Re: [Bitcoin-development] Floating fees and SPV clients

2013-12-03 Thread Quinn Harris
The merchant wants to include a fee to ensure the transaction is confirmed which is dependent on the fee per kilobyte, but they don't want to pay unexpectedly high fees. So what about including a min_fee_per_kilobyte and a max_fee in PaymentDetails describing what fees the merchant will pay.

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Possible Solution To SM Attack

2013-11-05 Thread Quinn Harris
I don't think choosing the block with the lowest hash is the best option. The good and bad miners have an equal probability of finding a lower hash. But after Alice finds a block she can easily determine the probability that someone else will find a lower hash value that meets the difficulty

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Possible Solution To SM Attack

2013-11-05 Thread Quinn Harris
On 11/05/2013 08:03 PM, Drak wrote: On 5 November 2013 22:07, Quinn Harris btc...@quinnharris.me mailto:btc...@quinnharris.me wrote: I don't think choosing the block with the lowest hash is the best option. The good and bad miners have an equal probability of finding a lower

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Double Spend Notification

2013-05-20 Thread Quinn Harris
them too many times before. On 21 May 2013 10:45, Quinn Harris btc...@quinnharris.me mailto:btc...@quinnharris.me wrote: The current BitCoin implementation is subject to relatively easy double spend attack for 0 confirmation payments. Yet 0 confirmation payments are needed