Peter Todd

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Oh, checklocktimeverify-demos is really old software; it's probably incompatible with the python-bitcoinlib that you're using. Also, I wouldn't guarantee that it actually works 100% - it's just a demo after...

> * Changing BIP125 to match what we have. Another alternative: delete the details from BIP125. The only interesting thing in it is the opt-in part. The rest was just...

Hmm, that's an interesting idea. What's the limit on maximum URL size for the shortener?

Mind copying-n-pasting the error message you get?

You can increase the timeout from the default 5 seconds with the `--timeout` option. I suspect the issues you guys are having are due to poor internet connectivity or something...

It depends on your security model. But I think for most use cases within a day is a reasonable resolution. The actual block time has seconds resolution. But it isn't...

While you can figure out what the txid is, why do you want to know that? You only need block headers to verify a timestamp; look at how the BitcoinBlockHeaderAttestation...

Ah, that's an interesting blog post! Is it still a draft, or is that the final public post? An interesting follow-up would be a post describing how those same researchers...

Hey, sorry I missed this! How about we make the text output look something like: sha256 == c703019e959a8dd3faef7489bb328ba485574758e7091f01464eb65872c975c8efa898490f9cc0dcd698220e9a9c1acc01b54c1c14b23520ace3cd82341f6b45 I think that'd be a bit more clear to users trying to...

Re: BitcoinTransactionAttestation, my thinking there not only can it always be replaced by a BitcoinBlockHeaderAttestation, verifying a transaction attestation requires a costly and non-scalable transaction index; we really don't want...