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From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
To: Greg Sanders <gsanders87@gmail•com>,
	Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] "Compressed" headers stream
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 10:10:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170904141017.GG1276@fedora-23-dvm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB3F3DtX2+awy71YPhMRjFRr4tvcGyq3Pu4997Sw2Jn_yAX+=g@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 12:26:48PM -0400, Greg Sanders via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Well, if anything my question may bolster your use-case. If there's a
> heavier chain that is invalid, I kind of doubt it matters for timestamping
> reasons.

Timestamping can easily be *more* vulnerable to malicious miners than financial
applications for a number of reasons, including the fact that there's no
financial feedback loop of miners destroying the value of the coins they
produce - timestamping is a non-financial piggy-back application that doesn't
directly interact with the Bitcoin economy, beyond a trival number of timestamp
transactions.

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

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-04 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-28 15:50 Riccardo Casatta
2017-08-28 16:13 ` Greg Sanders
2017-08-28 16:25   ` Riccardo Casatta
2017-08-28 16:26     ` Greg Sanders
2017-09-04 14:10       ` Peter Todd [this message]
     [not found] ` <CAAS2fgS3uG=4vgFuObPKA_5MstoGm4AabO=60fhV3EU_0dvejg@mail.gmail.com>
2017-08-28 17:12   ` [bitcoin-dev] Fwd: " Gregory Maxwell
2017-08-28 17:54     ` Kalle Rosenbaum
2017-09-04 14:06     ` Peter Todd
2017-12-11 20:40 [bitcoin-dev] " Jim Posen
2017-12-11 21:04 ` Gregory Maxwell
2017-12-11 21:56   ` Jim Posen
2017-12-11 22:41     ` Tier Nolan
2017-12-11 23:11       ` Gregory Maxwell
2017-12-12 21:07   ` Suhas Daftuar
2017-12-13  0:01     ` Gregory Maxwell
2017-12-13  0:12     ` Gregory Maxwell

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