From: Roy Badami <roy@gnomon•org.uk>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposed BIP 70 extension
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 19:34:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140624183434.GG14815@giles.gnomon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJHLa0Omiz+UhGjSKgYU7+b2YY7aN23w7o8CQntqMePFs7LkjA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 10:21:46AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net> wrote:
> > Wallets would then be able to persist this data to disk and compete on cool visualisations for how much money you saved over time.
>
> heh, this is a cool idea.
>
> It also seems like it would be subject to instant inflation, as it's
> unprovable, and a rational economic actor may choose to exaggerate
> such numbers. It also seems collectively rational by some points of
> view for all bitcoin actors to inflate this number.
Rather than offering discounts, how about offering automatic cashback?
I know they're kinda stupid, but I gather cashback deals are very
commonplace in the US and (probably as a result) not unheard of elsewhere.
So you add an optional cashback_to field to the Payment message,
distinct from but conceptually similar to the refund_to field. The
wallet can tally up how much cashback is received, without having to
trust the merchants.
Much harder to game, AFAICS.
roy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-24 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-24 13:27 Mike Hearn
2014-06-24 14:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-06-24 14:24 ` Mike Hearn
2014-06-24 14:32 ` slush
2014-06-24 15:06 ` Mike Hearn
2014-06-24 15:15 ` Gmail
2014-06-24 15:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-06-24 19:00 ` Gmail
2014-06-24 19:34 ` Andy Alness
2014-06-24 20:12 ` Gavin Andresen
2014-06-24 20:28 ` Gmail
2014-06-25 8:25 ` Mike Hearn
2014-06-25 13:33 ` Jorge Timón
2014-06-25 18:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-06-25 14:15 ` slush
2014-06-25 16:03 ` Gmail
2014-06-24 18:34 ` Roy Badami [this message]
2014-06-24 15:43 ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-06-24 15:59 ` Mike Hearn
2014-06-24 17:37 ` Drak
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