On 01/13/2014 06:56 PM, Pieter Wuille wrote: > I want to avoid the case where a transaction confirms, but the > associated payment is not delivered. If there is a reasonable chance > that this case occurs in normal operation, it means the payment > transmission cannot be relied upon.
I was thinking about this some more. Generally I think you have a point. However, there is one case I'm worried about. Imagine you get a good offer (payment request) from a merchant. You would like to accept that offer, however the merchant has changed his mind. If you don't broadcast the payment to the blockchain, you won't have a chance to accept and legally bind the offer. The merchant will silently discard your payment messages. At some point, you will involve a judge. If you can present the payment request and the payment from the block chain, you're in a much better position than if you just present a request but no confirmed payment. I think in some cases you might want to broadcast your txn to the P2P network, even if the payment messages get lost. What do you think? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
