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From: jl2012@xbt.hk
To: Btc Drak <btcdrak@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Fill-or-kill transaction
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 05:12:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bc31c9283aa0ae5a1bcb6dedaff8b23d@xbt.hk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADJgMzupLGVKfHnkAwJYUeAe-XHKtc0o7d8G3-2N1Ls5orfS=Q@mail.gmail.com>

Btc Drak 於 2015-09-18 02:42 寫到:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 4:27 AM, jl2012 via bitcoin-dev
> <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
>> Btc Drak 於 2015-09-17 15:12 寫到:
>> 
>>> Forgive me if I have missed the exact use-case, but this seems
>>> overly
>>> complex. Surely fill-or-kill refers to getting a transaction
>>> confirmed
>>> within a few confirms or to drop the tx from the mempool so it
>>> wont be
>>> considered for inclusion anymore. As such, you could just
>>> repurpose a
>>> small range of nLocktime such that a TX will be accepted into
>>> mempool
>>> for a specific period before expiring.
>> 
>> What I'm describing is to implement fill-or-kill as consensus rule.
>> Certainly, we could implement it at the P2P network level:
>> everything is the same as I described, but the nLockTime2 and
>> nKillTime are for reference only and tx validity depends only on the
>> nLockTime. Benevolent miners should drop the tx after the suggested
>> kill time but there is no guarantee
> 
> Sure, you can make the scheme I describe consensus based by adding the
> rule tx is not valid to mine after expiry: this still keeps the
> simplicity I described.

If you simply redefine a range of unused nLockTime as nKillTime, users 
will be constrained to use either nLockTime or nKillTime, but not both 
in the same tx.

If we are willing to scarify a large range of tx nVersion, say 
10-15bits, the nKillTime data could be embedded there.

Another option is nSequence, which will allow per-input nKillTime and 
nLockTime.

The cleanest way, of course, is a hardfork to add a new nKillTime field 
to the tx so people could use nLockTime and nKillTime in parallel.




  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-18  9:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-17 18:41 [bitcoin-dev] Fill-or-kill transaction jl2012
2015-09-17 19:07 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-09-17 19:14   ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-17 22:44     ` Peter Todd
2015-09-18  3:27       ` jl2012
2015-09-18  6:42         ` Btc Drak
2015-09-18  9:12           ` jl2012 [this message]
2015-09-19 15:31         ` Tom Harding
2015-09-18 13:08       ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-22 17:45       ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-19  2:01     ` Luke Dashjr
2015-09-19  5:09       ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-17 19:12 ` Btc Drak
2015-09-17 22:33 ` Chun Wang

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