On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Peter Todd <p...@petertodd.org> wrote:
> On 27 June 2015 03:14:41 GMT-04:00, Aaron Voisine <vois...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >Also remember that the sender is not the one who cares about delays or > >even > >getting confirmations at all, it's the receiver who's concerned with > >these > >things. They have to tell the sender up-front what they're willing to > >accept in exchange for goods and services. > > You're assuming a receiver who is accepting a zeroconf transaction; most > receivers don't. > > For instance, when I deposit funds on my exchange they don't credit those > funds until 4 confirmations, so I very much cafe about how long it takes to > get the first confirmation. > Yes, the receiver can tell the sender up-front that they are only willing accept 4-confirmations, and put that on the sender to figure out, but the sender then only cares because it's the receiver's requirement. The receiver is the one who cares.
_______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
