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…https://petertodd.org/2016/soft-forks-are-safer-than-hard-fo... bip99 has some more details: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0099.mediawi... Bitcoin Core published a capacity increases roadmap:…

comment by kanzure · 2016-01-17 · in Is Bitcoin breaking up?

…idea that hard forks are dangerous or irresponsible is a belief that is not well supported bip99 - https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0099.mediawi... https://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoinxt/comments/3t21dh/dangerous...…

comment by kanzure · 2016-01-15 · in The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment

…a disaster but luckily all the right people were online and quickly decided which fork to keep. [1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0050.mediawi...

comment by TD-Linux · 2016-01-15 · in The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment

…good (though still requiring some memorizing effort approach) would be something along the lines of https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawi... which uses a standard dictionary of 1626 easily memorable english words…

comment by forgotpwtomain · 2015-10-24 · in Stop forcing arbitrary password rules

…lasted a few hours. This is the only accidental fork that occurred in the last 3 years. Details: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0050.mediawi...

comment by vanzard · 2015-04-07 · in OneBit – Mastercard PayPass Integrated Bitcoin Wallet

…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

…this, I conjecture that they decided in favor of usability in the usability-security tradeoff. [1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawi...

comment by marcell · 2014-07-31 · in Stellar

…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

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story by nullc · 2014-04-01 · 11 comments

…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