From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
To: Nathan Wilcox <nathan@leastauthority•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Development <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: SPV Fee Discovery mechanism
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 16:03:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150610200323.GA13724@savin.petertodd.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFdHNGh=eGCwoMF36Siup-h6aSQtE0mvxCfk+OQRJb-37pds9w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 02:00:27PM -0600, Nathan Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Aaron Voisine <voisine@gmail•com> wrote:
>
> > It could be done by agreeing on a data format and encoding it in an
> > op_return output in the coinbase transaction. If it catches on it could
> > later be enforced with a soft fork.
> >
> >
> Sounds plausible, except SPV protocols would need to include this coinbase
> txn if it's going to help SPV clients. (Until a softfork is activated, SPV
> clients should not rely on this encoding, since until that time the results
> can be fabricated by individual miners.)
Fee stats can always be fabricated by individual miners because fees can
be paid out-of-band.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-10 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-10 17:37 Nathan Wilcox
2015-06-10 19:19 ` Aaron Voisine
2015-06-10 20:00 ` Nathan Wilcox
2015-06-10 20:03 ` Peter Todd [this message]
2015-06-11 18:30 ` Nathan Wilcox
2015-06-11 18:55 ` Aaron Voisine
2015-06-13 15:38 ` Nathan Wilcox
2015-06-10 21:18 ` Aaron Voisine
2015-06-10 20:26 ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-10 21:18 ` Aaron Voisine
2015-06-11 10:19 ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-11 13:10 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-11 14:11 ` Martin Lie
2015-06-11 17:10 ` Tom Harding
2015-06-11 17:52 ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-12 6:44 ` Aaron Voisine
2015-06-11 18:18 ` Nathan Wilcox
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