From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.192] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-4.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Z5yO3-0001g3-7W for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 15:39:23 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of riseup.net designates 198.252.153.129 as permitted sender) client-ip=198.252.153.129; envelope-from=justusranvier@riseup.net; helo=mx1.riseup.net; Received: from mx1.riseup.net ([198.252.153.129]) by sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) id 1Z5yO1-0005Vf-Lj for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 15:39:23 +0000 Received: from berryeater.riseup.net (berryeater-pn.riseup.net [10.0.1.120]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.riseup.net", Issuer "COMODO RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.riseup.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B49434140E; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 15:39:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (Authenticated sender: justusranvier) with ESMTPSA id 93FFB429D1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 15:39:15 +0000 From: justusranvier@riseup.net To: Peter Todd In-Reply-To: <20150619151127.GA11263@savin.petertodd.org> References: <20150619103959.GA32315@savin.petertodd.org> <20150619151127.GA11263@savin.petertodd.org> Message-ID: <47d8e5c4a1d55a1763f1aade1993fece@riseup.net> X-Sender: justusranvier@riseup.net User-Agent: Riseup mail X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.98.7 at mx1 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Score: -2.0 (--) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -0.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, no trust [198.252.153.129 listed in list.dnswl.org] -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain -0.0 SPF_HELO_PASS SPF: HELO matches SPF record -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record -0.3 RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay domain -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's domain 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature 0.0 UNPARSEABLE_RELAY Informational: message has unparseable relay lines -0.0 AWL AWL: Adjusted score from AWL reputation of From: address X-Headers-End: 1Z5yO1-0005Vf-Lj Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] F2Pool has enabled full replace-by-fee X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 15:39:23 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2015-06-19 15:11, Peter Todd wrote: > If you ask me to pay you 1BTC at address A and I create tx1 that pays > 1BTC to A1 and 2BTC of chain to C, what's wrong with me creating tx2 > that still pays 1BTC to A, but now only pays 1.999BTC to C? I'm not > defrauding you, I'm just reducing the value of my change address to pay > a higher fee. Similarly if I now need to pay Bob 0.5BTC, I can create > tx3 paying 1BTC to A, 0.5BTC to B, and 1.498BTC to C. > > Yet from the point of view of an external observer they have no idea > why > the transaction outputs reduced in size, nor any way of knowing if > fraud > did or did not occur. If there are two transactions which spend the same inputs, and each transaction has completely different output scripts, then this is prima facie fraudulent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prima_facie If the two transactions have identical output scripts, and one output is reduced in value to increase the transaction fee, that has the appearance of honest dealing. There is a possibility that the payer has chose to under-pay their payee in order to over-pay the miner, but that's not what a reasonable observer would assume at first glance. Adding outputs to a transaction, while keeping all the existing outputs exactly how they are is another way of increasing the transaction fee of a transaction and is prima facie non-fraudulent. Note that child-pays-for-parent has none of this ambiguity. > What do you think of Bitcoin XT then? It relays double-spends, which > makes it much easier to get double-spends to miners than before. In > particular you see a lot of zero-fee transactions being replaced by > fee-paying transactions, relayed through Bitcoin XT nodes and then > mined. Is that encouraging fraud? I haven't closely looked into the features of Bitcoin XT because I'm hoping that it never becomes relevant. I do want to see a heterogenous implementation network develop, but Bitcoin XT doesn't really count since it's a derivative of the Bitcoin Core codebase. In general, I think every signed Bitcoin transaction sent between different parties is part of a valid, enforceable contract (using common law definitions which predate any particular legal jurisdiction). 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