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by brodown
Sat Nov 07, 2015 7:14 pm
Forum: AMA - Ask Me Anything
Topic: I'm Mike Hearn, creator of Lighthouse, bitcoinj and Bitcoin XT. Ask me anything!
Replies: 77
Views: 163177

Re: I'm Mike Hearn, creator of Lighthouse, bitcoinj and Bitcoin XT. Ask me anything!

Why has "thin blocks" never been implemented in Core? It seems like the most obvious possible scalability improvement for transmitting new blocks, and I've seen very old posts on Bitcointalk talking as though it was expected to be done. Is the fact that it provides a constant improvement that does ...
by brodown
Sat Nov 07, 2015 2:50 pm
Forum: AMA - Ask Me Anything
Topic: I'm Mike Hearn, creator of Lighthouse, bitcoinj and Bitcoin XT. Ask me anything!
Replies: 77
Views: 163177

Re: I'm Mike Hearn, creator of Lighthouse, bitcoinj and Bitcoin XT. Ask me anything!

My intuition about the "blocksize debate" in general has been that there is a pretty concerted effort to ostracize you and Gavin from what Adam Back terms the "technical community". The John Dillon email leaks seem to pretty strongly indicate that politically-undermining Gavin has been a conscious ...
by brodown
Fri Nov 06, 2015 4:27 pm
Forum: AMA - Ask Me Anything
Topic: I'm Jeff Garzik, Bloq co-founder and bitcoin hacker
Replies: 44
Views: 30879

Re: I'm Jeff Garzik, Bloq co-founder and bitcoin hacker

How did it feel perpetrating the most glorious Freudian slip in the history of Bitcoin at the end of the talk in Montreal?

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