Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP - Dead Man's Switch

2017-12-11 Thread Nick Pudar via bitcoin-dev
This topic has come up several times in recent years. While it is well intentioned, it can have devastating outcomes for people that want to save long term. If such a system were implemented, it would force people to move funds around in order to not get nullified. In that process, it

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Address expiration times should be added to BIP-173

2017-09-27 Thread Nick Pudar via bitcoin-dev
As a long term silent reader of this list, I felt compelled to comment on this address expiration topic. I don't believe that address expiration should be part of the protocol. I think instead that the "sending" feature should by default offer guidance to request a fresh address from the