Bitcoin Independence Day: Luke Dashjr On The Lessons From SegWit That We’re F...
Five years since the first Bitcoin Independence Day, have we forgotten how Bitcoin survived its most existential threat to date?In a year that has been marked by pontification on what it means to be a “Bitcoin maximalist,” the implosion of numerous centralized “crypto” projects and the excommunication of self-interested Bitcoin influencers, Bitcoin Independence Day is worth celebrating more than ever.The first Bitcoin Independence Day was slated for August 1, 2017, when Bitcoin users planned to deploy a software upgrade through a user-activated soft fork (UASF) via BIP148, which they hoped....
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The well known software developer Luke Dashjr is in the midst of controversy over how to upgrade the Bitcoin network in order to add the Taproot protocol. Bitcoin Core developers want to upgrade with “Speedy trial,” which will allow miners to push the feature through. However, Luke Dashjr wants to upgrade in a different manner, and considers the proposal an “attack on Bitcoin” as it’s “not a good thing” from his perspective. Bitcoin Developers Find Controversy Over Taproot Activation Bitcoin developers have revealed “Speedy trial support for....
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....
On February 21, representatives of the Bitcoin mining industry as well as the Bitcoin Core team met in Hong Kong to discuss a solution to the Bitcoin block size scaling problem. After meeting for more than 18 hours, they released a statement with agreement on several points about the debate. The statement was agreed upon by the founding team of AntPool, A-XBT, BitFury, Bitmain, BTCC Pool, F2 Pool, Genesis Mining and GHash.io. These mining executives represent more than 80 percent of total blocks mined in recent months, according to Blockchain.info. Most of the Core development team also....
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:....
SegWit is short for Segregated Witness. It was perhaps the biggest Bitcoin protocol upgrade to date, which wrapped several improvements and fixes into one. Further Reading: What Is Bitcoin? What Are the Benefits of SegWit?As probably its most notable fix, SegWit got rid of transaction malleability. ...