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On 1/30/2014 6:31 PM, Mike Hearn wrote:
> The arbitrator would presumably have some rules about what is or isn't 
> an acceptable form of payment.
Do you think this puts unnecessary trust into a third party?  If the 
merchant instead signed and agreed to the unsigned transactions before 
they were broadcast (as in my OP), these arbitration concerns disappear.

> HTTP has response codes for submission of the Payment message. We 
> could add signing to PaymentACK and other things in future, if that 
> turns out to be insufficient in practice.
HTTP isn't the only message delivery mechanism.  Merchants can also lie: 
reply with 200 OK and an empty body.  Or, reply with 404 not found and 
broadcast transactions anyway.

Cheers,

Chuck