From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com>
To: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] ECDH in the payment protocol
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 05:19:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJHLa0M1T8XyiYNqbVp2ch_J1n-eE63UzXyb0XA9bDASGEnrLQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140509150325.GA30436@savin>
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:
> Of course we quickly rejected the idea of depending solely on a
> communications backchannel to retrieve funds. Any communications medium
> that isn't the blockchain makes the payment non-atomic, and thus creates
> opportunities for it to fail.
This is extremely simple-minded logic that encourages ephemeral, junk
data in the blockchain. Not a scalable approach.
The implication is to put the communications medium in the blockchain
itself, which is wrong.
--
Jeff Garzik
Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist
BitPay, Inc. https://bitpay.com/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-13 9:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-09 12:05 [Bitcoin-development] ECDH in the payment protocol Mike Hearn
2014-05-09 15:03 ` Peter Todd
2014-05-09 15:15 ` Mike Hearn
2014-05-09 15:27 ` Peter Todd
2014-05-09 15:34 ` Mike Hearn
2014-05-09 15:43 ` Peter Todd
2014-05-09 16:12 ` Mike Hearn
2014-05-09 15:50 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-05-09 18:13 ` Peter Todd
2014-05-09 18:38 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-05-12 13:07 ` Peter Todd
2014-05-12 22:40 ` Chris Pacia
2014-05-13 10:29 ` Mike Hearn
2014-05-13 9:19 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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