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From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
To: Tom Harding <tomh@thinlink.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Development <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Address Expiration to Prevent Reuse
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 16:34:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgRzskGcHjEhJLnyu-VMTR49i-Wo9TbOOqkHqEasxuO71A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55121611.1030104@thinlink.com>

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 1:57 AM, Tom Harding <tomh@thinlink.com> wrote:
> The idea of limited-lifetime addresses was discussed on 2014-07-15 in
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bitcoin.devel/5837
>
> It appears that a limited-lifetime address, such as the fanciful
>
> address = 4HB5ld0FzFVj8ALj6mfBsbifRoD4miY36v_349366

Assuming the sender is not an uncooperative idiot, you can simply
include expiration information and the sender can refuse to send after
that time.

If the sender is an uncooperative idiot, they can always change your
target and send anyways.

This would seem to work nearly as well as the non-reorg safe network
impacting version, and yet has no cost beyond the extra size is
communicating the limit.

> Block containing tx invalid if a prior confirmed tx has paid address

Requires a unprunable verification state.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-03-25 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-25  1:57 [Bitcoin-development] Address Expiration to Prevent Reuse Tom Harding
2015-03-25 10:09 ` Matt Whitlock
2015-03-25 16:34 ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
2015-03-25 18:44   ` Tom Harding
2015-03-25 19:22     ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-03-26 20:38       ` Tom Harding
2015-03-26 20:42         ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-03-26 21:26           ` Tom Harding
2015-03-26 21:33             ` Peter Todd
2015-03-26 21:44             ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-03-26 22:23               ` Tom Harding
2015-03-26 22:28               ` s7r
2015-03-26 23:00                 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-06-13  4:52               ` odinn
2015-03-27  1:51 Thy Shizzle
2015-03-27  3:13 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-03-27  4:31 Thy Shizzle

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