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From: Matt Whitlock <bip@mattwhitlock•name>
To: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Address Expiration to Prevent Reuse
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 06:09:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21636587.PbJN2MUECh@crushinator> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55121611.1030104@thinlink.com>

On Tuesday, 24 March 2015, at 6:57 pm, Tom Harding wrote:
> It appears that a limited-lifetime address, such as the fanciful
> 
> address = 4HB5ld0FzFVj8ALj6mfBsbifRoD4miY36v_349366
> 
> where 349366 is the last valid block for a transaction paying this 
> address, could be made reuse-proof with bounded resource requirements, 

The core devs seem not to like ideas such as this because a transaction that was once valid can become invalid due to a chain reorganization.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-25 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-25  1:57 Tom Harding
2015-03-25 10:09 ` Matt Whitlock [this message]
2015-03-25 16:34 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-03-25 18:44   ` Tom Harding
2015-03-25 19:22     ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-03-26 20:38       ` Tom Harding
2015-03-26 20:42         ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-03-26 21:26           ` Tom Harding
2015-03-26 21:33             ` Peter Todd
2015-03-26 21:44             ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-03-26 22:23               ` Tom Harding
2015-03-26 22:28               ` s7r
2015-03-26 23:00                 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-06-13  4:52               ` odinn
2015-03-27  1:51 Thy Shizzle
2015-03-27  3:13 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-03-27  4:31 Thy Shizzle

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