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From: Natanael <natanael.l@gmail.com>
To: Sergio Demian Lerner <sergio.d.lerner@gmail.com>
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] If you had a single chance to double the transactions/second Bitcoin allows...
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2015 00:46:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAt2M19Hp-rXbqTvQN8A24Ojmc=8O0agbaAD5hLOj1zt-Rf+-A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKzdR-qpJzWoUVNUuhPh5sQQc2w-JZP9BqX4hRZG4c8_xujxQA@mail.gmail.com>

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Den 7 aug 2015 23:37 skrev "Sergio Demian Lerner via bitcoin-dev" <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>:
>
> Mark,
> It took you 3 minutes to respond to my e-mail. And I responded to you 4
minutes later. If you had responded to me in 10 minutes, I would be of out
the office and we wouldn't have this dialogue. So 5 minutes is a lot of
time.
>
> Obviously this is not a technical response to the technical issues you
argue. But "minutes" is a time scale we humans use to measure time very
often.

But what's more likely to matter is seconds. What you need then is some
variant of multisignature notaries (Greenaddress.it, lightning network),
where the combination of economic incentives and legal liability gives you
the assurance of doublespend protection from the time of publication of the
transaction to the first block confirmation.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-07 22:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-07 21:18 [bitcoin-dev] If you had a single chance to double the transactions/second Bitcoin allows Sergio Demian Lerner
2015-08-07 21:27 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-08-07 21:37   ` Sergio Demian Lerner
2015-08-07 22:46     ` Natanael [this message]
2015-08-07 23:01       ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-08-07 23:08       ` Sergio Demian Lerner
2015-08-07 23:17         ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-08-10 20:44 ` Michael Ruddy
2015-08-10 21:01 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-08-10 22:11   ` Sergio Demian Lerner
2015-08-10 22:31     ` Pieter Wuille

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