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From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
To: Jeremy Spilman <jeremy.spilman@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Cold Signing Payment Requests
Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 17:29:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130506212959.GA25162@petertodd.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+CODZHr3h21chGX5YxvuU7LQCneF51h1gKD3ezgfucDO5w30A@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:17:23AM -0700, Jeremy Spilman wrote:
> [Aside] I was reading Peter's fidelitybond writeup for his idea on contract
> value accounting, and he points to Stephan's post from last September on
> payer-encoded metadata (
> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=108423.msg1178438#msg1178438) which
> Timo applies here. As a relative newcomer, this is what I am loving most
> about Bitcoin.

The widespread disclosure we do is a good thing for sure.

Keep in mind that Bitcoin is brand new technology, and brand new fields
tend to get lots of people coming in and trying to patent them. Public
disclosure, and bitcointalk, the email list, and github all count, is a
valuable tool to ward off potential threats in the future if it ever
comes to that.

FWIW it might not be a bad idea to see if archive.org would accept some
of the key documentation like the development section of the forum, the
email list archives, and the irc logs. Some issues, especially on the
forum, with people's ability to edit posts after the fact, but we're
breaking new ground here and the history should be archived.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-06 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.38128.1366844895.4905.bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
2013-04-25  9:58 ` [Bitcoin-development] Cold Signing Payment Requests Timo Hanke
2013-04-25 10:05   ` Mike Hearn
2013-04-25 10:28     ` Timo Hanke
2013-04-25 10:45       ` Mike Hearn
2013-04-25 10:52         ` Mike Hearn
2013-04-25 11:55         ` Timo Hanke
     [not found]         ` <FDF215AE-F9A4-4EE3-BDC9-0A4EF027423A@swipeclock.com>
2013-04-25 14:31           ` Mike Hearn
2013-04-25 19:12             ` Jeremy Spilman
2013-04-26  1:07               ` Gavin Andresen
2013-04-28 18:03                 ` Timo Hanke
2013-04-29 18:40                   ` Jeremy Spilman
2013-04-30  9:17                     ` Mike Hearn
2013-04-30 11:32                       ` Jouke Hofman
2013-04-30 13:14                         ` Gavin Andresen
2013-04-30 17:17                           ` Jeremy Spilman
2013-05-06 21:29                             ` Peter Todd [this message]
2013-04-24 23:01 Jeremy Spilman
2013-04-24 23:07 ` Alan Reiner
2013-04-25  9:08   ` Mike Hearn

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