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From: James MacWhyte <macwhyte@gmail.com>
To: Gregory Maxwell <greg@xiph.org>,
	 Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>,
	 Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Capital Efficient Honeypots w/ "Scorched Earth" Doublespending Protection
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 02:50:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+Axy5wOLfAO5XKb5v=A34k5V8RYxnO7ubUd_H7bmH+iS4-0w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgRTgymPn+YU61N0rR=PRkQbsUHxXt6RySqJbGTCjwuWMg@mail.gmail.com>

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Why not just have a single 1-of-m multisig transaction, with one key on
each server? Based on which key is used you would know which server is
compromised, and (in my opinion) it wouldn't look nearly as suspicious.

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 11:26 AM Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Christian Decker via bitcoin-dev
> <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > If however
> > he is planning to use it as a foothold to further compromise your
> > company, send spam or similar, he will likely try to avoid these
> > tripwires. [...]
>
> Depends on the value of their activity compared to the value of the coins.
> Spamming doesn't pay much.
>
> Covert tripwires would obviously be better, but if shared tripwires
> allow you to have 100x the funds available it could be a good
> trade-off.
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-28  2:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-24  1:46 [bitcoin-dev] Capital Efficient Honeypots w/ "Scorched Earth" Doublespending Protection Peter Todd
2016-08-24 15:37 ` Matthew Roberts
2016-08-24 16:29   ` Jimmy
2016-08-24 19:18     ` Peter Todd
2016-08-24 19:22   ` Peter Todd
2016-08-24 23:03     ` Chris Priest
2016-08-24 23:38       ` Gregory Maxwell
2016-08-25  2:54 ` James MacWhyte
2016-08-25 14:27   ` Christian Decker
2016-08-25 18:26     ` Gregory Maxwell
2016-08-28  2:50       ` James MacWhyte [this message]
2016-08-28  4:42       ` Peter Todd
2016-08-28  4:37   ` Peter Todd
2016-08-31 19:48     ` James MacWhyte
2016-08-31 20:01       ` Peter Todd

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