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As someone who's followed the space closely for years: No major events, just gradual improvements to the tech, tooling, and adoption surrounding Bitcoin, blockc

As someone who's followed the space closely for years: No major events, just gradual improvements to the tech, tooling, and adoption surrounding Bitcoin, blockchains, and everything related to them. Not nearly as entertaining as recent international affairs that may be driving more interest to the space.

sanswork 10y ago
As someone who's also followed the space closely I feel like we're watching two different shows? Where are you seeing these improvements?
- wheelerwj 10y ago
  gradual improvements. more access, better tech, fewer scams. Where do you see that we are the same as we were a few years ago?
  - sanswork 10y ago
    2 years of community infighting. I don't see any better tech that is relevant to most users just edge cases. I don't actually see fewer scams at all. The whole ICO market is basically a giant set of scams for one example and they are exploding. We've had multiple large exchange thefts this year as well.
- nfin 10y ago
  -CheckLockTimeVerify (CLTV) -CheckSequenceVerify (CSV) -Replace-By-Fee (RBF) -> See Peter Todd and https://medium.com/@bramcohen/how-wallets-can-handle-transaction-fees-ff5d020d14fb#.wkd3ig8no https://medium.com/@bramcohen/how-wallets-can-handle-transac... -compact blocks -segwit (already been released, waiting to be activated by miners) -good progress by the 5 implementations (alpha-versions) of the Lightning-protocol (hughe improvement on scalability and even privacy by using TOR). See Rusty Russell: https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/the-bitcoin-lightning-spec-part-5-8-onion-routing-protocol-86c91e455909#.mmgh2rra9 https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/the-bitcoin-lightning-sp...
  - sanswork 10y ago
    CLTV is over a year old at this point. Segwit doesn't look like it's going to reach consensus anytime soon which means lightning implementations are doa. Compact blocks are definitely an improvement for the network though.
- jbpetersen 10y ago
  Mostly centered on Ethereum. Though the signal/noise ratio isn't that good.

sanswork 10y ago

As someone who's also followed the space closely I feel like we're watching two different shows? Where are you seeing these improvements?

wheelerwj 10y ago
gradual improvements. more access, better tech, fewer scams. Where do you see that we are the same as we were a few years ago?
- sanswork 10y ago
  2 years of community infighting. I don't see any better tech that is relevant to most users just edge cases. I don't actually see fewer scams at all. The whole ICO market is basically a giant set of scams for one example and they are exploding. We've had multiple large exchange thefts this year as well.
nfin 10y ago
-CheckLockTimeVerify (CLTV) -CheckSequenceVerify (CSV) -Replace-By-Fee (RBF) -> See Peter Todd and https://medium.com/@bramcohen/how-wallets-can-handle-transaction-fees-ff5d020d14fb#.wkd3ig8no https://medium.com/@bramcohen/how-wallets-can-handle-transac... -compact blocks -segwit (already been released, waiting to be activated by miners) -good progress by the 5 implementations (alpha-versions) of the Lightning-protocol (hughe improvement on scalability and even privacy by using TOR). See Rusty Russell: https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/the-bitcoin-lightning-spec-part-5-8-onion-routing-protocol-86c91e455909#.mmgh2rra9 https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/the-bitcoin-lightning-sp...
- sanswork 10y ago
  CLTV is over a year old at this point. Segwit doesn't look like it's going to reach consensus anytime soon which means lightning implementations are doa. Compact blocks are definitely an improvement for the network though.
jbpetersen 10y ago
Mostly centered on Ethereum. Though the signal/noise ratio isn't that good.