📅 Original date posted:2015-01-09
📝 Original message:Mike, Can you be more specific? You reference "original design" without
saying how it was different/better.
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 8:20 AM, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> wrote:
> A limitation on most existing micropayment channel ideas is that payments
>> can only flow in one direction.
>>
>
> It's worth noting that the original protocol as designed by Satoshi did
> not have this limitation. It has evolved this way because of ad-hoc DoS
> fixes over time (btw I'm not saying they were the wrong thing to do, as non
> "ad hoc" solutions are significantly more work). But it seems like
> eventually a different approach to handling DoS attacks based on resource
> prioritisation and scheduling will become needed / implemented, and at that
> point the original design could be safely brought back to life.
>
>
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