Re: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP draft] CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY - Prevent a txout from being spent until an expiration time

2014-10-08 Thread Mike Hearn
Opinion: if a soft work works, it should be preferred, if for no other reason than once a hard-fork is planned, the discussion begins about what else to throw in. To minimize the frequency of hard-forks, the time for that is when the change being considered actually requires one. I'm not

Re: [Bitcoin-development] The Bitcoin Freeze on Transaction Attack (FRONT)

2014-10-08 Thread Mike Hearn
Yes, you're right. I didn't consider that case. But the problem is that this is not automatic. Currently there is a clear division between miners how will not take the kickback (irrrational) and miners who will (rational). This seems to come up a lot. Your definition of rational is a short

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP draft] CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY - Prevent a txout from being spent until an expiration time

2014-10-08 Thread Wladimir
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Mike Hearn m...@plan99.net wrote: That is easy to change; I'll submit a pull request. That's certainly a useful improvement. It won't help the existing userbase though - assuming CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY is to go in to the next major release. The next minor release

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP draft] CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY - Prevent a txout from being spent until an expiration time

2014-10-08 Thread Alan Reiner
By the way, I really like this proposal. I haven't spent much time thinking about the deeper subtleties and risks associated with it, but I see a lot of opportunities. One just came to mind that I didn't see mentioned in his original proposal: _Non-Interactive Recurring payments__with