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name_filter is a nice tool for a quick lookup from the command line, but it is not really optimized for precision namespace queries. I remember some issues when a while ago I wrote a script that counts the members of each namespace. I first tried name_filter, and I quickly bumped into all sorts of ...

Changing the value size is also certain to be controversial, as I am not convinced that it will be a net benefit (possibly bad for scalability, also possibly bad in terms of making harmful use cases easier). Again, I'd like to see more discussion, and more hard data, before making such a decision. ...

domob wrote:

phelix wrote:I suggest we double the bounty for the SPV client from 0.5BTC to 1.0BTC. Any objections?

ACK.

Done.

continued here: https://forum.namecoin.info/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2476

Sounds good, but I still suggest we keep onto it. I've already done some parts of the patch, by refactoring the code a bit and making "generate" and "setgenerate" produce merge-mined blocks. So far, these are non-forking, though. (And not pushed to master, just in a branch of my repo.) Yeah, better...

sipa: ok, i think bip9 is moved a bit back in priority

So we probably will have more time for the hardfork.

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I suggest we double the bounty for the SPV client from 0.5BTC to 1.0BTC. Any objections?

v0.3.1 with cookie auth support and a connection error fix

updated to v0.3

Say I launch my app and do a name_filter or something to get a whole namespace. Then I want to keep it in sync without doing the slow name_filter operation again. Probably this would have to parse blocks some way and update all changed names/values. It would be nice to have a general (Python) module...