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Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 23:44:29 +0200
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From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
To: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>
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Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol: BIP 70, 71, 72
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> My concerns here are:
> * Making sure wallet applications can function without supporting the
> P2P protocol (which drops a huge implementation overhead for simple -
> perhaps hardware-based - wallets)


How would such wallets get transactions into their wallet in the first
place?

The P2P protocol is really the simplest part of implementing a wallet, IMO.

I don't really have a strong opinion either way, but doing more work to
prevent transactions being announced to the network feels weird.

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* Making sure wallet applications can function without supporting the<br>
P2P protocol (which drops a huge implementation overhead for simple -<br>
perhaps hardware-based - wallets)</blockquote><div>=C2=A0</div><div>How wou=
ld such wallets get transactions into their wallet in the first place?</div=
><div><br></div><div>The P2P protocol is really the simplest part of implem=
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<div><br></div><div>I don&#39;t really have a strong opinion either way, bu=
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