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

2013-12-02 Thread Patrick Mead
First time posting to this mailing list so feel free to ignore me if this is a stupid idea. On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Mike Hearn m...@plan99.net wrote: We need to get away from the notion of senders attaching fees anyway. This is the wrong way around because it’s the recipient who

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

2013-12-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Mike Hearn m...@plan99.net wrote: The payment protocol at least would need some notion of fee, or possibly (better?) the ability for a recipient to specify some inputs as well as some outputs. vendor hat: on BitPay noticed this detail last week. We were

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

2013-12-02 Thread Gavin Andresen
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 12:44 AM, Mike Hearn m...@plan99.net wrote: PPv1 doesn't have any notion of fee unfortunately. I suppose it could be added easily, but we also need to launch the existing feature set. Lets bang out a merchant-pays-fee extension. How about: SPEC: optional uint64