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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com>
To: Tom Harding <tomh@thinlink.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] deterministic transaction expiration
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 13:24:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJHLa0MDhcQuZGDrJFXyExCGWaEkvXuy0zvqTgG2TqPDuzHCzQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53E25F8A.5070905@thinlink.com>

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That won't necessarily work through large reorgs.  You don't want to create
a situation where a miner cannot mine a previously mined transactions.



On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Tom Harding <tomh@thinlink.com> wrote:

>
> Today we have first-eligible-height (nLockTime), and mempool expiration
> measured from this height would work for the goals being discussed, no fork
> or protocol rev.
>
> With first-eligible-height and last-eligible-height, creator could choose
> a lifetime shorter than the max,  and in addition, lock the whole thing
> until some point in the future.
>
>
>
> On 8/6/2014 9:15 AM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> A fork is not necessarily required, if you are talking about information
> that deals primarily with pre-consensus mempool behavior.  You can make a
> "network TX" with some information that is digitally signed, yet discarded
> before it reaches miners.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:
>
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>> On 6 August 2014 08:17:02 GMT-07:00, Christian Decker <
>> decker.christian@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >+1 for the new field, overloading fields with new meaning is definitely
>> >not
>> >a good idea.
>>
>>  To add a new field the best way to do it is create a new, parallel, tx
>> format where fields are committed by merkle radix tree in an extensible and
>> provable way. You'd then commit to that tree with a mandatory OP_RETURN
>> output in the last txout, or with a new merkle root.
>>
>> Changing the tx format itself in a hard-fork is needlessly disruptive,
>> and in this case, wastes opportunities for improvement.
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>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-08-06 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-01  0:58 [Bitcoin-development] deterministic transaction expiration Kaz Wesley
2014-08-01  1:06 ` Peter Todd
2014-08-01  1:37   ` Kaz Wesley
2014-08-01  1:38 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-08-01  2:28   ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-08-01  3:26     ` Matt Whitlock
2014-08-01  3:31       ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-08-05 18:01         ` Alex Mizrahi
2014-08-02  0:36 ` Tom Harding
2014-08-05 17:02   ` Flavien Charlon
2014-08-05 17:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-05 18:54   ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-05 19:08     ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-05 19:10   ` Kaz Wesley
2014-08-05 19:36     ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-06  4:01     ` Tom Harding
2014-08-06 12:55       ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-06 13:54         ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-06 14:44           ` Tom Harding
2014-08-06 15:08             ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-06 15:17               ` Christian Decker
2014-08-06 15:42                 ` Peter Todd
2014-08-06 16:15                   ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-06 17:02                     ` Tom Harding
2014-08-06 17:21                       ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-08-06 17:34                         ` Peter Todd
2014-08-06 17:24                       ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2014-08-06 16:31                   ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-08-06 17:20                     ` Peter Todd
2014-08-06 17:30                       ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-08-06 17:38                         ` Peter Todd
2014-08-08 17:38                 ` Tom Harding
2014-08-08 18:13                   ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-08 18:42                     ` Kaz Wesley

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