Bob McElrath

Hey guys, what's the status of this feature? It was my understanding that @petertodd was in agreement and this was going to be implemented. But I look on the opentimestamps-server...

@petertodd Darn. I'm lobbying to set up opentimestamps at my new employer. Can you elaborate on the segwit difficulty? I might be able to do the implementation myself...

Revisiting this... so the .ots file is larger because it has to traverse two trees in case of segwit. I don't see this as a fundamental problem, unless we're worried...

@bernardoaraujor fixed, thanks!

@petertodd Bitcoin closes its connection after about 30s and python-bitcoinlib doesn't notice. For users of python-bitcoinlib who need a long-running connection to Bitcoin, this patch automatically retries, so handles connection...

Well the real bug is that bitcoind closes the connection and python-bitcoinlib doesn't notice. The next time the client tries to make an rpc call, it throws an exception. As...

Check here, it looks like this was fixed in bitcoin core: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/qa/rpc-tests/test_framework/authproxy.py#L134

We're still having a heck of a time with keeping the RPC connection to bitcoind active. Here is yet another solution that uses `epoll` to detect the connection closing, and...

@petertodd We have a more complete solution to this here, using epoll, if the system supports it. This is effective and doesn't incur the problem of possibly sending transactions twice.

Having hit this problem AGAIN because epoll is not supported on macosx, it seems clear to me that the right answer is to rewrite this patch to use aiohttp, and...