[Bitcoin-development] BIP Draft: Atomic Cross Chain Transfer Protocol
Luke Dashjr
luke at dashjr.org
Wed Apr 30 18:59:07 UTC 2014
On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 6:03:59 PM Tier Nolan wrote:
> Due to "popular" demand, I have created a BIP for cross chain atomic
> transfers.
>
> https://github.com/TierNolan/bips/blob/bip4x/bip-atom.mediawiki
Instead of TX0, TX1, etc, can you put some kind of meaningful identifier for
these transactions?
TX1 and TX2 *cannot* be signed until after TX0 is completely signed by both
parties. After TX0 is signed, but before TX2 is signed, either party could
walk away or otherwise hold the funds hostage. The sequence of signing
proposed in this BIP is *not possible to perform*. How did you implement and
test this? :/
What is the purpose of the OP_EQUAL_VERIFY in TX4? I don't see a use...
IMO, there should be separate BIPs for the exchange itself, and the protocol
to negotiate the exchange. I would recommend changing the latter from JSON-RPC
to some extension of the Payment Protocol, if possible.
Perhaps it would be good to only support compressed keys, to discourage use of
uncompressed ones..
Luke
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