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To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] New standard transaction types: time to
	schedule a blockchain split?
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Hi Gavin (the list escaped the cc...),

I participated also in the hacakathon Sunday @ OnlyOneTV and I felt that =
this had a strong chance to diverge. So - yes - I agree - no =
"constitution" changes now. Further, I have thought later on on the =
analogy of a clerk and a safe.

WHen you enter the bank you hand over your money to the clerk (one key) =
- then after the clerks wallet has been filled over the day _he_ =
transfers the money to the safe (3 keys). My point is do we really need =
the customer to bypass the clerk and have 3 key addresses, or could we =
just leave it to the/a client to implement the multisign transaction =
after the money has been received - as a transfer to a safe? This would =
greatly simplify the problem and cover the vast majority of use cases. =
Not covered in this is huge single transfers where the intruder of a =
single key system finds it profitable to reveal their intrusion by =
grabbing the entire wallet.

Put in another way - do we *really* need to couple the securing of the =
wallet to creating a new address type ?

Cheers,

M

On 24/08/2011, at 19:57, Gavin Andresen wrote:

> This discussion is convincing me that scheduling a blockchain split is
> definitely the wrong idea at this time.  We can revisit in N months,
> when we've got a roadmap and nice unit tests and a bunch of
> well-tested patches for fixing all of the things that aught to be
> fixed when we DO decide a blockchain split is necessary.
>=20
> There seems to be rough consensus that new, imperfect standard
> transactions are a good-enough short term solution.
>=20
> --=20
> --
> Gavin Andresen
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