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Bitcoin Improvement Proposals
124 mentions on Hacker News by 104 people: 6 stories, 118 comments · first 2013-12-10 · latest 2026-09-13
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…to speed with the event before commenting on it, there's a very good writeup in the form of BIP50. https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0050.mediawi... The issue has nothing to do with a particular transaction or block, it was…
comment by 0xFEED · 2015-04-04 · in The truth about the Bitcoin Foundation -
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawi... I think the main advantage to a blockchain solution is the cryptographic verifiability. Not only is the accounting accurate, but the funds cannot be forged or hidden. Also the…
comment by smokeyj · 2015-04-02 · in What's the use for Bitcoin? -
…link has a bitcoin URI. If you have a wallet installed, it'll pop open that wallet. More here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0021.mediawi... Stripe doesn't have a Bitcoin wallet for consumers.
comment by collision · 2015-02-19 · in Stripe: Bitcoin -
Disappointed to see that they don't appear any PaymentProtocol[1] integration. [1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0070.mediawi...
comment by roasbeef · 2015-02-19 · in Stripe: Bitcoin -
…for generating addresses for a recipient. Hierarchical deterministic wallets (HD wallets, BIP 32): https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawi... Stealth addresses: http://sx.dyne.org/stealth.html The former is more…
comment by natrius · 2015-01-05 · in Bitstamp Accounts Frozen -
…on January 4th, 2015. makes it sound like one would be wise to short sell btc immediately. [1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawi...
comment by abrkn · 2015-01-05 · in Bitstamp Accounts Frozen -
…botmaster's address (in fact we don't even have to use the botmaster's address, with BIP-0032 ( https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawi... ), we can use related public keys) You don't even have to use transactions…
comment by verroq · 2014-12-13 · in A Novel Approach For Computer Worm Control Using Decentralized Data Structures -
…work around is to just BitAuth with a HD wallet? Thereby negating any address-reuse issues. https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawi...
comment by DINKDINK · 2014-09-23 · in BitPay and PayPal -
…of the payment protocol (2) (1) http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/4649/what-is-an-s... (2) https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0070.mediawi...
comment by sickpig · 2014-07-27 · in Why Killing Cash is Key to MasterCard’s Competitive Strategy -
…that does to an implementation's risk model? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy [2] https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0070.mediawi...
comment by contingencies · 2014-06-17 · in Show HN: Instant confirmation via Bitcoin payment protocol -
This is BIP-level stuff only, but fwiw BIP 0011 ( https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0011.mediawi... ) is kind of interesting. It would thence (uh, can i use that word this way?) be possible to e.g. implement three-party…
comment by wfn · 2014-05-24 · in Chancecoin: a decentralized casino built on top of Bitcoin -
…up here was pretty good for explaining the differences between this and and the usual URI method: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0070.mediawi... URI method (what I'm used to from clicking a link to pay):…
comment by lnanek2 · 2014-05-23 · in Coinbase now supports the Bitcoin Payment Protocol -
…Bitcoin Armory or Electrum to generate a wallet, and then you should memorize the BIP39 mnemonic: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawi...
comment by intelliot · 2014-03-08 · in How to steal Bitcoins that are protected by weak passphrases -
…with an improved database in another version. It was a bug. Here's an evaluation of the chainfork: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0050.mediawi...
comment by ewillbefull · 2014-01-04 · in Zynga Links Up With Bitpay For a Bitcoin Payment Test in Web Games -
…kinds of changes are proposed ahead of time in the form of a BIP (Bitcoin Improvement Proposal) -- https://github.com/bitcoin/bips . Even tiny changes, that seem entirely reasonable to me, can generate controversy. Core developers ask each…
comment by RoboTeddy · 2013-12-29 · in Bitcoin and positive vs. normative economics -
…private key[2], your hosting provider will be unable to determine your private key. [1]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawi... [2]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0038.mediawi...
comment by yumcoin · 2013-12-18 · in Bitcoin Private Key Necromancy -
…original client used BerkeleyDB which had a configuration issue that almost destroyed Bitcoin. https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0050.mediawi...
comment by asperous · 2013-12-10 · in Bitcoin 0.8.6 Released: Updates Block Size Limits, Free Transactions, OS X Bugs