Has anyone from Mycelium weighed in on this? Is their doublespend attack detection broken with this kind of irresponsible behavior? On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Matt Whitlock wrote: > On Friday, 19 June 2015, at 9:18 am, Adrian Macneil wrote: > > If full-RBF sees any significant adoption by miners, then it will > actively > > harm bitcoin adoption by reducing or removing the ability for online or > POS > > merchants to accept bitcoin payments at all. > > Retail POS merchants probably should not be accepting vanilla Bitcoin > payments, as Bitcoin alone does not (and cannot) guarantee the > irreversibility of a transaction until it has been buried several blocks > deep in the chain. Retail merchants should be requiring a co-signature from > a mutually trusted co-signer that vows never to sign a double-spend. The > reason we don't yet see such technology permeating the ecosystem is > because, to date, zero-conf transactions have been irreversible "enough," > but this has only been a happy accident; it was never promised, and it > should not be relied upon. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > -- *MONEY IS OVER!* IF YOU WANT IT ===================================================== The causes of my servitude can be traced to the tyranny of money. -Serj Tankian