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From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>
Cc: Bitcoin Development <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] On-going data spam
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 13:58:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130409175819.GA31229@savin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP2B4CGwGp1BsPScyC_+DndLDMnHTzWhmhfUxQnE3bVuSA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 04:53:47PM +0200, Mike Hearn wrote:
> there's an obvious backwards compatibility problem there. It should
> probably wait until the payment protocol work is done, so the major user of
> micropayments-as-messages  can migrate off them.

As I pointed out in my initial post on the issue, SatoshiDice is pretty
much unaffected by the patch. They just have to deduct enough from
incoming bets to make the "you lost" output economical and they're good
to go. IIRC they already deduct fees on low-value bets anyway.

On the other hand, the patch makes a clear statement that Bitcoin is not
for microtransactions. If succesful it will gradually force a number of
users, ad-based faucet sites and the like, to off-chain transactions or
off Bitcoin entirely. The payment protocol has nothing to do with that.

-- 
'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-04-09 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-09  1:22 Jeff Garzik
2013-04-09  9:28 ` Peter Todd
2013-04-09 10:42 ` Mike Hearn
2013-04-09 11:09   ` Peter Todd
2013-04-09 11:17     ` Jay F
2013-04-09 11:34       ` Robert Backhaus
2013-04-09 14:14     ` Mike Hearn
2013-04-09 14:39   ` Caleb James DeLisle
2013-04-09 18:56     ` steve
2013-04-09 19:25     ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-04-09 19:43       ` Mike Hearn
2013-04-09 14:50   ` Jeff Garzik
2013-04-09 14:53     ` Mike Hearn
2013-04-09 15:01       ` Jeff Garzik
2013-04-09 17:58       ` Peter Todd [this message]

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