📅 Original date posted:2013-08-07 📝 Original message:On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 07:10:05AM +1000, Gavin Andresen wrote: > RE: should the customer's machine not broadcast the transaction: If we're going to allow payments to fail without being broadcast (but where the wallet can't in general prove that the receiver hasn't seen the transaction) then I would argue that it becomes highly desirable that the wallet invalidates the transaction at the earliest opportunity by spending the outputs in a pay-to-self transaction. Otherwise malicious receivers, or temporary failures, could result in the user being told that the transfer didn't happen, but then the coins actually leaving the wallet anyway a short time later. roy