📅 Original date posted:2015-03-26
📝 Original message:On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Tom Harding <tomh at thinlink.com> wrote:
> I should have been clearer that the motivation for address expiration is to
> reduce the rate of increase of the massive pile of bitcoin addresses out
> there which have to be monitored forever for future payments. It could make
> a significant dent if something like this worked, and were used by default
> someday.
Great, that can be accomplished by simply encoding an expiration into
the address people are using and specifying that clients enforce it.
Gregory Maxwell [ARCHIVE] /
npub1f2…crwet
2023-06-07 15:32:14
in reply to nevent1q…4gk4
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npub1f2nvlx49er5c7sqa43src6ssyp6snd4qwvtkwm5avc2l84cs84esecrwetPublished at
2023-06-07 15:32:14Event JSON
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