From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.8.1 ideas
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:06:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201303132106.45334.andyparkins@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201303131256.30144.luke@dashjr.org>
On Wednesday 13 Mar 2013 12:56:29 Luke-Jr wrote:
> Here's a simple proposal to start discussion from...
It seems to me that the biggest failure was not the development of two
chains, but the assurance to users (by the client) that their transactions
were confirmed.
Is it possible to change the definition of "6 confirmations" so that it's
something like: "six confirmations clear of any other chain". While there
are two competing chains, it's possible that one will go pop at any moment.
That makes the confirmation count of any transaction on one of those chains,
zero.
It doesn't seem impossible that clients could be made far more permissive
about acknowledging the existence of blockchains that they wouldn't
necessarily accept themselves (if the proof of work was valid) and warning
the users that it's going on.
Andy
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Dr Andy Parkins
andyparkins@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-13 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-13 12:56 [Bitcoin-development] 0.8.1 ideas Luke-Jr
2013-03-13 13:14 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-03-13 15:05 ` Peter Todd
2013-03-13 15:18 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-03-13 15:26 ` Luke-Jr
2013-03-13 16:04 ` Peter Todd
2013-03-13 17:41 ` Mark Friedenbach
2013-03-13 17:58 ` Pieter Wuille
2013-03-13 18:27 ` Mark Friedenbach
2013-03-13 18:35 ` slush
2013-03-13 18:38 ` Pieter Wuille
2013-03-13 19:30 ` Gregory Maxwell
[not found] ` <16B6728E-4220-4DA6-B740-FA38A7C19CCB@thelibertyportal.com>
2013-03-13 20:24 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-03-13 20:18 ` Luke-Jr
2013-03-13 18:04 ` Luke-Jr
2013-03-13 21:06 ` Andy Parkins [this message]
2013-03-13 21:14 ` Luke-Jr
2013-03-13 21:22 ` Roy Badami
2013-03-13 21:27 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-03-13 21:36 ` Roy Badami
2013-03-14 0:18 ` Cameron Garnham
2013-03-15 17:06 ` Benjamin Lindner
2013-03-15 19:23 ` Luke-Jr
2013-03-15 19:52 ` Gregory Maxwell
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