On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Roy Badami <r...@gnomon.org.uk> wrote: > I'd still like to understand the rationale for having the merchant > broadcast the transaction - it seems to add complexity and create edge > cases.
Mike Hearn has experimented with in-person payments using bluetooth/NFC on a phone, where the merchant has full Internet connectivity but the phone might only be able to connect to the merchant via a Bluetooth/NFC paymentURI. I think I agree with you, though: if the device DOES have bitcoin-p2p-network-connectivity, then expecting the client to broadcast the transaction might be cleaner. However, if a connection to the paymentURI is made and the transaction data has been sent, clients have to deal with the case where the merchant also broadcasts the transaction, no matter what the spec says and even if the merchant sends an "accepted : false" response. -- -- Gavin Andresen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: VERIFY Test and improve your parallel project with help from experts and peers. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
