From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>,
Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Double spending and replace by fee
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 14:22:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FEB90DA4-2BF3-460F-8F35-9BCE929A2A31@petertodd.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP3Prp6EFUdH_VDWkq508HkeFBMn+swzZ9ycAMsrOazFZA@mail.gmail.com>
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Would you so us all a favor and make a list of companies *actually* relying on "first-seen" mempool behaviour. Because I've been having a hard time actually finding anyone who does who hasn't given up on it. Not very useful to talk about attacks against hypothetical defences.
On 28 March 2015 09:58:53 GMT-04:00, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net> wrote:
>I've written a couple of blog posts on replace by fee and double
>spending
>mitigations. They sum up the last few years (!) worth of discussions on
>this list and elsewhere, from my own perspective.
>
>I make no claim to be comprehensive or unbiased but I keep being asked
>about these topics so figured I'd just write up my thoughts once so I
>can
>send links instead of answers :) And then so can anyone who happens to
>agree.
>
>(1) Replace by fee scorched earth, a counter argument:
>
>https://medium.com/@octskyward/replace-by-fee-43edd9a1dd6d
>
>This article lays out the case against RBF-SE and argues it is harmful
>to
>Bitcoin.
>
>(2) Double spending and how to make it harder:
>
>https://medium.com/@octskyward/double-spending-in-bitcoin-be0f1d1e8008
>
>This article summarises a couple of double spending incidents against
>merchants and then discusses the following techniques:
>
> 1. Risk analysis of transactions
> 2. Payment channels
> 3. Countersigning by a trusted third party
> 4. Remote attestation
> 5. ID verification
> 6. Waiting for confirmations
> 7. Punishment of double spending blocks
>
>I hope the material is useful / interesting.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-28 14:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-28 13:58 Mike Hearn
2015-03-28 14:22 ` Peter Todd [this message]
2015-04-09 6:28 ` Adrian Macneil
2015-04-21 11:37 ` Peter Todd
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