Gregory Maxwell [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2017-09-27 📝 Original message:On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at ...
📅 Original date posted:2017-09-27
📝 Original message:On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 7:35 PM, Chris Priest via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> A better solution is to just have the sending wallet check to see if the
> address you are about to send to has been used before.
So every wallet needs all the addresses ever used and a fast index into them?
This seems pretty harmful for scalability.
> they first consult the address expiration service,
So you propose a best practice that requires contacting a service and
telling them what addresses you're planning on paying? This seems
pretty harmful for privacy.
📝 Original message:On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 7:35 PM, Chris Priest via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> A better solution is to just have the sending wallet check to see if the
> address you are about to send to has been used before.
So every wallet needs all the addresses ever used and a fast index into them?
This seems pretty harmful for scalability.
> they first consult the address expiration service,
So you propose a best practice that requires contacting a service and
telling them what addresses you're planning on paying? This seems
pretty harmful for privacy.