Luke Dashjr [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2022-10-27 📝 Original message:More generally, some of ...
📅 Original date posted:2022-10-27
📝 Original message:More generally, some of the arguments against full RBF seem like debatable
reasons (though not fully convincing) to possibly leave it off, and/or
disabled by default, but definitely NOT reasons to remove the option and
prevent users from deciding for themselves.
On Thursday 27 October 2022 15:37:27 Anthony Towns via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> "Can I prevent someone else's transaction from propagating" is almost
> the entirety of the question with -datacarrier, -datacarriersize and
> -permitbaremultisig though:
Not necessarily the entirety, no. Even if others would propagate it, you also
don't want to waste _your_ bandwidth doing so. This also reveals a difference
between the two policies: with RBF, you have _already_ spent resources
propagating the first transaction (what this implies is not immediately
obvious).
Luke
📝 Original message:More generally, some of the arguments against full RBF seem like debatable
reasons (though not fully convincing) to possibly leave it off, and/or
disabled by default, but definitely NOT reasons to remove the option and
prevent users from deciding for themselves.
On Thursday 27 October 2022 15:37:27 Anthony Towns via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> "Can I prevent someone else's transaction from propagating" is almost
> the entirety of the question with -datacarrier, -datacarriersize and
> -permitbaremultisig though:
Not necessarily the entirety, no. Even if others would propagate it, you also
don't want to waste _your_ bandwidth doing so. This also reveals a difference
between the two policies: with RBF, you have _already_ spent resources
propagating the first transaction (what this implies is not immediately
obvious).
Luke