From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay•com>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Floating fees and SPV clients
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 09:47:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJHLa0M+HP4_irVyqG-J1+h6BRFHX2QZvDopxMxnD+j6ERzEzg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP2hf2853w9f4__Ji9v3eRRU0u6pEzPxAmFN+iH067gtnA@mail.gmail.com>
Current rough timeline proposed for 0.9 was end-of-January, IIRC.
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net> wrote:
> PPv1 doesn't have any notion of fee unfortunately. I suppose it could be
> added easily, but we also need to launch the existing feature set.
>
> There's code pending review to implement PPv1 in bitcoinj, unfortunately
> it's currently not passing unit tests and the author can't figure out why. I
> didn't have time to debug it yet myself. I'm hopeful we can get it working
> and merged by EOY.
>
> It may be time to start talking about timelines for 0.9. I am wondering if
> floating fees should be broken out of the 0.9 release and launched in a
> quick 0.10 followup - if that were to be done then I think 0.9 could go to
> beta relatively soon, like early next year. There have been a lot of
> improvements already and it'd be a shame to block them all further.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay•com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net> wrote:
>> > "The payment protocol at least would need some notion of fee, or
>> > possibly
>> > (better?) the ability for a recipient to specify some inputs as well as
>> > some
>> > outputs."
>>
>> <vendor hat: on>
>>
>> BitPay noticed this detail last week. We were noticing that some
>> transactions were not even reaching our bitcoind border routers (edge
>> nodes), due to low/no fees. That led to a long discussion of all
>> things fee-related. SPV fees are a big issue. Getting
>> child-pays-for-parent in some form out to miners is another. Getting
>> a smart, dynamic fee market Gavin mentions is a big need.
>>
>> --
>> Jeff Garzik
>> Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist
>> BitPay, Inc. https://bitpay.com/
>
>
--
Jeff Garzik
Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist
BitPay, Inc. https://bitpay.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-02 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-01 11:51 Mike Hearn
2013-12-01 12:15 ` Andreas Schildbach
2013-12-01 13:41 ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-01 16:50 ` Andreas Schildbach
2013-12-01 17:19 ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-01 17:40 ` Andreas Schildbach
2013-12-01 17:52 ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-01 18:12 ` Peter Todd
2013-12-01 18:18 ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-01 18:37 ` Peter Todd
2013-12-02 13:54 ` Patrick Mead
2013-12-02 14:33 ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-02 14:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2013-12-02 14:44 ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-02 14:47 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2013-12-03 1:40 ` Gavin Andresen
2013-12-03 10:06 ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-03 10:36 ` Drak
2013-12-03 10:45 ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-03 11:04 ` Drak
2013-12-03 11:07 ` Gavin Andresen
2013-12-03 11:29 ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-03 11:37 ` Peter Todd
2013-12-03 11:41 ` Gavin Andresen
2013-12-03 11:46 ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-03 11:54 ` Gavin Andresen
2013-12-03 12:05 ` Drak
2013-12-03 11:57 ` Taylor Gerring
2013-12-03 12:07 ` Peter Todd
2013-12-03 13:20 ` Jamie McNaught
2013-12-03 13:20 ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-03 13:48 ` Taylor Gerring
2013-12-03 13:54 ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-03 14:42 ` Quinn Harris
2013-12-04 1:45 ` Jeremy Spilman
2013-12-04 10:40 ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-04 10:57 ` Peter Todd
2013-12-04 11:09 ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-04 13:06 ` Peter Todd
2013-12-04 13:48 ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-04 21:51 ` Peter Todd
2013-12-03 11:03 ` Peter Todd
2013-12-03 11:09 ` Drak
2013-12-03 11:33 ` Peter Todd
2013-12-04 5:50 ` kjj
2013-12-03 11:31 ` Peter Todd
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