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From: Kevin Greene <kgreenek@gmail.com>
To: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach.de>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP70: PaymentACK semantics
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:39:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEY8wq6n_27Y2N7fVw9uJkfiiYqi6JkTwO0q03_J7tUeBhdQYA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPg+sBgUNYqYm7d4Rv+f0rBa=nSuqwmZ6_REBS7M-+Wea+za0g@mail.gmail.com>

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>> Should the wallet broadcast the transaction to the bitcoin network when
it
>> receives an ACK, or always assume that the merchant server will do that?
>
> In my opinion, that should be the primary meaning of receiving an ACK:
> acknowledgement that the receiver takes responsibility for getting the
> transaction confirmed (to the extent possible, of course).

Ok, so if there is no
payment
_url specified in the PaymentRequest, then the wallet is responsible for
broadcasting
the transaction to the bitcoin network
.
Otherwise, the wallet should
rely on the merchant server to broadcast.


On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:03 PM, Kevin Greene <kgreenek@gmail.com> wrote:
> > +1 for an error field.
>
> Agree, I think we need a way for client applications to interpret the
> response.
>
> > Should the wallet broadcast the transaction to the bitcoin network when
> it
> > receives an ACK, or always assume that the merchant server will do that?
>
> In my opinion, that should be the primary meaning of receiving an ACK:
> acknowledgement that the receiver takes responsibility for getting the
> transaction confirmed (to the extent possible, of course).


>
> --
> Pieter
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-27 22:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-26 21:56 [Bitcoin-development] BIP70: PaymentACK semantics Andreas Schildbach
2014-01-27 14:54 ` Gavin Andresen
2014-01-27 15:20   ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-01-27 15:52   ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-27 22:03     ` Kevin Greene
2014-01-27 22:17       ` Pieter Wuille
2014-01-27 22:39         ` Kevin Greene [this message]
2014-01-28 11:42           ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-28 12:53             ` Gavin Andresen
2014-01-28 13:09               ` Pieter Wuille
2014-01-28 13:24               ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-28 17:23               ` Peter Todd
2014-01-28 17:33                 ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-28 21:12                   ` Peter Todd
2014-01-30 14:51         ` Jeff Garzik
2014-01-30 14:58           ` Pieter Wuille
2014-01-30 15:01           ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-30 15:06           ` Gavin Andresen
2014-01-30 15:16             ` Pieter Wuille
2014-01-30 20:16               ` Jeremy Spilman
2014-01-31  4:16                 ` Chuck
2014-01-31 16:21                   ` Christophe Biocca

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