The real sad thing is that their secondary vision is wrong too. It's about their need to tinker and create alternate profit opportunities.
The problem as I see it is it creates lockin for core by making it difficult to switch to a non-core client. While non-core clients can still easily switch to core. The reason is the on disk change is one way.This is not that big a deal to be honest. The reason for the change *is* weak to be sure and very questionable as to whether such a thing should be included in a "Core" implementation (more like Kitchen Sink) however, it is open source and so should be trivially portable.
The format of the blockchain on disk is not part of concensus so interoperability between clients is more of an accident of heritage than something that should be looked at as a standard. I wish they'd move away from BSD 4.8 being the standard for wallets as well (should be exported to something like JSON or XML for which there *is* some support but it is partial and not well advertised)
And yes, Patrick, it's not plain vanilla thin blocks, it's a new technology called Extreme Thin Blocks (Xthin) by @Peter Tschipper. That's why people are excited!phantomcircuit said:Neat so they have implemented something that does eliminate the additional round trip.
However this is no longer thin blocks, it's something else.
Names are important for having discussions and it would be really nice if people didn't use the names of existing proposals/things to describe a new thing.
Why listen to them anymore?
Then why is he using this graph to criticize Antpool's 0-1 TX blocks while praising Bitfury's efforts at producing full blocks? Something doesn't add up.
Alex at BitFury needs to know about Xtreme Thinblocks & Xpress Validation. This problem is solved.
Hopefully the audience will react to core's positions the same way most people here did several months ago.Going into a room and making crackpot attributions of price movements to cherry-picked news surely is going to go over great in a room filled with producers of a speculative asset traded by tons of folks on technical grounds.
Adam Back - President (war lord) @ Blockstream and self declared inventor of Bitcoin - explained (denounced) Democracy to the Chinese! No joke!Just looked at a few slides Blockstream just presented to miners to FUD them into supporting Core.
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/46obtl/core_selling_lies_in_china/
I never in my wildest dreams thought such ignorance would flow from the core of Bitcoin developers.
I'm glad that Patrick stand corrected, still he said it was our fault because we misnamed the concept/tech? how funny, isn't it?@sickpig
Looks like you got Patrick Strateman to see the light regarding the round-trips for Xthin. Hopefully this spreads to the other confused Blockstreamers.
And yes, Patrick, it's not plain vanilla thin blocks, it's a new technology called Extreme Thin Blocks (Xthin) by @Peter Tschipper. That's why people are excited!
BTW--@theZerg's submission was reinstated at /r/bitcoin.
petrov should know better seriously.Then why is he using this graph to criticize Antpool's 0-1 TX blocks while praising Bitfury's efforts at producing full blocks? Something doesn't add up.