📅 Original date posted:2011-09-08 🗒️ Summary of this message: The Bitcoin network relies on people upgrading for stability, scalability, and new features, but lacks automatic updates or notifications. The alert system should relay messages regardless of the key used. 📝 Original message:Be careful though, if you relay everything, it suddenly *does* have DDoS potential... JS On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Luke-Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote: > On Thursday, September 08, 2011 12:51:02 PM Mike Hearn wrote: > > Bitcoin is one of the few pieces of software I use that has no concept of > > automatic updates or even notifications at all. Yet the network badly > > relies on people upgrading for stability, scalability and to enable new > > features. > > > > If the alert system goes away, it'd just end up being replaced by polling > > something over HTTP, which is less decentralized than before. Having zero > > way to communicate upgrades to end-users is a non-starter for anything > > serious about mass market penetration. > > In fact, I think the alert system should relay (note, NOT display) messages > *regardless of the key used*, so it isn't yet another "our client gets > special > status" thing, and can be used for other clients as well. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20110908/a8f8d307/attachment.html>