persistence of block chain using multiple stores, peer discovery, and bug fixes. The update also includes many improvements and bug fixes.
📅 Messages Date: 2011-06-27
✉️ Message Count: 2
📚 Total Characters in Messages: 2993

2023-06-07 01:40:02

🔖 Title: Bitcoin app bundle inclusion
🏷️ Categories: Bitcoin-development
👥 Authors: Doug Huff ( @npub1u2s…63q3 )
📅 Messages Date: 2011-06-27
✉️ Message Count: 1
📚 Total Characters in Messages: 952

2023-06-07 01:39:54

🔖 Title: Wallet Private Key Encryption Take 3
🏷️ Categories: Bitcoin-development, PULL
👥 Authors: Matt Corallo ( @npub1e46…xmcu )
🗒️ Conversation Summary: Bitcoin code has been updated to handle wallet error messages, according to a Github pull request. Wallet encryption is now ready for review and feedback after being rebased onto the wallet class.
📅 Messages Date Range: 2011-06-26 to 2011-06-27
✉️ Message Count: 2
📚 Total Characters in Messages: 1253

2023-06-07 01:39:45

🔖 Title: Speeding up "getbalance <account>" calls
🏷️ Categories: Bitcoin-development
👥 Authors:
• jan at uos.de ( @npub1q4m…8aml )
• John Smith ( @npub1e4l…jafl )
🗒️ Conversation Summary: Instawallet is facing slow performance due to bitcoind taking too long to compute balances. A cache system is suggested as a solution. Jan seeks advice on improving the speed of "getbalance" and scanning the wallet every time a block comes in is suggested by John Smith.
📅 Messages Date Range: 2011-06-23 to 2011-06-24
✉️ Message Count: 2
📚 Total Characters in Messages: 3352

2023-06-07 01:39:40

🔖 Title: More plausible mtgox.com post-mortem (Bitcoin fun week!)
🏷️ Categories: Bitcoin-development
👥 Authors: Doug Huff ( @npub1u2s…63q3 )
📅 Messages Date: 2011-06-21
✉️ Message Count: 1
📚 Total Characters in Messages: 3780

2023-06-07 01:39:28

🔖 Title: Bitcoin fun day!
🏷️ Categories: Bitcoin-development
👥 Authors:
• Douglas Huff ( @npub1xpr…6eq0 )
• Gavin Andresen ( @npub1s4l…44kw )
• Doug Huff ( @npub1u2s…63q3 )
🗒️ Conversation Summary: Doug Huff reported multiple CSRF vulnerabilities in ClearCoin, hosted on appspot and using Google account authentication. Gavin Andresen confirmed that the vulnerability was fixed after being reported by Huff, noting that it was particularly dangerous. Huff emphasized the severity of CSRFs due to the use of Google account authentication.
📅 Messages Date: 2011-06-19
✉️ Message Count: 3
📚 Total Characters in Messages: 3494

2023-06-07 01:39:23

🔖 Title: Wallet class merged -- rebasing needed
🏷️ Categories: Bitcoin-development
👥 Authors: Jeff Garzik ( @npub1kf0…3f58 )
📅 Messages Date: 2011-06-18
✉️ Message Count: 1
📚 Total Characters in Messages: 267

2023-06-07 01:39:18

🔖 Title: Roadmap for autotools / Qt gui merge
🏷️ Categories: Bitcoin-development, Mac update
👥 Authors: Mark Visser ( @npub1g7w…ujpr )
📅 Messages Date: 2011-06-19
✉️ Message Count: 1
📚 Total Characters in Messages: 1658

2023-06-07 01:38:41

🔖 Title: Roadmap for autotools / Qt gui merge
🏷️ Categories: Bitcoin-development
👥 Authors:
• Jeff Garzik ( @npub1kf0…3f58 )
• Luke-Jr ( @npub1dtr…7wrs )
• Brendan Molloy ( @npub14kl…09nz )
• Pieter Wuille ( @npub1tje…tl6r )
• Douglas Huff ( @npub1xpr…6eq0 )
• Gavin Andresen ( @npub1s4l…44kw )
• John Smith ( @npub1e4l…jafl )
🗒️ Conversation Summary: Developers discuss merging the autotools build system and Qt GUI for Bitcoin reference client. Some suggest testing on native Windows and OSX platforms. The idea of supporting multiple GUIs is not ideal. John Smith completed his Qt GUI and wants to ensure it works without glib support before merging.
📅 Messages Date Range: 2011-06-17 to 2011-06-22
✉️ Message Count: 11
📚 Total Characters in Messages: 6964

2023-06-07 01:38:17

🔖 Title: Development priorities
🏷️ Categories: Bitcoin-development
👥 Authors:
• Jeff Garzik ( @npub1kf0…3f58 )
• Luke-Jr ( @npub1dtr…7wrs )
• phantomcircuit ( @npub149n…fa6r )
• Mike Hearn ( @npub17ty…qgyd )
• Gavin Andresen ( @npub1s4l…44kw )
• bgroff at lavabit.com ( @npub1lsu…mjm0 )
🗒️ Conversation Summary: Bitcoin developers prioritize scaling-up issues, wallet security, and unit testing framework. Experts suggest air-gapped wallets and multi-signature coins to improve security, but an insecure PC remains a major vulnerability. A bug in Bitcoin's code has been identified and is expected to be an easy fix.
📅 Messages Date Range: 2011-06-16 to 2011-06-19
✉️ Message Count: 7
📚 Total Characters in Messages: 7351

2023-06-07 01:37:39

🔖 Title: Add scriptPubKey enforced sendescrow and redeemescrow API calls
🏷️ Categories: Bitcoin-development, PULL
👥 Authors:
• bgroff at lavabit.com ( @npub1lsu…mjm0 )
• Gavin Andresen ( @npub1s4l…44kw )
• Mike Hearn ( @npub17ty…qgyd )
🗒️ Conversation Summary: Bitcoin's new "escrow" feature allows multiple parties to control coins, reducing trust and eliminating single points of failure in transactions. The term "escrow" should not be used for all multsig transactions. Instead, "multisign" or "multipay" transactions are suggested. A new type of bitcoin payment address is proposed for an "m of n address" that requires m of n signatures to spend, making it easier to fund an escrow.
📅 Messages Date Range: 2011-06-16 to 2011-06-22
✉️ Message Count: 11
📚 Total Characters in Messages: 14282

2023-06-07 01:37:27

🔖 Title: Protocol versioning
🏷️ Categories: Bitcoin-development
👥 Authors:
• Jeff Garzik ( @npub1kf0…3f58 )
• Doug Huff ( @npub1u2s…63q3 )
• Christian Decker ( @npub1wtx…tuyn )
🗒️ Conversation Summary: Jeff Garzik suggests mini-proposals to improve the Bitcoin protocol, such as avoiding four-component version numbers and separating protocol and client versions. Christian Decker agrees with the proposals. Doug Huff suggests renaming the Bitcoin client to "Reference client" or "Mainline client" to highlight its original implementation status.
📅 Messages Date: 2011-06-15
✉️ Message Count: 3
📚 Total Characters in Messages: 7587

2023-06-07 01:37:22

🔖 Title: Question about dust spam rule
🏷️ Categories: Bitcoin-development
👥 Authors: jan at uos.de ( @npub1q4m…8aml )
📅 Messages Date: 2011-06-14
✉️ Message Count: 1
📚 Total Characters in Messages: 1025

2023-06-07 01:37:10

🔖 Title: Bumping up against flood control limits again?
🏷️ Categories: Bitcoin-development
👥 Authors:
• Jeff Garzik ( @npub1kf0…3f58 )
• Mike Hearn ( @npub17ty…qgyd )
• Dave Smith ( @npub15dq…cn4y )
🗒️ Conversation Summary: Bitcoin's scalability is being hindered by the 10mb flood control limit, which is causing issues with large block sizes. The solution is to either raise the limit or lower the batch size, according to Mike Hearn, Dave Smith, and Jeff Garzik.
📅 Messages Date: 2011-06-14
✉️ Message Count: 3
📚 Total Characters in Messages: 4499

2023-06-07 01:36:56

🔖 Title: Release priorities for v0.4?
🏷️ Categories: Bitcoin-development
👥 Authors:
• Jeff Garzik ( @npub1kf0…3f58 )
• Mark Visser ( @npub1g7w…ujpr )
• Theodore Witkamp ( @npub1ra5…gmdk )
🗒️ Conversation Summary: Jeff Garzik suggests prioritizing wallet crypto in the next version due to increased reports of stolen wallets. Mark Visser suggests allowing wallet.dat location in preferences for easy physical disconnection. Theodore Witkamp explains that all databases must be in datadir, making it difficult to move one file.
📅 Messages Date Range: 2011-06-13 to 2011-06-15
✉️ Message Count: 4
📚 Total Characters in Messages: 1907

2023-06-07 01:36:47

🔖 Title: Bitcoin v0.3.23 released
🏷️ Categories: Bitcoin-development
👥 Authors: Jeff Garzik ( @npub1kf0…3f58 )
🗒️ Conversation Summary: Bitcoin v0.3.23 has been released with reduced transaction fees and improved P2P connect-to-node logic. Minor updates include regenerated Linux tarball, added Win32 .zip archive, and PGP-signed SHA1SUM.asc added to SF.
📅 Messages Date Range: 2011-06-13 to 2011-06-16
✉️ Message Count: 2
📚 Total Characters in Messages: 3532

2023-06-07 01:36:42

🔖 Title: Ready for 0.3.23 release?
🏷️ Categories: Bitcoin-development
👥 Authors: Jeff Garzik ( @npub1kf0…3f58 )
📅 Messages Date: 2011-06-13
✉️ Message Count: 1
📚 Total Characters in Messages: 282

2023-06-07 01:36:08

🔖 Title: Bootstrapping via BitTorrent trackers
🏷️ Categories: Bitcoin-development
👥 Authors:
• Christian Decker ( @npub1wtx…tuyn )
• Jeff Garzik ( @npub1kf0…3f58 )
• Gavin ( @npub1fvd…d8pr )
• Vladimir Marchenko ( @npub1yad…362l )
🗒️ Conversation Summary: The Bitcoin community is discussing the adoption of BitTorrent tracker bootstrapping as an alternative to the current IRC bootstrapping mechanism. Concerns were raised about potential vulnerabilities and Sybil attacks on DHTs. Using HTTP trackers for bootstrapping Bitcoin clients has advantages over IRC and DNS Seeds, including better load balancing and no virus/botnet behavior. DNS bootstrapping can be made more robust by hosting seeds on services like Zerigo and small VPS, and using namecoin's TLDs to avoid centralization. A proposal was made to improve DNS bootstrapping for Bitcoin by creating an RPC that returns a random selection of fresh P2P node addresses.
📅 Messages Date: 2011-06-13
✉️ Message Count: 10
📚 Total Characters in Messages: 15876

2023-06-07 01:36:03

🔖 Title: Bitcoin v0.3.23 release candidate available
🏷️ Categories: Bitcoin-development, ANN
👥 Authors: Jeff Garzik ( @npub1kf0…3f58 )
📅 Messages Date: 2011-06-12
✉️ Message Count: 1
📚 Total Characters in Messages: 1686

2023-06-07 01:35:58

🔖 Title: Preparing 0.3.23-rc1 release
🏷️ Categories: Bitcoin-development
👥 Authors: Jeff Garzik ( @npub1kf0…3f58 )
📅 Messages Date: 2011-06-11
✉️ Message Count: 1
📚 Total Characters in Messages: 1280