From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin address TTL & key expiration?
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 12:25:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP1dWHtEEF7QDdfJe+kb8G+66cHd3-6UpAwkbOF9+sWEcw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJHLa0M7iEUQnJ9M4A3ev3EQqxUVQG85qucRamvMb0n-CztOFA@mail.gmail.com>
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> 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.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-15 10:25 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 [this message]
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
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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