BIP70 does not work well for unknown number of future payments of unknown, unpredictable value.
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 6:25 AM, Mike Hearn <m...@plan99.net> wrote: >> The request: It would be useful to limit the lifetime of a bitcoin >> address. > > > Not only useful but essential! Otherwise mobile clients can run out of RAM > and have to cycle around and reuse addresses. > > Which is indeed why BIP70 has this feature. It was thought about quite some > time ago. Addresses are an evolutionary dead end, they will never do > everything we need them to do. If there's somewhere that's using addresses, > that's somewhere we will eventually need to upgrade to use BIP70 instead. > > -- Jeff Garzik Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist BitPay, Inc. https://bitpay.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
