From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>
To: Chuck <chuck+bitcoindev@borboggle•com>
Cc: Bitcoin-Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP70 message delivery reliability
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 13:38:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP3L-pxEVZAYn+=HmiNjZTX7TTYmdsMoYMc-cZ1OnH105g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52EA3FAD.5080802@borboggle.com>
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> If you sent the Payment message and the server goes silent after receiving
> it, you retry to delivery. However, the merchant can broadcast the
> transactions and force them into your wallet anyway. You could, quite
> likely, pay and never get an ACK.
>
No retries. If there's a timeout the wallet will consider the payment not
made, and if the merchant broadcasts anyway, the wallet will see the
transactions and sync with them correctly. The ACK is not particularly
important in the current design, so that's no big deal.
If we see this situation crop up routinely we can take measures to improve
things. I doubt we will.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-30 12:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-30 5:47 Chuck
2014-01-30 10:49 ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-30 11:15 ` Chuck
2014-01-30 11:31 ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-30 11:42 ` Chuck
2014-01-30 11:46 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-01-30 11:59 ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-30 12:02 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-01-30 12:03 ` Chuck
2014-01-30 12:20 ` Roy Badami
2014-01-30 12:38 ` Mike Hearn [this message]
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