From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
To: Mark Friedenbach <mark@monetize•io>,
Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] deterministic transaction expiration
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 10:38:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58d8e86f-79fc-417d-a001-951c12638a4a@email.android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53E26623.3070107@monetize.io>
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On 6 August 2014 10:30:11 GMT-07:00, Mark Friedenbach <mark@monetize•io> wrote:
>On 08/06/2014 01:20 PM, Peter Todd wrote:
>> The general case doesn't require transmission of any merkle data; it
>> is derived from the tx data.
>
>How can that possibly be the case? The information is hidden behind the
>Merkle root in the transaction. The validator needs to know whether
>there is an expiry and what it is. What's it supposed to do, guess?
The general case is all committed information is included in the transaction; the merkle tree is a compatibility path, as well as an optimisation for lite clients and applications.
You should read more about soft-forks; see the BIP. Remember that Bitcoin protocol development and deployment is not a centrally controlled activity.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-06 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-01 0:58 Kaz Wesley
2014-08-01 1:06 ` Peter Todd
2014-08-01 1:37 ` Kaz Wesley
2014-08-01 1:38 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-08-01 2:28 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-08-01 3:26 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-08-01 3:31 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-08-05 18:01 ` Alex Mizrahi
2014-08-02 0:36 ` Tom Harding
2014-08-05 17:02 ` Flavien Charlon
2014-08-05 17:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-05 18:54 ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-05 19:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-05 19:10 ` Kaz Wesley
2014-08-05 19:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-06 4:01 ` Tom Harding
2014-08-06 12:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-06 13:54 ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-06 14:44 ` Tom Harding
2014-08-06 15:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-06 15:17 ` Christian Decker
2014-08-06 15:42 ` Peter Todd
2014-08-06 16:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-06 17:02 ` Tom Harding
2014-08-06 17:21 ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-08-06 17:34 ` Peter Todd
2014-08-06 17:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-06 16:31 ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-08-06 17:20 ` Peter Todd
2014-08-06 17:30 ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-08-06 17:38 ` Peter Todd [this message]
2014-08-08 17:38 ` Tom Harding
2014-08-08 18:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-08 18:42 ` Kaz Wesley
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