Even if you could prove "intent to pay," this would be almost useless. I can sincerely intend to do a lot of things, but this doesn't mean I'll ever actually do them.
I am in favor of more zero-confirmation transactions being reversed / double-spent. Bitcoin users largely still believe that accepting zero-conf transactions is safe, and evidently it's going to take some harsh lessons in reality to correct this belief. On Friday, 19 June 2015, at 9:42 am, Eric Lombrozo wrote: > If we want a non-repudiation mechanism in the protocol, we should explicitly > define one rather than relying on “prima facie” assumptions. Otherwise, I > would recommend not relying on the existence of a signed transaction as proof > of intent to pay… > > > > On Jun 19, 2015, at 9:36 AM, Matt Whitlock <b...@mattwhitlock.name> wrote: > > > > On Friday, 19 June 2015, at 3:53 pm, justusranv...@riseup.net wrote: > >> I'd also like to note that "prima facie" doesn't mean "always", it means > >> that "the default assumption, unless proven otherwise." > > > > Why would you automatically assume fraud by default? Shouldn't the null > > hypothesis be the default? Without any information one way or another, you > > ought to make *no assumption* about the fraudulence or non-fraudulence of > > any given double-spend. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
