Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin TX fill-or-kill deterministic behavior

From: Jorge Timón <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:54:23 +0200

On 4/12/12, Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 1.  N = 1 or 2 or whatever the community prefers.  Ideally enough time
> for a third-tier miner, mining strange TXs, finds a block.
> 2.  H1 = height of block chain, when a TX is received
> 3.  H2 = H1 + (144 * N)
> 4.  If block chain height reaches H2, and TX has not made it into a
> block, drop TX from memory pool

Why not just adding a field expiration_block = H2?
It seems more explicit and flexible than using a 144 * N constant.
You're changing the protocol anyway, right?

Another question, aren't different peers going to get different H1 for
the same tx?