[bitcoin-dev] Capital Efficient Honeypots w/ "Scorched Earth" Doublespending Protection

James MacWhyte macwhyte at gmail.com
Sun Aug 28 02:50:12 UTC 2016


Why not just have a single 1-of-m multisig transaction, with one key on
each server? Based on which key is used you would know which server is
compromised, and (in my opinion) it wouldn't look nearly as suspicious.

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 11:26 AM Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Christian Decker via bitcoin-dev
> <bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > If however
> > he is planning to use it as a foothold to further compromise your
> > company, send spam or similar, he will likely try to avoid these
> > tripwires. [...]
>
> Depends on the value of their activity compared to the value of the coins.
> Spamming doesn't pay much.
>
> Covert tripwires would obviously be better, but if shared tripwires
> allow you to have 100x the funds available it could be a good
> trade-off.
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