Actually, I'm not sure if your solution works, because it relies on broadcasting a tx to the network that isn't valid. I believe that the first tx in your proposal will be rejected and thus you'll need to exchange the tx's offline.
However, third-parties could pretty easily and conveniently host a service for this kind of exchange.
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That's what my proposal was for, in BIP 0010:
https://github.com/genjix/bips/blob/master/bip-0010.md
However, I just found a minor problem with it that should be addressed if we want to enable super-lightweight clients that only sign tx's without needing the blockchain. Simply that the TxIns don't contain the value of the TxOuts they are spending, which means the dumb tx-signers with no blockchain can't tell how much input there is. They can only see the output values and recipients, which means they can't figure out the tx fee, or how much money is in each of the TxIns they are signing.
And most users/clients will have access to the blockchain, so it's not a dealbreaker. But it's something to consider. Otherwise, I think this is a big step towards bringing this complicatedprotocol a little closer to Earth...
On 11/09/2011 05:22 AM, Michael Grønager wrote:
Hi All,
Along with the multisig/op_eval BIPs (11/12) I am considering how the actual client functionality could be.
Some of you might already have the solution for this - if not I would like to propose the following...
Lets consider the 2 of 3 multisig - and lets say I now have some coins hence only redeemable using 2 key signatures. So when I want to spend them I would do:
1. from client1 I issue a transaction containing one of the signatures, with a locktime e.g. 10 minutes from now and a sequence of 0. This transaction is now posted to the p2p network.
2. client2 discovers the transaction and that it will affect its wallet. It hence modifies the transaction to includes also the second signature, changes the sequence to 0xFFFFFFFF=final and the lock_time to 0 and retransmits the transaction.
3. The transaction is now valid and final and will be approved by the miners.
However, for this setup to be possible, we need to reenable the replacement of transaction in the client....
Anyone working on this now ?
Alternatively, the transactions would need to be sent between clients using another protocol...
Cheers,
Michael
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