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From: Wladimir <laanwj@gmail.com>
To: Drak <drak@zikula.org>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fees UI warning
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 12:27:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+s+GJApRy+Y7bqWPNoQ3O1FooM0T1sBB2_jwzOg51q4Oc1RBg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANAnSg0QnZQ2BNJRYm1SD4HePZJQZy3GuAejLXYH+rLFn34CtA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Drak <drak@zikula.org> wrote:

> It just occurs to me this kind of sad story could be averted if wallets
> implemented a confirmation box if the fee amount seems crazy - for example,
> if it's >10x what the default fee should be, or if it's greater than x% of
> the sending amount. "the fee seems unusually high, are you really sure you
> want to pay X in fees?"
>

Bitcoin-qt (in master) always shows the fee and total amount that is going
to be paid in the confirmation dialog, so it is very hard to accidentally a
very high fee.

Wladimir

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-12-16 11:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-16 10:13 [Bitcoin-development] Fees UI warning Drak
2013-12-16 10:46 ` Jim
2013-12-16 11:08   ` Drak
2013-12-16 11:31   ` Pieter Wuille
2013-12-16 18:26     ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-16 11:37   ` Wladimir
2013-12-16 17:55     ` Taylor Gerring
2013-12-16 18:45     ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-12-16 11:27 ` Wladimir [this message]
2013-12-16 18:28 ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-16 22:32   ` Andreas Schildbach

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