From: bgroff@lavabit•com
To: "Gregory Maxwell" <gmaxwell@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Development <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Discussion related to pull 349 and pull 319 (escrow transactions)
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 20:21:48 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42430.77.247.181.163.1312762908.squirrel@lavabit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgQ6GXfebUV8_PLVpLJ9jvPF8FXiBqwquhGFNZ+Vt3uCtg@mail.gmail.com>
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:10 AM, <bgroff@lavabit•com> wrote:
>> Thank you! Â (I think you mean 319 here)
>
> Correct.
>
>> With Eligius mining !IsStandard transactions and probably other pools
>> open
>> to the idea, I am hopeful that we can quickly get 30%+ of mining power
>> to
>> upgrade, which means that we could still mine these in a reasonable time
>> frame (under 1 hour).
>
> It's not just a matter of mining power, it's also a question of
> propagation. Matt and I tried to perform a non-standard transaction
> weeks ago and weren't able to get in mined after many hours. (we
> eventually double spent the input with a normal transaction in order
> to make it go away, interestingly one point about non-propagating txn
> is that they're extra vulnerable to double spending by a standard txn,
> as the non-standard one won't preclude the propagation of the standard
> one)
Right, the user would have to connect directly to miners accepting
non-standard transactions.
> From discussion on IRC it seemed clear enough that the current focus
> on maturity/bugfixes is probably going to delay your full patch, but
> the IsStandard part is uncontroversial and could go in quickly.
With the latest high profile security breaches, I am hoping that the whole
things can be pulled relatively soon. Building secure deposit systems
will improve trust in the ecosystem.
I've included a significant amount of unit tests to "pay" for the
additional feature, and I can add more if needed.
--
Bobby Groff
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2011-07-23 23:39 Gregory Maxwell
2011-08-03 6:10 ` bgroff
2011-08-04 20:35 ` Gregory Maxwell
2011-08-08 0:21 ` bgroff [this message]
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