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I'm way late to this one, I guess, but adding some thoughts here... it
seems that anything which mitigates the problem of reuse should be to
the maximum extent possible, the user's option... if a person wants to
have an address that lasts forever they
: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Address Expiration to Prevent Reuse
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 1:51 AM, Thy Shizzle thyshiz...@outlook.com wrote:
Yes I agree, also there is talks about a government body I know of warming
to bitcoin by issuing addresses for use by a business and then all
transactions can
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 1:51 AM, Thy Shizzle thyshiz...@outlook.com wrote:
Yes I agree, also there is talks about a government body I know of warming
to bitcoin by issuing addresses for use by a business and then all
transactions can be tracked for that business entity. This is one proposal I
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:38 PM, Tom Harding t...@thinlink.com wrote:
I addressed that by limiting the duplicate check to an X-block segment. X
is hard-coded in this simple scheme (X=144 = 1-day addresses). You
could picture a selectable expiration duration too.
If its to be heuristic in
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Tom Harding t...@thinlink.com wrote:
I should have been clearer that the motivation for address expiration is to
reduce the rate of increase of the massive pile of bitcoin addresses out
there which have to be monitored forever for future payments. It could make
This should not be enforced by default. There are some use cases where
address re-use is justified (a donation address spread on multiple
static pages or even printed on papers/books?). For example, I offer
some services on the internet for free, and I only have a bitcoin
address for donations
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:28 PM, s7r s...@sky-ip.org wrote:
This should not be enforced by default.
No one suggested _anything_ like that. Please save the concern for
someplace its actually applicable.
I know it's not recommended to use the same pubkey more than once, but
the protocol was
On Tuesday, 24 March 2015, at 6:57 pm, Tom Harding wrote:
It appears that a limited-lifetime address, such as the fanciful
address = 4HB5ld0FzFVj8ALj6mfBsbifRoD4miY36v_349366
where 349366 is the last valid block for a transaction paying this
address, could be made reuse-proof with bounded
The idea of limited-lifetime addresses was discussed on 2014-07-15 in
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bitcoin.devel/5837
It appears that a limited-lifetime address, such as the fanciful
address = 4HB5ld0FzFVj8ALj6mfBsbifRoD4miY36v_349366
where 349366 is the last valid block for a
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