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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com>
To: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
Cc: bitcoin-development <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] F2Pool has enabled full replace-by-fee
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 08:42:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJHLa0PYQc1o-rwwqXRERWtAZ3ueuN5wPHT0RMKkVE42HEXXwA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150619134408.GB27280@savin.petertodd.org>

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On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:

> Having said that... honestly, zeroconf is pretty broken already. Only
> with pretty heroic measures like connecting to a significant fraction of
> the Bitcoin network at once, as well as connecting to getblocktemplate
> supporting miners to figure out what transactions are being mined, are
> services having any hope of avoiding getting ripped off. For the average
> user their wallets do a terrible job of showing whether or not an
>

This is no excuse for further degrading the overall network security.

There are many issues to address in the bitcoin ecosystem.  It negatively
impacts users to roll out "scorched earth" replace-by-fee given today's
ecosystem.

Yes, zero conf security is poor.  An outright attack on zero conf degrades
user security even more.

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

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-19 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-19 10:39 [Bitcoin-development] F2Pool has enabled full replace-by-fee Peter Todd
2015-06-19 13:33 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-06-19 13:52   ` Peter Todd
2015-06-19 14:00     ` Adrian Macneil
2015-06-19 14:08       ` Peter Todd
2015-06-19 14:30         ` Adrian Macneil
2015-06-19 14:59           ` Peter Todd
2015-06-19 15:20             ` Adrian Macneil
2015-06-19 15:40               ` Peter Todd
2015-06-19 16:18                 ` Adrian Macneil
2015-06-19 16:37                   ` Peter Todd
2015-06-19 20:39                   ` Matt Whitlock
2015-06-19 21:05                     ` Frank Flores
2015-06-19 21:15                       ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-20  0:47                     ` Andreas Petersson
2015-06-20  1:09                       ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-06-20  1:23                         ` Aaron Voisine
2015-06-20  3:07                           ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-20  3:48                           ` Luke Dashjr
2015-06-20  4:02                             ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-20 16:43                               ` Ivan Brightly
2015-06-20 17:38                                 ` Cameron Hejazi
2015-06-19 14:40       ` Chun Wang
2015-06-19 15:22         ` Adrian Macneil
2015-06-19 13:33 ` Stephen Morse
2015-06-19 13:37   ` Chun Wang
2015-06-19 13:48     ` Peter Todd
2015-06-19 14:16     ` Lawrence Nahum
2015-06-19 13:40   ` Adrian Macneil
2015-06-19 13:44   ` Peter Todd
2015-06-19 13:52     ` Chun Wang
2015-06-19 15:43       ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-19 19:49       ` Jeffrey Paul
2015-06-19 15:42     ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2015-06-19 16:15     ` Peter Todd
2015-06-19 15:00 ` justusranvier
2015-06-19 15:11   ` Peter Todd
2015-06-19 15:37     ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-19 15:53       ` justusranvier
2015-06-19 16:36         ` Matt Whitlock
2015-06-19 16:42           ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-19 16:46             ` Matt Whitlock
2015-06-19 16:53             ` Peter Todd
2015-06-19 16:54             ` justusranvier
2015-06-19 17:00             ` Tier Nolan
2015-06-20 23:20             ` Jorge Timón
2015-06-20 23:37               ` justusranvier
2015-06-21  0:19                 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-21  0:27                   ` justusranvier
2015-06-21  0:36                     ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-21  0:54                     ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-21  5:56                       ` Tom Harding
2015-06-21  6:45                       ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-21  7:42                         ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-21  8:35                           ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-21  8:41                           ` Btc Drak
2015-06-21  8:51                             ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-21 19:49                           ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-21 18:23                       ` Aaron Voisine
2015-06-19 16:44           ` justusranvier
2015-06-19 17:40             ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-19 17:48               ` justusranvier
2015-06-19 17:50                 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-19 18:00                   ` justusranvier
2015-06-19 16:50           ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-19 16:41         ` [Bitcoin-development] Remove Us Please Gigas Gaming Inc.
2015-06-19 18:34           ` Jameson Lopp
2015-06-19 19:55             ` John Bodeen
2015-06-19 20:01               ` Brian Hoffman
2015-06-19 20:27                 ` Jameson Lopp
2015-06-20 23:16       ` [Bitcoin-development] F2Pool has enabled full replace-by-fee Jorge Timón
2015-06-20 23:47         ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-20 23:52           ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-20 23:56           ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-19 15:39     ` justusranvier
2015-06-19 15:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-20 20:04 ` odinn
2015-06-21  2:11 ` Dario Sneidermanis
2015-06-21  2:23   ` Dario Sneidermanis

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