<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub18gjvug29c4yg46lmplq38e75gg6wn5mn8taytckcsr4jt8p74h3s5knkzl</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub18gjvug29c4yg46lmplq38e75gg6wn5mn8taytckcsr4jt8p74h3s5knkzl</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2015-06-27&#xA;📝 Original message:Also remember that the sender is not the one who cares about delays or even&#xA;getting confirmations at all, it&#39;s the receiver who&#39;s concerned with these&#xA;things. They have to tell the sender up-front what they&#39;re willing to&#xA;accept in exchange for goods and services.&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;Aaron Voisine&#xA;co-founder and CEO&#xA;breadwallet.com&#xA;&#xA;On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:13 PM, Filipe Farinha &lt;filipe at ktorn.com&gt; wrote:&#xA;&#xA;&gt; On 27/06/2015 03:36, Peter Todd wrote:&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; * Make websites with easy to understand displays of what the current&#xA;&gt;&gt; mempool&#xA;&gt;&gt;    backlog is, and what fee/KB is needed to get to the front of the&#xA;&gt;&gt; queue. We&#39;ve&#xA;&gt;&gt;    done a great job for Bitcoin price charts, let&#39;s extend that to&#xA;&gt;&gt; transaction&#xA;&gt;&gt;    fees.&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;  +1&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; This is especially important if take into account all the projects that&#xA;&gt; aim to build upon the bitcoin blockchain and that can have a significant&#xA;&gt; impact, both in terms of storage space as well as transaction volume spikes.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; Just recently I suggested the need for a BIP to standardize reporting of&#xA;&gt; &#34;delay alerts&#34; in wallets, so that users can act accordingly (i.e.&#xA;&gt; fee-bump, postpone, cancel) before sending their transactions during these&#xA;&gt; periods of increased transaction volume.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; https://community.blockstack.org/t/blockstore-footprint-on-blockchain/68/5?u=ktorn&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; IMHO keeping the users informed of potential issues before committing&#xA;&gt; transactions to the network can go a long way towards preventing&#xA;&gt; frustration and potential backlashes against blockchain tech.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; Filipe Farinha&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; _______________________________________________&#xA;&gt; bitcoin-dev mailing list&#xA;&gt; bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&#xA;&gt; https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev&#xA;&gt;&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;An HTML attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150627/f4084b54/attachment.html&gt;</html></oembed>