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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com>
To: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach.de>,
	Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP70: PaymentACK semantics
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:51:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJHLa0MVbDnC0i+uT9Sahxk8ht9R5ztSJ-kOU5ERapeVibH9eg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPg+sBgUNYqYm7d4Rv+f0rBa=nSuqwmZ6_REBS7M-+Wea+za0g@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:03 PM, Kevin Greene <kgreenek@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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).

Is this truly the intent?  That the merchant/processor takes full
responsibility for getting the TX confirmed?

It is within the customer's economic incentive -- and right as a free
person -- to work to get their transaction relayed to the network and
confirmed in parallel with whatever the merchant is doing.

BIP 70 states that the customer broadcasts the transaction, in
addition to sending the Payment message.

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



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-30 14:51 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
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 [this message]
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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