On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Jorge Timón <jti...@jtimon.cc> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 11:47 PM, Jeff Garzik <jgar...@bitpay.com> wrote: >> This isn't some theoretical exercise. Like it or not many use >> insecure 0-conf transactions for rapid payments. Deploying something >> that makes 0-conf transactions unusable would have a wide, negative >> impact on present day bitcoin payments, thus "scorched earth"
> And maybe by maintaining first seen policies we're harming the system > in the long term by encouraging people to widely deploy systems based > on extremely weak assumptions. Lacking a coded, reviewed alternative, that's only a platitude. Widely used 0-conf payments are where we're at today. Simply ceasing the "maintaining [of] first seen policies" alone is simply not a realistic option. The negative impact to today's userbase would be huge. Instant payments need a security upgrade, yes. -- Jeff Garzik Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist BitPay, Inc. https://bitpay.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=190641631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
