Andreas Petersson [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2013-10-25 📝 Original message:> Worth thinking about the ...
📅 Original date posted:2013-10-25
📝 Original message:> Worth thinking about the whole ecosystem of wallets involved; they all
> have to handle double-spends gracefully to make tx replacement of any
> kind user friendly. We should try to give people a heads up that this is
> coming soon if that's your thinking.
If there is a situation where wallets are supposed to constantly monitor
the tx propagation and recreate their transactions with different fees,
this would make a lot of usecases inconvenient.
half-offline bluetooth transactions, users with unstable connections,
battery power lost, etc, etc. - and last but not least power concerns on
hardware wallets on the bitcoincard (tx signing drains a significant amount
of power and should therefore only be done once)
-Andreas
📝 Original message:> Worth thinking about the whole ecosystem of wallets involved; they all
> have to handle double-spends gracefully to make tx replacement of any
> kind user friendly. We should try to give people a heads up that this is
> coming soon if that's your thinking.
If there is a situation where wallets are supposed to constantly monitor
the tx propagation and recreate their transactions with different fees,
this would make a lot of usecases inconvenient.
half-offline bluetooth transactions, users with unstable connections,
battery power lost, etc, etc. - and last but not least power concerns on
hardware wallets on the bitcoincard (tx signing drains a significant amount
of power and should therefore only be done once)
-Andreas