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From: Aaron Voisine <voisine@gmail•com>
To: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] The need for larger blocks
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 12:40:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACq0ZD4_xfVidPtjqaXbC7XiamAG71z85GPhhu4qv39H3VwKXg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9BD77EB3-8EC7-4207-8E90-98E48C8365DE@petertodd.org>

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On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org> wrote:

> On 27 June 2015 03:14:41 GMT-04:00, Aaron Voisine <voisine@gmail•com>
> wrote:
> >Also remember that the sender is not the one who cares about delays or
> >even
> >getting confirmations at all, it's the receiver who's concerned with
> >these
> >things. They have to tell the sender up-front what they're willing to
> >accept in exchange for goods and services.
>
> You're assuming a receiver who is accepting a zeroconf transaction; most
> receivers don't.
>
> For instance, when I deposit funds on my exchange they don't credit those
> funds until 4 confirmations, so I very much cafe about how long it takes to
> get the first confirmation.
>

Yes, the receiver can tell the sender up-front that they are only willing
accept 4-confirmations, and put that on the sender to figure out, but the
sender then only cares because it's the receiver's requirement. The
receiver is the one who cares.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-27 19:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-26 14:09 Pieter Wuille
2015-06-26 14:38 ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-06-26 15:22 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-26 15:24   ` Pieter Wuille
2015-06-26 18:05     ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-26 18:32       ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-26 15:38 ` Tom Harding
2015-06-26 16:22   ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-06-26 17:04     ` Tom Harding
2015-06-26 17:55       ` Gavin Andresen
2015-06-26 17:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-26 18:12   ` Pieter Wuille
2015-06-26 18:23     ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-26 18:31       ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-06-26 19:05         ` Aaron Voisine
2015-06-26 18:34       ` Pieter Wuille
2015-06-26 19:18         ` Ross Nicoll
2015-06-26 19:36           ` Peter Todd
2015-06-27  6:13             ` Filipe Farinha
2015-06-27  7:14               ` Aaron Voisine
2015-06-27 15:13                 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-27 19:40                   ` Aaron Voisine [this message]
2015-06-26 18:47       ` Patrick Strateman
2015-06-26 19:03         ` Tier Nolan
2015-06-26 19:12           ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-06-26 20:44       ` Owen Gunden
2015-06-27  2:18         ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-27  2:54           ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-27  8:16           ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-06-26 18:29     ` Alex Morcos
2015-06-27  7:43 ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-06-27  9:55   ` NxtChg
2015-06-27 10:04     ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-06-27 10:29       ` NxtChg
2015-06-27 11:04         ` Jorge Timón
2015-06-27 11:18           ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-27 11:43             ` Jorge Timón
2015-06-27 12:10           ` NxtChg
2015-06-28 12:13             ` Jorge Timón
2015-06-28 13:51               ` Ivan Brightly
2015-06-28 14:13                 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-28 14:16                 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-28 14:22                   ` Ivan Brightly
2015-06-28 15:05                 ` Jorge Timón
2015-06-28 16:01                   ` Ivan Brightly
2015-06-28 15:28               ` s7r
2015-06-28 15:45                 ` Jorge Timón
2015-06-27 10:19     ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-06-27 19:55       ` Aaron Voisine
2015-06-28 16:37         ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-06-28 20:56           ` Aaron Voisine
2015-06-27 10:13   ` Jorge Timón
2015-06-27 12:09     ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-06-27 12:15       ` NxtChg
2015-06-27 12:17         ` Greg Sanders
2015-06-27 12:25           ` NxtChg
2015-06-27 12:35             ` Greg Sanders
2015-06-27 12:25         ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-06-27 12:50           ` NxtChg
2015-06-27 13:01             ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-06-28 12:03       ` Jorge Timón

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