On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Jeff Garzik <jgar...@bitpay.com> wrote: > Proxying another's idea, from CoinSummit. > > The request: It would be useful to limit the lifetime of a bitcoin > address. Intentionally prevent (somehow) bitcoins being sent to a > pubkey/pkh after the key expires.
Payment request expiration was meant to address this. Adding an optional expiration timestamp to addresses would be possible, however, it would be a non-backward-compatible change and lots of software would have to be changed at this point. In my opinion encouraging the use of the payment protocol and deprecating the use of addresses is the best way forward, and not just for this reason. Wladimir ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
