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From: Tao Effect <contact@taoeffect.com>
To: Anthony Towns <aj@erisian.com.au>
Cc: Anthony Towns via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Replay attacks make BIP148 and BIP149 untennable
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 16:31:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A6627D4B-F127-4213-A4B0-8040CF91F3CD@taoeffect.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38DDC3A2-2727-477E-A6FF-7638842AAB03@taoeffect.com>


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> CPFP can be used by an attacker to get your original txn into the 148 chain.

*err, my bad that's unlikely to happen, if I remember correctly CPFP can only be done by the person you're sending the coins to. Coin-mixing seems the better option of the two, but shouldn't the BIP148 folks wait until it's clear that will be supported by exchanges?

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> On Jun 6, 2017, at 4:27 PM, Tao Effect <contact@taoeffect.com <mailto:contact@taoeffect.com>> wrote:
> 
>> CoinJoin works as a method of both improving fungibility and mixing with
>> coinbase transactions.
> 
> My understanding is that the two situations are quite different.
> 
> Unlike mixing to coin-split, CoinJoin doesn't create a high demand exclusively for coinbase transactions.
> 
> However, of the proposed methods, coin-mixing seems the better option, because it might be reasonably easy (I don't know) for exchanges to obtain 148 coinbase coins, and mix their coins with them, extending the coin-splitting capability beyond just miner coins and then using that to split incoming coins.
> 
> That seems like the most reasonable approach I've heard so far. Whether exchanges would be willing to do that is a separate question.
> 
>> When it's confirmed on one chain, but not on the other, you
>> can then "double-spend" on the lower hashrate chain with a higher fee,
>> to end up with different coins on both chains.
> 
> This method is time consuming and not guaranteed to work. CPFP can be used by an attacker to get your original txn into the 148 chain.
> 
>> (also, no double-n in untenable)
> 
> Why thank you aj, you're so good at spelling. :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Greg
> 


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  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-06 23:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-06 22:39 [bitcoin-dev] Replay attacks make BIP148 and BIP149 untennable Tao Effect
2017-06-06 23:02 ` Gregory Maxwell
2017-06-06 23:12   ` Tao Effect
2017-06-07 13:25   ` Nick Johnson
2017-06-07 16:27     ` Tao Effect
2017-06-07 17:35       ` Nick Johnson
2017-06-08  5:44         ` Conner Fromknecht
2017-06-08  6:38           ` Nick Johnson
2017-06-06 23:08 ` Luke Dashjr
2017-06-06 23:19   ` Tao Effect
2017-06-06 23:20 ` Anthony Towns
2017-06-06 23:27   ` Tao Effect
2017-06-06 23:31     ` Tao Effect [this message]
2017-06-06 23:59     ` Kekcoin
2017-06-07  0:04       ` Tao Effect
2017-06-07  0:19         ` Kekcoin
2017-06-07  0:26           ` Tao Effect
2017-06-07  0:29             ` Kekcoin
2017-06-07  0:38               ` Tao Effect
2017-06-07  0:46                 ` Kekcoin
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2017-06-06 20:43 Tao Effect

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