From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com>
To: 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 10:02:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJHLa0P97vqzXdk0-P+XEeo1S0xjc-Dsm8K+GjYxGE_O1TmPcQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP1dWHtEEF7QDdfJe+kb8G+66cHd3-6UpAwkbOF9+sWEcw@mail.gmail.com>
BIP70 does not work well for unknown number of future payments of
unknown, unpredictable value.
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 6:25 AM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net> wrote:
>> The request: It would be useful to limit the lifetime of a bitcoin
>> address.
>
>
> Not only useful but essential! Otherwise mobile clients can run out of RAM
> and have to cycle around and reuse addresses.
>
> Which is indeed why BIP70 has this feature. It was thought about quite some
> time ago. Addresses are an evolutionary dead end, they will never do
> everything we need them to do. If there's somewhere that's using addresses,
> that's somewhere we will eventually need to upgrade to use BIP70 instead.
>
>
--
Jeff Garzik
Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist
BitPay, Inc. https://bitpay.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-15 14:03 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 [this message]
2014-07-15 14:27 ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-15 14:48 ` Luke Dashjr
2014-07-15 15:11 ` Jeff Garzik
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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