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On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 09:27:22AM +0100, Tamas Blummer wrote:
> 
> 
> On Feb 12, 2015, at 9:16 AM, Alex Mizrahi <alex.mizrahi@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Why don't you use getrawmempool RPC call to synchronize mempool contents?
> 
> 
> 
> Since RPC interface does not scale to serve a multi user service.
> In absence of better alternative, the interfaces used by a proprietary extension are usually the same as in P2P consensus.
> 
> POW is used to figure the longest chain and until now broadcasted transactions were assumed the one and only. 
> These simple rules ensure a consensus between the proprietary stack and the border router, and that is the consensus I referred to.
> 

If a proprietary stack has problems with replace-by-fee then it's probably 
succeptible to malicious attack because an attacker could just broadcast
one transaction to the network and then replace it when they are able to
mine a block themselves.

> 
> On Feb 12, 2015, at 8:45 AM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:
> > IOW, assume every transaction your "border router" gives you is now the
> > one and only true transaction, and everything conflicting with it must
> > go.
> 
> 
> You are right that the assumption about the one and only transaction have to be relaxed. Broadcasting 
> double spend only if it is actually replacing an earlier - for whatever reason, would simplify internal consensus logic .
>