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From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
To: Matt Whitlock <bip@mattwhitlock.name>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] A suggestion for reducing the size of the UTXO database
Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 20:41:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP2KnL9NO-DgUuaT5-VHE0oT5MTsok2YuAO1nJiznLfpMA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2114827.D6GUhXtGkV@crushinator>

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>
> some wallets (e.g., Andreas Schildbach's wallet) don't even allow it - you
> can only spend confirmed UTXOs. I can't tell you how aggravating it is to
> have to tell a friend, "Oh, oops, I can't pay you yet. I have to wait for
> the last transaction I did to confirm first." All the more aggravating
> because I know, if I have multiple UTXOs in my wallet, I can make multiple
> spends within the same block.
>

Andreas' wallet hasn't done that for years. Are you repeating this from
some very old memory or do you actually see this issue in reality?

The only time you're forced to wait for confirmations is when you have an
unconfirmed inbound transaction, and thus the sender is unknown.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-25 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-09 17:09 [Bitcoin-development] A suggestion for reducing the size of the UTXO database Jim Phillips
2015-05-09 18:45 ` Peter Todd
2015-05-09 19:02   ` Jim Phillips
2015-05-09 19:00 ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-05-09 19:05   ` Jim Phillips
2015-05-09 19:06   ` Pieter Wuille
2015-05-09 19:16     ` Jim Phillips
2015-05-09 19:43       ` Ross Nicoll
     [not found] ` <3862E01F-FD0F-48F5-A6D9-F8E0FB0AB68F@newcastle.ac.uk>
     [not found]   ` <CANe1mWys1gAO1CgPEpD7rdtXF2KYfvXA6bc0q-rAzg9xOFc-5A@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <8029969D-FD22-43F7-930D-CEC7A87CEAD5@newcastle.ac.uk>
2015-05-09 19:28       ` Jim Phillips
2015-05-10  2:11 ` Matt Whitlock
2015-05-10 12:11   ` Jim Phillips
2015-05-25 18:41   ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2015-05-25 20:03     ` Matt Whitlock
2015-05-25 20:29       ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-05-25 21:05         ` Peter Todd
2015-05-26 12:40           ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-05-25 21:14         ` Warren Togami Jr.
2015-05-25 21:12       ` Mike Hearn
2015-05-10 13:35 ` Bob McElrath
2015-05-10 14:33   ` Jeff Garzik
2015-05-10 14:42     ` Bob McElrath
2015-05-12 19:50 ` Danny Thorpe
2015-05-25 18:44 ` Mike Hearn
2015-05-25 21:26   ` Peter Todd
2015-05-25 22:03     ` Mike Hearn
2015-05-26  0:10       ` [Bitcoin-development] Cost savings by using replace-by-fee, 30-90% Peter Todd
2015-05-26 18:22         ` Danny Thorpe
2015-05-26 18:38           ` Allen Piscitello
2015-05-26 18:42           ` Aaron Voisine
2015-05-26 18:47           ` Adam Back
2015-05-26 20:18           ` Matt Whitlock
2015-05-26 20:30         ` joliver
2015-05-26 20:56           ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-05-26 21:29           ` s7r
2015-05-26 22:06             ` Adam Back
2015-05-27  1:25             ` Peter Todd
2015-05-27 19:28               ` s7r
2015-05-26 22:29           ` Jeff Garzik
2015-05-09 19:25 [Bitcoin-development] A suggestion for reducing the size of the UTXO database Raystonn
2015-05-09 19:33 ` Jim Phillips
2015-05-09 19:43 Raystonn
2015-05-09 19:52 ` Jim Phillips
2015-05-09 20:20 Raystonn
2015-05-09 20:38 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-05-09 21:11   ` Jim Phillips

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