[Bitcoin-development] BIP70 message delivery reliability

[Pieter Wuille]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> wrote:
> With the way it works in bitcoinj, the tx is only committed to the wallet if
> the server accepts the Payment message and ACKs it. So the tx would not be
> retried if there's a failure submitting or some kind of internal server
> error, and the UI would show that the payment failed. That seems
> straightforward and how I'd expect things to work as a user.

That's one right way to do it imho, but not what is suggested or
required by the specification, and not what bitcoin core master
currently implements.

-- 
Pieter