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From: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr•org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin address TTL & key expiration?
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 15:41:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201407151541.53342.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJHLa0Nj2f4mSKNggGH4sXZTLYNwdVGO7uMSzN7V_vVKU-6w9Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 3:11:25 PM Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr•org> wrote:
> > They can already do this. It's perfectly valid for wallets/services to
> > ignore (and not consider as payment) transactions using an address more
> > than once. There might be race attacks if this is implemented in an
> > immediate fashon (attacker transaction gets mined first to kill a
> > payment), but should be pretty safe after a few blocks.
> 
> Sure it's valid.  However, few users will appreciate "you ignored my
> deposit" as a feature.
> 
> Payment protocol just doesn't well the use cases of,
> * an on-going payment stream from, e.g. Eligius to coinbase

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawiki#Serialization_format

> * deposit addresses and deposit situations

There's no reason deposits cannot use a unique payment request or address 
every time...



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-15 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-15  8:00 Jeff Garzik
2014-07-15  8:19 ` Wladimir
2014-07-15  8:23   ` Jeff Garzik
2014-07-15  8:31     ` Jeremy Spilman
2014-07-15  8:48     ` Wladimir
2014-07-15  8:20 ` Peter Todd
2014-07-15 10:25 ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-15 14:02   ` Jeff Garzik
2014-07-15 14:27     ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-15 14:48 ` Luke Dashjr
2014-07-15 15:11   ` Jeff Garzik
2014-07-15 15:18     ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-15 15:35       ` Jeff Garzik
2014-07-15 15:41     ` Luke Dashjr [this message]
2014-07-15 15:55       ` Jeff Garzik
2014-07-15 16:26         ` Mike Hearn

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