On 05/25/2015 10:03 PM, Matt Whitlock wrote: > On Monday, 25 May 2015, at 8:41 pm, Mike Hearn wrote: >>> some wallets (e.g., Andreas Schildbach's wallet) don't even allow it - you >>> can only spend confirmed UTXOs. I can't tell you how aggravating it is to >>> have to tell a friend, "Oh, oops, I can't pay you yet. I have to wait for >>> the last transaction I did to confirm first." All the more aggravating >>> because I know, if I have multiple UTXOs in my wallet, I can make multiple >>> spends within the same block. >> >> Andreas' wallet hasn't done that for years. Are you repeating this from >> some very old memory or do you actually see this issue in reality? >> >> The only time you're forced to wait for confirmations is when you have an >> unconfirmed inbound transaction, and thus the sender is unknown. > > I see this behavior all the time. I am using the latest release, as far as I > know. Version 4.30. > > The same behavior occurs in the Testnet3 variant of the app. Go in there with > an empty wallet and receive one payment and wait for it to confirm. Then send > a payment and, before it confirms, try to send another one. The wallet won't > let you send the second payment. It'll say something like, "You need x.xxxxxx > more bitcoins to make this payment." But if you wait for your first payment > to confirm, then you'll be able to make the second payment. > > If it matters, I configure the app to connect only to my own trusted Bitcoin > node, so I only ever have one active connection at most. I notice that > outgoing payments never show as "Sent" until they appear in a block, > presumably because the app never sees the transaction come in over any > connection.
Yes, that's the issue. Because you're connecting only to one node, you don't get any instant confirmations -- due to a Bitcoin protocol limitation you can only get them from nodes you don't post the tx to. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
