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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com>
To: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org>, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin address TTL & key expiration?
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:11:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJHLa0Nj2f4mSKNggGH4sXZTLYNwdVGO7uMSzN7V_vVKU-6w9Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201407151448.57223.luke@dashjr.org>

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org> wrote:
> They can already do this. It's perfectly valid for wallets/services to ignore
> (and not consider as payment) transactions using an address more than once.
> There might be race attacks if this is implemented in an immediate fashon
> (attacker transaction gets mined first to kill a payment), but should be
> pretty safe after a few blocks.

Sure it's valid.  However, few users will appreciate "you ignored my
deposit" as a feature.

Payment protocol just doesn't well the use cases of,
* an on-going payment stream from, e.g. Eligius to coinbase
* deposit addresses and deposit situations

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



  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-15 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-15  8:00 [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin address TTL & key expiration? Jeff Garzik
2014-07-15  8:19 ` Wladimir
2014-07-15  8:23   ` Jeff Garzik
2014-07-15  8:31     ` Jeremy Spilman
2014-07-15  8:48     ` Wladimir
2014-07-15  8:20 ` Peter Todd
2014-07-15 10:25 ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-15 14:02   ` Jeff Garzik
2014-07-15 14:27     ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-15 14:48 ` Luke Dashjr
2014-07-15 15:11   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2014-07-15 15:18     ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-15 15:35       ` Jeff Garzik
2014-07-15 15:41     ` Luke Dashjr
2014-07-15 15:55       ` Jeff Garzik
2014-07-15 16:26         ` Mike Hearn

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