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From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
To: Alan Reiner <etotheipi@gmail.com>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] replace-by-fee v0.10.0rc4
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 15:06:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150212200629.GB20964@savin.petertodd.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54DCFBB5.3080202@gmail.com>

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On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 08:15:01PM +0100, Alan Reiner wrote:
> The Bitcoin network achieves something that we didnt' think was possible
> 10 years ago:  a totally trustless, decentralized ledger.  The cost?  It
> takes time for the decentralized network to reach consensus that
> transactions "happened".  That is quite literally the trade-off that we
> make: you can centralize things by putting a bank in the middle and
> getting instant confirmation, or you decentralize and let the network
> reach consensus over time without the central authority.   If you want
> instant confirmations, you're going to need to add centralization
> because Bitcoin never offered it.  I support efforts to dispel any such
> myths as soon as possible and encourage building robust solutions
> (payment channels, insured zero-conf services, etc.).

Speaking of, a relatively simple thing that would help dispel these
notions would be if some wallets supported replace-by-fee-using
fee-bumping and an "attempt undo" button. Armory is an (unfortunately!)
special case because it uses a full node and has good privacy
guarantees, but most wallets could implement this by just sending the
doublespend transactions to any node advertising either the
replace-by-fee or GETUTXO's service bits.

1) https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/09/the_doghouse_cr.html

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-12 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-12  6:47 [Bitcoin-development] replace-by-fee v0.10.0rc4 Peter Todd
2015-02-12  7:23 ` Tamas Blummer
2015-02-12  7:45   ` Peter Todd
2015-02-12  8:27     ` Tamas Blummer
2015-02-12  8:49       ` Peter Todd
2015-02-12  9:01         ` Tamas Blummer
2015-02-15 20:51       ` Troy Benjegerdes
2015-02-12  8:16   ` Alex Mizrahi
2015-02-12 11:58 ` Mike Hearn
2015-02-12 12:23   ` Natanael
2015-02-12 12:49     ` Mike Hearn
2015-02-12 13:02       ` Natanael
2015-02-12 13:44         ` Mike Hearn
2015-02-12 14:36           ` Natanael
2015-02-12 14:53             ` Mike Hearn
2015-02-12 15:20               ` Natanael
2015-02-12 15:30                 ` Justus Ranvier
2015-02-12 13:36       ` Oleg Andreev
2015-02-12 12:52   ` Alex Mizrahi
2015-02-12 13:18     ` Mike Hearn
2015-02-12 13:45       ` Alex Mizrahi
2015-02-12 13:52         ` Mike Hearn
2015-02-12 14:04       ` Tamas Blummer
2015-02-12 14:16         ` Mike Hearn
2015-02-12 14:25           ` Tamas Blummer
2015-02-12 23:08             ` Tom Harding
2015-02-12 14:32       ` Alex Mizrahi
2015-02-12 15:15         ` Mike Hearn
2015-02-12 15:32           ` Natanael
2015-02-12 15:42             ` Mike Hearn
2015-02-12 15:54               ` Natanael
2015-02-12 16:57           ` Btc Drak
2015-02-12 17:24             ` Oleg Andreev
2015-02-12 18:11               ` Justus Ranvier
2015-02-12 18:37                 ` Allen Piscitello
2015-02-12 19:15                   ` Alan Reiner
2015-02-12 19:34                     ` Justus Ranvier
2015-02-12 19:45                       ` Peter Todd
2015-02-12 19:49                         ` Justus Ranvier
2015-02-12 19:47                       ` Allen Piscitello
2015-02-12 19:52                         ` Justus Ranvier
2015-02-12 20:02                           ` Natanael
2015-02-12 20:36                           ` Allen Piscitello
2015-02-14 14:47                             ` Ross Nicoll
2015-02-12 20:06                     ` Peter Todd [this message]
2015-02-12 19:49       ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-02-12 20:18         ` Peter Todd
2015-02-13 11:34         ` Mike Hearn
2015-02-12 12:54   ` Tamas Blummer
2015-02-12 14:42   ` Alex Mizrahi
2015-02-12 15:27   ` Jeff Garzik
2015-02-15 21:25     ` Troy Benjegerdes
2015-02-15 21:40       ` Adam Gibson
2015-02-19  8:56         ` Troy Benjegerdes
2015-02-21 19:09           ` Jorge Timón
2015-02-21 20:30             ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-02-21 22:47               ` Jeff Garzik
2015-02-22  1:15                 ` Peter Todd
2015-02-22  3:25                 ` Jorge Timón
2015-02-22  4:06                   ` Jeff Garzik
2015-02-22 11:41                     ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-02-22 12:06                       ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-02-22 13:41                         ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-02-22 13:53                           ` Peter Todd
2015-02-22 23:29                             ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-02-24  1:11                               ` Jeff Garzik
2015-03-01 17:59                         ` Troy Benjegerdes
2015-03-01 19:05                           ` Neil Fincham
2015-03-01 17:44                 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2015-02-12 16:15   ` Lawrence Nahum
2015-02-12 18:14 ` Tom Harding
2015-02-12 21:40 ` Josh Lehan
2015-02-22 16:36 ` Tom Harding
2015-02-22 17:12   ` Peter Todd
2015-02-22 19:25     ` Tom Harding
2015-02-22 21:50       ` Peter Todd
2015-05-04  4:36 ` [Bitcoin-development] New release of replace-by-fee for Bitcoin Core v0.10.1 Peter Todd
2015-05-05  2:23   ` Kevin Greene
2015-05-23 18:26   ` [Bitcoin-development] Replace-by-fee v0.10.2 - Serious DoS attack fixed! - Also novel variants of existing attacks w/ Bitcoin XT and Android Bitcoin Wallet Peter Todd

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