Gentoo Linux Package Maintainer Wants to Implement Blacklist in Bitcoin Core - Again
A raucous discussion has taken place during the last 24 hours at the Bitcoin subreddit surrounding Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr (aka Luke-Jr), who maintains the Gentoo distribution. At issue? The use of "blacklisting" certain addresses that send meaninglessly small transactions, but still require confirmation and the resources so implied by default in bitcoind. Bitcoind is the headless version of the Bitcoin software which is used by nodes. Also read: A Simple Explanation of the Awesomeness of Bitcoin Sidechains. In October there was a similar episode: Bitcoin Address Blacklists were....
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Bitcoin Address Blacklists have been found in the Gentoo Linux bitcoind 0.9.3 distribution. The patch was deployed by Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr (aka Luke-Jr), who maintains the Gentoo distribution. A bug report was posted to Gentoo's bug repository: net-p2p/bitcoind and net-p2p/bitcoin-qt enables ljr use flag by default, breaks bitcoin. The official bitcoind and bitcoin-qt in Gentoo enables patches which breaks Bitcoin by default. Please disable the ljr patches by default or preferably all together. Enabling the [ljr use flag] results in errors like these: 2014-10-05 11:38:09 ERROR:....
A row that broke out online this month has raised an important question about bitcoin: should people be allowed to code their own rules, and even opinions, into their own versions of the software that runs the network? The debate kicked off among users of Gentoo - a variant of the Linux operating system that prides itself on being highly configurable to suit different user requirements - when a user reported an issue on the Gentoo bug forum on 5th October. The version of bitcoind (the official reference client for interacting with the bitcoin network) distributed with Gentoo was blocking....
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