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From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
To: Mark Friedenbach <mark@monetize.io>,
	Tom Harding <tomh@thinlink.com>,
	Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] deterministic transaction expiration
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 10:34:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d13f2a27-b9d6-4cbb-9bba-de358edbd227@email.android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53E26434.2070502@monetize.io>

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On 6 August 2014 10:21:56 GMT-07:00, Mark Friedenbach <mark@monetize.io> wrote:
>On 08/06/2014 01:02 PM, Tom Harding wrote:
>> With first-eligible-height and last-eligible-height, creator could
>> choose a lifetime shorter than the max,  and in addition, lock the
>whole
>> thing until some point in the future.
>
>Note that this would be a massive, *massive* change that would
>completely break bitcoin output frangibility. Merchants would have to
>start demanding input history back to a certain depth in order to
>ensure
>they are not exposing themselves to undue reorg-expiry risk.

Bitcoin is already "broken" in that regard due to malleability, and more fundamentally, the existence of anyone-can-spend outputs, known private keys, SIGHASH_ANYONECANPAY, etc.

In any case, reorg-doublespend risk is no different than reorg-expiry risk.
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-06 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-01  0:58 [Bitcoin-development] deterministic transaction expiration Kaz Wesley
2014-08-01  1:06 ` Peter Todd
2014-08-01  1:37   ` Kaz Wesley
2014-08-01  1:38 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-08-01  2:28   ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-08-01  3:26     ` Matt Whitlock
2014-08-01  3:31       ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-08-05 18:01         ` Alex Mizrahi
2014-08-02  0:36 ` Tom Harding
2014-08-05 17:02   ` Flavien Charlon
2014-08-05 17:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-05 18:54   ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-05 19:08     ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-05 19:10   ` Kaz Wesley
2014-08-05 19:36     ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-06  4:01     ` Tom Harding
2014-08-06 12:55       ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-06 13:54         ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-06 14:44           ` Tom Harding
2014-08-06 15:08             ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-06 15:17               ` Christian Decker
2014-08-06 15:42                 ` Peter Todd
2014-08-06 16:15                   ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-06 17:02                     ` Tom Harding
2014-08-06 17:21                       ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-08-06 17:34                         ` Peter Todd [this message]
2014-08-06 17:24                       ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-06 16:31                   ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-08-06 17:20                     ` Peter Todd
2014-08-06 17:30                       ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-08-06 17:38                         ` Peter Todd
2014-08-08 17:38                 ` Tom Harding
2014-08-08 18:13                   ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-08 18:42                     ` Kaz Wesley

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