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From: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail•com>
To: Roy Badami <roy@gnomon•org.uk>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol Proposal: Invoices/Payments/Receipts
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:30:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABsx9T1-UvsVAS2ravR10XSqyNkQDf3R1a6Woj-4Jc_9Wpv3_g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121129170713.GD6368@giles.gnomon.org.uk>

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Roy Badami <roy@gnomon•org.uk> wrote:
> I'd still like to understand the rationale for having the merchant
> broadcast the transaction - it seems to add complexity and create edge
> cases.

Mike Hearn has experimented with in-person payments using
bluetooth/NFC on a phone, where the merchant has full Internet
connectivity but the phone might only be able to connect to the
merchant via a Bluetooth/NFC paymentURI.

I think I agree with you, though: if the device DOES have
bitcoin-p2p-network-connectivity, then expecting the client to
broadcast the transaction might be cleaner.

However, if a connection to the paymentURI is made and the transaction
data has been sent, clients have to deal with the case where the
merchant also broadcasts the transaction, no matter what the spec says
and even if the merchant sends an "accepted : false" response.


-- 
--
Gavin Andresen



  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-29 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-26 22:37 Gavin Andresen
2012-11-26 23:02 ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-26 23:13   ` Luke-Jr
2012-11-26 23:16     ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-26 23:19       ` Luke-Jr
2012-11-26 23:27         ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-26 23:32         ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-11-26 23:44           ` Luke-Jr
2012-11-27  0:16             ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-11-27  0:26               ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-27  0:45                 ` Rick Wesson
2012-11-27  1:09                   ` Gavin
2012-11-27  8:44                   ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-27  0:44               ` Luke-Jr
2012-11-26 23:38 ` Rick Wesson
2012-11-26 23:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2012-11-27  0:02   ` Rick Wesson
2012-11-27  0:31     ` Luke-Jr
2012-11-27  0:37       ` Rick Wesson
2012-11-27  2:16 ` Walter Stanish
2012-11-27  2:47   ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-11-27  3:16     ` Walter Stanish
2012-11-27  3:29       ` Rick Wesson
2012-11-27  3:31         ` Walter Stanish
2012-11-27  3:54           ` Rick Wesson
2012-11-27  4:17             ` Walter Stanish
2012-11-27  8:43               ` Michael Gronager
2012-11-27 10:23                 ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-27 10:42                   ` Michael Gronager
2012-11-27 11:36                     ` Pieter Wuille
2012-11-27 11:46                       ` Michael Gronager
2012-11-27 12:03                     ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-27 12:39                       ` Michael Gronager
2012-11-27 14:05                         ` Gavin Andresen
2012-11-27 14:26                           ` Gavin Andresen
2012-11-28 13:55                           ` Walter Stanish
2012-11-27 17:03 ` Andy Parkins
2012-11-27 17:14   ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-27 17:26     ` Andy Parkins
2012-11-27 18:16       ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-27 21:39         ` Gavin Andresen
2012-11-28 10:43           ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-28 12:57             ` Peter Todd
2012-11-28 14:09               ` Gavin Andresen
2012-11-28  8:33 ` Peter Todd
2012-11-28 23:36 ` Roy Badami
2012-11-29  0:30   ` Watson Ladd
2012-11-29  8:16     ` slush
2012-11-29 16:11   ` Gavin Andresen
2012-11-29 17:07     ` Roy Badami
2012-11-29 17:30       ` Gavin Andresen [this message]
2012-11-29 17:31       ` Mike Hearn
2012-11-29 18:53         ` Roy Badami
2012-12-01 19:25           ` Gavin Andresen
2012-12-03 19:35             ` Mike Koss
2012-12-03 20:59               ` Gavin Andresen
2012-12-03 21:28               ` Mike Hearn
2012-12-03 22:26                 ` Roy Badami
2012-12-03 22:34                   ` Jeff Garzik
2012-12-03 22:48                     ` Roy Badami
2012-12-16 21:15               ` Melvin Carvalho
2012-12-17  2:18                 ` Jeff Garzik
2012-12-17  8:24                   ` Melvin Carvalho
2012-12-17  9:19                     ` Mike Hearn
2012-12-17  9:31                       ` Gary Rowe
2012-12-17 11:23                       ` Melvin Carvalho
2012-12-17 17:57                         ` Gavin Andresen
2012-12-20 16:53                           ` Stephen Pair
2012-12-20 17:43                             ` Mike Hearn
2012-12-20 19:32                               ` Stephen Pair
2012-12-21 17:05                                 ` Stephen Pair
2012-12-24  0:38                                   ` Elden Tyrell
2012-12-04 17:06             ` Mike Hearn
2012-12-05 19:34               ` Gavin Andresen
2012-12-06  6:31                 ` Andreas Petersson
2012-12-06  8:53                   ` Mike Hearn
2012-12-06 16:56                     ` Gavin Andresen
2012-12-06 17:55                       ` Mike Hearn
2012-12-06 19:13                         ` Gavin Andresen
2012-12-07 10:45                           ` Mike Hearn
2012-12-07 11:01                             ` Mike Hearn
2012-12-07 16:19                               ` Gavin Andresen
2012-12-07 16:27                                 ` Mike Hearn
2012-12-06 18:13                       ` Alan Reiner
     [not found]                       ` <CALf2ePx5jS@mail.gmail.com>
2014-09-17 19:28                         ` Vezalke
2012-12-03 21:42         ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-12-23  2:33 ` Mark Friedenbach

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