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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Floating fees and SPV clients
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 09:47:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJHLa0M+HP4_irVyqG-J1+h6BRFHX2QZvDopxMxnD+j6ERzEzg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP2hf2853w9f4__Ji9v3eRRU0u6pEzPxAmFN+iH067gtnA@mail.gmail.com>

Current rough timeline proposed for 0.9 was end-of-January, IIRC.

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net> wrote:
> PPv1 doesn't have any notion of fee unfortunately. I suppose it could be
> added easily, but we also need to launch the existing feature set.
>
> There's code pending review to implement PPv1 in bitcoinj, unfortunately
> it's currently not passing unit tests and the author can't figure out why. I
> didn't have time to debug it yet myself. I'm hopeful we can get it working
> and merged by EOY.
>
> It may be time to start talking about timelines for 0.9. I am wondering if
> floating fees should be broken out of the 0.9 release and launched in a
> quick 0.10 followup - if that were to be done then I think 0.9 could go to
> beta relatively soon, like early next year. There have been a lot of
> improvements already and it'd be a shame to block them all further.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net> wrote:
>> > "The payment protocol at least would need some notion of fee, or
>> > possibly
>> > (better?) the ability for a recipient to specify some inputs as well as
>> > some
>> > outputs."
>>
>> <vendor hat: on>
>>
>> BitPay noticed this detail last week.  We were noticing that some
>> transactions were not even reaching our bitcoind border routers (edge
>> nodes), due to low/no fees.  That led to a long discussion of all
>> things fee-related.  SPV fees are a big issue.  Getting
>> child-pays-for-parent in some form out to miners is another.  Getting
>> a smart, dynamic fee market Gavin mentions is a big need.
>>
>> --
>> Jeff Garzik
>> Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist
>> BitPay, Inc.      https://bitpay.com/
>
>



-- 
Jeff Garzik
Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist
BitPay, Inc.      https://bitpay.com/



  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-02 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-01 11:51 [Bitcoin-development] Floating fees and SPV clients Mike Hearn
2013-12-01 12:15 ` Andreas Schildbach
2013-12-01 13:41   ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-01 16:50     ` Andreas Schildbach
2013-12-01 17:19       ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-01 17:40         ` Andreas Schildbach
2013-12-01 17:52           ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-01 18:12         ` Peter Todd
2013-12-01 18:18           ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-01 18:37             ` Peter Todd
2013-12-02 13:54         ` Patrick Mead
2013-12-02 14:33           ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-02 14:37             ` Jeff Garzik
2013-12-02 14:44               ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-02 14:47                 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2013-12-03  1:40                 ` Gavin Andresen
2013-12-03 10:06                   ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-03 10:36                     ` Drak
2013-12-03 10:45                       ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-03 11:04                         ` Drak
2013-12-03 11:07                     ` Gavin Andresen
2013-12-03 11:29                       ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-03 11:37                         ` Peter Todd
2013-12-03 11:41                         ` Gavin Andresen
2013-12-03 11:46                           ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-03 11:54                             ` Gavin Andresen
2013-12-03 12:05                             ` Drak
2013-12-03 11:57                         ` Taylor Gerring
2013-12-03 12:07                           ` Peter Todd
2013-12-03 13:20                             ` Jamie McNaught
2013-12-03 13:20                           ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-03 13:48                             ` Taylor Gerring
2013-12-03 13:54                               ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-03 14:42                             ` Quinn Harris
2013-12-04  1:45                       ` Jeremy Spilman
2013-12-04 10:40                         ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-04 10:57                           ` Peter Todd
2013-12-04 11:09                             ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-04 13:06                               ` Peter Todd
2013-12-04 13:48                                 ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-04 21:51                                   ` Peter Todd
2013-12-03 11:03                   ` Peter Todd
2013-12-03 11:09                     ` Drak
2013-12-03 11:33                       ` Peter Todd
2013-12-04  5:50                   ` kjj
2013-12-03 11:31 ` Peter Todd

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